Gee, Susan -- are you practicing for a "Mouth-Shoot-'Em-Off In Ignorance" contest? I don't know much about the subject anymore, as it has been many many years since I studied it. But from what I recall of it, folks inside were pretty happy with their results, and some of them had been through dramatic changes for the better. 'Course the same is true of your Church and many others.. beliefs are funny that way. Sometimes sugar pills work better than antibiotics, too! :D I guess mebbe you're trying to get a feel of what it's like to trash other folks' beliefs, huh? 'Cuz of how you feel you've had your own dumped on too long? Far as I am concerned the key to the whole thing is one of Hubbard's most often quoted lines, which made sense to me: If it isn't true for you, it isn't true!. Unlike many people he wasn't in too big of a hurry to force people to believe anything that didn't match up with their own view of existence. Decent of him, really.

But hey, cults is cults, and there's no telling what them folk will do with their stuff since he kicked off, about, I think, 20 years ago or so. Who cares?

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