Dianetics, anyone?

Subject: Re: Dianetics, anyone?

I smell an alien-invader worship recruiter!

sweetsummercorn wrote: What's with the Dianetics signs... I've seen one in the barbershop next to the B, Q 7th Avenue stop, as well as in the Met on Vanderbilt.

It makes me curious. I'd love to hit up one of the PH Scientology meetings.

I'm still waiting for L. Ron to appear on some lost recording and say "Just kidding! I made the whole thing up!" Of course, I've been waiting for the various churches to do the same thing for a while now too...

The way I see things, if so many Hollywood celebrities are into this racket, there must be something to it.

Drano wrote: The way I see things, if so many Hollywood celebrities are into this racket, there must be something to it.

There's definitely something to it. I toured their secret Southern Hemisphere headquarters once, and was treated to many amazing sights and experiences not usually available to the general public. One of them was an enormous and fascinating wall chart of their management structure, including the quasi-autonomous body outside the church heirarchy that owns everything. My questions as to how I could become a shareholder rather than parishoner went unanswered.

BigGuy wrote: I'm still waiting for L. Ron to appear on some lost recording and say "Just kidding! I made the whole thing up!"

It seems there are more than enough accounts of him saying he was going to get rich by starting a religion, which amounts to the same thing ...

this is something i researched back when Tom Cruise was making Katie Holmes give birth without pain killers and in absolute silence.

Silence. No Painkillers.

Because in Scientology (I'm sorry, Dianetics), they believe that the sound of a woman screaming during childbirth will turn children mad. Right, like the natural sounds that come from a burning 9 pound flesh-ball being torn from the loins of a small woman is what turns a child mad. Not the fact that you're being born into a family that believes we are ruled by Aliens who are trapped in Volcano Prisons.

according to Wikipedia...

"In Dianetics, Hubbard proposed that the cause of "aberrations" in the human mind was the accumulated unconscious memories of traumatic incidents and guilty feelings. These memories would date back, in some cases, to before the moment of birth....Some of the past traumas may have been deliberately inflicted in the form of "implants" used by extraterrestrial dictatorships to brainwash and control people. Scientology doctrine includes a wide variety of beliefs in extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in Earthly events, collectively described by Hubbard as "space opera".

WAIT WAIT..

"Scientology's doctrines famously include the story of Xenu, the ruler of the Galactic Confederacy who brought billions of frozen people to Earth 75 million years ago, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. However, Xenu is only one small element of Scientologists' beliefs in alien civilizations."

blew them up with hydrogen bombs.
blew them up with hydrogen bombs.
blew them up with hydrogen bombs.

I like how the hydrobombs and volcanos are only one element of their beliefs.
go to this link on Space Opera, and then read about the GORRILA GOALS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera_in_Scientology_doctrine

Anotherdayinbkln wrote: he's such a poor author he would actually write "The ship veered left and KABOOOOOOOOM the door blew open and BAAAANG RAT TAT TATTAT the machine guns blasted" or something like that.

Heh, why do you think he figured there was more money in starting a cult? One thing I've never figured out though is how/where he claimed to come up with all these, er, facts about the nature of human existence.

churches = tax exemptions

laura wrote:
Heh, why do you think he figured there was more money in starting a cult?

This is the most successful for-profit religion since the Church of Rome in the middle ages, hence my admiration for its ingeniousness. But L.Ron is dead, and there's no clear papal-style succession. What I want to know, and what I have not been able to find out on all the "scientology rots your brain" websites, is who gets all the money these days? I'm sure the members of the board at RTC and David Miscavige in particular do very well, but is that it? Even the IRS took a payoff to leave them alone, so we have no idea about their finances.

Subject: Re: I don't understand YOU

I USE DEODORANT. I DON'T UNDERSTAND EUROPEANS

For the most part, in Europe they sell deodorant, not anti-perspirant, and the majority of European use deodorant.

Anotherdayinbkln wrote:
I just don't understand americans

I think I've sort of got the hang of Americans. They're a bit like TV. Mostly in a good way.

laura wrote: I don't understand humans.

but you can't lump all 8 billion of us into the same category!

theres only 8 million of us on earth?


also... yah.. i know 6.6 bil or something.. i was just having this argument with a coworker the other day- they said 8bil, maybe i have it stuck in my head

im so confused

see! Billion!