Scientology is trying to answer the question of the soul... but they?

Question

believe in the writings of a sci-fiction writer. Who they now believe is a prophet.

i suppose the idea of a mortal being a prophet isnt new but still... who here thinks our souls are aliens trapped in a mortal existance?

Answer 1

They believe they already have answered the "question of the soul". They believe that we exist as the soul and that we are eternal. We, the soul or otherwise known as "the Thetan" in Scientology terms, are immortal and reside within many physical bodies throughout time.

Yes, it's true, the also believe that the Thetans of many aliens from the past have clustered together and infested our bodies... these are called "Body Thetans". They believe the evil alien lord Xenu is responsible for these Body Thetans. It is taught that Xenu gathered up millions of aliens from the overpopulated universe, brought them to earth by way of "golden space planes", stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with bombs.

Now... I don't know about you... but I don't know of ANY other group who believes this stuff.

Answer 2

You are trying to show that Scientology, and all Scientologists, are weird because the founder of the Scientology religion was an author of science fiction. Or in other words, you pretend that a science fiction author created views about the soul which resulted in a weird religion, now called Scientology.

Unfortunately, you are either completely misinformed or are intentional twisting the facts for your own personal benefit.

L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology was a successful author in the 1930s publishing hundreds of articles in the then popular pulp magazines. He was an author in many different genre's including western, fantasy, science fiction, romance, action, adventure, suspense, etc. He later published further books in the early 1980s -- instant bestsellers.

He has 19 NYT bestsellers, with over 230 million works in publication. He is the most translated and published author per Guinness World Records. http://mediaresources.lronhubbard.org/press/page08.htm

However, despite his extensive writing career, he was also a successful photographer, pilot, ship captain, philosopher, musician, explorer, film maker and humanitarian, among others.

60 million copies of his secular moral code booklet "The Way to Happiness" has had dramatic effects in improving societies all around the world.

His drug rehabilitation technology is saving lives daily, with unheard of results.

He study technology is being used by millions every day across the world to increase education, both in and out of school.

His business technology is being used in companies all over the world.

Through his humanitarian work in Dianetics and Scientology, millions of members have found it to help them.

Also, through his technology to assist others, Scientology Volunteer Ministers have become one of the largest volunteer organization on the planet, with 1.6 million people personally helped just last year alone.

Looks like you have been duped, my friend.

Answer 3

Aliens trapped in a mortal existence? Sounds more like a load of arseholes, not souls.

What is a soul anyway? I can't deny that we are conscious of our existence and that people have personalities, but I don't believe in some kind of immortal spiritual entity that inhabits our bodies. We're just great big electro-chemical blobs and what we are is entirely due to our cellular and chemical make-up combined with our experiences.

Answer 4

That just goes to show you that if enough idiots get together, they can actually make people believe whatever garbage they want.

Ever hear the term "cult of personality"?

If modern day people, with the educational level that they have, can be duped to believe something so completely ridiculous, how difficult do you think it would have been 2000 years ago for a group of people to do the same thing?

http://www.godisimaginary.com

Answer 5

I struggle to have any respect for this religion, the first time I heard about their beliefs I thought is was a spoof on science fiction. Has anyone heard of the 'intergalactic walrus'?

Bombastically bonkers stuff

Answer 6

Scientology is no more incredible or fantastic than Christianity, Judaism or Islam. The only difference is you're accustomed to the crazy ideas of traditional religion.

Answer 7

Man, you might as well ask who is behind the Giant rat of Sumatra.

It is a Hollywood religion for people who want to pretend they have a faith but don;t want to work at it

Answer 8

One would think so, to look at the history of the human race!

Answer 9

That's just a whack-job, high-class cult.

"Scientology: Getting gay movie stars wives for over 50 years!"

Answer 10

LRH was no prophet just a man. Scientology doesn't have prophets.

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 these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose 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 imposed 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. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also 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 it 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 there are no medical test to identify a "mental illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
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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
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. Also the mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.

9. Scientology is a force for good in society. Scientologist fights Psychiatry, the pharmaceutical companies, criminality, http://www.criminon.org and drug addiction. http://www.narconon.org Also Scientology fought and won against the FDA and the IRS. And Scientologist initiated the social reform group "Youth for Human Rights" http://www.youthforhumanrights.org and the movement "Say no to drugs and yes to life". http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org
Scientologist are some of the more intelligent, able and successful people in this planet. Including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini. Even Danny Masterson from the that's That '70s Show is a Scientologist.

10. 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.

11. 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.
Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. It is false, bias and untrue. If you wanna know about the lies in this propaganda machine see my blog: http://www.myspace.com/129727315

References
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