a original angel
Patron
At the end of the day... IMHO the argument is ruduced down to this:
Hubbard made outrageous claims associated with Dianetics and Scientology that have never been proven to be possible and thus can be said to be outright lies, just the same as his many NOT personal achievements. Those same outrageous claims have drawn unsuspecting thousands to try it and become hooked on it in a never ending attempt to achieve those results (Have you heard Tory's and others stories concerning this?). They therefore continue along and expose themselves more and more to it, eventually leaving it (most have), and yet some others lose their minds (not simply because it was not correctly applied) because they are psychologically stuck between "can't achieve the fabulous results Hubbard claimed" and if they stop... "they'll never be spiritually free". Still others end up "Having to eat crow and admit that they've been taken, conned" which causes much silent suffering that can last a lifetime.
What's really sad about that is that out if the outrageous claims had not been held out like a carrot (bait) I (and I believe the majority) would have never gotten involved with it. Most everybody I know has some "mental baggage" but it's manageable- it's not significant enough to hinder leading a positive and effective life. So the interest in it comes from believing that the outrageous claims put forth are achievable for oneself. Thats a fiasco and fraudulently leading. Further my observations have sufficiently proven to me that the "tech" creates a dependency in it users that is hard to shake, much less even to realize that it's happened. It traps people.
No matter what advocates say or what beliefs or wins or benefits or statements of workability exist or come forth... the above reality is shared by myself and IMHO the majority of those who tried or used it.
Hi to all of you. and all of you are correct by the view point that you hold and respect.
I left Scientology 35 years or so and have not being involved with no one pro or against Scientology until a few days ago.
Before Scientology I liked mysticism after Scientology I still do.some of us fell a affinity toward it and go for it and the basic reason for that is that the inner desire to know, understand what is the inner working of our minds in the hope that if we do achieve it we will be able to be better to the degree that we know and use what we know to accomplish the above.
knowledge is the understanding which aloud one to do some thing.
most of the technology that Scientology has is a albatros because it does not deliver the ability to be, do, have. it adress the symptoms not what cause the machinery to behave like it does.( the mind) and the method to control the machinery in scientology is the erasure of the feeling of reactivity. instead of the understanding that will lead the self to have what it does not have. control of the machinery which aloud one to love and be loved or control to solve the causes of why the self is lost with in.to control what ever life or living bring to one self in a proactive way instead of reactive.
I left hoping that the OT levels will teach who ever got there this and that this was what clear and O T meant. I found that it was not.I guess that to some extent all you found that to.
there is a question that any one of you need to resolve and hopefully in a proactive manner. and this question is not for any one else but you self what do I do about my desires to improve and others to improve as well.
because if you look at what you are doing mostly is stating your position I'm right they are not and and using tour energies in that and to that degree you are off source with important desires that exist with in you self. can I gain what I need to know so that I can fix what I do not like with in my self.
I'm no guru nor I have desires to become one. I like Ron even do that he cause me much pain he did force me in to looking and finding answer which help me he is not god, nor Buddha he does belong to the category of individuals which have affected all of us and our future like it or not. learn your lessons what ever that may be for you.
I wish you all well
original angel


