I don't see why you should be. I started this thread because there seemed to me to be places - dark places - people had either willfully or out of habit shied away from exploring. And when I was told by one of the Old Guard that I should not be looking there - well, I bristled. And so should everyone who wants to shine a light on all of the history of the Co$.
You've never been one of those dark places. I may not agree with you - hell I went as far as to use your robot to make sure I don't agree with you - but I'm not the only one who does, openly, on the board. You are a valuable part of the conversation, not least because people openly disagree with you.
The final chapters have not been written on either the early days of the cult. I think that Sara's journey out of Ron's clutches is of utmost interest to those now beginning to undertake that journey. I think her background with the OTO and her possible contributions to early Dianetics are of the utmost interest, not only to scholars of religion, but to those who would seek to untangle the myths of the origins of the Co$ in order to keep another cult from rising in its ashes. Anyone who seeks to hide any of that is doing many different people a grave disservice.
And I think it is important, vitally important, that the hypocrisy and abuses of those who make big bucks off of Laffy Lite be exposed. The reason I locked on Mayo among others was that I truly think that a large part of his processing at the AAC was a genuine attempt at "repairs". But the Type III thread is exposing how dangerous that was. Like many others on the boards, I have an eye on the lurkers. But it's not the run-of-the mill fleeced lurker who has reached the end of his / her patience, but is still trying to preserve a shred of dignity by believing there was more cheese in the trap than can be actually shown, who has my attention.
No.
It's the undiagnosed bipolar, the PC with major depression, the epileptic told to avoid their meds - these are the cases that haunt my imagination. And leading them to continue believe that any form of Laffy Lite is going to take the place of a medical professional (something of which I am not aware you or Terril have ever done) is going to actively harm them. Every long time protester who maintains that there is some vague good in the tech - without specifying what that may be - gives that person with the dangerous condition that much more reason to continue to delude themselves. And who knows when the next blow to their psyche - like the FZ auditor who, by repeating some form of Laffy's crap leads the suicidal gay 2nd gen teen to keep on believing he or she can be "fixed" - who knows when that is gong to kill someone. That's the lurker who haunts my imagination.
I have no desire, as ITYIWT said, to "drag Mayo's name through the mud", but any bad outcomes from the AAC have to come to light so that those lurkers I am most concerned about can see that even the most well meaning of tech fixes can be a cobblestone on the road to hell. If Mayo's as good a guy as his reputation makes him out to be, I'd like to think he'd a agree, even if it makes him complicit in some bad stuff. He was peeling the onion, then. But the docs who put leeches on George Washington killed the man too early. They meant well. They, too were peeling the onion of ignorance, but that doesn't change the fact that their incompetence killed a man. And hopefully we learn from their mistakes, because the cold, hard light of science has been shone on their actions.
And if Mayo is still running Laffy Lite, I think the board has an interest in knowing that, too. Anyone who thinks not can put the posters or the threads on ignore.
I think that what's left of Alan's network needs to be squashed like a cockroach, though.
Maybe this is a personal bugbear because I'm a non-MD in the medical field. I've had MDs check over and double check every protocol I've ever written out of fear I added or omitted something that is going to hurt someone. I find it offensive to everything I hold dear when I read
shit like this:
Bolds and colors are mine.
Hol. Lee. Shit.
He's
bragging about writing some of the Ls?
IIRC, aside from OTIII, the part of the tech where most people seem to have Type III issues is on the L's. I'd love to see Sheila's collation from that thread to see if there is evidence for that sentiment, but the sentiment has been expressed multiple times IIRC. I"ll dig through the board to see when I get a better internet connection.
Never. Fucking. Failed?!?!?!? He
never failed? God, now is he?
Jeezus. No one ever called him on this? Anywhere? (I don't think he ever posted anything that brazen here, though. He was a lot of things, but stupid wasn't one of them).
There's a lot more, just from what he posted here. His claimed complicity with financial con man Kiyosaki (leading to indirect complicity with Marshall Thurber) among others.
