scientology?

Question

what do you think about it, it all sounds crazy to me

Answer 1

I don't know, aliens coming to earth coming into peoples bodies. Sounds so normal to me...

Answer 2

Dianetics was the forerunner of Scientology. It's founder L. Ron Hubbard was a disciple of Aleister Crowley. Hubbard claimed he wrote Dianetics by automatic handwriting. During lectures, Hubbard would sometimes mention Crowley's writings. The cross of Scientology bears some resemplance to the cross of the Golden Dawn, an occult order Crowley once belonged to. According to one of Hubbard's sons, Hubbard practiced black magic up until at least the 1960's. Many critics of Scientology charge it is little more than Crowley's occult teachings science fictionalized (Is science fictionalized a word? It is now!)

Scientology uses a process called "auditing" which is really just a mild form of hypnosis. In this state, people are extremely vulnerable to suggestion and fantasy. This is why many of them remember being clams, space aliens, or wahtever.
There is really no "science" in Scientology...unless you believe all humans are the result of billions of years of reincarnation after an evil space alien named Xenu wiped out the Thetans billions of years ago (yes, this is actually one of their higher doctrines).

You can download 3 free Ebooks, The Scandal of Scientology, The Bare faced Messiah, and A Piece of Blue Sky from the link below.


http://usminc.org/scientology.html

Answer 3

I worked for a company who were all into this, and even did the L Ron Hubbard Business Managment system there. I lasted about a month before I never went back. It doesn't make any sense to me.

Answer 4

Scientology is nothing more than a money making scam disguised as a religion. What they do is brainwashing, confidence tricks, and coersion.

Answer 5

It IS crazy. I hope you don't mind but I think I'll post a bit more than a three word, one sentence response.

Scientology is a new "religion", the brainchild of science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. The organization claims to be able to help rid members of any and all mental constraints including but not limited to emotional scarring (from this and "past" lives) due to "engrams" (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind), psychological disorders and chemical imbalances (the solution is to convince members that these things don't actually exist) & drug dependence (including legally prescribed psychopharmaceuticals which counteract the effects of psychological disorders Scientologists believe to be nonexistent).

The official Scientology organization is composed of a number of “levels”. One begins as a “preclear” and works their way up. One must purchase virtually every service crucial to advancement directly from the "church" and at staggering prices. "Auditing", for example, is purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions. Visit this link to see how $380,000 is a conservative estimate for the total cost of moving all the way up the Scientology hierarchal ladder: http://www.xenu.net/archive/prices.html These are the total costs for auditing alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs

At level OT III (Operating Thetan 3), some very strange and fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): the evil alien ruler Xenu killed a lot of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC8 “space-planes” & blowing them up inside volcanoes with hydrogen bombs. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed and released who then attached themselves to our ancestors (who passed them all the way down to us) & cause many of our mental & physical ills. http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html http://xenu.net/archive/leaflet/Xenu-Letter.pdf

Scientology has 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. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results). Suspiciously, it was discovered upon Hubbard’s death that the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine (Vistaril®) was present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years. http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/16.gif
(visit this link to read about the uses of hydroxyzine: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/v/vistaril.html )

To be blunt, Scientology is a cult. It employs semi-legitimate psychotherapy and self-help methods to keep people loyal, convinced of its merit while it simultaneously sucks them dry financially and attempts to keep them far away from ANYONE, even friends and family, who would dissuade them from remaining in such a harmful situation. It is a harmful, dangerous cult that takes its anti-psychiatry fanaticism to deadly limits. See this link for more information: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

Answer 6

Its a mafia like organisation, disguised as a religious group that braiwashes and pressgangs

Answer 7

Its BS just like every other religion but they are actually fairly intelligent people just nuts

Answer 8

To each his own. I personally don't advocate or go against any one religion unless it is forced upon me.

Answer 9

all religions sound crazy

Answer 10

It's not a real religion, it's a cult.