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| numb3rs |
 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: scientology |
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is the a corrupted form of star trek?
lord xenu takeing all the dead people to earth and droping them in a valcano?
and phatans enhabiting our body?
sounds like elron hubert was high.  |
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| dimethyltryptamine |
| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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his concept resembles an old marvel comic, whose details I forget.
the guy was a felon, hypnotist, and drug addict.
the people who follow this religion....
I fear for. |
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| daytonturner |
| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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It was actually L. Ron Hubbard who apparently parlayed his science fiction books into a religion. Something based on Isaac Asimov probably would have been better.
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| DaBOB |
| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:50 am Post subject: |
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How do you know of Xenu. I spent years getting that level of clearance. 
Ack, my body thetans are overflowing.... must get them out...
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| numb3rs |
| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| Pendragon |
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That Hubbard guy is a genius  He must've had a great laugh when people first started throwing money at him. If he at least came up with a better story it wouldn't have been that strange, people believe in the weirdest things. But yea Lord Xenu.. |
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| Orleander |
| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Pendragon wrote: |
| That Hubbard guy is a genius He must've had a great laugh when people first started throwing money at him. If he at least came up with a better story it wouldn't have been that strange, people believe in the weirdest things. But yea Lord Xenu.. |
I agree! smart smart smart.
Seriously, how is it any different than believing in angels or ganeesh. They are all silly. |
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| Pendragon |
| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Orleander wrote: |
| Pendragon wrote: |
| That Hubbard guy is a genius He must've had a great laugh when people first started throwing money at him. If he at least came up with a better story it wouldn't have been that strange, people believe in the weirdest things. But yea Lord Xenu.. |
I agree! smart smart smart.
Seriously, how is it any different than believing in angels or ganeesh. They are all silly. |
Agreed.
Just been watching a BBC Panorama documentary on Scientology, man those people are creeps.. They literally spied on the BBC film crew that was making the documentary.
Their main point seemed to be that they want to be called a religion instead of a cult. Well I don't see the difference between those words, the word 'religion' isn't some gold-plated certificate of value in my book. If astrologers want to be recognized as a religion, then invent some gods, write a book and add yourself to the list. What I do object to is that in a lot of countries religions have a special legal status, so it actually means something to be recognized as a religion by the government (tax exemption, legal protection etc).
As mentioned in the documentary, what these cults/religions/whatever want is to seem powerful and influential, so people are scared into treating them with respect. I have no reason to fear astrology nutjobs, so I feel unhindered to openly speak my mind about them. But I wouldn't speak openly to a crowd of fanatic Christians/Jews/Muslims etc, people get killed for being honest about fanatic religious crap. Scientology wants to be added to that list, and their trick is to scare people by intimidating them. Well the best reaction is just to laugh at their crazy stories and move on. |
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| marnixR |
| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Pendragon wrote: |
| Their main point seemed to be that they want to be called a religion instead of a cult. |
in short they want respect + they want to be taken seriously
probably envious that the big religions get by without trying too hard
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