Tuesday, February 18, 2020

The Amway Fairy Tale About Smashing Alarm Clocks


In keeping with our last post about Amway Ambots smashing the alarm clock. When I was going through old posts to recycle I sometimes look at comments and turn them into their own post. Here’s one from blogger David Brear when the smash the alarm clock post was first posted talking about the smash the alarm clock thing and as he always copyrights anything he puts online I’ve included it here. 

David’s blog is one you can find on the reading list on the top right of this page, MLM The American Dream Made Nightmare


Yes, as you know, it was my deeply-deluded Ambot brother's dream to tell his detested-boss to stuff his detested-job and then drive off into the sunset in a stretch-limo.

I don't know whether he ever acted out this guided-fantasy (i.e. rented the limo), or whether he ever smashed his detested-alarm-clock, but he did regularly read 'Amway' comic-book stories relating how his 'Upline leaders' had all gone through this ritual transformation ceremony - spending many grey years reluctantly turning-up to their detested-jobs in tatty secondhand cars as miserable, inferior 'losers,' but then, one fine day, escaping in gleaming chauffeur-driven luxury as superior Ambot 'winners.'

You probably know that you can see a video of the formerly-deluded, Ambot 'Emerald,' Eric Scheibeler, shooting his detested-alarm clock on the 'Dateline' expos̩ of 'Amway/Quixtar', broadcast in 2003. (Anna here Рto see the video David refers to, see the right side of this page under More Information About Amway and click on the Dateline videos)

It is also important to remember that, prior to his descent into the stale darkness of the Ambot bunker, Eric had been a US Marine Reserve officer and a federal auditor. When he came out of the cult into the clear light of day, Eric finally began to count the terrible cost. But, at first, he was crippled by guilt and suicidal (this was mainly due to his sudden realization that he'd been brainwashed and used to cheat thousands of people, including friends and family members).

As you know, eventually, Eric (who is a very rare individual) was able to write a book in which he courageously accepted that he had wasted ten years of his life playing a pernicious, self-gratifying, cultic game of make-believe. Although he had once commanded thousands of constantly-churning Ambots in his 'Downline,' in reality, Eric lost a total of $100 thousands, but he passed around $4 millions to his own 'Upline' commanders (This cash came mainly from the fraudulent sale of publications, recordings, tickets to meetings, etc., on the pretext that these exclusive materials contained secrets vital to achieving success in 'Amway').

Unknown to his unquestioning 'Downline,' Eric's role in 'Amway' had been that of a machine programmed to recite scripted-lies and to act as a smiling decoy. He'd actually financed his Ambot slavery/addiction by secretly selling-off his own capital assets and by going into debt.

Unlike Eric Scheibeler, my brother is a moral coward who simply cannot face up to the truth. He also financed his Ambot slavery/addiction first by secretly using his own assets, but then by stealing from his family.

It's sad to reflect that today is my brother's 55th birthday. I have not seen, or spoken to him, since the mid-1990s. Even at that time, I wasn't speaking to him, I was speaking to a programmed-machine. Some of the scripted-lies this grinning Ambot decoy kept reciting to me, were:

-'I cannot communicate with you!'
-'Get a life! You are a Negative Loser!'
-'You are too selfish to understand how this Business works by helping people!'
-'There are literaly billions at stake!'
- 'Within 10 years, all supermarkets will be finished in Britain!
-'The Amway business is taking-over!'

Over the years, I've encountered numerous deluded, Ambots, but never one more-brainwashed by the 'MLM' fairtale, than my own brother.

David Brear (copyright 2012)



4 comments:

  1. David Brear's brother had a very severe Amway fixation -- that's clear from what David has written about the situation. Since that posting is dated 2012, the brother today must be 63 or thereabouts. I wonder if he is still in Amway.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous - yes I'm guessing mid-60s and an Amway lifer so probably still in it unless he ran out of relatives to steal from to fund the Amway dream. Haven't seen any updates on David's blog.

      Delete
    2. As you've said, once an Ambot's in for a couple of years, it becomes really hard for them to wake up and get out. How unspeakably sad.

      I hope Eric someday contemplates all the ways that his religious beliefs intertwine, reinforce, and feed off of the same stuff MLM scammers teach and preach. It broke my heart to read his book and get to the parts where he talks about praying and miracles and whatnot. It's ALL a lie; it's ALL based on wishful thinking. And it ALL totally lacks any tether to reality that people can use to keep from veering into weird fakey-fake groups like Amway. His god didn't save him; he himself did, by awakening to the truth of what Amway is and does.

      When that Ambot tried to recruit me in the mid-90s, it was ultimately realizing how many similarities lay between my fundie religious beliefs and Amway's teachings that kept me away from that scam. It freaked me out then, but now I understand perfectly how those beliefs prime people to accept the nonsense that Amway recruiters spew. It's like a school-to-prison pipeline, except it's more like church-to-Amway-meetings! Anyway, sorry to derail, just you brought up those feelings of frustration that I had while reading Eric's excellent book. It's still great, just he's still got some blind spots to iron out so he doesn't fall into something just as bad one day.

      I like David's blog too btw - wish he'd update more often. I guess he's got other projects now but fighting the MLM machine is a good mission, and he's well-placed to do it. With Amway's recent round of new layoffs in Ada, it seems like the pyramids might finally be collapsing.

      Cas

      Delete
    3. Hi Cas. There was so much in Eric's book that breaks your heart. For me a lot of it had to do with his wife and how she was honest about the taste of Amway's products and then when she said she'd stopped listening to tapes and was deprogramming herself. I mean there was so many things and he was so courageous to write the book and help so many others see that they're getting scammed. So many things he wrote about, I saw and heard the exact same things. Nothing changes in ScAmway.

      Yes David used to be very active writing posts and commenting on Shyam's blog for years and then he took a liking to this blog and left a lot of comments before starting up his blog. Which is from a very educated point of view. He uses a lot of big words! I used to copy and paste his comments into a Word document and see what the education ability was to understand and mostly it was like a few years into higher learning. I'm sure he's got other stuff going on his life and can't update as often. I also think his posts take a long time for him to write. Not like around here where we can crank out our memories in 20 minutes!

      Delete

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!

If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:
1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.
2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.
3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.
4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.
5. Posting something creepy anonymously and we can’t track your location because you’re on a mobile device or using hide my ass or some other proxy. I attracted an obsessed fan and one of my blog administrators attracted a cyberstalker. Lets keep it safe for everyone. Anonymous is OK. Creepy anonymous and hiding – go fuck yourselves!
6. Posting something that serves no purpose other than to cause fighting.
7. Posting bullshit Amway propaganda. We might publish that comment to make fun of you. Otherwise take your agenda somewhere else. Not interested.
8. Notice how this blog is written in English? That's our language so keep your comments in English too. If you leave a comment written in another language then we either have to use Google translate to put it into English so everyone can understand what you wrote or we can hit the Delete button. Guess which one is easier for us to do?
9. We suspect you're a troublemaking Amway asshole.
10. Your comment got caught in the spam filter. Gets checked occasionally. We’ll get to you eventually and approve it as long as it really isn’t spam.