Path: rambo.bobo.net!xs4all!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newspeer1.nac.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!207.155.183.80.MISMATCH!global-news-master From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: "Shattered" minds Date: 24 Nov 1998 19:26:06 PST Organization: inFormer Ministry [a 501(c)3 non-profit, religious organization] "... in service of cult victims and their families." Lines: 51 Message-ID: <367074be.43446021@news.concentric.net> References: <36434818.32145259@news.tiac.net> <7348qn$356@enews3.newsguy.com> <73c9u9$i8o$1@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <73ckr0$ale@enews4.newsguy.com> <366c34c7.15117887@news.concentric.net> <73e6b5$emt@enews4.newsguy.com> <365b48d7.0@news2.lightlink.com> Reply-To: informer@informer.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ts025d24.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:147442 martinh@islandnet.com (Martin Hunt): >One thing's for sure: if Scientology wasn't there, it wouldn't have >any victims. I love that kind of logic! >But how many of us would have waddled off down the >yellow brick road of some other scam artist or con artist? Not I. I probably would have gone back to school and gotten a degree. Or gotten a record deal. >I mean, *she's* never >been hurt by cults, so what does it matter to her if other people >are? She cares. >This is just typical ugly americaness, She just doesn't want to minimize the individual's responsibility for committing harmful acts, even if at the direction our under the control of cultic manipulation. Did I get that right, Rebecca? >not in back yardism, >who cares as long as there's gas in the car and food in the >fridgeness. It's not something special; most people are apathetic, >moronic consumers. In the big picture, it's not the idealists >who join cults who are the problem; it's all the good concumers >roaring about in their Sport-Utes, drinking Coke, and eating >McDonald's. I love it when you talk like that, Martin. Now wipe the spittle off your chin. >So this is how it ends, not in nuclear holocaust, >but by eating *hamburgers* of all things. How utterly bizarre; >who wrote this script, anyway? It's *much* stranger than OT 3. :-) One more outburst like that and it's 86 from the C/T Bus. >Pass the chips, David. No eating unless you share with the driver. Rev Dennis Erlich * * the inFormer * *