honeywhite
Patron
Here's the story of my experiments with Scn. My name is Ted; I'm 20 years old, and I'm a student and entrepreneur. For the entirety of my short life, I felt that Scn was bunko, bullshit, a fraud, a cult, what have you. However, a few things happened to me that changed my beliefs about Scn.
One day, I expressed my problems with learning and retaining information to a friend. I have a traumatic brain injury that has worsened my memory, and in addition to this, I have always had problems with boredom in regards to subjects which were "easy" or "tedious" in my estimation. He told me to go look up Hubbard's student hat course. I did, but was disappointed to learn that this excellent course came from the creator of Scn, an organisation I despise and a religion I find nonsensical.
For those that don't know the Scn way of learning, you get a piece of paper with textbook references and exercises written on it, which you're supposed to tick off as you go along. The "textbook" for this particular course was the complete works of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, which I proceeded to download. I printed out and stapled the pages which were relevant to the study course, and proceeded down the checksheet. I was done in a couple of days, and immediately noticed improvements.
I figured, what the hell, maybe others can get some use out of this. I taught my colleagues the same course, taking care not to mention the name of the author (one L. Ron Hubbard) or the philosophy he devised, and I noticed big wins from many people that learned. Impressed, I wrote a book based on the Hubbard Method, and am prepared to get it published.
I learned about the ARC triangle too. I found that this also helped me. In fact, looking through the HCOB's, I found so much great information, written in LRH's awesome, funny stream-of-consciousness style. I mean, if you cut out the stuff about auditing, the space opera, and all the religious stuff, you end up having a perfectly workable self-help philosophy, written in a way that even a small child would understand.
I still think the Church of Scn is a cult, especially reading all of its practices. I think that the cultism started in the late 70's, when Hubbard began to have health problems, Mi$cavige became leader ($uppre$$ive ba$tard!) and the general spirit of experimentation, self-help, and making the world better was perverted into making Mi$cavige richer.
Sure, Hubbard wasn't perfect; I think he'd acknowledge that himself. I think everyone makes mistakes. Maybe I'm wrong about auditing, ϑns, implants, whatever. But on the whole, I think he was a fine fellow. Mi$cavige, though, is 100% $uppre$$ive.
I'm a Christian. But Scientology, when done like this, isn't a religion. Even auditing isn't really a religious thing, although the CofM maintains that it is. Sure, the CofM may QUALIFY, in the eyes of the law, as a religion, but it really isn't. It's simply a field of study, a mixture of psychology and philosophy. So I can freely say, I think, that I'm a Christian, and that I'm proud to be a non-denominational Scn'ist.
I mean, there is nothing religious about how to learn. There is nothing religious about the definition of understanding. There is nothing religious about the urge to survive in eight different ways. So why does the CofM insist that this is religion?
What do you guys think? Am I helping myself with Hubbard's material? Or am I just brainwashed, as David Touretzky insists? Touretzky is so dead set against Study Tech, just because it was taken from Scn... I think he's being way too extreme.
One day, I expressed my problems with learning and retaining information to a friend. I have a traumatic brain injury that has worsened my memory, and in addition to this, I have always had problems with boredom in regards to subjects which were "easy" or "tedious" in my estimation. He told me to go look up Hubbard's student hat course. I did, but was disappointed to learn that this excellent course came from the creator of Scn, an organisation I despise and a religion I find nonsensical.
For those that don't know the Scn way of learning, you get a piece of paper with textbook references and exercises written on it, which you're supposed to tick off as you go along. The "textbook" for this particular course was the complete works of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, which I proceeded to download. I printed out and stapled the pages which were relevant to the study course, and proceeded down the checksheet. I was done in a couple of days, and immediately noticed improvements.
I figured, what the hell, maybe others can get some use out of this. I taught my colleagues the same course, taking care not to mention the name of the author (one L. Ron Hubbard) or the philosophy he devised, and I noticed big wins from many people that learned. Impressed, I wrote a book based on the Hubbard Method, and am prepared to get it published.
I learned about the ARC triangle too. I found that this also helped me. In fact, looking through the HCOB's, I found so much great information, written in LRH's awesome, funny stream-of-consciousness style. I mean, if you cut out the stuff about auditing, the space opera, and all the religious stuff, you end up having a perfectly workable self-help philosophy, written in a way that even a small child would understand.
I still think the Church of Scn is a cult, especially reading all of its practices. I think that the cultism started in the late 70's, when Hubbard began to have health problems, Mi$cavige became leader ($uppre$$ive ba$tard!) and the general spirit of experimentation, self-help, and making the world better was perverted into making Mi$cavige richer.
Sure, Hubbard wasn't perfect; I think he'd acknowledge that himself. I think everyone makes mistakes. Maybe I'm wrong about auditing, ϑns, implants, whatever. But on the whole, I think he was a fine fellow. Mi$cavige, though, is 100% $uppre$$ive.
I'm a Christian. But Scientology, when done like this, isn't a religion. Even auditing isn't really a religious thing, although the CofM maintains that it is. Sure, the CofM may QUALIFY, in the eyes of the law, as a religion, but it really isn't. It's simply a field of study, a mixture of psychology and philosophy. So I can freely say, I think, that I'm a Christian, and that I'm proud to be a non-denominational Scn'ist.
I mean, there is nothing religious about how to learn. There is nothing religious about the definition of understanding. There is nothing religious about the urge to survive in eight different ways. So why does the CofM insist that this is religion?
What do you guys think? Am I helping myself with Hubbard's material? Or am I just brainwashed, as David Touretzky insists? Touretzky is so dead set against Study Tech, just because it was taken from Scn... I think he's being way too extreme.