Good Things I Learned in Scientology:
How to fix wood
How to remove carpet stains
Generally anything about relatively ecofriendly cleaning I learned on Staff
How to fix locks and keys
How to cook off of leftovers
How to combine colours together
How to use graphics design software
How to be nice to people when asking questions
(for survey and auditing - though the latter isn't important to me anymore the former is useful in my field)
How to ask people for money and favours (also useful in my current field)
How to organize on the fly
I think that's it (or at least the things that don't identify me to CoS lurkers)...
Bad Things I Learned in Scientology:
The idea that anyone is a spirit or can live forever - I believed it before Scientology but it was Scientology that made such a idiotic posit stick for so long!
It seems to me all religions are some level of bullshit, some more harmful than others. However I'm all for freedom to pick your poison.
The modern medical sciences lets us live more than long enough, maybe Transhumanism will happen and some might pay to live forever if/when that happens. While I'd pay for some "extension" and the ability to leave on my own terms - I don't think I want to live forever, at least not
through myself. I'd like to live forever
through others (children, works of art/science, etc.) so that's what I aim for. I've learned to be comfortable with the idea of death has made it so that I'm finally willing to try and experience things and to
really live!
Depends on what one experienced. I'm very sure there are a lot of people who would disagree with you and who would have valid reasons for so doing.
Your statement also implies that there would have been no other way for the person to believe in his or her spiritual nature, were it not for Scn. That is a fallacy.
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