From: christir@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Christi)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Some views on Scientology
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Date: 10 Aug 91 20:59:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu's message of 9 Aug 91 00:05:18 GMT

In article <5030@beguine.UUCP> Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:

   <CHRISTIR.91Aug7174859@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> 

   >btw: why is scientology unwilling to accept those into its folds who
   >are not interested in spending their life savings?  i would think that
   >a person in real life (tm) would be more effective in showing what a
   >religion was all about (the good points etc...) than someone who only
   >deals with people of his own religion...
   Oh, from all the flyers & all that my family got (& still gets), I'd say
   that they're not really that picky about funding-potential. Though the
   flyers did often suggest that we buy something....
   I, personally, think that one can be a perfectlly offical and accepted
   Scientologist without paying one's life savings, so long as one is an
   unofficial "good PR" person. That's what I'm trying to do.

the following few lines are the ones i was responding to.  

--
This also addresses the price issue.  Only those who are serious about
reaching the upper levels and becoming a skilled auditor are willing
to pay the price in terms of time and money.  The church would rather
not waste time on those who are "here today and gone tomorrow".  Sorry
if it's affending to some but that's the way it's got to be.
--

if we take and reword this a bit we get "the church would rather not
wast time on those who are not willing to pay the price in terms of
time and money".... a) only those who are serious will pay large
amounts of money (stated) b) the church would rather spend time only
with the 'serious' (implied) c) the church would rather spend time
only with those willing to pay money (conclusion).  faulty logic?

if the church is not worried about fund raising, why don't they give
the courses free to the interested, rather than the rich who are
willing to pay?

free courses would give them more opportunity to get their information
out to the general public.  it would give them more opportunity to
overcome the bad publicity they get.

if the courses are really that good, then i would think that people
would be willing to donate time and money, rather than the current
situation of being 'encouraged' to give time/money before courses.

c.
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