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So I am watching SNL, and they just did joke on Tom Cruises wedding, and they talked about were all the aliens will be sitting...I have heard little bits and oieces of what it is, and I have heard that aliens are involved...What is scientology and is Tom Cruise there alien leader?

2007-01-27 16:26:05 · 14 answers · asked by beans 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

seriously though I have heard it is a cult and I have heard it is a joke...

2007-01-27 16:27:19 · update #1

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Scientology, which questionably calls itself a new "religion", is the brainchild of science fiction writer and occult enthusiast 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
Here’s an explanation of what “auditing” is: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061224182319AA2nnd6

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 DC-8 “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; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (who passed them all the way down to us) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds. 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’s a particularly greedy as well as manipulative & dangerous cult that takes its anti-psychiatry fanaticism to deadly limits. See this link for more information: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

2007-01-27 18:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1 0

Tom Cruise isn't the leader. He's just a member who seems to have the biggest mouth. All the celebs that follow that "religion" seem to yap endlessly about it. Basically it's all about paying loads of money for the priviledge of knowing certain things. The founder of the religion was a SciFi writer. You do the math.

You can't find out too much about it unless you join up (don't do that by the way!). There's a really great site called Operation Clambake that will tell you all about the stuff they're into to.

2007-01-27 16:35:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

It's a philosophy (also called a religion) started from L. Ron Hubbard's book "Dianetics." Hubbard was a science fiction writer. Tom Cruise is a merely very vocal member.

You can get more information at the links below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm

2007-01-27 16:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by Just Me Alone 6 · 0 0

scientology is about how us humans are brainwashed by these aliens that came here millions of years ago trying to escape slavery by another alien race. Scientology claims to free you from that brainwashing and open your eyes to the real world. They saw we are robots programmed to believe religious stuff.

it is a cult.

2007-01-27 16:39:37 · answer #4 · answered by sanctusreal77 3 · 2 0

http://www.xenu.net/
contains all the information you need.

It's an evil cult designed to make money and nothing else . Its effects on believers are destructive.

Read "the road to xenu" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu/ - an account of a girl who escaped scientology after 12 years!

The cult's core belief - no, I am not kidding here!

"The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".

His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.

When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.

One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.

In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.

One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.

One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.

Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck."

2007-01-27 16:34:16 · answer #5 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2 0

started by L. Ron Hubbard as 'self help strategy' called Dianetics (he started out writing SiFi books and then wrote self help books) ...it into a turned "religion".....many people (Christians, atheist, agnostics, former members, ect) say it is the perfect 'text-book' example of a non-violent Cult (thought some members have reported physical and emotional abuse) the basic idea is: during your and past lives you've had negative experiences that you can't recall, these repressed experiences 'hold you back'.... through special counseling called "Dianetics" (provided by the CoS. for a nominal fee) you can 'process/deal with' these bad experiences....once there all taken care of, you can transcend to a "high plain of existence" ....THE END....

2016-05-24 07:46:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I heard that Tom Cruise is now Christ for them. Im not sure how it works, but the more money you spend the higher up you go.

2007-01-27 16:30:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

10x crazier than mormons.

Not that I have a problem with mormons, they're pretty cool people (the ones I've met), but I, personally, find some of their beliefs silly. But who am I to judge?

Now Scientologists are batshit insane.

And no one REALLY knows what they believe, cuz they keep everything TOP TOP secret until you're way up there in the ranks.

2007-01-27 16:32:28 · answer #8 · answered by PopeJaimie 4 · 5 1

Just the newest bit of superstition... for those gullible enough. By a lousy, would be, science fiction writer (now deceased).

2007-01-27 16:41:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

its a cult and tom is one of the cult leaders I guess.

2007-01-27 16:29:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4 1

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