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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: FREE SPIRIT MAGAZINE
Summary: "Squirell <sp!!>" Group.
Keywords: Sorry guys, but you *ain't* Scientology.
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Date: 7 Aug 91 21:27:32 GMT
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Also note that these guys are for all intents and purposes,
"excommunicate." Note that anyone who goes for their teachings first
will have a harder time if they ever want to do something in the "Real
Thing <tm>."  They were also so "desperate" as to send FREE several _Free
Spirits_ to my parents, each time saying subscribe now or we will cancel
your issues! The quality of those issues was on the order of a
moderately cheap fanzine -- Newspaper, newsprint, B&W, etc.

If you're interested in Scientology, go to a real <tm> org first and ask
about the original stuff first.

And, if I recall correctly, the Free Spirit group is associated/founded
by a Mr. Mayo, who took it upon himself to alter certain training
manuals for auditors. I was accidently given said training manual, and
can truthfully attest that the material was harmful to my understanding
of the matter. I could not figure out what a revised statement meant, my
study partner could not figure it out, and when we finally quit looking
up words that we understood (on the assumption that it was our problem
with the sentence) and asked the guy in charge of helping people taking
courses, he referred us back to the original document (which was quite
understandable, and had more humor than the "revised" stuff, IMNSHO).  

I would also like to point out that advertising on the Net is tacky.

--Elizabeth
No damn disclaimer here, save that my memory may be faulty about Mayo.
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