It's Scientology Day!
1. If this is valid, it's pretty damn hilarious due to the sheer amount of nerve one would need to make a statement like this:
The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease.
FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations.
This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
Ha. We avoid the previous terminology due to bad PR, yet the policy referred to by said terminology remains unchanged. If we keep changing the name, maybe they won't notice??
2. So they're against not only their detractors but also people who don't give a shit either way?
I'm probably mis-using the term, but this is one of the hallmarks of what I tend to call 'fundamentalism.' Insistence that your beliefs/methods are correct and everything else is wrong. It's the opposite of pluralism. Which, when taken too far, can be just as idiotic. It's that whole moderation issue again. Gets you every time.
3. One learns Hubbard's so-called truth about why human beings are so limited in their abilities, and what can be done to correct this.
Limited in comparison to what? The superpower-laden space aliens in Hubbard's warped imagination?
Xenu sent out tax audit demands to all these trillions of people. As each one entered the audit centers for the income tax inspections, the people were seized, held down and injected with a mixture of alcohol and glycol, and frozen.
Well, I can't criticize the moral of this story. The IRS is scary.
When Xenu's Air Force had finished dumping the
bodies into the volcanoes, hydrogen bombs were dropped into the volcanoes and
the frozen space aliens were vaporized.
Why would one feel the need to do more than dump someone in a volcano? Wouldn't that do enough damage?
The concept of religion, including God, Christ, Mohammed, Moses etc., were all an implanted false reality that to this very minute are used to control WOGS on Earth.
I can't help but think Hubbard was making a little joke here. After all, his dearest wish was to implant all humans with his 'religion.'
For those who oppose Scientology and stand in their
way like the Lisa McPherson Trust and all Scientology critics, Scientology
promises to do away with them "quietly and without sorrow".
They don't always do such a good job with the 'quietly' part....
The
average cost for Scientology to OT 8 is a mere USD 360,000[.]
Seriously, do any other religions demand this kind of investment for participation? There's begging and tithing, sure, but those aren't Official Policy that prohibits people from joining.
If the
person does not experience the fragmented condition as a "conscious
and literal fact", or if he cannot accept Hubbard's interpretation of
the psychological phenomena expected at this level, the person is
labeled a "bypassed case" and is sent back to redo his lower levels.
And of course has to re-pay for all the courses and auditing required to get back up to speed.
That Scientology publicly protests criticism of their "religious beliefs" is itself dangerously misleading, in my opinion. Hubbard did not characterize the OT 3 incident as a "belief"--he taught it as a factual incident and as a scientifically researched psychological explanation for the state that OT 3's find themselves in at that level.
Heh. So his teachings were "fact" when he addressed his followers, but "belief" when he addressed the government for First Amendment protection and tax exemption.
Hiding the truth about this space opera serves several functions, including, a) recruitment -- few would join if they were told about the alien beliefs up front; b) money -- holding back the information buys time to collect more money from a recruit before the colorful information is revealed; c) control -- holding back the information allows Scientology to use the "tech" to indoctrinate and induce a person not to bolt when they do hear the alien story.
Remember that Scientology breeds irresponsibility and that Scientologists become addicted to that irresponsibility. What else could happen when throughout your experience in Scientology firstly it's "Engrams" and your
reactive mind that are the root cause of your problems; then it's space aliens (BT's); then when you think you have eliminated all your BT's you discover you've got drugged BT's, then sleeping BT's, then unconscious BT's and finally you find that the entirety of the physical universe is a false reality that can be done away with by auditing even more BT's so that you are able to step out of the physical universe and be above matter, energy, space and time.
Scientology abhors criticism so much that it misuses the mantle of religion to promote and justify hatred and bigotry by its members[.]
True. Though if criticism of religion loses its taboo in this country, they'll be screwed.
4. Here, somebody says it better than I did:
Scientology claims to be any of science, business or religion, according whether trying to impress people, charge money, or hide behind some tax-exempt divine right of religions to do and say whatever they please with nobody having the right to criticize them.
Superstitious fear is neither religion, nor ethical business, nor science, and deserves to be challenged.
I have to say, though, that for better or worse, superstitious fear overlaps a hell of a lot more with religion than any of the other areas listed.
n his OT3 statement Hubbard clearly stated Earth as one of the 76 or so planets ruled by Xenu that were suffering human overpopulation, with the Earth's population given at 250 billions. Earth's population in the 1990s is about 5+ billions, giving a present-time human population density only 1/45th that claimed by Hubbard for 75 M.y. ago!
