Ahhh.... Stockholm Syndrome Lite... It appears that rigid thinkers, and even more so that subgroup known as concrete thinkers are particularly easy to "flip" .... where, by contrast, those equipped with elastic, ironic, multi-perspective thought processes... meaning those minds that aren't particularly susceptible to "leaps of faith".... find the Wernerite posturings more
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And.... worse yet... the sneaky inauthentic prick who had the temerity to record our fabulous bushwa was..... snif... snifff..... booo hooo.... bwaaaaaaaaa.... Quote a person who was in the program under a false name That's gotta be the most terriblest, awfulest, meanest thing I ever heard.... how COULD they ?
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QuoteThe AnticultIts nice to know that the Landmarkian spies monitor this forum 24/7, and report back to Art Schreiber. They're a bunch of pitiful twats.
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QuoteajinajanHere is a vid on YouTube comparing Scientology, a speech about Landmark Education by the famous actor Anthony Rapp, and a brief segment of the French video at the end. Amusing. Gaaaad... what a tedious verbose blatherer.... like my experience with est trainers, you feel like your head is imploding after five minutes of their self indulgent spewing... Oh yeah, that "authe
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The latter day ESTmarkian Erhardian Ayatollahahs of Authenticity have managed the almost unthinkable, they have simultaneously shot themselves in both feet, made utter public asses and objects of derision of themselves, let every cat out of the bag, mixed unthinkable metaphors, and generally messed up real bad.... the blowback from their Jihad of Joy , The Great Crusade Of Sealed Lips, has been,
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Quote How interesting in the Cayman article that Art Schreiber only refers to "Landmark's founder" and does not specify Werner Erhard by name. I never heard a Landmark Forum leader utter the words "Werner Erhard" or "EST." It was always "when this education began" or "when we started this technology". However, my seminar leader did refer
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Not to mention their clarifying entry: "Est Repair Rundown: an auditing action designed to repair the damage done to a person mentally and spiritually by the practice of est (Erhard Seminars Training). Est was an offbeat group which used destructive techniques, and some people new to Scientology are found to have been previously involved with est. It is necessary to undo the harmful effec
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Quotecritical_thinkerI'm curious to know if Rick Ross can read or write French? Go to your dictionary and look up the definition of pathetic . Landmark has achieved the exact opposite of its' intentions. It has manufacured a cause celebre of global proportions, making itself look like a herd of clueless jackasses... I gots some real bad news for youse... was in the UK recently
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I believe this is a superb example of a new culture shift beginning to be felt.. the enabling technologies like YouTube's video servers, are radically changing power dynamics between "closed systems" and the public domain... Landmark's gigantic conceptual error is that this is nothing more than a series of local brushfires that have to be stamped out before they spread, when i
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It is possible to have virtuous information available from a teacher, as with Tony, I have enjoyed and benefitted from a judicious selection of his PowerTalk tape series... so I assume you can have a kind of "split personality" organization that does good on one hand and other stuff on the other hand... it's realy hard to know exactly what rationalizations, thought processes, or
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Hey, I did attend a recent UPW event...physically, personally... I don't know what "mind control" means... my personal impression was the whole thing was just nuts.. like being trapped inside the brain of a hyperkinetic madman.. I could easily see how an unstable person could be pushed into an overexited state... and on the other hand how this might hold a great attraction for cert
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Hoo Ya ! another massive attack:
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WAHOO!!! The new links work... amazing section that compares ESTmark with Scientology, by the by.... I think this bastid has really, truly slipped the leash this time and the powers that be will never silence to voice of truth...
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This Video Is Not Currently Available Please Try Again Later.... they turned this one off... where will it pop up next ?
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It remains up and fully functional as of monday... and appears to be gaining significant momentum... looks like another "werner moment" is brewing.....
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My gut tells me that the cat is seriously out of the bag this time around, Art Schreiber or no Art Schreiber... they squashed Youtube and it pops up here, they squash it here and it will turn up someplace else... by a lot... don't go by the google "views' number... that may only be refecting downloads or something... I've checked it at least 5 times and the views counter doe
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Still up and running as of today... with a 5 star rating... looks like this baby has gone viral... no way to put the toothpaste back in the tube now...
