: > Are there people in your life who care that much about you?

: Hey fuck you too.

Putting back in what size cut:

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: Not only because of my prior Scientology affiliation, but because of other
: affiliations I've tried out since then, I've been living, potentially or
: actually, in the crosshairs of anti-cult thuggists for years.

Size, I have to express some doubt at this statement.  To be potentially
subject to deprogrammers you need to have *family* who cares deeply
enough about you to take all kinds of chances and pay considerable sums.

From what I have seen of you through your postings, I find this hard to
believe.  Are there people in your life who care that much about you?

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I think Size has provided an answer.

It's not an easy thing to advocate, but I support intervention,
independent of age, when people have an out of control drinking or drug or
cult problem.  There is enough reluctance for people to act in this
direction that it seldom is unjustified.  Jason Scott, the guy who's case
broke CAN, eventually came to realize that he wanted out of the cult he
was rescued from and came to be on friendly terms with Rick Ross, the guy
who tried to deprogram him in the first place.

Humans did not evolve in the kind of environment we find ourselves in
today--and most of our problems stem from this fact.  The libertarian
rules Size is trying to apply to human relations were not laid down by God
or evolution.  Human sanity--orientation to the real world--is maintained
by sensible feedback from people around you.  Cults don't give sensible
feedback, and in the worse cases, can lead people right over the edge.

There are some deep insights coming from fairly recent research on the
topic.  I can point you to these places if you want.

You have my sympathy,

Keith Henson