I'm posting some of this for anyone who hasn't already heard the Xenu story. For any who don't know what Scientology is, it's basically a scam for money. They make you take a "free personality test", tell you you have a bunch of flaws that you don't really, make you feel bad, then make you pay out the arse for a bunch of classes that are supposed to get rid of these "flaws". These classes can run as much as $100 for an hour of trying to convince someone who's pretending to be a child that it's OK that they wet their pants. In actuality, it's all a bunch of idiocy. After you've taken a certain amount of these "classes", you get to learn this story, which they don't tell to beginners because it would scare them away. Without further adieu:
Iâm going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Right, then Iâll begin.
[/i]Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.
Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were over-populated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.
Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).
These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.
The story doesnât end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a âthetanâ in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called âimplantingâ.
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.
That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called âbody thetansâ. And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these âbody thetansâ and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.[/i]
Well what did you think of that story?
What? You thought it was a stupid story?
Well so do we. Unfortunately this stupid story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).
We are telling you this story as a warning. If you become involved with Scientology then we would like you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of the sort of material it contains.
Most of the Scientologists that work in their Dianetics* centres and so called âChurchesâ of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret âupperâ levels of Scientology. It may take them many years before they reach this level if they ever do. The ones who do know it are forced to keep it a secret and not tell it to those people who are joining Scientology.
Part of the first page of the secret OT III document in L. Ron Hubbardâs own handwriting.
WWW.XENU.NET
Now you have read this you know their big secret. Donât let us put you off joining though.
That's a great question, Ash. Fundamentally, I don't think there is a difference. It's just that a religion is a cult that has been accepted as a religion by whatever review board does that type of thing. Wicca became a religion not too long ago - it used to be a cult.
I see the scientologists doing the same thing catholics did a thousand years ago: Gipping people out of money. Only the catholics sold papers that would get you into heaven.
Scientology is stupid, MY creation story much better - God didn't make EArth and the universe in 7 days, he did it in 7 billion years! or 7 million, I dunno, and then that snake realised that God was having a long rest, so told the humans to eat the fruit of knowledge, then Adam and Eve knew they wore nothing, and hid, God had finished his long rest and banished them when he learned they had eaten the fruit, if they didn't they never would have died, or learned how to reproduce, so be GRATEFUL that they ate the fruit...and no I'm not crazy, if you think so, then GTFO!
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"Only the catholics sold papers that would get you into heaven." This quote refers to indulgences, and the original idea was that you pay the church and they would give you x days of good works. Good works supposedly lessened your time in purgatory. They are wrong, and Christianity did have a VERY rocky start. However, I think we pretty much recovered from greed. (now we need to work on being smart.)
I think Scientology is amazing. I have heard it boiled down to people going through superhero training.
I heard something on the radio recently about someone who was in the uppermost ranks of Scientologists, and something happened to him that was not supposed to. He had a near death experience. Scientologists cant die!! They berated him with questions about who could be affecting his 'aura' so much that it would make him mortal, and told him that it was one of his homosexual friends.
On a lighter note, the train wreck that is Tom Cruise makes me LOL.
I have heard it boiled down to people going through superhero training.
Okay, don't ask me why I knew this before Scientology caught the public eye, but here's what I remember off the top of my head:
You're essentially right! The 'aim' of each individual in Scientology is to go through training to become the perfect transcendent being, whole in mind and capable of manipulating matter, energy, space and time i.e. being a mini-god capable of creating their own universe (I'll leave it up to you to interpret that!) The training for this starts when one has accepted the doctrines and become at peace to attain the level of "clear". Then the recruit forks out lots of money to go through several stages of Operating Thetan training, breaking through the 'barriers to true self' and unlocking inherent abilities, before coming to OTVIII, and being known as a true Operating Thetan. But it doesn't end there! There's like new levels coming out, which nobody has managed to reach, at the end of which one becomes Go- I mean, a 'Theta Clear Thetan', according to Hubbard.
In short, it boils down to being a telepath with some pseudo-psychological adjustment, whose power goes beyond their bodily existence.
Cult typically refers to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture considers outside the mainstream, with a notably positive or negative popular perception. Many religions were considered cults before they became considered religions.
Some anthropologists and sociologists studying cults have argued that no one has yet been able to define âcultâ in a way that enables the term to identify only groups that have been identified as problematic.
Webster's New World College Dictionary defines "cult" as: 1a. a system of religious worship or ritual 1b. a quasi-religious group, often living in a colony, with a charismatic leader who indoctrinates members with unorthodox or extremist views, practices or beliefs 2a. devoted attachment to, or extravagant admiration for, a person, principle or lifestyle, especially when regarded as a fad [the cult of nudism] 2b. the object of such attachment 3. a group of followers, sect
Really. I always thought of a cult as the worship of a living person.
Personally, I don't care what they believe. They're allowed to believe whatever they want, but the fact that they steal so much money from people and use such horrible methods to recruit them disgusts me almost as much as the past of my own religion.
