NEED CLAMS!!!

Tilman Hausherr

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In <36EC36DB...@hotmail.com>, Scott <mentu...@hotmail.com>
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>I need to convince my friend that there is such thing as the clam
>engram. Anybody in possession of the so-called "secret texts" please
>email them to me directly, or post them.

(posted and mailed)

From: wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Clam Faq "What the heck is it with the clam bit anyway?"
Date: 15 Mar 1995 20:53:43 -0600

------------------------ CLAM FAQ --------------------------
Warning! Top Secret Clam facts are about to be exposed.
This may cause jaw pain and extreme cases of uncontrolled
laughter.

All over the internet, the latest question due to well known
controversies originating from alt.religion.scientology seems to
be, "What is this bit about clams?" "Why do people on ARS think
this is funny?", and the ever popular, "Can I be in on the joke?"

Well, here are some answers to all of this and more.
L. Ron Hubbard late in 1952 wrote a book called "What To Audit",
later renamed "The History Of Man". It is still sold by the
Church Of Scientology and this book contains many of the basic
beliefs of the Church Of Scientology. It is considered by many
connosieurs of kook literature as a true classic of kook nonsense
and it is well worth looking for this book in used books stores
if you are indeed interested in a book that proves that there isn't
anything so stupid that people won't believe in it if it's in a book.

L. Ron Hubbard in the introduction claimed it was "a cold blooded
look at your last 60 trillion years." How could this be wrong?
He also claimed his book finally proved the theory of evolution.

(Patience, we will get to them clams soon enough.)

This following excert of History Of Man is taken from the book
Bare Faced Messiah by Russell Miller, a fine book for the neophyte
Scientologist watcher and clam afficionado.
Thanks also to Diane Richardson who originally typed this excerpt
up and posted it to ARS.

In a narrative style that wobbled uncertainly between
schoolboy fiction and a pseudo-scientific medical paper,
Hubbard sought to explain the the human body was occupied by
both a thetan and a 'genetic entity', or GE, a sort of low-
grade soul located more or less in the centre of the body.
To underpin his new science, Hubbard created an entire
cosmology, the essence of which was that the true self of
an individual was an immortal, omniscient and ominpotent
entity called a 'thetan'. In existence before the beginning
of time, thetans picked up and discarded millions of bodies
over trillions of years.

('The genetic entity apparently enters the protoplasm line
some two days or a week prior to conception. There is some
evidence that the GE is actually double, one entering on the
sperm side...') The GE carried on through the evolutionary
line, 'usually on the same planet', whereas the thetan only
came to earth about 35,000 years ago to supervise the
development of caveman into homo sapiens. Thus the GE was
once 'an anthropoid in the deep forests of forgetten
continents or a mollusc seeking to survive on the shore of
some lost sea'. The discovery of the GE (Hubbard hailed
every fanciful new idea as a 'discovery') 'makes it possible
at last to vindicate the theory of evolution proposed by
Darwin'.

Much of the book was devoted to a re-working of evolution,
starting with 'an atom, complete with electronic rings'
after which came cosmic impact producing a 'photon
converter', the first single-cell creature, then seaweed,
jellyfish and the clam.
^^^^^^ Look! Clams!

Many engrams, for example, could be traced back to clams.
The clam's big problem was that there was a conflict
between the hinge that wanted to open and the hinge that
wanted to close. It was easy to restimulate the engram
caused by the defeat of the weaker hinge, Hubbard pronounced,
by asking a pre-clear to imagine a clam on a beach opening
and closing its shell very rapidly and at the same time
making an opening and closing motion with thumb and
forefinger. This gesture, he said, would upset large
numbers of people.

'By the way,' he warned, 'your discussion of these incidents
with the uninitiated in Scientology can cause havoc.
Should you describe the "clam" to some one [sic], you may
restimulate it in him to the extent of causing severe jaw
pain. Once such victim, after hearing about a clam death,
could not use his jaws for three days.'

Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!

Does your jaw ache, dear reader?
Bwahahahhahahahaha!
Clams! And people pay to be taught stuff like this from silly lads
who believe stuff like this. And they claim it is science!
And a religion! Low level Scientologists are discouraged from
reading this book and are told it will all be explained later
when they are ready to understand the higher secrets of Scientology.

'Clamhead' is a phrase used on alt.religion.scientology to describe
scientologists who believe stuff like this and explains the rash of
clam jokes of alt.religion.scientology.

