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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: WHAT THE RPF IS.
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baldrick@ix.netcom.com (Michael Wenlock)

> Ok Steve - this is a testimonial fro someone who has been out of the
>church since 1989, I have no course to pass and I have no interest in
>whether the church likes or dislikes what I say. Its a personal
>statement, I do not claim to speak for everyone who has ever done the
>RPF nor do I say that everyone's experience was the same as mine.
>  I did the RPF in 1986 at Flag. I did it of my own free will - noone
>coerced me into it, in fact before I started I was given the option of
>leaving the Sea Org. While I was on it I received a lot of auditor
>training I received a lot of auditing on a co-audit basis and probably
>had more direct work with the nuts andbolts of scientology than I had
>in the previous 10 years in the SO.
>  yes we did a lot of cleaning, emptying garbage, moving furniture,
>painting etc etc. But the point of the whole exercise was
>rehabilitation and the work was secondary to that.
>  And oh yeah - the "rice and beans" that everyone talks about - not
>once on the RPF did we ever have rice and beans, in fact we most often
>ate better than anyone else. Anyone who has ever been in the navy knows
>how to wheedle from the cook.
>  I didn't always enjoy the RPF but it was a valuable and enlightening
>experience and I got a huge amount of gain from it.

   I have friends who say that the RPF was the closest thing to
   how they imagined scientology was supposed to work.  They got
   more auditing and personal care in the RPF than they did in
   all they years on staff.  They made better friends and got 
   more enhancement in the RPF.

   I mark up their praise to Stockholm Syndrome.  "Lock me up, 
   order me around, degrade me and make me behave so that I am
   acceptable to you again.  Please."

   Sick, sick sh*t.  (no offense, Michael)

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