Anyone who can pick up a work of fiction (such as the book Dianetics) and believe it so undoubtedly as to follow its advice religiously and give huge sums of their money away is, in my opinion, mentally malfunctioning and extremely foolish.
Ferchrissakes, the guy coins a few scientific-sounding terms, employs some phoney-baloney apparatus to measure who-knows-what, and comes up with some hoops one can jump through to gain some phoney status, and all of a sudden everyone with a lot of money and a lack of brain power wants to jump on his bandwagon?
The book may have some good ideas in it, but such things should be considered as good advice, not as instructions on starting a cult.
I doubt it. Nobody deserves that white jacket
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I was in Scientology briefly many moons ago.
Did a couple of their courses, communication and the like. Some good stuff in there.
It got a bit goofier towards the end of my involvement and just before I joined the Sea Org ( I toyed with the idea for about a week - I was a completely different person back then…), I just got up early during a study session (I used to attend these 5 nights a week) just as I was supposed to start the final, essay type, question in the course I was doing and told the supervisor that I had to go see some friends of mine who were playing in a band. I left and never even thought about going back.
Seems that rock 'n roll saved my life.
I was never as heavily into the whole thing as this lady. Reading thru some of the reasons she got involved reminds me of some of the thoughts I had about the whole thing as well.
At the time.
