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From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: "Shattered" minds
Date: 20 Nov 1998 19:18:05 PST
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Keith Henson <hkhenson@netcom.com>:

Rebecca Hartong <hartong@erols.com> wrote:
>: You see, I think the responsibility can lie within the individual without
>: the individual being "to blame" in a punitive sense.

keef
>This is funny in a grim way, because wasting much of your life in a cult 
>is automatically "punitive."  Keith Henson

   Precisely.  And although trying to break free of their control
involves substantial punishment, but Rebecca implies we are still
blameless and at the same time responsible.

   Did I get that right, Rebecca?

   Rev Dennis Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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