Scientology

[Tritz 1]

Will someone please explain to me what it is?

[keith crime 8]

Will someone please explain to me what it is?

It helps you know the flop on poker stars before it is dealt

[theresa113 0]

Scientology Fundamentals by L. Ron Hubbard What is Scientology? Scientology is an applied religious philosophy. The term Scientology is taken from the Latin word scio (knowing in the fullest sense of the word) and the Greek word logos (study of). In itself the word means literally knowing how to know. Scientology is further defined as the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life. Any comparison between Scientology and the subject known as psychology is nonsense.

[SilentSnow 1]

www.xenu.netaka operation clambake.even if you couldnt care less about scientology, think of it as anentertaining site about the cult mentality.

[bigkg 0]

It's a joke.

[theresa113 0]

I read most of Dianetics about 10 or so years ago. L Ron Hubbard was against psychology however, when you reading the "clearing" process and the fact that they want you to take all of these classes, it is basically a religion that is psycology. At least, that is what I got out of it. There is a lot of criticism about the religion. There are claims that it is not a religion but a business since the religion encourages people to pay for classes. I called to get information on Scientology once and I got pretty creeped out by the Scientologist on the phone. She was nice but I felt she was a little out there and I felt pressured to go to a center instead of her giving me any solid information. I knew with the little I read and the conversation on the phone and some other information that this was not the choice for me.

[profxavier9 0]

when tom cruise is the best you have to show for your a pretty damn hurting unit......

[chrozzo 19]

im taller than Tom Cruise

[wsox8 10]

Will someone please explain to me what it is?

The science of making money. A pseudo-religion set up by a money grabbing black magician/adulterer/corrupt bastard called L. Ron Hubbard.

[profxavier9 0]

im taller than Tom Cruise

plus or minus oprah's couch?

[MDXS 0]

Scientology.

[Zeatrix 0]

It's a joke.

Like all religions...

[Loismustdie 0]

Like all religions...

No, it's really in a class all of it's own.

[Petoria 0]

Anybody see that episode of South Park this past season when they deal with Scientology? There was a line across the bottom of the screen whenever they talked about the beliefs of Scientology that read: This is what Scientologists actually believe. (or something like that). Basically, they believe in aliens, intergalactic space travel, but not psychology.

[Golden 2]

Anybody see that episode of South Park this past season when they deal with Scientology? There was a line across the bottom of the screen whenever they talked about the beliefs of Scientology that read: This is what Scientologists actually believe. (or something like that). Basically, they believe in aliens, intergalactic space travel, but not psychology.

Yeah, that seems completely logical.

[timwakefield 69]

Okay I'm not even kidding - I was gonna make a joke about Scientologists...and went to find a funny picture. I typed "group of crazy monkeys" into an image search on google.........and the third result is this: IT'S ****ING L. RON HUBBARD! The caption reads: "L Ron Hubbard auditing a tomato plant using a Scientology E-meter." The man was insane.

[goose 0]

Anybody see that episode of South Park this past season when they deal with Scientology? There was a line across the bottom of the screen whenever they talked about the beliefs of Scientology that read: This is what Scientologists actually believe. (or something like that). Basically, they believe in aliens, intergalactic space travel, but not psychology.

The funny part about that is that the voice of the Chef quit the show because he's a scientologist and felt the show insulted religion too much after that episode.The show's producer made a comment like "well he certainly didn't have trouble cashing cheques when it was muslims, jews, christians, or catholics being made fun of.

[mrdannyg 274]

Okay I'm not even kidding - I was gonna make a joke about Scientologists...and went to find a funny picture. I typed "group of crazy monkeys" into an image search on google.........and the third result is this: IT'S ****ING L. RON HUBBARD! The caption reads: "L Ron Hubbard auditing a tomato plant using a Scientology E-meter." The man was insane.

just thought i'd confirm, that picture actually is the third one when you type in "group of crazy monkeys."that is f'ing hilarious

[Balloon guy 158]

Been a while since I read up on Scientology, but in a nutshell;An intergalactic battle caused a forgotten 'tribe' to hide out on earth about 4 trillion years ago. They knew they were gonna get wacked, so they hid all their knowledge in a cave, that L.Ron Hubbard found.Today you must pay big bucks to take the classes which help you get 'clear' from all the engrams that are negative issues that attach themselve to your spirit. Each class gets these engrams off, but you need to pay up more for the next class. That's why there are 'camps' which people stay at for years trying to earn enough money to take all the classes to get 'clear' And also why all the rich celebrities have enough money to pay for these classes.Unfortunetely too many people reached clear states and were still messed up, so they 'found' new classes that will help you get even clearer I guess.Sad thing is that compared to Mormonism, this is fairly normal.

