Alors, c’est bon a savoir, et de rien 🙂

Well, je suis tres bon et je ne suis pas merde.
Merci, beaucoup.

@ Valerie – WOW!

Alcoboy, America is a big and diverse country. Only very stupid, ignorant Americans (and they’re out there) “hate” the French and they very likely have never been to France or even met any French people.

Many years ago I planned a trip thru Europe. “Don’t go to France! Don’t waste your money in that country! French people HATE Americans, ESPECIALLY the Parisiens, who are stuck up and insufferable!

That’s what everyone I knew said when I told them my itinerary.

I went anyway. Spent a week in Germany and, steeling myself for bad treatment, a week in France, mostly in Paris, but we did see the country on the train to Paris and then leaving to travel south to Madrid.where we spent a few days, and then back on the train to Southern Spain to rest up on the beach.

Long story short: the French were – amazing to us. Lovely! We didn’t know a soul. Total tourists, nobodies, my friend and I, travelling on a shoe string – we weren’t exactly throwing money around – and these so-called American haters could not have been more friendly or helpful. People you’d almost expect to be rude in any big city – cab drivers, metro (subway) clerks, people like that, went out of their way for us! And Paris being so beautiful, I couldn’t help it, I was a goner, I fell in love with it, with the city and everyone in it.. Speaking a bit of French helped.

Point being, with a few glaring exceptions, I’d bet that most people in MOST countries are decent people who appreciate visitors making a bit of an effort with their language by treating them kindly and respectfully.

I hope I get a chance to find out!

Good theory.

Not for Miscavige. He probably imports it by the cargo container.

Amen to that!

Good point since Americans like to say that the French are a bunch of wimps and that all the French Army knows how to do is give up and surrender.
Sheesh!

Its occurring to me that the Still Ins may not be so much willfully blind as just plain OLD, and stuck in their HABITS. Habits can be hard to break at any age but particularly so in old age. Too much work, its too hard, they’re too tired. So much easier to just stay in the comfort zone, just go along, etc. Possibly only a very great blast of a shock could give them the fortitude to break this habit. A number of former innies on this blog sustained huge shocks, life changed that rocked their world, that woke them up, FORCED them to t look and pay attention, blasted them out of their complacency, their long-ingrained Scientology habits. Just a theory.

I see life as a continual creation.

I willingly, proudly and ignorantly supported a criminal organization for 25 years. With this support, , I gave it that much more strength and endurance. For whatever the reasons I did them, my actions over the years were all to help, protect, and expand the Church of Scientology. Due to my support, whatever Co$ was when I left was my creation. Not wholly my creation of course. But I helped. I supported it. That’s what I was creating, back then. Whatever it is now is partly my creation too, due to my opposition and lack of support. I’m creating something different now.