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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-06-20 03:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #3090 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3090 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-06-20 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel slightly bad for the non-famous Scientologists and people who were born into it. I don't feel particularly bad for adults who join of their own free will, either because they believe it will help their careers or because they're just garden variety gullible. It's like Amway or any other pyramid scam. If you don't have the smarts to realize it's all looney tunes bullshit, then that's the sad consequence of making big decisions without thinking them through.

(Anonymous) 2015-06-20 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
+1 I can verify this from the pyramid scam side of things. (Not me, but people I knew.) Pyramid schemes *do* work, but only if you get in at the very beginning (IOW, the MLM company is yours/you are at the top or within one or two levels of the pyramid). The problem with this is twofold: There are MLM "CEOs" who cycle through these companies every so many years, in order to keep themselves at the top of the pyramid (as their "downlines" make out like the slaves *before* the Exodus) and ten times out of ten, the people in the first one or two levels do this as well. Knowingly.

No comment on the UFO therapy cult, but I've always found this picture sums things up fairly succinctly:

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(Anonymous) 2015-06-20 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Saying that pyramid schemes work depends on a pretty loose definition of "work"... I mean it works only if you:

1) get in it early
2) are willing to screw other people over big time, usually your friends and family
3) don't get caught, because pyramid schemes are illegal in many countries, including the U.S. and Canada.

(Anonymous) 2015-06-20 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Which is exactly my point. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Your list is spot on, sadly.

(Anonymous) 2015-06-21 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
+1000

(Anonymous) 2015-06-21 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Like the Church Of Satan and Temple Of the Vampyre?