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		<title>Anderson Cooper - Kind vs. Cruel</title>
		<description>Discuss Anderson Cooper - Kind vs. Cruel</description>
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			<title>Thanks</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1971</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Great article. Anyone who has been a Scn exec has been fed that line myriad times. I struggled with it for years, being a collegial and good- natured person (that being the case, I wondered how on Earth the powers that be ever let ME run an org!) And I had the same kind of "aha" moment when later working in the corporate world. It took me quite while to win over the mental jujitsu of "am I being a good tough manager or just an ass?" Sometimes the things we were made to do and make others do were preposterous, and we knew it. There's the signature lack of integrity that so many past Scn execs are guilty of, and are so grateful to come to terms with when they leave that scene - and find out they can be tough and still be kind about it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robin Clarke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:34:30 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Agreed, but that wasn\'t my point</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1918</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for this Dan, and I absolutely agree that you have to handle SPs differently. But that wasn't the point of this post. It was simply to show that in handling people in general, there is no need for the kind of strong-arm, harassing actions that are routinely practiced at Int. It either drives away the good, productive staff or beats them into submission. Either way, nothing productive gets done. That was the point, and nothing more.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scarlet</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:41:52 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Alice says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1906</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The source of the quote is the lecture "Testing" from 15 Nov 1956. It was earlier part of the Organization Series and nowadays can be found in the "How to present Scientology to the World"-Set,Part Two, starting on page 12 of the transcript.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Alice</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:39:30 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Great and Inspiring post</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1895</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You have really said a lot in just a few words.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Thoughtful</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:09:19 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>LRH Tech Explains Handling Differences</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1887</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Folks, I appreciate the references and agree that kindness works with the ordinary thetan. However, how to treat the murderer, the criminal,the SP who confronts you, is also important as those are often life and death moments. SPs, the few real ones there are, don't care if you are kind, in my experience. They laugh at kindness and reward it with a bullet. One of the best Scn courses I ever took was PTS/SP in it's large form. Taught me one important thing, the detection of the difference between the two types of being. Most are good beings. A few are PTS and a very few (luckily) are true SP's. Tech says their handling is very different. The mistake made in Scn in LA even way back in mid-80's when I left was that good folks were being mis-labeled as being SP or PTS and handled inappropriately, almost always with too much force and nastiness. However, it would be equally wrong to tell someone to handle everyone with the same tech you use for the NON-SP, NON-PTS. That could get a person killed.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dan Starr</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:30:36 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Guest says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1881</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Scarlett, Wow, this article caught my attention and thanks for it. I was known too as a softie, and I resented seniors many who were --you know what,giving me shit about being that, but you know what? That was me, sorry.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:13:50 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RJ says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1847</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It's easy to understand why Miscavige acts the way he acts. The guy is one seething mass of Missed Withholds. It's what Ron calls "the wild animal reaction" in the HCOB Withholds Missed and Partial. What's a mystery to me is how he's gotten away with it for so long. Do people think that the tech doesn't apply to him? I know that's what he thinks.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:34:10 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Kindness</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1844</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Scarlett, Thank you for this wonderful quote. I was once told by Sue Price that I was too nice to people and I had to toughen up. It didn't seem like something that I would have heard from LRH so I dismissed it, although it came to me from a Commodore's Messenger. You have given me the reference I did not have at the time. I knew there must be one. Thanks.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ceileen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:19:54 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>re: Wonderful quote</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1838</link>
			<description><![CDATA[They didn't start as clean slates when they were born, that's all. Each is an individual with his own history over many lifetimes, and behaves according to his long-term nature as well as his present circumstances. But you must know this. :-) Paul]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Paul Adams</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:17:38 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Marta says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1842</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Scarlett, this was such a perfect piece placed right on the spot today. I've also seen the culture of cruelty in all levels of the CoS, as Freedom Fighter mentioned. And I've seen cultures of cruelty in other groups and organizations - including every day in the news, in varying degrees. We all have this capacity, to be cruel or kind, AND we have the power to choose between them. Ronnie chose one way, David the other. If we are to hold some LRH writings up as something close to scripture, let's make sure they are the ones like this one - that speak to uplifting spirit! And then let's not ever again be so arrogant as to consider our group above the laws of civil and human rights. I was a long time member of this shameful group, not looking at it closely enough. I continue to experience embarrassment, among other things, because of it. Ugh.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Marta</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:33:16 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Wonderful quote</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1835</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Scarlett, I finished reading your article just now and I had the thought that David Miscavige and his brother Ronnie are the embodiments of the extremes that LRH is describing here. It's a mystery to me how Ronnie could be as kind as he is and his brother could be as mean as he is. How different the church would be today had Ronnie ascended to power instead of Dave.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joe Howard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:01:11 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Exactly!</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1834</link>
			<description><![CDATA[All of the hostility and lack of true caring is why I've distanced myself from the organization over the last few years. I can tell you that it's not just at Int that this stuff happens either. It's all the way down the Org Board. I've seen my share of it from Flag, to AOs, to CL V Orgs, to Missions. The saddest thing is seeing the Tech terminals, most of which you can see really do care underneath all of this, in an obvious state of stress from the intention-counter-intention of it all.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Freedom Fighter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:35:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Karen says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/anderson-cooper-kind-vs-cruel.html#comment-1833</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wonderful reference! It helped me tremendously when I was struggling with being told I was too nice by my senior. I'd recently attested to Clear and being mean just didn't fit my character. Ironically I first heard about this reference from one of my juniors who was praising how nice it was to work with me. I think she was a very perceptive junior and always enjoyed working with her.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:21:17 -0600</pubDate>
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