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Scientologist Infomercial King Has Some Strange Ideas About Fruit Juice ... - New York Magazine
16 August 2010, 1:27 pm

Infomercial impresario Kevin Trudeau has yet to pay a penny of his $37.6 million fine to the FTC for deceptive TV commercials pitching medical cures and get-rich-quick schemes. But that doesn't mean he's not interested in helping you be your best. Take the lengthy memos he sent appreciative staffers over the years on topics like Policy #4: Fresh organic fruit and vegetable juice: "I am not going to order you to drink juice but you should consider drinking juice. I want to talk about why you should be drinking juice and then we're going to institute something that's very simple to make sure that it's available too [sic] everybody, every day if you so choose. It's your option."

Some other policies and the lessons you, too, can learn!

Policy #16: Clean desk policy

    We all have the same energy. The only difference is being able to focus it. Example: A light bulb is not going to hurt us. If you stand underneath it for five days, nothing is going to happen to you. If you take the exact same light and add nothing to it, but simply focus all of the light into a single beam, you will create a laser. That laser will put a hole in this tab, it is the same power, it is just focused. Our minds are the same way.

Lesson: Sometimes, a light bulb does want to hurt you.

Policy #8: Use dictionaries

    Another interesting phenomena occurs when you read something and you bypass words you don't fully know the meaning of, without looking them up. You can become irritable, frustrated, and/or tired. Some people get confused and then just come to a grinding halt or stop what they are doing. They can't complete the cycle and finish it. So look words up!

Lesson: If you feel sleepy, read a dictionary!

more at http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/scientologist_infomercial_king.html

[wynot]

I do not think I will be the first to point out that con-artists are some of the easiest people to scam. They are generally so convinced of their own superiority over everybody else they cannot believe anybody could possibly play those tricks on them!

Not to mention that the teachings of Scientology pretty much encourage unethical behaviors like selling phony medical cures and get-rich-quick schemes. Come to think of it... 

'til next time;
wynot

[ethercat]

Oh, I was aware Kevin Trudeau was a scam artist, but I didn't realize he was a scientologist too.  I guess you learn something new every day.   

[mefree]

Reading dictionaries on a regular basis would make me sleepy. All in all, this Trudeau quote has to be my personal favorite:

Sometimes, a light bulb does want to hurt you.