Kerry
Patron with Honors
Alanzo,
I liked what you posted to ARS.
No need imo to steal anything from ARS, though, though I've been stealing quotes from there for years. It's all here anyway, imo, in its own form.
I also love that letter to Sea Orgers from Barb (and others she's written), and posted it awhile back to tchq. I always read ARS, time permitting, and always the same thoughtful, thought-provoking, hilarious, interesting and always informative posters (despite the kooks, trolls, and especially the cultie spammers) remain to get the message out. I don't see that this has to be a face off between ARS and here like it has on occasion been between ARS and OCMB.
Waste of energy, imo -- for the long term, that is.
Understand yours and others' beef with Dennis. I'm also respectful of his bravery against this annihilating, criminal, home-invading cult. It's been an interesting re-read, and I disagree that that's a waste of time because we get to see so many long-term critics resurface, and newer ones start to listen perhaps, debate like hell or dialogue with dignity and everything in between. It never lasts all that long and the spirit of the movement against the CULT OF SCIENTOLOGY lives on on ARS and everywhere else and only gets better. Especially when culties can witness critics fighting and then drop it within a matter of days or weeks when they know they're ongoing "battles" against Psychs and SPs is ennnnnnnnnnnndless and their stats depend in large part in retaining these enemy "lines." [LOL - sounds like they're snorting their badnessnesses.]
One exception to my relatively sanguine conclusion to all of this concerns the poster Sten Arne's re-outing of Emma during this current mêlée. He did this (on ARS) and he made sure to Do It Twice. Mean-spirited, down-low combo of hardcore, overt aggression together with long-simmering, covert hostility (probably nothing to do with Emma, really).
Anyway Alanzo, maybe ESMB is just fine the way it is - evolving as all these kinds of spaces do. But maybe you're right about adding more news. I'm not sure it would be of interest; strangely enough, the very purpose of this board existing primarily for ex-scientologists to reunite suggests to me a core group that already knows "the news" and, togoether with the other half of the board, critics never having been in, share quite a bit of knowledge here.
The concept of "the [big bad] Other" (the Enemy in lots of cultures and certainly in Lafatty's cult) has done little to achieve (in fact historically flies in the face of) what, in this case, Elfatty claims Dianetics caimed to want to achieve: "a world without war, crime, or insanity." Completely counter-intuitive. Then again, what's new about this cult.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CFQeYu738&feature=related
I liked what you posted to ARS.
No need imo to steal anything from ARS, though, though I've been stealing quotes from there for years. It's all here anyway, imo, in its own form.
I also love that letter to Sea Orgers from Barb (and others she's written), and posted it awhile back to tchq. I always read ARS, time permitting, and always the same thoughtful, thought-provoking, hilarious, interesting and always informative posters (despite the kooks, trolls, and especially the cultie spammers) remain to get the message out. I don't see that this has to be a face off between ARS and here like it has on occasion been between ARS and OCMB.
Waste of energy, imo -- for the long term, that is.
Understand yours and others' beef with Dennis. I'm also respectful of his bravery against this annihilating, criminal, home-invading cult. It's been an interesting re-read, and I disagree that that's a waste of time because we get to see so many long-term critics resurface, and newer ones start to listen perhaps, debate like hell or dialogue with dignity and everything in between. It never lasts all that long and the spirit of the movement against the CULT OF SCIENTOLOGY lives on on ARS and everywhere else and only gets better. Especially when culties can witness critics fighting and then drop it within a matter of days or weeks when they know they're ongoing "battles" against Psychs and SPs is ennnnnnnnnnnndless and their stats depend in large part in retaining these enemy "lines." [LOL - sounds like they're snorting their badnessnesses.]
One exception to my relatively sanguine conclusion to all of this concerns the poster Sten Arne's re-outing of Emma during this current mêlée. He did this (on ARS) and he made sure to Do It Twice. Mean-spirited, down-low combo of hardcore, overt aggression together with long-simmering, covert hostility (probably nothing to do with Emma, really).
Anyway Alanzo, maybe ESMB is just fine the way it is - evolving as all these kinds of spaces do. But maybe you're right about adding more news. I'm not sure it would be of interest; strangely enough, the very purpose of this board existing primarily for ex-scientologists to reunite suggests to me a core group that already knows "the news" and, togoether with the other half of the board, critics never having been in, share quite a bit of knowledge here.
The concept of "the [big bad] Other" (the Enemy in lots of cultures and certainly in Lafatty's cult) has done little to achieve (in fact historically flies in the face of) what, in this case, Elfatty claims Dianetics caimed to want to achieve: "a world without war, crime, or insanity." Completely counter-intuitive. Then again, what's new about this cult.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CFQeYu738&feature=related
one pities and chuckles at the same time.
