Meet • Entertain • LiveMeet • Entertain • Live| Pilipina | Posted Sep 7 2008, 03:12 AM |
| went to the landmark introduction and really got turned off with how "support group like" it was. There's nothing wrong with me and i sleep just fine. I dont need to pay them to tell me how to think. I come from a 3rd world country after all. Our country needs to feed its people first before it thinks about ridiculous things like this. |
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| Hollie | Posted Jul 25 2008, 03:46 PM |
I completed the Forum in May of this year and I have to say, it changed my outlook on life. The things that you learn in Landmark are the things that you have been waiting for in your life. Everyone takes something away from the course. If its something that you want to persue I totally recommend it.  |
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| Pedro | Posted Jul 20 2008, 12:09 PM |
| " it is all about you!". But "you" are afraid of death, afraid of not having money, afraid of getting old, afraid of not being "intelligent" enough ( better say smart, intelligence is essentially different of predatory smartness), afraid of everything that you cannot control that is what makes "you" to be fixed byt anyone who believes that Ayn Rand ( that control freak) discovered the wheel... "You" have paid thousandas to have implanted in you forehead a belief system that barkk that without "you" Nature and the world means nothing, that without "you" and "you" and "you" - enough said. | |
| No Forum Gal | Posted Jun 25 2008, 04:56 PM |
QUOTE (KitsEng @ Jun 16 2008, 01:48 PM)  7. Fellas, all lululemon staff that have been with the company for 1 year have the opportunity to participate in the forum (or something along those lines). Whatever it is, there are anywhere from 5 to 20 lulu staff members, dressed head to toe yoga wear hanging around for 13 hours per day, for 3 straight days. Thats worth $595 to me, now that I mention it, I might just do it again for that.... um, you could just hang out in a Lululemon store and see the same thing for free.... In fact, now that I know what goes on with Lululemon, I REFUSE to shop there anymore. Me thinks that you are still on a "brain washed" high from your experience which is what happens. "Create" a new "possibility" for yourself and honour your "commitment" to stay away.... |
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| kits | Posted Jun 16 2008, 02:01 PM |
QUOTE (Sean Murphy @ Mar 14 2008, 01:59 PM) I've done the Landmark Forum, and it was a very valuable course. I'm not sure what all the alarmists on this board are smoking, but I've been much closer to my family ever since. To me, the whole point of the course is to get out in the world and contribute to society, and that's what I see people do after taking the Landmark Forum. Here's a little cognitive dissonance for the Rick Ross crowd: http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info hahaha! do you now experience the "possiobility" of being a sucker? If I hear a LMF graduate use the word "possibility" one more friggin time... I got sucked in to attending thier Graduation *cough* I mean high pressure sales night, *cough* and I was asked no less then 15 times to pull my check book out. Neuro-linguistic programming at its lowest form! |
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| KitsEng | Posted Jun 16 2008, 01:48 PM |
| I have taken the forum and I will simply say this: 1. At the very least, it is a very entertaining 3 days. The leader is entertaining and funny. The content is interesting and you get to hear all sorts of crazy stories other people have about their lives. Just that makes it worth while. Even if you walk away and think to yourself, those people are all crazy and my life is good, then its worth the price IMO. 2. The number of positive responses outweigh the negatives 1000:1. Most people that have bad things to say have never actually partaken in any of the landmark education and are scared of everything that they don't understand. 3. $595 for the possibility of creating even a slightly better and more fulfilling life for yourself is expensive? Check your priorities. I would guess that most a lot of the people who have bad things to say about the forum spend that much money on a weekly basis trying to make themselves happy. (drinking? buying consumer goods?) 4. If you have taken the forum, this whole thread is absolutely hilarious and predictable. 5. You don't get starved or whipped or raped or locked in a room, or picked on, or made to speak in front of a large group. None of those things happen. You can leave whenever you want. They do insist that you are on time. If being on time is a major problem for you, then the forum is definitely something you will benefit from. 6. The fact that you will reply to this thread and say that I am a brainwashed idiot who is drinking the Landmark bathwater is just as funny, maybe even funnier! 7. Fellas, all lululemon staff that have been with the company for 1 year have the opportunity to participate in the forum (or something along those lines). Whatever it is, there are anywhere from 5 to 20 lulu staff members, dressed head to toe yoga wear hanging around for 13 hours per day, for 3 straight days. Thats worth $595 to me, now that I mention it, I might just do it again for that.... I'm not saying that EVERYONE MUST participate in forum, that is for you to choose but what I can say is that I was the ultimate skeptic and analytical thinker/realist/pessimist prior to participating in the forum and my experience was very positive, I learned a lot about philosophy and how human beings operate and I think you will see how hilarious this thread is once you have participated in the forum! |
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| bob | Posted Jun 9 2008, 01:53 AM |
| By the way you can learn the same things everywhere and anywhere else. I would recommend this for those who are to lazy to go out and find those truths on their own, but being shoved into a spiritual high in the long run won't be as helpful as learning stuff on your own. Watch what you say, they don't like negative statements about it. |
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| bob | Posted Jun 9 2008, 01:48 AM |
| Wow so glad to hear and read a bit of a backlash about this. I've broken up with girlfriends because they couldn't accept that i didn't want to go. I did eventually. Almost all the negative things you read on here are true. I didn't have a phone at the time so i gave them my dads #, not thinking straight obviously. They harassed him for at least a year until he threatened to phone the police and file harassment. It can take over a year for some people (i've met and heard) to get over the urge to go back and recruit or enroll others. Stop their conquest. NO means NO!! |
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| participant | Posted May 9 2008, 10:32 AM |
| I recently participated in the Landmark Forum in Vancouver. I feel I learned some valuable tools to help me in my personal development. Could I have learned them elsewhere for less money? Probably. Could I have made the same choices to positively impact my future without attending? Possibly. Certain aspects of the weekend were cult-like. However, at the end of it all, each person has the ability to make a choice. You can chose to love your friends and family and treat them like you would want to be treated or you can chose not to. I was not pressured individually into making certain phone calls or signing up for more courses. There was group pressure. But then there is group pressure to do drugs, to get married when your gf is pregnant, to get divorced when there is infidelity. Does that make the groups who pressure a person to do that in those circumstances a cult? Where does the person who defines a cult get the authority to make that definition? I will take the aspects of the weekend I feel will benefit my life and leave those I feel will not. In the end, the kind of life I want to have is my choice. Will attending the Landmark Forum help people? Yes it can. Will it help everyone? No it won't. Will it help you? I don't know the answer to that, only you do. |
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| no lekkies | Posted Apr 15 2008, 04:39 PM |
| yup! | |
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