2006-09-29 19:10:39 · 17 answers · asked by bs_batman_88 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Some of you did a great job of saying good things, but the others are telling me things I have already read.
2006-10-01 00:49:37 · update #1
Hi
First I want to clarify that the story of Xeno is just a fable and no Scientologist believe it to be true. In fact most Scientologist I have meet haven't even heard the story. Scientology is much like Buddhism but instead of meditation they use auditing with the same goal and better results. Scientology is the most attacked religion there is. Why? Because it works. Scientologist are some of the able people in this planet. like Leah Remini, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, ect. Scientologist are kind, gentle and good communicators (except Tom Cruise but he is learning). Now we live in a culture that is run on the absurd believe that there is no soul and that people are dangerous and need to be medicated to be controlled. Not long ago the practices of electro shock and lobotonies were common practice to control people. The biggest difference between Psychiatry and Scientology, is that Psychiatry believes that man need to be controlled to be made good and Scientologist believe that man needs to be liberated (restore the power of choice) to be made good. These are two opposite points of view. Now if Scientologist win, the drug companies and the Psychiatryst are going bankrupt so they are investing a lot of money in propaganda to make people believe that Scientology is bad. All that proganda is compose of lies and exagerations. But Scientology is still here. Why? Because it works. And you can't argue with results. Hundred of thousands of people attest that Scientology works. And you only hear of a handfull of complains (big deal). If Scientology didn't work it would had disapeared long time ago, but it is here and growing despite all lies in the media. And that my friend is amazing.
2006-09-30 16:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
There's nothing good to know about Scientology. So the only correct answer is no.
Seriously, there are plenty of cults out there. Do you have to even think about one where the main idea is that aliens imrisoned their criminals in a volcano but they got out and infected our souls with their spirits and the only way to become rich and successful is to have them purged? What about all the rich successful people who are NOT Scientologists?
I have to disagree with SUEFLOWER. L. RON HUBBARD was not a science fiction writer. If anything he wrote FANTASY but at best he is a NUTBAG not a true writer.
2006-09-29 19:25:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They look after their buildings, and they used to do them up real nice...
I thought long and hard about this but that's about it....
I will say that some ex-member critics will say there is some benefit to be found on the lower levels. I believe this comes from group acceptance, and concentrating on a purpose, even if a deluded one.
Please bear in mind that scientologists are the victims, they are nice people, who have been tricked, lied to and and then brainwashed. So I would also say that scientologists are good people who want to help, just they have been tricked into doing the opposite.
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.xenutv.com
http://www.lermanet.com
http://www.whyaretheydead.net
2006-09-30 23:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by Xenu.net 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is what Scientologists ACTUALLY believe:
Xenu was an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecrafts resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. L. Ron Hubbard (a science-fiction writer and the creator of Scientology) called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and the advanced levels in Scientology place considerable emphasis on isolating them and neutralizing their ill effects.
To rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" and also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... and we have to pay lots and lots and lots of money for “auditing” and to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”. The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry and psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life and has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).
Scientology is undeniably a cult.
Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:
1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society.
3. Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma.
4. It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds & recruit people.
5. Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.
Are Cults Harmful?
To remain within the strict mental and social confines of a cult for even a short time can have the following disastrous effects:
Loss of choice and free will. Diminished intellectual ability, vocabulary and sense of humor. Reduced use of irony, abstractions and metaphors. Reduced capacity to form flexible and intimate relationships. Poor judgment. Physical deterioration. Malnutrition. Hallucinations, panic, dissociation, guilt, identity diffusion and paranoia. Neurotic, psychotic or suicidal tendencies.
Watch this very revealing video that will, in about 4-5 minutes, show you EXACTLY what Scientology is all about: http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
2006-09-30 20:10:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO there is nothing good about the scam called Scientology. it is all bad...many many people have been harmed by it including the deluded loyalists...it is all bad bad bad. Suposedly I am damned for ten thousand lifetimes and can never try to become one because I declined the crap in the mid 1980s...they are all nuts and imposible to reason with...
2006-09-30 17:34:09 · answer #5 · answered by iowamystic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like this idea.
Principle of the engram
Engrams are said to contain all sensory perceptions, but are not directly available to the conscious mind, which is termed the analytical mind; engrams are considered to be formed when the analytical mind is not fully functional, in moments of physical pain and painful emotion.
Dianetics holds the engram to be the single source of all psychosomatic illness and aberrations of the human mind via the literal content of these engrams being imposed on to the analytical mind when similar sensory perceptions unconsciously recall the engram; this process is referred to as "keying-in the engram".
As a consequence these memories are ascribed by Dianetics to cause stimulus-response behaviour to occur unconsciously in an individual, which may be pro-survival or contra-survival depending on the content of the engram.
A possible 70% of all health ailments are attributed by Hubbard to the harmful effects of engrams
Hubbard conceived of the engram as a form of "memory trace", an idea which had long existed in medicine. He initially proposed using the terms norn, impediment or comanome but eventually settled on "engram", based on the definition in Dorland's 1936 Medical dictionary: "a lasting mark or trace .... In psychology it is the lasting trace left in the psyche by anything that has been experienced psychically; a latent memory picture.
A stated goal of Scientology is to "rehabilitate" the thetan (roughly equivalent to the soul) to remove the engrams, thus
the subject regain their native state of "total freedom."
2006-09-29 19:16:16 · answer #6 · answered by tui 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
not a thing, they tried to recruit me and i was told that no longer would i have any money of my own it would belong to them and they would provide just what i needed, and i would have to work for them 12 hrs a day calling people, answering phones, trying to get donations and so on. It was all started by a totally nutty sci fi writer, i cant imagine how anyone would turn over their lives to that, they even said if my husband and daughter wouldnt join that i would have to leave them and live in a group place in the city where i could answer phones 24/7
2006-09-29 19:16:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Watch the SOUTH PARK episode about Tome Cruise coming out of the closet.
Sums it all up very nicely.
2006-09-29 20:15:20 · answer #8 · answered by gideon9595 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well... the idea that a SCIENCE FICTION writer could start a religion by writing a book is rather entertaining and thought-provoking....and....
...nope.... that's all I've got.
2006-09-29 19:13:43 · answer #9 · answered by sueflower 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not the religion for me.It's founder wrote Dianetics which is a popular book.It's written by L Ron Hubbard.
2006-09-29 20:59:36 · answer #10 · answered by Celebrity girl 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