Good for you TO. Keep OSA on their toes!

Noni Mause –

It’s more complicated. One point (bear with me please) is that originally the policies were meant to benefit the person who found themselves on the receiving end of a very invalidatory and evaluatory association which had in effect become involuntary on his/her part – think of a pimp beating up a whore who submits. The person being informed that they DO have an alternative, and WILL be supported if they extricate themselves from their bad association, has the choice to refuse to disconnect. It degenerated to the point where people who had friends – legitimate friends in mutually supportive associations – were told that if their friends questioned or belittled their Scn affiliation, they *must* disconnect. I know people who laughed in the ‘ethic officer’s’ face, and walked away never to be seen there again. I had friends who walked away from me just because I said “I’m a Scn.” Here’s where it gets strange: if someone told me to disconnect, it would shock me, first, and it would test my patience, second; and no doubt you have your own way of acting on something like that; but why would someone even think of complying with such a choice of a) disconnecting, or b) being excommunicated? That degeneration has led to precisely what it was designed to prevent, and that is, people who are locked into an involuntary and damaging association. And those who have left or/and have been excommunicated, are waiting, blogging, protesting, and urging those locked into the inversion Scientology has become, to LEAVE. Just as you are urging them to disconnect. So … um … I didn’t say that. No, yes … I did. You’re urging people to disconnect – from the church, even if they have to leave their family still locked in. Many have forced themselves to do that, and that is beyond merely sad.

What some do not get (and I get really unpopular really quick around Scns for saying this because the Force is so strong) is that one’s life is based on one’s own individual perception and one’s own counsel. There is right and there is wrong, and there are rules, but the matter of figuring those out, and which ones to follow, is, ultimately, individual. Like choosing friends – why the heck do you really like someone else? There are reasons, but specifying them is sometimes an exercise. And sometimes people make bad choices, and sometimes love is blind (but only to the lovers).

The strangest thing is the inversion of Scientology – how the hell-in-block-capitals did so many people screw it up? I think by not realizing it is up to them. But that would be asking or imposing upon you to give the philosophy as it was intended a bit of credence, and that’s not your ticket, so I just say I like your posts, your honesty, your intelligence, willingness to consider seriously, and I learn some stuff from you, I think like people should.

Not the best viewpoint available, but I hope some of it makes sense.

Carcha.

I’ve been saying for a good while, that the theta and the data have left the building.

Now I am picturing him pouting

Great news about Scientology and their 15 attorney’s losing their ability to get you and Garcia’s lawyers disqualified – times sure are changing.

It has been a very exciting couple of days. Leah Remini willing to testify and Jeffries deposing Tommy Davis was just fantastic news.

I wonder what Tommy Davis is thinking right now. Did he BLOW or did he quietly route out and will keep his mouth shut or worse yet, LIE for Miscavige. He has got to be decompressing from a lifetime of Scamonology – but one of these days he just may speak up and tell the truth. He was scammed too!!

Awesome week!!

Insightful comment….

I’d like to see that. Some might say that Hubbard’s own policies of disconnection and fair game are what ‘pulled in’ the bad press in the first place. Until the wheat can be sorted from the chaff amongst his policies, any form of scientology is likely to retain its bad name.