Okay, so, let me get this straight. So, Zinj said, essentially, that if you're gonna say your subject leads to TRUTH REVEALED, you've rather set yourself up for an absolute result, right? It's not HALF TRUTH REVEALED or SOME TRUTH REVEALED. It's simply TRUTH REVEALED (plus handling amnesia on the wholetrack and having the ability to operate with or without a body, at will and a bunch of other god like abilities).
So, anyway, Zinj says if you're gonna say that you are gonna deliver that and then when you consistently don't, well, one should rather reject that sales pitch altogether, right?
Well, just for the sake of 'clarity' (g) and while I'm enjoying and even agreeing with both your and Hizonner H's points, what I was saying was *not* that Hubbardism
'leads to revealed truth' but that
'Scientology *is* Revealed Truth'
It's axiomatic; Ron is *Source* and *KNOWS* and has deigned to let you in on the secret. Scientology is 'knowing how to know' and the trick there is to 'Listen to Ron', because He Knows All.
Naturally, Mark understood me and, rather than address the issue of Ron's bootstrapped philisophical levitation he chooses to distract to Christianity, which is not only 'revealed truth' but makes no bones about it.
Unfortunately for him, Christianity as derived from the teachings of *Christ* makes few directly testable (and falsifiable) assertions. Christ made no claims as to a geo-centric cosmology; no claims as to evolution or the history of man and therefore, no elements of *revealed truth* that can be directly refuted.
Ron; not so lucky. Ron made deliberate and clear and absolute claims that are *easily* refuted.
Now, I'm not a Christian, so, it might seem odd that Mark believes that he can distract me by by waving a christian red herrings in my face, even if he could point out historical use of fish symbols by Christians.
*My* point was that it's hard to argue with 'revealed truth'. Until it 'reveals' that it's codswallop. And, all that's necessary for that is to show that *any one element* of the *revealed* truth is wrong, because *that* reveals that the revelation *isn't*.
It's just normal, made up bullshit.
Zinj