This week, it’s more about that hypothetical COVID Patient Zero, what role financial stress might play in vulnerability to cults, an explanation for one of Scientology more bizarre training routines and a lot more. Enjoy!
(1) Someone recently asked if you would hypothetically kill Coronavirus “Patient Zero” if you could go back in time, in order to prevent the spread and thus mass deaths caused. You replied “no” for various reasons which you explained. This got me thinking. In order to kill such a person, it means you can identify them.
So if you could go back in time and you have identified this person, but would not kill them – and assuming they refuse to visit a hospital of their own free will – knowing the full facts – would you either forcibly abduct them and present them to a medical facility, or inform the authorities – who in this case would aggressively detain them against their will and effectively “sectioning” them for want of a better term (only for a physical rather than a mental illness) to both keep them safe, and protect the public?
Both cases would make this innocent party utterly terrified. I guess broadly the question is at what point do we subject innocent people to force and “temporary incarceration”, in order for the “greater good” – which sounds a bit Scientologist!
(2) I know you are up to your nose in school work at this time and I would be interested to know a little more on how the program is laid out, what you have left and about how long you will be working on it until graduation.
(3) In your opinion how big of a role does past or present financial trouble play in being more susceptible to either joining a cult or forming radical religious or political beliefs?
(4) I saw a YT video of Stacy Brooks and Jesse Prince demonstrating the Training Routines. I don’t understand something I was hoping you could explain. I get the no blink, no twitch or fidget but when it came time for the TR routine where the questions were asked, over and over, the question is asked ‘do birds fly?’ Five out of 6 times, the person answering says ‘yes’ but one time they said ‘no’ and the next time ‘yes’ but each time the person asking said ‘thank you’ and kept asking the question…no right or wrong answer. What is the GOAL of that exercise?
(5) I was wondering how come the actress and Scientologist, Erika Christensen, played in the Christian propaganda movie “The Case for Christ (2017)”? Won’t the upper echelons of Scientology punish her for that? Or is it that money is the most important thing to them all? She had one of the top billings in that movie. I mean, don’t Scientologists see Christianity as something that evil Xenu implanted in people as an illusion to drive them away from the “awakening” that Scientology offers? So wouldn’t Erika Christensen’s starring in a Christian propaganda movie be equal to a catholic actress starring in a movie that praises Satan?
(6) You commented in passing during Q&A #297 that if you don’t have hands, you can’t hold the E-meter cans so can never be saved by Scientology. That alone is an extremely off putting position to take for any religion. Is it also true that if you’ve had ECT, you are automatically barred from Scientology salvation? Are there any other complete bans?
(7) If you make a substantial donation to a Christian church you can write it off on your taxes. Can you write off Scientology services on your taxes?
(8) Can a psychiatrist join Scientology?
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