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	Comments on: Scientology at Comic Con: An attempt at a minor intervention, as told by Phil Jones	</title>
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		By: Stephanie Loving		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1472358&quot;&gt;madame duran&lt;/a&gt;.

Good to get your take on &quot;the Path&quot;.  I haven&#039;t watched yet.  I need to check it out before season 2 begins!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1472358">madame duran</a>.</p>
<p>Good to get your take on &#8220;the Path&#8221;.  I haven&#8217;t watched yet.  I need to check it out before season 2 begins!</p>
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		By: madame duran		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1366908&quot;&gt;Stephanie Loving&lt;/a&gt;.

Have you watched &quot;The Path&quot; yet?  I finally went through all 10 episodes in a marathon session and, overall, I liked it.  There were a couple of secondary characters/storylines I didn&#039;t care for but the main plot and star actors interested me.  Tighter writing for the weak parts is needed.  Season 2 got the greenlight.  I&#039;m looking forward to the next installments.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1366908">Stephanie Loving</a>.</p>
<p>Have you watched &#8220;The Path&#8221; yet?  I finally went through all 10 episodes in a marathon session and, overall, I liked it.  There were a couple of secondary characters/storylines I didn&#8217;t care for but the main plot and star actors interested me.  Tighter writing for the weak parts is needed.  Season 2 got the greenlight.  I&#8217;m looking forward to the next installments.</p>
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		By: Fink Jonas		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fink Jonas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1400714&quot;&gt;Phil Asshomo&lt;/a&gt;.

why don&#039;t you comment at the bunker you Idiot, they kicked you out? if you are so OSA why don&#039;t you do something about it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1400714">Phil Asshomo</a>.</p>
<p>why don&#8217;t you comment at the bunker you Idiot, they kicked you out? if you are so OSA why don&#8217;t you do something about it?</p>
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		By: Fink Jonas		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fink Jonas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1400714&quot;&gt;Phil Asshomo&lt;/a&gt;.

why don&#039;t you kiss the tip of my Equinox you retarded dick lover, do you swallow?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-1400714">Phil Asshomo</a>.</p>
<p>why don&#8217;t you kiss the tip of my Equinox you retarded dick lover, do you swallow?</p>
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		By: Tracy Schmitz		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tracy Schmitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368245&quot;&gt;pluvo&lt;/a&gt;.

thanks pluvo for reading the long &quot;dizzy&quot; back and forth! here is just a few minutes ago his latest response and my latest reply below (trust me it&#039;s shorter and i do really do appreciate your opinion, thought and experience! p.s. for someone whose NOT a scientologist ( uh huh!) he sure loves to go on about the reactive mind and other cult rationale!):

him: Again, I answered all your questions. You did not like the answers I gave about religion because you cannot accept the truth. Again boy, nothing is &quot;free&quot; and you are a fool to think that other religions offer their members their practices for &quot;free&quot;. Be careful of people who offer you things for &quot;free&quot; because there is usually a payment that is much greater than money. 

You have given no information about scientology other then bash it. I have given you specifics that do not compliment your criticism of it. You have no knowledge of the reactive mind but still you insult. No, you are just another person who lives in the misery of his subconscious.

the reply:  keep telling yourself what you tell yourself.. as the world learns more and more what is the truth... i hope you are able to sleep and will be able to look in a mirror..

you didn&#039;t answer ANY questions i posed to you.... how many members are their? how do YOU know of your information? do you know any scientologists personally? do you know the history of the founder? do you know why their are more ex-members then members? do you know why so many high ranking officials, spokespersons,office personnel, celebs, the founder&#039;s own family, the current leader&#039;s OWN parents and niece have ALL left and spoken out? do you know about &quot;clear&quot; and &quot;ot levels&quot; and how much they cost? can you explain ot 3 and xenu?

have you ever met a &quot;clear&quot;? are your familiar with the &quot;disconnection policy&quot; and the &quot;1.1. scale?&quot; anymore questions you care NOT to answer? and if not, WHY?

&quot;i&#039;m not a scientologist, but.......&quot; (OSA! indoctrination&quot;) please enlighten everyone on your information and knowledge.....

either your NOT a scientologist and i know more then you by simply the information (or as you call it bashing) and questions i pose to you above (and in other replies)  OR your OSA... do you know or not know what OSA stands for?)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368245">pluvo</a>.</p>
<p>thanks pluvo for reading the long &#8220;dizzy&#8221; back and forth! here is just a few minutes ago his latest response and my latest reply below (trust me it&#8217;s shorter and i do really do appreciate your opinion, thought and experience! p.s. for someone whose NOT a scientologist ( uh huh!) he sure loves to go on about the reactive mind and other cult rationale!):</p>
<p>him: Again, I answered all your questions. You did not like the answers I gave about religion because you cannot accept the truth. Again boy, nothing is &#8220;free&#8221; and you are a fool to think that other religions offer their members their practices for &#8220;free&#8221;. Be careful of people who offer you things for &#8220;free&#8221; because there is usually a payment that is much greater than money. </p>
<p>You have given no information about scientology other then bash it. I have given you specifics that do not compliment your criticism of it. You have no knowledge of the reactive mind but still you insult. No, you are just another person who lives in the misery of his subconscious.</p>
<p>the reply:  keep telling yourself what you tell yourself.. as the world learns more and more what is the truth&#8230; i hope you are able to sleep and will be able to look in a mirror..</p>
<p>you didn&#8217;t answer ANY questions i posed to you&#8230;. how many members are their? how do YOU know of your information? do you know any scientologists personally? do you know the history of the founder? do you know why their are more ex-members then members? do you know why so many high ranking officials, spokespersons,office personnel, celebs, the founder&#8217;s own family, the current leader&#8217;s OWN parents and niece have ALL left and spoken out? do you know about &#8220;clear&#8221; and &#8220;ot levels&#8221; and how much they cost? can you explain ot 3 and xenu?</p>
<p>have you ever met a &#8220;clear&#8221;? are your familiar with the &#8220;disconnection policy&#8221; and the &#8220;1.1. scale?&#8221; anymore questions you care NOT to answer? and if not, WHY?</p>
<p>&#8220;i&#8217;m not a scientologist, but&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221; (OSA! indoctrination&#8221;) please enlighten everyone on your information and knowledge&#8230;..</p>
<p>either your NOT a scientologist and i know more then you by simply the information (or as you call it bashing) and questions i pose to you above (and in other replies)  OR your OSA&#8230; do you know or not know what OSA stands for?)</p>
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		By: pluvo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[pluvo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368035&quot;&gt;Tracy Schmitz&lt;/a&gt;.

Tracy,  I read it very quickly. I get dizzy with this roundabout. I really avoid such conversations as it is kind of like boxing with shadows (also I&#039;M ESL and need too much time to think about what to write which would be effective).

Their agenda is mainly: get the message out that Scn is doing good and the critics are stupid and haters.

What I see is that he steered you away from the argument of abuses in the CoS. Arguing about that he does that is in vain, IMO; he slips out of your fingers like a slippery fish, figuratively.
I&#039;m not an expert in arguing with such a person. What I&#039;m quite good in is finding references (which I&#039;m remembering) from other people.

In the cases when I was involved with such a commenter, I gave short examples of abuses and didn&#039;t go into arguing - I also use the &quot;no-answer&quot; on them.

I don&#039;t argue with them about religion and cults. The only thing I said once was &quot;I grew up a catholic, I got never abused by the Catholic Church but I got abused by the CoS. Of course I didn&#039;t get an answer or got questioned about it but then got ignored.

Does this answer anything for you? Any more questions?

