Scientology can help you?

Question

You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do. When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society -- by drugging the piss out of it. Fvck me for being the only brilliant man left on the planet.

Answer 1

No Tom, it can't.

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” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions) 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. They deny the reality of chemical imbalance and profound mental disturbance and accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. 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 [convincing potential members that they are unhappy and Scientology is the only means of helping themselves]. (2) It forms an elitist totalitarian society. [they label everyone who disagrees or questions as a “Suppressive Person” and requires members to “disconnect” from them] (3) Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma. [Yes, that would be Hubbard] (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. [self evident proof for 4 & 5 as it does milk members for virtually everything they have and it’s wealth doesn’t find it’s way back to it’s members or society at all]

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.

Answer 2

Its true about the Psychiatric drugs. But How can you choose a guru who was a comic strip writer. He is cheating people by charging so much for his seminars. He basically took the one part of the Vedic knowledge and made his own religion which is not exactly truth. That is what has screwed this whole world up. People making up their own religion. He a cheater and any one who follows well they are the cheated. There is some truth to most religions but Scientology is a mickey mouse religion Everyone gets what they are looking for, I guess some want a mental platform religion

Answer 3

As someone who actually takes anti-deppresants, I can tell you that I do NOT feel numb. So, I think that modern psychiatry is alot better than scientology because of these reasons:

1) You don't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars on
fake "engram" counseling.
2) You don't have to believe some half baked story about how
some idiot alien brought people to earth and blew them up
billions of years ago -- by this you can tell that scientology
was made up by a money hungry sci-fi writer.\
3) You aren't risking being hacked and bludgeoned to death by
your paranoid schizophrenic family members.

Enough said on #3

Answer 4

I've been on anti-depressants for over 20 years, Mr. Cruise, and I'm anything but numb. But before I started taking meds I wasn't numb either; I was in a lot of pain getting my wrists stitched back up after attempting to kill myself.

The meds made it possible for me to be alive, functional, productive, happy, and most of all, a proud, loving and involved husband and father. You should be able to relate to that judging from all the magazine covers. It's a nice feeling, isn't it?

Before you go making blanket statements, take a trip out of your ivory tower and get a dose of real life from the millions of people who've been helped--whose very lives have been saved--by psychiatric medications.

PS: Great job in Rainman, btw.

Answer 5

1) You didn't really ask a question.
2) What you say about psychiatry is obviously true, but the connection to scientology is not clear from what you said.
3) Gosh you're cute.

Answer 6

Dear Tom "WOOHHHOOO" Cruise,

Thank you for spelling out the truth of Scientology. It needed to be heard. Of course aliens came from another planet and trapped humans, then made them carriers of the souls from planet XZORZXZROZX. Yes it makes perfect sense. It's all clear to me now, Mr. Cruise. Actually it is hard to pick on scientology because it is based off of a book of science fiction, and christianity isn't that far removed from the same principle. Thank you for your question, and say hi to Lord Xoxgrathx for me!

Answer 7

began via L. Ron Hubbard as 'self help approach' referred to as Dianetics (he began out writing SiFi books and then wrote self help books) ...it right into a grew to become "faith".....a lot of human beings (Christians, atheist, agnostics, former individuals, ect) say that's the proper 'text textile-e book' occasion of a non-violent Cult (thought some individuals have stated actual and emotional abuse) the effortless thought is: for the time of your and previous lives you have had detrimental stories which you would be unable to remember, those repressed stories 'carry you lower back'.... by using particular counseling referred to as "Dianetics" (supplied via the CoS. for a nominal cost) you could 'technique/take care of' those undesirable stories....as quickly as there all dealt with, you could go beyond to a "intense effortless of existence" ....the tip....

Answer 8

Are drugs and aliens the only aspects of Scientology or is there any kind of God/higher power?

Answer 9

Hahaha... Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is a funny couple after all...

Answer 10

once again not a question!

however, there is nothing wrong with medication, it's over medication thats the problem. And Meds without counselling.