From: george@brooks.ics.uci.edu (George Herson)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions - 2
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Date: 13 Sep 91 18:41:41 GMT
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In article <28CDFF27.1393@ics.uci.edu> george@ics.uci.edu (George Herson) writes:
>In article <1991Sep10.042109.225492@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>>
>>The FAQ which was just posted is a blatant advertisement, which
>>doesn't address the less positive aspects of the church. To add balance:
>>
>>"The Science Fiction Encyclopedia" (Peter Nicholls, copyright 1979,
>>Doubleday):
>>
>>"Hubbard also taught that traumas could be pre-natal, and eventually
>>that they could have been suffered during previous incarnations.  A
>>"clear", one who had successfully rid himself of aberrations, would
>>possess, according to Hubbard, radically increased intelligence,
>>powers of telepathy, the ability to move outside his body, the
>>ability to control such somatic processes as growing new teeth, and a
>>photographic memory.  ... In 1952, after an organizational rift,
>
>The abilities of a "clear", outlined above, would if demonstrated win
>many converts for the Church, if not the planet.  Forgive me, I
>haven't a "radically increased intelligence", can a Scientologist tell
>me why there hasn't been any (well-publicized) demonstration of the
>unusual powers gained by Clears?
>
>--
>George Herson
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As a result of the above I got one Scientologist to respond, in an
unabashed evasion of my question in favor of yet another pitiful
advertisement for the Church.  I just want to say that anyone who
sincerely believes that the Church would not be proudly associating
with possesors of superpowers like those named above to any less a
degree than it does with John Travolta and Kristie Alley has a very
serious gullibility problem.  This is even more obviously true if the
Church could claim to actually be responsible for development of such
powers.  How exactly do you Church members find it possible to disagree
with this?