Thanks, but I'm actually a bloke. I think I should call myself Tomcat's Squirrel, might resolve some of the confusion.
My username is a play on the word "squirrel" and also a homage to 60's rock (it's a track by Cream).
well whoops... my apologies to you!
What I'd like to ask you is this;
You clearly take a very absolutist line on this, which I'll paraphrase thus; Scn is complete s**te and anyone who believes in it are fools and w***ers (clearly including me).
No no no, the phrase that springs to mind is "gullible twits" or naifs.
Nevertheless, some people believe they have made gains with the Tech.
some people think they have made gains with rastafarianism, does that mean you will be dreadlocking and smoking the ganja?
How do you account for that? And if they're deluded, why are they more deluded than people who have made gains with any other kind of counselling or therapy?
How do you account for the fact that over 80% of the people who try scientology think that it is total rubbish?
But to answer your question - because they are gullible twits who have no idea how to think critically. In a nutshell.
I notice that everything you refer to revolves around the mysterious "making gains" - so what, exactly do you mean with the phrase "making gains"?
People believe in Scientology for the same reasons they believe in quack "cures". They do not realize that they are going to change - with or without the "cure". People do not stay the same, they adapt, they learn most people improve in their capability to handle their life. Not all, of course, but most.
You see CS - let's take our little back and forth - you have dismissed the concept of the "Clear" as outlined by Hubbard. Now Hubbard said that not only had he cleared people but that he had trained others to do it and had seen and noted the results. According to Hubbard this was
observed fact it was supposedly as thoroughly researched as any engineering.
But you, apparently, think Hubbard was either nuts or a liar. Wanna pick a runway and set yourself down?
So - if the work that started this whole thing is wrong - why would you think that anything else this charlatan laid his pudgy fingers on was any better? He produced not one shred of proof, Scientologists as a group are only as effective as any other fanatical group of brainwashed devotees, in fact the Moonies and the Hare Krishnas appear to be doing much better than Scientology.
Now, I do not want to stop you from enjoying the "gains" you get from whatever it is that you do - Pilotism?? Oggology? OC sufferers get "gains "from washing their hands multiple times for example or high functioning autistics can get "gains" from counting and I do not wish to stop them either at least not until there is some sort of cure. I don't want to stop you getting those "gains" , in fact , more power to your elbow but if you start posting on a public forum about them then I assume that you are up for debating them otherwise why talk about them - unless you are trying to suck other people in?
And that's where I draw the line - Scientologists and those who support the various parts of it are dangerous because they are total amateurs, but they think they know something.
Most scientologists know absolutely nothing about therapy, mental illness, psychiatry and psychology beyond what they have read from Hubbard or in Freedumb Magazine. They read 4 articles by HUbbard and suddenly think they know more than any "psych" who ever lived.
This makes them dangerous. In the same way that I would not want to see a child playing with razor blades I do not wish to see Scientologists doing anything in the field of therapy to someone else - they can do whatever they like to themselves.
But if you just want to sit around in dark rooms "blanketing" others - well hey, be my guest.
