Oh, I should have remembered to add: Jan Groenveld is someone who came out of the Jehoveh's Witnesses. You can listen to her story here. John
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Rick Ross is still pretty good, though. :-P John
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Sounds like a job for .... A Current Affair or Today Tonight. John
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But first, nip it in the bud ... so to speak. Before it gets to be a situation with the complexity of cult involvement. Much easier to deal with. John
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Hi southerncross, That's a funny aim for a cult to have. It's a new one for to me. I'd firstly treat it as an issue of some young woman trying to muscle in on an existing healthy marriage. Give the bloke a heads-up with regards to what is happening around him. (Us guys aren't really good with the subtle stuff. Tell it to him straight.) If he doesn't take noti
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The spoils of conquest, I guess. ... and what the needy leader jerks boil down to in the end. John
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Hi amemg, He may have rationalised from 5 cult reasons down to one in the space of a minute - and he had to work to get it down to only one - but you did have him thinking there for once. And that my friend is a stepping stone as far as victory is concerned. As per the follow-up postings, you keep at it. Even if it is only non-Landmark stuff that you are engaging his critical thinking ski
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Formerly deceased? You mean that he merely "was" being deceased? :-> (Okay, I'm kidding with you there. I know what you are meaning.) It could be that his recordings are made in advance. It's a normal thing to do when producing a series for broadcast and caters for the unexpected events if you have a buffer of recorded material that hasn't been broadcast yet.
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Boggles indeed. Thanks for the heads-up. John
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Hi amemg, In order to see what actually happens at a Landmark course, you might wish to watch a documentary that is viewable on the CAIC site. It's in French with subtitles in English. There is also a transcript of the English subtitles. Very enlightening. Pop over to watch the video here. Hope it helps. John
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Cool. Always good to have another one join. Welcome along! John
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Bork bork bork! Select the language of your choice (Swedish Chef) from the dropdown menu. John (yeah ... I'm so funny!) :-P
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FYI - Swedish translation: Quote Veekileeks eccepts clesseeffied, censured oor oozeerveese-a restreected metereeel ooff puleeticel, deeplumetic oor itheecel seegnifficunce-a. Veekileeks dues nut eccept roomuoor, oopeeniun oor oozeer keends ooff furst hund repurteeng oor metereeel thet is elreedy poobleecly efeeeleble-a. Ell steffff vhu deel veet suoorces ere-a eccredeeted juoorneleests
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On the other hand, if some Landmark docs in Swedish were to appear, it might easily make it look as if it was Nettie who released them .... thanks to our discussion here. So again it kind of ruins it. It was a good idea, though. John
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Yeah, no good through as they would be in Swedish. :-P John
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Well ... there's one really good way to find out. (evil grin) John
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Wish I had a copy of this much ballyhooed "Leaders Manual" that they talk about. Sometimes I wonder if it is even real. The Holy Grail of Landmark Education perhaps? John
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Maybe they are becoming more desperate as things get harder for them? John
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When I read the bottom addendum of this article, I could not help but think of the kind of reality disconnect that Landmark et al pervade. And how fatal to real genuine productivity it must be. QuoteFrom the article ...Kind of scary, isn’t it? The interesting part was that BigFirm had implemented, corporate-wide, a “team management” methodology (from an outside firm) that was based on “mood,
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Hi Alex, And welcome to the forum! (no pun intended) Just had a quick squizz at your video too. John
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You can see a copy of the paper here .... Better still, at the bottom they've got a link for an email address for Werner Erhard. What could possibly go wrong? (grin) John
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I for one would be interested in eyeballing that academic paper. Anyone got a copy or know details of what its name is? John
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Top stuff. Congrats! John
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Bonus points if you can do a faux-praise review in Landmark-bot mindless lekkie-speak (multi paragraphs and all). ... and still end up saying nothing in the end. (grin) John
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Epic LULZ, as they say. :-D John
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Well, maybe God is a woman after all. As they say ... God moves in mysterious ways. (ducking) John
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Hi zastdbox, Just so that you know, you need to get to 10 posts before you are able to use the PM thing. At least for sending PMs to others. Just so that you know and aren't left wondering why nobody (could) reply back. John PS. Welcome to the forum!
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"Est-holes". Both interesting and apt. Wish the article had more content, though. John
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Ahh. Gotcha. John PS. Welcome to the forum!
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What do you mean by EFT? John
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