Forums, Cults, and Kimkins
I was recently accused of being “a leapord” that “can sure change their spots rather quickly.”
Was I a leopard? I did change my mind rather quickly about Kimkins upon my arrival at Low Carb Friends. This poster (with only 1 post at my time of writing this I might add) happened to find my first post made at LCF. I meant to put that post in the Facination thread, and did post it there as well. I came in looking for answers.
Forums are wonderful, as they provide a place for sharing ideas and a place to exchange wisdom. Cults on the other hand tend to be one sided with no room for independent thinkers. It’s my way or the highway.
Anyone challenging the problems of the Kimkins plan within (and even outside of) the Kimkins forum has been banned from the site. I have to agree with Mariasol and her post on reinforcing the cult. There is no real free exchange of ideas on the Kimkins forum. You pay $80. It’s hile Hitler Heidi or sianara sucker.
LCF on the other hand was willing to hear me out. When someone takes the time to listen to me, I sure as heck can make the time to listen to them.
Forums are supposed to be a place for support. A place to share what knowledge you have on things, and hopefully find the real answers you are looking for.
Thinking back now, I don’t like the hands tied behind my back feeling that being part of the Kimkins forum gave me.
In my final month before I was banned, I remembered a nervous feeling about posting on the site. It was like I had to watch my every word or I would get tossed. My natural instinct tells me to help people as best I can. I felt like anything I would do to try to help would be undermined immediately. Private messages were all being monitored. And I’m sure the posts with “up your calories” made Heidi cringe.
Every day I feel myself getting further and further away from the site. I feel like LCF came in, in the middle of the night and broke me away from the compound. With perspective, it is clear to see that Kimkins is not a support forum, it really is closer to being a cult.
I invite iamthebomb to feel free to join us anytime in a real conversation about what Kimkins is. Just posting a comment once and not engaging in a real conversation is, well, what someone trying to defend a cult might do. We never said we didn’t lose weight, we never said we weren’t responsible for ourselves, all we said was that Heidi was a con, a fraud, and a master manipulator with only selfish intentions in mind – and that is really what all the hooplah is about.
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One Comment on Forums, Cults, and Kimkins
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2big4mysize on
Tue, 26th Feb 2008 8:35 pm
congratulations on being “rescued” from the cult by discussing on LCFs the cult. Debate is healthy and can’t harm anything that is worth supporting as the good points will come out in the exchange too but when their are no good points that can be attributed to Kimmer and her diet site it is time for the good people to move on like you did.
Thank you for not digging in your heels and saying I paid my money and I’m staying here with my diet friends and we will just support each other and ignore kimmer as many have said. of course they haven’t voiced it on the site nor in Pms or the ban button would have forcefully exited them.
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