Hook, line, and sinker

So let's put it all together:

The hook

It could be Dianetics. It could be a Superbowl ad. It could be a personality test. But it's something connected to Scientology that you can wholeheartedly agree with.

And if this is true, then surely everything else is true, too!

The line

Keeping Scientology Working - This policy letter firmly ensconses LRH as Source. He's a war hero, a nuclear physicist, an explorer, an adventurer (none of which are actually true). He alone does not stand on the shoulders of giants. He alone discovered and developed a map out of hell on earth. He gives no credit to any of those whose ideas he plagiarized - with the possible exception of Buddha. But that's okay, because he alludes to the fact that he's the reincarnation of Buddha.

The point is, LRH is Source. He is always right, always infallible, always compassionate, the greatest humanitarian of all time.

And if you take issue with anything in this policy letter, we'll move on to...

The sinker

The misunderstood word. Here's where you learn unequivocally that any and all disagreements you may have with anything LRH ever wrote are because you have misunderstood words. It must be the case. LRH said so! After all, "everybody knows" that to understand is to agree.

Failing that, there's always the boomerang effect. Once you buy into that (covered in the next post), every critical thought boomerangs back at you and causes you to wonder what's wrong with you!

(It's worth defining critical  and critical thought. Both are off limits in Scientology.)