Because of another question posted, I just did a little search on scientology and came across 2 sites.\n\nwww.lisamcpherson.org & www.whyaretheydead.net\n\nLooking at this has really disturbed me.\n\nMy only association with the church of scientology was when I went along for a free perdonality and iq test they were handing out brochures for in the city. After my personality test, a guy sat down with me and tried to tell me how screwed up I was and how they could help.
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The word Scientology literally means "the study of truth." It comes from the Latin word "scio" meaning "knowing in the fullest sense of the word" and the Greek word "logos" meaning "study of." \n\nScientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The Scientology religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these: \n\nMan is an immortal, spiritual being. His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realized — and those capabilities can be realized. He is able to not only solve his own problems, accomplish his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also achieve new, higher states of awareness and ability. \n\nIn Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results. \n\nThrough Scientology, people all over the world are achieving the long-sought goal of true spiritual release and freedom. \n\nThis aka, "cult" was created by —L. Ron Hubbard \nThe Creation of Human Ability \n\nHe is the one the authored the book, Dianetics?\n\nLets go to scripture and see what the Word of god speaks of these false teachings.\n\n2 Peter 2:01,2............:1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. \n\n1st John 4:01...........1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. \n\nMore or less sister we both know that this is a flase teaching and the spirit has warned us..\nSo God bless and Amen...
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I go to a church in Hollywood..there are several actors that attend service there on a regular basis.  NO not all actors are into Scientology...only the nuts like Tom Cruise and Travolta to name a few.  I'm also in the tv/film business and know of many actors that attend Catholic, Non-Denomination, Lutheran, Presbyterian...etc.\n\nThey're just people like you and I.  Some of them are strange and it's definitely gone to their heads, but in my experience the majority of them are good, sane people.
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Absolutely.\n\nTo rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" and also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... and we have to pay lots and lots and lots of money for “auditing” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions) and to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”.  The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry and psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life.  They deny the reality of chemical imbalance and profound mental disturbance and accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).\n\nThey claim that you can spend less money on Scientology than you would on a psychiatrist and their drugs, but consider the prices of all the books, all the auditing, all the tests you have to take to attain higher levels (and if you fail, you have to pay to retest).
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There is NAMBLA. The National Association for Man Boy Love which is as creepy as the Super Adventures Club.\n\nI think it's more of a mockery of Scientology and the way Scientology came to be. A Sci-Fi writer created the "religion" out of thin air with rather stupid and strange ideas about human life and aliens, etc.\n\nJust like the Super Adventures Club was with the whole "marlark" thing and their leader.
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There founder L. Ron Hubard gave them information about how our souls came here to earth and more information about various space alien races.  These secrets are part of a system to help humans regian there lost god like abilities, which space aliens have caused us to loss.\n\nIf you practice scientology you will learn how to accsses these hiden secret powers.\n\nI have no idea of the validity of any of there claims, but they try to protect there system according to them so it isn't miss used.  People critical of Scientology claim the secrecy is to protect the churchs money making ability.
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Well I am bound to get hate mail for this...but here goes. ...i have had violations for the most innocent questions..and i have replied to Y!A..got the standard automated reply that they're looking into it....well after 6 months, I figure it's a lie, especially since they have found the time to take breathers, update to a more awful wesite, push the awful blog thing, which by the way is a form of subliminal seduction of devulging our privacy willingly...that we should find things like myspace and blogging perfectly natural...giving up our privacy ..our dossiers...things that we would never ever say to anoher, that only  an FBI or CIA agent would be privy to...after Rorscachk Analysis....natural....oh yeaeh...revealing that much is like cutting the nipples out of your shirt and walking around wondering why people are staring at your chest......now, I have NOT recieved a response regarding my questions tht someone had a hardon for and had removed..some right wing arse whom got a hair in the "RIGHT" place and decided that i was to be the sacrificial lamb d'jour. There are ways to figure out who these people are. \nBTW BEFORE you accept to be on the gallery wall of a blog and you are a woman...and I happen to be one, check out the patterns of people...there are men who have nothing but "beat off" shots of women, as they seem to collect them...peruse the different categories and see what the different latitudes are for tolerance....you will find it different in EACH category.....the religous "Do as god says" people will damn you quicker than they will pray for you, the demon lovers will flag you easily, the depressed and lovelorn will give you  a thumbs down, the ones who suck up and tell you what they THINK you want to hear, yes I do check, and I HAVE studied profiling for over 10 years so THIS is a side dish ....not the best, nonetheless and allthemore only a side dish and not the best at that....I actually preferred the red jello in rehab in the early 90's..... Customer service if you sense a seasoned woman is most likely a woman who has no sex, has cats, doesn't date, watches the same shows , has a ritual of television including the Lifetime Channel..... and is a spitout leftover from a gone wrong marriage probably missing the glitz of her double wide on cinderblocks. Next time you call her ask her how Pat and Vanna are doing, she might just warm up at yahoo.....probably a lily tomlin Look alilke...acutally I am hypotheticalizing, but it is fun.......so no one can sue me, only flag me.\nI am sorry for your loss of time....as time is currency and yahoo doesnt care as they tout the likes allegedly of deepak Choprah, Dr, Phil, Oprah, and honey the list goes on and one....yahoo is only yahoo...there ARE more interesting formats, i just managed to get a bit hooked in here and keep tellingmyself I will leave when I hit a certain amount of points...I am at level 6....8,000 something fromm level 7..and when I reach it if I havent made a friend, i think I will call it quits and just slip away into the abyss of something that cannot be aired in a public format. i wish you well, hell I wish me well too..and you are right.....\nI will be awaiting your word as to what happens...no, they do not care, and the last time i told them to keep their damn auto response to themselves and unbelievably they did it.\nhey...who knew?\nWell..we will find out now won't welll...glad I saw your question, full of passion and fire....and a great reality check for those in the YAHOO COMA!!!!\nWAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!\nThanks...\nLioncourt.....\nP.S. I too am a Virgo...does it show?
