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When you look at who else is in Scientology - the educated and the wealthy, I think that the idea of disgruntlement becomes the winning factor for why belief systems based on irrational or mythological foundations take root.

After spending many years in intense convo with an AA sponsor on how and why the program can be very effective, I understand that our desire to be 'good' and even perceived as good by a patriarchal entity makes people feel better about themselves and able to escape their disgruntlement by feeling loved, so to speak. Thre's also the power of being born again into a place of conviction, that the program provides in the same way cults do. There is a wonderful unknown future that you are being directed towards that helps to replace the willpower that the individual lacked in the first place to stop their disease.

I think it's more than a genre of human that leads them to conspiracies or to addiction, it is part of something fundamental in humans - our desire to feel something positive outside of ourselves because we can not find that positivity within. Our age old love of gods, hidden truths, mythology and stories of aliens coming from the sky with messages to save humanity replaces individual power & personal value. As one Buddhist (spiritual but not religious IMO) precept goes, "the name of the key [to life ] is willingness."

<blockquote data-quote="Burnt State" data-source="post: 151009" data-attributes="member: 5332">When you look at who else is in Scientology - the educated and the wealthy, I think that the idea of disgruntlement becomes the winning factor for why belief systems based on irrational or mythological foundations take root.After spending many years in intense convo with an AA sponsor on how and why the program can be very effective, I understand that our desire to be &#039;good&#039; and even perceived as good by a patriarchal entity makes people feel better about themselves and able to escape their disgruntlement by feeling loved, so to speak. Thre&#039;s also the power of being born again into a place of conviction, that the program provides in the same way cults do. There is a wonderful unknown future that you are being directed towards that helps to replace the willpower that the individual lacked in the first place to stop their disease.I think it&#039;s more than a genre of human that leads them to conspiracies or to addiction, it is part of something fundamental in humans - our desire to feel something positive outside of ourselves because we can not find that positivity within. Our age old love of gods, hidden truths, mythology and stories of aliens coming from the sky with messages to save humanity replaces individual power &amp; personal value. As one Buddhist (spiritual but not religious IMO) precept goes, &quot;the name of the key [to life ] is willingness.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burnt State, post: 151009, member: 5332"] When you look at who else is in Scientology - the educated and the wealthy, I think that the idea of disgruntlement becomes the winning factor for why belief systems based on irrational or mythological foundations take root. After spending many years in intense convo with an AA sponsor on how and why the program can be very effective, I understand that our desire to be 'good' and even perceived as good by a patriarchal entity makes people feel better about themselves and able to escape their disgruntlement by feeling loved, so to speak. Thre's also the power of being born again into a place of conviction, that the program provides in the same way cults do. There is a wonderful unknown future that you are being directed towards that helps to replace the willpower that the individual lacked in the first place to stop their disease. I think it's more than a genre of human that leads them to conspiracies or to addiction, it is part of something fundamental in humans - our desire to feel something positive outside of ourselves because we can not find that positivity within. Our age old love of gods, hidden truths, mythology and stories of aliens coming from the sky with messages to save humanity replaces individual power & personal value. As one Buddhist (spiritual but not religious IMO) precept goes, "the name of the key [to life ] is willingness." [/QUOTE]

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