Church of Scientology members continually post on alt.religion.scientology with biting, cruel posts against critics of Scientology. These posts are quite similar in their tone and venom, and it reminds me of an event at one picket here in Clearwater.

I was carrying my big Panasonic S-VHS camera on my shoulder during the picket. Scientologists were there harassing us, calling us names, and just being creepy toward us. One thin woman followed behind me jabbering at me for quite a while. She started saying "that camera must be heavy. It's hurting your shoulder. You're getting very tired carrying that heavy thing." She went on like this for a few moments, whereupon I told her "you're running reverse processes on me!" She shut up and seemed sort of stunned, maybe just because she was surprised I knew what reverse processing is, or more hopefully, she thought that perhaps that was just what she was doing.

This Scientologist woman was talking to me in a way that was designed to hurt me. She was using her Scientology training to make me feel pain. This is reverse processing, where you use Scientology to hurt or bring down a person instead of to help. It's also called Black Dianetics (which, now that I think about it, I used that phrase to that woman as well).

So here you have a group (Scientology) that claims to be religious, that claims to have a technology of the mind and soul that will help people, yet here on a.r.s. they are using their Scientology training to HURT people. Their Scientology training has them posting things like "No more checks from Minton. I'd worry too if I were her. Her family hates her and everone else is dumping her. Another total loser like Henson." [lmt_watch@my-deja.com on 5/17/01] The Scientologists' posts are designed to degrade, debase, embarass, humiliate, and simply hurt whichever critic is being talked about.

The GOAL is to HURT the person, using the "religious" training these Scientologists have. It's to bring down the critic's tone level, to shudder them into silence, to lessen ARC, to make their life miserable. This is Scientology at work!

Scientology claims to help people, and perhaps they do help some people. But Scientology ALSO, BY POLICY, is designed to hurt people.

If you don't believe it, read the posts here on a.r.s. by Scientologists. Is this the kind of religion you want to support?

By contrast, I'd just like to mention a different religious leader's advice on this subject: "bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also." [Luke 6:28-29] But then, Scientology president Heber Jentzsch said "we're not a turn-the-other-cheek religion."




--- When a Scientology staffer used a syringe to force a mixture of aspirin, Benadryl and orange juice into McPherson's throat while others held her down, it was "spiritual sustenance," the church argues.

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