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Go read the rules then.

I have. When you mentioned it, I went back to see if I could find which Emma post you meant, but, the closest I could come was this:

'Maybe we should also make sure that there are no African Americans or Asians as moderators too. Wouldn't want that would we.'

If that's what you mean, which rule does it violate?

At least the way I comprehend it, it's merely saying that whether a mod or op or admin is a Zonie is irrelevant. And, I'd agree.

Is it a somewhat snarky way of saying that? Sointenly. Does it suggest that the original question is tendentious and insulting as well as irrelevant? Also soitenly.

Personally, I'd hate to see a 'sweetness and light' rule imposed on communication here; like on, say, Beliefnet. It would defeat the purpose and take all the fun out of things, but, at the same time, there's a slippery slope of the level of flame-baiting that *somebody's* going to have to enforce, and, whether I always agree with it or not, in practice, I find the level of moderation on ESMB to be about the lightest I've seen on any 'moderated' forum.

Zinj
 
I have. When you mentioned it, I went back to see if I could find which Emma post you meant, but, the closest I could come was this:

'Maybe we should also make sure that there are no African Americans or Asians as moderators too. Wouldn't want that would we.'

If that's what you mean, which rule does it violate?

At least the way I comprehend it, it's merely saying that whether a mod or op or admin is a Zonie is irrelevant. And, I'd agree.

Is it a somewhat snarky way of saying that? Sointenly. Does it suggest that the original question is tendentious and insulting as well as irrelevant? Also soitenly.

Personally, I'd hate to see a 'sweetness and light' rule imposed on communication here; like on, say, Beliefnet. It would defeat the purpose and take all the fun out of things, but, at the same time, there's a slippery slope of the level of flame-baiting that *somebody's* going to have to enforce, and, whether I always agree with it or not, in practice, I find the level of moderation on ESMB to be about the lightest I've seen on any 'moderated' forum.

Zinj

I said the rules, not her posts...
 
I keep forgetting to acknowledge Pixie and others who share so eloquently in their posts, the reality of the 'tech' and also the reality of the FZ. I have read these posts and I love your posts.
Thank You!

Thank you very much for that kind response Boldgirl, loved your post.. well I love all of your posts but I particularly enjoyed your last post with the quote from Hassain, he got it in one there. It is a dangerous game, it does make you much smaller, it does cause crazyness particularly when one has stifled emotions such as anger and frustration year in year out so I can understand completely when someone looses it when confronted with more 'tech'.

Thank you again.. Warmest Regards to you.. :thumbsup:
 
You are probably right.

This has gotten me all stirred up, big time.

I definitely have a chip on my shoulder after Scientology, for anyone who I perceive as trying to shut me up or trying to introvert me with any kind of manipulation. It doesn't matter who it is. I am always on the lookout for it, and I will never let it happen to me again.

So when I think I recognize a tactic that was used on me in Scientology, I really feel very justified in letting it rip.

It's just one of those things, ya know.

I'm sorry if I acted like an ass, and stunk up the place.

Emma, it is your board. If I want to continue to participate here, then you should be able to do and say whatever you want to me. I am a guest here and I should be gracious and grateful for whatever you do and say.

If I don't like it, then I should just leave.

But asking to be treated fairly, is over the top.

I have no right to act that way on your board.

Alanzo! you are OK, buddy!

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I said the rules, not her posts...

Now you're just being deliberately dense :)

I've read the rules. I said that. I also went back to see if I could find the post that you suggest violates them. Which is what I said.

Please specify *which* rule you think was broken.

Zinj
 
Now you're just being deliberately dense :)

I've read the rules. I said that. I also went back to see if I could find the post that you suggest violates them. Which is what I said.

Please specify *which* rule you think was broken.

Zinj

No - you are a naughty naughty thetan, and I will not clear your MU's for you.

Go over the rules again.
 
Thank you very much for that kind response Boldgirl, loved your post.. well I love all of your posts but I particularly enjoyed your last post with the quote from Hassain, he got it in one there. It is a dangerous game, it does make you much smaller, it does cause crazyness particularly when one has stifled emotions such as anger and frustration year in year out so I can understand completely when someone looses it when confronted with more 'tech'.

Thank you again.. Warmest Regards to you.. :thumbsup:

Oh! Wow!!!

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Good post, all as I thought.

I never heard of Thor until this fracas. Or
have I just not been up to speed enough?

Maybe post some data on who they are?
or link to posts where they did this.


