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Acid Reindeer
Caligari, though you keep harping on this damage or whatever that could happen, like I said, possibility does not equal certainty. if you looked into the folkways of any culture on Earth you will find losing identity as a central human experience. you will a lot more freaky business than Cuddle Party on this planet of ours. try ritualistic scarification ceremonies, group sex, Appalachian snakebiting cults, those crazy Japanese phallus festivals. shocking I know.
if you have any specific information on the specific dangers of this group, then by all means share it. not suspicions, mind you, actual information. the subjective impressions of journalists calling the experience creepy does not count. if people who went to these events started popping up on these forums and calling this a manipulative group then I would consider that more substantial.
I think I will stop discussing this as I keep repeating myself and so do you all.
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Acid Reindeer
Caligari, though you keep harping on this damage or whatever that could happen, like I said, possibility does not equal certainty.
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Acid Reindeer
if you looked into the folkways of any culture on Earth you will find losing identity as a central human experience. you will a lot more freaky business than Cuddle Party on this planet of ours. try ritualistic scarification ceremonies, group sex, Appalachian snakebiting cults, those crazy Japanese phallus festivals. shocking I know.
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Acid Reindeer
if you have any specific information on the specific dangers of this group, then by all means share it. not suspicions, mind you, actual information. the subjective impressions of journalists calling the experience creepy does not count. if people who went to these events started popping up on these forums and calling this a manipulative group then I would consider that more substantial.
I think I will stop discussing this as I keep repeating myself and so do you all.
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Dynamix
Yeah you're right. None of us have actually been, so it's impossible to say if it is manipulative and controlling. However, its obvious links to LE make it a 9 on the creep-o-meter for me. I'm staying away. And should landmark spawn any more children, I'll be staying away from them too.
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MarkusWelch
Does one need to experience the event as a participant in order to properly criticize it? The logic you are using here, Acid Reindeer, is that the entire event is new to one's experience and cannot be criticized by someone who has not participated.
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Acid Reindeer
Caligari, though you keep harping on this damage or whatever that could happen, like I said, possibility does not equal certainty.
What I am doing is predicting outcome based on activity. If you put human beings into a staged situation where they are doing a specific type of action, the results from those actions can be predicted. The prediction may turn out false, true or partially true. The prediction I offer is that organizing indiscriminate, intimate, non-sexual behavior -- prolonged intimate full-body contact of a large group of strangers -- will lead to a confusion of personal boundaries, trust and regression to identification of others on predominately a physical basis.
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I have seen in similar conditions to Cuddle Parties, people act psychologically regressive.
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Acid Reindeer
if you looked into the folkways of any culture on Earth you will find losing identity as a central human experience. you will a lot more freaky business than Cuddle Party on this planet of ours. try ritualistic scarification ceremonies, group sex, Appalachian snakebiting cults, those crazy Japanese phallus festivals. shocking I know.
If you consider falling off the top of a three story building you can look at situations of falling from greater heights like from the Eiffel Tower, a mountain cliff, an airplane, etc. None of those situations recommend falling off a three story building.
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Acid Reindeer
Elena, Landmark likes to copyright certain phrases, this much I know. I wonder only (out of curiosity) which phrases Mr. CuddleParty had appropriated, though I do not care that much.Quote
elena
V. Rackets™: The Payoff and the Cost
daft Landmarkians! rackets comes from the work of the psychotherapist Eric Berne.
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elena
Well, in just a quick look at a paragraph in the guy's biography I see such Landmark or est-type phrases or "concepts" as:
~creating a space~
~safe space~
~fully self-expressed~
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Some of us are "hyper-sensitive" to Landmarky-type nonsense words and phrases.