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From: berman@isi-vaxa
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Scientologists?
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 18:17:58 EDT
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From: berman@isi-vaxa (Richard Berman)


I hope this is the LAST message on Scientologists regarding Battlefield Earth.
I didn't know that SF-LOVERS was also the RBIG (Religious Bigotry Interest
Group).  I just wanna hear about SF matters -- not someone's notions about the
validity of ANY religion.  Of course, there are those who argue that all
religion is brainwashing...

I get the impression from the two or three individuals writing such messages
that they feel the Scientologists (and, no doubt, the Martians) are
EVERYWHERE!!  So keep looking behind the pictures and under the papers,
because they're here someplace...

P.S.

I did rather like Battlefield Earth.  If you didn't (or even if you did), I
don't see how this relates to Scientology.  I also like Donaldson, and I
actually felt I learned something about life and especially about the
"Despiser" from those books.  Is that brainwashing?  After all, isn't ALL
learning "brainwashing"? I hereby formally suggest the abolishment of all
forms of learning -- no, of all THOUGHT!  That's the culprit!  If only the
masses would just do as we say...

RB