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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: Dale Ealey Date: August 31, 2013, 12:39 am
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Thanks for sharing. As I was reading I thought "wtf was she
doing!" Almost sounds like an AMWAY pitch my ex-wife and I got
roped into.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: Sarah Waller Martin Date: August 31, 2013, 12:42 am
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Hahaha, my friend and her husband got roped into Amway - she had
sent us all messages on FB, but everyone started asking if she
had been hacked, and had posted on her wall asking her if she
knew that someone else had gotten into her FB account. A few
other friends said something like "Please tell me this is a
joke." It wasn't, because she updated her profile pic from a
picture from an Amway meeting. But I checked last month and
mysteriously everything Amway is gone from her profile. You
could tell she was STOKED. I felt bad that everyone
inadvertently shot her down like that.. but damn.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: midgeknits Date: August 31, 2013, 12:44 am
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Hey, I know you!! Your friend reminds me of a "friend" that
would not leave me alone about selling Arbonne. She sent me
copious amounts of mail and was always pressuring me to buy the
starter pack thing that cost $200. It was annoying and crossed
basically all the boundaries of a normal friend. Anyway, I'd
rather buy Sweet Libertine any day of the week. :)
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: Sarah Waller Martin Date: August 31, 2013, 12:46 am
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Hey, I know you too! :-D
I've had people say "You're so good at selling Sweet Libertine,
why don't you try selling Avon/Mary Kay/etc?" I'm just like
"...what?" You have to explain that this isn't multi-level
marketing, we actually make the stuff, and no, we can't contact
the "home office" to check and see if it's Ok if I sell other
makeup because I AM THE HOME OFFICE.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: monkles Date: August 31, 2013, 12:48 am
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I know a lot of people who do Arbonne and while they did try to
get me to sell the stuff after I said "no" the first time they
left me alone. However, I do use some of their products
(facewash and mineral powder) and like them a lot. They do not
irritate my skin and cause breakouts like other products did and
the mineral powder evens out my skin tone well enough that
people compliment me on my skin. I have no interest in selling
the products though.
Way back in 2002, I was looking for a day job while going to
grad school at night and answered an ad for an office manager.
It turned out to be a direct marketing / multi-level marketing
firm that sold perfumes door to door and you only got paid if
you sold a bottle for more than $10. I lasted two days before I
told the company owner that she was running a scam because
seriously no one wants to buy generic perfume from some random
person going door to door. I drove by the office a few months
later and it was closed up. I also had people try to get me into
Amway, Melaleuca, and YTB Travel but I told them very firmly no
and they stopped asking.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: librarygrrl64 Date: August 31, 2013, 12:53 am
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I have liked some of their products (a friend of a friend sells
it), but I am so anti-home-party in general that I was turned
off from using them long-term. If the products were sold in
stores, I'd reconsider.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: monkles Date: August 31, 2013, 12:58 am
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Yeah, I was suckered in when my boss nnd his wife gave us some
products for Christmas one year. I set up an account to get a
discount on the products but it has now lapsed and I don't order
enough to warrant renewing it. I have access to my boss' account
so I can still order products at a discount but won't receive
any free products for myself.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: Karin Badt Date: August 31, 2013, 1:03 am
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I did this Landmark Forum course, and I didn't have this kind of
experience at all. It seemed a straightforward self-help type
course, and one I found pretty valuable too. The coach/leader
was very honest, but I didn't find them to be even slightly
scary or abusive.
In fact, I found the idea that we make decisions about life at
an early age and then forget we did that, and that this limits
us later in life - I became much closer to my mother afterwards,
out of realizing that I'd written her off when growing up.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: heyletsevolve Date: August 31, 2013, 1:09 am
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May I be the first to say, yeah right.
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Re: My (Scary, Destructive) Brush With Scientology Light
By: Thomascino1 Date: August 31, 2013, 1:11 am
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So the only people who can tell the truth about their personal
experiences are people who agree with you?
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