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Commented on est reincarnated
Similar program possibly implicated in a couple of deaths in Australia: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/second-student-ended-life-after-turning-point-course/story-e6freuy9-1225764126205...
Commented on Books by people who have raised apes in their homes
One of the coolest Boing Boing posts ever. When I was pregnant with my first kid, I found myself reading as much primatology as I could lay my hands on. I think I assumed, correctly as it transpired, that this...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
@phillamb168 Oh frabjous day! Henching has been my lifelong dream!...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
@phillamb168: "What I was saying was that when most of the world uses, or at least can compare the exchange rate of their native currency to the USD, GBP, or EUR, (or Yen or Yuan, if your want)..." Oh! I...
Commented on Abortion clinic escort's blog
@cognitivedissonance: You need to read a little more. Forced pregnancy followed by relinquishing a child for adoption is the kind of excruciating ordeal that really can destroy a life. Abortion, not so much. http://www.thegirlswhowentaway.com/ http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/03/breaking-silence-on-living-pro-lifers.html Since we're all writing wishlists,...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
As a US-resident Australian, I took UK-resident Canadian Cory's currency conversions as a clever subversion of the convention that everything that happens elsewhere has to be translated back into the USonian master narrative, starting with money. I'm half-amused and half-appalled...
Commented on Jon Stewart slaughters crazy finance guy Jim Cramer -- video
Can someone PLEASE do a picture of Jon Stewart as The Comedian from WATCHMEN? You'd win the internetz....
Commented on Disney's 1946 menstruation film
Adding my voice to the chorus. I thought this was fine....
Commented on Amazon will sell OLPC laptops
Big kid got one last Christmas / 5th birthday present (she's a Christmas baby!) By New Year's she was using Etoys to put together very simple scripts. As far as I'm concerned, it's the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer....
Commented on 6th severed foot found in B.C.?
I'm glad they finally found a left foot. The story was getting very one-sided....
Commented on Short story reads like the first page of Snow Crash, recombined and awesome -- Leonard Richardson's "Mallory"
I was lucky enough to read Mallory in draft! *Dances with glee at having Leonard for a friend.* Anyway, and with all fond bias, I think a closer parallel is space-opera-era Vinge. Mallory is *that* closely argued and smart....
Commented on Aussie comedy duo explain subprime meltdown
National treasures. Their mockumentary on the Sydney Olympics is so funny it hurts....
Commented on Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
You are what life is for....

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bbeetle commented on est reincarnated
I also think the article was one-sided and didn't really give a good picture of Landmark. I will credit LM and MJ with printing Landmark's response: http://www.motherjones.com/toc/2009/09/backtalk...
Evanest commented on est reincarnated
I worked for Werner Erhard in 1970 when he was President of Spencer International, which sold encyclopedias. I was good, so when I told new recruits what the REAL deal was, I was merely lectured by his VPs. I told them "you're engaging in hiring, advertising and sales fraud" and quit as soon as I'd paid my debts. A few years later the VPs went to jail for just those crimes, but Werner had "plausible deniability" and went on to found EST. You can learn from anyone, but the best things and lessons in life are free. Here's the very...
steve100 commented on est reincarnated
to #58: You don't have to be a member of a cult to comment on one, as long as you can tell the difference between a cult and an organization that isn't (for example a legitimate business that offers educational programs). "cult" = "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object" - "a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister"...
Chrs commented on est reincarnated
"You didn't go" does not imply you can't comment. An outside look at how someone who has gone ends up changing is a valuable perspective. Similarly, "I went to one" doesn't guarantee that you're much ahead of someone who didn't go. It's absolutely valuable to hear your experience with it, but to put it in marketing terms, "your experience may vary." We're talking about something that depends strongly on the attitude and effectiveness of the individual leading the session, for better or worse. In the hands of a very persuasive speaker, the material and methods may be entirely capable of...
Takuan commented on est reincarnated
it's crap....

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