I think that the real intent behind all of scientology's pts/sp materials is to basically fair game every person in scientology. Those materials and the pts/sp course are a time delayed fair game action against every person who takes that course or studies those materials.

While a person studies that course they are reading about recognizing a suppressive person and how to handle such a person with disconnection, disposal quietly and without sorrow, if possible ruin him utterly, tricked, lied to, sued and destroyed. They complete that course and after that they carry around this little control device.

Gradually over time the thumb screws get applied, people get yelled at, abused, redged, run into debt over their heads, bankruptcy, long hours, sleep deprivation, food deprivation and so on. With all that pressure the thought of leaving comes to mind and when it does the threat of being declared and fair gamed comes to mind at the same time. All those materials a person has studied with it in mind that it applied to someone else is now seen to apply to them. This delays leaving and means more pressure, more debt, more long hours and on and on.

Then when a person finally does manage to get away, they take all that threat with them and immediately on leaving and for some time after that a person who leaves goes through a time where their paranoia is extreme and where they live in terror. I think that's what happened with the person I knew who committed suicide. Most of that paranoia and terror is unfounded and after a while - a couple of weeks to a couple of months later - it diminishes. Reading the books one must not read helps with that. Getting therapy helps. Talking with friends and family members helps. Visiting sites like xenu.net helps. Joining a message board helps. All of the things that help are not easy to do at first.

The thing is, if a person can get through that brief period of paranoia and terror they will probably be alright.

I came to the conclusion some time ago that Hubbard designed those materials to have that effect. I haven't put it in words until right now.

It strikes me that the PTS/SP thing is the final boss. When all lesser methods of babbling foolery and persuasion have failed, you have in place a "shit or bust" policy. I think by "legitimizing" it into a shiny "course" cements it and makes the individuals think it's all just fine and dandy to do that crap (or even have it done to themselves willingly).

Here, in public, knowing she's being filmed for YouTube, the DSA of the Washington DC idle org, Sylvia Stannard, is quite serious and feels it is perfectly OK to stand there and endlessly repeat "you're a suppressive person" at protester Anonsparrow as if it actually means something to us "wogs". This is your brain, tripping on scientology extremism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBV397LtEe0
(fast foward to: 4:37. This theme also continues in the rest of the 155.x series of his protest videos that day...and 156.x the next day).
Of course, when it crosses over from just words into deeds, then it does mean something to those "wogs" who have been disconnected from their PTS/SP-believing scientology family/friends still inside.

[quote="Wieber"]I think that the real intent behind all of Scientology's pts/sp materials is to basically fair game every person in Scientology. Those materials and the pts/sp course are a time delayed fair game action against every person who takes that course or studies those materials.[/quote]

This isn't upper bridge either. It is completely a control device for Scientology, but all cults control one's thinking ultimately. This is a sad one because if Mom or Dad are considered SPls disconnect. I knew of a case where a couple had a child they and COS considered an SP, so while the child was a minor they had to take care of them and were just waiting for the day was considered legally an adult. They were using Ethics tech on a very young child when the child needed more help than that. Ethics tech didn't work on the child so they must be an SP.

What DSA and others have tried at DC Org is considered Black Dianetics. Arnie Lerma has talked about this but I am too lazy to look it up. The friendly Scientologists there have taken information on Sparrow they had from when he was in. Attempting to cave him in, kick him in the teeth with it. Its almost like reverse auditing, instead of removing painful incidents they are attempting to restimulate anything they know or have on him. Take a good look at the helpful Scientologists in the video. This is what happens if you disagree. If you stay in when you disagree, god help you. You will be paying out the you know what for sec checks or donations because of huge ethics cycles to get back in their good graces. I've seen this so many times I can't count.

What they are doing would be the equivalent of a counselor in the real world taking what you confided to them and publicly announcing it and being cruel with it rather than helping you. Same as a religion, confess to a Catholic Priest and have them disclose it publicly using it to harm you.

Which getting back to PTS/SP course makes it totally justifiable to do. And you know what good for Sparrow for documenting it. He's made them so desperate they have made spectacles of themselves in an attempt to use LRH tech. Makes them look beyond stupid IMHO.

Taking that class is like a warning, but one given to subliminally say, "this is weird, but it's good weird. It's the right way, it's positive, and when it happens to you, it's a good thing."

Imagine if I sold cheap shampoo that used chemicals so harsh, they would burn your scalp and perhaps damage your hair. If I just sold it to you, you'd come back and say, "what kind of garbage are you selling me? It burned my head!"

But if I said while selling it "now, this shampoo has some active ingredients that are going to give a bit of a tingle. This is how you know it's working! The tingle invigorates the scalp and will make your hair more lush and beautiful!" you would look for the "tingle" i.e. burn, and consider it good. You would now falsely believe in my crappy product, and maybe sell your friends on it. Months or years later, you might all be bald and in pain, but by then it's too late.

The only difference is many people would probably be less trusting of the shampoo lie, than they would be about Scientology's course.

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P.S. I am not, in real life, a shampoo salesman.