Church of Scientology

Dude, that's the controller's cord attached to a console

Samantha

1984, and also that book is completely irrelevant to the discussion. I would know, I *have* read it.

crap, hit the wrong number on the "d" pad, my bad....

I would but, sadly, I never learned how to read

Seeing as this has top spot, this site has (d)evolved from just funny.

We are in the minority it seems

indeed.

I get your message. Their brainwash tactics should serve a better purpose in Guantanamo Bay or of the like. So sad.

Fanatics tend to move around the country, cause the 'church or cult' told them to go there to support them. I know a guy that drives around the city to preach due to some crackpot telling him about the end of days and shit.

I posted the same comment three times thus the deletion. Anyway, being accepted to a top tier UC and majoring in Chemistry implies him being smart. Being swindled to an extremist cult is in-fathomable. I feel you though.

What was that saying in Mass Effect?

Genius and Madness are two sides of the same coin?

Some times, someone is just too smart that common sense no longer applies to them.

Well put ma dude, well put.

its a sect with the aim to get suggestible people in their circle. they tell them that they've some oppressed problems and that the only answer is to join their expensive self-help groups and their other ominous lessons. And with this self-finding bullshit they get secrets of their member with that they try to hold them ransom. all in all they try to steal money of their member.

Dont judge my grammar i am still a german guy and cant speak and write english very well but i hope you understand this

you soul is an alien and that......that all i got. Sry.

Also, you may watch the South Park episode which revolves around Scientology stuff, it is pretty fun. Google it :P

Basically its a falsetto 'religion' in which eternal happiness is attained by donating all of your money to the leaders.

Founded by L. Ron Hubbard as a way to scheme money and make a fast buck off his books. One of the 'holiest' days in this religion is Hubbard's birthday.

Because most celebrites such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta are too stupid to realize it, they belong to this group.

The saddest part... Billy Sheehan, one of the most talented, influencial, and down-to-earth bassists today... Is a scientologist. ;_;

I can't believe the person that influenced me to pick up a bass believes in this shit. ;_;

He and Edgar Winter ;_;

I just read that last night. The shame. :c

and people actually believe this?

A cult founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. There core beliefs are as follows:

This area of the galaxy was once ruled by an alien warlord named Xenu. 65 million years ago his empire was overpopulated horribly, so to combat the overpopulation he had trillions of citizens called in for psychiatric evalutations and tax audits, where they were given paralytic drugs, loaded onto space planes, and flown to Planet Teegeeack. Once on this planet, their bodies were stacked in huge piles around volcanoes, while atom bombs were dropped into these volcanos, instantly killing trillions of galactic citizens.

To keep these people from reincarnating in the rest of the galaxy, Xenu set up a special trap. Powerful force-fields kept their souls (called "Thetans" in Scientology jargon) from escaping, and these thetans were then shown special holographic movies about the various lies they are supposed to believe, with characters like Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha. Over time, these thetans began to believe Xenu's lies about false gods, and began to reincarnate on Teegeeack (but the thetans called this world "Earth"). When intelligent life appeared on Teegeeack, thousands or millions of "Thetans" cling to every native soul (er, "thetan") and fill it's head with nonsensical thoughs and irrational beliefs.

The key idea of Scientology is to avoid tax officials and psychiatrists at all costs, while paying the church a large amount of money for special "counseling" (called "auditing" in their jargon) to help you reach a special enlightened state called "Clear" where you telepathically communicate with these "thetans" clinging to you and force them out of your body, and rid yourself of evil Xenu's influence.

(By the way, most Scientologists don't know this, like the Mystery Cults of the Greco-Roman world, Scientology doles it's doctrine out in tiny doses to it's new recruits, and tells the public next to nothing about what it believes. You don't hear that whole story until you reach a special rank in their group called "OT3" for "Operating Thetan 3". Their doctrine holds that if this got out, the Thetans in people would revolt at hearing the truth and people would get sick and die possibly just by hearing this story, which of course leads people who aren't Scientologists who hear this story to tell it to others and watch them not die or get ill from it.)

Basically just a money-hungry corporation hiding behind the disguise of a religion, or something under those lines.