Last evening found me in a decripit waiting room. I had nothing to read, no laptop, and my cell phone was out of power. The threadbare waiting room offered no magazines except an old copy of Awake! , a periodical written and distributed by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I picked up the copy and saw that it was dated May, 8, 2005. It was in pristine condition as if not a single soul had bothered to read it, this despite its rather intense cover for a JW mag, which shows a man who could be a Russel Crowe wannabe racing a motorcycle down the streets of a downtown. A woman is holding onto him with one arm as she holds a briefcase in her other arm. The briefcase has a set of broken handcuffs on it, so it is apparent these two have stolen whatever is in the case. Three military combat helicopters are seen chasing them down the urban canyons and there are explosions in the background as well as, strangely, taxis and a fire engine. Unexplained and left to the reader's imagination is why a taxi behind the motorcycle gives chase. Normally in an action flick, one wants to see a sinister black Mercedes chasing the perps. I imagined that Tom Cruise had shanghied the taxi and was chasing the theives on the motorcycle because they had stolen upper level materials from CC.

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The cover of the magazine asks:

What's Happening to MOVIES?

The cover article opens by informing us that summers use to be for getting out of doors and going to the beach or the park. However, we are told, the film industry changed all that and was able to lure people from out of summer's beauty and into dark theaters in order to feed them lurid blood, sex, and crimes and even put them in proximity to the Pee Wee Herman's of the world.

This was obviously the work of Satan the Devil.

But how did the hooved one do it? How did Satan get people into the theaters? Awake boldly and fearlessly reveals to us what has to be one of the most unexpectedly clever traps of Satan ever:

Imagine it: Satan used air conditioning to lure people into theaters where he could, like Xenu, implant them with pictures of sex and violence. It was air conditioning that was the trap and temptation of Satan, for as Awake observed, "...by the mid-1970's, air-conditioned theaters were luring millions indoors to escape the heat...."

Which leads me to ask: What do Xenu and his agents of Smersh use to tempt Scientologists? Surely there are many temptations for Scientologists and this is why DM bans everything possible. And was there ever some unexpected pivot of temptation in Scientology such as air conditioning or a good night's sleep?

What tempts Scientologists? Where are they weakest? If you were Satan, and just pretend that you are for a moment as you mock up being Satan, how would you tempt Scientologists to leave Scientology?

I am interested here in the technology of temptation of Scientologists, especially by unexpected means such as air conditioning.

Please post essays. I will select a winner and post a virtual prize.

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When I think of "Temptations," I hear the 60s music of a great MoTown band of the same name.

Seriously J, this is a good point and an excellent topic. I don't have the time to offer an essay of sorts and would encourage others to do so.

It is fact that cults in general, (not just $cn,) do implant phobias as fear tactics to set boundries within their captives' minds. One of the greatest temptations while in these totalitarian groups, is questioning these fear implants as to their validity and origins. Cults want to limit the experiences in their adherants as not to be able to compare or view outside of the dim light of their narrowed group. $cn's sec-checking and knowledge reports BS is wrought with paranoia to curb such temptations of critical thinking.

I could go on but..... well maybe I will later.

tp

A GAME!!!

This is a good game! I like it!

Most scientologists LOVE games. Hubbard used this love of games to trap people.

This is from the end of PDC lecture 39 of 12 Dec 52 titled
""Games Processing"".

(Hubbard tells the students that he is going to read them something
but he doesn't say where it is from. It turns out this is a quote from the secret book "Excalibur". Here is a bit of it; consider this to be a book review, certainly a fair use quote).


""Now the caste system of games consists of this:


The Maker of Games - He has no rules, he runs by no rules.


The Players of the Game - Knows Rules but he obeys them.


The Assistant Players - Merely obeys the players


The Pieces - Obey rules as dictated by players, but
they don't know the rules.


And then there's the Broken Pieces - They aren't even in the
game but they are still in the game (and they are in a terrible
"maybe", am I in a game or am I not in a game?).


Now, how to make a piece (this is how to make a piece) -


1. Deny that there is a game
2. Hide the rules from them
3. Give them all the penalties and no wins
4. Remove all goals (ALL Goals)


Enforce them their playing.
Inhibit their enjoying.


Make them look like but forbid their being like players
(look like god but you can't be god).


To make a piece continue to be a piece, permit it to associate
only with pieces and deny the existence of players (never
let the PCs find out that there are players).


Now out of this you're going to get a game"". - LRH

SCIENTOLOGY!!! The Game where NOBODY Wins!!! - Ladybird

Ah GAMES in the $cn cult! How could one forget! LOL LB.

The most infamous, THE BIRTHDAY GAME played by Orgs, Missions, Celeb Ctrs, and Dianetic Ctrs. is complete with points, stats, rewards, winners, and even "handling" drills for losers.

In christianity, temptations are linked to Satan and other demons.

