In 2004 Landmark sued Rick Ross and this website back when it was Rick Ross dot com. Here's the CEI archive of info about Landmark. 'Litigation' and 'Labor Violations' are among the topics.
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Nicole Daedone One Taste Orgasmic Meditation The Welcomed Consensus RJ Testerman Is a San Francisco 'Sex Cult' Subjecting People to Abuse? Sydney Johnson KQED Aug 28 QuoteBy the time Nelson was being groomed by the Welcomed Consensus, OneTaste was booming. It was still edgy, but good marketing helped it inch its way toward mainstream acceptance with profiles in publicat
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Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre says ‘adios’ to San Francisco Mission Local August 28th, 2023 Comments on reddit San Francisco SF Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre abruptly closes, blames city Gracias Madre Went Out on Bottom ------------------------------------------------ Earlier article - Mission Local 2018 QuoteOwners Matthew and Terces Englehart sta
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Glossary of Terms: MGTOW (‘m??ta?) – Men Going Their Own Way, described by Wikipedia as “a mostly pseudonymous online community of men supported by websites and social media presences cautioning men against serious romantic relationships with women, especially marriage. The community is part of what is more broadly termed the manosphere. MGTOW have ‘…vowed to stay away from women, stop dating
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ORTHODOXY, SISSIES, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MASCULINITY: PART ONE by Giacomo Sanfilippo Orthodoxy in Dialogue March 3rd 2018 ORTHODOXY, SISSIES, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MASCULINITY: PART TWO by Giacomo Sanfilippo June 4th 2018
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Male Supremacy Southern Poverty Law article Male supremacy is a hateful ideology rooted in the belief of the innate superiority of cisgender men and their right to subjugate women, trans men, and nonbinary people. Men going their own way: the rise of a toxic male separatist movement The Guardian Laura Bates Wed 26 Aug 2020 01.00 EDT The ‘Men Going Their Own Way’ movement i
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Andrew Tate: 'I fear online influencer radicalised my son' BBC 10 December 2022 How to Talk to Boys and Young Men About Andrew Tate
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Aspiring Warlord Society for American Civic Renewal Charles Haywood US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network The Guardian Jason Wilson Tue 22 Aug 2023 06.00 EDT
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Anyone trying to break away from Mooji risks getting sudden Mooji pix and reminders on their phones. I get unwanted Mooji pop up advertising on my phone because of what I research. Trying to forget Mooji and don't want reminders? Go to your phone and other digital devices and clean out your browsing history, cache and cookies. Algorithms and Search Engine Optimization are used ag
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(Corboy note: It is possible to escape a cult if you have a large family. However, maintstream American society provides little support for parenting. This Reddit discussion is illuminating.) Quote "It really sucks for those that learned to rely on the evangelical machine to help us raise a large family and suddenly find ourselves outside of it." Quote"The (Big Family)lifestyl
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Just imagine what it looked like all those millions of years ago when clouds of those coil shelled tentacled cephalopods were swarming the oceans... You are so right that science exhibits marvels beyond our wildest dreams:)
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The smiley street recruiters selling you blue ribbon bound copies of Bhagavad Gita As It Is will not tell you what they think of women (women are idiot baby factories) and that if you join them you'll be kissing fossil snail shells. Shaligram stones are fossil shells left by distant relatives of today's chambered nautilus - a member of the squid/octopus family - cephalopods. The
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Stripped Down: The Undoing of Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Former teachers and clients at S Factor claim the sexy fitness empowerment movement once embraced by Kate Hudson and Eva Longoria went astray even before racial tensions with its charismatic founder came to a head last summer: “It was this beautiful thing, and it morphed." By Gary Baum, Katie Kilkenny, Rebecca Sun
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Google search results: "by any means necessary" "Revolutionary Workers League" Allegations that Revolutionary Workers League trash talked dissident members as being mentally ill and in some cases arranged for them to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals. Letter (circa 1998) by the IBT's Jason Wright documenting his leaving the Revolutionary Workers Leag
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Movement For Justice Revolutionary Workers League By Any Means Necessary Political Cults By Any Means Necessary - Front Group for Revolutionary Workers League Revolutionary Workers League - 'Entryism' Opportunistic takeover of legitimate and promising union organizing and other social justice projects. QuoteRevolutionary Workers League/RWL Formed in 1976 as a split
