Congrats on the ad hominem bullshit. Its not impressing anyone except those who are already gone.
Yeah, my life is hard, whoopie shit... that means nothing. 1+1=2 regardless of who says it, and I dont care who sees me bitching in my LJ. Its what its for - if you feel bad you can bitch and whine all you want to vent, and then move on with life.
BTW, all youre doing is dodging what Ive had to say, and turning around to attack me. I dont care if *YOU* are convinced otherwise, but anyone with a brain and an education can see what youre doing. Im presenting facts, and you're saying that Im messed up mentally and need help to get through it.
I need my dad to stop taking money from my mother, I need transportation that doesnt require constant maintainance, I need a steady job, and I need the stress my dad is putting upon my family lifted, NOT sunshine blown up my ass in a seminar to feel better about it, and then run around spewing a bunch of bullshit about how everyone has to 'experience' something to understand it. I dont want a bunch of lies, I want my REALITY to improve and Im working towards that.
Now, back to the topic instead of more ad hominem bullshit :roll: the way all the carlbrook defenders are acting is the way people from LGA seminars act to a "t". NO details, no facts, no substance, just a lot of words and vagueness. Basically, blowing smoke and saying you have to experience to get it. Its a 'workshop', not drugs or the afterlife!
So, when I accuse Carlbrook of being just a front for seminars which is all about emotionally breaking people down, pulling out all their personal shit, being confrontational, and taking advantage of the psychological regression that results from hours and hours of that emotionally punishing bullshit... what do they do? They talk about 'feelings' instead of facts, they say you cant understand it unless you experience it, and then they CONFRONT me with my own personal shit.
That is an LGA, and a cult (theyre inseperable) in a nutshell, folks. Read up!
Yeah, my life is stressful and shitty, but the truth is the truth, regardless of who says it, and violating my mind and my innermost thoughts (Which you call being out of your comfort zone) to fill me up with bullshit and destroy my ability to think critically and replace it with 'feelings' and 'emotions' and 'experiences' and make me into some boneheaded zombie-hippy is bullshit.
Quick! Go play "Desperado" and pull yourself back into that reduced state before I make you think too hard!
Trying to discredit everything I say as if we're required to accept what the workshop facilitators say as the gospel-truth (and it is, to you!) without saying why, and without backing it up, isn't going to work. ADULTS, especially in the REAL WORLD, ARE critical, DO require facts, evidence, and proof of what you say, not just "accept what we say because we went through some secretive experience".
Id wager the vast majority of parents who were looking for help for their kid, if they WERENT terrified and being manipulated by a program salesperson, and saw the facts of what goes on instead of having it revealed to them after the child is put in there, would choose out of this. Disinformation, or simply a lack of it, isn't selling this on me. Present facts instead of attacking me (We're NOT in one of your confrontational seminars, and youre not going to humiliate me) and saying "oh, you gotta experience it".
Now, for those who read this all the way down, sorry Im so long winded, but I had a lot of points to make. I speak of facts, they speak of feelings and shun criticial thought and facts! I say theyre acting like a cult and they go and start ad-hominem attacks on me because I have a stressful personal life and do their damnest to act like one.
Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.
--Harold E. Stassen, 1947
