Well said, River. Tactfully put.

The following is what I perceive as being the main point of your post – not tactfully put:

In this country we have rabid, attack-dog-type political left wingers, and rabid, attack-dog-type political right wingers.

Each group is composed of people who are boring, annoying, stupid, unhelpful and nuts.

I’m not sure about the Ex Scns but evidence exists that many Still In Scientologists fall into the latter group.

Thanks for the clariication, Aquamarine. Good post.

I didn’t think you were saying that, Cindy. What I wrote was not a criticism of what you wrote, but rather of Hubbard’s generalities as re certain professions (journalists, police, psychiatrists); his propensity to paint ALL members of certain professions with his own unique, extremely pejorative brush.

Aquamarine, I agree with your post. I never said Hubbard or DM were correct in their compulsion to always have some other person or group they had to fight in order to keep the group together. I was just reporting that that may be why LRH had conspiracy theories going, and DM too.

How dangerous your own mind is. You must handle it. If not, you are dangerous yourself to everyone.

This applies to at least one US political party, the one of which I am an elected member, We often have commented amongst ourselves about our group’s tendency to attack each other if we do not have something outside our party to fight.

I am not saying to which political party this applies; it may be both of the main ones, not just the one to which I subscribe, and it was certainly also true of one of the smaller parties when I was the state secretary for the largest contingent of this smaller party.

Hubbard probably wrote dozens of “stories” directly relating to Scientology but happily enough I only read a few of them when I was active and I know a lot more of them now. I don’t think any of them stuck but you just never know. Maybe one or two are still floating around – lol