So the analogy isn't going to be right spot on but I'll take a shot at it.

I think if you were to ask a CofS member what "temptations" he might have encountered to, say, stray from Scn, it could be a number of different things, depending on the person.

So the internet could be one.

The cost of CofS services could be another.

The severe regimentation in CofS where every time the person has a cold or a headache, he's supposed to rat on himself and get permission to take an aspirin or such- that could be another.

Pushy staff members, particularly reges and EOs.

Thus, outside sources (like the internet) provide some of the temptations but the bulk of the temptations to stray might be said to come from CofS itself.

Mr. Swift, I am very upset with you. I have visited your home many times to speak with you of G-d and you know only too well that I am a devout Jehovah's Witness. So why have you now lampooned Awake!, the informative magazine of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society? Do you mean to insult my honor and impugn G-d by LAG? (Laughing at G-d).

LAG will be judged.

Compounding your LAG, you insult me and my faith further with more LAG. You know that I am the President of CCAACA -- Concerned Citizens Against Air Conditioning Abuse. As Jehovah's Witnesses we believe that air conditioning (AC) is the source of all evil and is the nefarious invention of Cooling, Heating, Industrial and Kelvin Engineers, or, as we call them: "Chikes"

The Chikes have a global plot to use AC to lure people into dark theaters, motel rooms, bars, bowling allies, pool halls, topless bars, discos, gambling houses, places of prostitution, and cults such as Scientology in order to destroy the moral fiber of this once great Christian world.

THE FACTS

AC is an evil that MUST be criminalized, stopped, and banned. CCAACA will not rest until all air conditiioning is destroyed. AC is not of God and is mentioned nowhere in the Bible. The evidence of what the Chikes have accomplished by use of AC is staggering:

* 100% of all convicted murderers used or were exposed to air conditioning prior to commiting their murders.

* 100% of all serial killers used or were exposed to air conditioning prior to commiting their murders.

* 99.9% of all drug addicts admit to having used air conditioning extensively, most even described how "drug trips" were better when they were in an air conditioned bedroom, hotel room, or some other warren of drug use. Drug addicts freely admit that they do not like to be "high on dope" outside and prefer to be indoors in, yes you guessed it: air conditioning.


STOP THE CHIKES

100% of all homosexuals admitted to using air conditioning. Air conditioning clearly causes homosexuality and yet the CHIKES have tricked the public into allowing them to place air conditioning into our schools and classrooms. This is shocking beyond words and proves that the CHIKES will stop at nothing to ruin humanity.

* 90% of all extramarital affairs take place in air conditioned rooms of some kind such as hotel rooms, mobile homes, or rooms in private homes. The other 10% of affairs take place in the front or back seat of air conditioned automobiles.

* The Nazis invented air conditioning.

* Hitler lived in an air conditioned subterranean bunker.

* Stalin had his summer dacha air conditioned.

AC ONLY MASKS THE SYMPTOMS OF HEAT

* Air conditioning only masks the symptoms of heat. Air conditioning does not cause heat to "disappear" as the Chikes claim.

* Air conditioning is highly addictive, for people who use air conditioning become dependent upon it to mask the symptoms of heat.

* People will spend $1000's of dollars extra to have air conditioning placed in their cars, homes, and offices.


STOP THE CHIKES

* The Chikes invented cheap "window air conditioning" units in order to addict even poor people to air conditioning.

* The Chikes have infilitrated cults with air conditioning as we see in this documentary photo of a cult lodgment having an air conditioner in each room:



TRUTH

The truth is that G-d wants us to learn to "handle the heat." However, the the Chikes want to make us dependent upon not only air conditioning but also the following AC drugs and paraphenallia:

Ice cubes
Freezers
Refrigerators
Thermoses
Iced Drinks
Ice Cream
Popsicles
Daquiris
Fruitsicles
Frozen confections
Dry Ice
Freon
Glycol

There is more:
Ice Skating
Hockey
Snow Skiiing
Iceboarding

CCAACA opposes air conditioning in its obvious and cleverly hidden forms. We must fight AC before the Chikes use it to control the world.

STOP THE CHIKES

STOP THE CHIKES

Mr. Swift, you are a CHIKE! Confess your air conditioning crimes! How does it feel to air condition other people? Why do you think less of them?

/

Dr. Juan Gabriel, May I say with the utmost respect that I am humbled and in awe of your revelations!



Ladybird ...(who is gonna whup your ass in the temptation competition )

Juan: Why don't tell people the entire story and not just your side? First, the Jehovah's Witnesses do not oppose air conditioning, but you do as the leader of a JW splinter group: JWNPAAC (Jehovah's Witness Nuclear Physicists Against Air Conditioning). Your so-called "Juan Pac" is nothing but a reflection of your strange cultic beliefs. You also do not have a doctorate in nuclear phycis as you claim. You and your cult have built a demented cultiverse based upon trying to destroy AIR CONDITIONING which is foolish, but certainly far less harmful than attempting to destroy PSYCHIATRY.