Not true once again Terril Park, Thor was involved in a fracas of ours on another thread as you are very well aware, you posted another post to me 'after' I recieved the warning with Thor, so to say you have 'never heard of Thor until this fracas', is in fact not true at all.
 
This thread has, in my opinion, produced the best writing Ive seen on the board, by far. Great writing occurs when one reaches deep within so that truest emotion passes directly from the heart to the paper. So many wonderful and admirable expressions, idioms, poems from so many people.

Damn, we're good.

I agree most definately with that Nexus100, and not to mention a few 'cusses' too.. :whistling: Indeed, much deep deep emotion.. I love it! :storm: :furious: :pullhair: :hissyfit: :catfight: :console: :laugh: :angry: :D ... isn't that what it's all about?? It's a relief of magnitude to be able to express oneself freely for a change in the first place. :yes:
 
You are probably right.

This has gotten me all stirred up, big time.

I definitely have a chip on my shoulder after Scientology, for anyone who I perceive as trying to shut me up or trying to introvert me with any kind of manipulation. It doesn't matter who it is. I am always on the lookout for it, and I will never let it happen to me again.

So when I think I recognize a tactic that was used on me in Scientology, I really feel very justified in letting it rip.

It's just one of those things, ya know.

I'm sorry if I acted like an ass, and stunk up the place.

Emma, it is your board. If I want to continue to participate here, then you should be able to do and say whatever you want to me. I am a guest here and I should be gracious and grateful for whatever you do and say.

If I don't like it, then I should just leave.

But asking to be treated fairly, is over the top.

I have no right to act that way on your board.

Kudos to you for posting that.
 
Do you believe in thetans?

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Go over the rules again.

Didn't read the post properly, thought you were Zinj
. But you can read the rules again too.

In your case, you can hold them upside down in front of a mirror , and read them in the mirror.

After that, you can be three feet behind your head and watch while I eat your all your M & M's.
 
Go over the rules again.

Didn't read the post properly, thought you were Zinj
. But you can read the rules again too.

In your case, you can hold them upside down in front of a mirror , and read them in the mirror.

After that, you can be three feet behind your head and watch while I eat your all your M & M's.

No... not my M & M's... The rule is you should be able to count all the M & M's on an abacus first.

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So... Terrill may discuss and argue and provide his opinions about FZ.

But if he wants to promote FZ, he should not be using ESMB for it, because that would constitute a misuse of ESMB.

Writing Success Stories from FZ is pure promotion of FZ and that does not fit into the constitution of ESMB.

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Before Anon came along I spent a lot of time discussing Scn with FZers on ESMB. Largely it was unsatisfactory and circular in nature with occassional abuse from FZers who would descend into Hubbard-style equating such as Hubbard-criticism = Hubbard-hate, disagreement with the "tech" = bitterness.

Basically they displayed, in my opinion, the Hubbard-implant of simplistic thinking and labelling.

I saw Lionheart was mentioned at the start of the thread. I believe he became "enturbulated" (Joke! :D ) But a spirit doesn't die and re-birth is a natural phenomenon.

With the arrival of anon and the activism/protest movement, I realised that the FZers were not the correct target and arguing with them was as futile as arguing with CofS scientologists. By their own descriptions the FZers ARE scientologists, they are not ex-scientologists. So I've never entirely understood why they are posting on an Ex-scn board. There is a fundamental untruth in there.

However censorship can't be the answer, it is playing Hubbard's game to do that and part of the Hubbard de-programming, in my opinion, is to allow, tolerate, accept, let be. These are largely alien, non-scn concepts because scn is all about control, change, manipulation, force. This was Hubbard's psychosis which he laced through the subject, so we cannot be surprised when Scientologists of whatever hue display these characteristics.

When I left Scn decades ago, one of the first shocks to me was to discover that non-scns were often nicer, less judgemental people than scientologists, despite scientology's lip-service to the ideas of non-evaluation. I also noticed how foul-mouthed scientologists were, in general, compared to huge swathes of Hubbard's "Wog" population. I noticed how compulsive was their urge to change and "handle" things, compared to many non-scns' attitude.

This is the Hubbard implant at work. So we should not be surprised when we find Scientologists on here evaluate, indicate, and point out how Hubbard's psycho-babble techniques can "handle" that, etc. They are just scientologists and that is what scientologists do!

So, thanks to anon and the pickets, I focussed on the target, which is the cult, the source of the implant, and the originator of the mind-warp (LRH). In my opinion this is the correct target.

