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The beauty of ESMB is that it is not a closed group of like-minded people.
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I wholeheartedly agree.
IMO, that's not the problem. The problem is that Scientologists, regarding "homo saps" as being "at effect," see it as a benevolent act to manipulate those same "homo saps," and, with them still being "at effect," place them under Scientology's influence, in other words, place them at the effect of Scientology. The idea is that, eventually, these same "homo saps" will be brought to a higher level on the Hubbard Chart of Awareness Characteristics and, having become Scientologists and "homo novis," will no longer be at effect.
The booby prize in the mix is that, as one progresses more deeply into Scientology, one becomes even more the effect of Scientology, being taken over by Scientology-think, while seeing himself or herself as self-determined.
Thus it's hard to find people more at the effect of Scientology than "Clears" and "OTs."
In other words, the manipulation never ends.
As for using the FZ as a halfway house for encouraging others out of corporate Scientology, there's some truth to that idea.
But the person in question, T., doesn't quite do that.
Here's T's Commendation for his
"...tireless efforts in bringing the Freezone and LRH technology to anon and the world... "
http://internationalfreezone.net/awards.shtml
The objective is to bring people in to Scientology - the Scientology FZ.
Here's an example of the devious and manipulative aspect of Scientology.
Excerpt from a 28 March 2010 post by Terril Park:
"You often claim that I and others use PR.
That scientologists are not able to discern anything.
You here blatently [sic] use black PR.
You describe the creed as 'sordid insincerity', 'Phony'.
As PR cover for its 'religion angle'.
That it's a bad thing leading others 'up the Scientology Bridge'.
So you don't subscribe to human rights?
The Creed expresses many points re human rights.
We could assume here that you and human rights are distant."
Now, this seems to be a bit of an odd response, until one realizes that it's an application of Hubbard's instructions - from Ron's Journal '68 - for introverting and manipulating humanoids.
Excerpt from 'Ron's Journal 68' re. the manipulative use of the "human rights" "button":
"...And the general attack line is along the line of human rights; yes human rights...
Now I'll give you a clue on how this is handled, somebody comes up to you he's hostile - he's hostile to Scientology and he says to you and he says na na na Scientology and you say why are you against human rights and uh and if you know anything about human rights like the universal declaration of human rights, United Nations - that sort of thing you know if you know something about this subject you just follow it right straight up - in other words you don't defend Scientology, you just attack along this line of human rights, you see...
Tell him or her ...uh ...the hostile person the hostile press line uh...for instance a newspaper writes an article on how bad Scientology is - any Scientologist reading this should run right to that newspaper and demand: Why are you against human rights?...
Whereas an attack on Scientology is actually an attack on human rights - anyone making an attack on Scientology is an attack on human rights...
Each time Scientology is attacked, we build into society, if you do this, we'll build into society an actual stimulus response mechanism whereas an attack on Scientology is an attack on human rights."
Not just honest disagreement, or differing views, but dishonest manipulation.
Scientology is sneaky.