☝ This.

Scientology is psychological reductivism for the intellectually lazy.

Life’s complexities are reduced to heuristic thought-stoppers.

Even when rooted in truth, their value as absolutes are limited.

There are no shades of grey in scientology. No appreciation for nuance.

The only way to advance is by denying logic.

Each EP is an unsupported proposition – from Life Repair, all the way up to OTVIII.

Any reasoned evaluation would expose serious logical fallacies in Hubbard’s output and diminish the therapeutic value of the entire program.

One word:

Liberating.

-from a former Scientologist of 35+ years
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“It does not demand of you that you be or believe anything at all.”

Except that The Scam has all the answers and Tubby knows the right way to handle everyghing.

If that was even partly true, The Scam would be full of people. No matter how many buildings they had, they all would be jam packed full of people with lines around the block begging and pleading, “Let Us In”!

As it stands, the people who are IN are begging and pleading, “Let Us OuT”!!!

mark IV, my days as a Christian were a constant conjuring of belief which required a huge mental conditioning. I was led to doubt my own intuitions and feelings, as they were subject to Satan’s influence. I was also led to fear the evil world and basically end relationships that did not “draw me closer to God”, which can be interpreted lots of ways.

Religions are not all the same, but a lot of religions seem to me to be at least similar in that (lousy) regard.

At least with Christianity, I simply walked away from it and nobody could say much about it. If my family had been very devout, that could have been a different story.

They are vampires who will suck you dry. Your money, your energy, your time – it is never enough. Never, ever, ever ever EVER enough! And after a while you’ll accept this as truth and feel guilty. No matter how much you give, no matter what you do for them or how generous your contribution of effort, money, time, etc., is you will still feel a kind of chronic, low level guilt. You’ll start believing it has not been enough, will never be enough. You’re “out exchange”. No matter what you do or give you’ll ALWAYS be “out-exchange”. That IS the message they continuously send, and at some point you’ll go into agreement with it . And as soon as you do, right then… they GOTCHA. You are their creature, their robot. You’re done.

Amen to everything you said, Lliira! Hypocrisy, thy name is ORGANIZED religion! All of it!

Loved your share about the JW child, Balletlady. If you haven’t yet, watch “A Perfect World”, starring Kevin Costner as an escaped convict and a terrific little boy actor who plays a JW kid abducted by him. Directed by Clint Eastwood. A superb film in every way. I think you’ll like it.

A mispelling but I love mashing up words to create new ones like sarcastic = sarcaustic. $cientologhosts regularly haunt all those empty idle morgues out there.

When I read yours, I saw a NEw name, appropriate for today’s holiday: $cientologhosts; regges being $cientologhouls.

Just playing around with words.