Quote:I didn't quite believe how other sellers were being treated. I couldn't imagine it. Of course, I was a pretty big cheerleader in the beginning, posting on the boards, trying to come up with ways to bring in buyers and boost morale. Ugh. Ugh.
Then I heard more and more unethical stories like yours and more and more were happening to sellers I knew personally, sellers who had been cheerleaders, too, all of a sudden gone.
A good point which illustrates the power of cultist mind-control. During WWII, there were millions of Germans who simply could not believe that their government could be involved in autrocities. As long as they were loyalists and staunch Nazi supporters, they were themselves treated with courtesy, respect and privilege -- that was their reality. Then suddenly they would begin to notice that the family attorney, butcher or doctor had suddenly disappeared. And then a few months later, they would learn of his demise in a gas chamber through a mutual friend or family member.
The two scenarios don't compare in scope, but the tactics are similar: people believe what they want to believe, no matter how irrational it may appear to "non-believers"Â -- no matter how many "stories" they hear -- especially when the "believers" are rewarded for believing and those rewards (be they physical or psychological) come from individuals in positions of power and authority, whom the membership admires and supports. They can live in this dreamland and deny all that discounts it, until either the axe comes down on their heads or they hear of it coming down on someone else's they know from a trusted and reliable source.
Business is not built on "faith." Business is grounded in reality: The reality of serving your customers and fulfilling their needs. The reality of feeding your family and paying your rent. The reality of fixing problems with tangible, constructive solutions. WP is NOT a business. It is one guy who uses people to further his own ends at their expense. He does this by trying to create something in their minds built purely on their hope and faith -- an "imaginary" entity, the pot of gold over the rainbow, the perfect, pure Arian, e-commerce world.
WP is the cult of Ray. The fact that some sellers may be making a sale here and there does not diminish that fact. All cults have elements of business conducted within them, but THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM A BUSINESS. Microsoft, McDonalds or eBay cannot be confused with The Jehovah's Witnesses. This is the Grand Deception. One big CON. Sellers are dupedÂ
into "believing" they are becoming part of a growing business, when, in fact, WP is no more of a business than the Flat Earth Society, nor will it EVER be. In the meantime, one guy has $$ deposited in his account, just like clockwork, every month, for as long as it takes for the "believers" to meet up with their own reality checks.
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