What's this Scientology thing with Tom Cruise?!
Question: I keep hearing about this Scientology thing, usually associated with Tom Cruise. Can someone fill me in? What's everyone talking about?
Answers: I keep hearing about this Scientology thing, usually associated with Tom Cruise. Can someone fill me in? What's everyone talking about?
Scientology, which questionably calls itself a new "religion", is the brainchild of science fiction writer & occult enthusiast L. Ron Hubbard. The organization, by means of Hubbard’s self created psychotherapy technique called “Dianetics”, claims to be able to help rid members of any & all mental constraints including but not limited to emotional scarring (from this & "past" lives) due to "engrams" (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind), psychological disorders & chemical imbalances (the solution is to convince members that these things don't actually exist) & drug dependence (including legally prescribed psychopharmaceuticals which counteract the effects of psychological disorders Scientologists believe to be nonexistent). Their “treatment” of substance abuse includes little more than massive doses of vitamins and extended sessions in a sauna.
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Scientology is most certainly NOT a religion. In fact, one of the only reasons they enjoy "tax exempt status" on religious ground in the United States is because they bullied the IRS into a "deal" through extremely aggressive barratry (which is the offense of persistently instigating groundless lawsuits) against the IRS & IRS officials, and arranged to drop all 2,500 frivolous lawsuits only when an "agreement" was reached. In addition, Scientology's lawyers hired private investigators to dig up any "dirt" on IRS agents which was then used to blackmail or publicly smear all "vulnerable" agents. It was an all-out WAR that Scientology had waged against the IRS, and was even described as such by Scientology's "CEO", David Miscavige, in his 1993 speech to the International Association of Scientologists.
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The official Scientology organization is composed of a number of “levels”. One begins as a “preclear” & works their way up. One must purchase virtually every service crucial to advancement directly from the "church" & at staggering prices. "Auditing", for example, is purchased in 12? hour blocks, costing anywhere from $200-$750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions. Basically, Scientology claims to possess exclusive knowledge of the path to religious redemption & then charges obscene amounts of money for every tiny incremental step towards this end. Visit this link to see how $380,000 is a conservative estimate for the total cost of moving all the way up the Scientology hierarchal ladder: http://www.xenu.net/archive/prices.html
These are the total costs for auditing alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology...
Here’s an explanation of what “auditing” is: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
At level OT III (Operating Thetan Level 3), some very strange & fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): The evil alien ruler Xenu killed millions of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC-8 “space-planes”, stacking them around volcanoes & blowing them up by dropping “h-bombs” into the volcanoes. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (and according to Scientology’s belief in Thetan immortality, they also attached to us during “past lives”) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds. http://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_o...
http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/OTIII/
Scientology has taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional during everyday life. It doesn’t recognize legitimate conditions like autism, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or ANY neurological disorder / chemical imbalance at all, & the “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from members (often with harmful & deadly results). The “Church” blames psychiatry for the Holocaust, as well as school shootings & even September 11th. It’s been suggested that Hubbard’s vehement opposition was born of the psychiatric community’s rejection of his “tech” as a valid treatment method, but it’s also possible that Hubbard chose psychiatry as a scapegoat. Organizations like Scientology are notorious for villainizing a specific out-group because their “stand against the enemy” fosters cohesion within said organization, & psychiatry was an effective rallying point considering many people already distrust & oppose the mental health profession.
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L. Ron Hubbard, the man behind the creation of Scientology, was & still is a controversial figure. Biographies & lists of personal accomplishments differ greatly between Scientology & non-Scientology publications as the “church” tends to exaggerate & outright lie about his early life, his education, his travels, his achievements etc, preferring to paint a distorted, flattering picture. Several books & articles present facts which flatly contradict these church-published accounts (links to free online copies of these books & articles are provided below), showing conclusively that he was NOT the brilliant, accomplished figure revered by Scientologists. During his autopsy, the sedative Vistaril? was present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years. It had also been said by many who knew Hubbard personally that at the end of his life he was “a psychopathic insane person screaming about BT's [Body Thetans]…”
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To be blunt, Scientology is a cult. It employs semi-legitimate psychotherapy & self-help methods to keep people loyal & convinced of its merit while it simultaneously sucks them dry financially & attempts to keep them far away from ANYONE, even friends & family, who would dissuade them from remaining in such a harmful situation. It bullies all known critics, opponents, “enemies”, etc, often through malicious litigation & character assassination. It’s a particularly greedy as well as manipulative & dangerous cult that takes its anti-psychiatry fanaticism to deadly limits.
