The good in scientology

(Oh, and dear reader, just to be clear, I think that the church is bad, but only because of the church. Note the thing between 'scientology' and 'cult' in the following:

scientology=Church of Scientology=cult.

Remove that thing in the middle and suddenly, scientology doesn't seem like a cult any more. Strange that!)

I've been trying to think of this for a while. Despite all the rhetoric out there, I believe that there could well be good things in scientology.

Consider some things:

1) Let's pretend you line up all 6 billion of us and chop off one leg off each person. Does this do any good? Well think about it (btw ignore the bleeding to death factor, pretend we have a great nurse behind us too.) Someone somewhere on the planet is dying because of an infection or physical damage to their leg. They're in the middle of nowhere, they're poor, they're going to die. They can't get antibiotics/surgery. So, chopping off their leg would represent a severe improvement to their life, namely, it would continue. So obviously chopping a leg off everyone would do somebody some good somewhere.

Similarly (but not precisely the same) it is so with scientology.

2) There must be some good in scientology. Otherwise noone would actually join it. If you're one of the few who's "legs need chopped off" then perhaps you should try something more, well, buddist. Certainly, there are worse places to try. Meditation, hypnosis, weird psychedelic experiences all seem more valid than scientology. For me, all I needed to know was who I was and what I was for. I've pretty much got that worked out now. But it didn't need scientology. It's entirely feasable that scientology does to it's clientelle what I did to myself over the course of a few years. Except my way was cheaper.

Jason Beghe implies that most of his time was wasted (ie OT-OT5) and was a con. I think that describes the cult's bait. Getting up to clear might do some people some good. Beyond that, you're just a fish caught on a line just as you've tasted the good stuff.

The free stuff is only a click away. Use it instead.

Lawtears