At demos, I have attempted to engage scios in conversation and had a little success, but trying to bust through their brainwashed facade is largely as pointless as trying to do the same with the FZers.

So the most effective things at demos are the simple statements "We have cake, they have lies" or the Kentucky chant "That's the chicken, that's the cult!"

Similarly on ESMB, I believe the best tactic when a FZer trots out the Hubbard babble is simply to say "that's Hubbard babble".

Let the FZers mouth their hypnotised rubbish, their twisting of "facts" into Orwellian "double-think" or "cognative dissonance" and simply identify it in reply as Hubbard cult thinking.

Protect the newbies from the FZer PR which is some sort of grotesque double-think. Such as Hubbard was a lier, Hubbard was a genius, Hubbard was flawed, but his tech isn't and all the other contradictory justifications for the cult "tech" that they are still following, while simultaneously squirrelling it - it is what Scns do, they practice double-think. It is what Hubbard hypnotised us all into doing when we were in his cult. Remember, "1984" was published the year before DMSMH and to me it seems it was probably LRH's blueprint for Scientology.

We have to remember what it was like for us when we came out, the confusion, the loss, the terror. We are obliged, in my opinion, because of our previous active participation in the Hubbard-group mind-warping, to be gentle with our newly-out victims. We have a responsibilty to them.

When they are newly out and lurking on the boards, we have to help them by pointing out FZer hubbard-babble when the FZers do their babble. I believe this is where some individuals on ESMB provide the best of service. If newly-outs take some comfort in resting for a while in the FZ Squirrelling, then so be it. I believe by simply pointing out that it is still cult-babble, most will de-progamme naturally.

This is what ESMB is best at. Helping confused exes de-programme themselves.

I do know people who are repelled from ESMB because of the amount of Hubbard cult babble still promoted on it. This is a huge shame and
a great dis-service to them in their hour of need. It is to our shame that we fail them. It is to our credit when we manage to help them.

I know long-time ESMBers who are also repelled by the quantitiy of hubbard-babble on ESMB and how it sometimes makes, even experienced people feel like quitting ESMB. I've decided this is not the solution. The solution is to post "watch out, there's a cult about" warnings when we see the Hubbardist cult creeping onto ESMB.

ESMB will never be perfect, but I do think it is pretty wonderful in this imperfect world. :thumbsup:

Well said!
 
How would you know if you have never experienced it?

I have, I was in the Church in the mid-80s and for a short time.

Cultic mentality at its very best.

Indeed, but I left because of that very fact (and the prices). I made the "mistake" of telling another pc in the org what I believed dreams were about, and my view didn't accord with what Ron said about them. Got a warning from the Ethics Officer for that.

wanna try that again? I do suppose you were trying to be ironic.

LOL.

Nope, and in fact you've just done it again. You think you can just say "Scientology is crap" and everyone's
going to agree with you without any further support or justification.

Once more, with emphasis;

Bald statements do not arguments make.

aha so Hubbard got it wrong then? Interesting. If the very basis of his "research is a crock - and you turning to "the pilot" and HIS definition of what a clear is to try and make it work shows that you obviously do think its a crock - then what is the point of it all?

What is the point? Charge off case.

Charge off case = (depending on the item being addressed); fewer somatics, more workable viewpoints, better confront and lookingness, more ARC, rehabilitated / better games. All good.

Whether or not clear or OT exist is secondary.

No clears? No Dianetics? Never happened.

Not so; although there are probably better ways of handling Dianetics case than Scn tech, Dianetics does work to some extent, especially Expanded Dn from what I've been told.

Yeah its called that because HUbbard thought it made his dreck sound like it meant something. You seem to forget that it was made up by Hubbard from a similar word from Nordenholz. You cn assign it all the meaning you wish - doesn't make it worthwhile.

OK, I'll let you have that one. I have read the article about Nordenholtz in Ivy.

Hmm - how about - cures? How about -person no longer needs the subject?

Eventually, yes, even for the best spiritual technologies you have to leave them behind when you attain their end phenomena and /or have got all you can out of them. It's like the old Buddhist saying about when you reach the other side of the river you don't carry your boat with you.

Or something like that.

And, in case you're wondering, I'm not claiming Scn is the ultimate or even the best presently available clearing / spiritual rehabilitation technology. Think of it as a research line, or Clearing Technology 1.0.

EST might be 2.0. Avatar 3.0, Idenics and Metapsychology/TIR 4.0 or whatever.

Not so much of a "cultie" am I?

How about anything other than some bogus off the cuff piece of rubbish?

