2007-08-22 23:04:38 · 10 answers · asked by peter m 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Some people choose it because they're looking to better their lives or they're simply curious about it. Some people get sucked in by a "free personality test" or because a so-called friend tells them to check it out "just once". After that, they're cajoled into taking courses and going through Scientology's "auditing" (which is "talk therapy" while holding two tin cans connected to a skin galvanometer, and no, that isn't a joke).
I don't trust it because it's a dangerous, manipulative, lying, scamming cult, and despite their insistence that it's all just "media hype", there are court documents, recorded deaths and the words of their own prophet (L. Ron Hubbard) to substantiate every description I've just given.
2007-08-23 08:41:41 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have chosen Scientology because it works. I apply the techniques of Scientology and I get improvement.
Some dislike or mistrust it due to the misleading information spread by people who don't know how to apply Scientology.
Why do some people oppose Scientology?
http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg56.htm
2007-08-23 02:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by michaeljripley 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably the same as any religion.
Some people might like the fact that instead of saying something like "10% of your income" and "give up everything to get to the top of it" like christian religions, it has flat rates. :)
Most people just take the first two courses (the cheaper ones) for Communications, and How to Study Better. Then they quit. Which is easier to do than with many other religions. And thats what I did. Great courses. Better than most of the (more expensive) college courses I took.
One thing I will say is that everybody I saw in it seemed very happy and honest. And I didnt see any of the "cult" stuff I read about.
2007-08-24 10:06:06 · answer #3 · answered by Gandalf Parker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah The back Story to Scientology sucks star wars is way better.
2007-08-22 23:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a cult. It is evil. It is dangerous.
The following links are news stories about a girl with schizophrenia, whose parents refused to allow her to take her medication because they were Scientologists. She had a severe psychotic episode because she wasn’t on her meds and killed her father and sibling, almost killing her mother too.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22069705-28737,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22045262-5001021,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/scientology-denied-daughter-help/2007/07/09/1183833431861.html
Did you know Scientologists believe they have the right to torture or kill ‘Suppressive Persons’ (SP) people who oppose Scientology?
“ENEMY: SP Order. Fair game. 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.fairgamed.org/fairgame.htm
And do you really think it is fair to deny a woman in labour any form of pain control, and tell her to keep still and remain quiet.
2007-08-25 11:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by . 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is utterly inane and stupid. it does not even have internal logic and it's theology is a bad Sci-Fi story!
In that of course, it differs little from any religion, but it's mythology was created within living memory, and you can actually check up on the dodgy geezer who dreamt it all up! Hence it has less credibility than 'mainstream' cults like Xtianity!
2007-08-22 23:17:50 · answer #6 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think some people mistrust it because you have to pay. Other people are drawn to it, I think, because you have to pay.
Funny old world.
2007-08-22 23:14:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its very wealthy founder is on record as saying - just before he founded his new religion - that the best way to make yourself very wealthy is by founding a new religion.
Do you see how this works?
2007-08-22 23:18:32 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Shankley 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a dangerous cult, that sucks people dry. See the unfunny truth thiscult:
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dianetics#s...
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/honor.htm
2007-08-23 03:03:01 · answer #9 · answered by Eye see! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. they acept it as its a new religion a path that they can accept that speaks to them
2/ mistrust it: new and revolutionary and cultish
2007-08-22 23:12:10 · answer #10 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