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Scientology, the test case religion, by Renae L. Barker
Scientology, the test case religion, by Renae L. Barker
Alternative Law Journal: Scientology, the test case religion
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Scientology, the test case religion
Renae Barker
Religion can be a very difficult word to define. When it becomes necessary to define religion for legal purposes controversy is bound to arise. This article examines the legal definition of religion in both Australia and the United Kingdom. It notes that the Church of Scientology has become the ‘test case’ in both jurisdictions and explores three reasons why Scientology has filled this role: its newness, it litigious nature and adverse State action against Scientology.
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Scientology, the test case religion, by Renae L. Barker
Alternative Law Journal: Scientology, the test case religion
http://ift.tt/1Jn1cSw
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Scientology, the test case religion
Renae Barker
Religion can be a very difficult word to define. When it becomes necessary to define religion for legal purposes controversy is bound to arise. This article examines the legal definition of religion in both Australia and the United Kingdom. It notes that the Church of Scientology has become the ‘test case’ in both jurisdictions and explores three reasons why Scientology has filled this role: its newness, it litigious nature and adverse State action against Scientology.
Price: $9.90
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Renae L. Barker's Twitter Bio
https://twitter.com/RenaeLBarker/with_replies
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Dr Renae Barker
@RenaeLBarker
Lecturer in Law and Religion at The University of Western Australia
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Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind - Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 1 Cognitive Dissonance
In many posts in the year and a half since I left the Scientology cult after twenty five years in I have explored in entries at this blog- hypnosis (Insidious Enslavement: Study Technology, Basic Introduction to Hypnosis in Scientology, The Secret of Scientology part 1 Control via Contradiction, Burning Down Hell - How commands are hidden , varied and repeated in Scientology to control you as hypnotic implants), the language Hubbard used to influence Scientologists (Propaganda by Reversal of Meaning in Scientology) and Hubbard's twisted mind as the foundation of Scientology even down to the current ideal org program
(Scientology's parallel in nature - malignant narcissism).
In exploring the subject of social psychology I read the books True Believer by Eric Hoffer, Social Psychology for Dummies, Age of Propaganda (Pulling Back The Curtain part 1-7), and Robert Cialdini's Influence.
But I knew eventually I would have to read certain books to seriously research aspects of Scientology. A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger is one of those books. In social psychology you can't run with the big dogs without reading this book.
In social psychology the idea of cognitive dissonance is perhaps the most researched and influential idea in the entire field. It might honestly be a hypothesis that needs greater scientific research, but is well worth examining in my opinion.
So now I am reading that book and writing this very post and series of posts on that. I will quote from the book and try to interpret my experience through that information to see if it makes the Scientology experience more understandable.
I will start with some quotes from chapter one An Introduction to the Theory of Dissonance.
First I will replace the word"inconsistency" with a term which has less of a logical connotation, namely, dissonance. I will likewise replace the word "consistency" with a more neutral term, namely, consonance. (Page 2)
The basic hypothesis I wish to state are as follows:
1. The existence of dissonance, being psychologically uncomfortable, will motivate the person to try to reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance.
2. When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will likely avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. (Page 3)
Festinger here explained that he considered inconsistencies ( dissonance ) in beliefs, behaviors or knowledge within a person to be a motivating factor in its own right.
He uses the term cognition to mean any knowledge, opinion, or belief about the environment, about oneself or one's behavior. The fact that Hubbard used the term is interesting and worth comparing to see if he stole it from Festinger or psychology in my opinion.
Festinger goes on to describe dissonance as being caused by experiencing new events or gaining new information that creates a particular phenomena.
He describes "dissonance" and "consonance" as being relations between pairs of "elements". His use of elements means just pieces of information or knowledge. He describes elements as irrelevant to each other if they don't affect each other. Like if you like ice cream and think Scooby Doo is cool. Neither supports or contradicts the other.
Now based on other ideas two ideas can be or become relevant. If you had the two irrelevant ideas I just listed and then discovered Scooby Doo fans aren't supposed to like ice cream, that could become a dissonance.
