I hold it is part of MK Ultra. Many of their buildings are supposedly empty and they hold extensive files on all of their members. Also keep in mind that the CIA has a liaison office in Hollywood with the purpose of helping edit scripts to promote US intelligence in a positive light.
Scientology is the most complex practical joke ever played. L. Ron Hubbard had a vicious sense of humor.
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She’s dead Jim.
I want to reach superhuman chicken wing and beer festival champion. I am sane enough to visualize there is not enough Bleu cheese to achieve this level of education.
This saddens me. She wasn’t saved and is paying for it
I now understand the origins of Lucy. Thank you. It was an interesting flick but I didn’t know the foundations of its philosophy.
Steve Jobs rejected medical treatment. But he wasn't a scientology. If he accepted treatment when he was diagnosed with cancer, there's a slight chance he may be still alive today. Not relevant to this thread but interesting.
What a bunch of retards.
Scientology is crazy. And scary.
Oddly, though, they often see through lefty woke crap.
Allie was outspoken MAGA for example.
You’ve met your match, Xenu.
I was very young at the time, with healthy skepticism.
Years ago I did a co-presentation for a conference with Jim Dincalci on “Cult Mind Control.”
Jim was Hubbards private nurse and lived with him for 14 years. First on the island in France, then hiding out in NYC, and finally on Hubbard’s yacht.
Jim left Hubbard as he saw the inside workings of Scientology and Hubbard’s hypocracy first hand. He did a lot of work forgiving Hubbard and wrote a bestselling book on forgiveness, started the Forgiveness Foundation International.
Jim died last year so I don’t mind sharing this private conversation. He said that Scientology would harm him if he shared what he knew about them.
Scientology would target high profile people like Cruz and Kirsti. The would then use therapy techniques to get them to bear their deep dark secrets.
If the person tried leaving Scientology, they would use the secret information to blackmail the person.
I followed their fight to get IRS Tax Exemption as a church many years ago. It’s a good case study.
Scientology targeted IRS employees and agents to join their church. Then Scientology started an IRS whistleblower’s organization and harassed the top people.
They went a step further and identified real estate owned by top IRS staff, and file dozens of zoning violation complaints against their properties.
Finally the IRS couldn’t stand the harassment any longee and folded, giving Scientology church status.
OT VIII, they will be ’cause over matter, energy, space, and time,’ which translates to various superhuman abilities, including being impervious to disease.”...
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That last bit didn’t works out so well ...
It’s long been known that L. Ron Hubbard made a bet with CS Lewis that anyone with exceptional talking skills could create a religious movement out of thin air and in 100 years would have a million followers (i.e. suckers) donating to the cause.
Hubbard invented Scientology to prove his point. And here we are, where Scientology now has tax exempt status under the guise that it is a true religion.
You can add the Church of Latter Day Saints, Jehovah’s Witness, Wicca, Santeria, Church of Satan, etc. to the group of modern day fake, phony religions.
Didn’t work. She still got cancer and died.
I remember Dungeons and Dragons.
I’ll stick with my belief in God, thank you.
Scientology is the religion of choice for people who find islam makes too much sense.