No Politics! ESMB is about Scientology!

[F.Bullbait]

That cartoon would be funnier if the book was titled "You Cluck".

What the Cluck?

Ah, no harm no fowl.

 

[guanoloco]

What the Cluck?

Ah, no harm no fowl.

What a fuster cluck...

 

[I told you I was trouble]

What a fuster cluck...

Mutha clucker!

 

[Bill]

For me - he's a slow motion train wreck. The current US political madness is a real life soap opera replete with villains, con men, flim flam artists, obfuscation, porn stars, separated children and parents, rampant racism, a WWF bout between the Pres an the NFL, the world economy hanging on a string, yoyoing up and down at The Donald's fumbling, ineptness and warped world view, his trolling world leaders, love for despots, erasure of everything Obama, mucho fake news, his draining the swamp and refilling it with billionaire hucksters, lunatic Giuliani with his Truth isn't Truth rant - reminiscent of Hubbard's: "reality is what you agree it is" nonsense. Almost every day is a ho-hum crasher, only to end up lining the bottom of the twitter bird's cage, as the next gaffe, proclamation, juvenile name calling Tweet plasters the last over, and the attempts to reign him in only incenses him, resulting in his doubling down. At the rate he's losing "All the best people" he may end up running the country by himself.

It's a real live reality show, with the Apprentice Ringmaster running amuck. The audience is enraptured, unaware the pillars of society are wobbling back and forth, law and order and the agencies that protect them are under fire as he tries to avoid being sucked into Muller's quagmire, and its threat of eventual exposure of his witch hunt ties to Putin.

Hell, Hubbard was loony tunes but, with Marty MIA, who better to astound us then his doppelganger - Trump?

It's like that cry from the back of the concert hall "More cowbell!!!"

Mimsey

Who could have predicted that this thread "No Politics! ...", of all threads, would end up political? Who woulda thought!

 

[RogerB]

Well, what a fucking hypocrite you are. You go on about 'folks being nice and respectful' and yet, when I merely pointed out that I was unhappy at you quoting Hubbard here on esmb, you told me to go and fuck myself, something no one has done in all my years of chatting on this message board.

I wouldn't trust you further than I could spit, and hell will freeze over before I post on your theety-weety fucking thread.

Err, a dose of classic British gentlemanly charm as practiced in the outback of Oz!

 

[RogerB]

I don't want to seem pedantic Dagwood, but I was puzzled by your phrase 'no harm, no fowl' so, not having come across it before and being vaguely interested in the English language, I looked it up. Apparently there is a similar phrase, but it's 'no harm, no foul'. Just thought you might like to know for future reference.

Ahh, Stratie, Daggie was posting a phunny pun that was a play on words and spelling . . . I grew up with the phrase "No harm, no foul" . . . and to see it depicted as a bunch of birds was actually quite phunny, if corny

 

[strativarius]

Err, a dose of classic British gentlemanly charm as practiced in the outback of Oz!

Well Rog, I'm surprised to learn that those outbackers practised anything that originated with a bunch of whingeing pommie bastards!

Oh, 'cept cricket of course.

 

[RogerB]

. . .
OK, I'll inject some Scientology into the thread.

This message board and most message boards are based on the Hubbardian
concept of 2WC processing. Loosely, you question the PC: "What is your attention
on right now? "What's been bothering you recently?" "What are you looking at?"

I have to say that nowadays, politics or the culture wars are pretty big on people's
minds. All the evaluation, invalidation, forcing of wrong items, suppressing of
correct items, etc. It's just terrible out in the wild. That's what's bugging them.
What the PC says, the PC says. I can't evaluate. I can't deny.

So threads get started. Since so many of us have done auditor training, we're
OK with people bringing up whatever and going on endlessly. In many cases
with no resolution ever occurring or even possible.

How's that for bringing the conversation back to Scientology?

"Yeah, whatever."
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Back to Scn!????

 

[strativarius]

Ahh, Stratie, Daggie was posting a phunny pun that was a play on words and spelling . . . I grew up with the phrase "No harm, no foul" . . . and to see it depicted as a bunch of birds was actually quite phunny, if corny

Sorry, I'm not going there mate, it's got me into too much hot water already.

 

[tr8theta]

That cartoon would be funnier if the book was titled "You Cluck".

So if a chicken was pecking and came across a tiny gold nugget...doe that mean he would hace CLUCK gold? (Okay, okay that was CORN-y)

 

[DagwoodGum]

Ahh, Stratie, Daggie was posting a phunny pun that was a play on words and spelling . . . I grew up with the phrase "No harm, no foul" . . . and to see it depicted as a bunch of birds was actually quite phunny, if corny

I only wish I could take credit for the pun as intentional but most assuredly it was not. I have a hard time seeing the dirty letters on the key pad of my old laptop and have come to rely too much om spell check rather than taking enough time to just re-read my posts before hitting send, that and my brain seems to tell my fingers to just go ahead and push any old key they feel like when trnasfering the word in my head into the word on the screen. Purely unitentional I'm afreaid, see? I left that last bit uncorrcted so you'd see how bad it;s getting now. Quite serious!

