tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588150109003847843.post8702045525784365006..comments2023-09-18T04:45:52.991-07:00Comments on Ask the Scientologist: Scientologists: What Were Your Goals?Just Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700571144527474381noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588150109003847843.post-21621162866286826322010-03-16T02:01:23.663-07:002010-03-16T02:01:23.663-07:00THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ETHICS CONDITIONS OF SCIENTOLOG...THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ETHICS CONDITIONS OF SCIENTOLOGY<br /><br />It could not possibly be by accident that the Ethics Conditions of<br />Scientology are in reverse order.<br />From its inception the Ethics Code of Scientology has emphasised its<br />Snakes and Ladders structure. “Up is Good. Down is Evil”. Up is success, down is failure.<br />You struggle to get up the ladder, and the lower conditions are taken on<br />voluntarily only in moments of great stress, or distress, or Confusion (However, confusion is always construed by Ethics Officers as Doubt).<br />The conditions from Liability downwards are imposed by one’s<br />‘superiors’ who are of course Superior and know best what is ‘for your<br />own good’.<br />The consideration that one might take on a really “Low” condition of<br />one’s own volition could only be a sign of insanity, or so one is led to believe.<br />Once, when I was high in the Org system, the Ethics Officer confided<br />in me that when one assigns to an SP the condition of Enemy one must<br />give them the formula “Find out who you really Are” because “That<br />really spins them in”. <br />And thus the formulae for the ‘really low’ conditions become identified wholly with Failure, Criminality and Sin.<br />And thus one is forced to aim ever upward, upward… trying to achieve – not your own goals but – the goals of Elron and Miss Cabbage.<br />Ever ‘upwards’ and away from what was your original Goal in entering Scientology<br />– to find out who, what and where you REALLY are.<br />Because that is why you joined – isn’t it? That is what you expected, hoped for.<br />After all, when one has found out Who, what and where one REALLY is<br />then Scientology, or any other set of institutional rules and instructions is about<br />as helpful as a Rolls Royce jet engine or a ton of Plutonium would be<br />to a butterfly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588150109003847843.post-45571119369098345362009-07-10T18:40:35.767-07:002009-07-10T18:40:35.767-07:00@Elizabeth
Thank you.
That was actually one of m...@Elizabeth<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />That was actually one of my first motivations to start this blog, the misconceptions and inflammatory rhetoric was rampant and I thought I could help.<br /><br />I've tried to talk to Scientologists, ex-Scientologists and everyone else in terms they could all understand, to increase understanding between all the different viewpoints. I hope I've helped.Just Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700571144527474381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588150109003847843.post-64751355603100081462009-07-10T12:41:17.942-07:002009-07-10T12:41:17.942-07:00Bill, you are a very, very good writer and quite o...Bill, you are a very, very good writer and quite obviously a compassionate human on a mission. I have been making a minor study of Scientology over the years and too often the rhetoric is so inflammatory as to turn off anyone it was purporting to deconvert.<br /><br />Keep up the good fight, man. I have a lot of respect for what you're doing and the skill with which you're doing it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863103202914656176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588150109003847843.post-4520850714894528722008-08-15T02:01:00.000-07:002008-08-15T02:01:00.000-07:00Unfortunately, after 25 years of scientology and 1...Unfortunately, after 25 years of scientology and 15 years on the coveted "solo nots" I could not answer any one of your questions in the positive.<BR/><BR/>Getting out of scientology felt like pulling a 100 pound parasite off my back.<BR/><BR/>Although very grim, the picture you paint is deadly accurate.Feralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08181455204362898187noreply@blogger.com