Posted on 03/12/2005 11:02:46 PM PST by Dixielander
She's an airhead. A lower level Scientology type would be much more fun to bat it back and forth with. That's the kind of meet up I thought you were alluding to.
oh I've been to weddings and such like, where they surround us and pour on the new agisms. My wife is a lawyer and the few fights we've had is over some of her clients. I am totally against them. the only reason I would go now, is to witness to them. I guess they will show me the door, fast enough
The important thing to understand about cults in general, and Scientology in particular, is that each has some level of practices that produce immediate relief of what is bothering the neophyte.
The lower levels of Scientology are cobbled together from a whole series of things that produce desirable results. Anything from relief of chronic pain to improved ability to communicate. They are quite good at fixing a person's individual ruin.
Unfortunately Scientology does work. People go in with their lives stuck in past upsets or current problems, and 'The Tech' provides tools to handle them.
Feeling better and actually doing better in life are powerful incentives for wanting more.
Your major life's problems were fixed early on, and you spend more and more time, effort, and money on spiritual hangnails.
The 'more' comes at a subtle price, the initial gains may or may not last (in Scientology they tend to be more permanent, as they usually come from getting a better tool set to handle problems, rather than just being 'given a fish'), but further progress requires just a little bit more of your own self determinism, for just a little less progress.
You're in a system that your own experience tells you that it works. Early on, you're told not to take anything as an article of faith, but to try it out and see if/how well it works.
Low and behold the techniques do work, although you recognize that the explanation of the underlying mechanism may not be fully accurate, it does work.
Doing it the way Source [Hubbard] wrote it becomes second nature. At some point things don't work as well, and this is explained away as your not fully understanding the materials, never as the materials are erroneous.
People start accepting explanations that are a little off as their own error, silly explanations as examples of LRH's humor, etc.
In other words, It's a bit like talking to a LaRouche, it starts off reasonable, then segues into the Twilight Zone...
No chairs, eh? In that BIG house?
Go, just don't bring anything to eat except the meat of Scripture.
And stay on the first floor by an open window, lest your getaway requires agility and quick thinking.
I'm bringing you with me
He never starts out saying that...
By all means!
I'll take my bible
It's sufficient to wear your spiritual armor
well, it's been ten years and they haven't seduced this old ranch hand yet
absolutely! I figure I'll break down and go in the summmer. Eckleburg will pick you up, she's a Hollywood insider, you know
lol. I'll let you guys know how it went, though, really
Alright, we'll go. I'll swing by for you guys right after I pick up Shelly Long. (She needs to get out of the house and enjoy a good laugh.)
Look for a dark blue squad car.
Tell shelly to do another Brady bunch movie, they're my fave
all right I will
Must be on the payroll ping......
You are a former Viet Cong?
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