 

[DagwoodGum]

Merriam Webster's​

I came to regard Merriam Webster's as the actual though unacknowledged bible of Scientology as it was handled and used as a reference far more than any other book!
I could understand why an author found it invaluable but I found it to be an unnecessary nuisance that kept me on course far longer than it would normally take me to make a study of flimsy course packs of less thickness than a few comic books packaged together.
Plus it was largely the same policies and bulletins we'd studied to death on earlier similar courses.
I guess it was all about making us feel like we really learned something and we did.
I see now that Hubbard wanted us to learn a mountain of new words while using them in a continuous Scientological context, thereby reinforcing those Scientological concepts in our minds as the basis & key to the understanding of those words, thereby cementing Scientology into our minds and vocabularies and was key to our programming and indoctrination.
We learned a bunch of big words that served to mask that there really wasn't much to learn in those course packs.
The real meat of Scientology was in the books that many of us had already studied and we know now the truth about the origin of those concepts.

 

[tr8theta]

By the way, I'm known as a bit of a grammar Nazi and pedant around here, so let me put you straight. First of all, sentences begin with a capital letter, so that should have been 'So what if you don't like it GFY'. Secondly, if I were you I'd have put a comma after the word what, so it would read, 'So what, if you don't like it GFY'. Finally, I really really think another comma wouldn't go amiss after the word 'it', so it would read 'So what, if you don't like it, GFY'.

Moral: If you had insulted me using better grammar and punctuation, maybe I would have had a little more respect for you.

Why thank you, old china (thought I'd use your Cockney slang)...this is the "nicest" response you've given me to date!
re: Grammar - Yes, sir! Thank you. I shall be much more careful going forward regarding my mis-use of grammar and punctuation marks and stuff.
About being a grammar Nazi and pedant. GFY! (Hey, this time it means Good For You) Feel free to correct my grammar anytime you wanna...(oops I mean want to!)

Look, we really don't know each other and I was under the impression that a person could come here - it says "Share your experiences. Re-unite with old friends" and while YOU may not agree whatsoever with my interpretation...the name of this site says' "Ex-Scientologist" not "Anti-Scientologist" and yes, while people who come here are free to express their anti sentiments...I believe that a person is also free to express their experiences, however horrible (like yours must have been, I guess) or not all that bad (like mine were). May I ask you most politely, did you meet or know or interact with LRH personally? I did. He and I had some nice moments together. That being said, it does not make ME a bad person or a person for you to dislike.

Yes, yes, yes I know...as it has been stated here on ESMB time and time again (and it will continue ad-infinitum) the man said and did deplorable things to people, witnessed by others as well...but, not every single thing he has ever said or done was wrong or evil. (How's my grammar so far?) Geez...I'm sorry if I offended you when I quoted the guy, but some of the stuff he's said is true. You don't agree and/or you just don't want to hear about it or see any of his statements quoted...that's certainly your prerogative and I'll respect that, okay? But lighten up on the attacking me or anyone else who may say something you don't care for. Perhaps that's where you are somewhat of a Nazi as well. (Oh come on man...I'm just messing with ya a little)
I know that you are a good person , but there's nicer ways to express your dislikes or disagreements...and that goes for me too. lesson duly learned. I have already admitted to my reprehensible retort against you and have apologized profusely. You say you don't "forgive or forget". By all means don't forgive me, nor forget what I said...but I think it would be a decent gesture on your part to accept my apology which I sincerely offered several times now.

 

[strativarius]

May I ask you most politely, did you meet or know or interact with LRH personally? I did. He and I had some nice moments together.

Well yes, I did interact with him actually. He stopped me in the driveway at Saint Hill one time and asked if he could suck my dick. I said 'No thanks, Mary Sue just did it half an hour ago'.

 

[I told you I was trouble]

 

[tr8theta]

Well yes, I did interact with him actually. He stopped me in the driveway at Saint Hill one time and asked if he could suck my dick. I said 'No thanks, Mary Sue just did it half an hour ago'.

If my mentality was in the sewer as yours is I'd laugh at that DISGUSTING SICK reply, but mine isn't. You and I are DONE. I retract ALL my apologies which you are not man enough to accept. You don't deserve the respect I showed you of offering them to you. I feel sorry for you...you must really be a miserable person. Of course now you'll retort with something very nasty (again)...as is your true nature. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go for it!

 

[strativarius]

If my mentality was in the sewer as yours is I'd laugh at that DISGUSTING SICK reply, but mine isn't. You and I are DONE. I retract ALL my apologies which yoy are not man enough to accept...you don't deserve the respect I showed you of offering them to you. I feel sorry for you...you must really be a miserable person. Of course now you'll retort with something very nasty ...as is your true nature. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go for it!

Oh, I forgot to add that after I turned down his request to give me a blow job I told him as a special treat I'd let him lick my asshole, so it wasn't all bad.

 

[tr8theta]

Oh, I forgot to add that after I turned down his request to give me a blow job I told him as a special treat I'd let him lick my asshole, so it wasn't all bad.

Excerpt from EMMA''s forum rules:

"These are the rules for posting on this board. Please read these before posting in any forum. They are for everyone's benefit to make the message board a safe and enjoyable place to post.
Forum Rules
1. Treat others with respect.
You are to respect every other user on the board despite any personal, religious and political differences. The following will not be tolerated:
Personal insults
Ad hominems"

You are in gross violation of these rules. Yep go ahead and accuse me as well in your next retort...except I manned up, took responsibility for and apologized to you more than once, for mine. Did you, NOPE.
By continuing your dispicable behaviour you are also disrespecting EMMA who posted the rules.
And here it comes...

 

[I told you I was trouble]

Stratski ... for goodness sake, it's spelled arsehole (not asshole).

Sigh.

 

[strativarius]

Stratski ... for goodness sake, it's spelled arsehole (not asshole).

Sigh.

Yes, I know. It's all these years hanging about with all these septics petrols. (Oops! That's torn it!)