Notice: Fredric Rice may have removed segments of the replies given to questions if they contained copyrighted materials. After a very short while, Scientology "experts" refused to answer questions and started cut-and-pasting copyrighted cult propaganda. Additionally I removed URLs in some of the replies, and left them in others. And it's also important to note that eventually the unfortunate "Greg Churilov" cultist was ejected from askme.com for his typical Scientological behavior.

Subject: Why not free?
Answered by: Greg Churilov
Asked By: Anonymous

Anonymous asked this question on 5/1/2000:

If Scientology is such a boon to mankind why are Scientology services free, or offered at a bare maintaince fee?

Greg Churilov gave this programmed response on 5/1/2000:

Why should something of tremendous value, that costs effort to administer and years to train on how to practice effectively, be given for free to someone who provides no exchange for it?

[This is the logical fallacy known as "Begging the question." Since the Scientology cult doesn't sell anything of any value, this cultist is programmed to get the notion that there's something of incalcuable value in right away - flr]

Is this communism? Since when getting something for nothing is an admirable goal?

[And in fact being swindled by crooks is the American way - flr]

What about dignity and self-respect, the ideal that one produces something in exhange for something?

Scientology owes nothing to the World. Scientology staff members work very hard to make Scientology available. The fees collected for these services pay for the staff members' wages, lodging, childcare and for expansion and new premises.

[Actually, cultists that are brainwashed enough to actually sign up as "staff" are paid a few dollars a day -- which gets cut in half if they're sent to the cult's prison; the so-called "Rehabilitation Project Force." There is no "child care" insice of the Scientology crime syndicate since the cult's mad messiah considered children to be adults in small bodies and, because they don't produce any money for his pockets, Hubbard called them "down stat" or "down statistics."

Finally, the hundreds of millions of dollars that this criminal organization rakes in every year simply disappears. A large percentage goes toward paying lawyers and private investigators, and in paying for criminal racketeering activities -- not to mention staying out of prison. The vast percentage of the loot that this criminal cult rakes in simply disappears into the coffers of the cult's ringleaders - flr]

What possible reason would Scientolgy management have to deny those basic values to its organizations?

[Notice how the cultist never answered the question? The fact is that there is nothing of value being sold by the cult ergo there is no honest answer to the question put to this cultist - flr]

best,
Spirit

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