My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Amway Cult Leaders Enforce TV Watching Ban!
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Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!
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Anna, you are absolutely right, and your post reminded me of something that happened back in 1971 when my cousin tried his best to get me into Amway.
ReplyDeleteBefore he was hooked on Scamway, he and I had gone regularly to see classic old films at revival movie houses in New York City. We usually made a day of it, having dinner and seeing a film and then relaxing at a coffee house to discuss the film or anything else that took our fancy. It was all deeply pleasurable and satisfying.
But once my cousin was in "the Business," all these pleasant outings stopped. He told me "I don't have time for that stuff anymore." He also included in this any concerts, operas, dances, museum visits, art gallery exhibits, poetry readings, and literary talks. In one fell swoop, Amway erased all of that activity from his life. He was transformed into an Amway zombie.
In addition to this stuff, he became allergic to TV. I'd tell him about a wonderful dramatic series that was on, or about a funny show (he and I had really loved Monty Python). He'd screw up his face in disdain and say "How will looking at TV build up your business?"
I thought to myself "Oh well... my cousin has become just another stupid middle-American philistine, with no cultural interests. Too bad."
But then I found out that it was his goddamned Amway up-line that was pushing the anti-TV propaganda. And it was precisely for the reason that you mention: up-line simply didn't want anyone under it to have sources of information that might in any way jeopardize Amway's cultish mind-control of its IBOs.
When any organization tries to prevent you from receiving information, or from making up your own mind on an issue, that organization is totalitarian, no matter how much it screams about "free enterprise." Amway is just as controlling, dictatorial, and anti-free-thought as Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. And this is why there is so much fear and loathing of your blog and Joe Cool's. Both of you publish intelligent commentary, and important information. If the Amway scum had their way, they'd send goons to beat you up, just as totalitarian governments do to their critics.
Keep up the good work! As long as we are free, we can tell the Amway vermin to fuck off. And don't think you aren't effective... the anti-Amway blogs have had a profoundly negative effect on the recruitment of IBOs in English-speaking countries. That's why the Ambots hate you. But when you are hated by Ambots, it's a badge of honor.
Hi Anonymous. So Amway cult leaders are teaching the same thing today as in the 70s. LOL! No surprise there. The only thing that changes in Amway are the prices going up. Your cousin's social activities would have been restricted to socializing with other ambots instead of going to movies.
DeleteHi, again love the blog.
ReplyDeleteBelow is a link to a google doc where I have cataloged all my interactions with an Amway IBO. I will just put a quick summary of dates.
5 Febraury - Initial Recruitment efforts
11/12 February - Almost went to meeting bailed at the last moment. Also found this blog
15 February - Invited to a party for XS Energy Drink
27 February - Complains about me questioning if boss gets rich from teaching
13 April - Wants me to look at website and gave me his username/login
8 August - Wished me happy Birthday
28 September - I asked him about Merchants of Deceptions which i finished reading
29 September - Talk about BWW which is his organisation. Essentially WWDB with a different badge.
30 September - Tries to get me into Nutrilite
Here is the full document - everything is raw. Only thing deleted was his name (changed to R) and his phone number.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qjThI-Pl3jMGR_9vwlcQbHB0MD9vZVK11YC2tQsv4EE/edit?usp=sharing
Happy Reading if you go through it all
Thanks for the link Mathew. I'll go check it out.
DeleteHope you are having fun reading this.
DeleteI am sure a fair bit of this seems familiar to you as well as others.
LOL! Good stuff! Thanks!
DeleteI think they are more worried about ibo internet surfing. Hardly anything bad on TV about Amway. Only site the dorks are allowed to watch is probably Amway.com and from the cult leader.
ReplyDeleteAmway cult leader paranoia. LOL!
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