Some years ago I signed up for this dubious form of education. Roger Armstrong was chairing the seminar and his perplexing analogies were just beyond credibility. The question was posed that what water is to fish and air to birds, what is it that mankind can not live without. His answer was opinions and another question was about this little girl who persisted in asking her mum to pick her up. The mother told her to go and play as she was preparing a meal. After some time mum became worried as she didn't hear anything and after looking for her, she found the girl had left the house through an open door and walked onto the road. Mum rushed to her and picked her up and, so Roger proclaimed, that is how this girl achieved what she asked for in the first place. In both cases these are utterly silly conclusions since mankind can not live without either water or air and the door of the house was left open so the little girl ventured outside. In addition there was a woman who confessed to having had an abortion and she told her husband and mother about that since she wanted to start with a clean slate. Roger asked her to come to the stage and asked her how old she was when she had that done. She replied that she was 20 and to the question how old she was while on that stage, she replied she was 42. He then asked her to face him and he said just think of me as your child back then and I am asking you why did you murder me 22 years ago? That did it for me and I left this utterly outrageous seminar which achieves nothing for anyone and this small man Roger Armstrong would be better off doing some constructive work instead of destroying people's equilibrium. He wanted me to return since he claimed I had turned my back on 120 people but since I made it clear I found no value in this and wanted a refund, to which he agreed, but I never did get this refund of some $450.00. It is absolutely amazing that the New Zealand Government have forked out for public servants to attend these brainwashing seminars. Frankly it amounts to a form of pyramid selling and if you happen to be good at it then the rewards will be quite satisfactory.
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