No to belabor a point, Peter and Zephyr, but how can Sunja be in comm with Zephyr when Zephyr is a declared SP if Sunja is “in” the church and drinking the Kool Aid?

P.S. I hear Kool Aid can be fattening, Kirstie. Might want to cut down on that.

Gato Rojo, in response to your comments about Kirstie Alley watching her looks, the ironic thing about that is she designed with the help of a chemist, her own line of weight loss products, shakes to drink, vitamins to take, the whole nine yards. And I haven’t heard one person say they lost weight on it. But I did notice Flag was selling it in the canteen. I saw that crap and wondered if Flag was only humoring Kirstie because she had been such a big whale and made such big contributions to Super Power and all other Flag things. I”m sure they didn’t really want to sell her diet which was put right at the cash register where you had to look at it while waiting to be run up. If her diet worked so well she would not be as fat as she is right now. Flunk, Kirstie!

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Wow, Ms.P, that’s amazing. What a mindfuck. Do these people sit up nites dreaming up ways to create ARC breaks?

Mike, you’re too much 🙂 My area has first dibs for emergency pothole fillers.

Spot on, Jane Doe. DM’s squirrelling of the tech is tied for first place with his unbelievably cruel treatment of well-intentioned sincere people. None of what he does is illegal, apparently, but here’s the good news: think of Al Capone. They had nothing on him for years despite his crimes, but finally they nabbled him on income tax evasion. Really stupid of him. He had more than enough money to pay taxes but he just figured he could get away with it and so why pay, you know? And they got him on that white-collar offense. That’s what I see happening with David Miscavige. Not income taxes, but some greedy, unthinking, stupid mistake, and he’ll be nabbed and then it will all start to unravel. I can’t wait to see the expression on the faces of these still-ins when all is revealed to them about the true character of their precious COB.

Here’s a little something that will bake your noodle (apologies to Neo and the Oracle):

That smooth clean motion of the needle you see when the needle is floating – you don’t actually see that at all. What your physical eyes see is a few snapshot images of the motion and your brain fills in the rest.

Your brain is a wonderful correlation tool and is AMAZINGLY good at “photoshopping”. It’s already well trained to recognize typical needle patterns (simply because you’ve watched a meter in action so many times already), so using tiny snippets of information about needle position and velocity in small units of time, the brain fills in the rest by assuming that the needle movement now is not hugely different from what needles did in the past.

Perception is a fascinating study, and it’s mind boggling to realize that most of what we assume we see, we actually don’t. Point being, doing this in a measuring device is perfectly OK, as all of us do it anyway!