what do you think about scientology?

Question

i visited the website and it somehow reminds me of my philosophy subjects especially on the fields of morality and the philosophy of man... can u try to tell me more about it aside from having Tom Cruise as their most popular member..

Answer 1

THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY
Scientology is a path to find your own personal truth. These are the principles:

1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true. (Because of this rule you can believe in anything you want: Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad or Dharma. Your own believes are your own business. It is a high crime in Scientology for anyone to tell you what to think or believe. You are expected to question anything in Scientology.)

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 an 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 depressed? 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 Scientologists 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 has 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 tests 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
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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 excuses 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 Psychiatric abuses, http://www.cchr.org/ dangerous and harmful drugs, 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 that’s that '70s Show is a Scientologist.

10. Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free (marriages, naming ceremonies, ect). Scientology earns its money by delivering courses and auditing. Courses and auditing are optional. You do not need to take courses and auditing to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life (like I do). But if you want auditing there are many alternative and economical ways to achieve this.
a. You can do volunteer work in your local church and get your services for free.
b. You can study to be an auditor and perform all your auditing with a fellow student. This way you can also provide free services to your friends and family. This is actually the preferred way to become clear because you learn how to help others. Scientology isn't about you going clear but taking responsibility across all your dynamics (self, family, group, humanity, life, ect).

11. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.

12. Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. If you want to know about this propaganda see my blog: http://www.myspace.com/129727315
References
http://www.neuereligion.de/eng/index.htm
http://www.bonafidescientology.org/
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.scientology.org/
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8057_1.html

Answer 2

Well, there are lots of interesting things that L. Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology) said, however, he pinched a lot of his theories from other philosophies, theories, religions and even the teachings of Freud. He was also great mates with Alastair Crowley (a keen occultist) and they shared many theories. I like L. Ron's saying that 'The only way to control people is to lie to them'. That is very true and he applied this. He 'developed' a moral code, however, they are very basic, common-sense instructions that you could find in any religion. Furthermore, if you are a law-obiding citizen then you live by those moral codes anyway whether he's written them or not. I'd still stay well clear of it as a lot of L. Ron's techniques and theories are just complete nonsense and the cult is a money-making organisation with no respect to people's wishes and thoughts.

Answer 3

Think of a situation in your life you would like to improve or resolve? There is an answer to this within the field of Scientology. If you want to know about it the best thing to do is read a book. A good start would be Scientology: The Fundementals of Thought.

Answer 4

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 in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual as pasrt of his life. It does not conflict.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is also not a messianic religion. This means there is no worship of messiahs in Scientology. There are no “beliefs” as such because a truth should be according to ones own observation and experience.
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. L. Ron Hubbard researched and made new discoveries about the human spirit. He developed technology from these discoveries to apply to increase spiritual awareness and ability.
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. So it's not possible to fully answer your question on this forum, but I hope this helps.

As to what I think of it...... it works for me.

Answer 5

Scientology was started by a science-fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard. Ten years before he founded the religion, he was quoted saying that "writing for a penny a word is ridiculous, if a man wants to become rich he should start his own religion." Later he started scientology. It is known for its mind control techniques, also for its members being required to give the "church" thousands of dollars. On the outside it seems like a normal religion, but its inner tenets sound like they were written by a science-fiction writer, which they were. Scientology relies on secrecy, promising its upper level members to know secrets of the universe. The creation story goes something like this. Alien planets in a far away galaxy were getting far to overpopulated. So this alien named Xenu decided to take all of the excess beings, shuttle them to earth, and kill them with hydrogen bombs. Their spirits floated around, and when humans were created, clung to us. The reason bad things happen is because these spirits are on us, each person has over a thousand. If you pay the church money, they can get rid of these spirits one by one. Once they are all gone, you will be a happy camper. Scientology also has many controversial programs that they claim are scientific, but are not endorsed by the scientific community at large.

Answer 6

I dabbled in this religion for a while, and it's just crazy. I started out by taking the little quiz that they had at a nearby store; then I had to bring it in and talk to someone, where they basically psychoanalyzed me to the point where I was getting dizzy, and they said that's normal , it's just those (whatever they call them) leaving you. Then I had to take some classes, which cost money, (and if you keep going it costs LOTS of money), where you work out of these workbooks and solve problems using props. Then I move on to the "worship" service (what are they worshipping?) where you chant the same words and phrases over and over for an hour until you almost pass out from hyperventilation. After that, I never went back.

Answer 7

The blogbaba considers scientology a cheap two bit cult, scamming the government on taxes due to pseudo status as a "religion" similar in many respect to many tax exempt scams. Tom Cruise in no Albert Einstein, I like his movies, pity his religious choice for the mistake it is.

Answer 8

Hey! Scientology is for real. I joined the church of scientology about 2 years ago and its changed my life. Yeah scientology! Join it, its fun. seriously. And we are so not a cult.

Answer 9

Scientology is a dangerous cult that teaches that an evil alien named xenu came to the earth a long time ago and killed some aliens and through them into a volcano. They believe that those aliens have returned and live within us. Anyway it was founded by the famous sci-fi writer L.Ron Hubbard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologyscandals/index.html
http://www.scientology-kills.org/
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/

Answer 10

I really, really hate to say this but . . . the South Park scientology episode sums up the basic 'theology' behind scientology as swell as anything else I've seen.

Answer 11

Ok look up other web sites besides their official site and u'll see that they're such bull!
Once u reach a certain level in their "congregation" or brainwashing as I like to call it, then they'll start teaching u about the spaceship, aliens, and all that other crap.
LMAO what a crock