Sometimes it happens to the nicest of people and it oftens happens slowly and subtly. These are the signs that you are becoming indocrinated and you are likely annoying your friends and loved ones at this point. It may not be apparent right away but the change occurs and eventuall becomes noticable to those who know you. I hope this helps:
*You're driven to recruit everyone you know. You may even resort to deception or outright lies to get people to meetings. Before you know it, your family and friends avoid you like the plague. You end up spending time at malls and other public placse scouting for recruits. You almost become phony in talking to people and feigning interest in other people and their interests.
You're encouraged to develop an unreasonable, irrational zeal for the products. Even so far as to justify the quality of toilet paper or to call the products prestigious. You may even argue the quality of energy drinks or about phytonutrients, something you may not even know about.
A whole bunch of demands, promises, subtle threats of failure if you don't try hard enough are made in the promotional material and motivational seminars. i.e. If you quit, you are a loser destined to die broke and unhappy. Or you let someone steal your dream. These ridiculous claims are how your upline keeps you hooked.
Because the system is touted as the way you're going to make yourself fantastically rich, you're under pressure to drop any conflicting or competing interests such as your bowling league or golf club. Nothing else in life has importance except for the quest of financial freedom. All activities in your life must enhance your Amway business and have an affect on your financial future. No ther activities matter to you unless it affects your financial future. Even family and friends may be shunned in your quest for the holy financial grail.
Your upline soon becomes your most trusted friend. Your thoughts and feelings are shaped in part by the cds, meetings and functions. People who you may have trusted all your life suddenly becomes secondary in your life because of your undying loyalty to your upline.
Do you recognize these behaviors? Hopefully you aren't displaying these behaviors
Who the f--- do you think you are? Are you so bitter and hurt by your failure in Amway that you spend years of your life bashing them? If you spent a fraction of your time doing something producttive, you might have amounted to more than a hatred filled blogger.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why people always think that anyone opposed to Amway is a failure or bitter. Did you lok at my profile? I was considered to be an up and coming successful IBO. But even at 4000 PV I wasn't making a net profit. I realized I could also "not make a net profit" by playing tennis or golf and when my upline wanted to control my life, I got out. I'm not bitter at all. I just share my experience so others don't fall into the same trap that I fell into.
DeleteJoeCool's seems productive, to me. But what do I know...maybe if I went to the Ron and Georgia Lee Puryear or Brad and Julie Duncan blogs I might get set straight on all things Amway and WWDB, equal time, you know...but wait, there isn't any Ron Puryear blog; what's up with that? ?
Delete----Daniel
Anon@11:38, who the FUCK do you think YOU are? Oh, I know: a low-life, lame-sauce, kool-aid drinking, cult-following, dipshit SCAMBOT! Too much vulgarity for your "virgin" ears? Cool. Here's some more: GO FUCK YOURSELF!
Delete**proud Amway hater**
Some earmarks of a cult:
ReplyDeleteCult members are isolated from the outside world and any reality testing it could provide.
Cult members often work full-time for the group for little or no pay
The cults manipulate guilt to their advantage
The cult's recruitment techniques are often deceptive
Rational thought is discouraged or forbidden
Many cults follow an "ends justify the means" philosophy.
Cults, particularly in regard to their finances, are shrouded in secrecy.
Commentary by Nori J. Muster
If you think you might be involved in a cult, ask yourself some serious questions about the group.
Do you have to change who you are to fit in, please others?
Do they set up a duality of "us" and "them" and tell you that people outside the group are bad, less important?
Do they treat "outsiders" badly or talk behind their backs?
Do they treat members badly when they fail to perform up to expectations?
Do they give a false impression to the public?
Source: http://surrealist.org/betrayalofthespirit/cult.html, as published January 31, 2012
Mr. Cool also re-posts old posts regularly, for new folk who are just coming along, like yourself. This means it takes far less time than it may first appear to run this blog. Of course, compared with the amount of time spent on Amway, this blog takes no time at all.
ReplyDeleteHe does seem to have hit a nerve there with you. Been out trolling the mall today? Maybe you recently cut some ties to old friends who don't share your enthusiasm? I have seen a lot of people try this scam, and have yet to see it end well for any of them.
Just remember, if apologies and regrets are sincere, people are very forgiving. Don't. Be too ashamed later to look people up and make amends- it's easier than you think, and almost everyone has fallen for one scam or another. You may feel you've burned some bridges, but you probably haven't really- just scorched them a little.