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not_a_member
Hi there,
I would like some advice.
A friend of mine called me this morning asking if I'd like to join the landmark forum. I've had problems with my career and direction etc. and he suggested I do it as it helped him.
However, this is the second time I've come across the forum; while in college a fellow student asked me to come to her 'graduation' which turned out to be a 'introduction'. I argued I didn't want to do the course to people who looked at me with vacant and rather unquestioning faces. I was furious - they didn't take my answers seriously - my personal freedom was by the by...very dangerous as far as I was concerned.
Anyway, this friend is someone I hold in high esteem and feel very confused by it. I feel as though a viral agent has hijacked the lines of communication to up-sell me this pseudo-heddegerian clap trap. As I have had challenges in my life of late I feel vulnerable. I explained I didn't wish to do it to him, however he says he will call me back and wants me to come up with 10 reasons why not. To be honest I have more difficulties coming up with 10 reasons to DO the course.
Any course that professes to achieve 'authentic' relations with people through group based coercion (something heidegger would have balked at) must be suspect. It totally insults my intelligence.
How do I proceed if I value the friendship of this person?
one of the first things u must do is to be able and willing
to lose this person possibly forever or at least for a little
while.
and as far as being pressured to attend. landmark is
a mind control organization. if u do some research u will
know what this means.
whether or not u are capable of resisting is up to u.
do u value your ability to think for yourself. if u do u will
resist it. if u are not sure or u dont then its just a matter
of time before landmark gets their hooks into u and u
become a droid with no right or wrong.
u need to be able to stand up for yourself and say no,
if u cant do this u are probably gonna become a landmarkian.