Hi Acid Reindeer:
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everyone who pays for the course or has somebody else pay for the course feeds the machine.
it may seem morally neutral to take a course or two, don't recruit anyone and drop out. still, you have given them a minimum of $395.
I consider that a major strike against the (sensible) idea of going through training, taking what you can take, leaving the rest.
it depends on the person who takes the training.
some people who do it can come out changed for the good, others not or overall less flawed than the person who came up with est.
aware and sophisticated (when it comes to LEC in particular and in general) participants can get something from Landmark. my aunt-in-law does not seem any worse for it. some family friends I knew seemed to have gained from it.
I'm pretty new here, so I'm finding some of your posts kind of confusing. On the one hand, you feel that spending any money on the courses feeds the machine, but on the other, you feel that aware and sophisticated people can (sensibly) get something from Landmark.
I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I'm honestly not sure what you're saying. Do you feel people should not do Landmark? Or that, if they're aware and sophisticated, they should, because they can get something out of it?
I'm sure that, somewhere in the Landmark training, there are bits and pieces that make sense or are somewhat helpful, but doesn't it make sense to get that info somewhere else, rather than subjecting yourself to 3 days of psychological yukkiness and possible psychological harm in order to glean a decent concept or two?
You may agree with my last sentence completely -- I'm just trying to get a handle on things. It might be that you're just expressing the opinion that it's not helpful to come down on new people here who've found something positive to say about Landmark, because that scares them away from this forum and doesn't help them learn what's happened to them. Which I agree with.