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MartinH
... at this point comes the STRIKING Landmark argument. Landmark is not about the truth or discussing who is right ... it is about something else, nonlinear learning or so ... and the course goes on, no issue is ever discussed. [b:707655f312]Even the sharpest-knives are simply shut down[/b:707655f312].
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MartinH
I "learned" during the FORUM not to ask whether something is right or wrong. I was rather looking for some event to happen in myself or others as soon as I gave up to be analytical or critical. I guess this is a part of the LGAT brainwashing.
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at this point comes the STRIKING Landmark argument : Landmark is not about the truth or discussing who is right ... it is about something else, nonlinear learning or so ... and the course goes on, no issue is ever discussed. Even the sharpest-knives are simply shut down.
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Same thing with the writer of the novel, 'Fight Club,'
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In 1989, a man named Chuck Palahniuk enrolled in a Landmark Forum workshop. He was twenty-six years old and, like many of his co-participants, struggling with his life and what to do with it. Despite his lack of vocational direction, Palahniuk had no problem navigating his way to the closest exit after the first forty-five minutes of the workshop, repelled by the program’s cultiness and rigidity. Later that day, however, he returned to complete the training, and that night began writing what would eventually become his best-selling book, Fight Club—a sequence of events which suggests the Landmark Forum was more successful in helping Palahniuk redirect his life than a barrage of inconclusive personality tests, forlorn meetings with career counselors, or years of expensive psychoanalysis.
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MartinH
... at this point comes the STRIKING Landmark argument. Landmark is not about the truth or discussing who is right ... it is about something else, nonlinear learning or so ... and the course goes on, no issue is ever discussed. [b:f446b7b2b7]Even the sharpest-knives are simply shut down[/b:f446b7b2b7].
The knife is blunt because Landmark can't find the whet stone (sharpener). You see, an organisation, just like a person, with borrowed or stolen information just can't fully understand the information. The context is lost and this leads to a bunch of fear-laden coaches running around making bullet points and sticking to the program as if their lives depended on it.
Landmark can't share because what it knows is communicated as nothing more than a kind of heresay or gossip. Yeah, there is 'formal' instruction, but the confusion and fear and humiliation laced into the doctrine makes for little more than whispers and peeps. A graduate can hardly hold the 'sacred' knowledge of LEC, don't expect him/her to be able to be talk about it!
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Blue Pill
In other words, take a group of screwed up people, chuck as much psychological and philosophical stuff they you call your own at them in the shortest amount of time, some of it will take, some won't, some people will be even more fu**ed up. Never mind, you just focus on the former, surpress and ignore the latter and there you have Landmark Education.
Shotgun Psychology run by amateurs only interested in people's money and souls.
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Blue Pill
These comments pretty much some up why they are almost impossible to defeat.
Take a group of human beings, the sample being skewed towards the "troubled soul" variety. Then put them through a soul searching process with some quick wins up front to sort out friend and family break downs. Trust is earned early on. Concerns with the methods are cleverly concealed with double speak. The troubled souls leave slightly less troubled (or possibly think they are).
In other words, take a group of screwed up people, chuck as much psychological and philosophical stuff they you call your own at them in the shortest amount of time, some of it will take, some won't, some people will be even more fu**ed up. Never mind, you just focus on the former, surpress and ignore the latter and there you have Landmark Education.
Shotgun Psychology run by amateurs only interested in people's money and souls.
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yutolia
This strikes me as similar to Landmark's practice of claiming past people of great importance "did not have access to the Forum but embodied it's meaning" and that these people would have been "enrolled" if they had the opportunity. People like Martin Luther King and Gandhi that actually probably would have run screaming from the Forum had it actually been around when they were.