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Post by Kinetic IV » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:43 am

This is really turning into a pile of bs. Especially when the discussions move from ripping ideas and starts ripping on people, both in public and especially in private.

Since I'm standing on the soapbox I admit I drifted the thread and I apologized for it. But now this is getting to be ridiculous. Has anyone stopped and thought that maybe Cowgirl has a personal interest in this, maybe she's had a family member or someone involved with this and she wants to sound the warning to keep others from doing the same? The least we can do is hear her out and respect what she has to say. Some may not agree with it...but next time it could be you putting out a message we don't agree with....do you want to be treated like this? I seriously doubt it.

I'll get off my soapbox but as I said before I liked The Fire Elf's posts. This new character IMHO sucks.
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Post by Lassen Forge » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:45 am

Why don't you do all of us a favor, and either (a) grow the fuck up, or (b) shut the fuck up.

Usually I don't talk to the developmentally disabled this way, but someone has to.

Talk about a classless, cluless fuck of a sock...

I've said my piece. Good bye.

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Post by Dr BENWAYLADEN » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:46 am

ditto
I deplore brutality, It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt.

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Post by spectabillis » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:49 am

Jungfraueigerbane wrote:*as the ignore list grows*
hmmm.... considering the death of this thread, your creation of the other one, and this last comment... I am starting to wonder if you could please contribute something more constructive.

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Post by Dr BENWAYLADEN » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:49 am

not ditto to bb or K
I deplore brutality, It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt.

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Post by spectabillis » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:59 am

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:...Talk about a classless, cluless fuck of a sock...

fyi: unless i can follow this closely over a period of time, i have a hard time distinguishing an instigator from those reacting to one.

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Post by the fire elf » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:17 am

[quote="spectabillis"]I am starting to wonder[/quote]

didn't come here to offend

don't care for the direction i'm growing in, i'll go grow elsewhere

thank you for all previous reflection

r.i.p.

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Post by DoctorIknow » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:25 am

Earlier on, I compared the thrust of this thread to Fox News and got slammed, so THANK YOU Jungfraueigerbane for explaining what I meant:
Jungfraueigerbane wrote: truth is not malicious in itself...

but to those who think they know how to live and what life should be like, it can seem incredibly malicious...

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Post by Kinetic IV » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:47 am

the fire elf wrote:
spectabillis wrote:I am starting to wonder
didn't come here to offend

don't care for the direction i'm growing in, i'll go grow elsewhere

thank you for all previous reflection

r.i.p.
This is a pretty tolerant group. But tolerance stops when things move from attacking ideas to attacking people, or when the posts get too cryptic to follow.

Right now you're hanging between having credibility or losing it. If you bolt and hide from this mess any crediblity you have will be shot. Before doing anything I'll pass along advice others on this same board gave me. Step back, cool off, think it out, then repost. Or type up something and then hit delete instead of post and then retype it again without all the frustration behind it.

Anything with religious overtones behind it has a built in lightning attractor with it...so getting hit is part of it. I think you simply need to adjust your approach and try again. You said it was an experiment, right? If so you can't give up on the first failure.
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Post by the fire elf » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:17 pm

not giving up...shifting focus...

less emphasis on mental realm, more on presence

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Post by Kinetic IV » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:35 pm

Stepping back from everything in the thread so far I went back to Page 1 and checked out some of those links. I've also spent quite a bit of time lately going through their website from the front page all the way to the media kit, cross referencing quotes from the media kit for accuracy and more. Until this thread appeared I'd never heard of EST or Landmark. Now that I've dug into it I find it has some interesting parallels to a couple of churches I know about...churches with leaders and intercessors and planted program participants...in short this is some creepy stuff.

I've come away thinking that anyone warning about this group is definitely on the right track. And if anyone has other links they could share and not the typical Google stuff I'm curious what else is out there to know.
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Post by Ken Wheels » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:31 pm

My Ex took me to one of these cult meetings where they tell you for about $250.00 you can achieve shit like long term relationships and such- I guess it didn't work for her since I was pissed and she dumped me after 5 months anyway. Fuck Landmark! It was like being trapped in a room full of happy robots or corpses depending on how morbid you are.

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Post by the fire elf » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:00 am

Ken Wheels wrote:My Ex took me to one of these cult meetings where they tell you for about $250.00 you can achieve shit like long term relationships and such- I guess it didn't work for her since I was pissed and she dumped me after 5 months anyway. Fuck Landmark! It was like being trapped in a room full of happy robots or corpses depending on how morbid you are.
perfectly valid perspective

how about all that clapping?

every time something in the room moves or speaks, you either clap or become an outsider...
instantiate vacuous truth

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