Did you see already the &quot;confidential&quot; Reporter TRs? It&#039;s from the pre-Internet time to handle reporters but is now used also in the comments sections. http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/john-sweeney.htm
From 5) &quot;Handling an SP&quot; - d): &quot;He should never allow himself to be put at effect, and should not tolerate it even for an instant, but immediately attack back.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368035">Tracy Schmitz</a>.</p>
<p>Tracy,  I read it very quickly. I get dizzy with this roundabout. I really avoid such conversations as it is kind of like boxing with shadows (also I&#8217;M ESL and need too much time to think about what to write which would be effective).</p>
<p>Their agenda is mainly: get the message out that Scn is doing good and the critics are stupid and haters.</p>
<p>What I see is that he steered you away from the argument of abuses in the CoS. Arguing about that he does that is in vain, IMO; he slips out of your fingers like a slippery fish, figuratively.<br />
I&#8217;m not an expert in arguing with such a person. What I&#8217;m quite good in is finding references (which I&#8217;m remembering) from other people.</p>
<p>In the cases when I was involved with such a commenter, I gave short examples of abuses and didn&#8217;t go into arguing &#8211; I also use the &#8220;no-answer&#8221; on them.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t argue with them about religion and cults. The only thing I said once was &#8220;I grew up a catholic, I got never abused by the Catholic Church but I got abused by the CoS. Of course I didn&#8217;t get an answer or got questioned about it but then got ignored.</p>
<p>Does this answer anything for you? Any more questions?</p>
<p>Did you see already the &#8220;confidential&#8221; Reporter TRs? It&#8217;s from the pre-Internet time to handle reporters but is now used also in the comments sections. <a href="http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/john-sweeney.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/john-sweeney.htm</a><br />
From 5) &#8220;Handling an SP&#8221; &#8211; d): &#8220;He should never allow himself to be put at effect, and should not tolerate it even for an instant, but immediately attack back.</p>
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		By: Once_Born		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Once_Born]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368102&quot;&gt;Dice&lt;/a&gt;.

I&#039;ve never been in Scientology, but I&#039;ve liven long enough to have bad things happen to me. I agree that the worst thing you do is to try to suppress and ignore such an experience. You have to move on, but you also need to assimilate it - and the best. way you can do this is to examine it, preferably with the help of sympathetic friends. 

People who go on to study related subjects can find that their  first-hand experience gives them a unique insight - as long as they proceed from the general to the particular, and not the other way around. 

With respect, that seems to be another mistake that ex-Scientologists make. Scientology is a special case of a toxic social situation which facilitates the manipulation of people. you can&#039;t truly understand it by getting in closer. You have to stand well back, and see the striking similarities in so many other world-views (some of which are relatively benign, others even worse than the CofS). Then you can return to your experience and see it in a wider perspective.

As for the mistakes that &#039;never-ins&#039; make - i&#039;m a living reference work for those.

PS - it&#039;s good to know you, too.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368102">Dice</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never been in Scientology, but I&#8217;ve liven long enough to have bad things happen to me. I agree that the worst thing you do is to try to suppress and ignore such an experience. You have to move on, but you also need to assimilate it &#8211; and the best. way you can do this is to examine it, preferably with the help of sympathetic friends. </p>
<p>People who go on to study related subjects can find that their  first-hand experience gives them a unique insight &#8211; as long as they proceed from the general to the particular, and not the other way around. </p>
<p>With respect, that seems to be another mistake that ex-Scientologists make. Scientology is a special case of a toxic social situation which facilitates the manipulation of people. you can&#8217;t truly understand it by getting in closer. You have to stand well back, and see the striking similarities in so many other world-views (some of which are relatively benign, others even worse than the CofS). Then you can return to your experience and see it in a wider perspective.</p>
<p>As for the mistakes that &#8216;never-ins&#8217; make &#8211; i&#8217;m a living reference work for those.</p>
<p>PS &#8211; it&#8217;s good to know you, too.</p>
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		By: Dice		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dice]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368013&quot;&gt;Once_Born&lt;/a&gt;.

Ok! I read all 3 parts and I have been reading it before, i remember. I also see what you mean by it&#039;s a natural thing in high pressure groups and there are many of those. And i &quot;study&quot; this from my experience with Scientology and you don&#039;t - perfect :-) That&#039;s calms me down a great deal as I am trying to understand where we are heading in this world. Reaching 50+ make you think with a greater perspective and a desire to predict the future. One thing i believe is wrong with people that is leaving the cult, is that they abandon every observation and will have nothing to do with it, thus leaving a vacuum and not filling it up with more reasonable experience from other sources. Not talking about people or execs on this forum, they are certainly doing their part, but those who left the cult and who i just had to give up, on the reason that they are just in a &quot;comfortably numb&quot; zone and basically defaulted to where the where before they read LRH and all his wrong values. it&#039;s like - Back to the eighties and lets party! - But that a whole other subject and my noodle is floating :-)

I am pretty sure that Hubsy was played and DM is too. There is always a bigger fish! Only time will tell. But that i find fascinating and using $cientology as a reference is not a bad start. At least i am learning something other than LRH books. Nice to meet you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1368013">Once_Born</a>.</p>
<p>Ok! I read all 3 parts and I have been reading it before, i remember. I also see what you mean by it&#8217;s a natural thing in high pressure groups and there are many of those. And i &#8220;study&#8221; this from my experience with Scientology and you don&#8217;t &#8211; perfect 🙂 That&#8217;s calms me down a great deal as I am trying to understand where we are heading in this world. Reaching 50+ make you think with a greater perspective and a desire to predict the future. One thing i believe is wrong with people that is leaving the cult, is that they abandon every observation and will have nothing to do with it, thus leaving a vacuum and not filling it up with more reasonable experience from other sources. Not talking about people or execs on this forum, they are certainly doing their part, but those who left the cult and who i just had to give up, on the reason that they are just in a &#8220;comfortably numb&#8221; zone and basically defaulted to where the where before they read LRH and all his wrong values. it&#8217;s like &#8211; Back to the eighties and lets party! &#8211; But that a whole other subject and my noodle is floating 🙂</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that Hubsy was played and DM is too. There is always a bigger fish! Only time will tell. But that i find fascinating and using $cientology as a reference is not a bad start. At least i am learning something other than LRH books. Nice to meet you!</p>
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		By: Tracy Schmitz		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tracy Schmitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1367276&quot;&gt;Andrea &#039;i-Betty&#039; Garner&lt;/a&gt;.

hi again andrea.. down below is my brother and this guy&#039;s back and forth replies... i apologize in advance for the long novel like diatribe below, but i just wanted your opinion on it and what this person&#039;s &quot;angle and story is&quot;... HE must be a scientologist and/or OSA (and lying about it) or a uneducated stubborn nutjob the way he defends this cult (and never says why, that is IF HE IS NOT a scientologist which he loves to post) anyway, down below is the history of this person and my brother:

him: all of you are consumed by materialism and you point the finger at someone who is not going the same direction as you? No, you are all sheep and demonize anyone that does not follow your mainstream rules for humanity.﻿

my brother: not at all, we point the finger at dangerous cults who are brainwashing people who are unaware what is happening, that they&#039;re being exploited.﻿

him: This world is a cult, so don&#039;t give me that propaganda. No again, anything that is not in your mainstream commercialism you deem a cult. Ive read on Scientology and they have some very helpful practices when it comes to freeing your mind.﻿

my brother: of course they do.. AT THE VERY BEGINNING AND VERY START! courses and classes that are common sense and logic and one could find in countless places,(since the founder stole these ideas from others and just re-worded things to make it sound unique and original and powerful) or a self help book for 10 bucks! this is how this abusive lying scam of a cult suckers the suckers in.. wait until you have to fork over more and more and more money over the years to quote &quot;move up&quot; to &quot;earn your way&quot; to get &quot;more information&quot; (newsflash: no true religion would demand payment for their information, to learn, to practice it, for your spirituality!)...

you say you have &quot;read up on scientology&quot; care to divulge where? and what?...

