For me, what finally ended up happening was like sitting on a roof that had been caving in for a while: the years of attempting to get along well in this C of S group. The roof collapsed. Including, I realized (finally) the Tone Level of this group is Covert Hostility on money and Anger, at best, on everything else. Not the social tone, the actual tone. On the covert piece: so covert and sinister in fact that the people practicing Scientology in high positions do not themselves realize how hostile they are. They do not see how hateful and treat-everyone-like-MEST they actually are. Their covertness is hidden as well from them! They can’t see it, they don’t see it.

Now, that is covert. Being willing to look became a whole ‘nother sad layer of understanding what is written concerning 1.1 on the Tone Scale in Science of Survival book. I began to see these cleverly hidden pieces that spell h-o-s-t-i-l-i-t-y. A computer programmer might call such a not-easy-to-discover item an “Easter egg.” I wondered if Scientology was a cosmic joke from LRH. He put considerable clues out there for any of us to spot, including one of my favorite knicker-twisters from him: “Religion is always different than truth. It has to be because the only way you can control a people is to lie to them.” From the LRH lecture titled Overt Acts, Motivators and DEDs recorded 25 June 1952

I plan to keep moving forward with the good stuff I did harvest in this journey, knowing though and never forgetting the darkness underneath that also accompanied any meaningful victory. Including realities that I never knew regarding how so many staff and Sea Org members are treated. As a public (former), finding that out is sure evidence as to what a colossal 1.1 organization is the C of S. It’s just super sad, because there are a number of helpful pieces in the training and in having a good auditor who practices The Auditor’s Code.

Correct Aqua. Mike often doesn’t allow through non-answers. Ronbots often pretend to answer tough questions while just obfuscating and these get canned.

LOL!

Excellent, Dead Men!

Mike, in truth I left the organization for this very reason, back in the day. It was too weird with families and money.

I know you never said it (there is more than one use for quotation marks). Yeah, you don’t sound offended at all…

abstruse

I can’t believe never encountered that one.

I did, but it was censored by OSA!

Well, you’ll have to wait from here to eternity for a reply as Mike has thrown my first reply to you and to Aqua out with the bath water. I simply pointed out that it is your dub-in as usual about being “STABLY” exterior. Mike won’t allow this though so you can walk around feeling smug for a while.

“Why this scoffing and ridicule? To what end or benefit to ourselves or others?”. Yeah. That’s what I see too. Maybe Tim is a major douche, I have no idea, but as a general rule I don’t think it is healthy to constantly mock, deride, ridicule and make less of others. I mean, you better make damn sure they deserve it. That type of behavior is usually self serving, or rather, serves the ego. It makes you right, smarter and “better” than the stereotypes you are using. It is a popular hobby.