tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716666792083573252.post1682740655876299719..comments2023-10-14T05:42:23.964-07:00Comments on The Truth About Mary Kay: An Explanation? Maybe.Jon Bironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398467008484819674noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716666792083573252.post-47826515247770763852009-02-18T12:36:00.000-08:002009-02-18T12:36:00.000-08:00This may be a controversial analysis...but what I ...This may be a controversial analysis...but what I see there is people who need a crutch, or several of them. When their crutch isn't MK any more, I see two things replacing it: PT and (here comes the part some ppl may not like) an incrediby heavy and pervasive religious focus. A lot of people on that site can't mention *anything* without somehow relating it to god this, god that. <BR/><BR/>I don't think religion mixes with business any better than it mixes with matters of state...but I see MK get analyzed on PT more in terms of whether it's ok by *their* particular religious lights rather than whether it's a sound business. And I get the impression this is how they approach everything in life, rather than thinking through it logically. I suppose it's easier to just filter everything this way rather than using your own brain, but to me...well, it's another crutch. You don't have to think for yourself if all you are going to do is quote lines from a book.<BR/><BR/> Note, I'm not saying that every person who believes in a religion does this. I'm saying I see enough of it on PT that I find it disturbing. It just looks like throwing away one cane to lean on another, mentally. When people do this, it takes the place of independent, logical, and critical thought. <BR/><BR/>It's also rather narrow and parochial. The Christian book says this, therefore it's so! Yeah? If they're going to go there anyway...Where's the Buddhist analysis of MK? The Hindu analysis? The atheistic analysis? The pagan analysis? <BR/><BR/>Some of them do break down numbers in an accountant-like fashion. I can go with that. It can be checked and verified or disproven. When I crunched my own numbers, I didn't have a profit...I didn't even break even. I had a debit. So I quit.Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501193997219416369noreply@blogger.com