john grigg wrote:
>
> I was enjoy some of L. Ron Hubbard's fiction. I got a huge kick out of
> "Battlefield Earth" and it was a fast read despite around a thousand pages!
That book was good clean fun in the pulp sci-fi tradition. Not a great book by
any stretch...
> Because of Travolta and others I developed a vague interest in scientology
> until I read sections of a book at my local library that gave an insider's
> view on how the organization really operated. I was shocked. Needless to
> say, scientology leadership, I believe, successfully lobbied Amazon.com to
> remove it from their inventory. The system does seem to help some, though.
> I wonder how?
It provides a world view... a rational for why things are the way they are...
and humans seem to need that. As such, it "works" about as good as Christianity
or Buddhism and for the exact same reasons.
FWIW, I was a staff member of the Church of Scientology of Hawaii for two years
in the early '80s. I didn't serve out my three year contract and am now
considered a Suppressive Person by the Church.
-- "Immortality: My long life ambition" -- Loree Thomas
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