Skyler, agreeing with you 6 days later: Scribe’s posts here are consistently witty!

Richard, I believe you missed my points, which were that ” study technology ” is not about studying, but about indoctrination, and that it is based on utterly false premises, hence its lack of usefulness for ” studying ” anything.
And, because Hubbard didn’t originate ANYTHING, but DID appropriate old ideas and concepts( e.g. abreactive therapy, the concept of the engram, the use of a tool based on the wheatstone bridge, etc.) for the expressed purpose (Affirmations )of controlling, manipulating, and discarding others in his quest for power and riches, I would argue that his own record of criminal intent( in writing ),criminal acts,failure to prove the veracity of his claims, and failure to produce the results he promised does effectively and conclusively damn everything with his name on it.
But…I do understand the idea that we can learn valuable lessons from being totally scammed by an amoral, narcissistic con man…
That’s just my take on it. I understand that you may not view him and his so-called ” tech ” that way. The cool thing is that we can publicly discuss and debate the issues, which is expressly forbidden in the cult.
Thanks for expressing your views. Respect!😎

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jere, that is because you are too young. Back in the day when I was in grammar school we had to learn to do math in Roman numerals. We had tests and could not convert back and forth. Education has degraded much since then…

Peabody: I’ve yet to see anyone who could do even addition in Roman numerals . Most translate into decimal before calculations, then back to Roman numerals afterwards if appropriate.

Aqua:
“that texts GET PRINTED with mis-spellings means the SO doesn’t have the (literate, English-speaking) man-power to proofread this stuff!”

could also be a lack of interest to get it write.

I’ve found that I’ve lost much of my proofreading ability from reading so much on the InterWebz.

Scientology compounds things by Tubby being so free and loose with alternative meanings and spellings.

Davey don’t kneed to study nuttin! He already NOs it all.

Aqua, you and I were on opposite sides of the coin. I couldn’t memorize for beans (still can’t) though I had an enormous vocabulary which allowed me to skate through the standardized tests — which,IIRC, was where I got the “not living up to my potential” label, which bugged the living daylights out of me. By 4th grade, I started “throwing” those standardized tests and “dropped” my IQ considerably. Worked fine until about 11th grade when we HAD to do well on the tests (PSAT, SAT, etc.) for college placement & scholarships. My only slip-up was in 5th grade, when they gave us a language comprehension test. Only one student in the district scored higher, and I heard about my “potential” again. [bummer!] THEN, I fell afoul of the scn ‘checkout’ and suddenly couldn’t ‘properly’ define any words, so was told I couldn’t understand the material.