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From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: "Shattered" minds
Date: 20 Nov 1998 19:18:08 PST
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"Rebecca Hartong" <hartong@erols.com>:

>Scientology seems like a big deal to a lot of us because we think about it
>every day.  To the greater American society, though, Scientology is just
>another wacky fringe group.

   ... who can get the State Department to condemn US allies for
treating them like the fascist, parasitic, predatory organization they
are.

   ... who can see to it that they are never mentioned in any movie.

>I grew up in a family where we watched both evangelists and professional
>wrestling for their amusement and entertainment value.  I grew up watching
>cheap monster movies on TV and looking for the strings that they would use
>to make the monster's arms go up and down.  That kind of childhood--like
>your own--helps, I think.

   So 99.9% of the world's population fails to acquire your
immunization.  

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

rebecca
>The punishment would seem to be largely self-imposed.  

   Much as the rape victim's punishment is self-imposed by being in
those circumstances, and then having the nerve to say "no!"

>It comes when a
>person changes their mind from believing they're saving the world to
>believing they're actually just wasting their time and money.

   Rebecca's model (if i have it right): buyer remorse and nothing
more.

   Her "inoculation": buyer beware and nothing less.

   Rev Dennis Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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