I really look forward to these. It would be great if just some were selected that deal with all things cult could be put in a hand out to the sea org kids when the are out on the street handing out their happiness booklets. For sure, if they read even a few they might identify with the insanity of where they are and what they are tossing their life away to support. Hey kids, there’s a big world out there for you to explore!
You mean that you never made it to the RPF.Neither did I. Although I was inside the OTVIII coursebook on Opening Day June 6 1989 I never made it to the OTLevels. My main beef with Son is not that I did not make it to the OO levels but never made it to the RPF.
Oh, right! ‘ethics’, which really means “following orders” is superior to “wog” law…. And to think *I* used to think the same. Since I was tossed out unceremoniously, I’ve discovered that US law has one MAJOR advantage: The accused has SOME chance of being found not guilty. that’s NOT so in scientology. If charges are brought, they’re guilty. OR the committee is found guilty of the same accusations and are so punished.
All cults have some version of this. JWs have ‘judicial committees’ which purport to act like a trial, but the prosecution, judge and jury are 3 elders, and you have no defense counsel (or even warning (until you’re invited); and even then you’re not told what it’s about so you can’t prepare. You ARE guilty, and the only thing on trial is the amount of remorse you can convince them you feel.
Know what you mean. When I was on staff at CCNashville I was assigned to the book booth at a nearby mall. Didn’t sell a damn book! I loudly voiced my opinion that it was a bad location. Big mistake as that mall space had been chosen by the Sea Org and, of course, they are the most ethical beings on the planet. Hence I would up on lower conditions. Never mind that I wasn’t aware of the PL that forbade public nattering. Sorry but ignorance of PLs is no excuse.
Maybe I should have blown at that point.
Just make sure they don’t get busted by Timmy the snitch whose parents are whales. Oh, wait. Even when Timmy snitches he still gets sent to the RPF along with the people he snitched on.
New religion movements are one of the most interesting social phenomena in recent decades. As an alternative communal and individualist way of life, these movements offer a transcendental, non-secular way of life that challenges the values of liberal society while remaining within its legal and normative boundaries. In the course of this paper, and by using an analytical description of Foucault’s assumptions, I will examine the discursive and practical operation of the Scientology Church as a new religion movement that transcends the individual subject. I will describe the themes of Scientology as pastoral techniques, and its neo-liberal subjective constitution as a part of the conservative, normative mechanism of modern Western society, while arguing that they pose, at the same time, a potential ethical alternative that subverts the epistemological boundaries of Western liberal society.
I really look forward to these. It would be great if just some were selected that deal with all things cult could be put in a hand out to the sea org kids when the are out on the street handing out their happiness booklets. For sure, if they read even a few they might identify with the insanity of where they are and what they are tossing their life away to support. Hey kids, there’s a big world out there for you to explore!
Pigs in a blanket are awesome, and they have a solid plan.
I can already hear the Mission Impossible theme
I used to love the food at events. I didn’t have to be as covert as these guys, but eating a lot was frowned on.
You mean that you never made it to the RPF.Neither did I. Although I was inside the OTVIII coursebook on Opening Day June 6 1989 I never made it to the OTLevels. My main beef with Son is not that I did not make it to the OO levels but never made it to the RPF.
Oh, right! ‘ethics’, which really means “following orders” is superior to “wog” law…. And to think *I* used to think the same. Since I was tossed out unceremoniously, I’ve discovered that US law has one MAJOR advantage: The accused has SOME chance of being found not guilty. that’s NOT so in scientology. If charges are brought, they’re guilty. OR the committee is found guilty of the same accusations and are so punished.
All cults have some version of this. JWs have ‘judicial committees’ which purport to act like a trial, but the prosecution, judge and jury are 3 elders, and you have no defense counsel (or even warning (until you’re invited); and even then you’re not told what it’s about so you can’t prepare. You ARE guilty, and the only thing on trial is the amount of remorse you can convince them you feel.
Know what you mean. When I was on staff at CCNashville I was assigned to the book booth at a nearby mall. Didn’t sell a damn book! I loudly voiced my opinion that it was a bad location. Big mistake as that mall space had been chosen by the Sea Org and, of course, they are the most ethical beings on the planet. Hence I would up on lower conditions. Never mind that I wasn’t aware of the PL that forbade public nattering. Sorry but ignorance of PLs is no excuse.
Maybe I should have blown at that point.
Meant to say I WOUND up in lower conditions.
Just make sure they don’t get busted by Timmy the snitch whose parents are whales. Oh, wait. Even when Timmy snitches he still gets sent to the RPF along with the people he snitched on.
O/T. Academic paper: The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement: Scientology Individual as an Ethical Subject, by Ofer Parchev.
Review of European Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2019).
https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/view/0/40888
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Abstract
New religion movements are one of the most interesting social phenomena in recent decades. As an alternative communal and individualist way of life, these movements offer a transcendental, non-secular way of life that challenges the values of liberal society while remaining within its legal and normative boundaries. In the course of this paper, and by using an analytical description of Foucault’s assumptions, I will examine the discursive and practical operation of the Scientology Church as a new religion movement that transcends the individual subject. I will describe the themes of Scientology as pastoral techniques, and its neo-liberal subjective constitution as a part of the conservative, normative mechanism of modern Western society, while arguing that they pose, at the same time, a potential ethical alternative that subverts the epistemological boundaries of Western liberal society.
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Direct link to full paper:
https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/download/0/0/40888/43021
The paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License:
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Some people don’t understand why they’re opposed.
They don’t want to understand.
They will understand eventually, the real question is will they be alive still when they do.
You, my friend clearly still are.
Thanks, Bill!