Relevant elements can support or contradict each other. If they are inconsistent or contradictory, or culture or group standards dictate they don't fit then dissonance occurs.
This is particularly relevant considering Scientology's value that Hubbard is both always to be taken literally and he is considered to be always correct. Any disagreement with that, no matter how slight, is seen as wrong, always wrapped in Scientology.
There is a quote that is very notable for its striking similarity to Hubbard's own choice of words.
The reality which impinges on a person will exert pressures in the direction of bringing the appropriate cognitive elements into correspondence with that reality. (Page 11)
Hubbard used "impinge" and "reality" in his methods and may have borrowed ideas from this book in forming his own regarding ARC.
Hubbard may have plagiarized ideas from this very book or earlier studies or papers on cognitive dissonance and altered them significantly to fit his intentions. The terms and some ideas are so similar it seems like it cannot be a coincidence. I now think he discouraged people going to psychs not because they were competition but instead because he plagiarized and warped their ideas. He didn't want his con exposed.
I am going to use a series of excerpts to show how dissonance can be created.
1. Dissonance could arise from logical inconsistency...because of cultural mores...because one specific opinion is sometimes included, by definition, in a more general opinion...because of past experience. (Page 14)
All these ideas bear extensive examination in Scientology.
Obviously in Hubbard's doctrine logical inconsistency occurs, he defined terms at different times with contradictory definitions and contradicted his own methods numerous times. His cultural mores strongly contradict mainstream society quite often, particularly for staff and Sea Org members. Certainly the GO and OSA criminal wings qualify.
He included opinions in other statements constantly. He used phrases repetitively which within them have his terms. Those terms contain and link numerous ideas which can contradict mainstream beliefs and accepted science. They also contradict observable evidence quite often.
This particular reoccurring phenomena leads to increasing separation from mainstream beliefs. He intentionally did this to combine the habit of thinking in his ideas via the terms without critical examination and to by repetition have this thinking become conditioned to be habitual and routine. Then through his phrases only agreeing with his statements is left to his victims, with the simulation of free will and choice being provided by having many of his doctrine to "choose" from. But no matter which a victim chooses all demand obedience to Hubbard's unquestionable authority.
And past experience comes up as experiences from outside the cult environment often contradict the cult ideology while direct observations contradict cult doctrine. Opportunities abound for dissonance.
But quite relevant is another idea:
Remember also that two cognitive elements may be dissonant for a person living in one culture and not for a person living in another, or for a person with one set of experiences and not for a person with another. (Page 15)
That in plain English means two ideas, behaviors, opinions or beliefs can be in contradiction for a person in one group or having a set of life experiences but not for a different person.
That is crucial to examining Scientology. In Scientology a relationship with Hubbard wherein his authority and wisdom is seen as far superior to all other ideas is a core belief. It is quite similar to the mindset of a young child who unconditionally trusts their parents and knows that even if they don't understand what their parents reasons are for doing or asking for something, the important thing is to obey. Certainly the image of a confused little child endlessly asking "why" and being pleaded with to just listen comes to mind. The child is encouraged to brush aside confusion and dissonance and just obey authority. That is exactly the state of mind Hubbard desired.
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind - Cognitive Dissonance Theory
In many posts in the year and a half since I left the Scientology cult after twenty five years in I have explored in entries at this blog- hypnosis (Insidious Enslavement: Study Technology, Basic Introduction to Hypnosis in Scientology, The Secret of Scientology part 1 Control via Contradiction, Burning Down Hell - How commands are hidden , varied and repeated in Scientology to control you as hypnotic implants), the language Hubbard used to influence Scientologists (Propaganda by Reversal of Meaning in Scientology) and Hubbard's twisted mind as the foundation of Scientology even down to the current ideal org program
(Scientology's parallel in nature - malignant narcissism).
In exploring the subject of social psychology I read the books True Believer by Eric Hoffer, Social Psychology for Dummies, Age of Propaganda (Pulling Back The Curtain part 1-7), and Robert Cialdini's Influence.
But I knew eventually I would have to read certain books to seriously research aspects of Scientology. A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger is one of those books. In social psychology you can't run with the big dogs without reading this book.
