The society of mindful cripples.

I often visit the newsgroup Alt Religion Scientology as it is one of the few places one can go to watch Scientologists in their natural environment (it would be highly dangerous to visit an Org).

There are two main cult apologists on ARS at the moment. Both of them tell us a great deal more about Scientology than they intend.

First we have Homer although google shortens his name to Ho...

The life mission of Homer seems to be to create confusion in his own mind so that nothing needs to be examined too closely (especially his own non existent OT powers). He does this by casting doubt upon everything equally. By confusing simple matters he can believe falsehoods with greater ease.

One method of doing this is to declare that he may be the only person in the universe- a sort of lonely God who has dreamt us all into being and is therefore entitled to ignore reality. Why should he 'prove' his OT powers to someone he has created out of pure OT'ness?

One could also ask why he bothers to tell us these things if we do not exist.

The great thing about this illusion from Homer's point of view is that the confusion may be infinitely extended.

Maybe we are all the dream of a fruit-bat in Paraguay? Who knows? Who cares? The point is to keep himself distracted with unanswerable questions so that he cannot see what is under his nose.

Many Scientologists have crippled themselves mentally so that they are now incapable of seeing what is obvious to other people. This is not criticism of Homer who is the only Scientologist I know who is not personally abusive and threatening.

My second example is roadrunner- who believes himself to be an effective Internet bully but who fails on every level. He is similar to Homer in that he seeks to spread confusion and to obscure the truth but has never succeeded in doing this.

Roadrunner passes through the following cycles over and over again.

1) Roadrunner enters a thread that threatens to uncover some truth about Scientology. Roadrunner says he disagrees and then says that only he has 'researched' the subject. He will not debate the issue himself apart from making infantile threats and insults. His knowledge of the cult appears to be zero.

2) He becomes angry and self pitying when ignored.

3) When roadrunner is asked to give an example of his alleged research he retreats and changes the subject.

Roadrunner has never actually said anything about Scientology in all his years of posting on ARS! He claims to be an expert but probably knows very little. It is unlikely he was ever a member. He seems to be motivated by a terror of clear communication and repeats this futile cycle twenty or more times a week. He is always defeated and has made himself an object of derision and contempt. Nevertheless he never seems to learn or to develop as a person.

It seems that these two have become trapped on ARS and cannot escape this self defeating behaviour. They follow a robotic mental programme that requires them to remain ignorant.