Lovely message you wrote at your shear perfection blog, Lynn.
Here's something it made me think of. . . how scientology defines a "FRIEND" and how they treat a FRIEND:
THE CODE OF HONOR
L. Ron Hubbard
1. Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.
2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.
3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.
4. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.
5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy.
6. Never compromise with your own reality.
7. Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.
8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself desire it.
9. Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than your immediate life.
10. Your integrity to yourself is more important than your body.
11. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.
13. Don’t desire to be liked or admired.
14. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your own decisions.
15. Be true to your own goals.
So, there is is. Friendship, Scientology style.
Never desert your friends.
Never permit your love for them to be alloyed.
But if you are told to disconnect from them, black PR them, dead agent them, harass them, shatter them, trick them, fair game them, destroy them, frame them for crimes that send them to prison, drive them insane and into a mental institution, bankrupt them or drive them to suicide----sure why not, that's a good idea. If Scientology says to do those things to your FRIEND, it must be a "just cause", so get it done, mark your graph and write up your wins!
Have I mentioned The Hubbard Law of Commotion recently? For every policy, piece of tech or code, there is an equal and opposite policy, piece of tech or code.
ps: Oh, and how can we ignore the Code of Honor point # 14. Be your own advisor, keep your own counsel and select your own decisions. What happens if you select your decision to stay connected to your FRIEND that Scientology management just labeled SP? ANSWER: If you apply your Code of Honor, then you get declared SP and fair gamed. If you asked a Scientologist how that contradiction works, they would explain with a big grin that when Ron says that you are free to "select your own decisions", you have the write to select the decision to be declared, disconnected and destroyed.
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