I hadn't ever thought of what a Scientologist's take on evolution would be. I assume they'd be equally contemptuous of both Darwin and Intelligent Design. Though, as far as I know, Hubbard never addressed where humans first came from before they started overpopulating the universe 75 million years ago.
Incident 1, preposterous as an event in its content, is dated ten thousand times older than science dates the universe, (going by "Big Bang" theory).
Heh.
A 1975 bulletin [31] prescribes as a remedy for inability to run past lives, running of expressly imaginary past life incidents, with steering then involved towards accepting these as real and valid.
Oh good. They encourage false recovered memories.
I thus conclude that the Scientology actions of OT3 represent disguised cognitive procedural training that results in fanaticism, and debilitation of mental independence and cognitive functioning of the individual.
OT3 is sold to Clears under menace of getting seriously ill or dying if not done speedily [HCOB 23.12.1971 rev. 1983, sample AOSH letter out and [29].
There is also humiliation to be avoided with recognizing that one has wasted huge amounts of money getting to this secretive stage. Large sums are charged to ensure that this happens.
A number of people have committed suicide as result of OT3.
Dude, you lost me there. That's no way to make an argument. Plenty of people have committed suicide as a result of _____. Fill in the blank. Doesn't prove anything.
5. In arguing to keep the court documents sealed, the church has told its members that it could be physically and spiritually harmful for them to learn about the upper levels of Scientology before they have mastered the preparatory courses. Scientology attorneys have argued that disclosure of the material violates the group's religious freedom.
Hmm. This sounds fishy. Does any other religion have secret upper levels that us plebeians have to be protected from?
What is rarely discussed, however, is Hubbard's secret teachings, which disclose his thoughts on why mankind has been plagued by problems through history, the topic of the disputed documents.
We've been plagued by problems through history? Well, yeah. Who/what hasn't? And from a evolutionary standpoint, humans have been pretty damn successful and problem-free.
Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis, over strong objections, had issued an order Friday making the documents public at 9 a.m. Monday - on a first-come, first-served basis.
Scientologists, by snaking the line through three courthouse hallways, made sure they were the only ones to buy copies of the materials.
Well, you gotta admit their methods are effective.
The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease.
FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations.
This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
Ha. We avoid the previous terminology due to bad PR, yet the policy referred to by said terminology remains unchanged. If we keep changing the name, maybe they won't notice??
2. So they're against not only their detractors but also people who don't give a shit either way?
I'm probably mis-using the term, but this is one of the hallmarks of what I tend to call 'fundamentalism.' Insistence that your beliefs/methods are correct and everything else is wrong. It's the opposite of pluralism. Which, when taken too far, can be just as idiotic. It's that whole moderation issue again. Gets you every time.
3. One learns Hubbard's so-called truth about why human beings are so limited in their abilities, and what can be done to correct this.
Limited in comparison to what? The superpower-laden space aliens in Hubbard's warped imagination?
Xenu sent out tax audit demands to all these trillions of people. As each one entered the audit centers for the income tax inspections, the people were seized, held down and injected with a mixture of alcohol and glycol, and frozen.
Well, I can't criticize the moral of this story. The IRS is scary.
When Xenu's Air Force had finished dumping the
bodies into the volcanoes, hydrogen bombs were dropped into the volcanoes and
the frozen space aliens were vaporized.
Why would one feel the need to do more than dump someone in a volcano? Wouldn't that do enough damage?
The concept of religion, including God, Christ, Mohammed, Moses etc., were all an implanted false reality that to this very minute are used to control WOGS on Earth.
I can't help but think Hubbard was making a little joke here. After all, his dearest wish was to implant all humans with his 'religion.'
For those who oppose Scientology and stand in their
way like the Lisa McPherson Trust and all Scientology critics, Scientology
promises to do away with them "quietly and without sorrow".
They don't always do such a good job with the 'quietly' part....
The
average cost for Scientology to OT 8 is a mere USD 360,000[.]
Seriously, do any other religions demand this kind of investment for participation? There's begging and tithing, sure, but those aren't Official Policy that prohibits people from joining.
If the
person does not experience the fragmented condition as a "conscious
and literal fact", or if he cannot accept Hubbard's interpretation of
the psychological phenomena expected at this level, the person is
labeled a "bypassed case" and is sent back to redo his lower levels.
