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JillianMarie77
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nutshell said:
Yes. However how informed a choice is it? Are they making the choice based on false information? Sketchy information that leads them to assumptions that aren't necessarily true?
I don't know. Scientology is a religion that I've never gotten up close and personal with. I ony have what is available online and what a few people have told me of their experiences.
YmirGF said:Dianetics is the ONLY book I have ever thrown across the room while reading. The book remained in the corner for 3 days. On the third day, I gingerly picked it up, much like a piece of dog doodoo and carried it to the trash.
The book was given to me by a dear friend who had become interested in Scientology. I never did get a chance to tell him of the book throwing incident, as I never did hear from him again. We never fought, never had harsh words for each other and yet he simply disappeared. I have always wondered what happened to him.
Thank you for the article Michel. It mirrors dozens I have seen before. I am surprised Scientology is not suing over the unfair portrayal.
And well they might try!
Of course, I could never break professional etiquette, but when I worked in Banking, we had their local account. A lot of money went through that account; it was one of the least worrysome ones..............
These people were actually banned from the high street of the town, because of reports of harassment by some of the shoppers. Soon after that they were politely asked to take their account away...........
Of course, they popped up in the next town soon after.
Ibrahim Al-Amin
Member
48 posts and not one representative from Scientology to defend the religion?
Popeyesays
Well-Known Member
nutshell said:
People CHOOSE to be scammed all the time, Nutshell. If people chose not to be scammed there would be no scam artists.
Regards,
Scott
Popeyesays
Well-Known Member
YmirGF said:Dianetics is the ONLY book I have ever thrown across the room while reading. The book remained in the corner for 3 days. On the third day, I gingerly picked it up, much like a piece of dog doodoo and carried it to the trash.
The book was given to me by a dear friend who had become interested in Scientology. I never did get a chance to tell him of the book throwing incident, as I never did hear from him again. We never fought, never had harsh words for each other and yet he simply disappeared. I have always wondered what happened to him.
Thank you for the article Michel. It mirrors dozens I have seen before. I am surprised Scientology is not suing over the unfair portrayal.
I know what you mean. Have you ever seen a picture of an e-meter? It is supposed to work like a lie detector to detect stress during their "confessionals". Lie detectors measure sweat with teensy little electrodes on the finger tips. The e-meter uses a soup can sized electrode which you clutch in one hand. The overload of data from such a measuring device would be useless.
Regards,
Scott
nutshell said:
I am sorry, from what I know of Scientology, the people aren't making a choice; they are manipulated into the position of thinking they are making a choice.
Which was one of the reasons Scientology members were banned from the town centre, for harassing passers by. Even I got 'caught' one day........before I knew it, I was surrounded by people all talking as if from scripts...........and, yes, the first thing was "You have to buy the book"..........
Buttons*
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The thing is, people want simple, and uplifting answers. If they think that they're's a book that can cure what ails them, they'll buy it no question. Hence fat-burning pills. People, I think, should look for an inward solution, and reason themselves out of things. Course, there are no solutions for certian problems, but instead of trying to cover it up, we should accept them, and go for a reasonable course of action....
...but an e-meter?
...but an e-meter?
MdmSzdWhtGuy
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jamaesi said:
However sir, one man's cult is another man's "ultimate truth." There is no more or less reason to believe in Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any other well known religion than there is to beleive in Scientology, from a rational, scientific standpoint. They all suffer from a dearth of evidence in favor of their being true, yet many beleive in the "big 3" and indeed a lot of people hold a person in high regard simply for so believing.
B.
Booko
Deviled Hen
C&N said:
He didn't get it out of thin air. He got it from the bottom of a bottle. He and another SF writer made a bet in a bar that Hubbard couldn't invent a religion and have people buy into it.
I tried to read Battlefield:Earth years ago, but even though I can read nearly anything, it bored me to tears and I stopped halfway through. The SF plot was predicatable even if it had been published 2 decades earlier.
I suspect Hubbard found out that he could make a much better income on faux religion than he could writing bad SF.
Booko
Deviled Hen
Carl said:
Isn't it interesting that Scientology only has its "churches" in places where people have a lot of cash? There's one a mile from my house, in the tony are of Atlanta called Dunwoody. They'd never dream of putting one in Doraville or Chamblee, as there's no money to be had.
Real religions can be found in all socio-economic levels of society.
Booko
Deviled Hen
michel said:
You will pardon me if I don't consider Graham Baldwin an "expert on alternative religions," considering the inaccurate spew he puts forth on all other religions save Christianity.
He's a much more subtle and erudite spreader of untruths than the usual religious hack, but religious hack he clearly is.