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I always wondered. If the majority of succesful people (rich/famous) are intelligent, why do they believe in little kiddy cults like scientology, christianity, Islam or so. Or are this people not really more intelligent then the average. Does this mean, they just got to their succes by a accident?

2007-04-04 04:43:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Clambacke..... interesting name. Perhaps in reference to Operation Clambake?

I really couldn't tell you why some people join. Perhaps it's because they're desperate, maybe lonely, maybe they honestly don't see the dangers and can't tell they're being brainwashed, etc etc. It's a shame that they don't know about Scientology's sordid history:

• Operation Snow White – Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, & theft of documents in government offices. This program constituted the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Among the 11 prominent Scientologists convicted of this conspiracy was Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of Scientology’s “prophet”.
http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/scientology/snow-white/index.html
http://en.allexperts.com/e/o/op/operation_snow_white.htm

• Operation Freakout - Their campaign of sabotage & violence against Paulette Cooper, the writer who published her research & findings on several cults, including Scientology. Scientology’s official plan: to frame Paulette, ruin her career & reputation & get her either incarcerated or locked up in psychiatric confinement.
The official plan: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Krasel/cooper/frk1.html
Her book (free pdf): http://holysmoke.org/cos/books/scandal-of-scientology-cooper.pdf

• Fair Game - the Scientology policy detailing how the organization may confront & handle critics & perceived enemies. Here is a direct quote: "Enemies may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/fairgame.htm
http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/Fair_game_ord.html

• Physical and psychological maltreatment: Scientologists who "break the rules" while members of the "Sea Org" must subject themselves to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which includes regimes of harsh physical punishment, forced self-confessions, social isolation, hard labor and intensive ideological indoctrination.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/rpf.html
http://www.lermanet2.com/scientology/gulags/BrainwashinginScientology'sRehabilitationProjectForce.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rpf/escape_2.htm

• Violent Kidnapping - Lisa McPherson was a Scientologist, was involved in a car accident & resultantly became mentally unstable. She was kidnapped from the hospital by agents of Scientology, held against her will, refused proper psychiatric treatment & allowed to STARVE TO DEATH.
Video: http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
Website: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

• Tragic Murder - A CBS “48 Hours” special on Jeremy Perkins, the mentally disturbed son of Scientologist parents who refused to put him on the anti-psychotic drugs that would have stabilized him & prevented him from killing his own mother.
Video: http://www.scientomogy.com/jeremy_perkins.php
CBS article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml

2007-04-05 21:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0 0

How many cult leaders did all of these things??? Are we forgetting the testimony of the 1000's who witnessed His(Jesus) Miracles --- handed down thru History.Hundreds knew He raised Lazarus from the Dead. Lazarus Himself spent the rest of His Life (30 more years)telling others about what happened to Him. Thousands knew Christ fed 5000 with a few fishes and loaves of bread - they told thousands more - Hundreds witnessed Him having Risen from the DEAD as it was highly broadcast that HE was crucified - these are all RECORDED Historical Events - as Mankind became extremely interested in record - keeping 2 - 3 hundred years before Christ arrived. Thus we have the works of Homer Plato Aristotle and many others. We KNOW NERO burned Rome because Survivors kept the Story alive thru the Centuries in Writing or vocal transmission.

2016-05-17 05:22:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

For a lot of people, religion provides a grounding. Also it provides a social network. People who belong to a common social network tend to help each other out. Not that much different from Rotary, Masons or Lions clubs - which aren't religious per say.

2007-04-04 04:53:01 · answer #3 · answered by I Like Stories 7 · 2 0

just because they're rich and famous does not in any way, shape or form mean they're intelligent

2007-04-04 04:49:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

No this means theyre not as blinded as you to the truth.

2007-04-04 04:46:49 · answer #5 · answered by Ѧashiq- Due 8/17 ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ 6 · 1 0

isnt there some saying about telling a lie long enough that it becomes the truth.plus,critical thinking isnt taught in schools,is it?

2007-04-04 04:52:46 · answer #6 · answered by robertbobbybob 3 · 1 1

Maybe faith is a powerful weapon and has helped them succeed.

2007-04-04 11:40:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

thay have all been brainwashed and thay like fairy tales

2007-04-04 04:47:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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