Head & Shoulders.. Anti-Dandruff Shampoo of choice for Satan..

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I found myself laughing when I read through this article. Not at the subject, but that their business was affected so greatly by the rumours themselves. I found myself laughing with sadness that people actually are that gullible and down right stupid.

At the end of a 12-year legal case in Salt Lake City, Utah, a US District Court jury found against a group of distributors from a rival company who had left voicemail messages alleging that part of Procter & Gamble's profits went to devil-worshipping cults.

P&G - which owns brands such as Pampers, Gillette, Head & Shoulders and Ariel - has long despaired over the stubborn refusal of such claims to go away.

Since the rumours first appeared in 1981, the corporation has had to battle boycotts from Christian groups, cope with more than 200,000 telephone inquiries from customers and fight the ability of word-of-mouth - and latterly the Internet - to disseminate them.
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Yes that's right, it would appear the anti-dandruff shampoo of choice for Satan is Head & Shoulders. Not to mention Pampers is the choice for parents with little devil's of their own to care for.

Now the rival company in this instance happens to be some of the distributors of Amway products. The reason they based the rumours on?

The origins of this accusation are apparently based on a passage from the Book of Revelation in the Bible, stating: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars."

P&G's logo used to consist of a bearded and twin-horned man in the moon surrounded by 13 stars.

Claims that this represented a deliberate mockery of the heavenly symbol were fuelled by others suggesting that a mirror image of the "Mark of the Beast" - the numbers 666 - could be seen inside the logo.
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:bugeye:

Amazing.

P & G were subjected to calls and boycotts of their products because a rival company decided to use fear of the Satan in the US market of personal goods.. by saying that their rival gave money to the devil. And amazingly enough, people fell for it.

A dealer for Amway Corporation, which sells similar household merchandise, and three Amway distributors were accused by P&G of spreading the rumours and alleging that the president of P&G had appeared on television in 1994 to confirm that a large portion of P&G profits went to support the Church of Satan.
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That people fell for it and actually went so far as boycotting P & G is what astounds me in this case.

Got to love the gullible..
 
It does not surprise me that these people are so gullible.... look at the religion they already believe in... its a short step from there into any other areas of delusion.

Scammers know to go after church people, they will believe almost anything.

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Unfounded rumors and nasty ennuendos can hurt. Ask any high school girl who has been subjected to rumors that she's a whore or a slut. If people say it enough, ....?

Why is it you think it's not as serious for a company and its products?

Baron Max
 
Baron Max said:
Unfounded rumors and nasty ennuendos can hurt. Ask any high school girl who has been subjected to rumors that she's a whore or a slut. If people say it enough, ....?

Why is it you think it's not as serious for a company and its products?

Baron Max
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Oh I think it is very serious for P & G. This has been going on for years and should never have been allowed to. To spread malicious rumours in such a fashion is criminal in my opinion. How this could have been allowed to carry on for as long as it did surprised me a bit.

But what really had me shocked was that people actually believed what the Amway distributors were saying. Are they really simply that dumb (for lack of a better term)?

I would never have thought it was even remotely possible to use Satan as a tactic to win in a market. I guess I just assumed people would see through it. But it would appear not as P & G faced boycotts from Christian groups because they were gullible enough to believe. But I guess people are stupid in general and if they really want to believe in something, they will, no matter how stupid it might be.
 
Many people boycott P&G because the company refuses to abandon animal testing, but this satanic connection is just plain funny. People are indeed very gullible.
 
Few people in the UK have heard of Amway. I only know the name because of a documentary I saw on them a while back. Um, they're dodgy to say the least:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Controversy

Several groups including those associated with the anti-cult movement have expressed concern that tactics of AMOs may constitute cult-like activity. Steven Hassan's Freedom of Mind Center lists the practices of AMOs as potentially abusive according to his "BITE" Model of mind control.[39] Other similar organizations that have expressed concern with the activities of AMOs in practice include FACTnet,[40] Cult Awareness and Information Centre (Australia),[41] and others. The Rick Ross Institute keeps a collection of related material in its website.[42]

One controversy that Amway was involved with was an urban legend that the (old) Procter & Gamble service mark is in fact a Satanic symbol or that the CEO of P&G is himself a practicing Satanist (in some variants of the urban legend, it is also claimed that the CEO of Procter & Gamble donated "satanic tithes" to the Church of Satan[43]). Procter & Gamble alleged that several Amway distributors were behind a resurgence of the urban legend in the 1990s and sued several independent Amway distributors and the parent company for defamation and slander. After more than a decade of lawsuits in multiple states, by 2003 all allegations against Amway and Amway distributors had been dismissed, with the trial judge declaring "Throughout this and its related protracted and duplicative litigation, P&G has tried to evade the law of the case doctrine, and has squandered scarce judicial resources".[44][45] However, in October 2005 a Utah appeals court reversed part of the decision dismissing the case against one Amway distributor, Randy Haugen, and remanded it to the earlier court for further proceedings.[46] On 3/20/2007 P&G was awarded $19.5M by a jury. The U.S. District Court jury in Salt Lake City found in favor of the Cincinnati-based consumer products company in a lawsuit filed by P&G in 1995. It was one of several the company brought over rumors alleging a link with the company's logo and Satanism.
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See also this for more related fun and games:

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp
 
I've been to Amway meetings (I went to a LARGE one in North Carolina for which they rented oput a stadium-sized convention center and packed it).
It VERY much felt like a Christian Fundamentalist cult meeting in there.
 
God! Fooking Christians, what does it matter. Praising God doesn't actually do anything physically so if the P&G symbol just so happened to be similar to something else its not gonna open a portal to hell and let the devil pop out. Just like wearing a crucifix does actually let God enter this world and cure all the evils of the people who praise him. The actions of "God" and "The Devil" are only ever done by people, no mystical forces.
 
I couldn't give a toss if they're funding a devil worship cult with their profits. Good for them. Whatever floats your boat. Until they start sacrificing virgins, I don't think there's much to worry about, and they should be left to play.

Not that I believe they are, of course.
 
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