Dear Sister May:
I am also a member of the church (lds) who also happens to be a Scientologist. There’s not enough space here to explain how I reconcile these two bodies of knowledge but I will say that LRH did speak of free agency. His term for it was self-determinism. Due to the leadership of David Miscavige, this is frowned upon in the current Church of Scientology.

Were the Sea Org people kicking the homeless out?

Just as an aside to the discussion of Christian/Protestant/Baptist and then Catholic…really shows ignorance to, first, discuss a visitor’s faith and then, to separate them out into categories that are actually sub-groups of the first. I note that quite a few of the Scientologist publications are like this…not well written, incorrect use of grammar and punctuation, not-quite-right word choices…always makes me think that if they can’t get something simple like this right, why would I turn over my spiritual well-being to them. I wouldn’t…
And, by the way, as a student of world religions back in the day, and of not any particular denomination myself, I can tell you that Catholics are Christians, and, as a matter of fact, are the original Christians and the genesis of all other current Christian sects, regardless of whether they wish to acknowledge that. Catholicism was the only Christian religion for centuries, until other groups splintered off for a variety of reasons. They all had their beginnings in Catholicism.

Bobble head dolls

YEs, I have made this point before. Virtually everyone who was ever at Int has been accused of lying by Miscavige. And in doing “lower conditions” or “A-E” (Yes, many people in International Management were “declared” and told their only steps were A-E, myself included 4 different times, including when I was on stage at events and being the spokesperson for scientology) one has to “confess” to lying. It goes something like this: An order to do something is ussed by Miscavige. You comply. The net result is some catastrophe. You are then accused of lying in various ways: either you didn’t inform Dear Leader of all the facts needed to make clear to him he should not issue the order and therefore lied, or you executed the order wrongly and lied about what you REALLY did or have hidden Counter Intention and are lying about it.

So, you have plenty of instances of admissions, in people’s own handwriting, that they “lied to COB” or “lied to protect themselves” or “lied to cover up a situation” or “lied about their intentions” etc etc etc

Not a single person who has spoken out has EVER said they lied SINCE LEAVING SCIENTOLOGY. Not a one (because they have not).

So, scientology then says everyone is an “admitted liar” to try to discredit what is being said now.

As I noted in an earlier blog post, EVERY scientologist lies. The closer you get to the top, the bigger and more frequent the lies are.

See this posting: Why Do Scientologists Lie?

Or ask miscavage to fund the damn thing with all his billions that way He keeps KSW by donating his personal funds keeping it from the IRS and other WOG orgs.
Just sayin……

I live in palm harbor. It’s creepy going to downtown Clearwater. I’ve thought for 35 years the scientologists are like ants going in and out of those buildings like ant hills. All of their buildings have shades covering their windows so you can’t see what they’re doing. I would love to see Clearwater revitalized but it’s not going to happen as long as the city government cow tows to that cult. Residents won’t go down there as long as the cameras and cockroaches are there

“Patty O’Furniture”. My laugh of the day 🙂