Mick Wenlock
Admin Emeritus (retired)
And I am going to vent to my friends.
I am, to be honest, heartily sick of people on Scientology message boards commenting on about how they did "amazing things" on the Apollo or in the Sea Org and expressing mutual admiration about a "bunch of kids on the Bridge". Or how much "fun" we all had "along with the abuse of course".
It seems to me that in light of yesterday being veterans day I was very tempted to post some simple facts about, for example, the US Navy - where 19 year olds routinely catapult multi-million dollar airplanes off the moving decks of aircraft carriers, the average age of the INSTRUCTORS at Top Gun is 26, and while the Apollo was busy swanning around and bumping into quays and whatever 18 year old Marines were hiking for miles going without sleep and fighting determined enemies in jungle conditions. Young people around the world did amazing things while we were busily wrapped up in the cult.
The problem I have I guess is that there seems to be this idea among certain people (some sort of hang over from the SO I guess) that we did things that were exceptional - it's not that some of the things done were not good but compared to what other young people were doing in the real world - it was not exceptional in the least.
Thanks for listening, rant over,
I am, to be honest, heartily sick of people on Scientology message boards commenting on about how they did "amazing things" on the Apollo or in the Sea Org and expressing mutual admiration about a "bunch of kids on the Bridge". Or how much "fun" we all had "along with the abuse of course".
It seems to me that in light of yesterday being veterans day I was very tempted to post some simple facts about, for example, the US Navy - where 19 year olds routinely catapult multi-million dollar airplanes off the moving decks of aircraft carriers, the average age of the INSTRUCTORS at Top Gun is 26, and while the Apollo was busy swanning around and bumping into quays and whatever 18 year old Marines were hiking for miles going without sleep and fighting determined enemies in jungle conditions. Young people around the world did amazing things while we were busily wrapped up in the cult.
The problem I have I guess is that there seems to be this idea among certain people (some sort of hang over from the SO I guess) that we did things that were exceptional - it's not that some of the things done were not good but compared to what other young people were doing in the real world - it was not exceptional in the least.
Thanks for listening, rant over,