2007-01-26 07:09:20 · 14 answers · asked by Beauty Queen 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Its a matter of opinion I suppose...most just convert to Scientology.
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2007-01-26 07:21:51 · answer #1 · answered by Air Head 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean that if one reads Dianetics, suddenly and without control, they possess some kind of mental illness as a result of reading Dianetics (or any book like that)? Nope, that too simple and hokus-pokus, doesn't happen that way.
"Crazy" is a vague word, and it's not even a good description of mental illness. Mental illnes is an ILLNESS, not a moral depravity or character flaw.
What exactly do you mean to ask?
2007-01-26 07:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by Dolores G. Llamas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I have not heard of anyone reading Dianetics books and going crazy, I have heard of people who have gone crazy after having read books of various descriptions. Does this mean that reading the books caused them to go crazy? I think not. That is an example of the formal logical error known as "post hoc, ergo propter hoc," or "after this, therefore because of this."
Imagine a man with a heart condition reads "A Tale Of Two Cities" and shortly afterwards dies of heart failure. It would not be reasonable to blame the man's death on Charles Dickens, would it?
2007-01-26 07:21:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if that is true or not so I can't comment on that. I do know that the person who wrote Dianetics was one of the founders of the Church of Scientology. No I have not read one book on Dianetics
2007-01-26 07:19:48 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard of a person reading a book and going crazy. If anyone had that weak of a mind they wouldn't be able to read the book anyway.
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2007-01-26 07:20:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-01 08:54:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't go anywhere near Scientology if I were you. I dabbled in it for a while; first you take a personality test and bring it into their church, where a counselor talks to you. Then you start taking their little "classes" where you use props to represent people and situations, and try to resolve your problems that way. Further classes cost hundreds of dollars. Then you go to the "worship" service, where you babble incoherently and use repetitive words and phrases over and over again until you almost pass out from hypoxia. Then they tell you that it's those bad things (can't remember what they call them) leaving your body. After that I left and never went back.
2007-01-26 07:22:28 · answer #7 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only scientologists believe in dianetics and things of that sort
2007-01-26 07:19:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that anyone who would believe anything in that book, or their fake "stress tests," would be crazy, yes.
Of course I have never read one. I have seen the results.
2007-01-26 07:18:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientology is the devil's religion. Just look at Tom Cruise and what a mess he is.
2007-01-26 07:24:23 · answer #10 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of dianetics. what is that?
2007-01-26 07:20:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