That's sums them up just about perfectly to be honest, I hear that statement alot "what is true for you is true for you"
I just wished i could write out an email with points like yours and many more but I know they will shut it down after the first sentence. It is so frustrating seeing them convinced in what they do is the best thing for mankind, how they are more skilled and superior in their outlook in approach to life and work yet you feel like shaking them and say how gullible they are. Thing is they are very switched on, intelligent, even skeptical yet they can't see it!
You have to admire how such an organisation and supposed religion can so effectively brain wash it's members, it's extremely clever to actually create what has been created. Yet nuts and simply a cult!
I think they will be back in a month however, too many commitments at home not too. However this has come about after a holiday to the free winds.
Not so sure I would characterize a stay on the Freewinds as a “holiday” - maybe something more along the lines of a full immersion regging cruise. They make FBOs (Flag Banking Officers) do a drill where they repeatedly say “No” to demands by an org for money, for say, something like staff pay or toilet paper. There should be something like that for Scientology public who are about to go onto the Freewinds.
Scientology is fascinating as a study in contradictions. So much of the policy is written to offset a problem created by another policy, yet each policy will claim to lay down the final word with some unqualified axiom written in ALL CAPS. In the end, the only thing that matters is who has the higher authority to pick which policy to enforce at the moment.
LRH made the expression “Know-Best” something of a recrimination for anyone who thinks they are smarter than himself. The usage has become so generalized as to apply to anyone who thinks they are smarter than the next guy higher on the org board and the cause can be traced back to an irrational subconscious assertion of rightness caused by an implant, engram or service facsimile from thousands or trillions of years ago. So here you have a whole society of people who know-best than wogs, are competing to know better than each other, with a dogma written by a guy who refers to himself as “Source”.
http://www.b-org.demon.nl/scn/tech/tech-dic.txt
*KNOW BEST**, a technical and admin term. In tech it refers to an
auditor who in misapplying a process on a pc considers he *knows**
more than is actually contained in the technical bulletins on the
subject and uses this *"know best"** as a basis for altering
technical procedure. In admin it refers similarly to a person who
considers he has a better way of accomplishing something than is
contained in the policy letters covering that subject and messes
things up. Management then finds itself left with the task of
correcting that person's goofs by applying the correct standard
policy to the area. In English, it is a derogatory term meaning the
person is pretending to *know** while actually being stupid.
(LRH Def. Notes)
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*LRH, L. Ron Hubbard**, Founder and Source of Dianetics and
Scientology and Commodore of the Sea Organization. (HCO PL 13 Jul 73)
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The student can readily see the progressive development through time
of the vocabulary of Dianetics and Scientology by its Source and
Founder, L. Ron Hubbard as well as the changes that have come about
through his continued research. More important however, is the fact
that ~all~~ of the materials of the subjects remain valid and in force
today.