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Anyone watch this Scientology documentary last night?
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Who's to say that mainstream religion didn't originate the same way?
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Now, after watching this documentary, anyone think that Scientology is behind those Will n Jada divorce rumors?
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith broke up — with Scientology
http://touch.metro.us/entertainment...ke-up-with-scientology/zsJohe---0TweKOtqHH2w/
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith broke up — with Scientology
http://touch.metro.us/entertainment...ke-up-with-scientology/zsJohe---0TweKOtqHH2w/
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Doesn't seem far fetched at all.
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Damn I didn't know Forest Whitaker was a Scientologist. Wait.................
View media item 1661046
written by......... L. Ron Hubbard........
starring.......
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and......
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It feels more Illuminati than Scientology
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After earth had a lot of Scientology BS in it too.
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It did, according to the bible that is. Says people pointed and laughed at the believers and such dozens of times.
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For those who are really interested in Scientology, you gotta understand that a key part of many of the critics' arguments is that you should NOT condemn many of the adherents--as the book and doc state, it's a "prison of belief" and one of the major points of the book is that many low-level Scientologists were well-meaning, good people who got roped into a crock of horse**** and are mentally gridlocked. Many, not all.
If you've ever read George Orwell's 1984, it should be obvious that Scientology is the real-world embodiment of pretty much EVERYTHING that Orwell was afraid of, including:
Newspeak--excessive jargon and made up language intended to exert and enforce control--Scientologist acronyms and terminology deserves its own dictionary
DoubleThink--tactics which involve being fully aware of the horror but making a conscious decision to rationalize or completely ignore it (the guy who spent months in The Hole but then went on TV screaming in a journalist's face that The Hole was absolutely made up, the ex-wives who were clearly coerced into memorizing a bogus script)
Making people "Unpersons" a la Stalinistic tactics--Scientologists will often be forced to "disconnect" from family members who are perceived as having done something wrong. Entire families are often destroyed like this.
As everyone says, to really understand what Scientology is, you have to understand the mind of L. Ron Hubbard. Dude had issues on top of issues, and Scientology to me is literally the externalization of all of Hubbard's fears, desires, and inclinations.
The guy wrote novels on top of novels in his 20s, mostly science fiction. It's clear that his creativity was one of his major driving forces, but the problem is that he was at least marginally aware of his schizophrenia and definitely painfully aware of his shortcomings. His hatred for psychiatry stems from Dianetics being collectively laughed at by the psychological community--and I think that one of his main motivations for writing Dianetics, besides money I guess, was his own psuedo-philosophical desire to work through his own neuroses.
Hubbard was at least partially a true believer in his own doctrines. But he was also a compulsive liar who BSed about anything and everything including the many Ls he took during his Navy career and his adventures around the world in his youth (though he did travel a lot as his father was in the military). If you read up on his "Affirmations", which are several very personal books that he wrote about himself with the probable intention of performing some kind of self-hypnosis, he actually lists and tries to address what he believes to be all of his shortcomings, including wanting to better his sex life, rationalizing fapping, trying to make a conscious effort to stop with his constant lies and BS, dealing with his physical appearance, and his desire to become a famous, legendary writer. His own belief in Scientology is best proven by what was basically the suicide attempt that was described in the doc. Dude was damaged and tried to address it in all the wrong ways.
I think there are only two video interviews of Hubbard, but they are both very informative.
This one is after he decided to travel the Mediterranean on a fleet of ships with his most loyal followers. In this one, the interviewer is a bit more aggressive and antagonistic, so you really see Hubbard get wrapped into his lies.
This one is a couple years earlier, and the interviewer is much more lax, so Hubbard is pretty much able to rant and go on about his philosophy.
Cliffs: Hubbard was crazy but also very creative. Scientology was his way of working through the crazy. It didn't work. Now there are 50,000 people as crazy as Hubbard was.
If you've ever read George Orwell's 1984, it should be obvious that Scientology is the real-world embodiment of pretty much EVERYTHING that Orwell was afraid of, including:
Newspeak--excessive jargon and made up language intended to exert and enforce control--Scientologist acronyms and terminology deserves its own dictionary
DoubleThink--tactics which involve being fully aware of the horror but making a conscious decision to rationalize or completely ignore it (the guy who spent months in The Hole but then went on TV screaming in a journalist's face that The Hole was absolutely made up, the ex-wives who were clearly coerced into memorizing a bogus script)
Making people "Unpersons" a la Stalinistic tactics--Scientologists will often be forced to "disconnect" from family members who are perceived as having done something wrong. Entire families are often destroyed like this.
As everyone says, to really understand what Scientology is, you have to understand the mind of L. Ron Hubbard. Dude had issues on top of issues, and Scientology to me is literally the externalization of all of Hubbard's fears, desires, and inclinations.
The guy wrote novels on top of novels in his 20s, mostly science fiction. It's clear that his creativity was one of his major driving forces, but the problem is that he was at least marginally aware of his schizophrenia and definitely painfully aware of his shortcomings. His hatred for psychiatry stems from Dianetics being collectively laughed at by the psychological community--and I think that one of his main motivations for writing Dianetics, besides money I guess, was his own psuedo-philosophical desire to work through his own neuroses.
Hubbard was at least partially a true believer in his own doctrines. But he was also a compulsive liar who BSed about anything and everything including the many Ls he took during his Navy career and his adventures around the world in his youth (though he did travel a lot as his father was in the military). If you read up on his "Affirmations", which are several very personal books that he wrote about himself with the probable intention of performing some kind of self-hypnosis, he actually lists and tries to address what he believes to be all of his shortcomings, including wanting to better his sex life, rationalizing fapping, trying to make a conscious effort to stop with his constant lies and BS, dealing with his physical appearance, and his desire to become a famous, legendary writer. His own belief in Scientology is best proven by what was basically the suicide attempt that was described in the doc. Dude was damaged and tried to address it in all the wrong ways.
I think there are only two video interviews of Hubbard, but they are both very informative.
This one is after he decided to travel the Mediterranean on a fleet of ships with his most loyal followers. In this one, the interviewer is a bit more aggressive and antagonistic, so you really see Hubbard get wrapped into his lies.
This one is a couple years earlier, and the interviewer is much more lax, so Hubbard is pretty much able to rant and go on about his philosophy.
Cliffs: Hubbard was crazy but also very creative. Scientology was his way of working through the crazy. It didn't work. Now there are 50,000 people as crazy as Hubbard was.
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Hubbard was a con artist, a creative con artist.
