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- Subject: Re: Definitions.
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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:44:30 GMT
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- jerry@lds-az.loral.com (J Barbera) writes:
- >Definitions quoted verbatim from the glossaries of several Scientology books
- >and other Scientology literature. (Note: italics ommitted.)
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- Great stuff. Particularly,
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- >machines: actual machines in the mind (like ordinary machinery), constructed
- >out of mental mass and energy, that have been made by the individual to do
- >work for him, usually having been set up so as to come into operation
- >automatically under certain predetermined circumstances.
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- Mental mass???
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- >ridges: solid accumulations of old, inactive energy suspended in space and
- >time. They are generated by opposing energy flows which hit one another
- >and continue to exist long after the energy flows have ceased.
- >static: an actuality of no mass, no wavelength, no position in space or
- >relation in time, but with the quality of creating or destroying mass or
- >energy, of locating itself or creating space, and in rerelating time.
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- destroying mass? Inactive energy suspeneded in space?
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- >theta trap: a means used to trap a thetan. All theta traps have one thing
- >in common: they use electronic force to knock the thetan into forgetting,
- >into unknowingness, into effect.
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- Has anyone built such a thing? What is it like to walk near it?
-
- >Tone Scale: a scale which shows the emotional tones of a person. These,
- >ranged from the highest to lowest, are, in part, serenity (the highest
- >level), enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom,
- >antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy.
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- This again. I've asked politely a number of times, but no one ever
- explains just how they decided that (say) conservatism is higher than
- fear.
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- As for the "mental mass" ... I'm a scientist. If anyone mistook this
- bad science fiction for actual science, I would be offended.
- --
- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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