it realy center around space ships?who do they worship?
2006-10-14 10:38:45 · 6 answers · asked by john doe 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
danielle mocked jesus,i didnt say who or what i beleived
2006-10-14 10:58:28 · update #1
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. The "church" 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.
Cults are extremely 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.
2006-10-14 10:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
And you think worshipping a guy who's been dead for over 2000 years and rejoicing about how he alone can save you from a fantasyland Hades for eternity sounds sane?
2006-10-14 10:43:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it has something to do with aliens embedded in the human mind a long time ago! It's crazy!
go to www.belife.net they tell you all about it :)
2006-10-14 10:40:25 · answer #3 · answered by KK 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is about lord xenu and brainwashed alien souls. And again, I am completely (really, honestly) about that.
2006-10-14 10:41:49 · answer #4 · answered by Alucard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely, you haven't been laboring under the illusion that ANY celebrity is sane, have you?
2006-10-14 10:46:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, that's a secret!
2006-10-14 10:40:42 · answer #6 · answered by Alex62 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