From: thetan@minspring.com (Rick Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Silly Win: Look up in the sky....is it a bird? a plane?... no it's  OTman to the rescue....
Date: 31 Oct 1996 07:05:32 GMT
Message-ID: <559j3s$h24@camel4.mindspring.com>

  In magazines, such as Advance! Scientologists always (in the issues that I
have) write about great out-of-body experiences, with out hesitation, without
qualms about 'ethics', or 'trivial' dispays of powers.

  And as all good true believers, who never have the balls to question
authority, illogical pseudo-technology, or even know what "is true for
onesself", we wind up with this kind of statement:

"Rick Sherwood, a former OSA volunteer, reacted with visible sadness at the
announcement, shouting, "ARS BIGOTS CAN'T EVALUATE DATA."

  Bigots? The only thing people here are bigoted about, IMO, is the
boneheadedness of people who make stupid comments like the preceeding. I would
wager any amount that the so called ARS Bigots can evaluate data a hell of a
lot better than any one-way-brainlocked-pinheaded-true-believer. Any day of
the week and twice on Sundays.

  Why is it then that such big 'phenomena' (of the following win) is so
unstable, and is so hard to demonstrate to mere mortal wogs? That we can't
evaluate your data properly? Here's a dime for a clue.

Another of the millions of silly (hyperbole) wins:

"From Advance! 34, page 10: An O.T. Rescue

  Tonight, as I ate my dinner, I became aware of a distress call. It emanated
from some distance away and seemed quite urgent, involving some life-and-death
situation. I pinpointed the source in the French countryside and went to take
a look

  I found a peasant woman tied to a chair in a small building. She was
surrounded by a dozen men whose intentions were obviously less than 'bon.' Her
tone level was terror and the men appeared to be in sadism, punishing bodies,
or something equally unappetizing.

  Being without my body, I decided to handle the situation with pictures and
emotions. So, I permeated the room with "fear of discovery" and pictures of
the police closing in on the villains. Fortunately, at this same time there
was a young couple coming down the road. Their noise and physical approach
added reality to the pictures I was generating.

  The 'bad guys' fell for the deception and fled, leaving the heroine alone in
the room. Naturally they were caught a short time later when they blundered
into the police.

  As the woman was still tied and gagged, my job was not yet complete. So,
installed curious feelings in the young man and girl and they wondered
obligingly into the cabin where they rescued the woman and helped her back to
her family.

  All the way home and for some time after she kept streching her arms to the
sky thanking me for saving her life. However, try as I would, I could not
convince her that I was not 'God.' She could not grasp the term 'Scientology'
and I finally settled for leaving here with the name 'Hubbard.' Perhaps, some
day, she will find out for herself the magic I was trying to bestow upon here.
I hope so.

  --Fred Roeschke, OT"

--
Rick Crawford: Co$ Escapee, Self-Declared Suppressive, Skeptic. 
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James Burke: [about the end of the dark ages]: Whereas
St. Augustine man had said, 'Credo ut intelligam',(I come
to understanding only through belief), he now began to say,
'Intelligo ut credam' (belief can only come through
understanding). from: "The Day the Universe Changed", p.304.
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