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   From: greghall@home.fake   
      
   "Honest Abe"  wrote in message   
   news:i3kbiv$j0a$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > COGNITIONS OF A LIBERATED SCIENTOLOGIST   
   >   
   > In the years since leaving Scientology, I've become aware of just how   
   > brainwashed I had been. I have probed for exactly HOW an intelligent,   
   > well-educated, free-thinking agnostic could be so taken in by a   
   > "religion,"   
   > which I then did not believe it to be. In discovering this, I could only   
   > be   
   > awed by Hubbard's twisted brilliance. He knew exactly what he was doing.   
   > Had   
   > he lived in more primitive times, before the mass media (which he feared)   
   > and the information superhighway (which his successors fear), he certainly   
   > would have succeeded. Should his autocratic cult ever come to great power,   
   > he may yet become a God in most minds, as he intended. And I believe the   
   > human race would then suffer perhaps the most fascistic, mind-controlling   
   > domination in history.   
   >   
   > What gets one addicted to heroin? Long before any physical addiction,   
   > there   
   > is the rush, the high, the temporary RELEASE from all suffering -   
   > emotional   
   > or physical, conscious or not. For perhaps the first time, there is no   
   > anxiety, no fear, no pain. It's gone! Blissful peace at last! I'm FREE!   
   > And   
   > freedom tastes of reality!   
   >   
   > Nothing wrong with this, except its falsity due to the heroin, which   
   > enslaves. If some psychological "tech" and its source are corrupt, they   
   > bring the follower to this point, but then mislead and exploit. In such   
   > euphoria, and with suggestion, there may come a quasi-religious leap of   
   > faith: THIS IS IT! All my life I've searched and prayed for this! The   
   > Source   
   > of this is GOD! Anything this good MUST BE ALL GOOD! This is THE ANSWER,   
   > and   
   > worth any risk! And worth any price! It's THE WAY to TOTAL FREEDOM! Call   
   > it   
   > a drug, psychotherapy, deception - I don't care! THIS IS THE WAY!!   
   >   
   > So commanding is this belief, that it blinds to all evidence to the   
   > contrary. The rational, analytical mind, perhaps perceptibly enhanced,   
   > becomes imperceptibly stultified, blinded. The word of Source is now   
   > Gospel.   
   > Then comes the dark side of religion, intolerance and hatred:   
   > Disbelievers?   
   > Devils! Evil foes of my Source and his Church! Suppressives, enemies, fair   
   > game! This is THE WAY, and the ONLY way - I must have more, everyone must!   
   > How DARE they resist the will of Source and block the Bridge to TOTAL   
   > FREEDOM?!   
   >   
   > What will a junkie pay for more junk? Anything and everything. What will a   
   > junkie do for a fix? Anything and everything. Thus he or she is easily   
   > controlled by even the suggestion it will be denied. Then: I need money.   
   > I'll get more people hooked. My Source wants me to - he's even taught me   
   > how. I must disconnect from non-junkies - except those of value to my   
   > Source. I'll take their money - my Source and his mob get that, but it   
   > earns   
   > me my fix. I'll lie. Steal. Intimidate. Cleverly con people. It's OK; it's   
   > the greatest good for the greatest number. This is THE WAY TO TOTAL   
   > FREEDOM,   
   > and I'LL DO ANYTHING FOR IT!   
   >   
   > So thank you, L. Ron Pusher and his fanatical followers. Fortunately,   
   > self-liberated from earlier religious indoctrination, I was too smart for   
   > you - I soon sensed the danger and never got fully hooked, though you sure   
   > tried hard, with high pressure and covert manipulations, to suck me in   
   > totally and take all my money. But I did want the euphoria, the "gains,"   
   > so   
   > much that I tolerated your arrogant disrespect, paid a fortune, and put up   
   > with bad service and abusive, unscrupulous treatment. Guess you don't have   
   > to be polite once your junkies are hooked and you are the only Source   
   > around. In awakening to how I fell into your trap, I've become far more   
   > free   
   > than you wanted me to be. I am far happier for not being under your thumb.   
   > I   
   > don't need your opiate, or anyone else's. I am my own Source. Being   
   > "clear"   
   > is OK, but far less than what you claimed for it. I believe that joining   
   > your staff is volunteering for slavery, and the OT levels are little more   
   > than a sci-fi based scam. An OT I knew is in jail, as Hubbard's wife and   
   > several other Scientology officials have been. I've found SELF-DETERMINED   
   > FREEDOM far better than what you offer, for as philosopher J. W. Von Gothe   
   > said, there are none more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely   
   > believe   
   > they are free.   
   >   
   > Had Hubbard been content to ethically deliver Dianetics(tm), he would have   
   > a   
   > place in history alongside Freud and Korzybski, from whom he took most of   
   > this "tech." Tragically, his megalomania and greed led him to corrupt it,   
   > degrading it to a con game and a paranoid cult world he could play God in,   
   > using it to exploit and subjugate more than to heal and liberate. Given   
   > the   
   > mindset of the ruling Scientology elite, the only hope for reform lies in   
   > EXPOSING THEIR CRIMES AND LIES, making such practices too costly to   
   > continue. As the truth becomes known, I believe what is good in   
   > Scientology   
   > will find "total freedom" from the cult monopoly and become available and   
   > affordable to all. Until this psychological-spiritual technology is in   
   > truly   
   > ethical hands, I must warn all - DO NOT RISK INVOLVEMENT! And if already   
   > involved, LEAVE WHILE YOU STILL HAVE ENOUGH FREE WILL TO DO SO.   
   >   
   > The above material is not copyrighted. REPRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE IT AS YOU   
   > WISH, but please do not alter or abridge it.   
   >   
   > Want to know more? Read the BOOKS AND ARTICLES EXPOSING THE CHURCH OF   
   > SCIENTOLOGY listed below. The cult does not want you to read these, so   
   > they   
   > may be hard to find. They reveal and document the hypocrisy, greed,   
   > unscrupulous practices, and serious crimes of this "Church." You will   
   > learn   
   > more about their techniques of mind control and subjugation - the use of   
   > personal secrets confided in counseling for intimidation and blackmail -   
   > the   
   > exploitation of staff - abuse and slavery in their "RPF" - brutal and   
   > degrading punishments - the big ripoff of Missionholders by Hubbard's   
   > "Finance Dictator" and "Finance Police" - harassment and terror tactics   
   > against dissenters - Hubbard's tall tales, false claims and con games -   
   > imprisonment, abductions, suicides, and unexplained deaths - criminal   
   > conspiracies - and much more.   
   >   
   > L. RON HUBBARD: MESSIAH OR MADMAN? - Bent Corydon & L. Ron Hubbard Jr.   
   >   
   > THE BARE-FACED MESSIAH - Russell Miller.   
   >   
   > A PIECE OF BLUE SKY - Jon Atack.   
   >   
   > THE SCANDAL OF SCIENTOLOGY - Paulette Cooper. For writing this book, the   
   > author was harassed, terrorized, and framed by a Scientology criminal   
   > conspiracy.   
   >   
   > RELIGION, INC. - Stewart Lamont.   
   >   
   > THE MIND BENDERS - Cyril Vosper.   
   >   
   > SCIENTOLOGY: THE NOW RELIGION - George Malko.   
   >   
      
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