And, just remember, as of 1950, “only twelve people on earth understand the theory of relativity”, was still being bandied around as if it was an eternal and universal truism. Even as late as the early 80’s, when I was studying physics, my grandmom was skeptical that I could simply up and use E=mc^2 in a school exercise, just like that. I needed a pass from LANL or something, apparently…So making up any kind of equation would have looked extremely impressive to your average Homo sap in the day…

Aww Bury, you’re just goofin’ the floof.

Oh well. I guess I will just have to pretend this OSA impostor is you for a while until BTN 1 returns 🙁

I agree about not much interest in this and I’m one of those. I’m more interested in what can I do to stop the abuses, lies, ad nauseam through education wherever I can. I know all the propaganda and even if picked apart and funny is not much of interest to me. However there are many who need to read this stuff and I will continue, just more in some areas or subjects than others. Wrights book was excellent tho it quelled the fire or urgency a bit. I have less time left than most do, so my desire for results is a little more keen.

Yeah this is something I’ve been doing for a while, since getting myself out of the “rabbit warren” of Hubbard’s mindfuck (as Marty Rathbun has now called it today in a comment on his blog)

There are certain thinking patterns that Scientologists have adopted from “thinking with Scientology” which can be used to break up the ideological trap of Scientology and get them thinking again. Some Scientologists will never break out of the thinking patterns, and those people are the ones who will engage you and start calling you an “SP”, etc. This conflict can be used as an opportunity to spread the “thought grenades” that others will pick up and start thinking with.

Once you adopt the ideology of Scientology and let it do your thinking for you, it can be a long hard path back to yourself. I had to do it, and I try to help others do it too.

I feel a kind of responsibility to help with this. I try to get into places where Scientololgists gather on the internet. Here’s an example of one of the things I’ve tried over the years.

http://www.scnforum.org/index.php?t=msg&th=738&prevloaded=1&S=e4e11820d7cc326063ac5426c06f5558&start=0

Alanzo

“They do not make sense. The new recruit is surrounded by people who all agree that the writings do make sense. ” This is reminiscent of the Asch conformity experiment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

A group of people are asked to look at a pair of cards, one with a line on it and one with three lines of differing length, and say whether the single line is the same length as A, B, or C on the second card:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Asch_experiment.png

But the one who votes last is “real”; the rest are stooges who sometimes unanimously give the right answer but more often unanimously give the wrong answer. The majority of people, it turns out, have great difficulty sticking to their guns in such a circumstance.