By richard ford, posted to the Operation Clambake Message Board:

Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 11:43 am ---------------------------------------------------------------- I have been watching the Tory video. The thing that most strikes me is the power of forgiveness.

Scientology is very skilled in making people feel guilty. It can give limited relief through the ethics process but never really forgives. Everything that is said is written down and stored for next time.

When I was a Clam I craved forgiveness. I wanted to know I was a good person but everything scientology teaches made me feel worse. The simple fact that I did not benefit from Auditing proved I was in some way bad!

Scientologists are usually not very nice to one another. There is little room for warmth or compassion or even friendship within ethics. Can you form a friendship with someone who writes KRs on you? No, but this is the point of ethics, to break down all that is human.

A point comes where the individual simply cannot stand the inhumanity and will respond to any genuine human voice. They are lonely because they have only Ronbots to communicate with.

What can a scientologist talk about? They cannot talk about there lives and feelings- this is verbal tech. They cannot discuss there friends- this is natter. They cannot offer sympathy to a friend- 'going into sympathy' will get you into ethics.

Scientologists are LONELY and we are the only people who can come close to understanding these experience.

To do this we must first offer them something scientology has never offered anyone. Forgiveness and unconditional acceptance for the human being beneath the actions.

[END] I totally agree with Richards post and got his approval to forward it to ARS Best wishes,
Andreas Heldal-Lund, Nunsteinvegen 9, N-4056 Tananger, Norway
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