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Is this the book the story is from? This story is an important find -- thank you! And, as a story, it really stinks. It shows that Prabhupada taught a tradition that was, by our standards, toxic by his time. It is a story that the Hare Krishnas do not tell prospective recruits. Even if this incident did not happen, it is truthful at another level -- information about cultural valu
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Guru tricks - weaponized laughter (Go to the search bar, select All Dates and then put laughter guru. laughter satsang in there and see what comes up. Keeping people waiting and arriving late Commonplace stories used by gurus -- according to Aghenanda Bharati, in Indian culture one is expected to tell these stories when performing the guru role. More recently in the West,
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Along with Agehananda Bharati, I highly recommend Alexandra Stein's Terror, Love, and Brainwashing. She tells us exactly what is done to recruit and then keep us in abusive groups and guru set ups. The basic recipe. Trauma bonding. Here are some references to Alexandra Stein. (Bookfinder dot com is a great place to go and comparison price books) I learned about Bharati'
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I grew up not knowing what genuine attuned connection was. I fell for a series of authority figures who mimicked this. Because they were self centered they were not capable of genuine attunement. To compensate for this lack they cultivated charm, eloquence, learned how to stroke our emotions, push our buttons just the way someone patting our dog's butt gives the pup pleasure -- and wins our
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Subtractive Method or Subtracting Method Discarding Method Self Balancing Food Culmination Process Complete Sky Funds
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QuoteAbandonment It is not uncommon that a practitioner of Maum travels away from their family if their family does not also enter Maum, a common technique of cults. One Maum Meditation practitioner donated his house to the practice.[7] New Maum centers no longer cause a high degree of abandonment, as members are now told to stay near their families and to make converts among their familie
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Comment following an article in Daily Free Press Boston University September 29, 2003 sunny November 30, 2014 at 11:18 am I am a ex-member of Maum meditation.... Quote....The maum helpers have not told you this yet, they don’t tell the truth until they get your mind controlled. After level 4 it will ask for “Sky Funds” to allow your ancestors to go to heaven from purgatory, abou
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Author alleges Maum Meditation groups refer to themselves as local meditation centers. Lesson is ALWAYS demand to know who actually leads/organizes any meditation project or center. Where does the money come from to do publicity and organize the Zoom rooms and times? In the US spiritual and meditation projects are tax deductible. That means YOU, the tax payer, indirectly subsidize the
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Quote Profile photo for Austin C Austin C · Follow 5y Related How do you start Maum meditation? I was brainwashed by maum meditation (woo myung cult). I felt sorry that I left my family & true friends to follow woo myung cult for years. I was very selfish because I only want to save myself using maum meditation. My family was suffering but I didn’t care because I meditated ever
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QuoteBellatrixLeRegular · 7 yr. ago · edited 7 yr. ago Ok, thanks your for pointing that on reddit, actually I've been following (following = internet watching / RSS / etc) Maum Meditation for a while. What warries me is that it is really spreading to really many people and there's almost no media coverage for that (wich makes me thinking if governements are really aware of th
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Take care to read all six pages of this discussion of Maum and its other name, subtraction meditation. Some new discussions about it on Reddit. "...not all meditations are connected to an organization that will demand more and more time and money as you progress. Nor do all such organizations claim to be the sole way for you to achieve the spiritual freedom you seek. But Maum doe
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Sense I get is that in the Vedic culture beloved by Prabhupada and Butler, power = legitimacy. You have power because you accumulated enough karma in previous lives. Whether you gained that power legitimately or not, whether you exercise that power justly or unjustly, is irrelevant. A Hitler is Energy in personal form, as amoral as a supernova, an erupting volcano, an earthquake, a pandemi
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To Linda: Every time I have ignored misgivings I have regretted it. There are a number of worrisome things written about TNT. Perhaps take a break from the school, hang out in a different setting. Check up on old friends. At the very least, stay in touch with family and friends outside the school.
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The December Medium article on TNT can still be read on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Go to Internet Archive Put the URL for the Medium article into the Wayback Machine search slot Results will give you a list of calendar pages with graphs showing which dates the Archive records a captured copies of the article. Click on one of the graphs. You see a small bo
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