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It's just a cute little cult. Carry on.
Buy any book by L. Ron Hubbard. It is based on his teachings.
Scientology is a well organized cult, and dangerous because of it. Their beliefs involve alien souls tainting humans, and a conspiracy by doctors, especially psychiatrists. Their main goal seems to be making money, and recruiting influencial members.
As for the Tom Cruise thing, you might want to watch this...
a religion...thats wut it is
he an atheist
It's a silly load of crap that was made up after some science-FICTION book written in the 50's. Hes crazy just like the rest of them, that's all.
everyone was shocked whaen he said he was athiest, and that he believed in the big bang, and evolution and all that stuff. he said this a few months ago, and ppl wont leave it alone.
its some really weird religion....Tom Cruise is on crack
its a religion thing hes in simalir to universalists
crapola
It's a "religion" that was created by the writer L. Ron Hubbard. They have some pretty whacked out beliefs, like women shouldn't cry out while having a baby, no medications, no psychological treatment of any kind, etc. Ultimately, its very cult-like if you don't want to call it a cult.
it was a cult started by a sci fi auther that got blown way out of proportion
Ron Hubbard, I live outside Clearwater Florida, major hub for them. It's a cult, with insane ways. Major money people involved.
supposedly mimi rogers, his first wife who was already hooked with this crap caught him in bed with her gay brother. one guy that escaped the group and tried to sue claims he joined because they said they could "cure" him of his homosexuality and they told him "look at what we did with john travolta and tom cruise".
this is all hersay of course but scienfraudogy does have a rep for making its money blackmailing celebs. then using them to get the rest. this has been going on since the fifties.
Tom Cruise is a highly visible member of the Church of Scientology. Cruise has gotten media attention--often negative--because of his defensive behavior about the religion and his hatred of psychiatry (which Scientology detests).
The religion itself is often mocked because ex-members revealed in the late 1990s that Scientologists believe in this origin myth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
The past week or so, Tom Cruise has gotten attention again over it because of a video that shows him ranting about the religion. He was saying basically that only Scientologists can save the world.
The religion is based on a belief that the spirits/souls of a banished people from another planet are here inhabiting human bodies. As soon as they spread the word and 'wake' up the rest of the banished souls, they can return home and reclaim their planet. Crazy, crazy religion. Not like the sane religions we have here about a man that is half god half man, walks on water and raises from the dead. At least we don't do strange ceremonies like eating flesh or drinking blood...
...wait a minit.
Scientology is a cult that calls itself a religion. It was created by a science fiction writer in the 50s and one of its goals is to persuade celebrities to join.
They have different levels that you pay money to gain access to the information for that level. When you get to OT level 3, you get to learn about the story of a galactic alien warlord named Xenu who enslaved things called thetans. You also learn that these thetans were blown up on our planet and they are in our bodies and the reason we believe in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc. is because we were all brainwashed millions of years ago.
And if that isn't enough to make you run away, it costs A LOT of money. NONE of their books are free. Other religions GIVE OUT their religious books...Scientology doesn't.
Scientology is a group founded by a now-deceased Science Fiction writer named L.Ron Hubbard. He took some theories from Freudian psychology and wrote a book called Dianetics. This book, writtin in the 1930s was the first major self-help book ever written, and many people who used the therapy techniques in the book claimed to have gained many physical and mental benefits. Hubbard went on to write many other books and create an organization called Scientology which enrolls people into self-help classes which promise to make you into the perfect ideal version of who you could potentially be. People are persuaded into spending thousands of dollars on these classes. Scientologists believe that L. Ron Hubbard has created a system of thought, learning, and self-improvement that is perfect, and that he was a perfect godlike being.