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So you have questions about Scientology...
Null and void | 11/14/05 | null and void

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!


TOPICS: General Discusssion; Other non-Christian; Theology
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To: null and void

It was like Battlestar Galactica except Lorne Greene wasn't in it.


21 posted on 11/14/2005 7:12:04 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: null and void

What does it teach about the afterlife?


22 posted on 11/14/2005 7:15:00 PM PST by Sybeck1 (chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
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To: null and void

How difficult was it to leave and have you suffered, or endured any repercussions from your actions?

Thanks for the ping.


23 posted on 11/14/2005 7:16:29 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: WestCoastGal

You might be interested in this thread.


24 posted on 11/14/2005 7:17:01 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Westlander
Travolta gives a performance that would make William Shatner wince.
-- Edward Johnson-Ott, Nuvo News.

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.

A better reviewer asks "How did this movie get made?"

25 posted on 11/14/2005 7:20:04 PM PST by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: null and void

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.


26 posted on 11/14/2005 7:20:12 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: null and void

If you have "hidden influences", how do you know they are influencing you?

I know, silly question.


27 posted on 11/14/2005 7:22:48 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Rushmore Rocks; null and void

Oops, just read on the earthquake thread that you also thought he might have had an untimely demise.


28 posted on 11/14/2005 7:26:18 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Army Air Corps
I never saw that movie because of the reviews. Just how bad was it?

If it was playing on Pam Anderson's naked body I would not watch it again.

29 posted on 11/14/2005 7:26:48 PM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: MilspecRob

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.


30 posted on 11/14/2005 7:30:06 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: MilspecRob
If it was playing on Pam Anderson's naked body I would not watch it again.

No one said anything about it being presented in 3-D....

31 posted on 11/14/2005 7:31:49 PM PST by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: Stingy Dog

Wait for the next thread?


32 posted on 11/14/2005 7:37:30 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: Sybeck1
What does it teach about the afterlife?

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.

33 posted on 11/14/2005 7:42:34 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: null and void

What was the etymology of the term, 'scientology'? Science and Astrology?


34 posted on 11/14/2005 7:44:50 PM PST by Cvengr (<;^))
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To: null and void

Are you watching your back right now?


35 posted on 11/14/2005 7:46:04 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: Rushmore Rocks
How difficult was it to leave and have you suffered, or endured any repercussions from your actions?

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.

36 posted on 11/14/2005 7:49:49 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: Rushmore Rocks
The one Scientologist I know believes that L. Ron Hubbard was murdered. Any thoughts on that?

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!

37 posted on 11/14/2005 7:52:31 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: Rushmore Rocks
If you have "hidden influences", how do you know they are influencing you?

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).

38 posted on 11/14/2005 7:54:56 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: MilspecRob
If it was playing on Pam Anderson's naked body I would not watch it again.

*ouch*

39 posted on 11/14/2005 7:55:43 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: Cvengr
What was the etymology of the term, 'scientology'? Science and Astrology?

LOL! Excellent! No, according to Hubbard, it's the study (ology) of knowing (scio -> science). Or Knowing How to Know...

40 posted on 11/14/2005 7:57:49 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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