<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter K. Bertine, Jr</b> <<a href="mailto:pkbertine@hotmail.com">pkbertine@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Incidentally, if you want some low cost glory, now is the time to get into<br>the fight. It looks very much like the scientology cult is on the ropes<br>and won't last out the year. Tom Cruise probably had more effect than I
<br>did.<br><br>Keith Henson<br>(who is--none the less--still hiding out in the Mortmain Mountains)</blockquote><div><br>
Cults seldom long outlast the death of their charismatic leader.<br>
If they do they become 'respectable' Pillars of the Establishment.<br>
In recent times the Mormons made it, along with various minor Xian sects.<br>
The longterm survival of the Unification Church and Scientology have yet to be determined.<br>
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Dirk<br>
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