There are no real friendships in Scientology. This is because is is
impossible to talk about anything more meaningful than the weather.

Let us look at what is off limits.

1) Talk of friends or anything resembling gossip. This is always
regarded as suppressive no matter how harmless.

2) Bad news of any kind. This may include problems with other people
or it may involve problems with life in general. The answer is always
the same. The scientologist should not be discussing it with their
friend but should look up the references instead. Anything else is
verbal tech.

3) Politics, economics or most technology. These issues have already
been decided by LRH.

4) Personal feelings.

5) Personal thoughts or observations. This is verbal tech.

6) Money.

7) Love and sex (no, no, no)

They CANNOT discuss their personal lives. Anything they say may become
a big issue for some Scientologist further up the bridge. They may
discuss petty likes and dislikes such as favorite foods but nothing
more. Admitting that we are attracted to another person would almost
always be an ethics offence.

They CANNOT discuss their plans except for their plans to take more
courses. This is because all such talk must be done in the framework
of admin scales and ethics conditions. Use these terms and your talk
becomes meaningless. i.e 'I must get out of Danger on the First
Dynamic'.

They cannot discuss other people. They cannot discuss things that go
wrong or the past. This would amount to discussing ones case. They
cannot even discuss Scientology- this would be verbal tech.

They cannot discuss much at all. Scientology not only isolates the
individual from the outside world- it also isolates him within
Scientology. This makes it far easier to control people