On 2005-07-11 11:56:00, Anonymous wrote:
This Karen was closed from the beginning, so her interpretation was much different from the other 50 or 100 or more individuals attending. She didn't want to be there and went because she said she had to.
Blame it on the victim. It's the WWASPie way. :roll:
It is NOT a fact that everyone that attends is a parent of a kid in a WWASPS program. Anyone can attend, so there goes your program cult accusation.
No, that only reinforced my cult accusation. Cults like WWASP do whatever they can to attract new recruits. Why limit the Lifespring seminars to only one group of people, if you can scam and defraud so many others? It only makes sense that they will try many different ways to recruit people.
This Karen went how many years ago?
What does that matter? WWASP is still doing the same old shit. Some of the lingo or procedures may have changed, but the core of the experience is the same. Break them down, create dependency on the group, feed in whatever ideology you want, and end the whole thing with a huge love bombing fest.
Personal growth seminars - are everywhere! BUsinesses are bringing them inhouse, there are hundreds of reasons people are choosing to spend 3 days from morning til night gaining more personal insight and a better way to live. Just google personal growth seminars.
Lifespring semianrs, which is what WWASP offers, have nothing to do with "insights" or "personal growth". They have everything to do with breaking people down, making them dependent on the group, and convincing them they have reached some "enlightenment" (or as WWASP calls it, "they got it". Notice how they never really expalin what "it" means).
You act like WWASPS has the lock and key on parents. They are only required to go to one and choose to complete many more. It's not about brainwashing. That's the "pat" scapegoat answer to your fears.
Oh, but they do. WWASP does not lock them parents in physically, like they do with the kids. On the parents, they use intense psychological pressure to get them to stay. They take desperate people who are hurting and who will anything to help their children. They tell them that the program is going to help. They reinforce the parents' fears and anxieties. They lock the parents in, alright.
And, yes, it is all about brainwashing. Look up "Lifespring". Look up "Korean POW camps". That is where the program started. That is what it is designed to do. The program is designed to convince people they have been "saved", and to recruit more followers.
WWASP is a dangerous, abusive cult. No point in denying it, WWASPie-- the truth is out.