MentalEdge

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Allowing a person to think for themselves is always the best option.

But allowing her to accept scientology should not be an option, and isn't what I was suggesting.

I simply assume that OP, looking into scientology with a critical eye, is likely to have a good relationship with their daughter. And that the daughter being of dating age, and the offspring of someone seemingly reasonable, they are both capable of having an adult conversation. One that won't end with their daughter going "fuck you, I'm cutting you out of my life forever" but rather with their daughter accepting reality and intergrating the facts into her mind in a way where they can't be easily subverted.

If that isn't the case, then the heavy handed approach is absolutely warranted.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

For a long while their innermost secrets were just that, secret. Members are tight-lipped on any real elaboration, and won't engage with outsiders.

It also makes it really difficult for outsiders to present any countering logic to their beliefs. People aren't gonna tell you you've fallen in with crazies, if you don't tell em the dumb shit you're being told is real.

But a lot of it is now out in the open, if you know to look. Even then, the church AGGRESSIVELY wields the law in an active attempt to suppress public knowledge as much as possible. But as even top-level members have left the cult over the decades, even the innermost bullshit has been exposed.

It's probable that your daughters boyfriend himself knows much less than what is available online, because members are discouraged from interacting with any "harmful" media so as to not grow disillusioned, and aren't told anything substantial until it's way too late to painlessly pull out.

It's all quite deliberately set up to be as insidiously prolific as possible, while minimizing the chances people will leave.

And if people do show start to show signs of wanting out, the gloves come off really quick with stuff like blackmail and legal action.

Even its tax exempt status in the US is a complete farce, yet it lends the cult an air of legitimacy.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

It's a cult. The "science" they base their beliefs on is called "dianetics". You can look that up and get more straigh-up explanations than by looking up "scientology".

In short, they think humans are possessed by the dead souls of immortal aliens from millions of years ago, but we can't perceive this due to traumatic memories which must be "cleared" using "auditing".

Auditing sessions are recorded, and as they involve confessing your darkest secrets to "clear" the relevant "trauma", the recordings can then be used to blackmail people into staying with the cult.

It's a pay-to-level-up religion, except instead of caring for your health they abuse you. They actively reject mental healthcare based on real science, and consider psychiatrists equivalent to murderers.

They don't believe in the concept of crime, instead considering anything and everything that happens to someone their own fault.

Members are not allowed to report crimes perpetrated by other members to the actual police, instead they must be reported to the church. When scientologists rape other scientologists, the victim gets punished with more auditing.

The most infamous scientologist is likely Danny Masterson, who is finally in prison for assaulting likely dozens and dozens of female members.

They also don't tell their followers what their beliefs actually are, before they've paid so much money for it that the sunk cost fallacy has them too committed to pull out.

You can find more info online about their actual beliefs told by people who have left the cult, than they reveal even to their own followers. Its all deliberately confusing, because no-one would buy into their crazy bullshit otherwise.

Get your daughter out of this relationship asap. Or even better, have a serious talk with her about scientology, explore what it is and what it does to its members, together, so she can then consider the situation and navigate it for herself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

For just viewing image files, qView is much nicer. It literally just opens images.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Well yeah, you'd still have the limitation that you can't connect multiple devices at the same time. But the idea is that just like before, nothing is actually stopping you from having as many devices as you like ready to go, all able to be used one at a time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I already commented on this, but do they actually block you from setting up multiple devices with the same key?

I've had my own server node for a while, there's nothing stopping me from using the same key and config on multiple client devices, as long as I don't connect them at the same time.

I'm not limited to five keys, obviously, but the keys aren't device specific. I could set up just one on the server, and then use it everywhere.

Does Mullwad stop this in some way?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That's a pity.

Is there something preventing you from having the same key ready for use on more than one device? So that two devices that are never connected at the same time can take turns using the same key?

[–] [email protected] 159 points 6 days ago (31 children)

TL;DR They are moving to wireguard only.

I'm ok with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Some kind of cable labeling would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The deck charger uses USB PD. It will charge anything that supports the standard as fast as possible (up to its rated 65W) and use normal 5v USB for everything else.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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