Peanut for your thoughts?

I would like some straight answers on Iraq. I want to see our troups come home. I want to avoid a complete debacle when we leave, but I have no faith that this won't happen no matter what we do. I am mortified over the daily list of the dead from suicide bombings. I feel personally very culpable for these deaths, as an American citizen and I don't understand how our elected officials can sleep at night.

But I don't get the point of this kind of news coverage:
The Swamp - Chicago Tribune - Blogs.

Bush's "open mouth insert foot" policy of press relations wears on me. But I fear that this kind of coverage distracts from the real issues.

Well Done to Marie Pace

Marie Pace has been acknowledged as on of 31 women who are changing the history of Lafayette, Louisianna.


And she certainly deserves the award!

Her work during the 2005 Hurricane season was what brought her to prominence, but in actual fact she's been hard at work helping her community for years as the director of the Lafayette mission.

The article in the Lafayett Advertiser says:

Marie Pace began her affiliation with Scientology in the 1980s, when she was introduced to Dianetics and the religion it is based on, founded in the 1960s by the late science fiction novelist L. Ron Hubbard.

Her involvement in the community includes: Opening Applied Scholastics Lafayette in 1991. The nonprofit agency is devoted to teaching parents, students and educators how to learn without the use of drugs, labeling and memorization. The foundation of her teaching is Study Technology, developed by Hubbard.

The experience led Pace to open the Scientology Mission of Lafayette four years later. The first mission of its kind in Acadiana, the local Scientology Mission on Huggins Road, offers various techniques developed by Hubbard and taught across the globe in various Scientology churches. >>

A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Scientologists Active in Anti Drug Campaign

Scientologists are very active in an anti-drug campaign to get the truth about drugs out to kids around the world.

Here's a good story on what Scientologists in Taiwan are doing, and how effective they've been in getting the message out:

The Scientologists of Taiwan have a real sense of urgency when it comes to arming young people with factual information about drugs. They know that drugs affect people not only physically, they harm them spiritually as well.

In the late 1960's, with drugs spreading like an epidemic through college campuses in the West, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard did extensive research into what causes people to start using drugs in the first place, and developed a whole array of technology to help the individual reverse the effect these substances have on spiritual progress and enlightenment.

The "Say No to Drugs" team is dedicated to helping youth avoid getting into the "drug trap." And for those who have already started to experiment with drugs, the volunteers work to convince these young people to quit now, before their lives are ruined.

A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Raising a Child Successfully

Some of the most useful and successful data I have ever seen on handling children is in the Scientology Handbook chapter called Children. I have used it on my own child and achieved great results with it. Information on this is at www.scientologyhandbook.org.

Worried about Harry

According to the news, the last Harry Potter book is on sale for pre-orders and will be available on July 21st.

"The most recent book, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in the series, broke UK records by selling 2,009,574 copies on its first day of release. Booksellers are predicting that the Deathly Hallows might yet outstrip that figure.

"It is ten years since the first book, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, was published. Since then the series has gone on to sell 325 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 64 languages."

Without ruining it for anyone who hasn't read number 6 yet, I am really concerned about what JK is going to do with this book.

This story from Playfuls.com tells why:

Rowling's stories have darkened considerably since the first release, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,” and the author has said two characters will be killed off in Book 7.

"I don't always enjoy killing my characters. I didn't enjoy killing the character who died at the end of Book 6," Rowling said during a reading last summer at Radio City Music Hall, declining to name that person in case someone had yet to finish the book.

"I really didn't enjoy doing that, but I had been planning that for years so it wasn't quite as poignant as you might imagine. I'd already done my grieving when I actually came to write it."

I hope she was wise enough to realize the effect she is going to create on an entire generation if she kills off one of the three kids. It would be awful!

Children

The Scientology Handbook has a chapter on raising children that has technology for this that works beautifully. The information is at www.scientologyhandbook.org

Love and Help Children

That's a section from The Way to Happiness .

And here's a video that shows and example of it.

Keep Those Kids Off Drugs

I've taken to heart what David Miscavige said at the 2007 New Years event.

I've decided to take on more responsibility for helping my neighborhood. I've started a branch of the Say No to Drugs initiative. It's just going to run out of my livingroom, mind you, but I am taking the message to the schools and community groups in around my home, and so far everyone has welcomed me to give my lectures to the kids.

Here is a picture or why I can't resist doing this particular project as my volutneer work. Look at those faces! Aren't they too much! These are grade school kids in Taiwan, taking the pledge as Drug-Free Marshals to stay off drugs and work to get other kids and adults to pledge to be drug-free too.

I know I do some very valuable things at work, and that my family would fall apart if I weren't running them to their appointments, cooking their food and picking up after them. But getting to these little kids before it's too late, that really rounds my life out. Mr. Miscavige was right. I really needed to do more!

Berlin Again

The grand opening of the Church of Scientology of Berlin was every bit as exciting as I thought it would be!

I heard that Chick Corea and Anne Archer were there and so was David Miscavige.

And there were something like 5300 Scientologists and neighbords and dignitaries attending.

And the building and facilities are amazing!

Check it out at their web site.

Scientology in Berlin

In the past it's been a bit hard to be a Scientologist in Germany.

I guess every new religion has to contend with people being suspicious about them at first. The early Christians had it pretty rough (the battle in the media isn't half as tough as lions and gladiators).

But it's great that times have changed so much that we can open such a beautiful, huge new church of Scientology in Berlin.

I expect David Miscavige will be there for the grand opening too.

I might just pack my bags and go as well.

Want to join me?....