i suggest you TRULY read up on scientology from all the other sides and not just take the &quot;guided tour&quot;!.. www.tonyortega.org would be a 1st start!..chris shelton&#039;s channel here on youtube would also work! ﻿

him: Yes these sources are elsewhere and can be found in other books, but so can anything else. Knowledge always has a root and is inspired by another entity, nothing is new under the Sun. With that said, I can say that Scientology has made it clear and does simplify direction on how to rid yourself of your subconscious mind. What religion does not demand funding in one form or another? Don&#039;t be foolish as to confuse spirituality with religion.﻿

my brother: &quot;what religion does not demand funding in one form or another? NO OTHER RELIGION DEMANDS not donations mind you but DEMANDS money and more and more of it over the years to know about what they practice, belief in, and so on!.. any other &quot;true&quot; religion i know, anyone can walk into a church, a mosque, whatever and ask the priest, minister, preacher, clergy what they believe in and will be told in about 5 minutes and FOR FREE!...right there you know scientology is a scam and a abusive cult!...

oh and the whole scientology makes it clear AND how to rid oneself of their subconscious mind? do you really mean the &quot;made up term&quot; reactive mind? if so, that right there is BALONEY! it&#039;s impossible to do so! there is no such thing as ridding someone&#039;s reactive mind and memory and thoughts much less ENTIRELY! show me a &quot;CLEAR&quot; even one! and by the way anyone with a ounce of intelligence and education would read DIANETICS (if they could even make it!) the founding book of scientology and know it is ENTIRELY NONSENSICAL made up not a shred of proof, scientific studies, tests, trials, ponderings from a man whose main claim to fame was a science fiction writer and who has been documented as a UNEDUCATED PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!...

&quot;don&#039;t be foolish to confuse spirituality with religion&quot; but scientology does this doesn&#039;t it! i mean they claim to be a religion because they DEAL with the spirituality and mind of people!

him: There is no such thing as free boy. Again all religions demand money in one form or another and I have been to very few churches where this isn&#039;t the case and they are truly following the Christ. The Catholic Church enforced taxing the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the penalty was a loss of the limbs if you did not pay. So don&#039;t give me that self righteous excuse as if this is the first time you&#039;ve heard of a religion asking for money. Again, I am not a member of the Church of Scientology but I do understand some of their views and methods. You are here to demonize something that you do not understand.﻿

my brother: that&#039;s your comeback? hundreds of years ago the catholic church demanded money from indigenous peoples of the americas? yeah, try to keep up with the 20th and 21st century can you! you simply DO NOT KNOW enough yourself of what you &quot;do not understand&quot;.. PLEASE TELL EVERYONE here on youtube and thus the world how YOU KNOW of your information on scientology! NO ONE who knows ANYTHING of scientology would ever defend it!

those who do 1) are scientologists themselves 2) hate all religions/churches/faiths and thnks they are all wrong and the same (which is not true) and 3) doesn&#039;t know enough and are no educated to even be able to provide a argument of any kind...

that&#039;s it folks, that&#039;s it caine able!...yes, all churches/faiths/religions ASK for money but that&#039;s it, asked for donations NOT demanded payments and not more and more over the years and years and any donations are NOT to be a member, to pay for auditing, courses and classes and to belong!.. only a abusive money scam of a cult does this!...it&#039;s called &quot;dangling the carrot, stringing the clueless person along&quot; old as time tactic...

once again, PLEASE post to the world your knowledge of scientology and where you got it! also, please post to the world what you know of how they are run, treat their members, their ex-members who speak out and it&#039;s critics who speak out you know besides your simplistic &quot;understanding of their methods and views&quot;...

the world awaits for your detailed knowledge of all these matters and your defense of them!..

i myself have read more then a few books on scientology, watched countless videos here on youtube and eslewhere, watched many documentaries, have read countless articles and magazines about scientology and have talked to a few ex-members... so this is my firsthand knowledge of this abusive cult.. and of course there is the DOCUMENTED factual cannot be indisputed of countless high ranking officials who were in for DECADES, who have now left and spoken out, spokespersons and office personnel who have left, celebs who have left, 99% of the founder&#039;s OWN family who have left and spoken out against their relative, the founder, the parents and niece of the current leader who have left and spoken out, and the current leader&#039;s wife who has not been since in public anywhere including no matter how important a scientology event since 2007!!!!!!!..﻿

him: Correct. That&#039;s my comeback, the Catholic church and Christian churches around the world have continued this rhetoric with the people by using the guilt of God.

The main aim of scientology is to rid you of your third mind which subconsciously disrupts your day to day experiences. Goals that you set become failures because your third mind pauses you like a deer in the headlights. This is what I know thus far of Scientology and I agree that this is a big issue in today&#039;s generation of people who are controlled by technology. This is a real problem. I did not say I support Scientology but I do understand some of their methods of creating better versions of people.

You are just a man that needs something to hate, you have no purpose in life.

my brother: WRONG! you know nothing! all you know is the &quot;story&quot; that you know.. NOT the WHOLE truth... interesting how you have YET to respond to anything i have said in regards to facts and what is going on and how they treat members, ex-members and crtiics? why is that? and yet you claim to NOT be a scientologist? and yet you refuse to tell me or anyone reading these comments just HOW you know what you know (or think you know) once again, NO ONE who knows the entirety of scientology would EVER defend them.. all they are are words and &quot;simplistic feel good messages&quot;like drugs are bad, we are against drugs! etcetera... seemingly that is ALL YOU KNOW what they say they are about.. THAT&#039;S IT! don&#039;t look, listen, watch anything else right!...

i now DARE YOU to post how you know (or what you think you know) and how and where from.. do you even know their are MORE people who have left, then are still in?...do you know they even lie how many members they have? do you know the true history of it&#039;s founder? obviously you don&#039;t or don&#039;t want to know, because you have NOT MADE 1 COMMENT ABOUT the other facts and points i have and continue to post! you claim to NOT be a scientologist but yet you follow their tactics COMPLETELY and what are tactics that any brainwashing lying abusive cults follow that is &quot;attack never defend&quot; deflect any questions&quot; and so on...

according to you you must be completely self absorbed, uneducated and or extremely gullible because &#039;scientology says what they do, or trying to do and are about&quot; so it&#039;s must be true and that&#039;s all i need to know!&#039;

like i said TRY if you can to not take the &quot;guided tour&quot; and use some critical thinking!....

makes me wonder do you listen and believe everything and never question it? EVEN WHEN SOMEONE AND OTHERS ARE GIVEN YOU information to question it?!....

yeah, scientology has ALL THE ANSWERS, 100% all the answers and 100% always right and 100% works for everyone! anyone over the age of 12 knows there is no such thing in our world! hmm, if that is the case and their stance, they why not give this world changing information to the entire world for free, i mean it&#039;s so great right?! why charge more and more money over more and more years to anyone? SCAM to end all scams! disguised as a &#039;self help&#039; quote &quot;religion&quot;...

i have many purposes and that includes stopping this evil organization hurting and abusing those it has already done so and those in the future, abusing them in every definition of the word (financial, emotional, physical, etcetera)....

interesting, that YOU YOURSELF never give any information about scientology other then what you have read? or think you know what they believe in? do you do so because you do NOT know anything else...

what&#039;s next? george washington was the 1st president of the united states but i don&#039;t know anything else about what went on during that time in history? the titanic sunk in april 1912, but that&#039;s all (you) know about it? general facts anyone and everyone could and would know, but no specifics..these are analogies i&#039;m using in reference to all you seemingly knowing is what scientology says it&#039;s about and does. .

you NOT having or even wanting to have any specifics and information on the entirety of scientology and what it is and does is a slap to the face of countless current members and ex-members who are and were abused!... shame on you for defending this &quot;thing&quot;....

