Posted on 11/14/2005 6:24:28 PM PST by null and void
As a former member of that, ummmm, organization, I have a standing open offer to answer any FReeper's qusetions about Scientology, either in open forum, or via FReepmail.
I will do my best to answer as promptly, concisely and accurately as possible, but as I left some time ago, I'm not always privy to the latest wrinkles.
Still, from what I can gather from my few remaining contacts not that much has really changed!
It was like Battlestar Galactica except Lorne Greene wasn't in it.
What does it teach about the afterlife?
How difficult was it to leave and have you suffered, or endured any repercussions from your actions?
Thanks for the ping.
You might be interested in this thread.
Travolta's Terl is the Snidely Whiplash of sci-fi, a laughable villain who would twirl his moustache if he had one.
-- Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Travolta plays Terl as a sort of evil aristocrat, but overacts the role at every opportunity. It's like he went to the Brian Blessed School of Subtle Performance but was thrown out for laughing too much.
-- Chris Holland and Scott Hamilton, Stomptokyo.com.
Battlefield Earth is the film Edward D. Wood Jr. might have made if he had been handed $100 million.
-- Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee.
If 1950s sci-fi schlockmeister Ed Wood could have gotten his hands on $60 million and CGI special effects, he might have made a movie as hilariously gawdawful as Battlefield Earth… When the credits rolled, my cheeks hurt from laughing. I hated this movie, and I had a great time doing it.
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDwire.
The one Scientologist I know believes that L. Ron Hubbard was murdered. Any thoughts on that?
You may be here for a very long time...............once word gets around.
If you have "hidden influences", how do you know they are influencing you?
I know, silly question.
Oops, just read on the earthquake thread that you also thought he might have had an untimely demise.
If it was playing on Pam Anderson's naked body I would not watch it again.
Some friends had watched it and told me to avoid it like the plague. Still, I may watch it for sheer comedic value. Unless, of course, it is relly horrible.
No one said anything about it being presented in 3-D....
Wait for the next thread?
The Thetan is immortal, we just go on and get another body, or do some other undefined stuff.
Note that a Thetan is different than a soul. A Soul is something you have. A Thetan is something you are. It's you. That part of you that isn't your mind (you have a mind). It isn't your body. It isn't 'your' anything.
What was the etymology of the term, 'scientology'? Science and Astrology?
Are you watching your back right now?
Very. Unless you leave early on, by the time you've been in for multiple years most of your 'wog' friends have either drifted away, or been driven away. There's nowhere to go. Or at least it looks that way.
I personally haven't suffered much at the hands of the church. I left on the standard routing out check sheet, and that gave them few hooks to attack me with. I even got back the money I had on account.
I do know others who have endured quite a bit. One friend even committed suicide.
Whoooo boy. Give me a bit to find what I've already said on that topic. It will be much easier than trying to retype it all!
Well, because you find yourself doing and saying things that just don't make sense. (Actually they do, but not in relation to anything that's happening now).
*ouch*
LOL! Excellent! No, according to Hubbard, it's the study (ology) of knowing (scio -> science). Or Knowing How to Know...
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