Re: Beth posts a comment, having read only about 3 posts here...

In a previous posting, Elizabeth McCoy (emccoy@jade.mv.net) writes:
> I'm more likely to show up, backlogged email or no, when my fragging
> modem
> gets the replacement chip that prevents it from deciding it doesn't like
> MV's modems and hanging up in the middle of long, thoughtful posts.
>
> [[Like this one!! This is the second time I've tried to post this!]]
>
> (And when it does that during a SLIP connection -- which is what I like
> to use to read netnews -- the whole bloody *system* has to be rebooted!
> <froth, froth>)
>
> Anyway, rnewman forwarded me something, which I felt like commenting on.
>
>
>>Message 1/12 From Ron Newman May 4, 95 00:29:22 am EDT
>>Subject: You are mentioned....
>>
>>...in http://amazing.cinenet.net/players.html,which is
>>David Dennis's guide to the various personalities found on
>>alt.religion.scientology. (As you can see, he did not remember
>>your e-mail address)
>>
>>Elizabeth Mc Coy (emaccoy@?)
>
> emccoy@jade.mv.net
>
>>Coherence of content: Excellent
>>Level of Interest: High
>>Relevance: High
>>Repetitiousness: Non-existant
>
> <grin> Only because I'm not currently posting, probably. Not a big enough
> sample for me to repeat myself, yet.
>
>>Humour: Good
>
> <blush> Thanks.
>
>>For once, a coherent and likeable Scientologist, well worth reading when she
>>posts.
>>Highly respected by Scientology critics.
>
> <bows>
>
>>Tony Sidaway: "Has not posted in some time.
>
> Something like 2-3 months, at most?
>
>>Ron Newman keeps
>>in touch with her. One of her posts was sent to her local org and there's
>>a suspicion she is no longer allowed to post on ars because of that.
>
> Actually, that's really, really not the problem. The problem is a US Robotics
> modem with a flaky chip. Go talk to the sysadmins of io.com, and ask them
> about *their* flakey modems (same brand; they finally got the replacement
> chips).
>
>> She was even better than
>>WhipperSnapper as an advertisement for Scientology. A great tragedy that
>>she no longer posts."
>
> I'll be back, *really*. So far, NOBODY has told me not to post. And I
> *do* mean NOBODY. NOBODY@someplace.or.other forwarded me an out-of-date
> posting by somebody else, advising people not to post. Talk about a
> third-party. And I couldn't even reply to this person after I'd
> downloaded my mailfile! *Highly* irritating. If somebody can't at least
> give me something like anon###@<whateveritwas, pentnet.fi.com?> to reply
> to, I'm *not* sure I want to hear from them. If I wanted to be preached
> to by people I couldn't argue back at, I'd watch the 700 Club or
> something. :-p
>
>>Martin Hunt adds: "She has had no contact with the cult in five years,
>>she told me; her parents were Scientologists, but she is not. She
>>doesn't even
>>classify as a public, so small is her contact with the cult."
>
> *Mar-tin*! Yeesh. My parents are Scientologists. I consider

You called? ;) <you really shouldn't roll your eyes like that; they'll fall out of your head one day. at least, that's what my aunt used to say. ;) >

> myself to be a Scientologist! I mean, I'm sure not a Fundie Xian (like my
> grandfather), or a lapsed Catholic, or a Pagan (though pagans and Wiccans
> are often really neat people, IMNSHO), or a Hindu, or anything else under
> the suns that I can think of. And thanks to a.r.s, my mom's been sending
> me more Scient. literature for me to read, and I've got my Dianetics
> flyers waiting by the door for the next time Jehovah's Witnesses wake me
> up on a weekend and hand me their literature. <smirk>
>
> (At least they had the good sense to leave when it was obvious that I was
> wearing nothing besides a very short house-jacket, and looked very sleepy.)
>
> Anyway, maybe I'm not working at a mission or org, but that doesn't mean
> that I don't believe the principles that I grew up with -- freedom,
> honor, ethics, helping people....

I still say you have been off lines for five years; I would point out that you didn't deny it. You said it in the first place, not I. My extrapolation is that you are at about a one or two on my *levels of involvement* scale.

0 - never heard of it, lucky people.
1 - raw meat, just did the OCA.
2 - into book one auditing.
3 - public on lines in HGC or academy.
4 - staff member at mission level
5 - class IV staff
6 - OT, or AO/Saint Hill staff
7 - Flag/SO staff
8 - shipside staff
9 - rpf'er
10 - happy valley, household unit, gilman, etc.

ttyl,