AND he didn’t care that his orgs were “organized” as communes, All staff living &eating communally, the few who were “more equal” than the others served by the least among them. It benefitted him.

If you figure out how to change the font, color & size, please don’t. It just confuses ancient old antiquities like me.

I have seen the Little Dipper (the stars not Demento sticking his head in a bucket of whiskey) but the big version is harder to see. Mostly I go out to watch the view of our galaxy get brighter as it gets darker. The view never ceases to amaze me.

I thought of another:”steep”.

SSoA, they don’t recognize irony and sarcasm; They’re too literal-minded from their scn training. I’ve gotta watch that tendency in myself sometimes, a holdover from all those years ago.

Joe, someone else recognized that scientology is a PUNISHMENT culture. Going to ‘ethics’ is the same as going to the principal’s Office in school was: — NOW you’re in for it AND they’ll probably call your parents and say what a bad person you’ve been. In addition, it’s likely gonna cost you big money before you get out of there.

GAP, I think Hubbard actually glorified the ego, or at least the self, in the same vein as Aleister Crowley. He at least didn’t try to subsume the ego, and I think had the effect if not the intent of actually cultivating it.

I consider Scientology to be egoistic, among other things – it is selfish, not selfless, and as with Hubbard, accentuates the ego whether deliberately or incidentally.

LmR, if I EVER seem to be critical or disparaging/disrespectful of you, please don’t believe it. You’re fun to read and astound me at how colloquially you can use English. I feel somewhat shamed because I can’t say more than “HI” in any language other than English, despite suffering through classes in French & German. When my first wife and I honeymooned in Switzerland, it was very helpful that it seemed all the other holiday-makers were Germans with excellent English. I SHOULD have learned SOME German just from the “Pennsylvania Dutch” just to my West, and several German-speaking enclaves within 10 miles of my house. And I should have gotten SOME Italian from some of my best friends’ families who sometimes forgot I was in the room as they exchanged words not in English. We poor, poor Americans only knowing their own parochial tongue. Even speaking with a Brit or Australian can be a chore.

Zee, STAAD & scientology ARE their own publics, so they only have to look inward to understand them. Outsiders get sucked in by their friends/family or by accident — often being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a case of two negatives adding up.