Inside Scientology (Rolling Stone expose of $cientology a must read!)

Rolling Stone ^ | 2-23-06 | JANET REITMAN

[Peach]

A neighbor and her husband moved out of Clearwater 6 years ago because Scientology had absolutely infected and taken over the town and its politics.

My brother and his boss were involved in the Scientology v Lisa McPherson case and both had bodyguards for 2+ years. Scientologists are VERY scary people. I think it's Germany which has banned the practice of that religion in their country.

[TommyDale]

I think Rolling Stone can hold its own against the $cientology lawyers. These wackos in Clearwater harrass people who post on the internet against them, even unlawfully attempting to gain access to ISP records by intimidation -- without court orders. They stop people from speaking out through pure 100% intimidation. They will sue people until they go broke.

[wideawake]

These materials, which the Church of Scientology has long struggled to keep secret, were published online by a former member in 1995 and have been widely circulated in the mainstream media, ranging from The New York Times to last year's South Park episode. They assert that 75 million years ago, an evil galactic warlord named Xenu controlled seventy-six planets in this corner of the galaxy, each of which was severely overpopulated. To solve this problem, Xenu rounded up 13.5 trillion beings and then flew them to Earth, where they were dumped into volcanoes around the globe and vaporized with bombs. This scattered their radioactive souls, or thetans, until they were caught in electronic traps set up around the atmosphere and "implanted" with a number of false ideas -- including the concepts of God, Christ and organized religion. Scientologists later learn that many of these entities attached themselves to human beings, where they remain to this day, creating not just the root of all of our emotional and physical problems but the root of all problems of the modern world.

Remember this next time Tom Cruise goes on a talk show and claims that Christianity and Scientology are compatible and that you can be both.

[zeeba neighba]

Yes, and their "cross" is the one Crowley invented, or inverted

[kublia khan]

Ping for later

[FormerLib]

Not sure what you would call it, but not religion.

You'd call it a money-making scam to deprive wealthy megalomaniacs of their cash, but I was just being polite since they wanna call it a religion.

I don't want to be accused of making fun of anybody.

[pepsionice]

Give L.Ron some credit...he was a science fiction writer above all other things. The guy could have easily written Star Trek episodes or been one of the best science writers of the century...and instead...he gleefully started a whacked up religion as a joke...and it just never did stop. No fool today could mount this kind of episode and hope to carry it on. Look around...most of these guys all get into tax trouble today or their members end up committing suicide. L.Ron was years ahead of his time.

[trisham]

Bookmark

[dfwgator]

Given where L Ron is today, I think he would like to have a "do over."

[Restorer]

There are few cars...

Not entirely true, but even if it were it's primarily because Clearwater finally got a bypass bridge in so traffic to the beach doesn't have to go through downtown. Until a few months ago it was a constant traffic jam.

Sitting here about a mile from downtown.

[Larry Lucido]

I'm not sure if those folks need to grow some balls or brains first.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"...it gives you a pretty good overview of this cult. People are trapped by these nuts!"

You could ditto that in many more parts of the world with Islam.

[augggh]

Founded by two satanists, Hubbard and Jack Parsons, followers of Crowley

Actually, Parsons had nothing to do with the founding of Scientology, unless you count having your money and wife stolen by Hubbard as "founding" it.

Nor were either Satanists. Parsons definitely had a dark streak to him, and was affiliated with Crowley's occult order, but he was never a Satanist.

There are a number of interesting biographies on Parsons, I reccommend "Sex and Rockets".

[kallisti]

Both members of Golden Dawn branches.

[zeeba neighba]

If you say so

[SteveMcKing]

From your excerpt, I see nothing that is "chilling", just Leftists resentment of whites in khakis.

(Rolling Stone's website sucks as bad as their magazine - it won't load...)

Of course -- if one mentions blacks in khakis or anything but Fubu, and then see how angry and paranoid a democrat gets...

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"These wackos in Clearwater harrass people who post on the internet against them, even unlawfully attempting to gain access to ISP records by intimidation -- without court orders. They stop people from speaking out through pure 100% intimidation. They will sue people until they go broke.

Another instance where the statements apply equally to Islam.

At least I haven't heard of Scientologists using violence yet, though. To their credit, so far they separate themselves in their censorship efforts from Islam in that way.

[Kaylee Frye]

Ping to self for later reading.

[augggh]

If you say so

Not me, but the many biographers of Parsons say so.

He's a fascinating character, regardless of the darkness he dabbled in. Our aerospace program wouldn't have gotten off the ground without his work.

[oyasuminasai]

On a bet actually not just as a joke.