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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From: tilman@berlin.snafu.de (Tilman Hausherr)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Hubbard = Gobbledygook (read it and laugh)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 16:14:38 GMT
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bmyers@ionet.net (TarlaStar) wrote:

>"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."

This shows *his* version of "double-think". For those who missed it,
here it is again:

---
 
Here's the explanation how the loyal OSA member thinks. Both quotes here
apply very good to Milne, Pouw, Goodman, etc., but also to footsoldiers
like Dan Sigal, Michael Dunn, etc.. It also answers why Chris Miller
continues to post here, although his nose is already so long that he
could use it to dry his laundry.

[schnip]

"_Crimestop_ means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct,
at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not
grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of
misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc 
[known as English Socialism in old-speak], and of being bored or
repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a
heretical direction. _Crimestop_, in short, means protective stupidity.
But stupidity is not enough. On the contrary, orthodoxy in the full
sense demands a control of one's own mental processes as complete as
that of a contortionist over his body. Oceanic society rests ultimately
on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is
infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the
Party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying,
moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The key word
here is _blackwhite_. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two
mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the
habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of
the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness
to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it
means also the ability to _believe_ that black is white, and more, to
_know_ that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the
contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made
possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest,
and which is known in Newspeak as _doublethink_." 
 
About "doublethink": 
 
"_Doublethink_ means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in
one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party
intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he
therefore knows that the is playing tricks with reality; but by the
exercise of _doublethink_ he also satisfies himself that reality is not 
violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried
out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it
would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence guilt. _Doublethink_
lies at the very heart of Ingsoc [formerly known as 'English Socialism'
in Old Speak], since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious 
deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with
complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in
them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it
becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long
as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the
while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is
indispensably necessary. Even in using the word _doublethink_ it is
necessary to exercise _doublethink_. For by using the word one admits
that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of _doublethink_ one
erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one
leap ahead of the truth."
 
[From George Orwell, "1984". The 2nd quote is 1st in the book. Both can
be found in the "Immanuel Goldstein" chapter]


--- Tilman Hausherr       [Awards: KoX, DB, Koos "seal of approval"]
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