Your ongoing cultiversey concerning air conditioning is no more than a never-ending tirade against modern life -- which you fear more than even your own existence. Basing your life on the destruction of air conditioning is as useless as basing one's life on the destruction of psychiatry. Both positions are cultic throwbacks to the 1950's.

Juan, how did you and your cult get stuck in a 1950's time warp? Like Scientology, you are hopelessly mired in the 1950's and reject science and modern life. Even the car you drive, a 1952 De Soto, is hopelessly outdated.

Your absurd attacks upon air conditioning only make you look as obsolete and obstuse as L. Ron Hubbard's view that people who have problems with their jaws are being restimulated from the time when they were clams.

Please stop coming around to my neighborhood and my home. Please stop posting signs around my neighborhood which tell people that I am an "Air Conditioning Criminal" because it only makes people laugh at you.

.

Holy Smoly,

I didn't know this about that? I'm half guilty! This really sucks!

Regarding the;
Daquiris
Freon
Glycol
Ice Skating
Hockey
Snow Skiiing
Iceboarding,

I'm OK I think! Not much activity there that would show up on an e-meter, and on a couple of these counts I'm too old!

But on the Glycol … I swear to G-d … I swore off that 75 million years ago!

So how bad off am I? What can I do, where can I go, how can I make amends?

Swift,

>>> how would you tempt Scientologists to leave Scientology?

This is an excellent question, and very worthy of consideration. But you do know that the answer will be worth a million? <$mile>

I’ll certainly give this some thought over the nest few days, and if I come up with something, I’ll share!

Tempting Scientologists to leave Scientology.

Were going to rebirth or reincarnate Hubbard!

He said he was coming back, right?

The new and improved Scientology. We'll call it "Scientology Rebirth" or "Hubbardology". that way we can trademark or copywright it.

We'll find some people that can put together more tech, but we won't charge that much for it. All the gains at just a fraction of the price.

The New Sea Org. where people are treated far more humanely. Fair wage and maybe a little bit of employee benefits.

All the original books and tech will belong to Hubbard, not DM. DM will have to prove that this new person is not Hubbard. By everything they are told about people living several life times, they'll believe it.
We just need someone really, really good to play the reincarnated Hubbard. All of it belongs to Hubbard, and DM will have to relinquish it.

We'll use all the money that is going to the RTC or DM to help people pay for courses. Might even just charge a flat fee to visit the secret vaults and stay and learn for a couple of weeks.

We will tempt them with everything they wanted out of Scientology, but without the bad stuff. They will leave the old Scientology and join "Scientology Rebirth". Will they ever acheive all the hype?
NO. Not anymore than they are achieving it now.

With the new tech and auditing we will slowly and subtly deprogram these people and instill in them real ethics, and love for their fellow man.
True humanity.
Screw the sec checks, disconnects policy, SP's, and RFP, and all the other nasty stuff.

And as for Xenu? Well he was the one that provided their tough road to enlightenment. If he had never done the terrible deed millions of years ago then where would they be now! Tough Love. All Hail Lord Xenu!

As for me even suggesting this, I think I'll go make an appointment with a Psychiatrist!

Honestly, I couldn't think of any real way to tempt them. Just continue to expose the upper managements dirty deeds, unmasking their delusional OT powers, and putting the truth out there for them to see. Eventually some will see the light.

Love
Desert Rain

Here's my take on Scientology's biggest temptation:

1 - Scientology teaches that we have 8 dynamics, of which the first dynamic is only one small part. Actually the other seven are but manifestations of the first dynamic.

2 - You are subtley taught to give up your first dynamic urges to feed the other dynamics, which is backasswards. The other dynamics flow through and energize the first dynamic.

3 - The greatest temptation in Scientology is to listen to your inner voice - your first dynamic intuition and logic that says, "This piece of tech is bullshit!"

4 - If and when you ever "give in" to your first dynamic (your better nature) you will need to leave Scientology.

Scientology is carefully designed to destroy your first dynamic voice, making you a slave to Hubbard's ideas (as opposed to making judgements based on your own personal thinking or intuition).

The biggest temptation?

To use your "moral superiority" to treat others like "wogs" or second class citizens.

Or for sea org and staff, the biggest temptation (and apparent thrill) is to use policy as a way to belittle and control public. To take for granted that public are actual people and not just stats.

A real bathroom I didn't have to share with 30 or more people, and some real toilet paper would be pretty tempting!

As a staff member I would have been tempted by:

- A day off

- Being excused from "call - in"

- A decent pay packet

- Decent clothes

- A trip to the dentist

- A holiday!!!!

- Some real "Bridge" auditing rather than sec checks and cramming ruds



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