Comments on: Banned Dictionaries

By: theosismanides

theosismanides — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:36:53 +0000

In reply to Jane Doe. Yes, now the church can cancel (even if in a indirect way) HCOBs and their content. that's the bottom line. As to the Young Readers Webster's dictionary, it was the dictionary that as a foreign student helped me the most. I got a hell of many concepts out of it and it was simple and clear. True after a while i needed a bigger dictionary but, hey, that was recommended by LRH for a purpose, and it did serve its purpose with me.

By: Jane Doe

Jane Doe — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:36:24 +0000

In reply to Cece. "I could say I lost everything leaving but then really I lost nothing that wasn’t lost already." Beautiful, Cece!

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:59:44 +0000

In 1971 I used to dissemenate like crazy. I’d bring in whole families to get regged and all my friends.
One friend, unbeknownst to me, brought a copy of Psychology Today with her. When she was walking around the Mission in New York, she would have the magazine so people could see it.
After we left the mission she called me the next day and said,”Brian, I will not join Scientology because I got dirty looks from people because of having this magazine. People have no right to edit what I read.”

She conducted her own experiment because she had heard that Scientologists hate Psychology.

This idiotic control of dictionaries reminded me of a lesser but similar bias of the written word.

Nasty looks towards unapproved and regimented thinking is not new in Scientology.

At that time I was doing Yoga excersizes, not meditating, and someone reported me. I went to ethics and was commanded to stop or I could not continue in my HQS course.

Mind control occured pre Miscavige. The seeds of authoritarianism is inherent in cults.

By: Cece

Cece — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:26:33 +0000

Well at least someone on TO’s site can make a shoop of that. Very very fitting – scary how fitting. PS Nice to know who you are. Do you know how Debbie Collins is and Diane McDonnell? Diane was CO PUBs when early LRH books were printed. When the basics came out I rightaway started investigating because of course I could not believe LRH would not have know there were misstakes in his books. She confirmed that she published exactly only what Ron had sidechecked and approved. My ‘KSW’ went in and I’ve been out ever since. There is no way I was going to waste my time writing anymore fricken dead-ended reports to no-one. I’ve never been back in an org since. Probably happened with 90% but who cares – we got our room & board and family with us.
Sad – very sad. I could say I lost everything leaving but then really I lost nothing that wasn’t lost already.

By: Cece

Cece — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:15:56 +0000

I’m game. Two years ago, I and my partner had a bright idea: The North entrance sign to the RV park we live in says “Thousand Trails”. The 850 site park is full of tails especially if one spends much time in the spa. Well one nite we painted out the ‘r’ in Trails and it has been left that way ever since. Most people still read it the same. Only if one is in ‘PT’ they get a chuckle. In 2 years I’ve only met 2 persons who noticed anyway.
So anyway …. it’s probably not worth the trouble except for a good laugh for us.
At the front gate is an erasable notice board. One nite we wrote in ‘Saturday – Ranger car wash 1pm and Ranger going away party 8pm.’
Too much time on our hands 🙂

By: Mac Daddy

Mac Daddy — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:06:56 +0000

In reply to plainoldthetan.

Yeah, I find it sickly humorous that a guy who is basically too stupid to study is now the “source” and “expert” on training. A guy who couldn’t get through a Cl. IV internship without slapping His PC.

He Who Must Not Be Named, the Prophet of Scientology, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center Mr. David Miscavige is just to damned stupid to be a Scientologist.

By: Jane Doe

Jane Doe — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 04:19:56 +0000

In reply to Cece. Good one, Cece! I mean really, we should do that!

By: Rick Mycroft

Rick Mycroft — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:42:35 +0000

But what if someone has a misunderstood word in the middle of reading that order?

By: Leonore

Leonore — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 02:20:50 +0000

In reply to Florence.

Florence,
Good point. I’ve had the same experience. Sometimes several definitions of the same word from different points of view help me arrive at a more full conceptual understanding and ability to USE a word meaningfully. This seems to be true especially when entering a new field of study or dealing with something unfamiliar or very nuanced. It can help to look up a word in multiple dictionaries. It’s not the last dictionary that clears it up; it’s arriving at the underlying commonality (concept) of all the definitions.

Clearing words isn’t about the right fairy god mother waving the perfect wand in front of one’s eyes (ie. looking in the perfect dictionary). Clearing words is purposeful mental work, as plainoldthetan said above.

By: Cece

Cece — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 02:18:51 +0000

We should nic name the PAC area ‘North Korea Town’ with signs on 4 sides into it. We already have a ‘China Town’, ‘Korea Town’ ect. It would fit right in. I doubt anyone in there would notice.