what is scientology?...?

Question

i have to write a speech abt scientology and i need to know where they worship..how..and what kinds of holidays do they celebrate...

Answer 1

Scientology, which questionably calls itself a new "religion", is the brainchild of science fiction writer & occult enthusiast L. Ron Hubbard. The organization, by means of Hubbard’s self created psychotherapy technique called “Dianetics”, claims to be able to help rid members of any & all mental constraints including but not limited to emotional scarring (from this & "past" lives) due to "engrams" (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind), psychological disorders & chemical imbalances (the solution is to convince members that these things don't actually exist) & drug dependence (including legally prescribed psychopharmaceuticals which counteract the effects of psychological disorders Scientologists believe to be nonexistent).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics#Scientific_evaluation_and_criticisms
Dianetics review: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2005/06/28/dianetics/index.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812852,00.html

The official Scientology organization is composed of a number of “levels”. One begins as a “preclear” & works their way up. One must purchase virtually every service crucial to advancement directly from the "church" & at staggering prices. "Auditing", for example, is purchased in 12½ hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions. Visit this link to see how $380,000 is a conservative estimate for the total cost of moving all the way up the Scientology hierarchal ladder: http://www.xenu.net/archive/prices.html
These are the total costs for auditing alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs
Here’s an explanation of what “auditing” is: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061224182319AA2nnd6

At level OT III (Operating Thetan 3), some very strange & fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): The evil alien ruler Xenu killed millions of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC-8 “space-planes”, stacking them around volcanoes & blowing them up by dropping “h-bombs” into the volcanoes. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (and according to Scientology’s belief in Thetan immortality, they also attached to us during “past lives”) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds.
http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html
http://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_ot3.html
http://xenu.net/archive/leaflet/Xenu-Letter.pdf

Scientology has taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional during everyday life. It doesn’t recognize legitimate conditions like autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or ANY neurological disorder / chemical imbalance at all, and the “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from members (often with harmful & deadly results). The “Church” blames the psychiatry for the Holocaust, as well as school shootings and even September 11th. It’s been suggested that Hubbard’s vehement opposition was born of the psychiatric community’s rejection of his “tech” as a valid treatment method, but it’s also possible that Hubbard chose psychiatry as a scapegoat. Organizations like Scientology are notorious for villainizing a specific out-group as it fosters cohesion within the organization.
http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/usa-scientology.htm
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3137&IssueNum=136
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index_np.html?pn=1
http://perkinstragedy.org

L. Ron Hubbard, the man behind the creation of Scientology, was & still is a controversial figure. Biographies and lists of personal accomplishments differ greatly between Scientology and non-Scientology publications as the “church” tends to exaggerate and outright lie about his early life, his education, his travels, his achievements etc, preferring to paint a distorted, flattering picture. Several books and articles present facts which flatly contradict these church-published accounts (links to free online copies of these books are provided below), showing conclusively that he was NOT the brilliant, accomplished figure revered by Scientologists. During his autopsy, the sedative Vistaril™ was present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years. It had also been said by many who knew Hubbard personally that at the end of his life he was “a psychopathic insane person screaming about BT's [Body Thetans]….”
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/Bare%20Faced%20Messiah.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/contents.htm
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt
http://skull.piratehaven.org/~atman/factnet/lrhbare.txt

To be blunt, Scientology is a cult. It employs semi-legitimate psychotherapy & self-help methods to keep people loyal & convinced of its merit while it simultaneously sucks them dry financially & attempts to keep them far away from ANYONE, even friends & family, who would dissuade them from remaining in such a harmful situation. It’s a particularly greedy as well as manipulative & dangerous cult that takes its anti-psychiatry fanaticism to deadly limits. See these links for more information: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
http://www.factnet.org/Books/SocialControl/scs.html#toc http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/funkydonny.html

Answer 2

Here's a factual description for you:

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 anyone’s faiths of beliefs in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual as part of his life.
It is also not a messianic religion. This means there is no worship of prophets or messiahs in Scientology. It is not belief or faith based. A truth should be true 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 life.And to rehabilitate his native goodness, abilities and potential.
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.
I suggest you do your homework and contact your local Scientology Church or Mission for information of where various churches are located, what dates we celebrate etc.

