Having watched with interest the initial pack-like mentality of ars in
attempting to link Phil Gale's suicide to CofS, I am, like most of you,
pleased that friends of his have come forward to stand up for Phil. In
essence, what they have said is that Phil was not under the thrall of
Scienology or any other ideology. Given his apparent interest in the
Subgenius material it would be just as easy for a pack of anti-Bob
crusaders to latch onto that as the source of his decision.

Keith Henson accurately points towards memes as an area of contemplation
to further understand suicide and Tallulagh asks that ars reduce it's
rabid frothing and finger-pointing in this case out of respect for a
young man who met an end only he might have understood.

And now, it seems, the post mortum has begun. ARS will mulch through a
discussion of prozac vs. BT's and the ludicrous attacks by CofS on
psychiatry and, as always, end up right back where it started: with the
spreading of the "clam meme" and the stupidity of the "we're right,
they're wrong" tautology. How long before boring threads discussing
other suicides dominate the group? Though suicide is a rare event from
within the ranks of CofS, I see no reason why the more vehement amongst
you shouldn't trot the Quinton mystery out again.

The only thing I'm curious about - now that it's obvious that the ars
androids can't hang Phil Gale's death on CofS is - how long before CofS
is blamed here for not preventing his suicide.

Keep up the good work friends, remember, Hubbard was bright enough to
realize that you only stop expanding when no body is talking about you
any longer.

Wolf