So what is Scientology?

[fannsx]

With the recent Tom Cruise news and his belief in Scientology, I got interested and wanted to see what it is all about. Most that I can find is not an explanation of it, but to get you to buy Hubbard's book.
Do any of you know what it is?

 

[Arshad]

A biased site, but has some basic info:

http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/teachings/scientology-teachings.html

 

[NSX-Racer]

Read about 3 books from them (plus some of the L.R. Hubbard Science Fiction), saw some good friends completely lost with debts and destroyed family after some Scientology "education", read a lot about it and came to the conclusion that it's not a church but a brainwash organisation (at least here in Germany) with one major goal: Make money, make more money, don't take any prisoners on this route and "kill" your enemies.

JMO - be aware of them and their celebrities.

 

[flaminio]

Operation Clambake -- another Sc**nt**gy site.

 

[jimmycinla]

So what is Scientology?

Expensive.

 

[heySkippy]

So what is Scientology?

It's a business model.

 

[KGP]

A cult that makes lots of money. Once a scientologist reaches a certain operating level (OT level) they are told about Xemu, who is an alian that lives upon a mountain top. :tongue: Just do a google on scientology, and you will find all sorts of interesting things.

 

[Sig]

A cult that makes lots of money. Once a scientologist reaches a certain operating level (OT level) they are told about Xemu, who is an alian that lives upon a mountain top. :tongue: Just do a google on scientology, and you will find all sorts of interesting things.

Xemu is very real my friends. I've been working with him for the past couple years. He and I decided that we are going to take over the world in October and let Kim Jung Il run it for us. Don't worry, I negotiated a deal that will delay this event until after NSXpo is over :biggrin:

 

[liftshard]

Scientology is a scam intended to deprive the gullible of their assets.

 

[steveny]

One of our beloved actors from Pulp Fiction also has the same 1000 mile stare as Tom C.
This person is also a scientologist. I did read the book Dianetics , some good points in the book but seemed like a big money grab to me.

 

[KGP]

I did read the book Dianetics , some good points in the book but seemed like a big money grab to me.

That is supposedly one of the hooks to move you along to the real money grabs. I happened to be listening to a radio show (Dave Glover) last week that had an expert on scientology on the show. It was halarious how he could pick apart the scientologists who called into the show in support of their <s>religion</s> cult. I would pay a nice admission fee to watch a debate between him and Tom Cruise. :biggrin:

 

[Texas91Brent]

Sounds like a bunch of BullShit to me!! Another organized non-profit org. out to make a profit off gullable fools! Shame on Tom Cruize for sharing his stupidty,and forcing that cute little girlfriend of his to buy into the crap as well!!

Hey maybe we could start an NSX Church!!! Cool ! We could all meet in a big parking lot, rub our cars like Gennie Bottles, and make three wishes!! :biggrin:

If this offends anyone...too bad! Don't take yourself so serious...

 

[NSX-Racer]

One of our beloved actors from Pulp Fiction also has the same 1000 mile stare as Tom C.
This person is also a scientologist.

And besides John T. you can also count with his wife, with Chick Corea, motorbike legend Keith Code, Nicole Kidman (if she's still involved) and many others that get a special treatment by the S. celebrity center.

edit: For more names you may look here or even more here .

 

[heySkippy]

Hey maybe we could start an NSX Church!!! Cool ! We could all meet in a big parking lot, rub our cars like Gennie Bottles, and make three wishes!!

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[jimmycinla]

And Nicole Kidman (if she's still involved)

Rumor had it that's why they split because she was done with it

 

[NSX-Racer]

Rumor had it that's why they split because she was done with it

And now this midget has found a new victim and Scientology member on his cru(i)s(e)ade in Katie Holmes.

 

[archangel0585]

it's a tax shelter.


no really that's why it was founded.....

it's a joke dude.

 

[fannsx]

A biased site, but has some basic info:

http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/teachings/scientology-teachings.html

If this is all the hype is about, then I don't know how low average IQ is in this country.
Maybe because average IQis solow, that's why peoople like Hubbard can make money off them. How sad!

