Forget Intelligent Design...Go Scientology!

[entropy]

http://www.whatisscientology.org/Html/Part05/Chp19/pg0308.html

I love Hollywood.

[maestro8]

The whole lot of 'em deserve the white jacket:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:uAyu8qtRZM8J:users.bathspa.ac.uk/026962/Straitjacket.jpg

Including L. Ron himself... according to this article (http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/sfchronicle-hubbard-042451.htm) the guy was declared insane just a year after he first released his book on "Dianetics"

[DK]

The whole lot of 'em deserve the white jacket:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:uAyu8qtRZM8J:users.bathspa.ac.uk/026962/Straitjacket.jpg

Including L. Ron himself... according to this article (http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/sfchronicle-hubbard-042451.htm) the guy was declared insane just a year after he first released his book on "Dianetics"

f**k you



My family is scientologist


yer just a prejuduce bastard

[dudewithasock]

At least he managed to make Battlefield Earth before going completely insane.

[dudewithasock]

Too bad Travolta didn't go insane BEFORE the movie... :P

[DK]

What the hell is you all's problem?

I'm not a scientologist, but yer talking about my parents here

[dudewithasock]

I'm not making fun of scientologists, I'm making fun of the movie Battlefield Earth.

[entropy]

What the hell is you all's problem?

I'm not a scientologist, but yer talking about my parents here

No one's knocking your parents. Out of curiousity, have you ever done any research into Scientology? It's an expensive religion.

[DK]

No one's knocking your parents. Out of curiousity, have you ever done any research into Scientology? It's an expensive religion.
The money goes to a good cause

[dudewithasock]

Liiike...?

[entropy]

The money goes to a good cause

What cause? I heard the total cost of membership was almost $400,000!

[entropy]

No one's knocking your parents.

Forget I said that. 1-2-3 ... *poof*

[DK]

The money goes to feed Ron L Hubbard's religious scam

[dudewithasock]

The money goes to a good cause

The money goes to feed Ron L Hubbard's religious scam

Your credibility just went out the window.

[DK]

Your credibility just went out the window.
exactly

[johnfoss]

At least he managed to make Battlefield Earth before going completely insane.
Who, Travolta or L. Ron? :)

I read the book. The book was good. The movie seemed to have little in common with the book (I didn't see it). L. Ron Hubbard was a great pulp science fiction writer.

DK, that was a great retort in post #3. Quite cutting! This whole thread seems to be more about John Travolta and L. Ron Hubbard than your parents, who none of us know anything about. I respect the beliefs of others when it comes to religion.

[dudewithasock]

Heh, sorry, should've specified; I was praising the book, and then in the next post, dissing the movie.

[DK]

Who, Travolta or L. Ron? :)

I read the book. The book was good. The movie seemed to have little in common with the book (I didn't see it). L. Ron Hubbard was a great pulp science fiction writer.

DK, that was a great retort in post #3. Quite cutting! This whole thread seems to be more about John Travolta and L. Ron Hubbard than your parents, who none of us know anything about. I respect the beliefs of others when it comes to religion.

Ummm

I was kidding about my parents

but people should think before they call people insane

[Unitik908]

hahahahhah i had just read this thread.. then i watched south park... and it was tlaking all about this stuff.. it was hilarious

Chase

[GUI]

Anyone ever heard Frank Zappa's song about apliantology?

[maestro8]

but people should think before they call people insane

According to Merriam and Webster:
in·san·i·ty (ĭn-săn'ĭ-tē)
n., pl. -ties.

1. Persistent mental disorder or derangement. No longer in scientific use.
2. Law.
1. Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility.
2. In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act committed.
3.
1. Extreme foolishness; folly.
2. Something that is extremely foolish

Anyone who can pick up a work of fiction (such as the book Dianetics) and believe it so undoubtedly as to follow its advice religiously and give huge sums of their money away is, in my opinion, mentally malfunctioning and extremely foolish.

Ferchrissakes, the guy coins a few scientific-sounding terms, employs some phoney-baloney apparatus (http://www.scientology.org/en_US/religion/auditing/pg005.html) to measure who-knows-what, and comes up with some hoops one can jump through to gain some phoney status (http://www.scientology.org/html/opencms/cos/scientology/en_US/religion/catechism/pg039.html), and all of a sudden everyone with a lot of money and a lack of brain power wants to jump on his bandwagon?

The book may have some good ideas in it, but such things should be considered as good advice, not as instructions on starting a cult.

[tomblackwood]

The whole lot of 'em deserve the white jacket.
Would that be this white jacket (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1293627.html)?

[GILD]

Would that be this white jacket (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1293627.html)?
I doubt it. Nobody deserves that white jacket
[shudders]...[/shuddering]

I was in Scientology briefly many moons ago.
Did a couple of their courses, communication and the like. Some good stuff in there.
It got a bit goofier towards the end of my involvement and just before I joined the Sea Org (http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part06/Chp26/) ( I toyed with the idea for about a week - I was a completely different person back then...), I just got up early during a study session (I used to attend these 5 nights a week) just as I was supposed to start the final, essay type, question in the course I was doing and told the supervisor that I had to go see some friends of mine who were playing in a band. I left and never even thought about going back.
Seems that rock 'n roll saved my life.

I was never as heavily into the whole thing as this lady (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/). Reading thru some of the reasons she got involved reminds me of some of the thoughts I had about the whole thing as well.
At the time.

[maestro8]

I was never as heavily into the whole thing as this lady (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/).

Reading through that link I found this little gem:

The goal of the Sea Org was to "clear the planet", meaning to make this a Scientology planet. After planet earth was cleared, we would go into outer space, in future lives, and spread Scientology throughout the galaxy.

I am at a loss for words. I think I'm going insane just reading about this cult!

[phlegm]

Hmm... I guess every good religion needs a plan for world assimilation. ;)

[ThisGuyIKnow]

Well it is a religion started by a science fiction writer.

No odder really than a religion started by a carpenter turned philosopher, but at least he built off of previous belief systems.