Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: SOLVING THE PROBLEM (RE: Message-ID: <9510240739.0AR0200@support.com> References: <199510240230.TAA29926@netcom21.netcom.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 07:39:08 -0700 Lines: 55 Xenu's Sister > > brian_thurston@mindlink.bc.ca (Brian Thurston) writes: > > > > It is one of the cormnerstones of our Religious beliefs that these > > materials are dangerous to us and the general public if disclosed > > prematurely. > > The materials are definitely dangerous to Scientology if they are > disclosed to the general public. > > After all, how many people do you think would still want to join after > reading the tech for themselves and discovering that Scientology > eventually tells you that all of your psychological problems are caused > by invisible psychic alien spirits clinging to your body, which you can > get rid of by holding two soup cans connected to a easily built, simple > electronic circuit? > > Not very many, I'd warrant. > > Then again, you never know -- check out the circulation stats for the > National Enquirer. > >No kidding! It's ironic, the people who normally read the National >Enquirer (yes, I'm generalizing) would probably take like a fish to >water to a relgion that spouts such nonsense, but they also don't >make the kind of money scientology charges for it all. > >You know, if scientology would: > >1) lower it's prices dramatically >2) come right out with the Xenu stuff at the beginning and >3) stop with the dirty tricks and paranoia > >the thing would probably BOOM with new members. They'd make even more >money, and all the critics wouldn't have anything to bitch about. > >There's an audience waiting to believe in Xenu, and scientology is >just ignoring them. Silly people. > >Vickie That would just about do it, Vickie. There'd have to be a fair amount of restitution for damage the cult has done in the past. But when that was paid off, they could go their own way in peace. Til then, they gonna have to face down Tarbaby. +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"