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Subject: Growing Up
Qwerty80b asked this question on 5/5/2000:
What is it like for a child to grow up in the Sea Org?
honorarykid gave this response on 5/7/2000:
First, it's important to realize that the Sea Org is hostile towards it's
member's bearing children in the first place. Having children takes
attention and effort away from the parent's Scientology production.
And since the would-be parents are the most committed, fervent
Scientologists, their lost production means large economic losses for
the Co$.
In an affidavit filed for a court case, ex-Sea Org member Hana
Whitfield described how the Sea Org routinely tried to get its female
members to have abortions, rather than bearing children. Many did.
But for those members who do bear children, their stories are among
the saddest, most heart-wrenching things you could ever hear.
They are especially ironic and poignant given that they come from a
group claiming to be improving the lot of humanity.
Sea Org members' children, sometimes even babies, are put into
units called Cadet Orgs, which are staffed by other, sometimes
"downstat" Sea Org Staffers. Cadet Orgs are always underfunded,
strapped for food and clothing and adequate supervision.
There have been horror stories told of the dirty filthy quarters, children
in dirty diapers because there was no money to buy disposables, and
no one to wash cloth ones. There are stories of a complete lack of
stimulation, touch, reading, toys, adequate food.
Parents see their children sometimes once a day usually, but
sometimes only once a week if their own "production" is poor.
Sounds amazing? To me, too.
Hubbard's cosmology holds that babies are really just small adults,
because they are Thetans, just like an adult is a Thetan. This stupid
belief justified in his own mind, Hubbard's institutional abuse of Cadet
Org children. He thought they were just downstat little adults.
And the parents of these children are indoctrinated to accept this sad
state of affairs with the idea that they are helping to clear the planet,
helping Scientology expand. Deficiencies in the parenting area are not
deemed as important as Scientology's expansion. There is less good
done for fewer dynamics by virtue of being a good, attentive parent.
And the "greatest good for the greatest number of Dynamics" is what
Sea Org members work for.
Hubbard even invented a "formula" for babies to drink. It is basically
just water and barley. Hubbard said this drink would sustain a baby
who did not have a nursing mother around. I shudder to think how
many babies in financially strapped Cadet Orgs were given a diet of
barley water to drink.
Qwerty80b rated this answer a 5.
This is a RELIGION?!?!? Sounds more like a fascist police state! I'll have
nothing further to do with scientology thank you!
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Answered by: honorarykid
Asked By: Qwerty80b
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