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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: AMWAY
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 20:18:31 EDT
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> [  I hope you choke on it  ]
> 
> I was introduced to AMWAY last night.  Before last night, I would have said
> that the whole thing was a scam.  I mean, have you ever met anyone who owns
> an AMWAY product?  With 1 million distributors and ~300 million Americans,
> there is a salesman for every 300 of us.  Who is buying their stuff????
> 
> Despite my initial bias and inborn skepticism, I listened.  By the end of the
> night, I was either brainwashed by my own greed, hypnotized by the guy's
> white-board technique, or fairly impressed by the content of his presentation.
> 
> Today, a friend of mine and I did rather extensive research and turned up very
> little dirt on AMWAY.  So, I am turning to you...MY FRIENDS.
> 
> Has anyone out there had any experience with AMWAY?  Do you actually know of
> anyone who was/is involved?  Any AMWAY customers?  Is getting involved with
> AMWAY like getting involved with the KGB or the Mafia, i.e. once you're in,
> you'll never get yourself uninvolved?  

You might know more about it than you realize since you have chosen to
put your question to this newsgroup. The similarities between emotional highs
produced by mass groupings of worshipers, and amway pep rallies are quite
impressive. This is not to say that amway is religious, but that the practices
of such groups are designed toward "guiding" their members along various
modes of thinking.

Padraig Houlahan.


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