From: Klaus Bloemker <bloemker@metronet.de>
To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Why are you on a.r.s? - more wanted

David Gerard wrote:

> ... write something about why you're on a.r.s - what brought you
> here, what keeps you here, any involvement with Scientology, that 
> sort of thing.
 ...
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Thanks for asking me David. 

I am a Sociologist and I have been a High School teacher for 20 years. 
I now work as a free lance market-researcher in Frankfurt/Germany. 
I hit on Scientology a year ago. Why?  The "Open Letter To Helmut Kohl"
by Hollywood celebrities (including Larry King of CNN), Jan/97, caught
my attention. I wanted to find out what Scientology is about. 
I was completely ignorant at that time.
   
I talked to a friend who said that he had Scientology flyers in his
mailbox, "Free showing of the film Orientation". So I went to see that
film at the Frankfurt org. After I saw that film, I said to the woman
who waited on me: "You believe in former lives, don't you?" She
responded: "I don't believe it, I KNOW it, it's backtracking". So I said
to her: "Since you KNOW it, what were you in your former life?"
But she wouldn't tell me. I said to her: "I would like to have been a
Dutch fisherman in my former life, can you backtrack me there?" She
said: "That's not the way it works". So I said: "If you can't backtrack
me to being a Dutch fisherman in my former life, Scientology is of no
interest to me." And I said good buy to that lady.
  Ever since this visit at the Frankfurt org, I like the Scientologists.

At first, I didn't know, what "Scien-tology" meant. Did it mean Science
and Logic???  And I didn't know, what "Religious Technology" meant. Did
it mean: a machine to salvation???  A.R.S. and the related web pages
answered these questions.  Why did I post to a.r.s.? Scientolgy is the
most dishonest 'humanitarian system of belief and behavior' I came
across so far - no contest to any other eccentric group I know of. 
I posted to expose their dishonesty - mainly in the analytical makeup of
their arguments. But basicly I have a moral gut-reaction to Scientology:
their "humanitarian" lie pisses me off! 

     Klaus Bloemker

- Ceterum censeo Scientology esse delendam. -