makes me think you would be fine with &quot;hey, they destroyed people, but they had a good message i read and heard! oh well!&quot;...gee, maybe i should have look, listened and found out the truth and the information that was everywhere to find if i tried!&quot;

i pray that no one you care about or loved gets involved and stays involved in this &quot;thing&quot; for years as it slowly abuses and destroys (and bankrupts them!)... hmm, do you know of their disconnection policy or haven&#039;t you got that far in your &quot;what you know?&quot;!..﻿

him: if you were free then you wouldn&#039;t feel the need to bash the beliefs of others.. Again, nothing is free, if it is then there is always an agenda behind it. You&#039;re paying for it in one form or the other. Time is the only luxury.

my brother: hi again cain! isn&#039;t it great EVERYONE how caine knows EVERYTHING but never says anything besides generalities to the extreme? never answers any questions or facts or points brought up? always deflects everything... so since your &quot;NOT&quot; a scientologist have you read the sec check questions or the ot levels and their information (all available now on the internet).. also since your &quot;NOT&quot; a scientologist or speak for them, how many scientologists are their in the world, i&#039;m curious... also how many scientologist do you know personally, i&#039;m curious....﻿

him: Are you ok? Something seems to be pinching you? I answered your questions and since it did not adhere to what you wanted to hear you label them as &quot;generalities&quot;. Correct, I am not a scientologist, and as I have said before, I understand some of the methods that scientology uses to free the minds of it&#039;s members. You reactive mind has already decided how you are going to approach this argument.. You&#039;re going to do it childishly by using labels to defend you. You are beaten.﻿

my brother: what questions did you answer? your deflection of the catholic church (and every religion according to you) asking for money? (Unlike scientology which demands payments for classes/courses/auditing and whatever else)..

. i have SPECIFICALLY posted information on scientology, and what is going on, questions for you in every post/reply, even questions in the last post i just made and you have NEVER answered or commented on a single 1... you repeat over and over the same thing 1) your not a scientologist but you &quot;understand&#039; their methods and 2) other religions ask for money as well.. THAT&#039;S IT, THAT&#039;S ALL YOU HAVE EVER SAID and over and over again....

