What is scientoligy?

[Swiss Bezerker]

I thought it was kind of like atheism for a while, and then my brother gave me a vague descrition. More like science-fictionoligy from what i hear. Could someone explain to me what it is?(without a hugely long wikipedia article)

 

[cegman]

Dude Wiki should give you all you need but what your brother said is about right I think it is people who worship some aliens from a book.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Hubbard was a much better B.S. artist than a writer.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Mainly they take your money.

 

[The Tollan]

According to sciencetology a despotic ruler was said to have caused trauma of various sorts to people that has inserted "ingrams" that one must overcome through that organization. Nuclear weapons, packing people into volcanoes, forcing people to watch things in movie theaters, advanced space travel, conspiracies, and other things are involved in it.

Other things are involved in it however I would have to check wikipedia or another source to find out.

Those who run sciencetology attempt to lure people in by the secretive sessions in which one is alleged to find out what is wrong and keeping them from the "clear state". The clear state is something one supposedly reaches when one either gets near the end of the sessions or complete them. Once one completes the sessions it probably becomes fairly obvious that the whole thing did not help.

 

[El_Machinae]

I used to like them when I thought they were building spaceships and orbital satellite death rays. But they aren't ...

 

[Fifty]

Hubbard was a much better B.S. artist than a writer.

Hubbard was a member of the yacht club to which I belong and he couldn't have lived more than 15mins from my house.

How many of you guys can say that you've ate breakfast with old people in the same clubhouse as the founder of a religion!??!?!!?!!!?!?!?!?

And yes, UFO sightings are extremely common at yacht club steak frys and breakfasts, and Tom Cruise comes on a yearly pilgrimage to sit in solitude out on C dock and pray to the aliens.

 

[liquid fire]

Mainly they take your money.

I remember reading somewhere a story that L. Ron Hubbard founded the "religion" on a bet. Anyone know if there is any truth to this?

 

[Sophie 378]

http://www.tomcruiseisnuts.com/4_scien.php - Tom Cruise on scientology.

I keep mentally spelling "L. Ron" as Elron, and then mixing it up with Enron. Is that libel?


[Edit: someone threw that link at me once, I laughed so much I couldn't forget it.]

 

[Birdjaguar]

I keep mentally spelling "L. Ron" as Elron, and then mixing it up with Enron. Is that libel?

No, heresy!

 

[greekguy]

from what i can tell, the religion's founder founded it as mostly a joke/science fiction book. now some people are selling this junk as a religion to people who are desperate for answers to all their problems...and it is working. i really don't understand how such stupid scams are bought by so many people. :shakehead

 

[Quasar1011]

I went into Hollywood on Monday. They have a Scientology museum there, and even a street named after L. Ron Hubbard. But since it's a cult, I ignored all that.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Scientology is a transnational corporation/scam/cult/psych institute/pyramid scheme, and it gets tax benefits by taking the name "religion".

I did a presentation on it at school during our New Age topical study program. I ended up playing an intro movie that ripped off the Star Wars opening, only with the Xenu story. Translated back from Norwegian, it looks something like this:

Crisis! The Galactic Confederacy, an alliance of 76 planets with intelligent life, is
severely overpopulated to the tune of 178 billion people per planet. The emperor
Xenu can see only one way out of this dire predicament ... a genocide.

Under the pretense of calling people in for income tax inspections, he injects them
with alcohol and glycol to paralyze them, loads them into space planes and transports
them to Teegeeack for extermination. There they are dumped into volcanos, which
in turn are destroyed with hydrogen bombs. Their souls are then captured with electronic
ribbons, and forced to watch bad movies for thirty-dix days straight. Confused by
this process, these loose bits of souls (THETANS) will latch onto whatever intelligent
beings are near them.

Seventy-five million years later, Teegeeack goes by the more familiar name of Earth.
All the problems that we humans have are caused by thetans attaching themselves
to us, from sickness and disease to bad luck and bad habits.

Only one thing can save us...

SCIENT
OLOGY
​

The Scientologists are of the opinion that removing your body thetans will make you a superman with powers equal to Jesus or Buddha, giving you power over MEST (Matter, Energy, Space, Time).

[Preemptive strike to CurtSibling&co]
Somehow I don't recall Jesus putting out a Fair Game policy on people he didn't like.
[/Preemptive strike]

 

[Babbler]

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.​

-- L. Ron Hubbard, As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (27 August 1978)

 

[E-Raser]

Hubbard was a member of the yacht club to which I belong and he couldn't have lived more than 15mins from my house.

How many of you guys can say that you've ate breakfast with old people in the same clubhouse as the founder of a religion!??!?!!?!!!?!?!?!?

And yes, UFO sightings are extremely common at yacht club steak frys and breakfasts, and Tom Cruise comes on a yearly pilgrimage to sit in solitude out on C dock and pray to the aliens.

I never said Tom Cruise is NOT crazy

 

[Swiss Bezerker]

Finaly, someone makes a good explanation. Thanks Mesoy

 

[Jawz II]

its a religion like the other ones, only funnier.

 

[DBear]

Go here to find out.

 

[JollyRoger]

Mainly they take your money.

So it's just like any other religion?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

So it's just like any other religion?

Not mine, certainly.

For Scientology's approach to money, here's a short primer: Imagine the situation in Middle Age Europe when Luther posted his 95 Theses. It's the 1500s, and Johann Tetzel's aggressive marketing of Pope Leo X's offer to grant indulgence to those who gave alms towards the reconstruction of St Peter's Basilica gave the appearance that the Church was selling salvation by the pound. Take that exact appearance, ignoring what the money was being put to. Then strip away the rest of the church, for example removing the grace of the saints and the perfect ideal of Jesus, stick in Hubbard as the uncontradictable leader, throw in a lot of space opera, and you have The Bridge.
Enlightenment can be yours next month, only two hundred dollars an hour.

Finaly, someone makes a good explanation. Thanks Mesoy

My pleasure, ever since I did that project I've been waiting for somewhere I could put it to use. DBear's link to www.xenu.net is fairly good too. If you have five minutes, read through the Scientology Illustrated bit.