Bob, I was saying it is possibly the worst in terms of the combination/sum of all the adjectives I mentioned: corrupt disengenious and abusive (etc). It can insidiously and covertly trap a person, while concurrently being corrupt organizationally/monetarily and abusive at the very top of their management (which trickles down in varying degrees through the organization), and all the while proclaiming their dishonest “results” and how amazing their “tech” and organization is. I know of no other organization in history that does so much abuse and harm while concurrently promoting to media and followers/potential followers that they are at the highest state of ethics, good intentions, practical application (both individually and socially), as well as their amazing “results” (and that they actually get people to believe this and have been getting away with all of this for decades).

Wonderful furniture, superb decoration, magnificent interiors, er no staff but worse no students or PC’s “booh hooh sniff sniff.
Poor dwarf

It must be wonderful to go up on stage and let the entire Scn world see what a bloody mug you are and thanking God they did’t have to cough up LOL!

You’re probably right V.

There seems to some optical illusion in play here.

Personally I think Gold has gotten better at perception management from the *heady* days of the Millennium Event 😉

http://www.imediaethics.org/News/456/Wash_post_reveals_scientologys_doctored_image_after_ex-followers_dec_1999_discovery.php

Thanks, Pepper!

Hi Cindy,

You didn’t look like a fool. Actually, you showed compassion and offered words of encouragement to Whitestar.

Thank you for doing that.

Hi Alonzo,

I see you are familiar with the Bible. Psalm 88 is the saddest, most despondent of the Psalms. Whitestar had left out the first two verses, which calls upon God and wrote the rest of it. Obviously there was a reason for this but it tells me that Whitestar was in a very particular frame of mind.

I sense you are not American because I recall you writing a bit about the goings on in South Africa, unless you were on a mission there.

In the U.S., there is a group out of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, who takes the Bible and uses it to forward their extreme ideologies, especially against gay persons. They picket the funerals of American soldiers, and stage demonstrations of other religions, schools and universities with signs saying “Thank God for 911”, “God hates Fags” or “God hates America”. They believe that American government and culture has gone soft on homosexuality and that when bad things happen it’s God telling us to change our ways.

This is a group who uses the Bible in a fundamentalist way to condemn others and spread hatred. This is their understanding of what the Bible is about.

There’s nothing Theetie Wheetie about that.

Eloquent, Poet

Oh yeah, the purpose behind that was real biblical. Laughter!