Some of the basics in scientology are taken from the perennial philosophy and therefore IMO legit (Hubbard, like Icke and others, was apparently well-versed in mystical/esoteric literature). But these basics are then utterly distorted and become lost in the dribble added to make scientology appealing to a modern audience raised on scifi, aliens and whatnot.
Originally posted by manjaroWTF? What's Scientology? Is it a religion or a play on words?
so here's the basic gist of thier beliefs. these dumb assholes believe that millions of years ago, before the dinos an intergalactic war was being waged. our Earth—called Teegeeack, then—was featured in a galaxy-wide federation oppressed by one Xenu (or Xemu), an evil titan. Faced with the problem of overpopulation, Xenu had gathered up the ne’er-do-wells from his empire and confined those individuals in terrestrial volcanoes, and utilized nuclear bombs to explode the latter (and the former). The spirits (“thetans”) of those formerly intact beings were then collected, imprisoned in frozen alcohol, and implanted into human beings. and these thetans are now the cuase of all human suffering....so all you have to do is run down to the nearest center and pay ass loads of money for auditing and they'll get rid of those pesky little buggers for ya.no but it doesnt stop there, once you join up, you often have to cut ties from all your relatives, they also claim that once your educated enuff you can control these thetans on a few levels they dub operating thetans. they have OT1-OT9 i believe,but in order to advance thru the levels you have to donate more money...so the more you give the higher you can climb, and once you get to OT5, where tom cruise is, supposedly you can fly and have mastery over time and space...read ppls minds, and move objects mentally.....WOW WHERE DO I SIGN UP!
i know we got freedom of religion and all but why do we allow these bastards to continue??
Scientology is the "Study of Knowledge or Truth" the idea of scientology that was posted at first is the idea that was shown in an episode of South Park... if you simply google this subject you fill find that it is much different and that a Thetan is from after the greek letter Theta which was the symbol for thought and life, which Mr. Hubbard found to be a more suitable word than "soul" as soul has branched out to more than it used to be, also a Thetan is the Person them self and not the body nor the name the actual entity that we would refer to as a soul, now he also "found" that there are multiple levels of these Thetans which is the measure of how many "Thetans" can live free from your skin, such as those with tremendous spiritual connection have a higher Thetan level, also it says that one can become what they wish if they believe that they can, such as stop a bullet which is... simply... odd if you may and honestly it isn't smart if you think you can do that... which sounds a bit like the Matrix, also it consists of 8 urges which are the urges of survival, which includes our reaction to life endangerment why we are... "addicted" to sex and the like... also you will find that the personality tests cost $500+ but is offered free on the official website...$500 is rather... incredibly... rediculous
Re: Scientology: incredibly stupid...yet incredibly genius
Originally posted by manjaro
so here's the basic gist of thier beliefs. these dumb assholes believe that millions of years ago, before the dinos an intergalactic war was being waged. our Earth—called Teegeeack, then—was featured in a galaxy-wide federation oppressed by one Xenu (or Xemu), an evil titan. Faced with the problem of overpopulation, Xenu had gathered up the ne’er-do-wells from his empire and confined those individuals in terrestrial volcanoes, and utilized nuclear bombs to explode the latter (and the former). The spirits (“thetans”) of those formerly intact beings were then collected, imprisoned in frozen alcohol, and implanted into human beings. and these thetans are now the cuase of all human suffering....so all you have to do is run down to the nearest center and pay ass loads of money for auditing and they'll get rid of those pesky little buggers for ya.no but it doesnt stop there, once you join up, you often have to cut ties from all your relatives, they also claim that once your educated enuff you can control these thetans on a few levels they dub operating thetans. they have OT1-OT9 i believe,but in order to advance thru the levels you have to donate more money...so the more you give the higher you can climb, and once you get to OT5, where tom cruise is, supposedly you can fly and have mastery over time and space...read ppls minds, and move objects mentally.....WOW WHERE DO I SIGN UP!
i know we got freedom of religion and all but why do we allow these bastards to continue??
Sounds like the Catholic Church to me. 😆