Subject: Re: LANDMARK BRAINWASHING From: SamOLSamOL@aol.com Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 19:05:33 -0400

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In a message dated 96-04-09 14:54:11 EDT, you write:

>I guess I'm the fool today.  I hope you will forgive my arrogance.

Only if you will forgive mine. :)

>I am one of those miracle stories I spoke about.  The mother of a
>coworker who did the Forum/.../SELP shared about her trip to The Middle
>East back in 1994.  I know the miracles that my own participation in
>Landmark have produced.  I wish I could somehow tell all my internet
>friends how great it really is.

If you communicate them in the same way as you did in the other communication
you *just* sent me, you will do just fine.  By the way, your sharing your own
miracles always has more power than sharing the miracles of others *unless
you have the authority to speak about them* which, I suspect you *may not*
with respect to the peace negotiations in the Middle East.  [Perhaps this is
what is meant *if* you have heard that you have been encouraged to NOT talk
about Landmark!]

>I guess for now, I'd better just just up.

DON'T YOU DARE!!!!!!!!!  CUT IT OUT!!!!!!!!!  Staying silent is rarely the
answer.  Just use the opportunity people give you with their responses to you
to "fine tune" your communications so they can ultimately be *heard*...at
least by those who are willing to listen.  You just have to be willing to be
wrong (which we *are* from time to time).

>I wasn't candidated as an IFL because I couldn't bring guests (many times
>they got lost or just stood me up).  I registered 90 people in 6 months,
>but I only had 4 friends who actually showed up.
>
>I still have a lot to learn.

I think, without knowing you and originally having only heard you speak in
the three posts, you are probably doing some "Forum Pouncing" with your
friends.  What that is (since it is *my* distinction) is kind of *lying in
wait* for them to say something which you then *USE* kind of against them by
saying things like "Well, for *someone like you*, the Forum
could...".  I think that is a pile of poop that being in the IFLP
leaves people with.  If someone shares something...and you see from what they
share that the Forum could be useful to them in working with that...just
share how the Forum impacted you (or even someone you know) who was dealing
with that issue.  I suggest that you *don't* ever lay the Forum on them as an
*answer* for them.  "Well, in the Forum, *you could*..." just
annoys the hell out of most people.  It makes you sound like a walking
commercial.  [Of course, that's just my opinion.  I could be wrong.]

So, SPEAK UP, dear.  If you don't...I'm just going to bug the hell out of you
with e-mail messages until you do!!!!!  Or I'll e-mail MemeGenius and sic
*him* on you! ;-)

Share now!
Sam





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