a question for (ex)OT III's and above
im a long time lurker, first time poster.
im not a Scientologist.
i have a question, its a genuine question and i hope i don't annoy anyone.
when you reached OT III and saw the confidential materials for the first time, didn't you think that something wasn't quite right, that the CMs were far fetched?
i consider myself to have average intelligence and the first time i heard the CMs the part that jumped out at me was the part about the DC8s. now if LRH had described a craft that resembled a stealth bomber i would have been impressed. when i heard about the 'DC8's i couldnt help thinking that around the time LRH was writing it, one of the most common airplanes in use was the DC8, so he used a state of the art machine of the time.
Glycol paralyzing the people mentioned in the CM's. hmm, does Glycol actually work like that? im sure it doesn't.
so, my question is, did any of you think "what is this garbage about spaceships and aliens? this has never been mentioned before?" and if you did think that how were you convinced it was the truth?
i just thought of another question, LRH wrote that Scientology was not a religion, i was wondering how the church explains that suddenly it was.
as i said, im not out to insult anyone, im just trying to understand how anyone can hear the CM's and still be 'in'
i suppose, to put it bluntly, i want to know how anyone could fall for it.
thanks in advance