Excellent & very funny!! "Thanks for sharing", you cynic! hahaha I like this quote, posted by someone else, in #40: "The only people who can give the impression of having risen to a higher plane, who seem superior to ordinary human misery, are people who resort to the aids of illusion, exaltation, fanaticism, to conceal the harshness of destiny from their own
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HAHAHAHAHA! I just read #30, "Transformation Gone Wrong". I love it. They're all really funny! On to #31 :lol:
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Quotequestion lady I think it serves their agenda, which harms people by: * making people feel like they are doing something wrong by revealing what happened. * preventing analysis of how the brainwashing is carried out * perpetuates a mystique around the training, and various levels thereof * creates a sense of "us" versus "them" * promotes "bonding"
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Ellen, I only read through #10 . . . didn't notice there was more! What I read was very funny!! I think I found where the others are and will surely read them too. :D skeptic
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QuoteelenaPerhaps it would be easier to see the danger in cult logic and cult thinking looking through the silliness window: I wrote this a while back on alt.fan.landmark in a fit of pique. Someone said it was my best work. Ellen Hahaha, Ellen, excellent!!!!!!!!!!
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Hahaha Rs!!!!!!
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Re Ken's post, am I back in the lgat?! We called them 'incompletes'. They drain our energy, just as you say. Blah blah blah. While not wholly untrue, life is certainly not so neat & tidy as lgats make it seem. Finish your incompletes and feel good. Simple formula, instant self confidence. NOT. Life *itself* is an ongoing series of incompletes. And to comp
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL everyone! HAHAHAHAHAHA I love it!!!!!!!!!
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QuoteMartinH[ The human mind and life is a bit more complex than those three or so concepts they have taught you there LOL, well said. Too true, too true. That was about it. Three or so concepts to explain all of life and to live by. Simple solutions for simple & lazy minds.
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Nutrino but isn't that the way to enlightenment?
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Quotequestion lady"Cult Thinking" ? Isn't that an oxymoron? I want to add my LOL!!!!!!!!!!
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QuoteHope When I sought counseling post my Landmarkian doctor, the first author the very mainstream therapist suggested I read was Byron Katie. EWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL On2 re speaking english behind closed doors! Nutrino, good post and I'm glad you're thinking along the lines of political action :D . Last time we discussed regulation/legislation I recall that it wasn't a strategy you thought was useful. I would love to see lgats scrutinized at state & federal levels and answer to the questions you've posed! As I
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QuotepragmatistQuoteskepticEveryone in the "courses" I went through came IN as individuals and they all went OUT as carbon copies of each other. We all had the same jargon, the same "beliefs", the same magic tricks/tools, the same approach to life, word for word, action for action. So you feel much better as an individual than when you relate (or are part of) to a group,
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Quotemaurice It must be scary for a guest, the jargon, the over-sharing.. Unfortunately I never attended one of this event BEFORE signing up. I would have smelled the rat. I was ALONE at my introduction, with TWO introduction leaders to pressure me. One of them, who was a good friend of mine, followed me all the way home, hard selling, with the contract in his hand to make me sign up before i got
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QuotepragmatistHey skeptic - is being here not a different choice than staying in the LGAT? So who programmed you to come to culteducation.com and share? Is it the same or a different person who programmed you to go to the LGAT (no pun intended)? I'm not being sarcastic - just curious as to why you think you had your free will taken away from you, if you don't mind telling us...
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QuoteelenaMind Dynamics was successfully brought down in 1973: ... Investigated for fraud, practicing medicine without a license In December 1972[29], Mind Dynamics was investigated for practicing medicine without a license, and fraudulent representation of the potential benefits of participating in their coursework.[9][30][2][31] The company was also investigated by the state of Cal
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Gemini, Wanna use Katie's four questions to find out if it's true that I was being condescending? 1. Is it true? Is it true that skeptic was being condescending? (the correct answer per Katie is "no") 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? (she instructs that if you answered "yes" to the first question, you need to ask it again) 3. How do yo
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OH! The link worked! Just click it, Gemini, and read 55 more posts on the Work.
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I don't know how to copy links so that you can click on but the above is an earlier discussion on this site about the Work. (It's on page 13)
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Dyno, what brings you to this discussion? skeptic
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And when I hear the process she goes through during her four questions my bullsh*t alarms are deafeningly LOUD.
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Hi Gemini, Well, I'm curious, do you think Katie's criticism of the Secret makes sense? It's as nutty as the Secret. As I said, I've had a little exposure to her and I think she's way out in la-la land. My bullsh*t radar sounds when I hear her. Is she someone who makes sense to you? Her goal/promise is that you will be forever happy because you will love
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From the link posted above: “There is a secret”—is it true? I don’t know, I just don’t know, could be, and how would I know when I have found it? Wouldn’t it mean (if it were really powerful) that when I truly found it, my life and the lives of everyone I love, which is everyone on the planet without exception, would be perfect? That I and all of us would no longer have to suffer from needing,
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I'm sorry, but Byron Katie's "4 questions" are cuckoo. I love how she answers them . . . they somehow always manage, even if the answer is nutty, to prove/confirm her "work". Her "work" is not logical. It's magic and fantasy. And the answers to her 4 questions go in circles, as do the 4 questions themselves. It's like the circular lgat illogi
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QuoteRswinters Participants including myself here. Chose to be brainwashed, and chose to participate. Rs, I'm in with you about wanting to do something. I'd like to think there's a legal angle too and I would love to see something done. I'm a layperson so perhaps the legal-angle ideas I have wouldn't fly, but I've had a few. One is that, contrary to what y
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When I read the accounts of destroyed lives and relationships that are posted here I keep thinking of a pamphlet or booklet or book with a collection of them. In very human terms they illustrate the ugly & untold side of the lgat business. I'm not sure how it could happen but I think it would be great if people who are considering entering into an lgat could read these accounts. W
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I wonder, do they ever really see it for what it is? My sister thinks she's out of the lgat but she definitely does not see it for what it is. I can understand how someone perhaps would never see it for what it is if nothing too disruptive happened in their lives afterwards. But, if things get turned upside down and/or the person who recruited you, who is your sibling, who you used to thi
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Quotemaurice QuoteDid it make me feel nervous afterwards? Yes. Did it make me doubt myself? Yes. Did I think for a while my life was empty and meaningless? Yes... But that's the whole point of the Forum+AC - to get you to THINK about these things. Life does not stop after the Forum - it carries on. You get to choose whether you will ignore the tools you got or not So, you choose to ignore
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disclaimer: I haven't read all the posts in the thread so if I'm repeating something that's why. Reading question lady's question as to why people might go to a "seminar" over therapy, I think a couple factors are that lgats promise "happy ever after" & total success in just a matter of days (quick, magic fix). . . and . . . the recruitment/mark
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