Is Tom Cruise losing it?
Date: June 09, 2006 04:47AM
think what I am aiming at here is to let out interlocutor, in this case Durham, although I'm sure there will be many more... engage in discussion, even if that discussion appears to be circular rambling. He's playing the [b:8d7e684a83] bigotry [/b:8d7e684a83] card at the moment... shutting him down only serves to confirm what the Org has been preaching, that critical attitudes towards Scientology are nothing more than redneck bigtory against a new, courageous, forward thinking religion. That's one of their [b:8d7e684a83] self expalantory tropes [/b:8d7e684a83] ... and one does get the distinct impression that many of their creative energies are used to think up plausible counter arguments for negative things said out there in the [b:8d7e684a83] Wog World [/b:8d7e684a83] ... bad enough to be a Wog (this enchanting expression was borrowed by LRH from the British Colonials in 19th and early 20th century Egypt, where it was an extremely disparaging term the colonials used for Arabs, its precise derivation is an acronym for Worthy Oriental Gentelman... betcha they don't teach you that whilst they're stomping on the engrams...) ... far worse to be a [b:8d7e684a83] Squirrel [/b:8d7e684a83] ... someone who takes "their tech" and does it [i:8d7e684a83] ex cathedra [/i:8d7e684a83] ... in some weird sense they do share this feature with radical Islam, where the Infidel who never believed is not one thousandth the criminal as The Believer who rejects Islam after belonging to it.... the Scientologists are, in their semi-coherent fashon, sort of the Wahabbis of the Sci-Fi religions... now, no one ever averred that having a nice rational discussion with a Wahabbi would be an easy task...because everything outside of Pure Faith is Dar al-Harb, the "House of War" or "House of Chaos" ...
So Durham adopts the tone one uses when speaking in the Dar al-Harb and we're approaching him like a bunch of Alexandrian rationalist philosophers who are posing difficult questions that test the consistency of Scientology with its claims, does it succeed in living up to its claims, more, its most sacred tenets, that Scientology has discovered the "road to total freedom" that removes contaminating forces and releases the pure Theta force.....
If Durham has answers... and even if he doesn't.... I'd like to know how far he can venture into the Dar al-Harb while maintaining his composure... [b:8d7e684a83] can he explain the general mediocrity of the Scientology community, its glaring lack of world class talent with the exception of a handful of entertainers ? [/b:8d7e684a83]... well can anyone associated with the church do that ? [b:8d7e684a83] Can he explain the existence of Reed Slatkin ? [/b:8d7e684a83] ... can he explain [b:8d7e684a83] why LRH's own son thoroughly, publicly denounced him and Scientology from top to bottom [/b:8d7e684a83] ...
If Durham has solid answers, bring 'em on. If Durham can only resort to scripted [b:8d7e684a83] victimization dramas [/b:8d7e684a83] about the hostility of those who don't or won't get it... if that's his best shot, his ace card, his snuggly blanket... bring 'em on... I really would love to know what this person really thinks, is it a man or a woman, what brought him to Scientology, what he likes most about it, what he likes least, how his life has changed, sometimes the crucial facts are in the telling little details, the looping repetitions, and [b:8d7e684a83] the evasions [/b:8d7e684a83] ... what is this person evading ? How do they evade ? [b:8d7e684a83] What does the evasion say louder than words can ? [/b:8d7e684a83]