I was an Ex-Scientologist
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Alanzo
Bardo Tulpa
As much as I like irony and satire and deliberate dramatization, I also recognize something: Scientology is not some hypothetical 'philosophy'; it's also a *movement*. An Organization with very likely billions of dollars worth of sluch funds and zero scruples and thousands of willing dupes to throw themselves into doing *anything* to 'advance' or 'protect' the cause.
The 'getting beyond' it that our dear shit stirrer Alanzo suggests is a *fine* thing to do with a 'philosophy'. Somewhat less real-world practical with an organized criminal conspiracy.
I was never a Scientologist, but, my life *has* been affected by Scientology. Enough so that I choose to shut them down. As well as I'm able.
That's not my 'philosophy' and, I'm not 'becoming' Scientology. It's my choice; like the choice to clean up puke from my living room floor.
To do so is *not* to become puke.
It's to improve the quality of life.
And, I think you're cute too clammy
(Alanzo somewhat less so)
Zinj
Don Quixote, I salute you.
Truly, I love a crusade as much as the next guy. Actually - probably more than the next guy.
But the 'movement' will be as powerful as Theosophy in 3 years.
I'm usually right about everything.
And this is no exception.
Well, damn...how does the wifey feel about threesomes?
She's a bigot
C'est la vie
Zinj
HCObringOrder?
Silver Meritorious Patron
Ex Ex TR-0
So the Ex Ex TR-0 is, focus your attention on that bus? :confused2:
So the Ex Ex TR-0 is, focus your attention on that bus? :confused2:
Good twin
Floater
clamicide
Gold Meritorious Patron
......is an attention-whore who tries to use his exyness to put the attention on himself, and inadvertently throws the attention back on Scientology, which in turn consumes him. Yeah...that made no sense. I think somebody needs a nap, but I gotta stay awake until the end of the ball game at least.
clamicide
Gold Meritorious Patron
She's a bigot
C'est la vie
Zinj
Alas...it was nice while it lasted.
Good twin
Floater
In my fantasy I am married to Zinj and very content tending our garden and raising goats and pigs. Then Alazno shows up and sweeps me off my feet. We run away together and ten years later I realize I am a member of a mind bending cult.
How's that?
Actually I think I was married to both of them in a past life. (at the same time)
HCObringOrder?
Silver Meritorious Patron
In my fantasy I am married to Zinj and very content tending our garden and raising goats and pigs. Then Alazno shows up and sweeps me off my feet. We run away together and ten years later I realize I am a member of a mind bending cult.
How's that?
Actually I think I was married to both of them in a past life. (at the same time)
Wanton Hussy catting around!!
Good twin
Floater
In my fantasy I am married to Zinj and very content tending our garden and raising goats and pigs. Then Alazno shows up and sweeps me off my feet. We run away together and ten years later I realize I am a member of a mind bending cult.
How's that?
Actually I think I was married to both of them in a past life. (at the same time)
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm, after they've seen the Bridge to Total Status?
Zinj
Good twin
Floater
HCObringOrder?
Silver Meritorious Patron
Are you following me, HCO?
Na, I is a good Cat! :wink2:
knn
Patron Meritorious
I remember a highky fascinating experiment they showed on BBC.
- A guy has 2 stacks of cards (showing pictures of different women).
- He takes the 2 cards from the top of the 2 stacks and shows ithem to a person
- "Which girl is prettier?"
- The person says "The left one"
- Then the card guy throws the uglier (the right one) away and now only the prettier card lies on the table: "Explain why this one is prettier"
- Now, what the person doesn't know is that the card guy secretly switched the cards and it just LOOKED AS IF the uglier was thrown off the table but in reality the prettier one was thrown off the table.
- It's already astonishing that the persons don't notice that the wrong girl card lies now on the table.
- But it gets even more astonishing when they start to GIVE REASONS why they chose that girl and not the other.
Alanzo
Bardo Tulpa
This is exactly what happens when you become a member of the Church of Scientology!
You read the Creed and all of the codes, and some of the basic books and you decide that you are a Scientologist now.
Then, when they do all this fucked up shit with the Sea Org and other shit, that never was mentioned in anything you ever read that made you into a Scientologist, you still defend your original decision, even though what you are defending has NOTHING to do with why you decided to become a Scientologist in the first place.
Good point, Knn!
Dulloldfart
Squirrel Extraordinaire
knn
Patron Meritorious
I just rewatched it: 80% don't notice the switch.
I found the name of the show and a YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vRVXpxvOMY
skip to @3.40
The whole show is about making decisions. Highly interesting is also the precognition experiment and the warm cup of coffee experiment.
Good slogan.
Dulloldfart
Squirrel Extraordinaire
OK, thanks. I could see myself flunking that first one one too. The people in the photos are similar looking, nothing much to distinguish one from the other. People I've briefly met once in life I pretty much forget, unless they stick out for some reason. If I meet a bunch of new people, like supervising a new class, I would confuse the names for a while until I knew the people individually, unless one was a very hot chick or something.
I haven't looked at the precog and coffee ones (yet).
Paul