-Piet Hein

"Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a vision of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope." Anonymous

"The world is full of Kings and Queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams." Anonymous

To Andreas:

""We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." _ Woodrow Wilson

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." - Karl Marx

So, that would make scientology... a mind-altering substance... yup.

"Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it's only action that can make a man."

-from "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

There'll be some changes made
by Chet Atkins, one of the best guitar players that ever lived
(a parody written by Chet and performed in concert)

There'll be a change in my music
A change in the scene
I'll start wearing lifts... change my routine
I'm gonna wear dark glasses... maybe a toupe.
Get down and boogie and become risque.

I'll start wearing makeup like Jackson and Prince
You'll see me riding in a Mercedes-Benz.
Nobody wants you if you just play country guitar
There'll be some changes made tomorrow
There'll be some changes made.

I'll turn up the volume... I'll jump around the stage.
I'll sing and I'll play... I'll just be an outrage.

Millions of people are gonna come to my shows
They'll scream and yell... and pull up a close.

I'll try to be humble as I fight off the girls
I'll get a "cause" going... like, let's "save the squirrels".

I'll try to wave at you from my big shiney car
There'll be some changes made tomorrow
There'll be some changes made.

All that money for nothin'... and the girls are for free.
I'd really like to find out for myself, don't you know.
I've had kind of a sheltered life.

I really think that I am underpaid.
There'll be some changes made.

"What Hubbard tried to do is to stick his fat red haired
ass between you and the proverbial/biblical “light�,
make up his own cosmology behind the curtain and to
convince/trick you that “HE� was the “source� of it all."
- Beyond Horizons

If you're going through hell, keep going. - Walt Disney

"Doing scn is a lot like doing LSD. You don't know what
the outcome is going to be with either one. My final "tip"
is to stay as far away from SCN as you can." - la

"When you say Scientology works, you are forwarding
a criminal fraud. That is what "Scientology working" means."
- Caroline Letkeman

"The material of OT2 consists of long lists of dichotomies (pairs of
opposing psychological concepts) that Hubbard says were implanted
into the person ages ago. But the "implant" is not addressed
directly--OT 2 auditing supposedly desensitizes the dichotomies by
repeating them over and over in session, to "flatten" them. In
reality, it causes psychological dissociation.

"dissociation: Psychiatry. A psychological defense mechanism in which
specific, anxiety-provoking thoughts, emotions, or physical sensations
are separated from the rest of the psyche." The American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by
Houghton Mifflin Company.

In a confidential issue, Hubbard said that OT 2 is run to "separate
out the thetan" so that s/he can find and run BTs on the next level,
OT 3. Thus, Hubbard knew that the actual function of OT 2 is to
further fracture the psyche--it causes a schizoid condition such that
when the person gets to the next "OT level," his/her projections can
be viewed as separate entities, separate living beings. These "living
beings" then get blown off on OT 3." - Caroline Letkeman

" He distrusted institutions, even law enforcement
institutions, because their very size and structure
could stifle the three things he valued most in the
world; courage, creativity, and compassion. Those
were three qualities a person needed to find inside
him- or herself, sometimes searching his or her soul
for decades before finding them---if ever. Being part
of an organization made the search harder, not easier.
A failure of courage or compassion or creativity could
be shared by the group, allowing each member to
escape the full measure of guilt that ought to derive
from things like cowardice or cruelty."
- Keith Ablow, from the novel, Psychopath

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying." -
Studs Terkel in "Working"