“I’m 70 now and it sometimes feels like I’m just growing up.” – Me three!

I’m having a ball though. I might even determine that this is the best age I’ve been – 71, going on 72!

“parallel to the TV show “The Path” where the cult leader at the end bows out admitting the cult was all bullshit, ”

No the Founder didn’t bow out. His main disciple in Peru Silas told the leader’s top lieutenant Cal it was all bullshit. The founder didn’t say that (as far as we know of yet.. and I won’t go further for those who haven’t seen it as I just finished watching it this weekend and that final scene was one I was not expecting)

The No True Scotsman fallacy is also another example of the innate tautological nature of Scientology.

Once one attests to a particular “state’ (lol) then manifests some characteristic that is contradictory to the alleged EP of that state…the only possible explanation is that one did a false attest.

Do the above enough times in a row and one becomes a No Case Gain. Complain about not getting sufficient case gain and one becomes an SP.

See?

The tech always works!

Lee Baca also lied on the witness stand in the OJ Simpson trial and they found taped phone conversations where Lee Baca makes many racial slurs and speaks with hatred about blacks and how they were going to make sure OJ was convicted.

thegman77, my experience was similar to yours, along with this part: “I have continued my spiritual search ever since, finding good things, discarding others.”

You also wrote: “For me, the journey never ends until that last breath. After that, the jury is still out. 🙂 ”

That’s a great attitude – including the humor. 😀

Thanks for your input.

The problem with that “analysis” of yours, NotClear2me, is that you was NOT there, but many people who actually WERE THERE, like Sarge and many others, witnessed the same delusions and irrational behavior from LRH. People who seems quite ok with me.

You are “not buying” things that you have not even properly researched so as to have enough data to make a competent unbiased decision about it, but your “evaluation” of the situation is SOLELY based on your OWN confirmation bias and emotional response to the subject at hand.

It could be said w/out any risk of being wrong about it, that a Scientologist suffers from a very insidiously destructive disease; DENIAL. Fortunately there is a very simple remedy for it: the willingness to confront that which is.

When you pass away, thetaclear, would you want your great. great grandchildren to remember your final days by what one person said, which is at least debatable, and got endlessly passed around?
Maybe LRH just got old and sick. He walked away from scn leaving it to others. He kept his mind active by doing something he liked which is writing science fiction and walking around his ranch when he was able.
I don’t buy into Sarge’s story any more than I buy into LRH is doing OT research in the Void.
A lot of people say a lot of things when they get old, sick, and get dementia.

Hi NotClear/me, I jumped in here to comment.Nice to meet you.Your last line ” All things are not nice on Scn blogs ” True same for life,but at least I and many others are out and we can change anything to make it better.Hope and light and love and caring for each other even when dis agreeing goes along long way. Ann B

😀 You are spot on there. I live in Scotland- the majority of HAPI Edinburgh scientologists are indeed Hungarian. Most Scots are too canny to be suckered in to scientology.

LAPD has had deep rooted problems for well over a century. The same can be said for most large city police departments. My take on it is that they moved away from being an actual part of society. They have, more and more, assumed a full military viewpoint of “us and them”, calling non police “civilians”. And, of course, as Baca is a fine example, the uniform and the gun permitted his thinking to justify illegalities as the laws “didn’t apply to him”.