Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Also, I don't see what Lakey did to cause anyone's wrath. Unlike me he is probably using some tech still, or at least in his mind, goes to it. There are other posters that do too.
Can't each person just make their own way out of Scn or are there rules about that? Who sets those rules?
I don't see why this particular thread suddenly became a war zone or threatens to. But I am not going to join in any mud slinging.
If someone here wants to argue with me or among ourselves about tech or CoS, please, have at it on any topic. But name calling doesn't work.
Thanks, Maria! I really think you capture the essence of why there are war zones between exes;
I was looking at this in terms of other religions., Judaism for example. When the religion began, everyone was an Orthodox Jew and followed a rigid set of laws. The sexes were separated and men's rights were far greater than women's. Everyone kept Kosher, observed dietary laws, observed the Sabbath, etc. The men all had to have beards,their clothing was strange, they prayed in Hebrew, etc. etc. That is all I know about it because I was never even remotely involved.
Later on, a group broke away and called itself Conservative Judaism. They still prayed in Hebrew but they could drive in cars on the Sabbath, all men didn't have to have beards, women could pray with the men, etc. In other words, the Conservative Jews are exes vis a vis Orthodox Jewry.
Eventually that brand of Judaism became too strict for some and an even more liberal brand of Judaism was created, called Reformed Judaism. In Reformed Judaism, I've seen young couples come to temple in shorts and T shirts, the services are conducted in English. The men are clean shaven, men and women have exactly the same rights. Really, it is very similar to a Christian church except the Star of David replaces the cross and the New Testament is not studied.
You could say that the Reformed Jews are exes to the Conservatives and the Orthodox. In the case of Judaism, they are all considered Jews. The term ex Jews does not exist. The Orthodox look down their noses at both Conservative and Reform Jews. They consider them to be "Goyim", none Jews, but if they want to pray, using Jewish prayers, that is fine.
Probably the Conservatives show the most tolerance being willing to intereact with both of the other factions and the Reformed are willing to do the same. You don't find any wars going on between those three factions of the religion. They have enough enemies without fighting among themselves and creating even more enemies.
Ex scientologists, however tend to fight among themselves and certainly with CoS. That should not be the case, there is no need for that. Also, the' orthodo'x Scientologist should not fight with the exes in my opinion. The correct analysis would be to shrug and tell them that they are getting watered down tech. But Hubbard wrote policies and copyrighted his materials and ordered his adherents to attack and destroy exes. You simply don't see that with other religions. Can you imagine Catholics on the war path, disconnecting from those who want to practice Catholocism outside the official church?.
Some Christian sects practice shunning but they don't have private investigators and teams of lawyers out in the general public hassling their exes. CoS is the only church who is doing that which is just more proof that CoS are not really a church, it is a for profit business cloaked to look like a church so as to obtain tax exempt status and evade minimum wage laws and extra pay for overtime laws.
Lakey
