{"id":348,"date":"2011-08-26T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/scientologybeliefs\/?p=348"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:17:42","slug":"what-are-we-worth-in-a-techno-space-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2011\/08\/what-are-we-worth-in-a-techno-space-society\/","title":{"rendered":"What are we Worth in a Techno-Space Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Ever get the idea that you are just a cog in the wheels of some uncaring, unfeeling machine?\u00a0 Even if you are an educator, a researcher or a journalist do you ever sense that all your understanding, your wisdom or your knowledge is discounted, cast aside made to seem unimportant.<\/p>\n<p>In a chapter in <em>Scientology: A New Slant on Life <\/em>L. 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They are the machine itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I first began my spiritual journey this lifetime I was more than discouraged with my work and less than hopeful about my future.\u00a0 This quote by LRH held out a hope to me that life didn\u2019t have to be an economic slavery but maybe there was something I could learn that would make \u201chaving to make a living\u201d into something I could do with pleasure and pride.<\/p>\n<p>I have found that each new aspect of Scientology that I have learned over the past many years has given me a new tool with which to confront and handle my work, making it not something I \u201chave to do\u201d but rather a challenging, fascinating and rewarding endeavor.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the idea that you are just a cog in the wheels of some uncaring, unfeeling machine?\u00a0 Even if you are an educator, a researcher or a journalist do you ever sense that all your understanding, your wisdom or your knowledge is discounted, cast aside made to seem unimportant. 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