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Scientologist here,\n\nThe fact that Scientology is not in the slightest bit intersted in the\n"media's" usual "let's stir up some scandle, controversy, alarm, rumour\netc. to sell our "product", should demonstrate that what you have "heard" may not be factual. I have no idea who your sources are for this idea about Scientology in the past with regard to negative press.\n\nThere have been some very momentous legal battles won in the past by Scientology, but they have been to preserve religious freedom, and none involved the press.\nThe press also does not print this kind of positive outcome, nor does it promote any other good works accomplished by Scientology.\nIt's what you don't read or find out in the press that actually counts.\nWe do not take it personally since they do this with many individuals and groups. Our viewpoint with regard to the media is that they always howl the loudest when we are expanding and doing the most good.\nSo in a way negative press is an index for us, re our impact and expansion, a compliment. And they are right, Scientology is growing very fast at the moment, considering it is a new religion, only 55 years old infact, we are expanding internationally more than at any other time in our very brief past.\nHaving been a Scientologist for the past 35 years and been through the various "attacks" that have been launched in the past by the media, which were a lot more vicious than the silly stuff that has been printed recently, for me this is a big yawn, actally it is even a bit amusing.\nAs to whether this affects Scientologists in general, Huh! \nWe all have a lot more certainty about what we are doing with and in Scientology to even give this our attention.\nWe are all very busy expanding right now, and have much more important things to give our attention to.\nIf you knew our aims and purpose you would know we still have a lot of work ahead of us.\nDespite "rumours" to the contrary we are very much here to stay!
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Here is what I found: \nhttp://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=Larry+Gluck+scientology&fr=ush-ans&u=www.freedominla.org/issue05/page02b.htm&w=larry+gluck+scientology&d=FeLE6pIFNgiN&icp=1&.intl=us\nhttp://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/archives/scientology_and_the_art_of_deception.phtml\nLarry Gluck's "Mission" is a part of the WISE organization, an organization that educates and assists businesses in the use of Scientology management methods and techniques.  Visit this link to read about WISE: http://www.charter-committee.org/
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Is Scientology posing a real threat to Christian America or summink?  This is the third or fourth paranoid question about that organisation in a week!\n\nIf they're crackpots let them carry on cracking pots. \n\nYou can ask a similar question about Christian (blind) faith.  How on earth does a Jewish guy being murdered by the Romans on a cross save humanity either then or now - especially as Hebrew scripture forbids (1) human sacrifice and (2) the deification of a human sacrifice?\n\nSome Christians find the real answer to that question and carry on believing in their faith. This is because faith is often the replacement or removal of rational reasoning, facts, evidence, and logic.\n\nWhy is Scientology being held up to higher standards than other blind faiths?
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Because they LIE and MISLEAD and MANIPULATE people into joining.  That is what CULTS do.\n\nI would NEVER join that cult.  I'll tell you why... This is what Scientologists ACTUALLY believe:\n\nXenu was an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecrafts resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. L. Ron Hubbard (a science-fiction writer and the creator of Scientology) called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and the advanced levels in Scientology place considerable emphasis on isolating them and neutralizing their ill effects.\n\nTo rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" and also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... and we have to pay lots and lots and lots of money for “auditing” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions) and to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”.  The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry and psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life.  They deny the reality of chemical imbalance and profound mental disturbance and accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stablize the dangerously unstable.  The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).\n\nScientology is undeniably a cult. Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:\n\n(1) It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members [convincing potential members that they are unhappy and Scientology is the only means of helping themselves]. (2) It forms an elitist totalitarian society. [they label everyone who disagrees or questions as a “Suppressive Person” and requires members to “disconnect” from them] (3) Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma. [this would accurately describe Hubbard] (4) It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds & recruit people. (5) Its wealth does not benefit its members or society. [self evident proof for 4 & 5 as it does milk members for virtually everything they have and it’s wealth doesn’t find it’s way back to it’s members or society at all]\n\nCults are extremely harmful. To remain within the strict mental and social confines of a cult for even a short time can have the following disastrous effects:\n\nLoss of choice and free will. Diminished intellectual ability, vocabulary and sense of humor. Reduced use of irony, abstractions and metaphors. Reduced capacity to form flexible and intimate relationships. Poor judgment. Physical deterioration. Malnutrition. Hallucinations, panic, dissociation, guilt, identity diffusion and paranoia. Neurotic, psychotic or suicidal tendencies.
