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I have a friend who says it's the ultimate thing to free yourself from pain and conditioning. Could you please share with me a concrete example on how Scientology helped you and at what co$t?

2007-06-25 02:23:56 · 11 answers · asked by G 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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I have heard there are problems with this faith. When I get home, I will look it up, and send you an E mail.

2007-06-25 05:33:28 · answer #1 · answered by RB 7 · 1 1

Yes, I have about 36 years experience with Scientology.
My experiences have been good in many different aspects of my life and living in general.
Scientology is an exact route to spiritual freedom . You definitely get an increasing degree of this if you travel on this route.
Freeing yourself of pain and conditioning would just be a step on this road not the ultimate destination.

Since you seem to be somewhat critical/skeptical of your friends experience I would suggest you discuss this directly with your friend rather than ask this forum which is notoriously negative/ rumor hungry etc about most religions. Scientology is definitely is no exception on here. .
Better yet read a basic book and find out for your self.
I'm sure your friend would do the same for you if you found something that worked or helped.

My best experience was reading a chapter in a basic book
called "Scientology The Fundementals of Thought" which
contained information about the nature of life that completely expressed exactly what I already felt was true.
I was 18 at the time and it was a great relief to finally find another viewpoint that agreed with mine.

Co$t , actually nothing, a friend lent me the book.

2007-06-25 11:55:20 · answer #2 · answered by thetaalways 6 · 1 1

Hi
I have been studying Scientology for a few years now. And this is how it has helped me:

1. It has given me a good fundation about how my mind works, this knowledge has given me greater control over my life and mind. I know exactly why I do what I do and how to improve it.
2. It given certanity that something can be done about life and people and that we all can improve.
3. Throught the years it has improve my communication level with life. It has helped me confront areas in my life and thus increasing my affinity with life, thus increasing my hapiness level (or tone). Now I exited about living life, talk to people and do new things. I have never been like this. As far as I can remember I used to be very shy and introverted a nerd you may say. But now I just love to live.
4. With all this improvements that has helped my in living a better life and make friends, still I know I can improve more and that this is only the begining.
5. The cost have been the cost of books and lectures. And a lot of time to study, that I do in my own house.
6. Scientology has thousands of writings and hundreds of lectures. I still have years and years of study ahead of me. I always wanted to get auditing but never could aforded so this summer I going to South America to get some auditing over there for a month. Is a dream come true.

2007-06-25 20:30:43 · answer #3 · answered by bravehartbears 2 · 1 2

When my sister and I first arrived in LA the church of Scientology found us a place to live, a job and a bunch of new friends to hang out with. It was a rather close knit group as you would expect. They supplied the last incentive for me to give up recreational drug use. Their "auditing" and classes helped clear my head and focus my mind so much so that I eventual saw the limitations of their philosophy. My sister met her longest love interest and the father of my first niece who's always been my favorite relative. It would up costing us $15.000 but once we left they never really pestered us to rejoin. By my own experience I'd say they're mostly harmless.
The whole time I was in LA no one ever mentioned Zemu and his WMD's

2007-06-25 13:46:51 · answer #4 · answered by hairypotto 6 · 1 0

I had a great experience with Scientology. As a lark I took one of their "personality tests", and during the subsequent interview I converted my interviewer away from Scientology. They still thank me for it today, 2 decades later.

2007-06-25 09:33:28 · answer #5 · answered by Nodality 4 · 0 0

I have been to one of their buildings and talked to one of the scientologists regarding a score on my personality test. I think it was interesting and a good experience as far as learning their beliefs, but other than that I am not sure. The lady I spoke to was really nice, and was fairly confident of herself attributing it to Scientology. Check it out for yourself, but remain objective and always skeptical of any belief system you run into.

2007-06-25 09:28:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Yes i tried it, but during this session when you have to sit really still and not laugh while staring at each other, i decided to fart really loud. I laughed my *** off, They said i was too immature and hostile to take the next step. I agree.

2007-06-25 09:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I'm sorry, all I can do is tell you to warn your friend about the dangers of this cult before she spends too much of her money and wastes too much of her time (and puts herself in too much danger).

● 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 (including the practice of “disconnecting” with any family who question the credibility & trustworthiness of the cult), creating an “us against them” mentality by villainizing a specific out-group (for Scientology, it’s psychiatrists), & claiming all those outside the cult are unenlightened.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
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/
News Coverage: http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/Lisa_McPherson_Scientology_Deaths.html
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 opposing 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
Website: http://perkinstragedy.org

2007-06-25 14:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1 0

No, it's false and I would prefer to not jump on couches when on national television.

2007-06-25 09:26:21 · answer #9 · answered by Me 3 · 0 0

Yes. It made me laugh.

2007-06-25 09:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 0 0

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