isn't Ray one of the people who contributed to "the Secret"? He is trying to portray himself as unfairly persecuted. Well, how is that "law of attraction" working for you, Ray? I guess you aren't thinking positive enough, huh? If these gurus continue to be extended credibility by Oprah, more death and damage will occur. This has to be stopped!
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this is truly silly. This whole Zeitgeist drama on RR appears to have been started by a person or persons who were banned from posting on the Zeitgeist forum. To equate this with "abuse" is INSULTING to those of use who actually have been abused and exploited by gurus, cults, or "groups with fringe ideas". No matter how strange or offensive one might find the Zeitgeist ideolo
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oh, something else. The "advice columnist" in the local free urban paper has regularly dispensed advice and expressed a viewpoint that caused me to mutter "what in the world??". It's absolute nonsense and she regularly blames victims of accidents for their own misfortune. I've noticed that she has often quoted practitioners of "woo" and espoused views that
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It just confounds the mind how she, among others, can be conducting individual and group "therapy" when she has no education, no training, no license or regulation. Why are these operations not shut down by authorities in a New York minute?? This woman is especially disgusting, and her remarks about child rape and the way she blames victims of rape, molestation, assault, (because they n
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has anyone reported BK to the Anti-Defamation League or other similar organizations for her Holocaust apologism? Seems like a good idea....
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I hope I didn't say something wrong and that's why my comment wasn't let through. It just occurred to me that saying I'm a "lurker" probably wasn't the best choice of words. I don't usually post on message boards. In any case, my gratitude for this site and all here is genuine; you have no idea how many times you have saved me from despair because I am surr
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Hi everyone. I've been lurking here for a few years, and want to thank all the contributors, and Rick Ross, for providing a harbor of reason and (un)common sense in a world gone the way of Oprah-ism. Having been involved in the New Age scam and occultism for about ten years, and then gradually deprogramming over a period of 5 years, I've been free of the New Age delusions for about a de
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