There is also a comprehensive book with lots of information called "What is Scientology", you can arrange to see a copy when you call.

Answer 3

A religion based on the science fiction novels of L Ron. Hubbard. They worship some retard named Xenu. Some alien jackass who nukes the world and lets the thetans (like souls) attach to human bodies leaving humans with many biological and mental problems. Aka "dont go to a psychologist to get help because they are evil, go spend millions on Scientology instead!"

Answer 4

You should contact your local church and ask to speak to someone in DSA ( Department of Special Affairs) they would be able to help you.

Alternatively here is a link to some good questions and answers for you to choose from.

Answer 5

If you have to then that sucks. If its something that you want to write about, then i'd say change ur topic. Cuz Scientology is all bullshit.

Answer 6

Illogical hocus pocus.

Answer 7

I'm pasting below some excerpts from an outline I distributed in talking about Scientology in a class I taught. It' just an outline but it does contain some references to resources you may find helpful:

Scientology

1) Introduction – complexity, selectivity, and sources

Sources for Further Study
http://www.apologeticsindex.org
http://www.factnet.org
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.watchman.org
http://www.religionnewsblog.com
http://en.wikipedia.org

A Piece of Blue Sky, by Jon Atak
L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or madman? by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, by Russell Miller
Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult, by George Mather and Larry Nichols
The Challenge of the Cults, by Maurice C. Burrell
“The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power,” in TIME magazine, May 6, 1991

2) History – Occult involvement (Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, and Rosicrucianism’s influence on Hubbard).

3) Self-Help Hook (Dianetics and Introductory Courses).

4) Front Groups (Narconon, Cult Awareness Network, The Concerned Businessmen's Association of America, Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, Foundation for Religious Freedom, etc.)

5) Oxford Capacity Analysis Test. A copy of this can be found at http://www.xenu.net/archive/oca/

6) Purification Rundown (pseudo-scientific combination of saunas, vitamins, and oils)

7) Basic Doctrines
reactive and analytical minds
aberrations and engrams (man is essentially good)
auditing
clear
Thetans
Body Thetans

8) “Incident 2” Learned by Scientologists on OT level III:
Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.
Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.
Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.
The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.
That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.
(from Operation Clambake [http://www.xenu.net])

9) Ruthless Tactics

see the article at http://www.watchman.org/sci/scientologymafia.htm

10) Comparison to Biblical Christian Teaching
A Summary of the Main Differences Between Scientology and Christianity(from The Challenge of the Cults, by Maurice Burrell)
1.Authority
Scientology: Although the Bible is used to bolster up the sect's ideas, the source of Scientology's philosophy and technology is Hubbard himself.
Christianity: As the Word of God, the Bible is the yardstick against which all claims (including those of Hubbard) have to be measured.
2.God
Scientology: Although Hubbard and many of his followers are theists, belief in God is not essential to Scientology.
Christianity: God is Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three Persons within the unity of the Godhead.
3.Christ
Scientology: Christ has no essential or central place in the sect's teachings.
Christianity: "God sent his Son to be the Savior of the world."
4.Salvation
Scientology: Man is basically good, but "engrams" (psychological hang-ups) prevent him from reaching his full potential. When released from these engrams through the sect's techniques, man begins to live on a higher level in terms of his own human achievement.
Christianity: Man needs to be saved from sin and to be given new life. Both are available from God through faith in Christ.
[Additionally, Scientology deifies man. In fact, in their writings, man is often capitalized. Man's reason will produce perfect behavior and therefore solve all the problems of the human predicament.}

(See also http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s22.html)

Pertinent Scriptures for Scientologists

Gen. 1:1-31 (shows that matter, energy, space, and time are real)
Num. 23:19, Ac. 14:11-15 (show that man is not God)
Rom. 1:18 - 4:15 (shows that man is a sinner in need of a savior)
Tit. 3:4-7 and 2 Co. 1:1 - 2:17 (shows that salvation is by Christ alone}
Mt. 5:43-48 (shows Christianity’s ethical system is superior to Scientology’s)

Answer 8

The science of ology.

What the hell ology is, no one knows.

Answer 9

an elaborate tax shelter