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Inside Scientology (Rolling Stone expose of $cientology a must read!)
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| 2-23-06
| JANET REITMAN
Posted on 02/24/2006 11:05:41 AM PST by Central Scrutiniser
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To: Central Scrutiniser
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.
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:16:14 AM PST
by
Peach
To: nickcarraway
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.
To: Central Scrutiniser
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.
To: PetroniusMaximus
Yes, and their "cross" is the one Crowley invented, or inverted
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:18:18 AM PST
by
zeeba neighba
(Onward into the fog, dear evolutionaries, there's tapioca just ahead!)
To: Central Scrutiniser
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:18:21 AM PST
by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: Jack Wilson
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.
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:18:43 AM PST
by
FormerLib
(Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
To: oyasuminasai
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.
To: Central Scrutiniser
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:18:50 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: pepsionice
Given where L Ron is today, I think he would like to have a "do over."
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:19:48 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Central Scrutiniser
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.
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:20:13 AM PST
by
Restorer
To: Central Scrutiniser
I'm not sure if those folks need to grow some balls or brains first.
To: Central Scrutiniser
"...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.
To: zeeba neighba
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".
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:23:02 AM PST
by
augggh
(Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. - AC)
To: zeeba neighba
Both members of Golden Dawn branches.
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:23:14 AM PST
by
kallisti
To: augggh
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:24:17 AM PST
by
zeeba neighba
(Onward into the fog, dear evolutionaries, there's tapioca just ahead!)
To: Central Scrutiniser
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...
To: TommyDale
"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.
To: Central Scrutiniser
Ping to self for later reading.
To: zeeba neighba
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.
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posted on
02/24/2006 11:26:51 AM PST
by
augggh
(Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. - AC)
To: pepsionice
On a bet actually not just as a joke.
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