In social psychology the idea of cognitive dissonance is perhaps the most researched and influential idea in the entire field. It might honestly be a hypothesis that needs greater scientific research, but is well worth examining in my opinion.
So now I am reading that book and writing this very post and series of posts on that. I will quote from the book and try to interpret my experience through that information to see if it makes the Scientology experience more understandable.
I will start with some quotes from chapter one An Introduction to the Theory of Dissonance.
Quote:
First I will replace the word"inconsistency" with a term which has less of a logical connotation, namely, dissonance. I will likewise replace the word "consistency" with a more neutral term, namely, consonance. (Page 2)
The basic hypothesis I wish to state are as follows:
1. The existence of dissonance, being psychologically uncomfortable, will motivate the person to try to reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance.
2. When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will likely avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. (Page 3)
He uses the term cognition to mean any knowledge, opinion, or belief about the environment, about oneself or one's behavior. The fact that Hubbard used the term is interesting and worth comparing to see if he stole it from Festinger or psychology in my opinion.
Festinger goes on to describe dissonance as being caused by experiencing new events or gaining new information that creates a particular phenomena.
He describes "dissonance" and "consonance" as being relations between pairs of "elements". His use of elements means just pieces of information or knowledge. He describes elements as irrelevant to each other if they don't affect each other. Like if you like ice cream and think Scooby Doo is cool. Neither supports or contradicts the other.
Now based on other ideas two ideas can be or become relevant. If you had the two irrelevant ideas I just listed and then discovered Scooby Doo fans aren't supposed to like ice cream, that could become a dissonance.
Relevant elements can support or contradict each other. If they are inconsistent or contradictory, or culture or group standards dictate they don't fit then dissonance occurs.
This is particularly relevant considering Scientology's value that Hubbard is both always to be taken literally and he is considered to be always correct. Any disagreement with that, no matter how slight, is seen as wrong, always wrapped in Scientology.
There is a quote that is very notable for its striking similarity to Hubbard's own choice of words.
Quote:
The reality which impinges on a person will exert pressures in the direction of bringing the appropriate cognitive elements into correspondence with that reality. (Page 11)
Hubbard may have plagiarized ideas from this very book or earlier studies or papers on cognitive dissonance and altered them significantly to fit his intentions. The terms and some ideas are so similar it seems like it cannot be a coincidence. I now think he discouraged people going to psychs not because they were competition but instead because he plagiarized and warped their ideas. He didn't want his con exposed.
I am going to use a series of excerpts to show how dissonance can be created.
Quote:
1. Dissonance could arise from logical inconsistency...because of cultural mores...because one specific opinion is sometimes included, by definition, in a more general opinion...because of past experience. (Page 14)
Obviously in Hubbard's doctrine logical inconsistency occurs, he defined terms at different times with contradictory definitions and contradicted his own methods numerous times. His cultural mores strongly contradict mainstream society quite often, particularly for staff and Sea Org members. Certainly the GO and OSA criminal wings qualify.
He included opinions in other statements constantly. He used phrases repetitively which within them have his terms. Those terms contain and link numerous ideas which can contradict mainstream beliefs and accepted science. They also contradict observable evidence quite often.
This particular reoccurring phenomena leads to increasing separation from mainstream beliefs. He intentionally did this to combine the habit of thinking in his ideas via the terms without critical examination and to by repetition have this thinking become conditioned to be habitual and routine. Then through his phrases only agreeing with his statements is left to his victims, with the simulation of free will and choice being provided by having many of his doctrine to "choose" from. But no matter which a victim chooses all demand obedience to Hubbard's unquestionable authority.
And past experience comes up as experiences from outside the cult environment often contradict the cult ideology while direct observations contradict cult doctrine. Opportunities abound for dissonance.
