This IS what fundamentalist scientologists believe. They are taught NOT to think.

And it is the greatest, all-encompassing “thought stopper” in scientology. The perfect fallback when all else fails.

If you know a truly dedicated fundamentalist scientologist, you will know that this is the mindset of them all. An absolute certainty that they know the answer to everything in the universe if they study enough L. Ron Hubbard. Within his words are contained “the answers to every question anyone may have about life…” And this is truly everything.

You want to know all there is to know about the behavior of man, LRH covered it. Why some people are criminals. Got that covered too. Curing drug addiction. Check. Feeding babies. Marketing. PR. Economics. Governments. Washing windows. Legal. Cooking a steak. Raising horses. Designing a building. Happiness. Anger. Communism. Photography. Mining. Insanity. You name it, he has it explained. You need study nothing other than the words of L. Ron Hubbard. And there is absolutely no need for you to think or have an original thought for yourself. If you cannot find an LRH quote to cover it it simple means you need to buy more books and lecture series, listen to them or if you have done that, then “find your MU’s.”

This certainty gives fundamentalist scientologists an unmistakable air of arrogance. There is nothing they don’t know how to do. In fact, as Tom Cruise so famously said, they truly believe they are the ONLY ones that can effectively handle any situation. This certainty of their invincibility cuts them off from the fruits of observation. Anything that does not conform to their view of how the world SHOULD be is explained by some subset of “we know the answers to everything”: The SP’s are trying to destroy us. The tech was not applied standardly. Society is low-toned. Too many overts. NCG. Unhandled Ev Purps. Merchants of Chaos. The squirrels only scream when we are expanding. etc etc etc They live in a self-perpetuating circular universe: They are certain they have the ONLY tech that will salvage all mankind. The tech is 100% workable all of the time. The only reason they have NOT take over the world with their easily available 100% workable technology to salvage mankind (which you would think would be more popular than Coca Cola) is because there are forces that are dedicated to stopping this from happening (of course Coca Cola does not have the evil empire of whole track enslavers fighting against them every inch of the way). There is no logic to this, as they are also certain they have the only “tech” and are the only people who can deal with those forces of evil. That they have not done so is explained by their failure to apply the tech standardly. And they will go on trying to correct their failures forever as they have been convinced this is the only reason it doesn’t work. But then the tech that cannot be applied is perhaps not infallible? And you are down the rabbit hole never to return.

This could be a long dissertation which I dont have the time to write. Jeff Hawkins covered the subject of thought stopping more eloquently than me in his 2010 blog post.

This promo piece just got me started…

And it is a subject that is worth bringing up every now and then, as it is the fundamental reason there IS a bubble and a prison of belief that is so difficult to escape from.