do i need to list the questions i have asked you to answer again? do i need to list the facts and information i have asked you to if not answer, comment on? do i need to ask YET AGAIN how YOU know what you know about scientology and where and how you got this information?..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1367276">Andrea &#8216;i-Betty&#8217; Garner</a>.</p>
<p>hi again andrea.. down below is my brother and this guy&#8217;s back and forth replies&#8230; i apologize in advance for the long novel like diatribe below, but i just wanted your opinion on it and what this person&#8217;s &#8220;angle and story is&#8221;&#8230; HE must be a scientologist and/or OSA (and lying about it) or a uneducated stubborn nutjob the way he defends this cult (and never says why, that is IF HE IS NOT a scientologist which he loves to post) anyway, down below is the history of this person and my brother:</p>
<p>him: all of you are consumed by materialism and you point the finger at someone who is not going the same direction as you? No, you are all sheep and demonize anyone that does not follow your mainstream rules for humanity.﻿</p>
<p>my brother: not at all, we point the finger at dangerous cults who are brainwashing people who are unaware what is happening, that they&#8217;re being exploited.﻿</p>
<p>him: This world is a cult, so don&#8217;t give me that propaganda. No again, anything that is not in your mainstream commercialism you deem a cult. Ive read on Scientology and they have some very helpful practices when it comes to freeing your mind.﻿</p>
<p>my brother: of course they do.. AT THE VERY BEGINNING AND VERY START! courses and classes that are common sense and logic and one could find in countless places,(since the founder stole these ideas from others and just re-worded things to make it sound unique and original and powerful) or a self help book for 10 bucks! this is how this abusive lying scam of a cult suckers the suckers in.. wait until you have to fork over more and more and more money over the years to quote &#8220;move up&#8221; to &#8220;earn your way&#8221; to get &#8220;more information&#8221; (newsflash: no true religion would demand payment for their information, to learn, to practice it, for your spirituality!)&#8230;</p>
<p>you say you have &#8220;read up on scientology&#8221; care to divulge where? and what?&#8230;</p>
<p>i suggest you TRULY read up on scientology from all the other sides and not just take the &#8220;guided tour&#8221;!.. <a href="http://www.tonyortega.org" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.tonyortega.org</a> would be a 1st start!..chris shelton&#8217;s channel here on youtube would also work! ﻿</p>
<p>him: Yes these sources are elsewhere and can be found in other books, but so can anything else. Knowledge always has a root and is inspired by another entity, nothing is new under the Sun. With that said, I can say that Scientology has made it clear and does simplify direction on how to rid yourself of your subconscious mind. What religion does not demand funding in one form or another? Don&#8217;t be foolish as to confuse spirituality with religion.﻿</p>
<p>my brother: &#8220;what religion does not demand funding in one form or another? NO OTHER RELIGION DEMANDS not donations mind you but DEMANDS money and more and more of it over the years to know about what they practice, belief in, and so on!.. any other &#8220;true&#8221; religion i know, anyone can walk into a church, a mosque, whatever and ask the priest, minister, preacher, clergy what they believe in and will be told in about 5 minutes and FOR FREE!&#8230;right there you know scientology is a scam and a abusive cult!&#8230;</p>
<p>oh and the whole scientology makes it clear AND how to rid oneself of their subconscious mind? do you really mean the &#8220;made up term&#8221; reactive mind? if so, that right there is BALONEY! it&#8217;s impossible to do so! there is no such thing as ridding someone&#8217;s reactive mind and memory and thoughts much less ENTIRELY! show me a &#8220;CLEAR&#8221; even one! and by the way anyone with a ounce of intelligence and education would read DIANETICS (if they could even make it!) the founding book of scientology and know it is ENTIRELY NONSENSICAL made up not a shred of proof, scientific studies, tests, trials, ponderings from a man whose main claim to fame was a science fiction writer and who has been documented as a UNEDUCATED PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;don&#8217;t be foolish to confuse spirituality with religion&#8221; but scientology does this doesn&#8217;t it! i mean they claim to be a religion because they DEAL with the spirituality and mind of people!</p>
<p>him: There is no such thing as free boy. Again all religions demand money in one form or another and I have been to very few churches where this isn&#8217;t the case and they are truly following the Christ. The Catholic Church enforced taxing the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the penalty was a loss of the limbs if you did not pay. So don&#8217;t give me that self righteous excuse as if this is the first time you&#8217;ve heard of a religion asking for money. Again, I am not a member of the Church of Scientology but I do understand some of their views and methods. You are here to demonize something that you do not understand.﻿</p>
<p>my brother: that&#8217;s your comeback? hundreds of years ago the catholic church demanded money from indigenous peoples of the americas? yeah, try to keep up with the 20th and 21st century can you! you simply DO NOT KNOW enough yourself of what you &#8220;do not understand&#8221;.. PLEASE TELL EVERYONE here on youtube and thus the world how YOU KNOW of your information on scientology! NO ONE who knows ANYTHING of scientology would ever defend it!</p>
<p>those who do 1) are scientologists themselves 2) hate all religions/churches/faiths and thnks they are all wrong and the same (which is not true) and 3) doesn&#8217;t know enough and are no educated to even be able to provide a argument of any kind&#8230;</p>
<p>that&#8217;s it folks, that&#8217;s it caine able!&#8230;yes, all churches/faiths/religions ASK for money but that&#8217;s it, asked for donations NOT demanded payments and not more and more over the years and years and any donations are NOT to be a member, to pay for auditing, courses and classes and to belong!.. only a abusive money scam of a cult does this!&#8230;it&#8217;s called &#8220;dangling the carrot, stringing the clueless person along&#8221; old as time tactic&#8230;</p>
<p>once again, PLEASE post to the world your knowledge of scientology and where you got it! also, please post to the world what you know of how they are run, treat their members, their ex-members who speak out and it&#8217;s critics who speak out you know besides your simplistic &#8220;understanding of their methods and views&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>the world awaits for your detailed knowledge of all these matters and your defense of them!..</p>
<p>i myself have read more then a few books on scientology, watched countless videos here on youtube and eslewhere, watched many documentaries, have read countless articles and magazines about scientology and have talked to a few ex-members&#8230; so this is my firsthand knowledge of this abusive cult.. and of course there is the DOCUMENTED factual cannot be indisputed of countless high ranking officials who were in for DECADES, who have now left and spoken out, spokespersons and office personnel who have left, celebs who have left, 99% of the founder&#8217;s OWN family who have left and spoken out against their relative, the founder, the parents and niece of the current leader who have left and spoken out, and the current leader&#8217;s wife who has not been since in public anywhere including no matter how important a scientology event since 2007!!!!!!!..﻿</p>
<p>him: Correct. That&#8217;s my comeback, the Catholic church and Christian churches around the world have continued this rhetoric with the people by using the guilt of God.</p>
<p>The main aim of scientology is to rid you of your third mind which subconsciously disrupts your day to day experiences. Goals that you set become failures because your third mind pauses you like a deer in the headlights. This is what I know thus far of Scientology and I agree that this is a big issue in today&#8217;s generation of people who are controlled by technology. This is a real problem. I did not say I support Scientology but I do understand some of their methods of creating better versions of people.</p>
<p>You are just a man that needs something to hate, you have no purpose in life.</p>
<p>my brother: WRONG! you know nothing! all you know is the &#8220;story&#8221; that you know.. NOT the WHOLE truth&#8230; interesting how you have YET to respond to anything i have said in regards to facts and what is going on and how they treat members, ex-members and crtiics? why is that? and yet you claim to NOT be a scientologist? and yet you refuse to tell me or anyone reading these comments just HOW you know what you know (or think you know) once again, NO ONE who knows the entirety of scientology would EVER defend them.. all they are are words and &#8220;simplistic feel good messages&#8221;like drugs are bad, we are against drugs! etcetera&#8230; seemingly that is ALL YOU KNOW what they say they are about.. THAT&#8217;S IT! don&#8217;t look, listen, watch anything else right!&#8230;</p>
<p>i now DARE YOU to post how you know (or what you think you know) and how and where from.. do you even know their are MORE people who have left, then are still in?&#8230;do you know they even lie how many members they have? do you know the true history of it&#8217;s founder? obviously you don&#8217;t or don&#8217;t want to know, because you have NOT MADE 1 COMMENT ABOUT the other facts and points i have and continue to post! you claim to NOT be a scientologist but yet you follow their tactics COMPLETELY and what are tactics that any brainwashing lying abusive cults follow that is &#8220;attack never defend&#8221; deflect any questions&#8221; and so on&#8230;</p>
<p>according to you you must be completely self absorbed, uneducated and or extremely gullible because &#8216;scientology says what they do, or trying to do and are about&#8221; so it&#8217;s must be true and that&#8217;s all i need to know!&#8217;</p>
<p>like i said TRY if you can to not take the &#8220;guided tour&#8221; and use some critical thinking!&#8230;.</p>
<p>makes me wonder do you listen and believe everything and never question it? EVEN WHEN SOMEONE AND OTHERS ARE GIVEN YOU information to question it?!&#8230;.</p>
<p>yeah, scientology has ALL THE ANSWERS, 100% all the answers and 100% always right and 100% works for everyone! anyone over the age of 12 knows there is no such thing in our world! hmm, if that is the case and their stance, they why not give this world changing information to the entire world for free, i mean it&#8217;s so great right?! why charge more and more money over more and more years to anyone? SCAM to end all scams! disguised as a &#8216;self help&#8217; quote &#8220;religion&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>i have many purposes and that includes stopping this evil organization hurting and abusing those it has already done so and those in the future, abusing them in every definition of the word (financial, emotional, physical, etcetera)&#8230;.</p>
<p>interesting, that YOU YOURSELF never give any information about scientology other then what you have read? or think you know what they believe in? do you do so because you do NOT know anything else&#8230;</p>
<p>what&#8217;s next? george washington was the 1st president of the united states but i don&#8217;t know anything else about what went on during that time in history? the titanic sunk in april 1912, but that&#8217;s all (you) know about it? general facts anyone and everyone could and would know, but no specifics..these are analogies i&#8217;m using in reference to all you seemingly knowing is what scientology says it&#8217;s about and does. .</p>
<p>you NOT having or even wanting to have any specifics and information on the entirety of scientology and what it is and does is a slap to the face of countless current members and ex-members who are and were abused!&#8230; shame on you for defending this &#8220;thing&#8221;&#8230;.</p>
<p>makes me think you would be fine with &#8220;hey, they destroyed people, but they had a good message i read and heard! oh well!&#8221;&#8230;gee, maybe i should have look, listened and found out the truth and the information that was everywhere to find if i tried!&#8221;</p>
<p>i pray that no one you care about or loved gets involved and stays involved in this &#8220;thing&#8221; for years as it slowly abuses and destroys (and bankrupts them!)&#8230; hmm, do you know of their disconnection policy or haven&#8217;t you got that far in your &#8220;what you know?&#8221;!..﻿</p>
<p>him: if you were free then you wouldn&#8217;t feel the need to bash the beliefs of others.. Again, nothing is free, if it is then there is always an agenda behind it. You&#8217;re paying for it in one form or the other. Time is the only luxury.</p>
<p>my brother: hi again cain! isn&#8217;t it great EVERYONE how caine knows EVERYTHING but never says anything besides generalities to the extreme? never answers any questions or facts or points brought up? always deflects everything&#8230; so since your &#8220;NOT&#8221; a scientologist have you read the sec check questions or the ot levels and their information (all available now on the internet).. also since your &#8220;NOT&#8221; a scientologist or speak for them, how many scientologists are their in the world, i&#8217;m curious&#8230; also how many scientologist do you know personally, i&#8217;m curious&#8230;.﻿</p>
<p>him: Are you ok? Something seems to be pinching you? I answered your questions and since it did not adhere to what you wanted to hear you label them as &#8220;generalities&#8221;. Correct, I am not a scientologist, and as I have said before, I understand some of the methods that scientology uses to free the minds of it&#8217;s members. You reactive mind has already decided how you are going to approach this argument.. You&#8217;re going to do it childishly by using labels to defend you. You are beaten.﻿</p>
<p>my brother: what questions did you answer? your deflection of the catholic church (and every religion according to you) asking for money? (Unlike scientology which demands payments for classes/courses/auditing and whatever else)..</p>
<p>. i have SPECIFICALLY posted information on scientology, and what is going on, questions for you in every post/reply, even questions in the last post i just made and you have NEVER answered or commented on a single 1&#8230; you repeat over and over the same thing 1) your not a scientologist but you &#8220;understand&#8217; their methods and 2) other religions ask for money as well.. THAT&#8217;S IT, THAT&#8217;S ALL YOU HAVE EVER SAID and over and over again&#8230;.</p>
<p>do i need to list the questions i have asked you to answer again? do i need to list the facts and information i have asked you to if not answer, comment on? do i need to ask YET AGAIN how YOU know what you know about scientology and where and how you got this information?..</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2016/03/28/scientology-at-comic-con-an-attempt-at-a-minor-intervention-as-told-by-phil-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-1367368&quot;&gt;pluvo&lt;/a&gt;.

