SPs! Lookout!

[ILived1984!]

Today I recieved a message from someone who was merely a weak acquaintance from years ago. Maybe exchanged a few words. This person found me on Facebook and sent the following message regarding good friends of mine who were declared recently:


Subject: XXXXXXXXXX

Just so u know the XXXXXXXXX were recently declared and you should not be in communication with them. Btw.. How the hell are you?

XXXXXXXX
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(Edited to protect identities.)

Can you believe this crap? Someone I don't really know telling me who I shouldn't be in contact with!

This behaviour never ceases to amaze me. :confused2:

The couple who are declared joined in the fight recently and are former SO Exec Vets.

 

[dchoiceisalwaysrs]

Well this person who found you and wrote you the message certainly can't be a Scientologist as they don't practice disconnection.

 

[Tiger Lily]

I wonder what would happen if you answered this person with the reference where disconnection is cancelled? (If there is one).

TL

 

[Megalomaniac]

I wonder what would happen if you answered this person with the reference where disconnection is cancelled? (If there is one).

TL

The reference is the Creed of the Church.

We of the Church believe:

...

That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others;

Mac

 

[Tiger Lily]

The reference is the Creed of the Church.



Mac

Yep, that should go on the double-think threat too!

But wasn't there something recently that canceled disconnection? Or wasn't there some public statement by a church official that the CofS doesn't practice disconnection? I could swear I remembered something about that.

-TL

 

[Dulloldfart]

But wasn't there something recently that canceled disconnection? Or wasn't there some public statement by a church official that the CofS doesn't practice disconnection? I could swear I remembered something about that.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Pouw:

"Pouw issued a 15-page statement to the press in response to the January 2008 publication of Andrew Morton's unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography.[17] Pouw called the book a "bigoted defamatory assault replete with lies".[17] Her statement about the book prompted Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of Scientology's leader David Miscavige, to publicly criticize Scientology and its practice of disconnection.[17] Hill's written response was an open letter addressed to Pouw which was posted to the Internet, in which she stated: "I am absolutely shocked at how vehemently you insist upon not only denying the truths that have been stated about the church in that biography, but then take it a step further and tell outright lies."[17] Hill countered Pouw's denial of Scientology's practice of disconnection, saying: "As you well know, my parents officially left the church when I was 16 in 2000 ... Not only was I not allowed to speak to them, I was not allowed to answer a phone for well over a year, in case it was them calling me."[17] In response, Pouw told the Agence France-Presse: "The church stands by its statement of 14 January. The church does not respond to newsgroup postings."[17]"

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Last time I looked for the original letter from the CofS I found it online easily. This time I could not. Sorry.

Paul