These Rundowns are great except for those too stupid to participate.

Amen, Aquamarine!

Well, this depends on your definition of racism. If you go strictly by skin color/ethnicity, you are right. If you take the essential essence of racism — “I am better than/superior to you, because you are not like me” then it is classically racist. Just something to consider: would you define Nazis as racists? Their prejudice was against white people of different religious/ethnic background, but essentially the same people, many of whom had lived in their country for hundreds of years and generations of children. But they were not “Aryan”…

This is a highly charged topic.

But my personal view is that I cringe every time I see the word wog. I find it absolutely as repulsive as racial slurs, and while it is color blind as a concept, it is not superiority blind.

SilentMajority – it was never intended as a racist phrase by Scientologists although it was somewhat borrowed from the British colonial usage which meant “anybody or anything not one of us” and also the colonial usage also did have more than just a bit of racism attached as well. But the Scientology usage was never that way intended. In my Org there were many black and other nationalities and no one took any offense as far as I know.In fact there are many LRH lectures where one cannot conclude otherwise that the old man was not only not a racist but concerned about the plight of other races. Some argue because he was somewhat caustic about Bantu’s or some tribe in South Africa stealing things that he was racist, but he wasn’t. But you have to listen to all the tapes to understand that.

Yes, but after Super Power, Grant is now a Super Asshole. And it shows…

Ah! But even doing it once is spectacular really – isn’t it. So now one must do it 10 times to “prove” (to you) that such is possible. and when the 10 times is done then there will be another “test” etc. etc.

Actually the real reason why people (OTs that is but occasionally some others can do this as well) can’t do this on a regular basis is the NOTs case which LRH spotted as the factor preventing (pre) OTs from being real OTs. Most people you will find have not gotten beyond NOTs and then unfortunately the “OT8” being offered in the CofS is only a watered down version of the real McCoy.So all these people who yip yap about “there are no OTs” are ironically correct in that the released technology does not produce OTs as such – they are all pre-OT levels in actuality. I did one of the “old” OT Levels and was doing other things as well as the card trick above. Many other people have reported similar things as well. The old OT levels did produce OTs to a degree but then that is when LRH discovered the NOTs factor. So one has to get through NOTs and then do the old OT Levels and a few other things and then one will be able to do these things. Which is unfortunate for those people who don’t want OTs in their environments for whatever strange reasons they have for this.

And not only that, Gus, but Super Power was supposed to be given to staff first. So not only are staff not getting it first; they are not getting SP at all. So more broken promises.