Quotef0rTyLeGzQuoteGulab Jamon: Indigo Children" and their ilk are spoiled children who have never even had an adult tell them the word "no". Prove it! Can YOU prove the existence of "indigo children"?
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You are not going to like what I have to say here, but here it is. If she gave you an ultimatum that you do not intend to abide by, then it's time to end this relationship. For you to imply that you may change your mind about Landmark and actually attend a seminar in the future is dishonest. It's not fair to her and it's not fair to yourself. And if you think you are going to
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Colter, I'm very happy that AA has worked for you. I am aware that it has worked for millions of people. But AA does NOT work for EVERYONE. Why can't you just admit the fact that not everyone responds fits into the AA mold and not everyone responds well to that particular type of program?
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Quotemrpc And as for the response of "primerica will take everybody", you need to do more research. Don't most colleges "take everybody?" Um, actually, no they don't. Most colleges (good ones, anyway) have an admissions department that decides who will get admitted to the college and who won't. Reputable colleges often have many more applicants than they
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Quotelinhuck-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I do not believe traditional (talking to prospects) MLM is for everyone, The people that normally bad mouth MLM are not the people that could succeed at networking, which is why they probably bad mouth it, a lot of them have tried MLM at one time or another (even though they deny it) and have
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I just had a garage sale yesterday with a friend. She had a couple books for sale on alcoholism recovery, one of which was called How to Quit Drinking without AA. Here is a review of it on Amazon.com: A man ended up buying it, and the 2 of them got into a really interesting discussion about why they disliked AA. I mentioned this thread to them and both agreed that in their opinion it was
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Have a barf bag handy when you view this site:
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Quoteadmin5432From contemplating the last posts I feel rather ambivalent regarding this issue, thanks for your enlightening remarks. Best Regards, Robin BabySupply.Info - Compare Baby Products - Find the Lowest Price What's up with your signature line? You didn't just join this forum to sell baby products, did you?
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QuotemilkandhoneyI was wondering if this is true I know these people are flaky but are they really :twisted: demonic,as this site states? Something can only be considered demonic if you believe in demons. I personally don't.
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Quotenutrino Internally they may have tremendous emotional problems, the men have extreme sexual frustration and are among New York City's most aggressive consumers of sexual services, they are renowned as customers in the Sado-Masochistic domination scene, massage parlors... the Lower East Side has a veritable cottage industry of brothels that specialize in Hasidic clientele... I've
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My dad knew Lyndon La Rouche back in the late '60s/early '70s. His take on LaRouche is that the man is a total nut job who was paid by the CIA and FBI to infiltrate the anti-war movement. His theory is that the CIA realized what a loose cannon they were dealing with and cut off all ties with him.
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QuoteAioh So this next question I ask is...what exactly do they do in the landmark teen forum? Good question. I was at a convention last weekend and ran into a bunch of old friends from the West Coast. Turns out they're all heavily into Landmark now, and the one has enrolled his teen daughter in the teen forum. She was doing it last weekend. Poor kid! I was very worried when I heard
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QuoteRU?ing 'Skull and Bones' - I notice no reference to this group apart from my own on this site, news reports are light, at least online. This is a documented and real group, with enourmous power, though obviously, as with Opus Dei, it quickly decendes into theory rather than acutality. Skull and Bones is a well-known "Secret Society". I'm sure there are plenty of
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QuoteToni Many who left other cultish groups turn to Gangaji, saying "she's the anti-teacher teacher" "She tells people to listen inside themselves and not follow her alone." Meanwhile, those same followers return repeatedly to sit at her feet, travel with her for spiritual retreats, and place her pictures on home altars. This is exactly what I've said in prev
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Gangaji comes from the Advaita tradition of self-inquiry. Advaita (non-duality) is a branch of the Vedanta school of Hinduism. Advaita was started by Ramana Maharshi and H.W. Poonja (also knowns as Poonjaji or Papaji. Poonja was also Andrew Cohen's guru. I have seen Gangaji 3 times. The first time was in 1997 or 98 (my first Advaita experience) and I was not impressed at all, to say th
