A few years ago my son was trying to find a job. He had gravitated from one job to another, looking for his niche in the business world.
He replied to an advertisement that was in our local paper and decided to investigate. Right away he was taken in. I had mentioned to him that if ancompany or organizations & persons asking you to pay them money then its not a good thing. As I had had this experience with Amway twice and I knew what all the scamming was about. You'd think I would have learned the first time.
Anyways he went to their (Primerica) seminar and came home quite excited. He told me that he met some really nice people. Who ever moderated the seminar was a real gung ho kind of guy, high pressuring too. My son said in order to get started he needed $200.00 CN. Automatically my antenni went up and I said to my son, " remember I told you, that people who ask you to pay them will lead to nowhere". I said to him it was like Amway, Melaluca, and other MLM schemes and pyrimiads. Oh he said, "no mom they are nothing like that." Boy I knew then and there he was hood-winked for sure. So his father gave him the 200.00$ for the start up fees for whatever. He kept going to the meetings and then he need another 200.00$ for another level of licensing. I told him you haven't made any money thus far and your asking for more money. I said they've got you. Hook LIne and Sinker. Poor kid. I know I wasn't being supportive but I knew what was happening. I said to him, can't you see, your filling their coffers and you aren't getting any clients and your making them richer. I told him off the bat he was not to apporach any fellow witnesses with this because the next thing you know you"ll be at the recieveing end of one unhappy JW wanting to see you in trouble with the elders.
So we told him no more money, either. If he was getting money then he could have paid for the new liesence. I think he began to realize what I was telling him all along, that it was just that, a high pressuring sales pitch and he'd have ulcers trying to please the Primerica organization. So he said," I think your right mom, I think I was being lead to believe I could be wealthy and that I was trying to do to help out you and have a more comfortable life". I appreciated the fact he wanted to do better for himself and us but I didn't want a life style that was going to cause him to please everyone else. I said you have to be true to yourself. So he gave up on the idea. Thank God.
And yes your all right when you say, that witnesses seem so caught up in getting rich fast and dragging in other witnesses to their new found career. And also Amway is so much like a meeting at the KH> they are a bunch of fanatical religous leaders, trying to get you to believe them like the Yager's who are so damn righteous, that they have a Bible School that they encourage people to attend. They attribute all their success to God. What a crock of you know what. I went to convention in Clevland a few years ago and I was thinking these people suck up the the wealthy like J Ws. suck up to members of the Governing Body at a convention.
Well that is my say
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