I second that Hallie Jane. Thank you, Mike, for posting this important post. And keep up the good fight to all who have lost family members and friends to the cult’s disconnection policy. We keep postulating that the church crumbles and our loved ones come back to us. Shared reality becomes actual realty.

Cindy

It’s safer to be in chains. That way the big bad wogs can’t get you.

LOL!

He sounds like a keeper! 🙂

+1!

Potpie — your anger towards the whole disconnection policy is spot on! It doesn’t make any sense, it never will make any sense.

Disconnection as a concept, is and always has been, a delicate and somewhat dangerous tool to be used sparingly and with GREAT care. It had functionality in a very narrow band, but over time has spread like an effing plague to encompass every aspect of a person’s life.

If your brother is a junkie, continuously ripping off your family,and threatening them, you disconnect. It’s really a common sense action, like removing your hand from a fire.

But in Scientology, it has been co-opted by the RCS and the malevolent ones over the years, as a tool to control and subjugate. It rings with the same clarity of purpose as the Catholics’ promise to excommunicate those who disagree. It’s an old concept and an ugly one, that is exhumed periodically by some group and made ‘new’ again. In it’s current usage, Disconnection is a set of brass knuckles, a sap or the ubiquitous blunt instrument, used to bully someone into doing something that they normally would never consider doing. It’s only power comes from those it’s used against. When they stop agreeing, it will die.

Odd

Beautiful!

Perfect!

Nice comment Valerie. It’s just more lying and obfuscation. They really don’t give a shit about providing a nurturing environment or education for their kids, so they make up something that they think will sound good. It actually sounds ridiculous and their lying is quite apparent to most average people. They are fooling no one but themselves. If they just told the truth, however odd, it would be better pr than all the creepy lying.