From: sol@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (chris s de voir)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: scientology-faq
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:11:09 GMT

davidb@engin.umich.edu (David Bonnell) writes:

>What is Scientology?
>ISBN 0-88404-633-8
>Bridge Publications, Inc.
>4751 Fountain Avenue
>Los Angeles, California 90029
> 

>4. How do scientifically-oriented Scientistologists deal with these
>   contradictions of Scientology?
>Answer: ??? contradictions?  If it is true it is true.  Much of modern science
>isn't that great.  

Did you mean scientifically-oriented Scientologists dealing with contradictions
between Scientology and science or contradictions within Scientology itself?
Either way, I was a scientifically oriented Scientologist and I confronted
contradictions in both categories.  One of these problems I wrote about
concerning E-Meters.  You will not, however, find my opinion in "What is
Scientology?".  In fact, you won't find any dissenting opinion published in
any Scientology publication.

>There is also a section of questions and answers in the book which
>includes questions like:

>Does Scientology hold any political views? 

Glad you brought this one up.  I was pressured to vote Republican in the
1988 election by several higher ranking Scientologists.  It was interesting
because none of these people asked me what my views were on abortion or
homosexuality.  They just assumed I was sympathetic to these causes and
would therefore vote Democrat.  LRH states that homosexuals are 1.1 on the
tone scale by definition and this is covert hostility.  I am just passing
this on to support these is a political agenda in Scn.

>Can one make up his own mind about Scientology?

If I can make up my own mind about Scientology, why can't I speak my own
mind about Scientology.  Why have I been labelled as committing a High
Crime?  Why have you said that you are going to report me to the RTC?
Besides it's in the material for the Registrar of the CoS that you don't
let a person walking into the CoS make up his own mind because his "bank"
(reactive mind) is going to keep him from "reaching" for the benefits of
Scn.

>Repeating a Lie Doesn't Make it True: 

This reminds me of LRH on tape one time saying that Hitler said, "If you
repeat a lie often enough, people will not only tell you it's true but that
they knew it all the time."  Parallel this to the LRH dictum: "Number of
times over the data equals certainty and results."  LRH also related the
strategy of Hitler telling lies mixed mostly with truth so that when you
had to tell a bigger lie people wouldn't notice it as much.

If it's true for you it's true, no matter how big a lie it is, no matter
how many times they will flunk you on a checkout and send you back to do
clay demos, high gradient TR0 Bullbait, auditing dolls, auditing staff
members who have been assigned a low ethics condition because of stats
and don't really have any overts to get off but you get sent back and they
get sent back over and over through the iterative loop to get overts that
aren't there, to audit people who really want to be doing something else
with their precious time on this earth.  The overt is forgetting what was
true for you because they keep you so busy you can't even think about how
this or that fits in with your own way of looking at things.  Until finally,
what is true for you is what they told you is true for you.  About the
101st time you read that Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, it finally
dawned on you that all along you really loved Big Hubbard and you were
grateful that in that clear moment the bullet found its way into
your brain...

Orwell, "1984", epilogue
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