I was over at the Celeb Center mansion, a few days ago, wanted to gets some photos, just for sheer purposes of admiring the architecture, while reflecting on how sad it is that such a lovely structure has been subverted by a cult. Of course, it was only a matter of minutes that I was accosted by a young, very naive, Scientologist to "body route" me into the org.

I didn't tell her of my years of history with the cult, and, at the end of her body routing attempt, sensing defeat that I was not going to go in and take the OCA test, she exclaimed that there was a "tone scale", and at its bottom was "numbness". I asked her if she was implying that she thought I was at the bottom of this scale, i.e., that I was "numb". She said "yes" and went away.

Why is it that whenever life tosses a Scientologist an opportunity to demonstrate their religiosity, they fail miserably?

Phineas Fogg

In article <Wl8D9.1881$OZ4.215113@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, oiurojive@coiude.com says...

> I was over at the Celeb Center mansion, a few days ago, wanted to gets
> some photos, just for sheer purposes of admiring the architecture,
> while reflecting on how sad it is that such a lovely structure has
> been subverted by a cult. Of course, it was only a matter of minutes
> that I was accosted by a young, very naive, Scientologist to "body
> route" me into the org.
>
> I didn't tell her of my years of history with the cult, and, at the
> end of her body routing attempt, sensing defeat that I was not going
> to go in and take the OCA test, she exclaimed that there was a "tone
> scale", and at its bottom was "numbness". I asked her if she was
> implying that she thought I was at the bottom of this scale, i.e.,
> that I was "numb". She said "yes" and went away.
>
> Why is it that whenever life tosses a Scientologist an opportunity to
> demonstrate their religiosity, they fail miserably?
>
>
> Phineas Fogg

There are so many potential answers to your question as to qualify you as 'Straight Man of the Year' possibly, but, a straight answer would probably be that what she said was *exactly* demonstrating that 'religiousity'.

Some ex's who are even aware of the abuses and malfeasances of Scientology, tend to grasp desperately to the 'good' in Scn, citing such 'beneficial' things as the Data Series, the early courses, Hubbard's picked and chosen 'insights' and yes... the Tone Scale.

Now, the Tone Scale is by its very nature a purely arbitrary and biased categorization and 'ranking' of qualities, only superior to any *other* arbitrarilly biased and spewed 'categorization method' because of it's 'source' in Hubbard.

Like many Scn 'techs' it's fairly easy to dismiss the entirety as pure hogwash, *without* examining it's *use*, which is one of those brilliant if evil little Hubbardisms that does force me to be at least amazed at the brilliance of the old fraud.

The Tone Scale isn't *only* a categorization scheme. It's also a *ranking* scheme, with purely arbitrary 'values' placed on each ranked 'level'.

Given a bag full of assorted marbles, one could seperate and order them in any number of ways. The Tone Scale not only claims to be the only 'sane' way of sorting the marbles, but then goes further to 'interpret qualities' for each of the categories. Up to and including predicting bad breath :)

As *used* in Scientology, it's an 'invalidation' tool. Your body router was faced with a very *religious* dilema. Hubbard promised that the tech always worked. Hubbard demanded that his disciples 'make it go right'. By her own brand of logic, she had failed to 'make it go right', and, was in danger of 'invalidating' Hubbard. Solution?

Grab your tone scale, assign the cause of your failure a 'level' which allows you to justify your failure, and you're off the hook.

'Why didn't you get that raw meat in for an OCA? Why didn't you 'make it go right?'

'Well, he was 'numb'. You just can't help some people :('

It's perfect circular logic, justifies anything and excuses anything.

She was *perfectly* demonstrating Scientology religiousity.

Zinj

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