Wednesday, November 28, 2007

[MLM Survivors Club] Re: I'm out . . .

FWIW - I don't think any of those quotes shows any trace of lack of
self-esteem PRIOR to MLM. To me it illustrates what MLM does to try
and brainwash people!

--- In mlmsurvivorsclub@yahoogroups.com, DukeBoyz01 <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In mlmsurvivorsclub@yahoogroups.com, "steve.indepass"
> <steve.indepass@> wrote:
> And PW, the connection between low self-esteem and MLM? Here are
> some examples:
>
> "I hated the feeling that everyone was a prospect and if I wasn't
> sharing the Arbonne story with someone everyday, and for sure
> everyone that I came into contact with, then I wasn't a good
> person."
>
> "I slowly began to feel like if I wasn't rah-rah-rah about
Arbonne,
> pounding the pavement to sign up new people, launching new
business
> builders, etc, then I wasn't much of a person."
>
> "No more opening my calendar and feeling guilty and ashamed and
> worthless"
>
> Those are from DukeBoyz01's original post - and that's the most
> recent of thousands on this forum.
>
> Now tell me you don't recognise lack of self-esteem in those
quotes?
> If you do, are we saying that MLM takes happy, self-assured people
> and turns them into people who feel worthless and ashamed? Or
does
> it prey on people who struggle with that in the first place? I
> think it's an important question to ask - even if it's not a
> comfortable one.
>
>
> Hey-now wait a second here. Don't try to put a label on me based
on
> reading my first post-especially when I clarified it later. Who
are
> you to say that I had low self-esteem to begin with, and then it
was
> magnified after my involvement in a MLM? I said twice that that
> wasn't the case. But, oops, guess you know me and my situation
> better than I do. My words were not put on here so you could
> isolate them and make a point that me and thousands of others were
> just swimming in a sea of self-doubt until our savior MLM came
along
> to rescue us. From now on, I will speak for myself, I really
don't
> need your interpretation of my personality.
>

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