Yeah, how about it?

If you've got a workable spiritual technology of your own which "cures", I'm all ears.

I'm not trying to be "heavy". I realize the fact that you, as a true believer, are not going to understand or even hear anything I say.

Who said I was a "true believer?" I'm one of the most broadminded people you could meet.

You are convinced that this crap has some meaning for you and that it is "workable" despite the obvious fact that 80% of people who try it find it to be rubbish.

Even if that is true (which I'd dispute) then I'm one of the 20%. If it was complete crap as you claim the figure would be 0%.

I think it's higher, but still.

You will explain that away to yourself just like you have explained away the fact that Hubbard's definition of Clear is total crap - and then you sieze on the ramblings of an idiot called The Pilot as somehow validating the whole thing and then claim that it all works?

If you'd ever read any of Ken (the Pilot)'s work you'll know that he doesn't claim the Tech always works.

Anyway;

No one who has studied the Pilot's writings as I have could possibly think he was an idiot, even if they disagreed with him (and although I think he was at least 90% right, I think there were some things he got wrong. Other things he's said are way beyond my case / knowingness level to be able to judge).

When you come up with something even half as workable as Pilot's Self Clearing Book, then I'll take you seriously when you call him an "idiot."

Wow with such stunning logic at your command I don't think anything like facts or data are going to come close for you.

Just as well, because you don't have any.

You have conceded that OT is rubbish and that Hubbard's clear doesn't exist. Strikes me you have pretty much written the whole thing off..

No, my answer is in the part of the post you've conveniently ignored. I repeat again;

Charge off case is good.

well I'm an SP what did you expect? LOL.

Not in your own eyes you're not. You think you're bringing the sword of truth to those of us so depraved, decerebrate and deluded that we see merit in Scn, whatever its faults.

you already took Hubbard's bait, hook line and sinker. You are so full of that I doubt that any more chum could fit.

If I was I'd still be in the CofS.

Well, that's it for now. I think I'll ignore any other posts along these lines.

Life's too damn short.
 
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I don't think so. If it were my board I'd be REALLY fed up with you right now.

You're basically a guest here, as are we all. If the hostess somewhere expresses her displeasure at some ongoing action of mine I either drop it or leave. What right do you think you have to continue to argue with her? She is not merely another poster on this board. It's her board.

Grow up.

Paul

I don't see why you are getting involved in a spat between Emma and Alanzo Dull Old Fart, however may I say that I am very glad you are not a moderator as I feel half the board would be banned by now.

You do appear to become continuously 'fed up' when someone is trying to stand up for something they believe in as I have already experienced for myself from you.

What is it that you would like Dull Old Fart, for other's to feel something is wrong and just do nothing about it anymore? Isn't that what we did when inside the mindbending camp? When one still doesn't get a proper answer to a proper question even though they've asked a thousand times you expect one ought to just 'give up'?? We 'gave up' inside, and I don't see why anyone should have to 'give up' on the outside. If one is confused as to someone elses behaviour, they have a misunderstanding or indeed a question, have they no right to have these things clarified? Or are you still of the belief that we just stay robots and do as we are told?

No one is questioning the fact that we are all guests here and that it's Emma's board, this is missing the point completely.

Are you then saying that one ought to just 'take it' and ask no questions? This sounds very familiar to me, just do as you are told... and shut up, take my opinion... and shut up, believe what I want you to believe.. and shut up, I am right and you are wrong.. so shut up.

NO Dull Old Fart, this is why some get upset, most do not want to take this again and have the very right to question something they think is untrue or unreal to them, and so they should.

You also pointed out to me that I went 'on and on' regarding my view on Terrils' behaviour towards me, the lack of understanding and the refusal to answer any questions? Had I no rights there whatsoever then? No one was asking you to read those posts, if they bothered you so much you ought to have hit the 'ignore' key!

Should I just have lay down and taken it as I had been brainwashed to do? Why should I take someone telling me lies?? NO, I will not do that anymore, you are missing the point here and are way off the mark. People now have the right to 'go on and on and on and on' if they so choose, our communications, opinions, questions, hurts, angers, fears.. all went unheard and unanswered while inside the cult, so why on earth would we now allow it on the outside?
 
Well you have to recognize this is the most hilarious of threads!

Every person who has posted is doing what they are protesting/objecting/attempting to solve.

Each is proselysing.

Each is selling.

Each is processing.

Some of these actions are of course negative - some are positive.

Let the games continue! :)

Congrats on squeezing all three into so few lines!
 
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