Has Tony Ortega always harshly censored dissenting opinion?

[strativarius]

To permanently delete something that keeps reappearing hit the 5th from the left button on the top row of the writing pad (restore last draft) then actually delete the post yourself and last of all hit the 'delete draft' button that appears when you hit "restore last draft".

OK, too late now, but tks.

 

[Peter Soderqvist]

Phil Rogers what are you complaining about?
It seems to me that you don’t believe in basic scientology tenets!

Don’t you believe in confronting life; TR0 – Bullbaiting etcetera?

Look here!

Scientology a New Slant on Life online page 6!
TWO RULES FOR HAPPY LIVING
1. Be able to experience anything.
When one can experience exactly what is being done to one, ah, magic—it does not happen!
To be happy, one must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are.

Page 8: Nobody else can do anything to you, but YOU. That is a horrible state of affairs. You can do something to you, but it requires your postulate, your agreement or your disagreement, before anything can happen to you. People have to agree to be ill; they have to agree to be stupid; they have to agree to be in mystery. People are the victims of their own flinch. They are the victims of their own postulates, the victims of their own belief that they are inadequate. An individual has to postulate into existence his own aberration, his own flinch, his own stupidity, his own lack of confidence, and his own bad luck.
http://www.tep-online.info/laku/usa/reli/scien/SECRETDOX/A_NEW_SLANT_ON_LIFE.pdf

The Axioms of Scientology
Axiom 24
Total ARC would bring about the vanishment of all mechanical conditions of existence.
http://www.scientologyreligion.org/background-and-beliefs/the-axioms-of-scientology.html

Peter Pan got it!

Beautiful Peter Pan Quotes
2. All you need is faith, trust and a little bit of pixie dust.
No matter how serious the situation, try to relax. Have faith, trust that everything will be fine and just enjoy.

11. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
To fly, you must believe you can. Eventually, reality follows.

17. Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You will have everything in life…
18. Keep adventuring and stay not a grown up.

https://www.goodmorningquote.com/peter-pan-quotes-images/

I think Peter Pan was Hubbard’s inspiration regarding the consideration is senior to mechanics, or in other words consideration take rank over mechanics and thus the power of intention and postulation!
Why are you Phil Rogers not able to experience Tony Ortega’s Writings?
I am able to experience Tony Ortega’s Writings, yet it happens anyway!
Why? Because Hubbard’s magical-confronting doesn’t work! Its wishful thinking like Peter Pan, it’s a childish way of life, to not to say infantile!
I believe in ordinary confronting; I can handle this because I “know how” to do it, or I can do it because I have the means to do it! No Magic here!
Maybe you can call it an Engineering approach to life!

 

[PirateAndBum]

I was aware of the original of Christianity according to Hubbard, while on the lowest parts of the "Bridge"
EDIT: While I believe that I had that understanding back then, I don't recall the specific references. It's been 30-40 years since I would have covered that material, and I'm not 100% sure now.
Did Hubbard mention that Christianity was a result of an implant in any of the non-confidential materials?

The Helatrobus Implant lecture on the SHSBC

 

[Flora]

I have been posting on Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker blog recently. Today I made a comment that was unpopular. A few of them. Tony's response was to BAN ME from commenting on his blog. Is it normal for a journalist to ban dissenting opinion on their blog? Do journalists run blogs? Is Tony a journalist or a blogger?

Review my comments below and let me know if you think these warrant being banned. None of these comments were to Tony specifically, they were responses to other commentators.

First comment
Overheard in the Freezone” looks like a way to ridicule people who believe in Scientology in contrast with focusing on the abuses of Scientology.
To each their own, and Scientology beliefs are certainly silly. But every now and then you make a post decrying the mainstream media’s lack of interest in picking up your stories. I believe the fact that you regularly ridicule Scientology and Scientologists for nothing more than what they believe in addition to occasionally covering abuses, like other journalists do, is why the mainstream media doesn’t pick up your stuff.
Straight-down-the-line journalism doesn’t ridicule, it reports. Maybe you have dug your own hole here.

Second comment
I’m sorry to rain on your ideological parade. Criticizing the abuses and deceptive practices of Scientology is legitimate journalism. Ridiculing and insulting Scientologists for what they believe goes beyond journalism. Ridiculing people who leave the church of Scientology and still believe parts of it goes even beyond that. I’m not saying it’s immoral to write about Scientology this way. I’m saying it’s not journalism. When Tony makes posts complaining that the mainstream media doesn’t pay attention to him I question why he doesn’t understand why. If a mainline journalist started a segment about “silly things I heard a Baptist say this week” (or any belief-group at all) they would be fired immediately. No media outlets want to be associated with that kind of bigoted writing.

Third comment
The basis of abuse is the contradictory doctrines and silly practices? So then you are saying there is abuse in the independent field similar to within the church of Scientology?
Tony could create a segment about crazy things said in the church of Scientology but he chose to make the segment about the Freezone.
This shows Tony isn’t just interested in calling out abuses in the church of Scientology. He is equally interested in ridiculing anyone who believes in Scientology even outside of the church where such abuses don’t exist.
Tony is just ridiculing people for what they believe. When it comes to a subject that has to do with spirituality and immortality any lazy bigoted person could create a blog doing the exact same thing to Christians or Jews or Muslims or any other religious group. You think it’s OK to do it to Scientologists because you think what they believe is uniquely silly. That’s what makes it bigoted. Do you think Christianity or Judaism or Islam are more believable than Scientology? That’s just silly. They are all equally silly. But would you support a blog that treated Christianity or Judaism the way Tony has chosen to treat independent Scientology? Again, you don’t care because you don’t like Scientologists.
This is what separates Tony from journalists who write about the subject. The journalists who write about Scientology might think Scientology is just a bunch of silly kooks but they wouldn’t write about it that way because they are journalists.

Fourth comment
I agree with you. I think Faith is silly. To me the local pastor or even Jesus is just another guru. But I think we all know Tony would be eviscerated if he did a segment about silly things Christians or Jews say. People around here put up with it because people around here don’t like Scientologists. The fact that there are a lot of abuses within the church of Scientology provides a legitimate reason to criticize, and then those who simply don’t like Scientologists piggyback on top of that to ridicule even independent Scientologists, where no such abuses exist. Unfortunately this blog and the comments section is a melting pot of those who object to abuse, and those who just like to be bigoted against people for what they believe.

If the forum moderator thinks that you're a troll or trying to stir up drama, they might ban you. It's their call. Nothing unusual here.