Operating DB
Truman Show Dropout
Ah! I know that term but it's the first time I've seen bitter defrocked apostate abbreviated.
Sometimes I'm a little slow at figuring abbreviations out.
cult test ;this is only a test
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Ah! I know that term but it's the first time I've seen bitter defrocked apostate abbreviated.
Sometimes I'm a little slow at figuring abbreviations out.
mockingbird
Silver Meritorious Patron
No problem Operating DB ,we were all packed to the gills with abbreviations in the cult to help give us an ever growing mountain of lingo to remember helping distract and confuse our minds making us have our attention misdirected so our conscious minds are partially shut down, knocking out our critical and independent thinking ability , making us robotically intake lrh's doctrine without evaluating it's truthfulness as study tech is a complex series of mechanisms to induce regression and a deep hypnotic state.
Commander Birdsong
Crusader
scientology gets turned into a cult by failing to apply KSW
one of the great hallmarks of a cult is to be the only truth
in the opening of KSW it is stated "scientology is not a perfect system, it is a workable system"
last time i looked at a copy of WITS it said on the back cover "...scientology has THE answers" which is of course the attitude so wretchedly crammed down our throats so continuously...
this quote from KSW is just so. it's not perfect and it is A!!! workable system not The or The Only workable system
and from this you can actually produce very good and thoroughly uncultly results with the materials...
as i have been doing for forty years
one of the great hallmarks of a cult is to be the only truth
in the opening of KSW it is stated "scientology is not a perfect system, it is a workable system"
last time i looked at a copy of WITS it said on the back cover "...scientology has THE answers" which is of course the attitude so wretchedly crammed down our throats so continuously...
this quote from KSW is just so. it's not perfect and it is A!!! workable system not The or The Only workable system
and from this you can actually produce very good and thoroughly uncultly results with the materials...
as i have been doing for forty years
mockingbird
Silver Meritorious Patron
Thank you to everyone who's read my posts so far
I have a new post that reveals info that I believe impacts EVERY scientologist past and present.
I'm not exaggerating; please read and decide for yourself; there's a link at the bottom of my signature
it's insidious enslavement : study technology
I have a new post that reveals info that I believe impacts EVERY scientologist past and present.
I'm not exaggerating; please read and decide for yourself; there's a link at the bottom of my signature
it's insidious enslavement : study technology
SweetnessandLight
Crusader
I've always liked (and used with people) this list of 15 Cult qualities, trait and characteristics (fits Scientology to a T, especially SO members):
"International Cultic Studies Association Cult Checklist
This is the checklist that the International Cultic Studies Association uses for evaluating whether or not an organization is a "cult."
1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry — or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar — or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
6. The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
12. The group is preoccupied with making money.
13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
15. The most loyal members (the "true believers") feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group."
From: http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cultic_checklist.html
"International Cultic Studies Association Cult Checklist
This is the checklist that the International Cultic Studies Association uses for evaluating whether or not an organization is a "cult."
1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry — or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar — or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
6. The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
12. The group is preoccupied with making money.
13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
15. The most loyal members (the "true believers") feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group."
From: http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cultic_checklist.html
mockingbird
Silver Meritorious Patron
Thanks Sweetness and Light I love that list.
I also would like some of you to actually TAKE the cult test and let me know your scores !
I took it and got a 98 (out of 100 ) !!!
When I saw that I knew I was FUCKED !!!
Seriously , I knew that it meant scientology is a severely screwed up cult and there's no whitewashing it.
I also would like some of you to actually TAKE the cult test and let me know your scores !
I took it and got a 98 (out of 100 ) !!!
When I saw that I knew I was FUCKED !!!
Seriously , I knew that it meant scientology is a severely screwed up cult and there's no whitewashing it.
mockingbird
Silver Meritorious Patron
Oh , and somewhere I saw another great one ; go up to a group member and ask , " so what do you think your group's founder's ten biggest flaws were and ten biggest mistakes in founding your group ? "
Try that on a scientologist !!!
Try that on a scientologist !!!
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