My husband and I got pressured into attending one of the functions last weekend. I have never experienced such negativity.. these "mentors" broke people down, forced them to continue even if it meant getting broke in the process for this greater end result that will never happen. They tell you to stop speaking to friends and even family that cant understand the "plan". This "leadership training" was three days long, my husband and I were over it by day two and got out of there as fast as we could. I didn't understand why no one else could see that it was the same thing over and over.. not telling you anything of any importance. They were just bragging about their cars and houses. I didn't hear one diamond talk about donating, volunteering, going to Africa to feed people or build houses. They went to Africa on WWDB (first class) to vacation.. for their own personal benefit. I couldn't understand how they could promote this as a christian people helping group when all they promote is greed and materialism.
I also didn't get how everyone there could just blindly believe that these millionaire diamonds could get there by following the "plan". It states in the plan that diamonds made around 150,000 a year not the millions that they were claiming. Obliviously they are making money with these cds, books and functions.. even though everyone claimed that no one was paying them to be there they just wanted you to get rich. How could they believe this? This plan doesn't add up, why would a legit business want to keep you in room for 16 hours and they want you to come to night owls? And contuine this for three days? Because if you don't your weak or unmotivated not because its easier to brainwash you when your tired. When I looked at the Platinums in their reserved spots.. they looked so tired, their face was empty. There are so many platinums and only about 12 diamonds, this doesn't make since if this only takes 3-5 years why haven't they become diamonds already? Because they only want people who can motivate without telling you any details, they want someone who can manipulate and avoid questions. They don't want a bunch of diamonds, they only need a few great speakers to draw you in to make you commit. These Diamonds know you will fail so they break you down from the start saying if you quit you are a loser manipulating you in to staying even though you cant afford to.
Brainwashing persons through fatigue, sleep deprivation, abuse, emotional pressure, and physical intimidation is a common practice in cults, and in prisoner-of-war camps. During the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Communists treated American POWS this way to break them down and make them confess to crimes, or spout anti-American propaganda. Former POWs can tell you how horrible this experience was.
ReplyDeleteJim Jones was so powerful as a brainwasher that he managed to get over nine hundred people in Guiana to commit suicide for him. Scientology brainwashes its members so thoroughly that they become virtual androids, totally controlled and emotionless. Werner Erhard's "EST" (a sicko consciousness-expanding group from the 1970s) did exactly the same things to people that this woman describes in her account of the WWDB three-day meeting. My girlfriend at that time nearly had a nervous breakdown from the abuse, humiliation, pressure, and sleep deprivation that the "EST" creeps put her through for three hellish days.
If the scum in Amway are countenancing this sort of thing, they deserve to be prosecuted.
Anonymous - the problem is complaining to Amway's head office about upline abuse. You end up dealing with Amway's I-don't-give-a-shit department and you get told if you got a problem with the fucking assholes in your Amway upline then talk to them. Uh yeah that'll work you dumb shit. Amway turns a deaf ear to complaints. We complained about our sack of shit Platinum lying to us and they didn't give a fuck. Told us to talk to him. Though eventually Amway must have given a fuck because they fired him "from his own business" LOL!
DeleteBy the time I knew more about Amway and what happened it was too late for us to prosecute the fuckers. And pointless because none of them have any money. Whatever dollar amount awarded would have been a shallow victory because they're Amway poor and wouldn't pay a judgement.
Thank you for giving that it's own post. This person says it all so well and so very, very true.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. And yes, this person said it so well she deserved her own post. She saw right through Amway and the horrible evil Ambot demons and got the hell away from them.
DeleteIf Amway is a Christian group, do they not try soliciting non-Christians? I wonder if it's the same with the other MLMs that are 'Christian'?
ReplyDeleteAmway's main interest is in your money. Once they get you hooked into the scam, then they may try to "convert" you to their idiotic "prosperity gospel" version of Christianity.
DeleteAs for other MLMs, I don't know.
Anonymous - that's a good point but Scambots will steal off anyone Christians or not!
Delete2nd Anonymous - like all cults Amway twists religion to their own interests. Pray and worship the Great Amway God , master of Amway the Cult of Greed.
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