She got fired because her "hostile" fetus had a "negative agenda"

[charlie]

Whoo, some weird stuff out of Omaha. This woman worked as an assistant to a homebuilder CEO, a major league woo who ran his company like a cult. Apparently, her pregnancy blew a hole in his aura and created a grave disturbance in the Force:

Jammie Harms says that throughout her employment with Hearthstone, Smith and other managers pushed a spiritual and religious atmosphere in the workplace "based on concepts incorporating universal energy, concepts of reincarnation, and intuitive spiritualism." Harms says that Smith shared his beliefs that past lives determine current behaviors.

Harms says she played along with the company's spiritual and religious practices in order to keep her job, though she did not "fully embrace" the religion.

Harms claims that in March 2009, after she told Smith that she was pregnant, he warned her to be cautious, and said he had been traumatized while in his mother's womb when she had a sexual affair with another man. Harms claims her boss told her, "Babies can remember things in the womb."
...

Later that afternoon, Harms says, Smith consulted a psychic because Harms had cut her hair short and gained 15 to 20 pounds while pregnant. She says Smith was concerned there was "negative energy" being created because Harms had a male boss instead of a female boss.

Harms claims that about a week later, Smith called a chiropractor and "self-described energy worker" in order to hash out his "mother issues and how (Harms') pregnancy was bringing up very negative energy relating to his own experience" in the womb. Smith told the "energy worker" that he believed Harms' baby had a "negative agenda," Harms says. She claims that the "energy worker" told Smith that the baby had a past life with him and then asked him to "partner with the baby."

Harms says that Smith replied that "his whole system said no to being partners" with the fetus and that the baby's "energy 'is hostile' towards him."...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/17/28155.htm

More here from the local TV news:

http://www.action3news.com/Global/story.asp?S=12738001

The two videos include former employees who dish dirt on the weird CEO, like his buying lots according to the number of "land fairies" on the property, and using "muscle testing" to make hiring decisions.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. It amazes me that people so out of touch with reality can run a business

without ruining it or being conned by frauds looking for particularly gullible people.

[lizerdbits]

3. All kinds of religious people run businesses

I don't see it being that much different than the Jesus story in terms of believability. Buying land based on land fairies doesn't seem much different that 'looking for a sign from god' or horoscopes in terms of decision making.

[realisticphish]

4. right

it's just that we're used to certain kinds of nonsense.

It's the same reason that, say, Babylonian gods appear to be less rational than Christianity, even though they are equally irrational. We talk about really crazy people believing in this or that, while ignoring the idea of a man 2000 years ago living a sinless life, dying as a sacrifice to himself to prevent us from being punished by him for sinning against him. And transubstantiation is a whole other chapter in craziness.

[LeftishBrit]

5. The thing is, though...

that most religious people or people who believe in astrology, etc. do NOT in fact use it to guide the details of their day-to-day practical decisions. Their religion may guide their basic principles of life (anything from 'I must treat others as I'd like to be treated, so I shouldn't cheat those who do business with me' to 'People who believe differently from me, or run their personal lives in a way that I think is wrong, are evildoers going to hell, so I have every right to stomp on them!') though frequently it doesn't. But, though I once had a neighbour who informed me that Jesus had told him to buy that particular house, it's rare for religion to influence decisions at that level. Similarly people may read their horoscopes and attribute their personality to their star sign, but it is not usual to make major financial decisions on the basis of one's horoscope. Those who do, are likely to end up in trouble, like the city manager in Onager's story on the other thread.

Though it is nowadays unusual for adults to believe in fairies, it was not that rare a few hundred years ago. But I would assume that even those who did, made their major practical decisions on other grounds - unless they were complete fools.

[Odin2005]

11. It's mental compartmentalization.

The same thing that allows fundies to believe their crazy BS while in real life act fairly normal.

[TZ]

2. I'm thinking thats an easily won lawsuit

Wow, just wow what an idiot.

[Silent3]

6. We certainly have enough people here on DU...

...who would take it seriously when someone describes themselves as an "energy worker", probably a few who call themselves that.

That phrase got to be in my top ten for woo terminology that makes me want to retch.

[drm604]

7. Whoa!

:crazy:

[mr blur]

8. Just when you thought you'd reached bottom of the Crazy barrel,...

We had to have the land fairies removed from our garden - they were constantly squabbling with the demons.

[drm604]

9. Which is why the gnomes go on vacation so much. n/t

[onager]

12. Yep...

[SheilaT]

13. Couldn't you contact a troll ambassador

to negotiate between the land fairies and the demons? Really, why give up so easily?

[Odin2005]

10. That's a whole lot of crazy!

:wow: