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bazera replied to Bjorn K Holmstrom's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Quit my job. Travel and do retreats / psychedelics. Spend more time with my family. -
Joseph Maynor replied to Bjorn K Holmstrom's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Pretty much exactly what I am doing now. But I would probably travel more. -
They lost a debate and threw a tantrum
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@Emerald I am always impressed by your contributions and your level headed approach and plain speaking, despite being buffeted around by others. I get your sentiment that this isn't a good space for women, and yet it's even less so without the women being here. Pop in occasionally and say hi!
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You can find many YouTube videos documenting the evils of Scientology. Interviews with ex-members.
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Regardless, whats done is done. Let this thread return to farewelling @Emerald I apologise for the derail.
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What are you guys getting so offended about?
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I think it's run its course naturally now. I'll add that I also dislike when users also try to psychologically profile others and reduce them to a bunch of mechanisms to explain behaviour. Or explain motivations behind some lines of argument (particularly when our proposals or arguments are not accepted). It does nothing but turn the person against us and impede charitable reception of our own ideas and concepts. It can also lock us to a frame of explaining a person. Rather than understanding. This leads to frequently misunderstanding or misinterpreting their points because we are preoccupied trying to fit them to a preconceived frame. It does nothing but shoot us in the foot debate wise to engage in this type of analysis of others openly. @oOo appreciate you
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@Natasha Tori Maru sorry you had to experience that.
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Take the question however you like. I'm curious where your imagination takes you.
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You directly linked an article that mischaracterised the scientific research behind it, and then used it as your weapon to parade as a weapon against science. Sorry to say but this reflects a lack of integrity, something that's also corroborated by the fact that you side-stepped any accurate critique that would have forced you to hold yourself accountable. Your anti-science ranting is the very conspiracy theory nonsense that needs to be vetted out of the forum. You should be identifying and critiquing authors, not SJW'ing against the very thing that enables you to wage a war against it on the forum. At present, I can't take you seriously, and I don't believe you're genuine, I believe you're pretending to have opinions that are really just projections of your own biases. And you carry that from discussion to discussion I've ever seen you a part of. So you don't at all fit my description of "most well intentioned persons", so move on please. Thank you. If you are genuinely working in good faith on the forum, then my suggestion is that people that create a thread should at the very least be held to a standard before its allowed to be posted. One recommendation moderators and Leo: have a minimum set of fields that need to be entered which in order to answer all things being equal force a "in good faith" thread start.
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This is what Scientologists actually believe, lol.
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Yes but we don't think of ourself as a stupid human entirely. Nobody does.
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Yep. It's almost impossible to recognise love bombing if you've never experienced it before.
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In my country (Slovakia), I saw an advertisement of interesting self help event FOR FREE. I was interested, but after l looked deeper into it I found out it was Scientology and I was like, "no no, it's suspicious"😂😂Thank God I didn't go
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Wow brother very good job for getting the right decision💪🏻
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Scientology and cults in general are designed to love-bomb and ease new recruits into to. They boil people alive slowly like frogs. Their early trainings are designed to have wide mainstream appeal. They are designed to be useful and offer genuine self-help value. Scientology courses can feel genuinely good at the start. It is a devious trap. Cults usually don't seem harmful until you get deep into them. It is a classic sort of marketing funnel.
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It’s fun to be a stupid human when it doesn’t matter. When it does matter we are still stupid but now also waging war.
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Brooo!!! Very nicely done, man! You had an instant date, got the girl super into you from the looks of things and got a solid instagram out of it. Amazing. Keep going like this, man! This is real game. Better to spend more time with a girl and get 1 solid number/instagrams a day that can actually lead somewhere rather than spread yourself thin by collecting 10 phone numbers/instagrams a day that go nowhere.
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I've had this protest that Emerald has, a few years ago, about this forum. I had to accept that this is how people are and we cannot silence people. People should be free to express their opinion. If the quality of the conversation goes low, so be it. Accept the situation.
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You underestimate what the mind can block out when you're emotionally invested, it's a big blind spot. You can read actualized is a cult on the internet too, does that make it one? Or is it possible that things aren't so obvious when you're involved in something?
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Good for you lol 😆
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Human getting mad at other human for being human while being human. There ain’t no levity in debating people. Everyone is wrong including you and me in the end you loose even if you win. There is no point at which arguments are intense or rational enough. Your opponent will also fail at that. It’s a dead end. Another way to use the forum that is more sustainable is using it for fun instead of for convincing people of ultimately meaningless inventions.
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