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- From: pae@teal.csn.org (Phil Earnhardt)
- Subject: Re: Just how *does* Scientology view other religions?
- Message-ID: <Bxz9vv.LG@csn.org>
- Summary: Stricter rules? I think not.
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- References: <1992Nov16.085129.2274@lds-az.loral.com> <1992Nov16.170849.18689@stortek.com> <1992Nov19.042416.16980@lds-az.loral.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:23:54 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Nov19.042416.16980@lds-az.loral.com> jerry@lds-az.loral.com (J Barbera) writes:
- >>Jonathon: Say the full title of the book. Say its ISBN number. Say the name
- >>of the publisher. And say the 10 pages that you want me to read. Be precise
- >>and exact. Clue: I want real page numbers. For extra credit, tell me whether
- >>or not this edition is listed in _Books in Print_.
- >
- >Unfortunately, I have not yet seen the new edition. So all I can tell you
- >until I do is that the title is What is Scientology? and it is published
- >by Bridge Publications.
- >
- >>If you want to play, those are the rules.
- >
- >Your rules keep getting stricter. I get the feeling that you really don't
- >want to look up the information.
-
- Bullshit. Jonathon: here's *exactly* what my first request was:
-
- (from <1992Nov13.205236.29744@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>):
- $Tell you what. Why don't you tell me the page that will give me the official
- $Scientology policy about other religions. I will go to my local B. Daltons
- $and read *that*. I am willing to read up to 10 pages of material.
-
- Now, Jonathon, I don't intend for you to go catatonic like John Holifield when
- we noticed that *he* was telling less than the truth in his postings, but I do
- want you to realize something: you don't listen to what people say. You make
- up stuff. You may have *thought* that my requests were some sort of
- ever-constricting set of demands, but THEY WERE CLEARLY NOT. I judge your
- claim that I'm changing the rules as yet another attempt to deflect the
- question.
-
- Here we go, one more time: from a religion that claims to have the inside
- track on what it means "to know," you're doing a damn poor job explaining
- what is that you do know. And you're not granting yourself or Scientology any
- credibility when you lie to this newsgroup.
-
- --phil
-