Many Scientologists are contacting me these days, all the picket signs, web banners and media articles create attention. I will share our communication with the rest of you later if they allow me to do so. Still, I'll npw and again post some quotes from my replies to claims and questions that often are repeated so I can get your opinions on them. Here's one from one of my e-mails today: [START QUOTE] >If people believe that Scientology helps them, let
>them believe. Who are you to take away or attack
>someone's beliefs.
I don't belive I am able to take away someone's belief. I trust people are capable of thinking for themselves and if they change their convictions it is themselves and not me who does it. You reflect a very poor belief in your fellow man, believing they would be so simple- minded that they just changed their opinions because they read my site. I state very clearly there that they should not take my or anybody elses word for anything, but check out both sides and make up their own mind. If you start distrusting them you are very close to protecting them from the whole picture, and that is another step into the totalitarian mind set. It is comforting to see that I react to that type of argument. People believe Chinese surgery and healing works and therefore die because they stop traditional medical treatment. It's their freedom, but if some of them might choose differently if they only knew both sides before they fell for the fraud, then it is worth trying to make information available to them. That's why we put freedom of speech so high in our society, because we say every human has an equal right to think for themselves. If half of the facts are hidden to them they are not free, they are just victims of propaganda and fraud. If seeing this diversity in society makes you angry, disappointed or sad then I suggest you stop and question your values. Something is very wrong. [END QUOTE] Best wishes,
Andreas Heldal-Lund, Nunsteinvegen 9, N-4056 Tananger, Norway
Pho: +47 90 04 32 99 Fax: 90 32 35 46 E-mail: ahl@xenu.net
home.sol.no/~spirous www.xenu.net www.hedning.no/hedning
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"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in
thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which
never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion
and ignorance which does harm." -- Marcus Aurelius
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