And of course has to re-pay for all the courses and auditing required to get back up to speed.
That Scientology publicly protests criticism of their "religious beliefs" is itself dangerously misleading, in my opinion. Hubbard did not characterize the OT 3 incident as a "belief"--he taught it as a factual incident and as a scientifically researched psychological explanation for the state that OT 3's find themselves in at that level.
Heh. So his teachings were "fact" when he addressed his followers, but "belief" when he addressed the government for First Amendment protection and tax exemption.
Hiding the truth about this space opera serves several functions, including, a) recruitment -- few would join if they were told about the alien beliefs up front; b) money -- holding back the information buys time to collect more money from a recruit before the colorful information is revealed; c) control -- holding back the information allows Scientology to use the "tech" to indoctrinate and induce a person not to bolt when they do hear the alien story.
Remember that Scientology breeds irresponsibility and that Scientologists become addicted to that irresponsibility. What else could happen when throughout your experience in Scientology firstly it's "Engrams" and your
reactive mind that are the root cause of your problems; then it's space aliens (BT's); then when you think you have eliminated all your BT's you discover you've got drugged BT's, then sleeping BT's, then unconscious BT's and finally you find that the entirety of the physical universe is a false reality that can be done away with by auditing even more BT's so that you are able to step out of the physical universe and be above matter, energy, space and time.
Scientology abhors criticism so much that it misuses the mantle of religion to promote and justify hatred and bigotry by its members[.]
True. Though if criticism of religion loses its taboo in this country, they'll be screwed.
4. Here, somebody says it better than I did:
Scientology claims to be any of science, business or religion, according whether trying to impress people, charge money, or hide behind some tax-exempt divine right of religions to do and say whatever they please with nobody having the right to criticize them.
Superstitious fear is neither religion, nor ethical business, nor science, and deserves to be challenged.
I have to say, though, that for better or worse, superstitious fear overlaps a hell of a lot more with religion than any of the other areas listed.
n his OT3 statement Hubbard clearly stated Earth as one of the 76 or so planets ruled by Xenu that were suffering human overpopulation, with the Earth's population given at 250 billions. Earth's population in the 1990s is about 5+ billions, giving a present-time human population density only 1/45th that claimed by Hubbard for 75 M.y. ago!
I hadn't ever thought of what a Scientologist's take on evolution would be. I assume they'd be equally contemptuous of both Darwin and Intelligent Design. Though, as far as I know, Hubbard never addressed where humans first came from before they started overpopulating the universe 75 million years ago.
Incident 1, preposterous as an event in its content, is dated ten thousand times older than science dates the universe, (going by "Big Bang" theory).
Heh.
A 1975 bulletin [31] prescribes as a remedy for inability to run past lives, running of expressly imaginary past life incidents, with steering then involved towards accepting these as real and valid.
Oh good. They encourage false recovered memories.
I thus conclude that the Scientology actions of OT3 represent disguised cognitive procedural training that results in fanaticism, and debilitation of mental independence and cognitive functioning of the individual.
OT3 is sold to Clears under menace of getting seriously ill or dying if not done speedily [HCOB 23.12.1971 rev. 1983, sample AOSH letter out and [29].
There is also humiliation to be avoided with recognizing that one has wasted huge amounts of money getting to this secretive stage. Large sums are charged to ensure that this happens.
A number of people have committed suicide as result of OT3.
Dude, you lost me there. That's no way to make an argument. Plenty of people have committed suicide as a result of _____. Fill in the blank. Doesn't prove anything.
5. In arguing to keep the court documents sealed, the church has told its members that it could be physically and spiritually harmful for them to learn about the upper levels of Scientology before they have mastered the preparatory courses. Scientology attorneys have argued that disclosure of the material violates the group's religious freedom.
Hmm. This sounds fishy. Does any other religion have secret upper levels that us plebeians have to be protected from?
What is rarely discussed, however, is Hubbard's secret teachings, which disclose his thoughts on why mankind has been plagued by problems through history, the topic of the disputed documents.
We've been plagued by problems through history? Well, yeah. Who/what hasn't? And from a evolutionary standpoint, humans have been pretty damn successful and problem-free.
Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis, over strong objections, had issued an order Friday making the documents public at 9 a.m. Monday - on a first-come, first-served basis.
Scientologists, by snaking the line through three courthouse hallways, made sure they were the only ones to buy copies of the materials.
Well, you gotta admit their methods are effective.
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