But quite relevant is another idea:
Quote:
Remember also that two cognitive elements may be dissonant for a person living in one culture and not for a person living in another, or for a person with one set of experiences and not for a person with another. (Page 15)
That is crucial to examining Scientology. In Scientology a relationship with Hubbard wherein his authority and wisdom is seen as far superior to all other ideas is a core belief. It is quite similar to the mindset of a young child who unconditionally trusts their parents and knows that even if they don't understand what their parents reasons are for doing or asking for something, the important thing is to obey. Certainly the image of a confused little child endlessly asking "why" and being pleaded with to just listen comes to mind. The child is encouraged to brush aside confusion and dissonance and just obey authority. That is exactly the state of mind Hubbard desired.
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology Part 1
To understand the excuses Hubbard laid out for the tragi-comic policies he issued you need to, in my opinion, understand some basic Scientology doctrine. In the Way To Happiness Hubbard said not to tell HARMFUL lies, just as he in policy encouraged acceptable truths.
“Do not tell harmful lies.”
Ron Hubbard, The Way to Happiness”
"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY
issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
“Purpose: To train the student to give a false statement with good TR-1. To train the student to outflow false data effectively. … The student should be coached on a gradient until he/she can lie facilely.”
Ron Hubbard, Intelligence Specialist Training Routine—Lying (TR-L)
“Handling truth is a touchy business also. You don’t have to tell everything you know — that would jam the comm line too. Tell an acceptable truth. … So PR becomes the technique of communicating an acceptable truth — and which will attain the desirable result.”
Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 13 August 1970 Issue II PR Series 2, in the Volunteer Minister’s Handbook
“Purpose: To train a PRO to give a ‘no answer’ to questions he has no wish to answer directly. …The trick is to appear to answer the question by giving generalized statements in simple terms so that the reporter doesn’t realize his question hasn’t been answered. … “Purpose: To train a PRO to be able to establish Ethics presence over an SP reporter if the occasion arises, by such things as shouting, banging, pointing, swearing. To do this completely causatively until the poor reporter is ‘caved in’. … “Purpose: To train the PRO to handle an SP reporter by word alone without the use of force as in (a). He uses the word as a rapier and plunges it at the reporter, so that the reporter introverts and drops the question.”
Ron Hubbard, HCOB 10 December 1969,Training Routines”
“Now you say you have to be absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don’t lie to anybody …and you’ll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You’ll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It’s a trap not being able to prevaricate … This makes life more colorful!”
Ron Hubbard, Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture “How to Talk to friends about Scientology.”
The key to focus in on is HARMFUL in the above quote. Who can be harmed without penalty in Scientology ? Who has no rights whatsoever and is to be destroyed ?
Hubbard goes on to say
"Do not murder"
but he exactly defines murder.
"There is a considerable difference between these two words “kill” and “murder.” A prohibition against all killing would rule out self-defense; it would tend to make it illegal to handle a serpent coiling to strike the baby; it would put a race on a diet of vegetables. I am sure you can see many illustrations of the difficulties raised by a prohibition against all killing.“Murder” is another thing entirely. By definition it means, “The unlawful killing of one (or more) human being by another, especially with malice aforethought.”
Ron Hubbard WTH
He specifically ONLY discourages illegal killing.
He goes on to say
"Do not harm a person of good will".
What decides good will ? Who qualifies and how should you treat people who are not of good will ?
"The violent criminal, the propagandist, the sensation-seeking media all tend to distract one’s attention from the solid, everyday fact that the society would not run at all were it not for the individuals of good will."
Ron Hubbard WTH
So, he decided the media are not of good will, the "propagandist" . Let's look closer at that. ANYONE with ANY message is technically a propagandist. It does not ONLY mean liars and manipulative evil people . That is a modern slant on it but a Democrat may see a Republican as a propagandist and vice versa and a dissident may see BOTH Republicans and Democrats as propagandists within a corrupt system of institutional evil, propping it up. Who's right ? Well, they ALL are - the others ALL try to persuade people , honestly or not, so propagandist can be applied to ANYONE who communicates at all ever.
So, what decides who is of good will or not ? What lies are harmful ? And ultimately what is legal ? Hubbard answered it all - HIM.
Regarding obeying the law
"Somebody some day will say ‘this is illegal.’ By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not."
. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, "LRH Relationship to Orgs"
Regarding determining who should be considered a person of good will that deserves rights and to not have killing them classified as murder
"Show me any person who is critical of us and I’ll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate’s hair on end."
Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 4 April 1965
So ANYONE who is critical is labeled a criminal and low tone , meaning a suppressive person below 2.0 on his tone scale. How merciful is Hubbard toward people that try Scientology but just don't conform or fit in ?
"When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe - never permit an ‘open-minded’ approach... If they enrolled, they’re aboard, and if they’re aboard they’re here on the same terms as the rest of us -win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half minded about being Scientologists... When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare… The proper instruction attitude is, ‘We'd rather have you dead than incapable.’"
Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING, 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
"ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
[SP = Suppressive Person a.k.a.critic of Scientology]
"The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP."
Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 21 October 1968, "Cancellation of Fair Game"
"A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable."
Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 1 March 1965, HCO (Division 1)
"Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and
Scientologists"
"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OFSURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology’s measure of mental and spiritual health.]
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered."
Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."
Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 171
"Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."
Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 159
So, within Hubbard's framework Scientology should decide what is legal, Scientology can remove quietly and without sorrow anyone that criticizes it , or Hubbard. Scientology can lie at anytime to control people and his enemies have no rights whatsoever. So, of course as they have no rights and asking for a refund is seen as suppressive, they have no rights to receive any refund . But it is fair in Scientology to deny rights to and lie to a person with no rights ! Simple really.
And remember what he said regarding Scientology's religious status.
"Scientology...is not a religion."
Ron Hubbard, CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, 1954, p. 251
And remember the face he at first shows Scientologists, in the beginning.
"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING. 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
"Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you."
Ron Hubbard, "Dianetic Contract" 23 May 1969
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology
To understand the excuses Hubbard laid out for the tragi-comic policies he issued you need to, in my opinion, understand some basic Scientology doctrine. In the Way To Happiness Hubbard said not to tell HARMFUL lies, just as he in policy encouraged acceptable truths.
Quote:
“Do not tell harmful lies.”
Quote:
"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
Quote:
“Purpose: To train the student to give a false statement with good TR-1. To train the student to outflow false data effectively. … The student should be coached on a gradient until he/she can lie facilely.”
Quote:
“Handling truth is a touchy business also. You don’t have to tell everything you know — that would jam the comm line too. Tell an acceptable truth. … So PR becomes the technique of communicating an acceptable truth — and which will attain the desirable result.”
Quote:
“Purpose: To train a PRO to give a ‘no answer’ to questions he has no wish to answer directly. …The trick is to appear to answer the question by giving generalized statements in simple terms so that the reporter doesn’t realize his question hasn’t been answered. … “Purpose: To train a PRO to be able to establish Ethics presence over an SP reporter if the occasion arises, by such things as shouting, banging, pointing, swearing. To do this completely causatively until the poor reporter is ‘caved in’. … “Purpose: To train the PRO to handle an SP reporter by word alone without the use of force as in (a). He uses the word as a rapier and plunges it at the reporter, so that the reporter introverts and drops the question.”
Quote:
“Now you say you have to be absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don’t lie to anybody …and you’ll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You’ll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It’s a trap not being able to prevaricate … This makes life more colorful!”
The key to focus in on is HARMFUL in the above quote. Who can be harmed without penalty in Scientology ? Who has no rights whatsoever and is to be destroyed ?
Hubbard goes on to say
Quote:
"Do not murder"
Quote:
"There is a considerable difference between these two words “kill” and “murder.” A prohibition against all killing would rule out self-defense; it would tend to make it illegal to handle a serpent coiling to strike the baby; it would put a race on a diet of vegetables. I am sure you can see many illustrations of the difficulties raised by a prohibition against all killing.“Murder” is another thing entirely. By definition it means, “The unlawful killing of one (or more) human being by another, especially with malice aforethought.”
He specifically ONLY discourages illegal killing.
He goes on to say
Quote:
"Do not harm a person of good will".
Quote:
"The violent criminal, the propagandist, the sensation-seeking media all tend to distract one’s attention from the solid, everyday fact that the society would not run at all were it not for the individuals of good will."