[fckthis 0]

Read the massive article in rolling stone on this.

[Mattnxtc 0]

Read the massive article in rolling stone on this.

I saw the article..dont have rolling stone though so i couldnt read it...wanted to see what it said on it...on a side note though...I did hear that L Ron hubbard or whatever his name is said he wanted to start a religion b/c that was where the big bucks were...Not long after scientology pops up...imagine that

[mrdannyg 274]

Been a while since I read up on Scientology, but in a nutshell;An intergalactic battle caused a forgotten 'tribe' to hide out on earth about 4 trillion years ago. They knew they were gonna get wacked, so they hid all their knowledge in a cave, that L.Ron Hubbard found.Today you must pay big bucks to take the classes which help you get 'clear' from all the engrams that are negative issues that attach themselve to your spirit. Each class gets these engrams off, but you need to pay up more for the next class. That's why there are 'camps' which people stay at for years trying to earn enough money to take all the classes to get 'clear' And also why all the rich celebrities have enough money to pay for these classes.Unfortunetely too many people reached clear states and were still messed up, so they 'found' new classes that will help you get even clearer I guess.Sad thing is that compared to Mormonism, this is fairly normal.

it is amazing to me that anyone has paid for one class. if someone suggested i pay for a class to learn about that religion, i'm pretty f'ing certain that'd be a good sign it wasn't a real religion.and mormonism may be a bit nuts, but at least they're not crooked.

[PlayingPossum 0]

it is amazing to me that anyone has paid for one class. if someone suggested i pay for a class to learn about that religion, i'm pretty f'ing certain that'd be a good sign it wasn't a real religion.and mormonism may be a bit nuts, but at least they're not crooked.

Well, they do collect 10% of your earnings, straight off the top. But you do get a nice pair of magical underwear when you come of age, so that's helpful.(Seriously)

[LongLiveYorke 38]

It helps you know the flop on poker stars before it is dealt

I'm just so happy that this was the first reply.

[pragtyro 0]

scientologists aren't alllowed to know what scientology is untill they've donated alot of mo.... I mean become relatively high in the scientologist hierarchy, they aren't even allowed to discuss it with eachother unless at sea aboard the scientology flagship 'freewind' but little bits and pieces of scientologist history have leaked out, for example by far the most popular bit, thanks to publicity from Tom Cruise's shitty WarOfTheWorlds remake, is the story of Xenu (don't remember where I copied this from, used it as reference for a sociology paper and never deleted it)Seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having on average 178 billion people. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with people "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of people to paralyze them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections". The kidnapped populace was loaded into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s, "except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't." DC-8s have jet engines, not propellers, although Hubbard may have meant the turbine fans.When the space planes had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralyzed people were unloaded and stacked around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were lowered into the volcanoes, and all were detonated simultaneously. Only a few people's physical bodies survived. Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars: Simultaneously, the planted charges erupted. Atomic blasts ballooned from the craters of Loa, Vesuvius, Shasta, Washington, Fujiyama, Etna, and many, many others. Arching higher and higher, up and outwards, towering clouds mushroomed, shot through with flashes of flame, waste and fission. Great winds raced tumultuously across the face of Earth, spreading tales of destruction. Debris-studded, and sickly yellow, the atomic clouds followed close on the heels of the winds. Their bow-shaped fronts encroached inexorably upon forest, city and mankind, they delivered their gifts of death and radiation. A skyscraper, tall and arrow-straight, bent over to form a question mark to the very idea of humanity before crumbling into the screaming city below... – L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars treatmentThe now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for 36 days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data" (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The interior decoration of "all modern theaters" is also said by Hubbard to be due to an unconscious recollection of Xenu's implants. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of personal identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.The Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and locked him away in a mountain, where he was imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery. (Some have suggested that Xenu is imprisoned on Earth in the Pyrenees, but Hubbard merely refers to "one of these planets" [of the Galactic Confederacy]; he does, however, refer to the Pyrenees as being the site of the last operating "Martian report station", which is probably the source of this particular confusion.[3]) Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time.