tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185085292467922229.post2878213001196808918..comments2023-06-21T03:05:13.009-07:00Comments on The Ex Scientologist: Scientology Cannot Be SavedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04180601314075113230noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185085292467922229.post-4412152088385143492013-02-04T09:56:00.881-08:002013-02-04T09:56:00.881-08:00Excellent reply Hartley. Thank you.Excellent reply Hartley. Thank you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180601314075113230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185085292467922229.post-15589244920996876752013-02-02T09:41:18.482-08:002013-02-02T09:41:18.482-08:00The assumption here is that Miscavige will leave.
...The assumption here is that Miscavige will leave.<br />There are plenty of historical examples of evil dictators running off with suitcases stuffed with dollars and/or Swiss Bank Accounts, but these tend to be rulers of "Banana Republics", people who came to power by luck rather than intent and had no ideological underpinning.<br />Others by contrast go down with the ship. Hitler is the best known example, more recent ones would be Saddam and Gaddafi. Assad has declared his intention of being the next.<br /><br />My present feeling is that Miscavige will go down fighting, his Church slowly dwindling down to a rump of fanatics who will never, ever abandon him. The chance of a coup is going down not up.<br /><br />Whether Scientology would survive as a belief set without a central organisation is a different question. Personally I think not, it too will slowly fade away. I doubt also that a 'reformed' Church will appear, there are too many ex-members who have had more than enough of being told what to think.Hartley Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02502699889108493831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185085292467922229.post-73769198831683804842013-02-01T14:40:07.854-08:002013-02-01T14:40:07.854-08:00Yup. "Give me something to believe in"Yup. "Give me something to believe in" Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180601314075113230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185085292467922229.post-55961708876739746222013-02-01T10:00:07.610-08:002013-02-01T10:00:07.610-08:00The saddest part is that even if Miscavige ran awa...The saddest part is that even if Miscavige ran away, even if there were criminal charges brought, the people who still believe in this shit would not bat an eye. They would go on believing as if nothing ever happened.<br /><br />You can see this in the independents. They know it's all bullshit but they want to keep believing. Just because it's so hard to let go of something you have wasted so much time and money on.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00276266319013775702noreply@blogger.com