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skeptic
I just connected two more dots I hadn't connected these past several years. It always seems so *nice* that part of an lgat program is to send out "participants" to reconcile with estranged family/friends. While reading this piece I now understand WHY: to recruit more people. Of course. I mean, when you've reconnected with and regrained trust of people from whom you'd grown distant, your pool from which to recruit is that much larger. Not to mention that the people who'd been distant might now be impressed with your new "loving maturity" that accounted for the reconnection. Ya think they might wanna sign up?????
I continue to maintain that there is NOTHING decent or honest about an lagt.
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skeptic
I just connected two more dots I hadn't connected these past several years. It always seems so *nice* that part of an lgat program is to send out "participants" to reconcile with estranged family/friends. While reading this piece I now understand WHY: to recruit more people. Of course. I mean, when you've reconnected with and regrained trust of people from whom you'd grown distant, your pool from which to recruit is that much larger. Not to mention that the people who'd been distant might now be impressed with your new "loving maturity" that accounted for the reconnection. Ya think they might wanna sign up?????
I continue to maintain that there is NOTHING decent or honest about an lagt.
How could you NOT get that within the first few weeks or first year?
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there are quite a lot of people who "believe" that those types of abusive LGAT's are the best way for people to "change".
yes, u are correct and what is the reason for that. i believe its because so many people have been abused in their
pasts and as we should all know that when u abuse lets say children. u can smash them, kick them, scream in
their faces and then when its all over , u act nice to them and they seem to be happy for awhile.
abuse is rampant in the united states. its becoming more and more the norm instead of something that used
be stopped. that is one of the reasons the cults are flourishing.
But there is no real evidence for that. The evidence I've seen says the opposite, that at BEST you are going to get people hyped-up for a week or a month...then they crash, and want another fix.
exactly.
Most of the people get worse, due to distorted expectations.
and there are also people who literally have breakdowns, as we see all the time.
if we study abused children we can see where the the landmark cult gets some of its power.
the cult indoctronation is nothing something new but abuse wrapped up in shiny new package.
LGAT's are NOT the best way to "change", they appear to be the worst! And LGAT is like a crash-diet of the mind. Do crash diets work?
Human change only happens over an extended period of time.
the idea of being Transformed in a weekend is a lie.
Its just a salespitch, a Big Claim, so they can charge you a fortune, for nothing.
but I believe there is evidence that properly conducted Group Therapy with a licensed pro, can help some people? But that is not an LGAT, its the opposite.
Its a good myth though...get Magically Transformed into a "new person"...Quick...for a price.
No wonder Werner Erhard dreamed this up, too bad he could not "change" his personality, by changing names all the time.
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I just connected two more dots I hadn't connected these past several years. It always seems so *nice* that part of an lgat program is to send out "participants" to reconcile with estranged family/friends. While reading this piece I now understand WHY: to recruit more people. Of course. I mean, when you've reconnected with and regrained trust of people from whom you'd grown distant, your pool from which to recruit is that much larger. Not to mention that the people who'd been distant might now be impressed with your new "loving maturity" that accounted for the reconnection. Ya think they might wanna sign up?????
I continue to maintain that there is NOTHING decent or honest about an lagt.
How could you NOT get that within the first few weeks or first year?
I'm slow. Took me a few years. Except, I didn't "get" it. That's est-speak. I don't "get" things.
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there are quite a lot of people who "believe" that those types of abusive LGAT's are the best way for people to "change".
i hope that some of u would like to continue with this topic and i would say that many people in their private
lives have indeed learned that this is the best way. u cut off peoples thinking, u use abusive tactics, mind
control teniques and u have basically.
child abuse
But there is no real evidence for that. The evidence I've seen says the opposite, that at BEST you are going to get people hyped-up for a week or a month...then they crash, and want another fix.
Most of the people get worse, due to distorted expectations.
and there are also people who literally have breakdowns, as we see all the time.
when children are abused they are spoken to in a similar way the forum is presented. also with the mind control
techniques that landmark uses the people for parts of the forum, if not all of it are put in a child like
state of mind.
the landmark cult is child abuse. many would say this isnt possible because the victims that take the course
are adults, they dont realize that the people are put into a child like state as they are indoctronated.
children learn better and faster than adults. adults taken to their childhood state are easier to acquire.
LGAT's are NOT the best way to "change", they appear to be the worst! And LGAT is like a crash-diet of the mind. Do crash diets work?
Human change only happens over an extended period of time.
the idea of being Transformed in a weekend is a lie.
Its just a salespitch, a Big Claim, so they can charge you a fortune, for nothing.
but I believe there is evidence that properly conducted Group Therapy with a licensed pro, can help some people? But that is not an LGAT, its the opposite.
Its a good myth though...get Magically Transformed into a "new person"...Quick...for a price.
No wonder Werner Erhard dreamed this up, too bad he could not "change" his personality, by changing names all the time.