Is Scientology the tree of knowledge? Damn Serpent...?

Answer 1

*chuckle* Well, being without belief in The Devil, I'd say no, but if you'd like to know just how strange and dangerous Scientology is, check out these links:

This is what they believe in (including aliens):
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap8nVqpmRkLIn2rqXNPxlCEjzKIX?qid=20061124162841AAdJv3F
This is how they view birth (complete silence):
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061109120531AAVpKDj
This is how they sell their cult to others:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsRBlApM2mdSw7XfXIAgOqwjzKIX?qid=20061125081249AAPtMJV
This is how much it costs to involve yourself in their cult:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs
Watch this short video (around 4 minutes long):
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
And this one:
http://theunfunnysequel.ytmnd.com/

Answer 2

Neither. It's not about "black" or "white".
This is not a valid question anyway, it's an invitation for debate at best. (I'm being kind )

True knowledge is actually about finding out what you already know. It's also about looking for yourself. You don't get knowledge from a tree, or any other symbol or convenient metaphor.
This is what Scientology is about :

Scientology is an applied religious philosophy. When I say "applied" I mean you actually use it in your life to change or improve existing conditions. It is a very practical religion.
All religions if you learn about them have a basic philosphy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances, and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this, but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It does not intrude on anyones faiths of beliefs particularly in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual, which is why you can be a practicing Jew,for example and still use and apply the priniciples of Scientology in your life. It does not conflict. If anything it will enhance your understanding of your chosen religious practice.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from using it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is a non denominational religion . The dictionary definition that applies:
Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognises the existence of superhuman power or powers.

The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a "thing" you HAVE but what YOU actually are.
The whole purpose of Scientology is to increase an individual's understanding and awareness of himself. and lifeAnd thereby his native abilities .
When you do this the sphere and zone of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life, his family ,his friends, his groups and mankind which he is part of.

How this result is achieved is the "technology" of Scientology, which was developed by L.Ron Hubbard after his extensive research and the discoveries he made, about the human spirit. The basic religious philosophy and knowledge of Scientology is very old, going back 10,000 years at least to the Veda or Vedic Hymns from the East. The developement of the technology is new.
He completed his research before his death in 1986 and left all of his results and copyrights
to the Church of Scientology along with most of his considerable personal estate, when he died.

He published a book in 1951 to communicate the basic principles he discovered called: " Scientology The Fundementals of Thought"
There are currently over 10 million Scientologists in more than 163 countries world wide. However we are a new religion, only 53 years old.
The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:
1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find it works.
4. People pass it along to others.
5. It grows.

This is just an overview.
L. Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 2,000 tape-recorded public lectures.

The only way to know about something is to find out from your own observation and experience......... or not.

Answer 3

The Outsiders said, "The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs."

That's a FREAKING LIE.

Without Xenu there wouldn't be those alien spirits inhabiting our mind.... that's the freaking CORE of their "religion".


The Outsiders said, "The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "Jonah in the Whale" in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously."

Right, unlike the Bible written a few hundred years or so ago, the "fable" of Xenu was written by the FOUNDER L. Ron Hubbard IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING about 56 years ago.

http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenu...

More, "The Outsider" BS:

>Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services.

More BS, $CIENTOLOGY COSTS OVER $400,000!

http://www.scientology-lies.com/fliers/m...

http://www.xenu.net/archive/cos_prices.h...

>Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions

Scientology killed Lisa McPherson and they did everything in their power to hide it.

http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

Answer 4

they did no longer die? of path the died. whilst the time got here their bodies rotted interior the floor as though they weren't something via cloth stuff. that they had transfered their know-how from Sprit to flesh and placed themselves decrease than the guidelines of the cloth realm instead of the certainty of their Being that's eternal. Now they might ought to artwork, toil and go through to regain their state of religious know-how and enjoyment that have been their birthright as little ones of God. Now they might neglect approximately God, Spirit, certainty and become lost interior the creation Dream of form and the phantasm of fabric substance. Many might ask, what's the ingredient of residing in consistent exhilaration and Happiness? does not it become boring? No. purely the ego/techniques of guy can lose interest because of the fact it demands consistent interest, diversion and stimulation to grant it a feeling of being. without that it dies and the fake self does not choose to die. It resists it with each and all the ability a deceived soul will provide it. however the Bliss of God isn't faded yet ever increasing endlessly. The mortal techniques won't be able to conceive of this state of being. and that's what became lost whilst guy ate from the middle of the backyard, the middle of sensuality instead of Spirituality. the single is anathema to the different. as quickly as we've yet to journey Spirit we are saying that it quite is empty and ineffective and as quickly as we detect it incredibly is fact we are saying that the senses are empty and ineffective, (for the sake of the soul). They of path have their place interior the international of form yet they're to no longer be the gods or the masters however the servants of the soul. The worldly guy, Adam fallen, makes them his grasp and so forgets his actual nature as Adam did. And so he too dies as Adam did. yet why did the saints say, 'once I die i will have the skill to do plenty extra on your sake than what i will do for you presently'? because of the fact they have chanced on there is not any dying. that's what happens for the soul it quite is particular to the senses and to form. Namaste'

Answer 5

Scientology= UFOlogy

Answer 6

I'm sorry. I don't even understand how, when or why Scientology became a religion. L.Ron Hubbard never meant for that to happen. Thank you very much Mr. Cruise, et. al. Hubbard was more of a phycologist and philospher than he ever was a preacher.

Answer 7

In my own words this is Scientology:

1. What is true for you is what you yourself 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 on 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 these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques 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's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a 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 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 irresponsibility 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 false 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 of "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

Answer 8

It is interesting that so many so-called educated and talented people believe in a religion created by a science fiction writer. They may as well read Charlotte's Web and believe pigs can speak English!

Answer 9

the "serpent" being the symbol for "satan" who is actually the fallen angel "lucifer" lucifer means "lightbearer" or "bringer of light".

god knew what would happen before he even created his angels.

thus it is safe to say that satan is nothing more then a pawn used by god to test our faith and loyalty to him. he enlightens us of our mis-faith.

the bible states satan can do nothing without the permission of god.

(refer to the book of job)

scientology is nothing more then a different belief.

Answer 10

I don't know about the tree... do they have trees on Xanu??