https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyigdRxPOR4

Wow! Just wow.

I had not heard any such information about her. I was not raised a Catholic nor am I one now. Apart from being a kind of fan of the current Pope Francis and what appears to be his operating state of tolerance and inclusiveness, I know almost nothing about modern Catholicism.

One day I in some way I read this advice attributed Mother Theresa, and it moved me, Of course, I had heard of her in a general way, that she was a good and kind and caring nun, etc.. I had never studied her, never read a book about her. Anyway I read this thing attributed to her and it affected me strangely. It struck a chord in me, in a good way. I have reality on the good that people do being forgotten – people I’v known, who did a lot of good, who are no longer here, and the good they did is now forgotten. And perhaps any good that I do will likely be forgotten also, so one could argue, why bother? But she said, do it anyway. I liked that. Do it anyway. It comforted me. Hard to explain. I cut out the page out and put it in my wallet, and along with the Serbian Proverb I’ve been carrying both ever since.

You have provided shocking information about Mother Theresa which is widely at variance with her public image in general.

I can well understand how someone’s public image varying widely from their known actual deeds and true character can be extremely upsetting.

Quick question, and this is not intended to be argumentative or make wrong of you in any way: Would you like this advice if you didn’t know that it came from her?

In any event I am sincerely sorry that my post made you upset.

I would not give a fig for anything “Mother” Teresa says; I look instead at what she did. Sad to say, she was needlessly cruel to patients who were hungry, cold, in pain, and dying, refusing to let her subordinates dispense so much as an aspirin or a blanket or comfortable cot to them. At the same time, her coffers were overflowing with the generous donations of people who, like so many, assumed someone with the name “Mother” Teresa must have her patients interests at heart. No so – she thought their pain and suffering was better for their souls than any relief from pain a simple warm blanket or over-the-counter medication could provide. Her story is one of deceit and personal distrust of even her own faith. She harmed more than she helped, and got sainted for it. The hypocrisy she brought to her life is more than one should ever see.

Laughter!

True they are expensive but were you able to go exterior or walk straight through solid substances?

Mockingbird Thanks. A comment (as always from you) that gets to the point and offers interesting aspects. He was a prisoner of his own thoughts and ideas that became lies to escape him. He ran away from them (apparently) creating new ideas that then become thoughts again to get rid of because that image he had of himself came back to the surface everywhere and sooner or later. In other words scn is an expression of all this, and that has no real functionality unless you believe in it completely and unconditionally.

I think it is something very strong in each of us yearning to be free of, or rather superior to, the shackles of our five senses. A yearning, a longing for the spiritual beings which we are to dominate the demands of our earthly needs We are animials, very much so, but at the same time, we are spiritual beings too, and there’s no doubt about that. So one could say we are hybrids.

In my wallet I carry this saying which I found somewhere:

“Be humble for you are made of earth
Be noble for you are made of stars.
—–Serbian Proverb.

Folded up tight I also carry this:

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway.
——Mother Theresa

Nice, eh?

These are not the advices of animals to other animals 🙂

I believe this is crucial to understand the mind and character of Hubbard. He hid his inner self and his self image as a weak and worthless creature, undeserving of love and life and compassion all of the time, or very nearly so. He both hated himself and wanted to deny and escape from this profound self loathing all of the time.

He did this by constantly lying and projecting an image of himself as the opposite of how he truly saw himself.

He had to lie or die. He would be mortified and face a fate worse than death if lies crumbled.

He likely would have faced decompensation into florid decompensation if his lies were entirely rejected. Daniel Shaw describes cult leaders who go through in his book, Traumatic Narcissism. The descent into florid schizophrenia is shocking.

It is a sort of destruction of the facade by shame.

I have to disagree, partially. When I first entered Scientology in about 1988 or 1989 I realized that Hubbard had convinced his followers to give him their money and devote their lives to him by sometime in the sixties.

He at some point in the sixties was a millionaire several times over. If his only interest was money he could have gone to a beautiful beach in a country that would sell him citizenship and never extradite him for a few million dollars.

But Hubbard as he described in his affirmations wanted to enslave mankind and further as he said in The Skipper Letter he wanted to smash his name into history so violently that even if all the books were destroyed he would remain known.

Hubbard in my opinion hated God and hated that he was not God and further blamed God for his flaws and suffering.

The affirmations and his writing in the original OT VIII The Antichrist Edition support this.

Hubbard liked getting money, reportedly because he liked fooling the smart ones. He was obsessed with overcoming his feelings of worthlessness and being useless and incompetent by fooling smart people and taking their money.

I think he as they say had a whole in him that all the money in the world couldn’t fill, because he had inner hidden feelings of shame, worthlessness and being useless and hating himself, feelings that he could only partially and temporarily escape by pretending to be a godlike and superior being.

This is a problem of the human predators that are called malignant narcissists.

This explains why he didn’t get a sum of one or two or ten million dollars and simply retire to enjoy his wealth. He didn’t really enjoy the wealth itself.

Right back at you with that, Cindy.