Any idea abt Microsoft's dubious executive training?
Any idea abt Microsoft's dubious executive training?
As I have mentioned in another post, Microsoft has been sighted sending
off their executives to a very dubious and mysterious training seminar,
organized by former leaders of a cult called Mind Dynamics, also known
in the 1970's as B.E.A.T. and currently known as Landmark Education.
The methodology of the old B.E.A.T./M.D. seminars was to break down a
person's personality to the ground by insults and even severe
psychological and minor physical abuse - such as a slap in the face or
pushing someone over - and by locking the seminar guests into a
conference room for 48 hours without that they could even go to the
bathroom. They were simply told to wet themselves if the need arose,
in quite vulgar language.
Then, after insulting and humiliating their "guests" until they had lost
all sense of dignity and self-worth, the seminar speakers would start
recreating their personalities into cold and hard egos.
The message was that there are no such things as right or wrong, good or
bad. There was only opportunity, information and action. The "I am
God" principle of Anton LaVey, the now deceased leader of the Church of
Satan, was part of this altered way of thinking.
I've personally seen the humiliation and abuse in a television broadcast
regarding this controversial training when I was still a teenager, i.e.
the mid- to late 1970's. It was however only when Landmark and their
origins were being referred to on Usenet in relation to Microsoft
executives attending their seminars that I began remembering this
"training group" from the TV reports in my youth.
I also believe such a seminar to feature as a background scene in a
comedy with Burt Reynolds, also from around that time, but I've
forgotten the name of the movie.
In that movie, the character played by Burt Reynolds - a cowboyish
writer - attends such a meeting together with his two best friends - a
man and a woman - because they are interested in improving their
personalities so they could deal better with the world. He himself is
however not impressed, and when it is time for him to take a leak, you
can see him sitting there with a very big grin on his face while you
here the urine splashing on the floor.
But anyway, back to the seriousness of reality, and so below you can
find the hyperlink to the Microsoft "involvement" with this group...
http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark36.html
More information about Landmark - among which some shocking reports from
former seminar attenders and their relatives - can be found here...
http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html
- Based on what I've read in books, this sounds like Microsoft
itself, at least in its early days.
- I don't see anything in that link about MS-employees being locked up
and forced to wet themselves.
Rumored? Where are these rumors or are you the one trying to start the
rumor?
So now "Microsoft brass ALL go through..." which would certainly
include Gates and Ballmer. Seems that it's no longer a rumor and now a
statement of fact. Do you have any PROOF that ALL ms brass go through
this or is this another one of these "rumors" that you cannot prove?
The very first paragraph of your link ("Microsoft Paid For Culty
Clinics") says
- "Staffers at the embattled company have been reimbursed for attending
the Landmark Forum, a marathon "improvement" session which promises
everything from better health to "breakthroughs" that will dramatically
change the lives of its followers."
Furthermore - "For Microsoft Employees: The course is approved external
training by Microsoft and is typically covered by Microsoft if you make
a request of your manager."
I don't see anything about employees and brass being "forced" to attend
these things. What I see is a company where some of the 60,000+
employees attended a seminar and they submitted a reimbursement form
and got their money reimbursed.
How you came to the absurd conclusion that Gates and Ballmer attended
and that anyone was forced to attend this is still unexplained. Somehow
you connected the dots and concluded that this seminar involved
self-humliation and wetting oneself. I don't see anything on your link
that suggests that.
In another post you mentioned that wintrolls are biased and twist the
facts. It seems obvious that you took a simple mention on some obscure
web-site that MS reimbursed some employees for attending a
contraversial seminar and twisted it into Gates and Ballmer attending a
devil-worshiping seminar where they enjoy wetting themselves.