So, he decided the media are not of good will, the "propagandist" . Let's look closer at that. ANYONE with ANY message is technically a propagandist. It does not ONLY mean liars and manipulative evil people . That is a modern slant on it but a Democrat may see a Republican as a propagandist and vice versa and a dissident may see BOTH Republicans and Democrats as propagandists within a corrupt system of institutional evil, propping it up. Who's right ? Well, they ALL are - the others ALL try to persuade people , honestly or not, so propagandist can be applied to ANYONE who communicates at all ever.
So, what decides who is of good will or not ? What lies are harmful ? And ultimately what is legal ? Hubbard answered it all - HIM.
Regarding obeying the law
Quote:
"Somebody some day will say ‘this is illegal.’ By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not."
Regarding determining who should be considered a person of good will that deserves rights and to not have killing them classified as murder
Quote:
"Show me any person who is critical of us and I’ll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate’s hair on end."
So ANYONE who is critical is labeled a criminal and low tone , meaning a suppressive person below 2.0 on his tone scale. How merciful is Hubbard toward people that try Scientology but just don't conform or fit in ?
Quote:
"When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe - never permit an ‘open-minded’ approach... If they enrolled, they’re aboard, and if they’re aboard they’re here on the same terms as the rest of us -win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half minded about being Scientologists... When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare… The proper instruction attitude is, ‘We'd rather have you dead than incapable.’"
Quote:
"ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
[SP = Suppressive Person a.k.a.critic of Scientology]
Quote:
"The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP."
Quote:
"A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable."
"Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and
Scientologists"
Quote:
"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
Quote:
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
Quote:
"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered."
Quote:
"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."
Quote:
"Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."
So, within Hubbard's framework Scientology should decide what is legal, Scientology can remove quietly and without sorrow anyone that criticizes it , or Hubbard. Scientology can lie at anytime to control people and his enemies have no rights whatsoever. So, of course as they have no rights and asking for a refund is seen as suppressive, they have no rights to receive any refund . But it is fair in Scientology to deny rights to and lie to a person with no rights ! Simple really.
And remember what he said regarding Scientology's religious status.
Quote:
"Scientology...is not a religion."
And remember the face he at first shows Scientologists, in the beginning.
Quote:
"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
Quote:
"Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you."
NOTICE OF VIOLATION against Scientology for discharging excess cyanide down the sewer
NOTICE OF VIOLATION against Scientology for discharging excess cyanide down the sewer.
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION: In accordance with the requirements of
Rule 62-625.500 (2)(b) 8, Florida Administrative Code, notice is hereby given that Church of Scientology, Central Laundry at 2000 Calumet St., Clearwater, FL 33765 was in Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) of Section 32.219 of the Clearwater Code for Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violation in their sanitary sewer wastewater discharge for Total Cyanide during the period of 10/1/2014 3/31/2015, in which TRC was exceeded in 1 of 3 samples (33% of all the measurements).
Any questions relating to this notice should be directed to the City of Clearwater, Public Utilities Department, Water Pollution Control Division (727) 462-6660 ext. 227.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF VIOLATION: In accordance with the requirements of
Rule 62-625.500 (2)(b) 8, Florida Administrative Code, notice is hereby given that Church of Scientology, Central Laundry at 2000 Calumet St., Clearwater, FL 33765 was in Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) of Section 32.219 of the Clearwater Code for Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violation in their sanitary sewer wastewater discharge for Total Cyanide during the period of 10/1/2014 3/31/2015, in which TRC was exceeded in 1 of 3 samples (33% of all the measurements).
Any questions relating to this notice should be directed to the City of Clearwater, Public Utilities Department, Water Pollution Control Division (727) 462-6660 ext. 227.
12/20/15 234536
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HT - Jeff Jacobsen on WWP: http://ift.tt/1QAdFdy
Christmas and Disconnection
Many of us face hard times at Christmas due to the disconnection or loss of family or friends. You can't help but be reminded of how things used to be, should be, could be if it weren't for (insert reason). For ex scientologists it is particularly due to disconnection, that brutal ripping apart and destruction of families that leaves devastation in it's wake.
