Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:16 am by bosshog
You have valid points, and I respect you are so strongly vocal about it... really honorable in my opinion... what makes me so sick are people who DEFEND it, rationalize it like some women do abusive relationships. Making excuses, saying it will change or it hasn't beel 'all bad'... but first ask yourself, what kind of person, at what point in their life, fall for this 'shit'?
Well, usually a weak person with a weak sense of self and a weak gut instinct, or a weak sense of individuality, or a weak moment in their life, will fall for this 'too good to be true' bullshit... that CoS can answer and help all their life and questions. Some want to identify with celebrity, others like the creepy word... Scientology... whatever! Sounds like a fraud pseudo science to me! Anyway, Eric (can't think of his name just now) wrote a book called True Believer (maybe Eric Hoffer?).. he explains the mentality and sociological aspects of 'the fanatic' person.
Lastly, TO SOME DEGREE, one on the outside may ask, what is SO FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH THESE PARISHIONERS, FOLLOWERS OF THIS CHURCH / CULT THAT THEY CAN'T SEE TO SAVE THEIR LIVES, THEIR KIDS FUTURES OR THEIR FAMILIES the truth? Or lack of it....
The man behind the curtain...
How much of it is LRH's fault that these people, to some degree, follow the bullshit like lemmings jumping off a cliff? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? WHO DOES THAT? Who does TR 0's and doesn't flat out say they are fkn bullshit?
Who doesn't JUST SAY FUCK THIS AND WALK OUT? ? ? ?
Well... the people who stay...
How much is their fault for not thinking for themselves, saying no and taking REAL responsibility? (rather than the so called responsibility they learn at the cult?!)
They are just victims...