I feel for you. Unfortunately, your girlfriend will probably have to snap out of it on her own. It me be good to just be supportive and see what happens. If you speak out against her, the upline might convince your girlfriend that you are “negative” and thus, expendable. A lot of people snap out of it after a few months, but some get hooked hard and stay in Amway for years despite losing money month after month, year after year. A friend of mine has been heavily involved for nearly 20 years and he hit platinum about 17 years ago and he’s been backsliding ever since. It’s sad and in my opinion, a waste of time and a waster of life.

I think its complete crap and a waste of time…the development through his readings have been helpful since they are legit books but the business plan sucks. He say’s he is never going to stop…what do i do??

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First and obvious question to ones mind is how dos one know the company will be in business after 2 decades ? What happens to investment if the company dies ?
Second question is, when NSC is giving gurranted 8.75% return, and one can invest without any cost, is there any pension fund which is gurranted and offer return which equals or more then it ?
Third question is in last 10 yrs or so, did any company die or gave return mor then NSC ? How many gave less ?

Another such social cause they like to promote about their business model is that of MASS-EMPLOYMENT for the unemployed.

Though not in legal terms, when you grow enough to have a birds-eye view of the complete business model, you understand that it is not serious business – but a kind of fraud.

You are then filled with disgust at the way the members are duped into the scheme – all with a little dream in some corner of their minds – of becoming millionaires.

The products that Amway (for instance) manufactures are highly in-competitive in an open market both in terms of price and quality. That is the reason why this networked market needs to be created for the sale of these products.

All this is however not to say that none of the people who join these schemes make money.

After all, to make the money what you need is to add people under your network.

If you have been able to just recover (or something more) the investment that you made, what you did was to add your friends or relatives under you.

Likewise, you’ll see that the members under you who recovered their investment also did the same thing.

Some of them also may not have recovered anything at all. That doesn’t make them any more wretched than those who broke-even or earned some thousands of profits.

What you have unknowingly done is that – the group who brought the scheme into your town – you have made them richer by millions.

And all the time you were thinking you were in business, it was just an illusion. You never were in their business at all.

If you are happy and satisfied that at least you could recover your money, you have wrongly forgotten to look at the ones in your network who could not. Wrongly because, after all you are the one who pulled them into the ditch.

In an ethical business model – you grow together. In Amway, you grow because someone else falls.

My analysis was somewhat similar … I told him to cancel the policy as it was just a day old.

Buddhism most differs Hinduism in morality more than anything. The entire Pali canon consists mainly of Morality. In fact in most of Suttas you see Buddha admonishing Brahmin priests. Hinduism hardly has any morality in it. Hindu scriptures contain plenty of Incest and Vedic age consisted mainly Sacrifices(both Animal and human) and sex as evidenced by anyone who has read the Vedas.

Hindu Kings who ruled over India persecuted Buddhists mercilessly. The evidence is present in Chanakyas Arthashastra,Puranic literature, ManuSmriti, other Dharmashastras, Ramayana(Ravana was a Buddhist and Lanka was really sri lanka where Buddhism was predominant).

I might add that any progress in science and technology was due to the period Buddhists ruled India. Sunyata in fact is a core concept of Buddhism. It is ridiculous to believe that Hindus discovered the Number Zero. Hindu Puranas consist of Earth being flat and Snakes surrounding the Earth. Such is the level of progress of Science in Hindu religion.

So among the two ONE needed to be stamped out. It was impossible for both Hinduism and Buddhism to survive together because to the above reasons.

It was the decline of Buddhism from the 5th century AD and the eventual destruction of Buddhism and revival of Hinduism by 10th century AD which brought dark ages to India which continues till this day.

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President, Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:

On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to that effect indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned. “Ordinarily,” Dr. Mills continued, “A person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide.” That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to a certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus. When one intends to kill subject “A” but kills subject “B” in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject “B.”

When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. The old man said it was his long standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, if the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple’s son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son’s financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn’t actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother’s murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

(A true story from Associated Press, reported by Kurt Westervelt)