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Might depend on your feed.... I'm running a T-1 line and it flows perfectly... DSL lines may have a harder time synchronizing... and there is probably a large demand for this too.... If this becomes widespread public knowledge, it will be like 60 Minutes II... blow them clean out of the water, lock, stock, and barrel... This smells like DOOM.
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WOW! HOLY SMOKES !!!! It runs perfectly on my line..... DAMN!!! LANDMARK..... IS...... TOAST........ BUH-BYE.
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Markus.... there is something flat out wrong with your mind. There is a bizarre literalism to your thought patterns which is sometimes associated with brain injury. I suggest obtaining a psychometric work up to see if you can pinpoint the issue. Your personality structure is generally not one that is comfortable seeking therapy, however I think you would benefit greatly from professional help,
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Markus... you are simply nuts. I absolutely think there is something profoundly wrong with your mind that has nothing to do with this discussion and a lot to do with some kind of paranoid delusional disorder... there is something so incoherent, so desperately wrong headed about your thought processes, and obviously in need of psychiatric care... I'm not injecting "political views"
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The snake in the garden of the New Age: the denial of basic distinctions of Good and Evil under the banner of "nonjudgementalism" .... which was never the real deal in the first place... because New Agers ARE intensely judgemental authoritarians under the skin... the only have found more palatable ways to language their authoritarian impulses... The Erhardians got over because The Great
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Quoteash. *Anything I might be reading or have heard about LF is "just crap". Oh Gosh! What in the world do you think they were referring to ? Mmmmmm.... why do they even bother having to to warn you off anything "you might be reading"..... ?
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take another page off the Res Ipsa Loquitur pile.... from the New York Times.... "Extreme liberals who look at this should be quaking in their boots,” declares Pastor Becky Fischer with jovial satisfaction in the riveting documentary “Jesus Camp.” Ms. Fischer, an evangelical Christian, helps run Kids on Fire, a summer camp in Devils Lake, N.D., that grooms children to be soldiers in
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QuoteSamuel Talking about CULT SPEAK, here are some recent examples of how PSI groupies talk to each other. Thought you might find it interesting. I added some side notes as well, as to how they handle their relationships. MY MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE THE VACCUM SO THAT THE UNIVERSE MAY FILL IN MY WISH WITH ALL THINGS NEW AND EXCITING. (I wonder what will happen when life bites her i
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Quoteelectronicoffee My friend Steve and I discussed some of the strangeness we felt, and some of the odd behavior as well as the excessive number of 'volunteers' that they had - later I found out the only person who made any money .. all of the rest were 'volunteers' who 'got more out of it, than they put in'; there were over 30 volunteers - this really str
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Quoteskeptic The lgat I was involved with said "'WHY' is the booby prize". Talk about stopping thinking, questioning, examining, probing...... We weren't supposed to ask WHY! Ah yes.... Werner all time stupid proclamation of all time: "Understanding is the booby prize" ! This revelation should be the preamble to every edition of the Jackass movie se
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these are all examples of the fetishitic use of language ... or "thought stopping" by quickly moving to an obsessive language-plug to stuff into any mental leak... sort of like the bicycle tire patch kits except for the mind.... when you have a small box of brain-corks handy who needs to bother with any in depth analysis or nuanced consideration... just stick the pacifier in the bra
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There are times when I feel like pulling out my hair... such as when I read things like this, written by a "master trainer" of NLP.... geeeyaaack... in my own backyard..... : "NLP and Quantum Physics Simple and easy to understand introduction to quantum physics and personal change We simplify Quantum Physics for you and show you how to use the principles in using you
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Quotepragmatist Set the ethics aside for a moment - and you surely can not hope for a better way to add value to something that lasts 3 days, tells you nothing new, and differs only in the style and method of execution. ummmm... I beg to differ.... I did a cross platform comparison... visiting the Erhardians (then in the guiuse of the est training) and checking in with the neurolinguists/eri
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