High Priest Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I'll be honest, i know nothing about scientology. A few year's ago, i lived off of gower and sunset in hollywood right near a very large building owned by L. Ron Hubbard ( or perhaps dedicated to?) scientology. Seemed to be a very nice place, tho i never stopped by to take a closer look.. it just happened to be across from an italian restraunt i frequented, so i caught glimpses here and there. I know nothing about the ideology and really have little interest in learning more, but im curious what other 12ozers opinions are about said religion. Anyway, i'll post a link to the "official" website with some of the highlight's. yep, here it is. * I looked for the basic info and the majority of it seemed to just be pushing sale's of book's etc written by L. Ron Hubbard, im not in the mood to deal with it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkab Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 this is the official site's description of scientology: Scientology: Scio (Latin) know, logos (Greek) the word or outward form by which the inward thought is expressed and made known. Thus, Scientology means knowing about knowing. The full story of the development and codification of Scientology can be found in scores of books, more than 15,000 pages of technical writing and more than 3,000 taped lectures. All told, these works represent a lifetime of research by L. Ron Hubbard to discover a workable means to set men spiritually free — to replace ignorance with knowledge, doubts with certainty and misery with happiness. Today, the fruits of L. Ron Hubbard’s work are available to anyone who wishes to reach for them. And no matter how different Scientologists may be — whether teachers and businessmen, housewives and athletes, artists and secretaries — they hold one vital factor in common: having significantly bettered their lives, they know that Scientology works. Nothing in Scientology, however, need be taken on faith. Its truths are self-evident, its principles are easily demonstrable and its technology can be seen at work in any church of Scientology. One need only open the door and step through. Scientology is a twentieth-century religion. It comprises a vast body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths, and prime among those truths: Man is a spiritual being endowed with abilities well beyond those which he normally envisages. He is not only able to solve his own problems, accomplish his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also to achieve new states of awareness he may never have dreamed possible. In one form or another, all great religions have held the hope of spiritual freedom — a condition free of material limitations and misery. The question has always been, however, how does one reach such a state, particularly while still living amidst a frantic and often overwhelming society? Although modern life seems to pose an infinitely complex array of problems, Scientology maintains that the solutions to those problems are basically simple and within every man’s reach. Difficulties with communication and interpersonal relationships, nagging insecurities, self-doubt and despair — each man innately possesses the potential to be free of these and many other concerns. Scientology offers a pathway to greater freedom. While the hope for such freedom is ancient, what Scientology is doing is new. The way it is organized is new. The technologies with which it can bring about a new state of being in man are likewise new. Because Scientology addresses man as a spiritual being, it stands completely apart from other religions which see man as a product of his environment or his genes — fixed in the limitations under which he was born. Rather, Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life. Based upon the tradition of fifty thousand years of thinking men, it is built upon the fundamental truths of life. From these principles, exact methods by which one can improve conditions were derived; and unlike other efforts of improvement, which offered only rules by which men should live, Scientology offers real tools for use in everyday life. Thus, it does not depend upon a system of beliefs or faith. The emphasis is squarely on an exact application of its principles toward the improvement of one’s life and the world in which we live. To understand exactly how Scientology is utilized, something should be known of the track of research L. Ron Hubbard traveled and the antecedent of Scientology — Dianetics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Priest Posted June 5, 2005 Author Share Posted June 5, 2005 Makes little sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkab Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 All you need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Leader Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 bahaha. i was thinking ron howard the whole way through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 they are waiting on an al;ien to return... http://www.xenu.net/ i lived near the headquarters inclearwater for quite some time when i was younger. scary shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkab Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 In the late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion" Reader's Digest reprint, May 1980, p.1 Hubbard later created the Church of Scientology... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 the church was based ona bet between him and a few friends who were all rich. 1 million to the first one who could come up witha religion....or so the story from clearwater goes. who knows the truth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Parker Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 it's the new fad religion now a days. thanks to old tom cruise everyone's gonna hop on it and act like they've been on it. stupid shit we knew this guy who lived with his grandparrents and they had a scientology compound in their back yard. he builds homes in montana now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 man, half of hollywood has been involved with the church for year sand eyars...cruise isn't the only one or the richest. tr4avolta is also one, cameron diaz, alot of people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I don't know much about scientology but I like the Ba'hai faith... http://www.us.bahai.org/interactive/videopres.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatbastard Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 ^ Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumy Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 crazy thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 my mom's coworker's mother died in the hostipal because she refused medicine, which would have ultimately saved her... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 12oz Thread on Scientology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 it sounds funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BIGMETALCIRCUS Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 they're assholes. when i was 15 they posed as survey takers at a busy boston trendy spot offering free IQ tests. at the urging of my brother we went to take the survey. they split us up, and their survey had nothing to do with IQ's. it was all questions about my family and psychiatric history and shit. after i turned it in, the results they came back with basically said that i hated my father, and if i bought a certain title for $15 my life would improve greatly. when i refused they basically didn't let me see my brother till i gave in, or at least that's how i remember it, so i did agree to buy the book but only when they changed the price to 5 bucks. i still get mail from them to this day, some magazine with L Ron himself on the cover every month, which is basically an advertisement for his books. recently, i got a letter from someone at their Boston facility which read something like, " (NAME) I just saw here that you bought so and so book and i was wondering how it worked out for you" this came in the mail this year and was the first personal contact ive had from them in ten years and in a completely unrelated matter my computer is fucked up because i held the shift key for more than five seconds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 you should correspond with them. ask them for money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Priest Posted June 6, 2005 Author Share Posted June 6, 2005 Originally posted by Weapon X@Jun 5 2005, 05:12 PM 12oz Thread on Scientology. Quoted post It was similar to reading a livejournal, without the slick black hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Priest Posted June 6, 2005 Author Share Posted June 6, 2005 Originally posted by dkab@Jun 5 2005, 10:25 AM All you need to know. Quoted post This was great, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkab Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 you're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Durden Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Does anyone else remember when that slut Kristy said her Dad left her family because he couldnt force them to become scientoligists or some shit? No wonder she was such a screwy slut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGOON Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 i'd seen things on tv about scientology for years. i recently moved to the "Sucka Free" city and those guys are everywhere with their stress tests. i love cults/religion/philosophy stuff, so it intrigues me, but they kinda weird me out. anybody see the ONION article about "FICTIONOLOGY?" It was hilarious, i'd post a link but the onion makes you pay to read their articles online, but they're free in print??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr8lover Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 http://www.xenu.net <----this is the motherload of scientology info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Originally posted by Tyler Durden@Jun 6 2005, 02:32 PM Does anyone else remember when that slut Kristy said her Dad left her family because he couldnt force them to become scientoligists or some shit? No wonder she was such a screwy slut. Quoted post I posted the link to that thread in here. Just look up a few posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edika Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 its not a religion, its almost a sect. Dont ever touch that crap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 A guy managed to sneack a camera into a scientology orientation, the video isn't the best of quality, but it shows more of just how retarded and scary these people are. The video is 4 parts. Part 1/4: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ki16KsWN97A Part 2/4: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YSgenUBJi38 Part 3/4: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7wTRd7XwI Part 4/4: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0fcjjW61NCs Watch it before it's removed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardyHarHar Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 There's a Scientology center in Boston. And there's also a Jews for Jesus place. I like the lesser known religions, because they are less associated with wars and genocide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 hahaha, you have to pay a membership fee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milk Grenades Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 i'm so schooled on scientology that i know all about it, and i do know that this thread doesn't belong here. just an honest observation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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