Scientology and Xenu

[The Last Conformist]

Have you ever heard lawyers or biologists talk? Nothing but acronyms. Those two and engineers. TLA's, FLA's ... all these three and four letter acronyms.

I am an engineer, and I dechiffer things like GR, WIMP, QCD, CMOS, mRNA, SALMA, KBO, HD, ZFC, P2P, WHFB, etc without thinking. It's the style of their abbreviationese that feels Soviet.

 

[ironduck]

They like acronyms because it makes them sound important. They use terms such as Religious Technology Center and Sea Organization for their management, the latter has the whole navy outfit as can be seen here http://xenu.net/archive/so/ - they are truly nutcases.

Unfortunately the people who fall prey get abused ruthlessly. They have their own secret police complete with brain washing manuals etc.

 

[Sophie 378]

@El_Machinae: Well, you try saying cyclic adenosine diphosphate instead of cAMP, or small interfering ribonucleic acid instead of siRNA. At least there's a point to the scientific abbreviations! Weakly interacting massive particles to you too.

 

[Homie]

I agree with El Machinae, this "leaked version" is probably not accurate. People wouldn't believe something like Fallen Angel Lord presented in the 1st post. We have to give people more credit than that. I bet if we actually asked some scientologist he would make more sense than the "leaked story".

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

So I've been reading up on scientology lately. And found their doctrine. Lets just say its not as inspired as the bible.

So thats it in a nutshell. Now the question is, how do I make up something like that and get people to give all their worldy possession to me and work for me for minimum wage?

People will literally believe anything if they're psychologically vulnerable. If you're anxious about something in your life, and someone offers you answers that aren't otherwise available, you'll believe it, no matter how outlandish it sounds.

The Mormon religion is no less inspired. They believe that God is an alien that lives around the star Kakistocra, and that the angel Moroni is an alien messenger (who resembles the Greys from conspiracy theories). There is also an amusing matter of alternate North American history, as well as the infamous Egyptian hieroglyphic golden plates, which, while translated as the book of Mormon, were actually found to be excerpts from the Book of the Dead. I am confident that such con games can be exposed with nearly any religion, if one can find the evidence.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I agree with El Machinae, this "leaked version" is probably not accurate. People wouldn't believe something like Fallen Angel Lord presented in the 1st post. We have to give people more credit than that. I bet if we actually asked some scientologist he would make more sense than the "leaked story".

Well, millions of people take Genesis to be a literally true account of the origins of the world ...

 

[Homie]

Well, millions of people take Genesis to be a literally true account of the origins of the world ...

What a lame cheap shot

 

[Perfection]

I am an engineer, and I dechiffer things like GR, WIMP, QCD, CMOS, mRNA, SALMA, KBO, HD, ZFC, P2P, WHFB, etc without thinking. It's the style of their abbreviationese that feels Soviet.

What exactly do you do?

What a lame cheap shot

Inexpensive, but correct!

 

[Gibsie]

There's a Scientology place jist down the road from my uni, they're always trying to get people in by offering stress tests, which, curiously, always offer the same result: buy our book!

 

[The Last Conformist]

What a lame cheap shot

You don't need expensive weapons to fell such pathetic beasts.

Think about it - why is it less silly to believe in a creation story largely plagiarized from Babylonian mythology but with Yahweh placed in the lead rôle than in Hubbard's second-rate SF?

What exactly do you do?

Let's say, I'm a man of wide-ranging interests.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

You've been reading up or watching south park?
allthou I heard all that a while ago too

I'll put my money on the second option

---> http://mrtwig.net/ep/912.html <---

 

[The Last Conformist]

This is great stuff. According to xenu.net's Clam FAQ, Hubby taught that our ancestry featured not only clams but also seaweed, jellyfish, molluscs known as "weepers" or "boohoos", sloths, and Plitdown Man.

Obviously fate didn't like ol' Ron, since the only reasonable entry on that list, Piltdown Man, was exposed as a hoax within a year of his publishing the book containing this stuff.

 

[Tiresias]

Thing is hubbard didn't believe a word of it, he was in it for the money and boy did it work, hell I might try it

 

[The Last Conformist]

Actually, it seems he eventually duped himself into believing his own baloney. When you're surrounded by worshippers, it's easy to think you're a god.

 

[Tiresias]

yeah well he did go a bit crazy, but who can blame him?

 

[ironduck]

To me the scariest part of scientology is still the department called Ethics. That's where you go when you've been bad and need to be beat unconscious.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

It's hard to sympathise with people who believe in this rubbish.

 

[Till]

To me, Scientology is the western equivalent to unspeakable weird Japanese computer games. I can't understand either, i feel sorry for the victims and wonder how the hell they can be successful.

 

[ironduck]

The Japanese have some really weird tv programs too

 

[Till]

Those make me despair.