I realise my post is not in keeping with the tone of the thread, sorry HH, I really love your take and I will endeavour to join in in a more rapport building way later tonight but I just have to question a little itty bitty line.
And yes, our wins would have justified the abuses dammit!
Ouch! :confused2: Your own abuses or everyones?
'cause I can't see the justification for the abuses experienced by others: deaths, rapes, bankcrupcies, diversions and decades lost, aborted children, neglected children etc.
Mind you, if you achieved OT XX and it wasn't all first dynamic power we were talking about as well as clear maybe one could care about those people who paved the bridge with their bones look into their banks and as-is all their shit that caused them to experience it and make up for it? Can something as bad as "I lost my child" or "I never had a child" be "made up for"? Not for this little black duck
If Scientology actually worked the world would actually be a much saner place now, no wars, no crime, no insanity. The third dynamic bank would have gone and people would all be supporting or at least not sabotaging one another or the planet. Hmmm, worth the pain of those most extremely damaged? Can they be in on the vote?
One of my most passionate arguments against the COS is the cost to people who never even got to
try the bridge. Innocent bystanders whose lives were derailed as well as staff and SO who gave their lives so others may achieve OT. Far more in number than those who received bridge services as part of their contract.
The opportunity cost to communities is also monumentous - how many potential cancer-curers were diverted from their orginal goals, how many altruistic politicians ( OK, I know you're laughing but I have a pretty active imagination) how many musicians who would have made millions of hearts lift? How many writers, artists, great potential parents who never got a chance to raise little potential geniuses of their own who may have been the net Mozart or Da Vinci? Thank goodness Scientolgy wasn't around when DaVinci was a sparkle in his parents eye. A single human being can make enormous contribution to the civilisation but not when they are in the Scientology trap.
Phew, OK, sorry Ferral, that landslide is not meant for you directly but for the thought, 'cause I suspect there are actually Scientologists out there who, even if they knew about the abuses would feel it was an ok trade for
their freedom. And, as you can see that makes me see red!