More secrets of Scientology:

After the clam became the 'Weeper' or the 'Boohoo', a
mollusc that rolled in the surf for half a million years,
pumping sea water out of its shell as it breathed, hence
its name. Weepers had 'trillions of misadventures',
prominent among them the anxiety caused by trying to gulp
air before being swamped by the next wave. 'The inability
of a pre-clear to cry,' Hubbard explained, 'is partly a
hang-up in the Weeper. He is about to be hit by a wave,
has his eyes full of sand or is frightened about opening
his shell because he may be hit.'

Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!

Progressing along the genetic time-track, evolution arrived
at the sloth, which 'had bad times falling out of trees',
the ape and the famous Piltdown Man, which was the cause
of a multitude of engrams, ranging from obsessions about
biting to family problems. These could be traced back to
the fact that 'the Piltdown teeth were enormous and he was
quite careless as to whom and what he bit.' Indeed, so
careless was the Piltdown Man, Hubbard recorded, that he
was sometimes guilty of 'eating one's wife and other
somewhat illogical activities.' (Unfortunately
for Hubbard, just twelve months after The History of Man
was published, the supposed fossil remains of primitive
man found in gravel on Piltdown Common in the south of
England were exposed as a hoax. The Piltdown Man had
never existed.

The History of Man drifted into pure science fiction when
Hubbard came to the point of explaining how thetans
moved from body to body. Thetans abandoned bodies earlier
than GEs, it appeared. While the GE stayed around to see
the body through to death, thetans were obliged to report
to a between-lives 'implant station' where they were
implanted with a variety of control phases while waiting
to pick up another body, sometimes in competition with
other disembodied thetans. Hubbard revealed that most
implant stations were on Mars, although women occasionally
had to report elsewhere in the solar system and there
was a 'Martian implant station somewhere in the Pyrenees'.

Well, there you have it. How can we deny the genius of
L.Ron Hubbard? The thoughtful and useful ideas he taught
the world? He obvious deep learning and careful judgement?
The certain correctness and amazing insights of the basic beliefs
of Scientology?

More tartare sauce with your clams?
I have a second hand bookstore finding me a copy of this
book and will be doing a full scale report in the future
on L. Ron Hubbard's "History Of Man".

Poor Little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
Poor Little Clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope Of Houston
Slack!

========
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: RonArtist replys again
From: s...@newton.texel.com (Georle)
Date: 30 Jun 1995 23:18:31 -0400

In article <3ss5ps$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
ronar...@aol.com (RonArtistR) writes:
>Dear Troy,
>What the heck is the "clam" reference? ... "Snap, snap, snap"???...

Why is it that the anti's always have to do the scripture quoting
around here? I wish one of you scientology posters knew something
about your own religion. :-) Don't you read the books you sell? :-)))

L. Ron Hubbard, _A History of Man_, discussing our previous lives
as a clam [ glossary at end, editorial comments in []'s ]:

" The Clam

A variety of incidents may intervene between the HELPER
and the WEEPER. These are the evolution chain which includes
jellyfish, seaweed and some other forms. It is interesting
that immobile states are most liable to have heavy incidents.
It is also interesting that bulbous seaweed, uprooted and cast
shore [sic] by storms, gave Man some of his early experiences
with sunlight in the absence of water. A distinct somatic of
drying and itching is felt by preclears when they encounter this
incident [during auditing]. ... It is also interesting that
bulbous seaweed is an early pattern of Man's later general form.
Jellyfish incidents are quite remarkable ..[causing].. the first
facimiles which later become a shell as in the clam. Here is an
example of the principle of counter-effort moulding the physical
shape and necessities of forms.

THE CLAM is a deadly incident but mostly when restimulated
['Snap!'] on purpose. Although this area of the track is called
the CLAM, it is improbable that the actual animal was a clam such
as our razorbacks. Visios [sic] on this seem to indicate that it
is a scalloped-lip, white-shelled creature.
...
In the jellyfish we have the first third dynamic engrams
where the goal is to hold together at all costs. As soon as
the hinges are formed in the clam, we have our first efforts to
be completely contrary and internally at war. The solution
occurs when one hinge goes into apathy and the other assumes
complete control.

