Rocky

Is this too blunt or rude? It IS what the games with Mike on useless threads seems to have become. Honestly, it's not Mike alone.

One way to prove you (Nathan, et.al) have free will is to consciously decide to no longer feed the troll and let threads like this die of neglect.

Bravo, Mike. Perhaps thinking you had outsmarted me by answering a question with a question, you (nevertheless) demonstrated how utterly without purpose your posts are, despite your claims to the contrary.

How is this anything which MIGHT motivate anyone to return to TWI and PFLAP? Or is it just an exercise in self-aggrandizement?

Yes.

Seriously? You admit you're a parasite here at GSC?

Unless a news story or opinion column were to hedge and say something to the effect that "critics call it a cult..." However, to get a more specific and current opinion on the matter, ask Raf.

Mainstream (such as The NewYorker) news media would be loathe to call The Way a cult. It's a matter of journalistic ethics. We who have been involved with TWI understand the cultic nature. People come here to learn about it, perhaps. But there ARE legal concerns for a corporate entity to characterize an organization as a cult prior to either the organization itself proclaiming itself as one, or having been adjudicated as such by a court of law according to a standard of law. I didn't see Oldiesman's comment but it seems not likely to be a reasonable item for comparison to a news enterprise responsible for compliance with accepted journalistic standards.

Hassan is also in several current videos, including one documenting the rise of #Untruth.

At its ROOT, Mike's problem is lack of self-awareness and lack of awareness of the impact (or lack thereof) on others. He might not be the only one.

Mike your "messaging" is antithetical to changing anyone's mind in the direction you say you want to. First thing to do, for successful messaging, is to get people to like you. Clearly, that is not something you seem to know or if you do know, you don't care about. You are wasting your time here, Mike. You've done so, off and on, for roughly 20 years. Is this really what you want your life to have meant when it's all over?

Yes.

Leah Remini tweeted today, 1. Did you know that if you are a Scientologist, you are forbidden from contacting law enforcement when another Scientologist has committed a crime against you? If you do, you will be declared a suppressive person and lose your family, friends, and livelihood overnight.

How is that (what you said) going to lead anyone to see "the light?" Besides not making sense, you demonstrate gross lack of discipline in "your messaging." You're wasting your time here.

Face it Mike, you just do NOT make sense. You're wasting your time.

Yet, Mike apparently hopes that seekers who come to GSC for inspiration on why they should return to twi and pflap will diligently sort through the noise and find his remarkable "wisdom" (albeit, his deficient ability to clearly communicate) because God will guide them. Mike flunked.

There have been legions of human explorers, blazing their own paths where no one had gone before them. Decades ago, I found the late Gail Sheehy's book, Pathfinders particularly intriguing. Pathfinders tells stories of lots of people who determined not to be limited by absence of a guru/teacher. It was first published 40 years ago today. Nov 1, 1982. No book in the last decade has changed more lives than Gail Sheehy's groundbreaking Passages. Now, going beyond Passages in purpose and scope, Gail Sheehy's landmark best-seller explains why some of us overcome life's crises while others do not. Through interviews with hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds, she has found the true pathfinders�men and women who have discovered uncommon solutions to the predictable crises and unexpected accidents of adult life. In vivid, unforgettable portraits, Gail Sheehy tells their life stories and analyzes the process by which they accumulated confidence, control and courage in their lives. Pathfinders is that rare book which sets you on your own unique path to well-being. Pretty sure I read it in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

GSC is Mike's addiction, isn't it? He thinks it gives him meaning, doesn't he?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning

As if you're inside anyone's head (beside your own)? Right on target? Give me a break. Nobody's really doing anything but toying with you.

My intent only was to inject a moment of perspective into the mix.

Would I be rude to point out that Mike has hijacked this thread and it has turned into just another thread with Mike's vain babblings having overtaken the original intent?