how good is good enounh?
Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology
Anonymous asked this question on 8/3/2000:
How can any Scientologist remain connected to an
organization that has altered books and tapes?
Compare originally published books and tapes with those
issued today. How can any Scientologist know that the bridge
has not been sabotaged by those who rewrite Hubbard's work?
What is it now? 80% standard? 70%? What % is good enough?
50%? What ever happened to Keeping Scientology Working?
FreeZone gave this response on 8/3/2000:
Most current members just don't have the background or
knowledge to know that the materials are being squirreled.
I have a huge library which runs from the Dianetics article
in May 1950 to several LRH Library editions printed in the
last few years. Most members have nothing remotely
comparable. They aren't aware that any changes have
been made, and if they do discover some, it can always be
explained away by saying that the original version wasn't
by LRH.
It's rather the same with other PR claims. Members hear
that Scientology is growing in leaps and bounds, or being
adopted by schools, hospitals, courts, etc, often with some
distant spot such as Hungary or India being cited. They
haven't been around the subject for a long time and don't
know any better than to assume it must be true. They sure
don't know people in Hungary to check the story out with. I
know for a fact that the Church has been shrinking for a
long time, because I have completion lists from magazines
as recent as July and as old as when LRH was still teaching
the SHSBC.
It does seem that the changes are extensive enough and
clear enough to anyone who does a little research that the
true believers are falling back on a defense that they
'aren't important - just a word here and there. Only an SP
would make a big deal out of something so small.' So I
guess to be a Church member today you not only have to
have unreasonableness, you have to be able to switch it
off and on at RTC's command.
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