I must know. What is it all about. I have read alittle bit on it. But I'm sure it can be put in a short and simple explanation. So tell me, whats it all about. If your not even sure. Well. Tell me what you think it is. This should be fun. Maby educational. And could possible even be a little humorous.

This is coming from it's main site.



Although I am not one to knock on religions but I have to say that Scientology is tom cruise wacky and I mean that literally. I claim ignorance on the fact I have no clue but I this L. Ron Hubbard guy had to been wasted or the fact he could get millions off the fact that he could "the lost children" to come to his religion.

Heck I check his bio page, how much of that is true who knows, but heck this dude got a good one though.

http://www.egnet.co.uk/halloffame/hubbard.htm

Its some sort of thing that Tom Cruise follows to make himself look really cool!

When i read about this religion on wikipedia i almost pissed myself laughing,
U no that xenu, there supposed founder, came to earth on a Douglas DC-8, thats a friggan modern jet!!!!
and he looked a bit like a black version of doctor Zoidburg off Futurama.

and all this is comin from a sicience fiction writer who is probably on acid!

But if people belive in this sort of stuff good for them, they must have good amaginations!

PS. i also i think it might be a pyramid shceme, because they only seem to recuit wealthy ppl.
I havnt see them do their test thing on any hobo's or trailer trash, have you?

Well if you want to know what scientiology is, you should hear it from the founder itself, Ron Hubbard:
(some years before he started one himself)


The main idea is to get other people into this "cult" and gain control first over their minds, then over their lives, their properties and their money. By exploiting their weaknesses, brainwhashing them and introducing new moral concepts, they take the followers to a state of slavery, subconciousness, and unawareness of what is going on around them. They apply psychological techniques of hypnosis and suggestion to create a state where they aren't capable of telling right from wrong, and will end up doing what they tell them to do - and believing this is good for them.
As with most sects and cults, they isolate people from the rest of their family, relatives, friends and society, and followers end up having only their "leaders" to trust, to listen to, to follow, and to obey.
This is very popular among celebrities, and it has survived the founder's death, because at later stages Hubbard in "delusions of grandeur" and a bit of self-brainwashing (he even wrote a "brainwashing manual") firmly believed that the new and greatest purpose of this "church" was to save the whole universe, to achieve higher key positions in governments and society to control the world and take it to "salvation".
You can read a bit more here:
www.xenu.net/roland-intro.html

thanks for throwing light on this term, I've never heard of it before.

This post has been edited by livingston: Feb 25 2007, 08:54 PM

I never believed in Scientology for one moment. It all seems so silly - an alien who came to earth, murdered everyone, and filled their minds with 'false religions'. If it weren't for the fact so many follow it, I'd think it was a joke, like the church of the flying spaghetti monster. Come to think of it, where he says "judaism, christianity and other religions were implanted into the dead people's mind", is also somewhat offensive to other religions.


To be honest, the part that really makes me think "the religion is a scam" is how this L Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer and scientology sounds like science fiction to me.

Scientology is a false religion for me. No offense, but I'm just telling the truth. Just look at the scandals that involves their organization.

We aren't the only people who think this, too. Apparently some people at other sides of the internet, namely the group anonymous, are protesting against the church of scientology outside their offices and hacking their website.
Perhaps they should cease this silly religion now and stop a lot of trouble.

In some way, all religions are "false", as I know not a lot of languages has the word religion except for Christians, most of major religions in the world are cults having a lot of people/members which fallow and believe in something, if you look at this kind of things quite in abstract way Churches make money from people too, not only different cults.. I'm not saying that religion is something not needed, I talked about this on the forum a lot of times, this was just an idea to look from another point of view. ;D