pluvo, only because i trust and value your opinion. here is the back and forth replies of this person and my brother.. i apologize in advance for the long novel like diatribe, you may not even want to read all of this, but i just wanted to hear your thoughts, comments and experienced opinion on this person and &quot;their story&quot; so here it goes below:

him: all of you are consumed by materialism and you point the finger at someone who is not going the same direction as you? No, you are all sheep and demonize anyone that does not follow your mainstream rules for humanity.﻿

me: not at all, we point the finger at dangerous cults who are brainwashing people who are unaware what is happening, that they&#039;re being exploited.﻿

him: This world is a cult, so don&#039;t give me that propaganda. No again, anything that is not in your mainstream commercialism you deem a cult. Ive read on Scientology and they have some very helpful practices when it comes to freeing your mind.﻿

me: of course they do.. AT THE VERY BEGINNING AND VERY START! courses and classes that are common sense and logic and one could find in countless places,(since the founder stole these ideas from others and just re-worded things to make it sound unique and original and powerful) or a self help book for 10 bucks! this is how this abusive lying scam of a cult suckers the suckers in.. wait until you have to fork over more and more and more money over the years to quote &quot;move up&quot; to &quot;earn your way&quot; to get &quot;more information&quot; (newsflash: no true religion would demand payment for their information, to learn, to practice it, for your spirituality!)...

you say you have &quot;read up on scientology&quot; care to divulge where? and what?...

i suggest you TRULY read up on scientology from all the other sides and not just take the &quot;guided tour&quot;!.. www.tonyortega.org would be a 1st start!..chris shelton&#039;s channel here on youtube would also work! ﻿

him: Yes these sources are elsewhere and can be found in other books, but so can anything else. Knowledge always has a root and is inspired by another entity, nothing is new under the Sun. With that said, I can say that Scientology has made it clear and does simplify direction on how to rid yourself of your subconscious mind. What religion does not demand funding in one form or another? Don&#039;t be foolish as to confuse spirituality with religion.﻿

me: &quot;what religion does not demand funding in one form or another? NO OTHER RELIGION DEMANDS not donations mind you but DEMANDS money and more and more of it over the years to know about what they practice, belief in, and so on!.. any other &quot;true&quot; religion i know, anyone can walk into a church, a mosque, whatever and ask the priest, minister, preacher, clergy what they believe in and will be told in about 5 minutes and FOR FREE!...right there you know scientology is a scam and a abusive cult!...

oh and the whole scientology makes it clear AND how to rid oneself of their subconscious mind? do you really mean the &quot;made up term&quot; reactive mind? if so, that right there is BALONEY! it&#039;s impossible to do so! there is no such thing as ridding someone&#039;s reactive mind and memory and thoughts much less ENTIRELY! show me a &quot;CLEAR&quot; even one! and by the way anyone with a ounce of intelligence and education would read DIANETICS (if they could even make it!) the founding book of scientology and know it is ENTIRELY NONSENSICAL made up not a shred of proof, scientific studies, tests, trials, ponderings from a man whose main claim to fame was a science fiction writer and who has been documented as a UNEDUCATED PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!...

&quot;don&#039;t be foolish to confuse spirituality with religion&quot; but scientology does this doesn&#039;t it! i mean they claim to be a religion because they DEAL with the spirituality and mind of people!

him: There is no such thing as free boy. Again all religions demand money in one form or another and I have been to very few churches where this isn&#039;t the case and they are truly following the Christ. The Catholic Church enforced taxing the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the penalty was a loss of the limbs if you did not pay. So don&#039;t give me that self righteous excuse as if this is the first time you&#039;ve heard of a religion asking for money. Again, I am not a member of the Church of Scientology but I do understand some of their views and methods. You are here to demonize something that you do not understand.﻿

me: that&#039;s your comeback? hundreds of years ago the catholic church demanded money from indigenous peoples of the americas? yeah, try to keep up with the 20th and 21st century can you! you simply DO NOT KNOW enough yourself of what you &quot;do not understand&quot;.. PLEASE TELL EVERYONE here on youtube and thus the world how YOU KNOW of your information on scientology! NO ONE who knows ANYTHING of scientology would ever defend it!

those who do 1) are scientologists themselves 2) hate all religions/churches/faiths and thnks they are all wrong and the same (which is not true) and 3) doesn&#039;t know enough and are no educated to even be able to provide a argument of any kind...

that&#039;s it folks, that&#039;s it caine able!...yes, all churches/faiths/religions ASK for money but that&#039;s it, asked for donations NOT demanded payments and not more and more over the years and years and any donations are NOT to be a member, to pay for auditing, courses and classes and to belong!.. only a abusive money scam of a cult does this!...it&#039;s called &quot;dangling the carrot, stringing the clueless person along&quot; old as time tactic...

once again, PLEASE post to the world your knowledge of scientology and where you got it! also, please post to the world what you know of how they are run, treat their members, their ex-members who speak out and it&#039;s critics who speak out you know besides your simplistic &quot;understanding of their methods and views&quot;...

the world awaits for your detailed knowledge of all these matters and your defense of them!..

i myself have read more then a few books on scientology, watched countless videos here on youtube and eslewhere, watched many documentaries, have read countless articles and magazines about scientology and have talked to a few ex-members... so this is my firsthand knowledge of this abusive cult.. and of course there is the DOCUMENTED factual cannot be indisputed of countless high ranking officials who were in for DECADES, who have now left and spoken out, spokespersons and office personnel who have left, celebs who have left, 99% of the founder&#039;s OWN family who have left and spoken out against their relative, the founder, the parents and niece of the current leader who have left and spoken out, and the current leader&#039;s wife who has not been since in public anywhere including no matter how important a scientology event since 2007!!!!!!!..﻿

him: Correct. That&#039;s my comeback, the Catholic church and Christian churches around the world have continued this rhetoric with the people by using the guilt of God.

The main aim of scientology is to rid you of your third mind which subconsciously disrupts your day to day experiences. Goals that you set become failures because your third mind pauses you like a deer in the headlights. This is what I know thus far of Scientology and I agree that this is a big issue in today&#039;s generation of people who are controlled by technology. This is a real problem. I did not say I support Scientology but I do understand some of their methods of creating better versions of people.

You are just a man that needs something to hate, you have no purpose in life.

me: WRONG! you know nothing! all you know is the &quot;story&quot; that you know.. NOT the WHOLE truth... interesting how you have YET to respond to anything i have said in regards to facts and what is going on and how they treat members, ex-members and crtiics? why is that? and yet you claim to NOT be a scientologist? and yet you refuse to tell me or anyone reading these comments just HOW you know what you know (or think you know) once again, NO ONE who knows the entirety of scientology would EVER defend them.. all they are are words and &quot;simplistic feel good messages&quot;like drugs are bad, we are against drugs! etcetera... seemingly that is ALL YOU KNOW what they say they are about.. THAT&#039;S IT! don&#039;t look, listen, watch anything else right!...

i now DARE YOU to post how you know (or what you think you know) and how and where from.. do you even know their are MORE people who have left, then are still in?...do you know they even lie how many members they have? do you know the true history of it&#039;s founder? obviously you don&#039;t or don&#039;t want to know, because you have NOT MADE 1 COMMENT ABOUT the other facts and points i have and continue to post! you claim to NOT be a scientologist but yet you follow their tactics COMPLETELY and what are tactics that any brainwashing lying abusive cults follow that is &quot;attack never defend&quot; deflect any questions&quot; and so on...

according to you you must be completely self absorbed, uneducated and or extremely gullible because &#039;scientology says what they do, or trying to do and are about&quot; so it&#039;s must be true and that&#039;s all i need to know!&#039;

like i said TRY if you can to not take the &quot;guided tour&quot; and use some critical thinking!....

makes me wonder do you listen and believe everything and never question it? EVEN WHEN SOMEONE AND OTHERS ARE GIVEN YOU information to question it?!....

yeah, scientology has ALL THE ANSWERS, 100% all the answers and 100% always right and 100% works for everyone! anyone over the age of 12 knows there is no such thing in our world! hmm, if that is the case and their stance, they why not give this world changing information to the entire world for free, i mean it&#039;s so great right?! why charge more and more money over more and more years to anyone? SCAM to end all scams! disguised as a &#039;self help&#039; quote &quot;religion&quot;...

