From: "Gandalf" Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Stupid OT Wins: The Internet Is Useful! Message-ID: Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:28:27 GMT This OT win comes comes from Advance 160. It's might be sadder than funny, but it does demonstrate the incredibly bizarre mindset Scientologists can pick up. "I was restoring an architecturally significant house from 1929. To complete the job I needed three very rare handmade tiles to match tiles already embedded in the stucco around the front door. After considerable research, hours and hours of work, I found out the name of the company that had made the tiles all those years ago. But unfortunately, I also found out the business had come to an end in the 1930s and no stocks from those days were available. After all 72 years had passed!" [Sounds like a BIG problem! WWRD (What would Ron do)? Well that's obvious--sounds like it's time to break out those trusty OT Powers.] "I simply disagreed. I was not interested in not finding the tiles and completing my work. Determined to find the exact tiles from way back then, I decided to cut the Q and A and find them. Mocking them up again would have delayed the project and would have been tremendously expensive." [Yes, it would be foolish to simply cause the tiles to materialize. ~Anybody~ could do it ~that~ way. No, this OT was too shrewd to be sucked into a mere parlor trick. Yup, he's going to find 'em!] "So I went online, and immediately found an antique tile auction. Contacting the company, I found that they had the exact tiles I need, and the exact number: THREE. The person at the company said they were extremely rare -- I knew that. So I purchased them and after they were installed, neighbors assumed I had the tiles painstakingly copied, but simply postulating finding the exact tiles, and then finding them, was the OT solution to the problem." D.L. Now, I don't know about you but this story sends shivers down my spine. I mean, it just screams OTs ARE POWERFUL! Who would have thought that if you ~need~ something, you can go on the ~Internet~ to find a ~company~ where you can ~purchase~ the items you need? Not this lowly wog--no sir. On a more serious note, this is frankly a bit scary to me for two reasons. Here's a person who submitted this story as an example of "OT Phenomena" and apparently genuinely believes it. While that's frightening, what's absolutely incredible is that the staff that puts together Advance! magazine actually published it. Apparently this is among the cream of OT Phenomena. Gandalf