Snow set Afire
Dr Raymond Stantz
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I guess making up s**t will win the argument. Considering every scientologist repeatedly holds the e-meter and none are ever shocked by it I have to wonder just what sort of lackwit you are to believe such a bit of information.
And what the ******** does this e-meter measure, and how?
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Nothing like the PKE Meter of the Giga Meter, right?
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No, no. That technology is all very real.
Peter, we've got a nasty one on our hands.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/
A fun little page on the e-meter, complete with LRH's patents on the device and interesting facts. You can find out how it works and even build your own.
So apparently you kids think emotional distress can be measured through someone's palms? Do describe how this is even remotely possible.
The emotions would be best measured chemically through a biopsy and directly retrieving polypeptides from brain tissue. But you want the really easy way to tell how someone is feeling?
Look at them.
Here's an idea.
An E-meter is an electronic circuit that measures electrical resistance relative to a standard resistance. Scientologists uses these funky devices weed out what they consider to be deeply ingrained emotional suffering that was cause by the trauma experienced by the alien soul which resides within every human being Scientologists call these negative bits of information "Engrams," which are located within the "Reactive mind", a part of a scientologist's brain which has been designed with the sole purpose of storing and using negative "programs" to harm the individual in which this "Reactive mind" lives.
Scientologists sincerely believe that once they have abolished the "Engrams" within their minds that they will develop God-like abilities. Things as ridiculous as releasing telepathy and psychokinetic energy as the "fully free mind."
The E-meter's function is described as such:
It is essential that a Scientologist interacts with the E-meter in the "right way" when using it.
The Scientologist which is being tested holds onto two electrodes, one in each hand, and is asked a series of questions by an "Auditor" which are designed to trigger emotional responses. This "Auditor" monitors the reactions of the meter and records the results. They will continue to question the Scientologist patient until they see a response within the meter's interface that they consider satisfactory.
The E-meter's patent schematics somewhat imply that the E-meter measures the change in resistance caused by one's grip on the electrodes. Tests have suggested however that the readings on the E-meter are irrelevant to hand pressure... Also to temperature and to humidity.
There is one test that someone else had described as follows:
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The person who was showing me the E-meter administered the standard Scientology "Pinch test". The "Pinch test" consists of pinching the E-meter holder and watching the meter react. Then about 30 seconds later the pincher tells the "pinchee" to remember the pinch and both watch the meter react. This can be repeated several times.
What I noticed was that the needle remained as erratic as before the "Pinch test" and that we would watch the meter until a needle movement of appropriate size was registered before I was asked again to "remember the pinch".
The response was far from instantaneous and personally indistinguishable from the meter response before the "test".
The observer had noticed that the meter's needle had bobbed back in fourth and intervals, and that it's pattern had not changed at all during his entire sitting. Scientologists will probably simply say he is an "incompetent" Scientologist, but the nature of the machine's design implies that it would behave in such a manner.
Also, the human body does not conduct electricity as wires do. So the measurement of electrical resistance is inconclusive. The conductivity of the humidity of our bodies would not change instantaneously. Resistance of electricity in the human body is a matter of density of the fluid and the tissue. A person could clench up nervously and change the effect of the reading on the meter (that is, if it's actually reading anything).
It is ridiculous that the machine claims to accurately measure resistance within the human body, because resistance through the entire human body is a very complex thing. The body, if drawn like a circuit, would look like a bunch of resistors in series and in parallel. It's a mess, and I don't see why anyone thinks measuring the resistance of organic matter is anything like measuring the resistance of wires and capacitors and other metallic substances-- and before you start, the iron in our blood is not conductive enough to substitute as a wire.
There is also another problem with the E-meter. If you control the E-meter, then the E-meter cannot tell you something you don't already know. For instance, Hubbard claims that the E-meter will not function properly if the Auditor is not properly trained and if the Scientologist patient has not been well prepared with Dianetics. Hubbard states very clearly that if you cannot produce proper E-meter responses that you must go back and work with an Auditor until you have trained yourself to have the ability to trigger the proper responses from the machine. And yet I hear many Scientologists telling that such matters do not matter, and that the E-meter should react to their emotions regardless. Do they even understand Hubbard's initial ideas, I wonder?
