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Scientology In Perspective
9 August 2010, 9:30 am

We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better.

The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

This is a deadly serious activity. And if we miss getting out of the trap now, we may never again have another chance.

Remember, this is our first chance to do so in all the endless trillions of years of the past. Don't muff it now...

L. Ron Hubbard
Keeping Scientology Working Series 1

Scientologists live in a mythical world of titanic, universe-wide, trillion year struggles between Ultimate Good and Ultimate Evil.

The above quote from L. Ron Hubbard has been read by every single Scientologist many times.  They believe it with all their hearts.

Today, they are fighting for their very survival and the survival of "every Man, Woman and Child".  I simply cannot exaggerate how very serious and  crucial everything is to a Scientologist.

Every time David Miscavige announces his fictional "Good News", it is a sign that Ultimate Good is winning.  But every protest, every bad news article, every exposé on TV is a sign that Ultimate Evil is winning.

It is all so very, very, very important.  To them.

And sometimes, with all this importance being artificially imprinted on Scientology by Scientologists, it is difficult to keep things in perspective.

Let's look at reality, shall we?

Scientology doesn't exist.  That is the reality in the rest of the world.  Outside of Scientology and its critics, Scientology really doesn't show up on the radar of most people.  A few might know that Scientology has something to do with Tom Cruise, and that's about it.  To most of the world, Scientology simply does not exist.

Scientology's "solutions" have been tried in a very few places, but were found to be expensive and to not work very well.  So these "solutions" have been, or are being, dropped wherever they were tried.  You look for what effect Scientology is having on the world and the answer is: None.  For all their posturing and bragging, their results are nowhere to be found.  It's like they don't exist.

Psychiatrists are not much aware of Scientology.  They know that, for some reason, Scientology attacks them, but, since the effects of those attacks are negligible, it doesn't matter to psychiatrists what they do.

Politicians are finding out that, as celebrities already know, association with the fraudulent, deceitful Church of Scientology is a huge negative to their careers.  The church has no influence there.

And, actually, Scientology is not very important to Scientology's critics either.  Yes, critics care about the victims.  Yes, they want the abuse, lies, fraud and crimes to be stopped.  Yes, they want the destroyed families to be brought back together.  But criticizing and protesting Scientology is what they do with their spare time.  It isn't their life, it isn't their survival, it isn't some "epic battle".

Outside of Scientology's bubble, Scientology just isn't important. 

In this struggle, Scientology is fighting a desperate fight for "the whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it," while its critics are happily living their lives and, occasionally, when they have some spare time, criticizing and protesting Scientology.

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Source: Ask the Scientologist

[wynot]

In this struggle, Scientology is fighting a desperate fight for "the whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it," while its critics are happily living their lives and, occasionally, when they have some spare time, criticizing and protesting Scientology.

This would make a great .sig, wouldn't it?

It has been pointed out elsewhere that most cults do not long survive the deaths of their charismatic founders. Those that do (Mormonism, Christian Scientists, Krishna, etc...) tend to be variants of existing faiths, and over time evolve into less extreme and harmful forms. Scientology, being pretty much made up out of one sociopath's head, does not have the gestalt of mythical underpinnings which might make it attractive to followers of established religions.  And its insistence that the Hubtoad's childish power-fantasies be regarded as Ultimate Truth makes evolution into a less destructive faith very difficult (although the little squirrel's attempts to edit the original teachings into something less stupid shows he may be at least partially aware of this flaw). As we watch this cult's continuing dissolution, it is an interesting debate which does it more harm - the little squirrel, or the critics. But it may be only the average path of cultic existence.

Which does not make the work of the critical community less important, and perhaps makes it's goal more urgent. Even a dieing crocodile can cause much harm whipping its tail about!

'til next time;
wynot

[ethercat]

Scientology In Perspective
9 August 2010, 9:30 am
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Scientology doesn't exist.  That is the reality in the rest of the world.  Outside of Scientology and its critics, Scientology really doesn't show up on the radar of most people.  A few might know that Scientology has something to do with Tom Cruise, and that's about it.  To most of the world, Scientology simply does not exist.

This is true.  Just today, I had occasion to mention to someone at work that I protest against scientology.   He said, "That's the crazy group Tom Cruise is involved with, isn't it?"

(This is the same thing most people I encounter say when I mention protesting against scientology.)

Then I told him about CCHR and the goals to infiltrate and run society, and we went back to working on our project.  Outside of being a bit of trivia, it didn't matter to him one iota.