Are Church staff members kept isolated in a commune?
ARS FAQ
Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding
L.Ron Hubbard and the religion of Scientology have
been observed on ars. The purpose of this message is
to give you a sample of the true data.
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Not at all. Most staff commute to work, much like any other job.
Members of Scientology's religious order, the Sea Organization, do
live communally in church-provided accomodations and their food,
clothing and medical costs are paid for. Like any other Church
staff, they regularly spend time with family and friends.
For more information go to the following URLs:
http://www.scientology.org
http://www.lronhubbard.org
http://www.dianetics.org
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Ron Newman
In article <4pn94r$b...@news.adbs.co.nz>, ARS 4 TRUTH <tr...@ars.net> wrote:
> Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding
> L.Ron Hubbard and the religion of Scientology have
> been observed on ars. The purpose of this message is
> to give you a sample of the true data.
>
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>
>
>Not at all. Most staff commute to work, much like any other job.
Geez, is the spammer even making the least attempt to have his or
her messages make sense?
This appears to be the Answer part of a FAQ, without the Question.
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Ron Newman rne...@cybercom.net
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Jeff Lee
On 13 Jun 1996 01:53:27 -0400, Ron Newman <rne...@shell1.cybercom.net> wrote:
>In article <4pn94r$b...@news.adbs.co.nz>, ARS 4 TRUTH <tr...@ars.net> wrote:
>
>>Not at all. Most staff commute to work, much like any other job.
>
>Geez, is the spammer even making the least attempt to have his or
>her messages make sense?
>
>This appears to be the Answer part of a FAQ, without the Question.
Actually, the question appears to be in the Subject: line.
--
Jeff Lee (KoX/SP5/INTJ) shi...@gate.net http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/
<< He, OSA! Mi estas Skamizdaton, kaj mia edzino estas ankau^! >>
<< What kind of church needs an espionage and intelligence branch? >>
<< Read http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/j/berlin.html to find out. >>
Martin G. V. Hunt
Ron Newman (rne...@shell1.cybercom.net) writes:
> In article <4pn94r$b...@news.adbs.co.nz>, ARS 4 TRUTH <tr...@ars.net> wrote:
>> Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding
>> L.Ron Hubbard and the religion of Scientology have
>> been observed on ars. The purpose of this message is
>> to give you a sample of the true data.
>>
>> -------------
>>
>>
>>Not at all. Most staff commute to work, much like any other job.
>
> Geez, is the spammer even making the least attempt to have his or
> her messages make sense?
>
> This appears to be the Answer part of a FAQ, without the Question.
In any case, it's a lie; there's a staff of perhaps over a thousand people
at Cedars. The parking lot is usually so empty we used to play a bit of
frisbee or football on out ten-minute breaks and during morning exercises
(when we were upstat).
We all lived in a small two bedroom apartment, as there was no berthing
left at Cedars, seeing as how it was all filled with *staff*. I would
have to say the majority of Cedars SO staff lived in the complex; I used
to wander up to the berthing wing, and it was full of people living in
cramped and crowded conditions; used to play a few games with some of the
guys up there; things like Mechwarrior and Superbattletank (board games.)
Who "commutes"? If they do, they take the bus. Dennis, David, any
other higher staff; were you able to afford a car on your SO
pay? The only people I knew in LA with a car were public, but a
couple Vancouver staff had cars.
--
Cogito, ergo sum.
SteveO, your semantic nonsens it terrible worthless...
-- ban...@mail.hh.provi.de (Freimann)
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And Hubbard wrote pulp. Pulp westerns, pulp sci-fi, pulp adventure tales.
Pulp. Some was entertaining as long as you did not try to pretend it was
anything more than pulp. His Doc Methuselah stories would be a good
idea to base a TV series on if you were aiming at those who liked
Buck Rodgers or Battleship Galatica. But nothing more.
That any of Hubbard's stuff was very good should be credited to his
editor, John C. Campbell who pushed Hubbard and his second wife who typed
and editted and vetted his final versions, apparently smoothing out
Hubbard's tortured syntax into something more closely resembling English.
Hubbard's most amazing book is his "History of Mankind" first written in
1952. A true classic of insane crackpottery. A slim little 90 page
volume, it purports to explain the scientific origins of mankind.
Sometimes you see it in used bookstores. It is still required reading in
Scientology at the expensive and 'advanced' OTII levels.
Hubbard was not sane. Scientology is not sane.
Check used bookstores if you are into ambulatory schizophrenic writers.
Hubbard made Phillip K. Dick look normal here.
This book is still Scientology dogma to this day.
If you kmow somebody dear and close to you being sucked into Scientology,
this is the book you give them without comment to show 'em what
Scientology is REALLY about.
If they believe this crap, give up on 'em.
They won't be listening to anybody sane.
------------------------ 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.
'Clam' is a word 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 tartar sauce with your clams?
Poor Little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
Poor Little Clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!