 

[dfaul]

Although I have no doubts that it is a cult, I have never bothered to do a serious study of it. I was told by a guy once that L.Ron Hubbard supposedly once said "the best way to get rich is to start your own religion". I can't swear he actually said that but it seems to fit.

I sure am glad Jesus didn't write Battlefield Earth.

 

[jimmycinla]

And now this widget has found a new victim and Scientology member on his cru(i)s(e)ade in Katie Holmes.

FREE KATIE ---http://freekatie.net/

 

[KGP]

If this is all the hype is about, then I don't know how low average IQ is in this country.
Maybe because average IQis solow, that's why peoople like Hubbard can make money off them. How sad!

Here's a clip from a former cult member (not scientology):

"People in cults are not stupid. After leaving my former group, I was so convinced that I had to be intelligently deficient that I actually took an I.Q. test. Much to my surprise, instead of scoring way below average, I scored in the 97 percentile. As I have learned more about the kinds of people cults recruit, I have found that I am the rule and not the exception. Because the rigors of cult life are arduous, these groups do not want someone who will break down easily. Cults go after the best and the brightest -- robbing all of us of people who could be making a huge difference in this world."

 

[Meeyatch1]

With the recent Tom Cruise news and his belief in Scientology, I got interested and wanted to see what it is all about. Most that I can find is not an explanation of it, but to get you to buy Hubbard's book.
Do any of you know what it is?

Scientology....isn't that Tom Cruise's new movie??

 

[nuccaJB]

These groups always blow me away. They definitely are the very smart feeding on the less intelligent. I had a friend that I respected who convinced me to go to Landmark eductation. The whole time I was at this cult, I felt like I could read exactly where they were going and why. As the seminar progressed the leader of our group gradually started to avoid getting me active. She knew that I was figuring it out and stayed away. If I asked questions she always said that I was only being resistant. The whole build up was to get you to pay a bunch of money to take the advanced courses. I was like WTF, I barely got anything out of this and they want me to spend 1200 more. These different types of groups always have a financial direction and all the reasons why you should make the sacrifice for the benefit.

 

[liftshard]

Elron invented Scientology as a joke. That's what it is.

It is no surprise that wackos gravitate to it. Hollywooders aren't normal people, by and large, they're crazy. And, irrespective of intelligence, crazy people fall prey to scamming cults like Scientology. I mean, the goddamned NAME alone should be enough of a clue to ANYONE.


However, to the gay midget's credit, psychiatry is essentially a profession of drug pushers and cosmetic pharmacology.

Ritalin helped a few kids. Whoopdie sh!t. Matt Lauer knows. Wow. Who the fk is Matt Lauer again? Oh wait, another actor! I got it. So, we have actors arguing over whether stimulants are good for kids. Nevermind what "a good student" means. Does that mean, "complies with orders"?

Psychiatry CANNOT, in most cases, DEMONSTRATE the therapeutic pathway of a psychotropic drug. This is incontrovertible. In the vast majority of cases, they have no clue whatsoever HOW any putative therapy achieves "positive results." They merely administer drugs and monitor the side effects thereof. It is experimental treatment. Even with Ritalin and Adderal, they just presume and make conjecture about how and why the drug does what it does. Essentially, they are administering a compound with unknown effects which produces a certain set of behaviors.

I know a couple legitimately crazy people, one of whom got that way due to Adderal overuse. So, they apply various drugs to her and monitor her responses. She's been on half a dozen different chemicals. Never cured and never permanently improved. Never any absence of negative side effects.

Would anyone permit this kind of crap if it were cancer treatment? Or, say you had a freakin headache or an infection? We KNOW how those drugs work, but psychiatry is a "profession" ensconced in utter ignorance, still beholden to many of the wacko ramblings of Freud and other "doctors" who practiced when leeches were administered for head trauma.

 

[heySkippy]

I was told by a guy once that L.Ron Hubbard supposedly once said "the best way to get rich is to start your own religion".

That's pretty much what I've always heard and that there was a bet between L. Ron and Robert Heinlein that he could do it.