Talk:Early Internet and Scientology
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I'd put this in the article itself, except I merely have some observations to offer, and even tho Scientolopedia, isn't completely "objective"; I myself would like my own observations to be a bit more objective on the points I wish to make but I think the points I wish to make may be important. I think the main points I wish to make are the following 2: 1) I was there. I read a.c.t. with absolute fascination, and occasionally put in my two cents. It took me a while to figure out who was the owner of the News Group, but was delighted to discover that the person who would agree and do much to correct various bits of insanity and out-points I'd find was the owner of a group. As I also remember it, it was, for a time, a rather active NG. Maybe a little too active. Active to the point of being too chaotic for me to understand exactly what it was I was seeing. Homer corrected this state of affairs by giving those who were kinda selling an ideas their own sub-groups within the alt.clearing.technology hierarchy. This did, indeed, make understanding what was going on on a.c.t. much easier to understand. Then The Pilot thing happened. For a while a person claiming to be the reincarnation of LRH was posting. If I recall correctly that event (completely unmentioned in the article) was about as big a tempest in the teapot as the Postings of Ken Ogger. Then as I recall, there was sort of a mass exodus by many from a.c.t.. This was the first I'd heard of something called the Free Zone. The exodus was to various elists, most of which were or became hosted by Yahoo (both a.c.t, and some but not all of those elists still exist [most don't], and very very recently, Mr. Smith has created a.c.t. on Facebook); so called Yahoo Groups. About a year after Facebook made itself available to others than college students, someone on one of the elists (a female, if I recall) really insisted that anyone not recognising that Facebook was going to have to be and would be good for the dissemination of FZ Scientology, was a paranoiac who should be considered below attention. I have found she was pretty much SPOT ON in this assessment (you go girl!). Whatever's wrong with me made me think that people would be more idiotic if they had a face attached to their names. Boy was I wrong! People are no more stupid, and much less irresponsible on Facebook than on previous (what I'll call) forum formats. 2) Homer WILSON Smith is still VERY MUCH with us. Maybe we don't quite know what to think of him, nor he with us; but he's VERY MUCH a THERE AND WILLING TO COMMUNICATE TERMINAL (Though, I don't know any more than the rest of you, why he's never discussed his exact history with the church). Frankly; I may more question all of you than Homer. He seems to be our Jubal Horshaw (Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, character).Slarty (talk) 11:10, December 10, 2018 (UTC)Slarty (talk) 11:15, December 10, 2018 (UTC)
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