i have many purposes and that includes stopping this evil organization hurting and abusing those it has already done so and those in the future, abusing them in every definition of the word (financial, emotional, physical, etcetera)....

interesting, that YOU YOURSELF never give any information about scientology other then what you have read? or think you know what they believe in? do you do so because you do NOT know anything else...

what&#039;s next? george washington was the 1st president of the united states but i don&#039;t know anything else about what went on during that time in history? the titanic sunk in april 1912, but that&#039;s all (you) know about it? general facts anyone and everyone could and would know, but no specifics..these are analogies i&#039;m using in reference to all you seemingly knowing is what scientology says it&#039;s about and does. .

you NOT having or even wanting to have any specifics and information on the entirety of scientology and what it is and does is a slap to the face of countless current members and ex-members who are and were abused!... shame on you for defending this &quot;thing&quot;....

makes me think you would be fine with &quot;hey, they destroyed people, but they had a good message i read and heard! oh well!&quot;...gee, maybe i should have look, listened and found out the truth and the information that was everywhere to find if i tried!&quot;

i pray that no one you care about or loved gets involved and stays involved in this &quot;thing&quot; for years as it slowly abuses and destroys (and bankrupts them!)... hmm, do you know of their disconnection policy or haven&#039;t you got that far in your &quot;what you know?&quot;!..﻿

him: if you were free then you wouldn&#039;t feel the need to bash the beliefs of others.. Again, nothing is free, if it is then there is always an agenda behind it. You&#039;re paying for it in one form or the other. Time is the only luxury.

me: hi again cain! isn&#039;t it great EVERYONE how caine knows EVERYTHING but never says anything besides generalities to the extreme? never answers any questions or facts or points brought up? always deflects everything... so since your &quot;NOT&quot; a scientologist have you read the sec check questions or the ot levels and their information (all available now on the internet).. also since your &quot;NOT&quot; a scientologist or speak for them, how many scientologists are their in the world, i&#039;m curious... also how many scientologist do you know personally, i&#039;m curious....﻿

him: Are you ok? Something seems to be pinching you? I answered your questions and since it did not adhere to what you wanted to hear you label them as &quot;generalities&quot;. Correct, I am not a scientologist, and as I have said before, I understand some of the methods that scientology uses to free the minds of it&#039;s members. You reactive mind has already decided how you are going to approach this argument.. You&#039;re going to do it childishly by using labels to defend you. You are beaten.﻿

me: what questions did you answer? your deflection of the catholic church (and every religion according to you) asking for money? (Unlike scientology which demands payments for classes/courses/auditing and whatever else)..

. i have SPECIFICALLY posted information on scientology, and what is going on, questions for you in every post/reply, even questions in the last post i just made and you have NEVER answered or commented on a single 1... you repeat over and over the same thing 1) your not a scientologist but you &quot;understand&#039; their methods and 2) other religions ask for money as well.. THAT&#039;S IT, THAT&#039;S ALL YOU HAVE EVER SAID and over and over again....

