further to my question about scientology, has any one looked at the reverand hubbards website ? i think its for people who have no direction in their lives, basically , isnt that what all cults play on ?
2006-11-22 02:46:12 · 20 answers · asked by grumpcookie 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. This is one of the most successful cults I have ever researched. The background of Hubbard is enough to scare a person away much less his teachings. One of the attractions for this group is the false sense of becoming your own god.
2006-11-22 02:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is a wicked cult, that denies the individual the ability to know there own will , followers believe that its ideaology is unquestionable all based around aliens and this Theta crap , if you want to know the truth about L.Ron Hubbard read the last few cahpters of Gerald Susters Legacy of the Beast , its abiography of Alister Crowley but there is a few passage about the founder of scientology and how he was regarded within the spritual circles of the world I believe beven Crowley described him as a fanatical lunatic who had completly misunderstood the concepts of truth and the purpose of relgion. Its is abunch of lies found by a fool who stole others ideas nad beliefs and tried to invent a coherent system of belief i order to con people out of their money ,the whole thing is based on fear and control of the invidual , in my mind a cult makes it followers distrust the outside world and bases life on group dynamic sothe individual fears isolation from the group and will do just about anything asked of them toprevent this occuring , scientolgy does this and their quite good at it so definitely a cult, I have reaserached over 15 different relgious beliefs and everything thats in scientology and has been mentioned int he post below are just concepts stolen from other beliefs , don't be fooled , Thelmites despise scientology beacuse they see it as weak and full of lies and that it has no regard for the true will of an individual. RFon Hubbard was nothiong more then a liar and a theif and the leaders of Scientology today are no better , to call it advanced is a joke I read into enough of it to realise what crap it was and beliewve me I've taken the time to read and assess the many other relgious texts even that I didn't agree with but Scientolgy 1. i'd be wasting me time beacuse have already read most of it in other religious beliefs 2. Hubbard was a follower of Crowley until Crowley made him leave due to his weak minded nature and idiocy , he was too weak to be one of us, so went off like a sulking child and tried to start his own beliefs
In a way their kiinda like Junkies they been trapped into this path which is just negative and has no benefit to their lives it makes them feel good when their in a group of people who are the same and will constantly try to draw others into thier screwed up world to feed their addiction/ habit some more , it a matter a fact even smacks probably better for someone then scientology
Source(s):
legacy of the beast - Gerald Suster
through reading of scientolgy based texts
2006-11-23 15:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by harro_06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is reverand hubbard???
And what has this person's website got to do with Scientology?
I think you have confused this person with L.Ron Hubbard who founded the religion of Scientology back in 1952. He was born in 1911 and died in 1986. He definitely never had a website.
2006-11-22 07:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by thetaalways 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientology / cults are all just weird and full of people with too much time on their hands. I will give the Tom Cruise marriage a year before poor old Katie gets completely freaked out and bails!
2006-11-22 02:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Chris G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I haven't looked at the website but I have been involved with them as a young man. I was looking for good things to help me along in my life and I did look into this cult. I found that the more you learn ed from them the more money they wanted from you. I found it odd that they would ask me to borrow money from friends to get to their next step. I was insulted when I explained that my friends were as poor as me; and they wanted me to phone long distance and have Mom & Dad send me the money for the next step in their course.
They do prey on the lonely and those of no direction home. The cults play on more than this, they play on anything that will succeed in selling their elixer.
2006-11-22 05:14:16 · answer #5 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more you learn about Scientology, the fewer questions you will have. It is a very successful and effective business based on one of the strangest pseudo-scientific foundations imaginable.
2006-11-22 16:15:30 · answer #6 · answered by Peter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, its all based on Hubbard's Sci-Fi novels, dissing the entire field of psychology and getting you to pay gobs and gobs of money! Scientology is a Sci-Fi, anit-psychology, money cult!! LOL
2006-11-22 03:23:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This cult plays on people's desparation. It promises a new, quasi-scientific sounding way to "solve your problems". They get you to guy their books... of which there are SEVERAL... then they get you to pay for auditing (I'll explain in a sec)... and then you pay for MORE auditing, more courses, more books, and it is also strenuously "suggested" that you donate heavily to the "church".
Auditing consists of holding a pair of tin cans in your hands. The tin cans are connected to a small machine (the e-meter) that detects electical resistance in the human body. You recount specific traumatic incidents, prior ethical transgressions and bad decisions to the "auditor" who "interprets" the machine and "guide" you towards being "clear" of your "engrams" (that's their word for past negative experiences).
Scientologists tout this method as the solution to nearly all of your problems. HOWEVER... Every e-meter is required to bear this warning: "The E-Meter is not medically or scientifically useful for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease. It is not medically or scientifically capable of improving the health or bodily functions of anyone".
After you've donated enough money, you progress into higher "levels" in the church. Each time you do, you pay MORE money to take each test. If you fail, you pay to take more courses and then you pay AGAIN to retake the test. Each level is called an OT level (Operating Thetan level). A "thetan" is how Hubbard refered to our soul.
At OT 3, it is revealed to you (after you sign a legal contract stating you will NEVER disclose the secrets about to be imparted upon you to ANYONE) that the evil alien ruler Xenu killed a lot of aliens (Thetans like us) from around the universe by bringing them to earth & blowing them up inside volcanoes. They believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") have attached themselves to us & cause many of our mental & physical ills.
Lower level members who don't know about this will of course deny it because they are truly ignorant of it's existence, and because they are being told by higher level members (who, as you remember, signed a contract which requires that they never admit to what they know) that Xenu either doesn't exist or isn't really part of church doctrine.
The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & 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 & profound mental disturbance & accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).
2006-11-22 04:49:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well we all want answer and some people believe that Scientology delivers these answer. Basicaly if it works for you it works for you. I don't think is nice to invalidate other peoples beliefs.
In my own words this is Scientology:
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.
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 knowledge and experience. 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 accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets supposed 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 situations. This is what we call in Scientology an aberration (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 judgment and free will.
4. You can discharge the energy in this pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and his the oldest of hundreds of Scientology processes used to improve the individual.
5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day. Or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes to order to help the person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.
6. Scientology Ethics: Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j
7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.
8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is simply a pseudo science because is based in principles that are false.Psychiatry have never proven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you that there are no medical test to identify a "Mental Illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo%3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of in-responsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
P.S. Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology only Psychiatry.
9. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story Jonah in the Whale in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.
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.
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1
2006-11-22 07:41:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scientology and many other religions are a cult.
2006-11-22 02:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by Urchin 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