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The urban legend regarding this is that Hubbard, discussing religion with his friends, boasted that he could create his own religion, since people were so gullible. As the story goes, his friends took up that bet and he sat down to write Dianetics, the beginning of a cult. This story is justified by the fact that Hubbard published many (poor) science fiction novels before moving on to religion.\n\nThere is no corroborating evidence of this, as I'm sure it would be disrupt the goals of Scientology.\n\nThe religion itself is a dangerous cult that has harmed or killed many people.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology\nhttp://www.scientology.org/\nhttp://www.scientology.org/en_US/religion/index.html\n\n\nhttp://www.xenu.net/roland-intro.html\n\nHOPE THESE HELP!!!!!!!!!  (Dianetics is another book by Ron. Hubbard)
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Yes, your are correct.  People do need to learn the truth about the Cult of Scientology so they are not duped themselves.\n\nYes the Church of Scientology is a destructive cult.\n\nI don't think it was right to call PL a 'nutjob'.  All sorts of different people join the cult for different reasons, some are very intelligent and highly productive people.  Intelligence doesn't always protect you from fraud, or being duped by a cult.  We should try to point PL to the truth about scientology.  Once we have done that, it is his choice about whether he follows scientology or not, and should not be persecuted for such.  It is my opinion/observation that if a member, he most likely hasn't spent any time looking at critical information from the church, as they aren't allowed to.\n\nHere is another site about Tom & Scientology.\nhttp://www.tomcruiseisnuts.com/\n\nHere is the main site critical of Scientology.\nhttp://www.clambake.org (same as http://www.xenu.net )\n\nIf you like video's instead look at this site http://www.xenutv.com\n\nFor comparison here is the Official site for CofS\nhttp://www.scientology.org\n\nI have been labelled a religious nazi for my comments about scientology, so be warned.\nhttp://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsEjidOELOCFONPt3ylQLHggBgx.?qid=20060625061002AAKDm4y\nhttp://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al6vXIkbu4790qj7E8flh4sgBgx.?qid=20060625063012AATeRkr\n\nYou can comment on this in my open question.\nhttp://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiAJIr1H.UXHquWyu0v_qRggBgx.?qid=20060625141629AApOshT
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What planet are you from or are you just brain dead ?. I will only mention one Christian organisation that is world wide , Its Called the Salvation Army, They ( just in case you have not heard of them ) run soup kitchens , drug rehab centres and a host of other things as well like hospitals etc and orphanages . Now I only mention one christian organisation because I don`t want to embarrass you by asking you to name just one from your religion that even come close to the things that the Salvation Army does in the name of helping others . Now you mentally challenged moron I await your reply !!!
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The newsgroup: Alt.Religion.Scientology\n\nhttp://www.beliefnet.com/boards/discussion_list.asp?boardID=19945\n\nhttp://www.clambake.org\n\nhttp://www.lisamcpherson.org
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I've studied Scientology, and read books on both sides of the issue.  Scientology is an applied religious philosophy.  It's a field of study who's subject is you.  Scientology's hope for you is that you can achieve the state of "Clear" or a state of freedom from your traumatic memories.  Scientology helps people achieve this state through Dianetics counseling.\n\nThe aims of Scientology are a civilization without insanity without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights and man is free to rise to greater heights.\n\nScientologists believe strongly in community service, and have founded many social betterment organizations including, Narconon which helps people get off drugs, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights which works for psychiatric reform, the Applied Scholastics study tech organization, and the Way to Happiness Foundation.\n\nBUT, Scientology is very expensive.  Crossing Scientology's "Bridge to Total Freedom" can cost up to half a million dollars.  And some of the information available on Scientology makes the organization look like a bizarre cult and it's practices have encountered controversy.  Just google it, and you'll find a ton of information both pro and con.
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I think that it is an interesting cult thing created and propagated by celebrites. I mean how many of us can read a science fiction book by L. Ron Hubbard and than continue to think...hey maybe my spiritual side comes from aliens! It takes a special person like tom cruise to think like that.