MLM Survivors Club: Re: [MLM Survivors Club] Hi all

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Re: [MLM Survivors Club] Hi all

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, paine_wwweb_r wrote:
> I'm saying that none of us is omniscient. There will always be
> things about which we are ignorant. And if the pitch is compelling
> enough, we will take the bait even when something inside us tells us
> to beware.
>
> I think you may be right about assuming Will's persona on-screen is
> anything like his private one.

Will Smith was accepted to either Princeton or MIT (forgot which) before
he was famous -- on his own merits. He can't be a complete idiot. Oh,
wait, there was that one idiot that graduated from Yale, but Smith's
parents weren't rich.

> You had plenty of good sense when you joined Scientology - just not
> about Scientology. If that's some kind of an offense, then it's one
> that should be easily forgiven. Just as we should forgive ourselves
> for our involvement in MLM.

Since I was involved with someone that was in an MLM and I never joined
(never officially, there was that week back in college), I could be a
real snot and say I was somehow smarter than others, but it's just not
true. There are many people here who are quite wise and did join an
MLM. On my end, I may not have joined, but looking back, I was stupid
enough to fall in love with a savant-idiot. (The reverse of an
idiot-savant. She was a genius on paper, but quite dense about life in
general.)

The best of us can get taken in for one reason or another. In Smith's
case, remember, what he sees is completely different than what Joe
Schmoe sees and he sees ONLY a wonderful organization that seems just
great.

I'll be sorry to see him involved with the likes of Tom Cruise, though.
Smith can actually act when necessary -- but maybe something will rub
off on Cruise.

Hal