Not that I disagree but it's easy for people who have their heads on the right way round to mock the afflicted. However this is not very kind or helpful.
But I wish, with a great wish, that there was an abbreviated, tick-this-box Doubt Formula that didn't look like a final year essay project. tl;dr is tl;dr.
And there are 20,000 more to come (YMMV).
Note: I am not talking
directly to any of them, am not in a position to be kind or helpful, and if I was, I would manage my comm quite differently.
I am here on ESMB talking to MANY other people who are largely "out", and who also "get the ridiculousness" of these "doubt formulas". My comm was directed to THEM. I was having a conversation with them. These goofy Doubt Formulas are the topic of this conversation.
Now, if someone comes over here and reads this (and a great many other things), and feels "mocked", well, as the saying goes, they can "change the channel". Which explains why few show up HERE.
Here is a better version of an HONEST Doubt Formula:
1. Inform oneself honestly of the actual intentions and activities of that group, project or organization, brushing aside all bias and rumor.
As for intentions, the REAL intentions of Scientology are to MAKE MONEY and CONSOLIDATE POWER AND CONTROL OVER OTHERS. I have never seen any real life examples where the CLAIMED intentions were realized through any application of Scientology Tech, such as making a better world, freeing people, increasing free speech, improving honesty, or reducing crime.
The activities are largely a pretense. Scientology pretends to be helping people. It pretends to be able to change conditions for the better. A major activity of Scientology is PR. For the most part, what parades around as "positive activities" is PR of such things, as seen in endless events, briefings, Chinese School, etc.
Through non-stop PR and indoctrination, Scientology
spreads the rumor and
builds a firm bias in members that a) Scientology is Man's only hope, b) Scientology possesses the ONLY valid data on life on planet Earth, and 3) anyone against any aspect of Scientology must be EVIL. Thus, any over-indoctrinated Scientologist is incapable of doing an honest Doubt Formula, because the BIAS has been set deeply already (for all things Hubbard & Scientology).
A key activity is the non-stop lying of the Church of Scientology, which originated with the endless fictions of Hubbard (which exist as PART of the subject of Scientology).
A key activity of Scientology is forced diconnection, based on the policies (theories) of Hubbard. This activity constantly breaks up families and disrupts sane and decent communication.
Another key aspect of Scientology is "handling" anyone who disagrees with anything Hubbard or the C of S ever said or did. This aspect involves HURTING innocent people, such as Paulette Cooper. Over many years MANY people have been intentional hurt by the application of Fair Game, "handling critics", initiating overwhelming lawsuits, sending paid PIs after people, and generally causing pain and pressure into people's lives (to change their behavior to a way Scientology desires). This intention and activity stems from exact LRH policy.
I could go on an on. I could attach many many pages of real life examples. This is the BRIEF version.
2. Examine the statistics of the individual, group, project or organization.
There are no actual Clears who exhibit what Hubbard defined and claimed.
There are no actual OTs who exhibit what Hubbard defined and claimed.
There are many broken families.
There are many upset people.
This group causes endless hardship to people by faithfully applying Hubbard's "hard sell", thus sucking them dry of time, energy and money.
The accepting and following of Scientology data creates FANATICS on a continual basis.
Number of Lies - in AFFLUENCE
Number of False Claims Made by Hubbard and the C of S - in AFFLUENCE
Number of Nasty Covert Ops Run by OSA (hidden from all staff and public) - in AFFLUENCE
Amount of Negative Media Coverage - in AFFLUENCE
3. Decide on the basis of "the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics" whether or not it should be attacked, harmed or suppressed or helped.
Attacked, harmed and suppressed. The Scientology subject materials, as the basis of the poor stats, intentions and activities, should also be open to intensive analysis, criticism, and severely attacked.
Hubbard and the Church of Scientology aim and succeed at deceiving many people. THAT needs to be attacked and suppressed.
4. Evaluate oneself or one's own group, project or organization as to intentions and objectives.
To expose and stop the real or imagined intentions and real activities of Hubbard & Scientology.
and so forth . . . . . .
What is so often missing from these "generic" Doubt Formulas that are written when one abandons the corporate Church is the admittance and acknowledgment that HUBBARD is THE SOURCE of all the crazy policies,
that when followed directly result in the POOR STATS and INEFFECTIVE, DECEITFUL AND NASTY ACTIVITIES.
But if these folks bother, they will probably write a few more Doubt Formulas along the way. One of the more important formulas will be written on Hubbard hisself. This is tricky though because Hubbard HID his intentions so very well under a veil of
repeated PR and exaggerated claims, PR and claims which spring from the pages of any book or policy. Or from any taped lecture. One has to figure out that the claims, and the majority of the positive goals and aims that you agree with ARE ONLY PR and of the nature of
loud assertions and noisy statements that only
pretend to be true, and which the Scientology member accepts and believes to be true (but isn't).
The trick is figuring out the ACTUAL INTENTIONS, which is nuts really, because NOBODY can figure out what others are "truly thinking". Hubbard RIGS the Doubt Formula. Best to ONLY look at ACTIVITIES and STATS. In that regard, no matter what Hubbard or Scientology intends, or claims, or promotes on endless PR lines, the raw result is that involvement with Scientology creates a bunch of babies who can't think for themselves, who live and breathe on "references", who come to exist in an oppresive environment of constant control, who contribute to hurting innocent people in the name of their "religion", and who are WASTED (thrown away) once their usefulness has faded.
The big cognition of a properly done Doubt Formula is that the intentions and stats of Scientology are all phony, contrived and basically a lie. As is Hubbard in what he says about himself and many other things.