Hey, thanks for the info and the source materials. You’re so right regarding the rez, goofy looking images that have been used over and over. I’ll check out that tutorial.

An excellent question, and one that isn’t always easy to find the real answer to.

Whatever 😛

Ms Remini is a tough cookie, but imo, she possesses too much caritas to combat Lame-Duck COB with vituperative arguments & open anger (as Latin’s dead, maybe ‘caritas’ could be an English portmanteau meaning Charity AND temperate Class).
NB, she was also one of the only Scilon celebs in John Sweeney’s BBC Panorama who tried to be polite. She had surely been coached, but compared to Alley & Archer left one w/a sense that celeb scilons may be misled, but are not necessarily abhorrent.

Me too 🙂

True. On the other hand (and this has been my thought for a while), if you accept reincarnation, who is to say it is a downward spiral and not an upward spiral?

If you consider confirmation bias, you can look around and find confirmation that the world has been getting worse, but also confirmation that it has been getting better. If you find it has been getting better, you can go and say, “well yes, that’s because of Scientology” (the ungrateful world just doesn’t realise it). But maybe it’s getting better because really, it is what everyone wants and to some degree is contributing to. And if there is a spiritual aspect to existence, perhaps we are on an upward spiral. Food for thought.

Doom and gloom is an instrument of control, and though I initially resisted the thought, I now see Scientology as a modern type of doomsday cult.

That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard of that one. It is part of the abusive cycle, I think. “You are nothing, unless you are who we want you to be.”

Seriously, blood pressure? Nah, too scientific!

With these words, Don, you have given meaning to some of what Brian suffered. Thank you. It’s so good to hear from you both.