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Dane Jackson
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* * Chas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That's a pretty good story.
>
> Back in the mid 70's I was doing graduate work in Clinical Psych. The
> Scientologists on campus where a particularly aggressive lot. They
> tried to corner people and had a comeback for anything you could say.
> I developed a little clinical spiel something to the effect that
> "every Scientologist I ever met was a borderline or full blown
> paranoid schizophrenic" with a brief elaboration (which wasn't far
> from reality). That was usually enough to shut them up for a few
> seconds to beat a quick retreat!
I usually just ate their literature. That usually stunned them
long enough for me to walk out of conversational distance.
--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
"Cogito eggo sum: I think, therefore I am a waffle."
>
> That's a pretty good story.
>
> Back in the mid 70's I was doing graduate work in Clinical Psych. The
> Scientologists on campus where a particularly aggressive lot. They
> tried to corner people and had a comeback for anything you could say.
> I developed a little clinical spiel something to the effect that
> "every Scientologist I ever met was a borderline or full blown
> paranoid schizophrenic" with a brief elaboration (which wasn't far
> from reality). That was usually enough to shut them up for a few
> seconds to beat a quick retreat!
I usually just ate their literature. That usually stunned them
long enough for me to walk out of conversational distance.
--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
"Cogito eggo sum: I think, therefore I am a waffle."