How much weight does a policy in Scientology have? - 01/05/04

How much weight does a policy in Scientology have?

In my experience while being in and involved with Scientology,
not very much. A policy is just a group of words on a piece of paper.
Scientology is run by people, not by words on paper. It took me a
little while to realize that words are just words in Scientology and
what happens when you walk into one of those Orgs is something else.
Policies don't run Scientology, the apes at the top of the org board
do. If one of these guys don't like you it doesn't matter what the
policies say, your screwed. If these top executives don't follow the
policies or use the policies for purposes other than what they were
created for, what are you going to do about it? You can't take them to
court about it, it's not against the law for a church to not follow
their own policies. You can't go to the OEC volume and say, "Hey,
somebody in Scientology violated you!", the book just sits there,
lifeless. It's just a pile of paper with ink on it.

I'm not sure why L. Ron Hubbard compiled all these piles of words
because the people he left in charge sure don't follow them.
Scientology seems to take advantage of people who are naive enough to
believe that what's written in a Scientology book is the way things
are in reality. Scientology is not run by policies and books, it run
by people and the people who are running Scientology are a bunch of
pricks. It's like a man who tells a women everything she wants to hear
so he can get what he wants from her. By the time you realize that the
way things are in Scientology's book's & lectures is not the way
things are in reality, you have already spent money on books, lectures
or courses. Anybody can write a perfect book, the real trick is having
things be in reality like they are in that book. It's been my
unfortunately experience to have to say that the way things are in the
real world of Scientology is not the way things are in their books.

Truth Seeker
"OSA Stands for: (O)ffice of (S)uppressive (A)ssholes"

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If you want to know what Scientology doesn't want you
to know, take a look these posts that I've put up earlier on
this newsgroup. (That's if the Church of "Suppress Free Speech"
hasn't illegally cancelled them)

"How to spot the OSA members on this newsgroup"
"How you know you've just read phony criticism created by Scientology"
"Scientology's Plan to Stop Critics & Criticism on this newsgroup"
"The key to how Scientology is handling this newsgroup"
"Why you should stay away from Scientology"
"The FAQ for Alt.Religion.Scientology"
"Names Scientology is Posting by on this newsgroup"
"Tactics OSA uses to stop critics on this newsgroup"
"The Magical Transformation of Church Member into Critic"
"How Scientology is playing both sides of the coin"
"Scientology's Decoy System"
"The 3 beliefs Scientology wants the world to believe"
"Some different Ways to "Handle" Scientology"
"How Scientology Traps New Members"
"Scientology's Trick to keep people from REAL criticism"
"Weaknesses of the Church of Scientology"
"How Scientology creates identity confusion"