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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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What Scientologists believe

No, it’s not some kooky mind-control cult. Any one of the tens of thousands of practicing Scientologists in the United States will give you his or her own viewpoint about it. If they were all mind controlled, wouldn’t they give you the same story? It’s always different, from one person to another, how they got into it and why they stayed and what they are getting out of it. They may all want to obliterate psychiatry (what sane person doesn’t!) but other than that they are all pretty different. They may send their children to schools that use the study technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard - but there’s a perfectly good reason for that. These are usually very good schools where kids actually learn the basics and how to become responsible adults. I wish this technology had been available to me as a child, instead of the crude “speed reading” they tried to teach me — which only made me read slower and retain less of what I would read.

So what do Scientologists believe? Katie Warner’s blog shows you. She asked for postcards from Scientologists with what they believe, in their own words. The results are interesting… and different. My favorite one to read was “Get to know the unknown, instead of fearing it.”

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