This is not bullshit. This is not somebody trying to impress by claiming more than he knows. This is just plain madness. It is insanity. It is just plain lunatic rubbish.
When a Scientologist hears that they should have the sense to leave. If they don't have the sense to leave then they are stupid people ripe for being exploited and bullied.
No, I would say, and I mean this sincerely, not that they are stupid people, but that they have CAUGHT the implanted group madness, the group delusion commonly agreed upon, by practicing Scientology. The Cult was designed to catch people using interesting stories, like the story of you having a reactive mind that is like a mechanical recording device, and that you can go back and erase the effect that incidents (real and imagined) have on you, and by doing so improve your life.
In general, in life, I don't like a blame the victims mindset. I say, blame the perpetrators. The problem with Scientology is that, due to the push to get everyone to disseminate, and get further and further involved with doing the Cult's business for them...often the "victims" become the perpetrators of the con. Not black and white, with clear-cut boundaries...fuzzy boundaries. What a big huge grey area!
For those of you (hello lurkers!

) who are still in the process of waking up from these fantastic stories that Ron spun so profitably, just disagree with it. Disagree with any part of it that does not seem right or true to you. Keep disagreeing with more and more aspects of it, as they seem questionable or unreal to you. That's the way to get mentally free of it.

It's a process and it takes time and patience with yourself. But you can do it!

Many others have freed themselves from Cult indoctrination and you can too!
I love this thread!

You have no idea how much real world good is being done here, by discussing this!
Yes, Scientologists lie. They train in how to be able to tell lies easily and effortlessly. Why would any good, effective religion or self-improvement process really need to train it's members to lie? Just considering that will help to loosen it's grip on your thinking a little bit more...if you are still "in" and wondering what's wrong. And it helps make the rest of us want to look behind the curtain...to see what's really going on within Scientology.
If some of you are still wrestling with WTF about all this space opera stuff... this is not a bad way to frame it for yourself in recovery...Ron the writer spun a very fantastic tale, and made a fun and detailed game out of it, one that even had a role for me to play in not only improving myself but also in "saving" the planet and billions of trapped souls!

And it was such a fun game and seemed so promising that I bought into it for a time. But now I see that it was just a story that he made up. Parts of it worked for me and made me feel good, and parts of it didn't and made me feel bad...but it wasn't really real. It was just a story that I got caught up with and followed along for a while. But it's not real and it doesn't have to have a hold on me any longer.
This is a transitional viewpoint which may help some people to move on, and to move forward in their thinking.
You can say to yourself that I can accept now that it wasn't reality, it was just a very involved and interesting story that I bought into for awhile, but I'd like to stop now.
I'm going to stop now.
That's it!