The hinge epicentres later become the hinges of the human
jaw. Should you desire to confirm this, describe to some
uninitiated person the death of a clam without saying what you
are describing. "Can you imagine a clam sitting on the beach,
opening and closing its shell very rapidly?" (Make a motion
with your thumb and forefinger of a rapid opening and
closing ['Snap!'] ). The victim may grip his jaws with his hand
and feel quite upset. He may even have to have a few teeth pulled:
At the very least he will argue as to whether or not the shell
stays open at the end or closed. And he will, with no hint of
the death aspect of it, talk about the "poor clam" and he will
feel quite sad emotionally.
...
There was or is a spore method of procreation used by the
clam. The spore was put on the inside of the lip and permitted
to grow. Eventually it became large enough to become a clam on
its own and would depart. There is a guardian-emotion on the
part of the clam for these spores and a sadness on their
departure. But there is more to the spore than this. The spore
was like a barnacle. When the clam was cast ashore, these spores
were still alive in the shell. The sun would kill the inner
cells of the "barnacle" while the outer shell cells still lived.
The dead inner cells would form a gas which, under the head,
would explode violently to the agony of the living barnacle
shell cells. This bursting was sudden and painful. These spores
gave incidents which permitted the human teeth to have a pattern.
The ancient bursting engrams are still dramatized by the teeth
which, under stress, burst or feel like bursting. Running out
some of these bursting incidents will take the ache out of a
tooth rapidly. The "fifth nerve channel" is around the mouth and
is heavy out of all proportion. A nerve channel is as heavy as
it has to conduit pain away from the area. Thus I deduced that
there must have been much pain in this area and that the "fifth
channel" is the oldest main conduit and so it is. Audit all
such incidents for all teeth and you have permanently taken the
pain out of toothache and cut down decay. By the way, a
barnacle, because of this bursting possibility, at length
developed a "blow-out area" a cap which would blow easily. And
teeth have such an area. It gives way and makes cavities.

The clam had many, many deaths. A scan across its deaths
locates the one in restimulation. You will be amazed to find
the clam sufficiently advanced as a cellular-somatic mind to
have postulates, to think thoughts. "

[Editorial comments in []'s above.]

_A History of Man_
(c) 1952, 1961, 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard
Published by The American Saint Hill Organization
British Museum Shelf No. 8633 H49
Library of Congress No. RC461, MCAT

Selected scientology-speak:

Engram: "A mental image picture of an experience containing pain,
unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival;
...it is a recording .. which actually happened to an
individual."

Facsimiles: "A mental image picture."

Incidents: Memories of trauma.

Preclear: Scientology newbie.

Restimulated: Brought to mind by stimuli, such as 'Snap!'.

Somatic: Body feeling.

Third dynamic: Urge toward survival as a group.

Track: Each person's past history of previous genetic and
spirit lives.

--
Georle

"Clams have been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentrifice
that can be of significant value when used as directed in a scientology
applied program of oral hygiene and regular dental care."

Scott

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Hi!

I need to convince my friend that there is such thing as the clam
engram. Anybody in possession of the so-called "secret texts" please
email them to me directly, or post them.

Thanks
Scott

Dave Bird

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In article <36EC36DB...@hotmail.com>,

The "Clam Engram" is not secret, it is from the first Scientology book.

Check the link by the snapping clam on my page....

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> Thanks
> Scott
>
>
IT IS IN THE SCIENTOLOGY BOOK "A HISTORY OF MAN" WHICH IS SOLD IN ANY
SCIENTOLOGY BOOKSTORE.

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In article <36EC36DB...@hotmail.com>,
Scott <mentu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to convince my friend that there is such thing as the clam
> engram. Anybody in possession of the so-called "secret texts" please
> email them to me directly, or post them.
>
> Thanks
> Scott
>
>

It's in the book "A History of Man" available at any scientology bookstore,
and sometimes you can find it in used bookstores.

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Don't drink too much green beer folks! You'll turn into one of the Wee-wee
people

Susan

Pigs have wings - P.G.W.

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Dave wrote:

> > Commonly shortened to "Later."/
> /
> "Later days" an abbreviation has an entirely different meaning. No, it's
> not a nice thing to say.
>
> I remember when we used to say "Later days, Willie Mays." (Uh oh, showing my age) - Talk about an "Americanism!"

clamato

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Thanks for the info, Debbie. I'm not surprised; the marks books I have
(with the exception of Lehner's for American pottery) are not good at
dating the marks; you really do need the specialized references for
this.

GK

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"Harry A. Demidavicius" wrote:
>
> On 16 Mar 1999 01:31:42 GMT, aem <aem...@worldnet.att.net.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >Monika Adamczyk wrote:
> >
> >> I have no idea where the name comes from, but the recipe made
> >> me
> >> salivate. I haven't had steak tartar for more than 2 years ( I
> >> don't
> >> trust store bought ground beef and don't have meat grinder at
> >> home :-().
> >> With all the food poisoning craze I wonder if there is a
> >> restaurant in
> >> the USA, brave enough to offer it. Somehow I doubt it.
> >>
> >> Monika
> >
> > We don't know about steak tartare, but there are at least of
> >couple of places in L.A. that serve carpaccio, the thinly sliced
> >raw beef Italian style. Great stuff.
> carpaccio and tartare are readily available in Calgary ...
> Harry Demidavicius

Than I have one more reason to visit Calgary (aside from B.S.
delivery...)

