Freeing The Mind To Doubt
Freeing The Mind To Doubt
I realized after leaving Scientology way , way back in the mists
of time ( 2014 ) that some key choices and opportunities progressively
opened the door to the key moment when I broke down after 25 years in
the cult and was willing to look at everything in my life without bias
and decided to include Scientology and Hubbard which for so many years I
had automatically considered beyond doubt and as a given correct and
beneficial beyond any sane question . I realized I was deciding to look
at everything then feeling pride in being a Scientologist and learning
the " wisdom " of Scientology and love for Hubbard all linked together
for comfort and certainty instead of really looking and that was not
truly looking at everything so I turned my critical thinking on the
tiniest bit and brought back suppressed dissonance and anxiety that had
been buried in trance logic and projected onto " wogs " and used to
justify elitism and narcissism for decades .
Several things that helped me are detailed in a Million Years in Hell : http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthrea...-YEARS-IN-HELL
I here want to bring up some details that I now see as helping me bit by
bit break the Adamantium wall of my own closed mind . I think any
detail may click for a lurker or a family member seeking an effective
intervention . You never know what fits a person's particular situation
until you try . And I want you to try if it is the right thing for you
to do .
Something that also helped was that I had for months been getting the
trances I was addicted to by " clearing " many , many words on my phone
and looking up long lists of unusual and specialized words and their
derivations . This served to let me gradually see that lots of " word
clearing " was exhausting mentally and physically and that I was
somehow addicted to what I thought was a safe activity ! I could not
figure out what was wrong but tried looking at a resource for months
that helped in a way I never dreamed possible : It is in some ways the
opposite of Scientology.
I started studying a different subject and language really to see if I
could learn any complex ideas or if my faculties somehow deteriorated
below that point .
I started reading a site that freed up my ability to doubt terms and
ideas and still hold them in my mind - not allowed in Scientology . I
also found that joking around and not being beholden to sacred or
authoritative ideas or sources while looking at ideas was wonderful for
triggering critical examination as in " is this idea applicable to
situation x or a little or the opposite or paradoxically or as a
deconstruction " and other evaluations with complexity and depth and
personal taste and opinions accepted as authentic . This site has lots
of joking around and not needing references or academic or any support
for ideas other than someone presenting them and having interest in them
. Please do not dismiss the site as a tool for helping critical
thinking in a safe slow gradual way that does not overtly attack cults
or their values directly because it is on a light topic in name . It has
teeth for biting into closed and imprisoned minds to bit by bit safely
require independent thought .
The site is called TV Tropes . From the site itself I will take a quote :What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. Tropes
are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as
being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the
whole, tropes are not clichés.
The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull
and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting
entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make
fun of them. The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we
started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to
include other media. Tropes transcend television. They reflect life.
Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, do their best to
reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere. We are not a
stuffy encyclopedic wiki. We're a buttload more informal. We encourage breezy language and original thought. There Is No Such Thing As Notability, and no citations are needed. If your entry cannot gather any evidence by the Wiki Magic, it will just wither and die. Until then, though, it will be available through the Main Tropes Index. End quote .
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And importantly the opposite of Scientology :
Administrivia: There Is No Such Thing as Notability
This is not Wikipedia.
You will see these words written in many places on the website. One of
the main ways we are different from them is our take on "notability."
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX[h=All works are notable.]1[/h] Wikipedia tries in
many regards to be the opposite of what we are. We want to be fun,
interesting and a cool place to sink hours of time. Wikipedia wants to
be a compilation of previously published facts from respected sources. Serious Business.
Presented with a choice between serious and fun, we went with fun. Much
of our wiki relies on the "Examples" section, where we pull our many
articles together. Every now and then you might see a Wikipedia Updater who will delete your example with no reason. A small Edit War
of delete/restore will start, before someone on the discussion page
brings up "notability." This page is your response. If it fits the trope
description, then it can be put in. All it requires is someone to put
it in there. Simple as that. It could be a multi-million viewer ABC sitcom, or an all-but-forgotten Japanese videogame, or a Sprite Comic about EarthBound that died after seven strips. We have examples ranging from media as diverse as Film to Fan Fiction
and everything in between. Removing tropes, examples... anything...
because of "notability" stifles the wiki. It can intimidate new writers
who wanted to put in an example they liked and had it shot down. This
is a double-edged sword. Someone could add an example they made up and
there is really nothing you could do to stop them. If the discussion
finds an example to be purely fictional then it might get deleted, might. That's the way of things. But remember, we're here to have fun. Don't let this stuff burn you out. End quote .
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See the site has thousands of Tropes - ideas or themes that appear and
repeat in works of fiction , nonfiction and media of all kinds and
religions and real life . Very , very little is forbidden which
encourages creativity and imagination be independently employed . It
also has an attitude of one troper ( person who posts at the site ) sees
that story or character as one way and another a different one ? They
both have equal importance and can present their ideas fully and let
people agree , disagree or not care . It makes you think and coordinate
vast amounts of info to fully understand the site and you have freedom
to come and go as you wish and read a little on your favorite TV show or
novel or opera or rock song or artist or anime or whatever and can
cross reference on character type or behavior or many , many other
things so if you like movies with certain story elements or directing
you can find more or similar songs or novels , comic books and it goes
on and on .
YOU decide what is significant or not and can be really , really into
obscure details and ideas or just look at broad themes or anything you
choose . It helped free up some of my critical thinking as I unknowingly
regained some ability to goof off without guilt and read something
non-Hubbard without feeling like a traitor as how could knowing a small
detail about a comic book or old foreign novel or play be wrong ? Surely
my " certainty " could withstand this harmless trivial information .
I also over time realized I was learning an actual language from all the
trope names and that some words contradict each other but that is
acknowledged openly as a kind of " Hey , no one here has all the answers
or is certain to be right about every situation or possibility "
attitude seeped into me and it relaxed me to feel this way and made me
get to a point of confidence in my ability to learn something without
Hubbard's methods or blind obedience to an authority and that joking
helped learning and reason . In Scientology he so severely condemns all
other indoctrination and education that I was broken down and convinced
I was an idiot virtually incapable of reading despite indications of
the opposite from the " wog " educational system .
Not everyone will need or like TV tropes but for some it can be an
educational and recreational anti - Scientology . No money asked , no
commitment required , no authority sited , your input allowed and
encouraged , open discussion encouraged and disagreement accepted ,
joking around about anything encouraged and you choose what and how to
look at and contribute to or not .
If you got similar experiences please let me know and if this sounds good feel free to try It !
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
I think there are many , many ways to free a mind and use imagination
and creativity that are far , far better than Scientology .
Last edited by mockingbird; 31st December 2014 at 07:28 PM.
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