do i need to list the questions i have asked you to answer again? do i need to list the facts and information i have asked you to if not answer, comment on? do i need to ask YET AGAIN how YOU know what you know about scientology and where and how you got this information?..]]></description>
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<p>pluvo, only because i trust and value your opinion. here is the back and forth replies of this person and my brother.. i apologize in advance for the long novel like diatribe, you may not even want to read all of this, but i just wanted to hear your thoughts, comments and experienced opinion on this person and &#8220;their story&#8221; so here it goes below:</p>
<p>him: all of you are consumed by materialism and you point the finger at someone who is not going the same direction as you? No, you are all sheep and demonize anyone that does not follow your mainstream rules for humanity.﻿</p>
<p>me: not at all, we point the finger at dangerous cults who are brainwashing people who are unaware what is happening, that they&#8217;re being exploited.﻿</p>
<p>him: This world is a cult, so don&#8217;t give me that propaganda. No again, anything that is not in your mainstream commercialism you deem a cult. Ive read on Scientology and they have some very helpful practices when it comes to freeing your mind.﻿</p>
<p>me: of course they do.. AT THE VERY BEGINNING AND VERY START! courses and classes that are common sense and logic and one could find in countless places,(since the founder stole these ideas from others and just re-worded things to make it sound unique and original and powerful) or a self help book for 10 bucks! this is how this abusive lying scam of a cult suckers the suckers in.. wait until you have to fork over more and more and more money over the years to quote &#8220;move up&#8221; to &#8220;earn your way&#8221; to get &#8220;more information&#8221; (newsflash: no true religion would demand payment for their information, to learn, to practice it, for your spirituality!)&#8230;</p>
<p>you say you have &#8220;read up on scientology&#8221; care to divulge where? and what?&#8230;</p>
<p>i suggest you TRULY read up on scientology from all the other sides and not just take the &#8220;guided tour&#8221;!.. <a href="http://www.tonyortega.org" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.tonyortega.org</a> would be a 1st start!..chris shelton&#8217;s channel here on youtube would also work! ﻿</p>
<p>him: Yes these sources are elsewhere and can be found in other books, but so can anything else. Knowledge always has a root and is inspired by another entity, nothing is new under the Sun. With that said, I can say that Scientology has made it clear and does simplify direction on how to rid yourself of your subconscious mind. What religion does not demand funding in one form or another? Don&#8217;t be foolish as to confuse spirituality with religion.﻿</p>
<p>me: &#8220;what religion does not demand funding in one form or another? NO OTHER RELIGION DEMANDS not donations mind you but DEMANDS money and more and more of it over the years to know about what they practice, belief in, and so on!.. any other &#8220;true&#8221; religion i know, anyone can walk into a church, a mosque, whatever and ask the priest, minister, preacher, clergy what they believe in and will be told in about 5 minutes and FOR FREE!&#8230;right there you know scientology is a scam and a abusive cult!&#8230;</p>
<p>oh and the whole scientology makes it clear AND how to rid oneself of their subconscious mind? do you really mean the &#8220;made up term&#8221; reactive mind? if so, that right there is BALONEY! it&#8217;s impossible to do so! there is no such thing as ridding someone&#8217;s reactive mind and memory and thoughts much less ENTIRELY! show me a &#8220;CLEAR&#8221; even one! and by the way anyone with a ounce of intelligence and education would read DIANETICS (if they could even make it!) the founding book of scientology and know it is ENTIRELY NONSENSICAL made up not a shred of proof, scientific studies, tests, trials, ponderings from a man whose main claim to fame was a science fiction writer and who has been documented as a UNEDUCATED PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;don&#8217;t be foolish to confuse spirituality with religion&#8221; but scientology does this doesn&#8217;t it! i mean they claim to be a religion because they DEAL with the spirituality and mind of people!</p>
<p>him: There is no such thing as free boy. Again all religions demand money in one form or another and I have been to very few churches where this isn&#8217;t the case and they are truly following the Christ. The Catholic Church enforced taxing the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the penalty was a loss of the limbs if you did not pay. So don&#8217;t give me that self righteous excuse as if this is the first time you&#8217;ve heard of a religion asking for money. Again, I am not a member of the Church of Scientology but I do understand some of their views and methods. You are here to demonize something that you do not understand.﻿</p>
<p>me: that&#8217;s your comeback? hundreds of years ago the catholic church demanded money from indigenous peoples of the americas? yeah, try to keep up with the 20th and 21st century can you! you simply DO NOT KNOW enough yourself of what you &#8220;do not understand&#8221;.. PLEASE TELL EVERYONE here on youtube and thus the world how YOU KNOW of your information on scientology! NO ONE who knows ANYTHING of scientology would ever defend it!</p>
<p>those who do 1) are scientologists themselves 2) hate all religions/churches/faiths and thnks they are all wrong and the same (which is not true) and 3) doesn&#8217;t know enough and are no educated to even be able to provide a argument of any kind&#8230;</p>
<p>that&#8217;s it folks, that&#8217;s it caine able!&#8230;yes, all churches/faiths/religions ASK for money but that&#8217;s it, asked for donations NOT demanded payments and not more and more over the years and years and any donations are NOT to be a member, to pay for auditing, courses and classes and to belong!.. only a abusive money scam of a cult does this!&#8230;it&#8217;s called &#8220;dangling the carrot, stringing the clueless person along&#8221; old as time tactic&#8230;</p>
<p>once again, PLEASE post to the world your knowledge of scientology and where you got it! also, please post to the world what you know of how they are run, treat their members, their ex-members who speak out and it&#8217;s critics who speak out you know besides your simplistic &#8220;understanding of their methods and views&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>the world awaits for your detailed knowledge of all these matters and your defense of them!..</p>
<p>i myself have read more then a few books on scientology, watched countless videos here on youtube and eslewhere, watched many documentaries, have read countless articles and magazines about scientology and have talked to a few ex-members&#8230; so this is my firsthand knowledge of this abusive cult.. and of course there is the DOCUMENTED factual cannot be indisputed of countless high ranking officials who were in for DECADES, who have now left and spoken out, spokespersons and office personnel who have left, celebs who have left, 99% of the founder&#8217;s OWN family who have left and spoken out against their relative, the founder, the parents and niece of the current leader who have left and spoken out, and the current leader&#8217;s wife who has not been since in public anywhere including no matter how important a scientology event since 2007!!!!!!!..﻿</p>
<p>him: Correct. That&#8217;s my comeback, the Catholic church and Christian churches around the world have continued this rhetoric with the people by using the guilt of God.</p>
<p>The main aim of scientology is to rid you of your third mind which subconsciously disrupts your day to day experiences. Goals that you set become failures because your third mind pauses you like a deer in the headlights. This is what I know thus far of Scientology and I agree that this is a big issue in today&#8217;s generation of people who are controlled by technology. This is a real problem. I did not say I support Scientology but I do understand some of their methods of creating better versions of people.</p>
<p>You are just a man that needs something to hate, you have no purpose in life.</p>
<p>me: WRONG! you know nothing! all you know is the &#8220;story&#8221; that you know.. NOT the WHOLE truth&#8230; interesting how you have YET to respond to anything i have said in regards to facts and what is going on and how they treat members, ex-members and crtiics? why is that? and yet you claim to NOT be a scientologist? and yet you refuse to tell me or anyone reading these comments just HOW you know what you know (or think you know) once again, NO ONE who knows the entirety of scientology would EVER defend them.. all they are are words and &#8220;simplistic feel good messages&#8221;like drugs are bad, we are against drugs! etcetera&#8230; seemingly that is ALL YOU KNOW what they say they are about.. THAT&#8217;S IT! don&#8217;t look, listen, watch anything else right!&#8230;</p>
<p>i now DARE YOU to post how you know (or what you think you know) and how and where from.. do you even know their are MORE people who have left, then are still in?&#8230;do you know they even lie how many members they have? do you know the true history of it&#8217;s founder? obviously you don&#8217;t or don&#8217;t want to know, because you have NOT MADE 1 COMMENT ABOUT the other facts and points i have and continue to post! you claim to NOT be a scientologist but yet you follow their tactics COMPLETELY and what are tactics that any brainwashing lying abusive cults follow that is &#8220;attack never defend&#8221; deflect any questions&#8221; and so on&#8230;</p>
<p>according to you you must be completely self absorbed, uneducated and or extremely gullible because &#8216;scientology says what they do, or trying to do and are about&#8221; so it&#8217;s must be true and that&#8217;s all i need to know!&#8217;</p>
<p>like i said TRY if you can to not take the &#8220;guided tour&#8221; and use some critical thinking!&#8230;.</p>
<p>makes me wonder do you listen and believe everything and never question it? EVEN WHEN SOMEONE AND OTHERS ARE GIVEN YOU information to question it?!&#8230;.</p>
<p>yeah, scientology has ALL THE ANSWERS, 100% all the answers and 100% always right and 100% works for everyone! anyone over the age of 12 knows there is no such thing in our world! hmm, if that is the case and their stance, they why not give this world changing information to the entire world for free, i mean it&#8217;s so great right?! why charge more and more money over more and more years to anyone? SCAM to end all scams! disguised as a &#8216;self help&#8217; quote &#8220;religion&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>i have many purposes and that includes stopping this evil organization hurting and abusing those it has already done so and those in the future, abusing them in every definition of the word (financial, emotional, physical, etcetera)&#8230;.</p>
<p>interesting, that YOU YOURSELF never give any information about scientology other then what you have read? or think you know what they believe in? do you do so because you do NOT know anything else&#8230;</p>
<p>what&#8217;s next? george washington was the 1st president of the united states but i don&#8217;t know anything else about what went on during that time in history? the titanic sunk in april 1912, but that&#8217;s all (you) know about it? general facts anyone and everyone could and would know, but no specifics..these are analogies i&#8217;m using in reference to all you seemingly knowing is what scientology says it&#8217;s about and does. .</p>
<p>you NOT having or even wanting to have any specifics and information on the entirety of scientology and what it is and does is a slap to the face of countless current members and ex-members who are and were abused!&#8230; shame on you for defending this &#8220;thing&#8221;&#8230;.</p>
<p>makes me think you would be fine with &#8220;hey, they destroyed people, but they had a good message i read and heard! oh well!&#8221;&#8230;gee, maybe i should have look, listened and found out the truth and the information that was everywhere to find if i tried!&#8221;</p>
<p>i pray that no one you care about or loved gets involved and stays involved in this &#8220;thing&#8221; for years as it slowly abuses and destroys (and bankrupts them!)&#8230; hmm, do you know of their disconnection policy or haven&#8217;t you got that far in your &#8220;what you know?&#8221;!..﻿</p>
<p>him: if you were free then you wouldn&#8217;t feel the need to bash the beliefs of others.. Again, nothing is free, if it is then there is always an agenda behind it. You&#8217;re paying for it in one form or the other. Time is the only luxury.</p>
<p>me: hi again cain! isn&#8217;t it great EVERYONE how caine knows EVERYTHING but never says anything besides generalities to the extreme? never answers any questions or facts or points brought up? always deflects everything&#8230; so since your &#8220;NOT&#8221; a scientologist have you read the sec check questions or the ot levels and their information (all available now on the internet).. also since your &#8220;NOT&#8221; a scientologist or speak for them, how many scientologists are their in the world, i&#8217;m curious&#8230; also how many scientologist do you know personally, i&#8217;m curious&#8230;.﻿</p>
<p>him: Are you ok? Something seems to be pinching you? I answered your questions and since it did not adhere to what you wanted to hear you label them as &#8220;generalities&#8221;. Correct, I am not a scientologist, and as I have said before, I understand some of the methods that scientology uses to free the minds of it&#8217;s members. You reactive mind has already decided how you are going to approach this argument.. You&#8217;re going to do it childishly by using labels to defend you. You are beaten.﻿</p>
<p>me: what questions did you answer? your deflection of the catholic church (and every religion according to you) asking for money? (Unlike scientology which demands payments for classes/courses/auditing and whatever else)..</p>
<p>. i have SPECIFICALLY posted information on scientology, and what is going on, questions for you in every post/reply, even questions in the last post i just made and you have NEVER answered or commented on a single 1&#8230; you repeat over and over the same thing 1) your not a scientologist but you &#8220;understand&#8217; their methods and 2) other religions ask for money as well.. THAT&#8217;S IT, THAT&#8217;S ALL YOU HAVE EVER SAID and over and over again&#8230;.</p>
<p>do i need to list the questions i have asked you to answer again? do i need to list the facts and information i have asked you to if not answer, comment on? do i need to ask YET AGAIN how YOU know what you know about scientology and where and how you got this information?..</p>
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