Monika

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Hello,
I'm restoring an old, oak machinist's chest that is missing one drawer pull.
It is a cup shaped metal disc about 1&1/8" in diameter with a 7/8"
keychain-like ring pull inside. This is a fairly common pull for these
cabinets, I think.
Please contact me if you know where I can find one.
Thanks,
Andy

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<pa...@dynamite.com.au> wrote:

> Hey Sigma you might just be a 12" DICK
> Pato

No, actually, mine's only two inches...

.

...off the floor.

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1993 XJ600 Seca II "Gracie" . Don't question authority.
Bridgewater, NJ . Fuck it in the ass with a 12" dick.

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Kelaguen is ground up meat (chicken, beef, fanihe) mixed with
coconut and lemon juice, with salt & boonie peppers. See my
recipe at
http://www.springlakemi.com/~maverick/recipes/kelaguen.htm

- Rick Stricker

Hag n Stenni wrote in message <36effea1...@news.erols.com>...
>
>Was parusing the tartar thread and it reminded me of a lovley dish I
>had on Guam. Beef Kalaguin??? not sure of spelling??? pronounced
>cal-uh-gwen...Probably Vietnamese or Korean and it consisted of
>marinated strips of raw beef over some salad fixins. So tastey it was
>and Ive never seen the like anywhere else. And seeing as how I cant
>even afford to fly to Seattle or Ca for cookins, I suspect that a trip
>to Guam is entirely out of the question...Id luv any insites/tips/DC
>area restraunts/resources/RECIPIES????...tks Hag k
>
>"As a beauty I'm not a star
>there are others more handsome by far,
>but my face I don't mind it because I'm behind it
>It's the folks out front that I Jar."

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You also have the Munster cheese, French one. Oh my god how it stinks!!!
Personally i don't eat it but my hubby does and every time he's bought some I
can't go hnear the fridge for days nor be in the house when he is eating it!
I can't understand how one can eat something that stinks so bad! : ) i wish i
could eat those cheeses, since the hubby says the are delicious....Maybe i'll
gather up enough courage to try them some day.... : )

Anna M

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PENMART10 (penm...@aol.com) wrote:

: Proper... proper omelets ain't supposed to brown... not even the slightest
: tinge.

This assumes there is only ONE classic French omelette. But French chefs
will also recognize the hearty "peasant" variety, which, besides browning
slightly, exhibit pronounced curds.

Even "classic" French cuisine has an explanation for imperfection.

--

:)

Dareus O. Conover
dcon...@sas.upenn.edu
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dconover

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aem <aem...@worldnet.att.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:36EFF5E3...@worldnet.att.net.invalid...
>Ellie wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have made crepes in the past and want to make more in the
>> future yet
>> I'm at a loss for what to top/fill them with. Also for the
>> culinary arts
>> program at my school we want to sell crepes to our peers.
>> However, cost
>> control is an important part of our program so, any
>> filling/topping must
>> be cost effective. We have thought of strawberries, yet we
>> woould want
>> to use fresh ones and they are too expensive at the moment. We
>> have
>> thought of a cream of some sorts yet we don't have particular
>> recipes.
>> If anyone could recommend a recipe and post it I would be
>> forever in
>> debt. Also if anyone has any other interesting ideas to use for
>> our
>> crepes please respond. Thank you in advance for your time:)
>> Ellie

Spread them with cream cheese and top with green onion (a whole green
onion) or other vegies or dill pickle wedges or bacon bits etc... You
could flavor them like a dipping sauce. Then roll-up and cut in
fingers or sell them whole. Or hamburger and cheese whiz or taco
sauce.

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Hey, tanks for all the info on the raked triple tree. Based on all the
comments about reduced ride-quality, I've decided to nix it. Funny, the
vendors selling these things say nothing about the problems. Even my local
HD dealer mechanic said "give it a try". In a world of mixed signals,
there's nothing like "polling the bar".

Barkeep. You know what to do.

Frank

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This must be an authentic Stradivarius violin.
The current bid on eBAY is $88.00.

I love the seller's description of the instrument:

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cannot
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overall length is 22 1/4". The length of the back is 14 1/4". The length
     of the BOW is 27". Buyer pays insured shipping.
Cashiers check or money order only please. We do not have anymore information
on this
     Violin except for what is in our description. It
is definitely an old Violin and it is marked as described. This is not
our expertise and cannot
     guarantee this to be a RARE Stradivarius. I do not
have a picture but this is similar to one I found at ebay ."
Evidently, this violin is not one of Stradivarius' rare instruments,
 but rather one of his more common mass-produced student
 models.
Regards,
 Mark Starr</html>

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