Q:Whats the difference between Scientology and mainstream religions?

A: About 500 to 2000 years.

Diogenes: TheDumbBlonde: Raharu: Q:Whats the difference between Scientology and mainstream religions?

A: About 500 to 2000 years.

Also, forced captivity.

Pharaoh called. He wants his Jewish slaves back. ;-)

No actual archaeological evidence for that whatsoever, it is literally bullshiat.


Big Question here, Does anyone have any positive stories of Scientology doing ANYTHING positive for people, I mean like the things a church is supposed to do, feed the hungry, treat the sick etc.

Anyone?

Raharu: No actual archaeological evidence for that whatsoever, it is literally bullshiat.

No. If it were literally bullsh*t, it would be a pile of fecal matter from a bull.

So, they did a story about SeaOrg?

Scientology gives cults a bad name

Weaver95: abb3w: ...since when can a 14 year old sign a legally binding contract?

she can't. not in this area of the planet anyways.



The "Billion Year Contract" duration, though, is technically legal, surd or not.

At 14 she joined the Church's elite Sea Organisation, signing a contract binding her for a billion years, a commitment that would override her bond with her own family.

This seems legit to me. Don't sign on the line if you can't do the time.

Unfortunately, Scientology is no Heaven's Gate.

TheDumbBlonde: Raharu: Q:Whats the difference between Scientology and mainstream religions?

A: About 500 to 2000 years.

Also, forced captivity.



It was, but it wasn't "captivity" captivity.

Sea Org is made up of some creepy motherfarkers.

Oznog: Weaver95: abb3w: ...since when can a 14 year old sign a legally binding contract?

she can't. not in this area of the planet anyways.

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The "Billion Year Contract" duration, though, is technically legal, surd or not.

Dude, that is some dope letterhead. I want that as a blank.

Raharu: Q:Whats the difference between Scientology and mainstream religions?

A: About 500 to 2000 years.

Not this shiat again. The Church of Scientology is a cult that's been accused of false imprisonment and forced labor many times, in addition to draining its members of their entire life savings. Going all "lol skywizards" and equating it with every other religion ignores the fact that this organization is farking scary.

you guys do realize that most scientologists end up being released from their contracts in about 200 million years. Dont believe everything you hear, sheeple.

"The $cientology cruise. You'll come for the Engrams, but you'll stay for the buffet!"

When will the Feds come in and charge everyone with RICO violations and end this travesty?

You know, Scientology is actually a pretty cool name. It's too bad these psychos took it and ruined it.

Now I know how Charlie Chaplin felt.

Anyone who's talked to a Scientologist for more than 10 minutes has to know it's a dangerous cult.

Need_MindBleach: Raharu: Q:Whats the difference between Scientology and mainstream religions?

A: About 500 to 2000 years.

Not this shiat again. The Church of Scientology is a cult that's been accused of false imprisonment and forced labor many times, in addition to draining its members of their entire life savings. Going all "lol skywizards" and equating it with every other religion ignores the fact that this organization is farking scary.

As opposed to, say, the crusades? Or Church tithes? Same skywizard, different cloud.

You may find scientology farking crazy, but let me assure you, many people feel the same way about the other religions.

/Eve made from a rib? Ha!

Somacandra
No they don't. You can walk into most public libraries and read what its own frontmatter calls "a coldblooded and factual account of your last 76 trillion years." They push all of Hubbard's books and shove them anywhere they can. You can order it from Amazon for $.01 + shipping (new window). Nothing ever revealed in the so-called hidden doctrines (including Xenu) even begins to approach what is recorded in the openly published and officially promoted material. It makes Xenu look like a farting bunny rabbit made of rainbows.

Yes, they do. The Xenu crap and many of their other doctrines are kept secret unless you pay many thousands of dollars. For decades they have aggressively launched lawsuits against many people who have released portions of this copy written material as well as harassment suits against people who simply wrote negative stories about them.

My ex-wife was held against her will by Co$ for years when she made it clear she wanted to leave. They went so far as to put her in a cage and put her in fear for her life. She's all kinds of farked up now, which is part of the reason our marriage only lasted a few months. Her reason for leaving was because she was denied medical treatment for a back injury. She's in constant pain now as a result of not getting necessary medical care. They told her there was no money for her medical treatment but at the same time they were spending tens of millions of dollars building a mansion for their psychotic leader.

Need_MindBleach: Not this shiat again. The Church of Scientology is a cult that's been accused of false imprisonment and forced labor many times, in addition to draining its members of their entire life savings. Going all "lol skywizards" and equating it with every other religion ignores the fact that this organization is farking scary.

No kidding. If your "religion" has been known to protect criminals while demanding tithes, it is a scam.

Need_MindBleach: Not this shiat again. The Church of Scientology is a cult that's been accused of false imprisonment and forced labor many times, in addition to draining its members of their entire life savings. Going all "lol skywizards" and equating it with every other religion ignores the fact that this organization is farking scary.

Are you saying new young religions don't get a period of inhuman barbarism? All the other ones did.

That letter is weird, addressng (presumably) a stranger by his given name, and then just signed by someone without indication as to their role in the organization. I get a little pissed when strangers address me only by my given name, like we're best friends or something.

I came to earth in a DC-8

umad: No kidding. If your "religion" has been known to protect criminals while demanding tithes, it is a scam.

You do know you don't have to pay tithes? Well maybe not at Lakewood, the church that took over a basketball stadium but most other churches don't require you to pay to enter their worship service

(I've never been to Lakewood church, or The Summit Arena)

Need_MindBleach: Not this shiat again. The Church of Scientology is a cult that's been accused of false imprisonment and forced labor many times, in addition to draining its members of their entire life savings. Going all "lol skywizards" and equating it with every other religion ignores the fact that this organization is farking scary.

All religions started as cults, until they had the membership to throw off the "cult" label. And most religions have similarly committed significantly heinous acts in their past.

Sure, you can be all "they're crazy and they've imprisoned people", but if you're trying to attack them as somehow different from, say, Christianity because of that imprisoning, there's a little thing called the Inquisition I'd like to point out, where the Christian Church aggressively tortured and killed tens of thousands of innocents, often for such "crimes" as "not being Christian" or even "not being Christian enough".

So yes, when we point out that the loony amoral insanity of the CoS isn't that significantly different than most other religions except by way of age, it's pretty damn accurate. And they've also been responsible for a hell of a lot less outright moustache-twirlingly Evil than a lot of the big religions are 100% uncontestedly responsible for, historically speaking.

And while that's picking on Christianity, you can pull out similar excesses for a lot of other faiths. The CoS isn't especially horrible. It's the same kind of horrible. We're just more used to the horrible that's been around for 500-2000 years.

Susan died aboard the ship, Apollo, June 25th, 1971, with a bullet in the middle of her forehead. (new window)

"Overboarding" still in practice in Scientology. (new window)

Asbestos on my holy vessel of enlightenment? (new window)