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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

we'd charge what the market would bear and not think twice about it.
Not me.
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

Still all this black-and-white argument going on.
Of course he deserves to earn a living.
$400 per hour to chat is a reason to question motives. The more somebody charges the more people are apt to assume it must be very special.
I have never read his books but I am already an expert on how cults control people. Most of us here know as much about the psychology of cults as any "counselor".
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

So what? And can't it be both wealth and helping people?
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

I am constantly AMAZED and AMUSED by the number of whining freeloaders who think everything should be given to them for free. They expect boneless BBQ'd chickens to fly into their mouths!
Well, time to pay the piper, crybabies! FREEDOM ain't FREE! - NN
I am constantly bemused by the constant barrage of strawman arguments on this forum. Does anybody care about accurately understanding the position of the person they disagree with?
Nobody has suggested that Hassan should offer anything for free.
He is an ex-Moonie and a "counselor". His market is vulnerable and distraught people who despair for their relatives who are members of a cult. He charges $400 per hour for a skype call.
It is not unreasonable to suggest that his main motivation might be wealth. It appears that not a few people are blindly following the maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

He mentioned once that a Cult education website had been bought out by Scientology , which in turn kept the original name, maybe this is the website ?
If it is why would they still have all this damaging information about Scientology?
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

400$ an hour for a Skype call
I cant believe he is a scammer
How much per hour would a scammer charge an individual who needed a chat about cults?
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

according to complaints he has charged fees varying from $250.00 per hour or $2,500.00 per day to $500.00 per hour or $5,000.00 per day. This does not include Steve Hassan's expenses, which according to complaints can be quite substantial.
Steve Hassan has charged families tens of thousands of dollars and provided questionable results. One family that recently complained about Steve Hassan cited total fees charged of almost $50,000.00 and said that the very expensive intervention effort ended in failure.
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

Very interesting.
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What is the purpose of life?
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
cofty

Bollocks
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Inevitable Life - Video
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
very interesting lecture and q&a session by professor eric smith of the santa fe institute.

in his discussion of the primacy of energy there is a lot of overlap with the ideas of nick lane of university college london.

if you still think abiogenesis had something to do with "primordial soup" you should invest half an hour to watch this.. ....
cofty

Well you could watch half an hour twice!
Yes LisaRose that is one of the big challenges of recreating prebiotic conditions in the lab. There are so many variables. The temperature, pressure, mix of gases in the atmosphere, the metallic catalysts, the PH balance etc etc.
Interesting to hear that most of the Krebs Cycle has been achieved already! I need to listen to it again, it was in the background while I was cooking and I missed some of the details.