Path: rambo.bobo.net!xs4all!xs4all!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!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: 28 Nov 1998 21:19:00 PST Organization: inFormer Ministry [a 501(c)3 non-profit, religious organization] "... in service of cult victims and their families." Lines: 39 Message-ID: <366cd916.49752269@news.concentric.net> References: <7348qn$356@enews3.newsguy.com> <36591f16.3389495@news.concentric.net> <3656d391.2564760@enews.newsguy.com> <365a3833.6264140@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <365b8a82.3217272@enews.newsguy.com> <365e1bb9.14240023@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <73m5e5$2nm@enews2.newsguy.com> <365ed996.62851992@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <73mved$10n@enews1.newsguy.com> <365f7587.102779578@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <73oobp$mgg@enews2.newsguy.com> <3660b0d8.183512409@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: informer@informer.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ts024d41.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:148578 seekon@spamblock.ix.netcom.com (Conner): > dennis said, a couple of years ago, that he felt that his > social interaction skills were stunted when he left scientology, > in part simply because they had no way of growing through > healthy interactions with others while he was in. it is a tiny bit > believable to me that the same kind of effect could happen with > one's emotional and mental maturity. That is an accurate description of the effect of being in the cult for 15 years. rebecca >>There seems among more >>of them (than among the general a.r.s. public) to be a tendency to see >>things in black-and-white terms. And, no, I'm not going to name names. 3 > i guess excessive reliance on an undemonstrated hypotheses > of the cause of cultic participation might be considered a form > of black-and-white thinking :-> You're not supposed to notice that. >>People make unwise choices. It's >>unfortunate when they are hurt by these choices, but I much prefer living in >>a society where the right to make these choices is preserved. > > sure, people can buy into pyramid schemes, and get scammed > on insurance policies, and go to doctors who malpractice, and > get ripped off by auto mechanics, and make all sorts of unwise > choices. i guess you prefer living in a society where the right to > make these choices is preserved? That's the way she seems to prefer it. Rev Dennis Erlich * * the inFormer * *