Path: rambo.bobo.net!xs4all!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!207.155.183.80.MISMATCH!global-news-master From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: A message to Rebecca Date: 09 Nov 1998 17:42:31 PST Organization: inFormer Ministry [a 501(c)3 non-profit, religious organization] "... in service of cult victims and their families." Lines: 35 Message-ID: <364e9c25.2880851@news.concentric.net> References: <364577b2.8308351@news.tiac.net> <3677bb9a.69423993@news.snafu.de> <727luq$jo6$1@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3647631d.353795@news.snafu.de> <727qq5$8ci$1@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: informer@informer.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ts023d09.lax-ca.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: rambo.bobo.net alt.religion.scientology:141934 ceon@u.washington.edu (Ceon Ramon): >Of course they can "go on." They've already "gone on." They're alive. Heh. Is that how it seems to you? >They have choices. They have the potential to live and love and create >entirely new lives for themselves. I know that Dennis is really gloomy >about his possibilities, but that doesn't mean they don't exist as long >as he himself has existence, life; life is after all a matter of "going on." >Neither one of them has been murdered, neither one of them is dead. It's >only when you're dead that you can't "go on." No, it doesn't quite work like that. Life doesn't erase it's effect on the basis that the victim survived, and went on in some manner. My life cannot really "go on." That which was my life has been systematically stripped from me in every real and tangible sense. My heart is still beating, yes. Perhaps it "goes on" beating just to prove to them they can not control me in that choice. I really can't think of another reason for it to go on. >Dennis is if anyone is a true victim. I cannot "go on" until I at least get my constitutional rights back. Can't you see that? >He has been persecuted for nothing >more than trying to communicate the reality of what he lived through. That's about it. Rev Dennis Erlich * * the inFormer * *