A D O R E - L P O L I C Y L E T T E R APL No. 7 of 25 AUG 1992 MANDATORY READING FOR MEMBERS OF ADORE-L ADORE-L COPYRIGHT POLICY ADORE-L is a confidential list. Your presence on this list is a privilege extended to you by me and those who supply the resources. A privilege is a package of rights balanced by a corresponding package of duties. Your rights on this list are laid out in detail in earlier policy letters, but basically consist of the right to speak your mind as you see fit about any subject of importance to you. In return your duties to this list are to obey to the letter and without exception the few rules and regulations imposed on you by those same policy letters and future ones. Keep in mind that some of the restrictions imposed by earlier policy letters were canceled by later ones. You are free to leave ADORE-L at any time, but if you do you may not return, exceptions will be made for administrative leave. ADORE-L IS A CONFIDENTIAL LIST. In the past I have tolerated cross postings of ADORE-L to other lists such as BELIEF-L and others, and have allowed gateways to subscribe to ADORE-L that allowed wide public dissemination to unknown destinations of the postings placed here. I have removed all such non individual accounts from the ADORE-L subscription list, and of course ADORE-L subscription has been locked for a long time allowing no new members, except a few that I personally know and trust. Those of you who remain on the list are either real jerks or are serious about this list. Anyhow, as of today, 9/1/92, you may not under any circumstances repost material sent to ADORE-L to any other list or any other form of broad public issue without the explicit permission of the author of the piece. You may of course share this material with friends that you trust, via private e-mail or other forms of communication, with the clear understanding that they are bound by the same rules and regulations regarding the broad public issue of such materials. In the future those found violating these rules or who are negligently responsible for others violating these rules will be removed from ADORE-L. If you are not sure, ask the author. I am sure that you all understand that I can not provide an absolutely secure forum for you to speak your mind among friends without repercussions from the world around you. It takes some measure of courage and willingness to die or be ruined to speak one's mind freely. Not to mention the danger posed to one's family, loved ones and friends. YOUR PURPOSE FOR BEING ON THIS LIST Your purpose for being on this list should be and ONLY BE personal spiritual gain. Anyone who is on this list solely to attain personal spiritual gain is welcome, no matter who they are. If you yourself have no hope of personal spiritual gain, and are here for any other reason you should consider leaving the list now. If you are here only to entertain yourself at the fool hardy Immortal Aspirations of others, or to laugh at, denigrate or otherwise put down or harass others or myself in our pursuit of personal spiritual gain, you should consider leaving the list now. You are strictly forbidden to be on this list if you are reporting to or are yourself an operative of the government, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Church of Scientology, the news media be it television, radio, or newspaper, or a member of any international, political, criminal, corporate or other organization sent here to spy on this list, or to take notes on its members or otherwise keep track of their activities, viewpoints and opinions. If you are so discovered to be such a person you will immediately face charges of civil and criminal trespass along with the intent to violate first amendment rights of freedom of speech, religion and personal PRIVATE assembly. In general private e-mail sent to me concerning matters important to ADORE-L will be reposted to the list without warning, so if you have something to say post it to the list. This is a GROUP here, and we will survive as a group, not as members talking about each other or ourselves behind each other's backs. You have no duty to speak up on this list, nor even to read the postings to this list EXCEPT ADORE-L POLICY LETTERS which are clearly marked in the header. You have only a duty to speak the sworn truth before God when you do speak, and to not broadly disseminate postings from ADORE-L with out permission of the author. Some posters may place tighter restrictions on their own postings. If they do you MUST OBEY THEM. I will show no mercy on this account. You know I am just egoistic enough to think that some people want and need to hear what I have to say. I never say anything I don't wish someone had said to me as a child, but I also know that there are a lot of people in the world who really don't want you to say anything deep lest they be out of a job or out of a life. It is these people who endanger us and who we have most been like in our past lives if we are frightened by them, and it is these people who we need to speak about the most. If they scare you, think what exposure does to them. So we all have to balance our own personal fear and cowardice with our goal to improve life in this universe with free and open communication. I am doing my best on ADORE-L to start a small fire here in the middle of our dark night of the soul. The problem with fires of course is that they save your life by keeping you warm all night but they also act as a beacon to all your enemies. The route IN towards a safe life with a grave at the end is to build no fires at all or let others build them for you with warmed over lies. The route OUT to eternal freedom and willingness, is to build as many fires as you can with truth and take a few hits along the way. Fires are built with wide open communication within yourself and others. In the words of LRH, your own personal integrity is more important than your immediate life. This does imply you have more than one, probably more than you care to remember or foretell. Well now you know the way in... If your own Immortality seems totally and utterly preposterous to you but you really really want it to be true, well then you are on the dusk side of your dark night of the soul. It's going to be a LONG night, you don't want to be alone. Do you want another body and life on Earth after this one? Do you want to be a boy or a girl? Do you need some rest first? Could you do better than you've done this time around? Would doing worse somehow be doing better for you? The first step on the long road to truth is to start asking the right questions. If you wish to sign off this list, do so now. TELL LISTSERV AT UALTAVM SIGNOFF ADORE-L The door to this list is always open, out. Homer Wilson Smith Owner, ADORE-L.