In World War I Uncle Bob manned a machine gun nest and mowed down hundreds of soldiers as they peeked there heads up from the trenches.

Uncle John spread the poison gas that killed thousands in agonizing convulsive deaths. Grandma had to take care of the farm, havesting wheat by hand and baking bread and cookies.

Years later Grandma recalled the horrors of World War I: "You had to harvest wheat by hand and bake bread and cookies."

Gandolf--like other "in-former" scientologists locked in information cells during their stints in the cult, blinded by their need-to-know statuses--is like Grandma. Hobbled by a cult-induced inability to think, he believes the total content of history is the bread and cookie making he personally experienced through the tunnel vision of his brainwashed mind. Critical thinking processes have been vanquished.

Even worse, he is totally unable to think outside the box; and accuses those who can, of heresy.

Worse yet: He may be shilling for "the most classically terroristic cult the world has ever known" -TIME Magazine cover story May 6, 1991;

when he says--

Gandalf wrote:

> I hope any lurking Scientologists (or potential Scientologists) realize that
> critics are a diverse group. Almost uniformly critics believe that the Co$
> is doing bad things. The vast majority of critics believe that Scientology
> as a belief system has severe problems.
>
> Nonetheless, some critics insist on going way over the line into making
> incredible statements about what Scientology is or is about.
>
> I am definitely a critic of Scientology, but these extreme statements
> *really* piss me off. However, no amount of reason in dealing with these
> people on particular issues seems to do any good. Why discuss it further
> with them?
>
> The real point is this: I hope that any Scientologist or potential
> Scientologist has enough sense to recognize there are a few extremists
> statements among posts and can discard them without thinking they
> characterize critics in general.
>
> The vast majority of critical statements about the Co$ and Scientology made
> on ARS are based on reasonably hard evidence and solid reasoning.

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