Re: Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Chris, Are you serious about this?There are a lot of Scientologists in the arts and I don't find them anymore of a problem than the regular church groups with calls for public support in sending the poor to parochial schools.Can Scientology be any worse than church abused orphans

Re: Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread AC
. Susan De Rosa, Toronto Ray E. Harrell wrote: Chris, Are you serious about this?There are a lot of Scientologists in the arts and I don't find them anymore of a problem than the regular church groups with calls for public support in sending the poor to parochial schools.Can Scientology

Re: Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Christoph Reuss
in the arts and I don't find them anymore of a problem than the regular church groups with calls for public support in sending the poor to parochial schools.Can Scientology be any worse than church abused orphans of a generation ago in Quebec?Abuse where technology meant for the insane

Re: Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Brad Hanson
I'm a lurker but I thought I'd throw my $0.02 worth in here. While I'm a manager by trade I have an interest in alternative belief systems and the organisational culture of cults and fringe sects. From my studies, I would argue that Scientology is nothing more than a business which has been

Re: Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Brad Hanson wrote: I'm a lurker but I thought I'd throw my $0.02 worth in here. While I'm a manager by trade I have an interest in alternative belief systems and the organisational culture of cults and fringe sects. From my studies, I would argue that Scientology is nothing more than

Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Hollinshead
One story of the origins of Scientology goes as follows. Ron Hubbard, the founder, was having a drink with the boys and shooting the breeze about religion and Ron said "Anybody can start a religion. I could start a religion." "Bet you can't." "Bet I can." Ron won the bet.

Re: Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Christoph Reuss
I thought the bet was "Any wacko can start a multi-million biz in the U$." ;-) Chris Mike H wrote: One story of the origins of Scientology goes as follows. Ron Hubbard, the founder, was having a drink with the boys and shooting the breeze about religion and Ron said "An

Re: Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-22 Thread Colin Stark
At 07:27 PM 12/22/1999 -0500, Brad McCormick wrote: Brad Hanson wrote: I'm confused: Do Scientology and EST (Werner Erhard(sp?)) have anything to do with each other? As far as I know the connection is limited to the fact that Werner "borrowed" some of Scientology's technology, pa

Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-21 Thread Christoph Reuss
Microsoft cooperates with Scientology Experts suspect Trojan Horse in Windows 2000 (Summary of an article in the renowned German computer magazine "c't", full article at http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/25/058/ ) An integrated operating system component of Microsoft Wi