Scientology: crazy or not crazy?

Question

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Answer 1

Pretty crazy... and dangerous. I realize you probably won't pick my answer as best, but I feel it's helpful to post the truth about Scientology whenever I can. THIS is how crazy and dangerous Scientology can really get:

• Operation Snow White – Under this official 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: 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 & psychological punishment: 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

• Brainwashing & mind control: Scientology exerts control over its members by means of typical cult tactics, including but not limited to controlling information about internal doctrine & criticism of the organization, severely restricting social contact outside the cult, creating an “us against them” mentality by villanizing a specific out-group (for Scientology, it’s psychiatrists), & claiming all those outside the cult are unenlightened.
http://www.factnet.org/Books/SocialControl/scs.html#toc
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/s/scientology/pignotti/
http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/faq.html#cult

• 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, because of the Scientology doctrine of psychiatry, 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

Answer 2

Crazy

Answer 3

Crazy

Answer 4

Crazy Scientologists

Answer 5

Crazy!

Answer 6

Definitely different. L. Ron Hubbard was a self-proclaimed patriot and was against many of the practices of espionage, infiltration and mind control that he knew was being waged by the former Soviet Union and the USA - he was especially vocal about SOP's of the National Security Administration - interestingly enough his followers seemingly utilze many of the same tactics as the USSR or NSA - is possible that certain information can corrupt and/or deviate the mind just from exposure to it? Scientologists and people who practice Dianetics seem like highly ethically indoctrinated people, learned on a variety of subjects with a great level of social consciousness but interestingly enough these characteristics also hold true for many cultists. Sometimes whats crazy is true and conversely sometimes the truth can drive you nuts....

Answer 7

Crazy.

Answer 8

superb question. individually Im an ex-scientologist and an ex-baptist. If i bypass to the "cult attempt" and answer the questions, I had extra hardship with the baptists. They have been extra invasive to my very own life, asked for extra of my money, pushed harder on extraordinary ideals, and bugged me extra whilst i needed to offer up. yet thats only my very own journey with the two one in each of them. The loopy stuff approximately scientology for some reason is only considered places like this. in the two years I hung around them I observed and heard no longer something approximately aliens or abductions or having people do risky issues to themselves. It replaced into all some particularly good selfhelp stuff researched (or ripped off in case you pick) by making use of a scifi author in the 1950's.

Answer 9

Very Crazy and a Unsafe way to live or believe

Answer 10

depends on your definition of crazy--it is a money making buisness-people give up all their finances (except for the elete they can pay determined fees-for some actors into the millions-to seek a mind 'clear' leaving their soul bare--It is a deceptive, cult that rejects the salvation of Jesus =repent of sin and be born again" John chaprter 3

-yet claims to accept all religions-

Answer 11

How can anything with a couchjumpin, floorpoundin Tom Cruise be crazy?

Oh, right...the evil lord xenu and body thetons.

Ummm, yeah. Crazy. Oh, and it's a scam, to boot.