"Of wisdom generally, I haven't all that much to declare. I find myself more impressed by the mysteries of life and more certain that most of the interesting questions it poses have no persuasive answers, or at least none likely to arrive before I depart the planet. I haven't even settled the question of whether I believe in God. I try to act as if God exists--that is, the prospects of guilt and shame and the moral endorphins that good conduct brings still motivate me to act as decently as I'm able. I suffer, then, some of the fear of religion without any of the enjoyment of the hope it brings. I don't, meanwhile, have a clue about why there is suffering in the world, whether there is an afterlife, or how to explain acts of truly grand altruism or unprofitable evil. You live and you learn, the proverb has it; but in my case, You live and you yearn seems closer to it."
Hi everyone. Please forgive my abstracting all of your names from up thread, but, each of you has expressed some interest in scientology, or had someone who thought that you might have some interest ping you.
Recently I bumped into an old scientology friend. He is still in the church, and knows I’m not.
Anyway, in the course of our conversation, he let me know that all the scientology materials have been rewritten to ‘correct all the errors the transcriptionist and editors have introduced into The Tech’.
There are several possible translations of this, not the least of which is everyone gets to buy all new books...
It’s also possible that The Tech is being altered to better control the members.
We could speculate on this and while away endless hours, but that’s not why I pinged you all.
This upgrade was announced in a big event at Flag, their world headquarters. There is a DVD of this event. He gave me a couple copies, and said I could get more from him if I wanted to pass them on to my friends (as in, but not explicitly stated, all those other guys who left when I did).
I watched all 3 hours of this event. It wasn’t all that different from any other generic scientology event in my experience.
Since it is so typical of scientology, and I can get free copies, I’d like to offer my services as a go between to get a copy to anyone who is interested.
It’s an opportunity to see scientology as it sees itself, without getting on the damnable mailing list.
I think most of you will find it - what? Amusing? Illuminating? Frightening?
If any of you are interested, FReepmail me, and I’ll see if I really can round up copies for all.