"Aurt" <art@fg.com> wrote in message news:Fi4if.214765$ir4.203840@edtnps90...

>I have been doing some reading about COS and am in shock as to how many
>people are so easily influenced by lies and deceit. People that are
>joining this cult must have nothing left in their lives that they feel they
>can accomplish. Then as time progresses with the cult, your defenses are
>lowered to logical thinking with the brainwashing techniques that L. Ron
>Hubbard himself documented and wrote. Do people not realized that when a
>science fiction writer that is, "drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and
>greys." - - L. Ron Hubbard in a 1967 letter to his wife, is creating a
>"religion" on the principal of making money and changing the way people think
>into his own demented way of life, that in essence is false? Any person who
>has any ability to think for themselves can see this. In his own words he
>said that in order for him to make money he should start a "religion"! Is
>this not proof enough??
>

It is fasinating, isn't it?

Things to consider;

CoS operates as a 'bait-and-switch' scam. They offer many things, psychic powers, miraculous cures... They appeal to peoples' needs, a desire to improve the world, a desire to improve yourself, a desire to change a bad situation or personal failing. They tell you you have a problem only they can fix, a problem you didn't know you had until they told you. What do you get? Some small self-improvement courses, but mainly courses designed to numb your critical facilities, give you a type of 'high', and continued promises that it's the *next* course that will provide what was promised to you.

Most people wake up within a year, which is why the CoS has to ruthlessly recruit. People who continue may find that they only have scientologist friends, partners and workmates and are employed by a scientologist-owned firm. They can invest years into the CoS. They have an enormous emotional investment in their beliefs, often bolstered by an enormous financial investment. They are the quintessential example of throwing good money after bad. If they leave, they must admit they wasted a heap of time and money, and will suddenly have no support as their friends, partners and employers must disconnect from them.

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