DO - NOT - JOIN - THE - CULT !!!
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.
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.
2006-10-25 15:32:19
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answered by Anonymous
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Dianetics is a bunch of crap. I read that book. It's been a long time since I did but what I recall about the book is that at first it seems to be intuitively correct but there is NO evidence to back any of it up. Ask someone at the Church of Scientology to produce the records of experiments that Ron Hubbard did to formulate his theories and watch their reaction. These experimental records don't exist.
The one thing that I remember about the Dianetics book that I know can prove it's a bunch of crap is the discriptions of what happened to some of the embryos being punctured with coathangers and other impliments and then going on to be born prefectly normal but emotionally scared. No embryo would survive such a thing. They are extremely delicate; not this robust indistructable thing Hubbard claims they are. Why do you think doctors won't even x-ray pregnant women unless it's absoluely necessary?
One more thing, ask them why they have an empty office and a desk with Ron Hubbards name on it in each of their churches.
2006-10-25 06:26:18
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answered by Anonymous
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They are a bunch of nut jobs that believe our bodies contains Thetans, the souls of aliens that Zenu/Xenu killed, froze and sent here in DC10s to throw in volcanoes because the universe was too populated. If you give the Scientologists money they will help you get rid of the 'thetans' through audit counseling.
It's really just a scam. Dianetics was first a self help system that Hubbard, who was a science fiction writer, created but it wasn't doing to good, so he got the idea of turning it into a religion as a way to make more money off of it.
2006-10-25 06:34:24
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answered by Chris J 6
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I'm was born and raised around Clearwater Florida. If you know anything about Scientology then you know that Clearwater Florida is Scientology's Mecca. It is like the NORAD of Scientology.
I used to watch scientologists walk the streets of Clearwater Florida by the hundreds. They are dressed in blue uniforms usually carrying books or literature making their way to classes or lunch. They are very mild mannered people. Very professional and appear to be like model citizens. Its really amazing how responsible and confident they seem walking the streets in large groups
However when I began to research Scientology it was nothing short of Shocking. I'm not saying all Scientologists are crazy BUT I am saying their religion is. Its based on science fiction in fact Scientology beliefs (upon reaching the higher levels) are so bizarre they make horrible science fiction B movies seem rational and logical...In other words its the epitome of a cult. Beware
2006-10-25 05:55:31
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answered by Anonymous
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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 isn't a faith system but a series of proceses that a person uses to find his own truth.Here are some of the principles.
1. What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.
2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body. This is a common believe with many religions.
3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowlege and experiance. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes this pictures are acompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suposed that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situacions. This is what we call in Scientology an aberation (a conclusion that is impose to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram; A pain memory that affects your judgement and free will.
4. A spirit is capable of considerations and ideas and this ideas are solely based on uglyness and beautyfullness. The spirit reject ugly things and intends on making everything beautyfull. Do you like your car, you house, your job, your friends? Are you friends nice with you? Can you improve things in your life? All these are ideas based on uglyness and beautyfullness. This is why the spirits rejects the ugly memories and by rejecting the ugly memories (not confronting them) he is unknowingly affected by them.
5. You can discharge the energy in this pictures true communication. This is Auditing, the Auditor directs your attention to this pictures regardless of how ugly they are and you confront the picture and discharge the energy of the picture true the communication line. Is like if you have battery, in order to discharge the battery you need to discharged against something. If you try to discharge it against your self is just going to chock you.
Scientology is a very interesting religion that takes years of study to master. I just mentioned a few fundamentals. Scientology is so advance and so different that people can't understand it. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality they don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand. That's why Scientology gets so much bad press.
2006-10-25 06:51:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, anyone who has collabrated with them in the past and then tried to leave has not had an easy time of it (that's putting it mildly...).
They believe in the power of the mind, and that no psychologist or psychiatrist has any clue, and that mental diseases like depression are really non-existent. That's why they believe that any drug for mental disease is wrong, and that they know more than any doctor on the subject.
Just ask Tom Cruise.
Collaborate at your own risk, but for me, I would NOT do it.
2006-10-25 05:55:19
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answered by korikill 4
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The pentecostal church homes of immediately declare to be a revival of the present of talking and tounges beginning in the late 18th century. They declare it quite is a modern-day of the Holy Ghost, alongside with different presents. Now, they get slightly arsed while confronted with the thought that the Twirling Dervishes in the middle East do the comparable whoop l. a., and talk in tounges. From what i comprehend they're in lots of circumstances unlovely, self-righteous prigs who think of their feces has no longer something yet a delightful scent, and others do no longer diploma up in the event that they do no longer supply up all earthly pastimes yet preaching and F*king. yet strait intercourse basically! except they're like that that arseole from Colorado country.
2016-10-16 09:47:08
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answered by ? 4
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i think we should try it, I would be interested in a new point of view or vision. I though it's geared more towards scientifical explanations, but I never had time to explore. I know that Tom doesn't believe in anti-depressants, which I like. I agree that instead of anti-depressants happiness can be achieved thru exercise and vitamin supplements and I totally agree with him on that, I think that CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY made him a strong decision maker that he is today, but I am just confused about the word "CHURCH", I wish it was called something else ... maybe "TEMPLE OF SCIENTOLOGY sound a little more believable.
2006-10-25 06:03:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Every one follows L. Ron Hubbard like he started a huge religion, hehehehehehehehe
He was a science FICTION writer wasn't he? Scientologists believe humanity was taken over by alien spirits who were killed in space.....
Hey people?, what is the definition of FICTION?
okay we have these people bashing christianity because the "idea of God is unfathomable"
(in the word of Carlos Mencia)
DEE DEE DEE
2006-10-25 06:00:28
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answered by danksprite420 6
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It's A CRAZY CULT THAT HAS THE MOST STUPID BELIEFS. I JUST WATCH SOMETHING ON TV ABOUT THE "CHUCH OF SCIENTOLGY AND IT TALKS ABOUT SOME 17 YEAR OLD KID KILLING HIS MOM. AND HE WENT TO THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY. ITS NOT A CHRISTIAN CHURCH. I THINK.
2006-10-28 16:05:13
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answered by lloyd l 1
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