I Say My Prayers To Werner Erhard's Urologist
If Erhard thinks he is God, wait until he has prostate problems.He won't be able to fix that himself. He will have to go to a urologist.Who is the greatest God of all?God?God's urologist?What happens...
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corboy,I am surprised at your impudence!Our HERO could not possibly have prostate problems. Does God even have a prostate? I highly doubt it. And, ditto for the teeth, plumbing, toilet paper and any...
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bakkagirl wrote:"Does God even have a prostate? I highly doubt it."I also doubt that God has a prostate, but, being the creator of everything, she could always just make herself a new one, if that...
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I have no God but Werner.
View ArticleRe: quote, unquote "Real Love" - $$$ - The truth of RealLove
At some time the beliefs begin to crack, the ground beneath your feet is unstable and full of sinkholes, there are voids in your consciousness and so, without realising you start to pull away from the...
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corboy,I have been thinking more about the sock puppet arts, and the est arts, and also about what YEAR it is, 2018, right?I find this kinda curious because in my field, things are generally in a...
View ArticleToward achieving a definition of "Respectful Communication", aka, RC (TM)
In preparation for this holy mission, I dug deeper into NLP, its origins, and features.I thought this Skeptoid piece was good in terms of the author's linking of NLP to Fritz Perls', 'aggressive'...
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OMG - yes! I heard Landmark seminar leaders and Forum leaders do that exact same thing, only more when people were relating negative experiences. It would be about something that would upset anyone....
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Listen to the master, Fritz Perls, in action.[www.youtube.com]You know, people used to make fun of this 'quackery', but that was when people had sense.
View ArticleAll the World's a Stage
When a former friend recruited me into doing the Landmark Forum, I was reluctant. Her argument was "It's $500 and a weekend. What have you got to lose?" She was so invested in my doing the Forum that...
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Uggh - I feel like she's talking to Hannibal Lecter in that video. I totally get what she's saying.
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I read somewhere that in his last days, Perls was abysmally depressed and miserable.Manipulative control freaks do badly when old age visits and insults their dignity and autonomy.People like this can...
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corboy,If that is the case, I am delighted to hear it.I understand Perls spent his last few years at the Esalen Institute communing with fellow cerebral narcissists.Riddle me this: How many cerebral...
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kdag,What you have described is a magnificent arsenal of coercive and abusive psychological techniques calculated to savage the target's self. I would assume the designation of "hard case", in fact,...
View ArticleFritz Perls
[wikivividly.com]This from a Wikipedia article on Perls'QuotePerls' approach to therapy has been strongly criticised by Jeffrey Masson.[11] Masson allows Perls' words to speak for themselves, quoting...
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Another quote from the Janov article cited above;QuoteI took a seminar with Perls (and with Rogers, as well), and I was struck by the theories that psychologists construct that seem to evolve straight...
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Additional articles from Janov's website entitled Grand Delusions.Read with care as Janov promoted his own Primal therapy. But - these maybe interesting reading, nonetheless.In this series are 6...
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"subterfugenoun1. an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc."[www.thefreedictionary.com]I had to look that up. I do feel that this definition fits very...
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kdag,I really appreciated your commentary, which I think well captures the escalating coercion you, and probably others, experienced in that organization.To me, 'artifice' and 'subterfuge' are key...
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corboy,Thank you so much for providing these resources. Of the Janov quotes you provided, these stood out for me, and vis a vis our discussion about respectful communication, and with regard to the...
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