It's a threat to society in a coastal city.
I live right near Downtown clear water, Florida and there are cytologistsSeverywhere. Doesn't really reflect the image of a coastal town. It's just kinda funny seeing people dressed in slacks and dress shirts to where people are in speeds and bathing suits 3 miles west. This is a coastal town and I feel it should be more of a coastal atmosphere.
Having worked a pretty good deal in this area and having read/interviewed personally many people who have left Scientology...it claims to offer answers without answering them, and lures people along with the hope of promotion. Instead, it sucks away money, tells people to deny medical treatment (and, in at least one documented case, has locked a member away in order to keep them from getting medical treatment) and convinces parents to sign their children over to the religion in order to gain more for themselves.
Because it's a secretive wacko cult. If it's a religion, why can't anyone study their scriptures? Any sufficiently devoted Christian, Muslim, Jew etc would jump at the chance to give me the Bible/Quran/Torah for free, since they want to spread the message. If I make the OT documents available, I'll be sued by the Church of Scientology.
same reason we feel Christianity or any other cult is bad. It offer a truthful of burdensome, unprovable, unquestionable belief and actual life improvement on par with a placebo.
Because it is a Cult! All it is doing is making some people really rich and the ones who join it are really dumb to support it. But I guess they think if they belong to it they are doing a good thing. Some of them need to belong to something. They know something is missing in their lives but that is not what they need.
My biggest problem is that you need to pay money for "salvation". If it were free, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much. People drain their life savings to reach OT levels, etc..
When you talk to somebody from the Scientology belief and others, and you are a person who feels peoples emotions and watch their body language, you get a real spooky feel from them.
Its like talking to a robot who is trying to act like a feeling, thinking human being.
I once talked to somebody on the street with my Little girl next to me, she was about 8. After we walked on she said that's what she does not like about religions. I did not understand what she meant and asked her.
She said when you talk some people about their religion its like they are not really here with you like their minds are always somewhere else and that's in all religions.
You know the saying truth come from the child's mouth.
I ques it comes down to two things. 1 we call terrorists fanatics and 2 we call fanatics terrorists. Maybe that should tell us something and them too.
It's a man-made religion? Well all religions are man-made religions. But this one comes from a second rate science fiction writer - maybe if it had been Asimov or Heinlein who actually had insight it would make sense - who made up his own fake biography, threw some psychobabble in with people's fascination with UFOs and then didn't follow his own "religion".
1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true.
2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body.
3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please, do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowledge and experience. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situations. This is what we call on Scientology an aberration (a conclusion that is imposed to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram (a pain memory that affects your judgment and free will).
4. You can discharge the energy in these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques used to improve the individual.
5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.
6. Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j
7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.
8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is a pseudo science because it is based in principles that are false. Psychiatry have never pr oven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you there are no medical test to identify a "mental illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+i s+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology& hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vd one=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo% 3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of irresponsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary false release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. The mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.
9. Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free. Scientology earns it's money by delivering courses and auditing. Courses and auditing are optional. You do not need to take courses and auditing to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life (like I do).
But if you want auditing there are many ways to achieve this.
a. You can do volunteer work in your local church and get your services for free.
b. You can study to be an auditor and do all your auditing with a fellow student (this is called co-auditing). This way you can also provide free auditing to your friends and family.
c. You can hire a professional auditor to do your auditing.
10. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "Jonah in the Whale" in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.
Scientology is so advance and so different that people can't understand it. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality they don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand.
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC &nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1
in one since its not as in history but to x-plain God Thur science isn't possible,God said in the new testament to avoid it...completely,cause it causes debit
There is a reason for the apparent "bad rap" , but the effect it has on the growth and popularity of Scientology today is fading fast.
The truth is that back in the late 1940's L.Ron Hubbard was recovering from his WW II injuries as Commander of a convoy Atlantic escort vessel in Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. While there he conducted some experiments and began to apply his theories to the field of the mind with some of his fellow patients.
This was part of the research that resulted in his book
" Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health."
As a result of doing this he uncovered "mind control" experiments that the US government were conducting in the very same hospital with some of the patients. He was able to reverse the effects of these experiments. He would not co operate with or as sit the US government , despite their attempts to make him, and discharged himself from the US Navy.
As a result he became a government target. Not only did he know what they were doing he also had developed technology that could undo their efforts to control people
He was also continuing with his research independently without the government owning or controlling it. When he finally released Dianetics in 1950 to the general public and Dianetics
was in wide use and application in the US he basically became
the CIA's biggest headache ever!
The battle has been long and hard with covert and overt attack in every country as false information about Scientology and Dianetics was spread through government files internationally via INTERPOL (now disbanded).
Anyway, with the Freedom of Information Act's now law in most countries, thanks to the work of many Scientologists and their allies, government files on people and organizations can no longer remain secret. And the lies and false information can be cleaned up and removed. This has mostly been done.
What you run into now via bogus websites, media, TV cartoons,
etc is just residual. The real fight to attack and stop this religion and undermine religious freedom has been fought and won by Scientologists and Scientology.
No need to thank us for protecting your Human Rights and Freedoms as we continue to do this for everyone, but I invite you to help us by finding out more about what they actually are so your right to a future is assured.
You don't have to be a Scientologist to do something about your freedoms.
Here's why... It is a CULT. Despite what a few fanatical members may say, it IS a cult. The ?church? harasses & bullies anyone who they deem an "enemy" (basically anyone who has anything negative to say about the "church"). They will RUIN YOUR LIFE if you speak out against them long enough.
The founder is L. Ron Hubbard, the science FICTION writer who once told a friend that the best way to make lots of money is to start your own religion. Though being a very outspoken critic of psychiatric drugs, it was discovered upon Hubbards death that the anti-anxiety drug hydrolyzing (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. (visit this link to read about the uses of hydrolyzing: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/v/vistaril.html )
Scientologists believe the evil alien ruler Xenu killed a lot of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by bringing them to earth & blowing them up inside volcanoes. They believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") have attached themselves to us & cause many of our mental & physical ills. Members who know about Xenu will attempt to deny it or pretend like it dozen?t matter. They are required to sign a contract binding them to silence on the matter. Lower level members don?t know about Xenu & accordingly deny everything because they honestly don?t know.
To rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" & also ?engrams? (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become ?clear?, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the ?church? who uses an "e-meter" to measure our ?reactive mind?...... & we have to pay lots & lots of money for ?auditing? (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions) & to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher ?levels? in the ?church?. The ?church? has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life. They deny the reality of chemical imbalance & profound mental disturbance & accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The ?church? has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).
Scientology is undeniably a cult. For more information on what a cult is & what their damaging effects are, please visit the link provided at the bottom of the sources. Just know that Scientology DOES qualify by meeting these 5 criteria:
(1) It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate & retain its members. (2) It forms an elitist totalitarian society. (3) Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable & has charisma. (4) It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds & recruit people. (5) Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.
Why do people feel scientology is bad?
