Way-ell...
In my current phase of life I'm slipping into ill health and the decrepitude of age. I am entirely confident I could be doing this even if I had never heard of LRH.
I do have some pretty nifty memories of things the tech did for me and even more what I did for others
Second question...
My current life is a good example of what over fifty years of smoking cigarrettes can do to your lungs especially when combined bad dental care, overindulgence in maryjane well seasoned with occaisional use LSD, crack and speed and frosted with obesity
The "fantastic" aspect of LRH's work; Helatrobus, Markab etc. is problematic (to say the least).
I did NOT see people being conned out of money when I was in. Both the org in SF and the one in DC sold and delivered auditing and auditor training with a $$$ guarantee that was honored. I actively dislike Sea Org conditions but it's servants are there of their own volition and, as is clearly evidenced by so many who have left they can stay or leave by their own volition and
THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SLAVERY
What he did accomplish, in short, is in the passage from my book you quoted
I must say you are a bit of a master at not answering questions and one of the best deniers of truth that I think I have ever seen.
You gave an answer, but, your answers don't really relate to the questions I asked. In other words you shmoozed your way out of answering the questions.
Let's try this again, okay?
CP...I'm just curious......
1. in what way does your own life reflect what LRH did for you personally? Just saying you have some memories doesn't say what he did for you.
2. Are you, or is your current life an example of what the LRH tech can do for an individual? If you think his tech is so terrific, why has your life ended up in such a mess? I don't think you could get much further down than you are today. Keep in mind that there are a lot of people that are older that made something of their life and even though they are retired, they still have a decent place to live and an income, even though it may not be large, and they haven't trashed their lives and their health and ended up living on the street and they never heard of LRH. There are many people who's lives were trashed and some even committed suicide as a result of being involved in LRH's technology....but you seem to be blind to that fact.
3. My third question is.....because you keep talking about LRH's life's work being so fantastic......what do you think LRH achieved with his life's work outside of conning a lot of people out of their money (so he could be a millionaire), creating a slave force to do his bidding and making his name a household word? Please be specific in what you think LRH achieved with his life's work.
In your book you say "Moreover he is incontestably the most famous philosopher of the twentieth century and arguably the recent century's most influentual." This may be true in your mind.....whatever is true for you is true for you. I say....this is bull and nonsense.
You also say, in your book..."His body of work, incongruously couched in the context of the wildest most bizarre cosmology ever conceived by man, clarifies, refines and expands mankind's knowledge and understanding of the mind and spirit and he produced and promulgated techniques based thereon known to improve mental function, spiritual awareness and to increase ability and weltanschauung and to reduce distress and disability particularly when resulting from physical and/or psychological trauma."
Well...what about the negative side...what about the damage it's done to so many lives....you aren't willing to look at that, are you? What you write in your book looks to me like you are trying to lead the lambs to slaughter, not telling them of the pitfalls that they might encounter if they get involved in LRH tech. LRH didn't have all the answers and what he did put out to others he didn't originate....he stole and copied from others.....instead of worshiping the guy, look at the facts, man. Yes, some people got some benefit from being in Scientology for a while, back in the early days, but so many crashed and burned on the way. Look at the devastation he left in his path.
One lesson you might learn from LRH is to "observe" and you're not demonstrating that you are doing that. All you do is try to make it look like his tech is so all fired fantastic and it isn't. He didn't have all the answers and sometimes his answers got people in trouble and wrecked their lives and their families lives. And as far as Dianetics goes, that wasn't his idea....he just picked it up from someone else and wrote a book about it and added his own garbage into the book....and he didn't give credit to where he got it from. This is the honey that he used to attract the flies. He wanted people to think that he was "source" so they would worship him and think that he was some genius.
He liked to fool people and he used that to make a lot of money for himself, while those who worked for him always did without, even to this day. And he did enslave people, mentally, getting them to believe certain things so that they would stay around and work for him and by feeding them nonsense about how their lives would crash if they left Scientology. This kept people trapped in a belief that he put forward to entrap them as his slaves. This was his postulate...this is what his life's work was about...tricks so that everything would be for him, and everyone else in his life would do without so that he could have it all.
"Mental slavery is a state of mind where discerning between liberation and enslavement is twisted. Where one becomes trapped by misinformation about self and the world.Jan 3, 2017"
He lied to people to get them into Scientology and to keep them there so that he could make money and become famous.
WAKE UP CLAY!!!!!!
And how about answering my questions?