forever and day
Out of only mild interest, I'm trying to read L. Ron Hubbard's 'Scientology', in an effort to get some of the details of what it is all about.
I'm interested in how religions differ, since I find it quite entertaining how so many different people can be convinced their wildly different views are 'right'. Especially when at the end of the day, everyone has to admit that their views are based on faith alone.
So I thought I'd try to find out some details on Scientology.
Well I'm not going to find anything out from this book.
Here's a typical paragraph
Know and Not-Know
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 between.
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, for they are skills, no matter how native they are to the individual,, one is apt to get into a chaos of thinkingness or creatingness or livingness.
That make any sense to you? Me either.
The whole book is like that. I cannot read it.
Sigh.
I guess I will never know (or not-know) the grand mysteries of Scientology.
I'm interested in how religions differ, since I find it quite entertaining how so many different people can be convinced their wildly different views are 'right'. Especially when at the end of the day, everyone has to admit that their views are based on faith alone.
So I thought I'd try to find out some details on Scientology.
Well I'm not going to find anything out from this book.
Here's a typical paragraph
Know and Not-Know
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 between.
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, for they are skills, no matter how native they are to the individual,, one is apt to get into a chaos of thinkingness or creatingness or livingness.
That make any sense to you? Me either.
The whole book is like that. I cannot read it.
Sigh.
I guess I will never know (or not-know) the grand mysteries of Scientology.