Here is some information on how Landmarkians are trained to ignore when people say no.
[forum.culteducation.com]
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Corboy opinions and hunches.
No human being, acting in good faith, can cope with people who pretend to be in good faith but who have been systematically trained to pretend listening while ignoring any response contrary to their ideology.
And...because they're treating you as an object while you are relating to them as persons, these Landmarkians will not get exhausted, while you rapidly will get exhausted.
Respecting people actually takes something out of us. It requires effort.
Treating people as programmable objects turns communication into mere programming. No empathy, no care whatsover.
The non Lamdmarkian is being hacked by the Landmarkian. The non Landmarkian is unaware that he or she is not being seen as a person but merely as a problem to be solved, a mere glitch housed in a soft machine.
The non Landmarkian is is bug, a programming error that is to be detected and recoded as Landmarkmese.
Maybe this is the great secret:
In Werner Erhard's world, relationships are not between persons. Relationships
are mere technology.
Persons do not exist.
You are either a soft machine that runs on Landmark code, or a soft machine
that runs on non Landmark code.
Anyone in the latter category must have their DOS scrubbed clean and re-loaded with Landmark code, then released upon the unsuspecting general population.
[forum.culteducation.com]
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As her boyfriend got further into the organization, signing up for the leadership and self-expression program, Sumerlin agreed to attend an introductory course.
"They were just big sales pitches," she says. "We were whisked away into these back rooms where they try to get you to sign up. If you don't they want to know why. What's so great about your life that you don't want to improve it? Why do you have such a hard time committing to anything?"
In fact, she says, a former (Landmark) volunteer told her how they were taught to desensitize themselves to objections from potential recruits by singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and substituting all the possible objections people might have for the verses:
"I'm not signing up because…of money." Normal human person
Ee-I-Ee-I-O. Landmarkian tune-out
I'm not signing up because…I don't want to. Normal human person
Ee-I-Ei-I-O." Landmarkian tune-out
Corboy opinions and hunches.
No human being, acting in good faith, can cope with people who pretend to be in good faith but who have been systematically trained to pretend listening while ignoring any response contrary to their ideology.
And...because they're treating you as an object while you are relating to them as persons, these Landmarkians will not get exhausted, while you rapidly will get exhausted.
Respecting people actually takes something out of us. It requires effort.
Treating people as programmable objects turns communication into mere programming. No empathy, no care whatsover.
The non Lamdmarkian is being hacked by the Landmarkian. The non Landmarkian is unaware that he or she is not being seen as a person but merely as a problem to be solved, a mere glitch housed in a soft machine.
The non Landmarkian is is bug, a programming error that is to be detected and recoded as Landmarkmese.
Maybe this is the great secret:
In Werner Erhard's world, relationships are not between persons. Relationships
are mere technology.
Persons do not exist.
You are either a soft machine that runs on Landmark code, or a soft machine
that runs on non Landmark code.
Anyone in the latter category must have their DOS scrubbed clean and re-loaded with Landmark code, then released upon the unsuspecting general population.