As of three months ago my “Done” state still had exactly two books by L. Ron Hubbard/Bridge Publications/CoS, etc… One was “What is Scientology” a big glossy book from the early 1990s. I love seeing that book because its full of SPs – Tory Magoo is featured as a model scientologist, with a photo and interview in the book. The other books is “Have you lived before” circa 1970 or so, with the old mono-colored vinyl covers that were the hallmark of “library editions” in the 60’s and 70’s.

Since these books were so old they still had the cards in the back where you could see how many times the book had been checked out in the past and when. For “Have you lived before” it had been checked out about 4 times in the last 40 years, the last time being in 1982 or so. The WIS had never been checked out and still has that super stiff spine of a book that’s rarely ever been opened.

That was the entirety of the library’s collection on Scientology or books by or based on the works by L. Ron Hubbard. This is the largest public library, in the largest city of a DONE state on that map.

Fair enough comment.

To go one with this. The purification rundown has been delivered on 2 different systems – one where the person does 5 hours a day. This is the one LRH gives and says is the correct one. The other system is an shortened one, where the person does it 2.5 hours a day-supposedly lesser effectivness.I think there is probably a huge difference between the two different moduies. If you go and do 30 minutes warm up exercise and then 2 hours of sauna, broekn up by cold showers, you probably feel very cleansed afterwards. If you do 30 miunutes warm up and 4 hours of sauna after, you probably get wrung out pretty badly.

But whatever, whatever, whatever. My point is that the problem is not the process or procedure. It is the lies on top of lies on top of lies. And the total unwillingness of sicentology to spend the money to do proper scientific testing. Who the F@ knows if this s$%t works. There is NO scientific evidence one way or the other. Everything, pro and con, is anecdoatal and guesstimate.

So I think we should skip judgements on the process and instead focus on the lies. Thats my point. Nothing more.

Well, I also think that this blog is provided by one man’s blood sweat and tears – free for everyone except Mike Rinder, a man who gets a lot of appreciation from many people and very little monetary support from very few people. I do what I can, which is very damned little. But if everyone who read this blog did as much as me, scientology would be dead and buried.

Take a seat MJ.

Are you sitting down now?

The short (and long) answer to your question is: “Yes.”

You mean to tell me they’re actually twisting the facts?

Where’s the money in that?

Happy to help!

The problem would be where to file CBCM. Certainly not under 615 or even 619. Probably under 001.9 with UFOs and Big Foot.

When I read that speech I swear I heard good old Dan Sherman’s voice delivering it. That writing style is so easy to spot as his. I bet if Danny got sick and couldn’t write a speech for DM, that DM would stand at the podium and stutter and comm lag and couldn’t come up with anything to say. It’s just one big ventriloquism act in the C of S.

“In Defense of Food” is by Michael Pollan; not Michael Lewis.

Thanks for the report Janet Ann. You reconfirm what is well known to everyone in the world EXCEPT those who keep handing over money for more books to go to libraries.