I am thinking of joining the church of scientology?

Question

Please tell me why this would not be a good choice.

Thanks all. I am reaaaaaly bored.

Answer 1

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 - Check out http://www.lisamcpherson.org/ , a victim of the cult who was starved to death.

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! - in the words of the founder:

"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."

Answer 2

Why are you questioning about starting to be a member of a few thing once you do not even recognize what it truly is? you're trolling. thanks for identifying to purchase human beings interested in Scientology “The intense element of public controversy surrounding Scientology appears the key to the corporate’s progressively increasing club. apparently that there are more advantageous than some persons who listen the Church being criticized in a form of media, grow to be curious, settle on to look into Scientology for themselves, and then connect. therefore, and by no potential somewhat satirically, the individuals and agencies that attack the Church maximum vociferously finally end up being Scientology’s surprising acquaintances.” — James R. Lewis, the upward thrust of Scientology and the Stark type of religious fulfillment in Scientology – Oxford college Press, 2009

Answer 3

Because the CHURCH of Scientology is practicing an altered version of Scientology from the original. Join a group OUTSIDE of the Church of Scientology if you want to get pure Scientology. The Church itself has become a cult.

Answer 4

I have to wonder what you are really thinking if you are asking only for negative opinions about Scientology on this forum.
Opinions are fine, but they may or may not be based on any actual facts or real knowledge.
What you do in your life , should be based on what is true for you, not on any opinions for or against. And it should be true for you based upon your own obseravtion and experience.
It's a point of personal integrity.
It there was only one thing to learn from Scientology, it would be that.

Answer 5

There is a big danger that you will become much less bored.

You might find out more about yourself.
You could become more honest.
Most people, after starting in on the Scientology route, begin to function better in life.
When you study you might learn something.
This awful urge to help people may overwhelm you.
You could learn lifechanging techniques on teaching your children.

This should be enough to keep less able people far far away.

Answer 6

Oh you mean why is a church based on one man's hairbrained, and lucrative scheme to dupe rich people out of their fortunes, a bad choice? L. Ron Hubbard basically started a cult which spews out the same rhetoric the "new" age movement has been for years. You know, everyone is God, all beliefs are acceptable, everyone is good... Wake up and smell the rot when it's there. If you can't see for yourself what a sham it is, then you are their perfect victim.

Answer 7

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

Xenu, Alien Souls and Volcanoes: This story was also told in L. Ron Hubbard's novel Battlefield Earth. This book is more than 800 pages long and probably cheaper than joining the Church of Scientology.

In a south park episode about Scientology Stan was asked by one of the leaders if believing in Scientology was more far fetched than Jesus coming to earth through virgin birth then dying and being resurrected. He replied, "yeah it is WAY more retarded than that."

Answer 8

If you took their test or what have you, pretty much no matter what you answer, they will tell you that you sound depressed and they can help (for a price). Don't be fooled. Join if you think that you actually might believe what they believe (I mean, for all I know, Lord Xenu really could've brainwashed cavemen) but not if they just told you to because you're "depressed." Most of the time, it's a lie. I'm not telling you to not join, but just to be cautious.

Answer 9

Depends. Do you have no free will or desire to make your own decisions in life? Do you want to give away all of your material goods and money to an organization in exchange for said organization making all of those decisions for you? If you answered yes to these question, go ahead and sign up. Otherwise, run away as fast as you can.

Answer 10

If you want to practice science fiction as a religion then this is your thing.. The united states granted Scientology the status of a religion, almost no other country has been so stupid.