All we did was speak our truth, walk the talk with our integrity, so the loss seems so very unfair.
It is unfair, it is evil, yet sometimes we may need reminding that standing tall and walking away was the right thing to do. I think gratitude for the lives we now live, for the freedom of speech and thought is also something to be treasured and helps a little in maintaining balance.
For me the hardest thing is the alienation of extended family, those who have been cleverly manipulated by the scientology influence and who don't even know it. It's easy enough for a scientologist to do - love bomb relatives while waging a whispering campaign. Find a relative's "button" and push it for all it's worth, lie and point it in my direction, until it's just easier for the relative to take the easy path and go along with the flow. In my family there has been an intense and prolonged campaign that has lasted over 8 years to do this. And it has been successful regarding disconnection of most relatives.
But you know what? I have come to appreciate so much the few who have stood beside me, who are aware enough to understand what integrity means, what 'family' means even if we didn't have an upbringing that taught us that. We have a small core family ourselves and we care and support each other. I forgive those who don't question what they are told and who take that easy path. I grieve for the loss of contact with three of my children and most siblings and their families, the sad scientology influenced death of my parents, and deal with it when that grief arises. And I am so, so grateful for those who have come into my life as substitute family and given me love and support. There are indeed angels out there.
This is a good article to read if the grief is hard ....
http://ift.tt/1IiwwHl
Merry Christmas to all and I wish you love and happiness. Be kind to yourself.
Christmas and Disconnection
All we did was speak our truth, walk the talk with our integrity, so the loss seems so very unfair.
It is unfair, it is evil, yet sometimes we may need reminding that standing tall and walking away was the right thing to do. I think gratitude for the lives we now live, for the freedom of speech and thought is also something to be treasured and helps a little in maintaining balance.
For me the hardest thing is the alienation of extended family, those who have been cleverly manipulated by the scientology influence and who don't even know it. It's easy enough for a scientologist to do - love bomb relatives while waging a whispering campaign. Find a relative's "button" and push it for all it's worth, lie and point it in my direction, until it's just easier for the relative to take the easy path and go along with the flow. In my family there has been an intense and prolonged campaign that has lasted over 8 years to do this. And it has been successful regarding disconnection of most relatives.
But you know what? I have come to appreciate so much the few who have stood beside me, who are aware enough to understand what integrity means, what 'family' means even if we didn't have an upbringing that taught us that. We have a small core family ourselves and we care and support each other. I forgive those who don't question what they are told and who take that easy path. I grieve for the loss of contact with three of my children and most siblings and their families, the sad scientology influenced death of my parents, and deal with it when that grief arises. And I am so, so grateful for those who have come into my life as substitute family and given me love and support. There are indeed angels out there.
This is a good article to read if the grief is hard ....
http://ift.tt/1IiwwHl
Merry Christmas to all and I wish you love and happiness. Be kind to yourself.
Open letter to Leah Remini
Leah - I want to say I really enjoyed your book - I finished it this morning. I waffle between whether Tom Cruise is Miscavage's tool or he is worshiped by him. There is some sort of bromance going on. I guess in the classic Scientology meaning of the word, Tom is not a suppressive, in that he's promoting the subject, (or was) but the how he does that - mano a mano with Matt Lauer, publically belittling Brooke Shields, Dancing with Couches or his nasty treatment of Naz, I can see your point he is harming Scientology's image, rather than helping it.
Perhaps that's because of all of the love bombing, that has jacked his ego (sorry to use a word from another practice) so straight up and vertical that he has lost touch with reality. But whatever, the whole idea you presented that his wedding was a massive PR coup for Scientology, was something that had never occurred to me.
So thank you - it was a really clear read, and I appreciated your honesty.
Best, Mimsey
Open letter to Leah Remini
Perhaps that's because of all of the love bombing, that has jacked his ego (sorry to use a word from another practice) so straight up and vertical that he has lost touch with reality. But whatever, the whole idea you presented that his wedding was a massive PR coup for Scientology, was something that had never occurred to me.
So thank you - it was a really clear read, and I appreciated your honesty.
Best, Mimsey
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