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Quotebonnie In the Alano club here, one AA member was slandered by accusations of "child molestation", (for coming on to a 16 year old drug-addicted sexually promiscuous AA member; he was maybe 30), and he killed himself in response to the gossip. At the very emotionally heated meetings following the incident, other members stepped up to the podium and screamed sermons about how &q
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QuotewquercusPeople read Brown, and so many of these "exposes," and they see that it is so far afield from the Opus Dei that they come to know through evenings of reflection, retreats, and friendships. It isn't a "cult," it is a way of being Catholic which is recognized by the Catholic Church as completely mainstream. I would think anyone with half a brain would know th
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QuoteColter 13th stepping is not a part of the AA program. Your referring to the behavior of an individual, not AA. Such immoral behavior is openly discouraged in AA meetings. It's not uncommon to here older members suggesting that new members avoid getting involved in new sexual relationships for at least one year after getting sober. If by 13th steping your refering to rape the indi
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Quotecarioca I've off work for 2 weeks with back pain and after just 2 days of using their products I feel 85% better! 85% better? How did you come up with that number? It seems like a really strange way to describe your back pain. I don't ever recall using a percentage to describe my healing process.
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QuoteColterI've yet to meet anyone whose life was ruined by AA. I guess you missed my post about my friend who got "13-stepped" by an AA member and went back to drinking?
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I just saw something on the news last night about Opus Dei actually attracting new members due to the DaVinci Code. They interviewed an Opus Die spokesperson or official who said he had several new members come to him and say they'd heard about the organization from reading the DaVinci Code. One man in particular apparently told this guy that he read the book and didn't believe any of
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One of my acquaintances is very involved in this. He's also involved in a lot of MLM-type stuff and used to be involved with the Church of Satan. Not sure if they're all connected, but I think Neo-Tek and Church of Satan are somehow connected. Neo-Tek also borrows a lot of their ideas from Ayn Rand, although they have no official connection to her organization.
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Interesting point. I think commercialism is much more accepted and respected than it was in the "counterculture" 1960s. Back then you'd be accused of "selling out" if you tried to make money. Nowadays, people are considered stupid or weird if they choose NOT to make money on something. People wear t-shirts with product names on them, big corporations get stadiums na
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QuoteskepticPost-cult, I'm completely baffled about how to believe and what to believe. In addition to questioning and discarding the cult beliefs, I am doing the same with ALL my beliefs. As a consequence, I feel shaken to my core and without a foundation on which to stand and from which to operate. I think I need some kind of belief system but my bind is that I don't know how t
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Quotejohnbennie She has also told me that since the whole world is about to be lifted out of this "matrix" existence many of the things we are doing or have to do (pay taxes, go to work etc.) don't matter since they won't be necessary soon. Really? That's GREAT news! I'm glad to hear I can stop doing my taxes. Too bad I wasted my whole Saturday on them, but at le
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So apparently tolerance of others' beliefs is not part of Santana's credo?
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I have to agree with Acid Reindeer on this point. Anti-depressants and anti-psychotic drugs are not necessarily proven to be safe and effective. Psychiatrists even admit they're not sure how or why some of these drugs work. The bottom line is that we have no idea what some of these drugs do to the body and mind long-term. No long-term clinical trial has been done on many of the newer one
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QuotelightwolfI would add that the LGATs never really suggest that the problem could be your behavior. Maybe in real reality you are making some bad choices that, as a natural consequence, "mess your life up" and "make it not work." Of course, the response to this would be to look at your behavior, learn from it, and make better choices next time. But why bother with that w
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Thanks for posting this! I didn't know such an organization existed.
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A "joke religion" does not become a cult unless people in it start taking it seriously.
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