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Everyone else (including L. Ron Hubbard) thinks I’m a cunt. In fact, after April the 1st I don’t think that I have been called a cunt so many times in my life. Thanks to everyone who called me a cunt. After all, cunts are good! I apologise to all those who were worried about me, especially my mum. You have to admit though, it was good. Perhaps the most disturbing part about this joke was that everyone could see me as a scientologist. If I ever make mutterings about becoming one, please shoot me.

I am too tired to write about the last week. It was boring anyway but…

Today I was having kind of a project debriefing with Guru. We somehow got on to the subject of Cisco Systems. I told him that I think Cisco, while the do have some good products are almost in the same category as Microsoft. That is premium brand name, premium price but a similar product to what everyone else if offering. I then explained my views on the “training” they peddle such as the CCNA, which I believe is more a cynical marketing exercise. He came back at me with a fair point and said that if I was the boss of Cisco, i would be peddling the same shit they do now. Sure, the shareholders would make sure of that. What really pissed me off was that he said that I apply my ideology to everything in life and that I should just accept certain things.

Does this make me an ideologue? I didn’t think that my views were so out-there. Sure my views on Cisco are not going to change it in a hurry, that doesn’t mean that I have to swallow their FUD and I certainly don’t have to support it. I think it is inevitable that the Microsoft’s and the Cisco’s of the world are going to loose out to the open community. Sucks to be them.

There is something that I have been wanting to share with everyone for a while now. I am sure that quite a few of you will have said recently “Gee, I don’t know what has gotten into Ned lately”. It will all become clear shortly.

It all started in November last year when I was waiting for a bus in Castelreagh Street in Sydney. There was this interesting building over the road. I had always been curious about it, so I thought rather than stand there for another 20 minutes that I would go inside and see what was going on.

Little did I know that what I found out would become the basis of my own existence. I haven’t told many people about this as I have been afraid of the way they would react but now I am sure that my real friends are with me.

I was greeted by a woman named Kate. She appeared to be very friendly, almost too friendly. She sat me down with a cup of tea and started talking to me. Asked me lost of questions that I didn’t really know the answers too. Why was she asking me these questions? Why did she think that I could answer them. Some of the questions were quite personal. Questioning my business, friends and my relationships. It soon became clear that it was really just a test.

The interrogation continued for at least an hour. At the time I wasn’t quite sure why I stayed. I now know that she was only trying to find out about how accommodating of new ideas I was. No, she wasn’t trying to sell me into Amway. She then showed me some passages written by LR Hubbard. I spent the next 10 minutes or so reading through them. This guy made a lot of sense. From that moment onwards, I knew the correct path to follow.

It is 4 months since I became involved with this group and my life has improved every day since then. I have decided that it is time to let everyone one know what I have been doing. I apologise to everyone for keeping this a secret, especially those close to my heart

Today is the day that I announce to all my friends and family that I am going to live the rest of my life according to the principals of Scientology. Finally, I understand my place in the. Scientology auditing has cleared away the cobwebs that were preventing me from actually achieving something noteworthy. Auditing totally expanded my viewpoint in terms of what I want for my life and the people around me. What else can I say. Life as a Scientologist is great.

I hope to see some of you on the other side of The Bridge soon.

Ned