Re: Dianetics: Wigged-Out Lunacy

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In article <3rk5me$lik@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
Dan Sigal  <dynamicd@ix.netcom.com> wrote:


>>>what kind of stupid cult has as its primary postulate that one must 

>>>eliminate half of one's brain?  this is such half-crocked,

>>>dangerously idiotic bullshit [...]


i repeat the statement.  the notion of the 'reactive' mind, 
which hubbard asserts is imbecilic and responds stupidly to 
situations, is itself imbecilic and totally misses the point of 
psychology.  


the idea of engrams has never been demonstrated, and if the 
examples hubbard gives are any indication, it's absolutely
stupid.  


ok?  examples below, in response to your idiotic post.


>>Don't be so timid, henry! Personally, I think Scientology meets the

>>standards of fully-crocked, dangerously idiotic bullshit.


yeah, i don't know what came over me.  


>Well, if you had read Dianetics and understood it, LRH never said

>anything about getting rid of half of your brain.


you're right.  mind.  ok.  since you've read dianetics and 
evidently consider yourself a dianetics wizard, you will recall 
the example hubbard gives of a prenatal engram given during
the husband beating his wife, yelling 'TAKE IT!'  as a result,
the child becomes a kleptomaniac.


earlier, hubbard had baldly asserted that the 'reactive' 
mind was idiotic, and thought that one thing was the same as another.
in other words, that the 'reactive' mind couldn't distinguish
between a word and a church and an action, etc.


now, if the reactive mind is suppoedly so idiotic, HOW ON EARTH
could it understand and ACT ON language included in an engram?


it couldn't.  hubbard was slinging around whoppers, as was
his wont in the drugged-out state he wrote this insanity in.


>But it sounds like you only have half a brain, so you wouldn't

>understand Dianetics anyway.


hey, if i only had half a brain, i'd still need to whack the
REST of my brain out with an injection of pure nembutal to 
understand utter insanity.


i can't understand why such a moronic book would be written.
in the amazing instance that such a crock of shit could be written, 
it is amazing that it could be published.  having been published,
it further compounds the idiocy that it was bought by anyone.  that
anyone then could READ such idiocy and not toss it across the 
room in disgust at its horrible 'scientific' ignorance, its
utterly obtuse and unreadable style, and the sheer unsubstantiated
bullshit that fills it from page one to the end.


further stunning me into incredulity is that anyone then could
believe this crap and actually base their lives on it.


what a waste of human life!  


what an idiotic cult!


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