Since some of the materials which describe the $cientology cult could be
considered to be copywritten materials, I have censored myself and The
Skeptic Tank by deleting any and all possible text files which describes
the cult's hidden mythologies.  I have elected to quote just a bit of the
questionable text according to the "Fair Use" legal findings afforded to
those who report.  -  Fredric L. Rice, The Skeptic Tank, 09/Sep/95

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Subject: Hubbard = Gobbledygook (read it and laugh)
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-=- Begin fair use extract -=-

"It is a mechanism of thinkingness, whether one is postulating or
receiving information, that one retain one's ability to know. It is
equally important that one retain one's ability to not-know. Thought
consists entirely of knowing and not-knowing and the shades of gray in
between."
[I love how he sets up two absolutes, then modifies the whole
statement with the last phrase.]

"You will discover that most people are trying not to remember. In
other words, they are trying to not-know. Education can only become
burdensome when one is unable to not-know it. It is necessary that one
be able to create, to receive, to know and to not-know information,
data, and thoughts. Lacking any one of these skills, no matter now
native they are to the individual, one is apt to get into a chaos of
thinkingness, creatingness, or livingness." --L.Ron Hubbard,
"Fundamentals of Thought" (pg. 99)

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Later, he states that forgetting is the same as "not-knowing, " and
predictions are the process of "knowing" the future.

I think Ron must have been a little retarded, seriously. I don't know
how you can "not-know" something. Forgetting is NOT the same as
deliberately unlearning something. Forgotten memories can be recalled.
Not knowing is like creating a blank slate where once there was
knowlege. The file is not deleted in the process of forgetting
something, since the proper references can usually bring recall. Not
knowing would be the equivalent of brain damage.

Frankly, I have no friggin' idea what he means by adding "ness" to the
verbs "creating", "thinking" and "living".