Is blindly believing in something more important than understanding.
I am heathen after all ? so I really don?t know.
Keep in mind I am not a child, have rather high IQ, and doing a double science major in university.
Sikh and Islam are interesting ? but philosophically incompatible with experiences in the life I have led (much like Jewish and Christen communities' beliefs).
By all account it?s likely a sin to even speak with me.
you already answered to yr self.
any organized religion of belief 'frames up ' your spiritual needs and questions into a doctrine or a vision of things.
Adhering there, Scientology or else, you give up with your own quest, nothing wrong, but why leaving a cage to get into another?
well, Tom Cruise seems a bit crazy but maybe that's just him....
and i don't understand why you would think you don't know just because you're a self-proclaimed heathen? everyone has a brain....you can make up your own mind (=
A science-fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard bet his editor (John W. Campbell Jr) that he could invent and found a religion. What he invented and founded eventually developed into Scientology.
Don't join, not if you have any intellectual self-respect.
No, it's ridiculous.
A very important thing in life is trying to understand things. But if you can't understand something, don't simply believe something because you were told to. Sometimes it's okay to say you just don't know. I do it all the time. If something can't be pr oven or disprove (by science), there's no need to come up with some wild idea to explain it (that can't be tested).
Knock yourself out .. join whatever You want to. But do a little homework .. find out where your money is going ... who gets a cut... Scientology .. L Ron Hubbard ... are you paying the mortgage on his private island ...????
If I started a religion that had many compulsory holidays, would you join that? I'm delusional enough to martyr myself for such a cause. We'd get Mondays off for drinking, Tuesdays off for Hangover, Humpdays we'd go to work-- refreshed. Thursdays, more drinking and festivities! Friday, well we wouldn't sleep Thursday Night, and it would just Blur all the way up to next Humpday.
We would wear sacred watches that
told only the day of the week.
I agree with breastfed.FLEDd
have you ever thought of coming into the folds of Islam?
Not the Islam on the news or media. Cuz that's not Islam.
True Islam...From proper practicing people...? From the Quran, Hadith and the ulema (learned teachers of Islam)...
Did you know that there were more conversions into Islam in USA *after* 9/11 than before. It was because people got curious (and furious) at these terrorists and their cruel actions. Soon enough these inquisitive people discovered that the terrorists were not driven by Islam but their own twisted conceptions of it. They found out the truth and purity of the religion...and their eyes opened....
No. Scientology is totally fake. Don't do it, man. L. Ron Hubbard was quoted as saying, "I'm gonna start a religion, that's where the real money is." All they want is your money. There is no real salvation there. Seriously, don't waste your time/money.
Blind belief will get you nowhere. Try thinking for yourself.
I would caution you very strongly to thoroughly check it out before getting involved. In my opinion it is a cult. Years ago I filled out one of their "personality tests" and they kept calling me to come have it analyzed until I had my grandmother say I didn't live there any more.
Don't join Scientology. It is a cult.
The things they believe are really weird. Also they use mind control. Worse than a dummy on mind control is a smart person on mind control. They have so much more to control.
If you have a Hi IQ as you posted.
Try reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church
This is what we believe.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc.html
Try it you might like it.
Also you can go to the nearest Catholic Church and join their RCIA. They will tell you what the Catholic Church believes. Then after the class is over you are free to join or not Join the Catholic Church.
Scientology generally embraces a view of relativism, where truth is relative to each individual or to the culture in which you are raised - truth is what is 'true' for you.
The problem with relativism is that it leads to inconsistencies and contradictions, or a denial of objective truth. Essentially, it rejects objective truth.
From my own experience on my spiritual journey, I came across a copy of Dianetics. I read the whole book and was completely captivated. I discovered there was a church of Scientology in the city I was living in and so went.
They greeted me cordially and had me take a multiple choice test and then proceeded to tell me I was full of engrams and needed auditing. They graciously offered me a free session where I felt I was talking to a psychologist. Afterwards I was ushered to an office where it was explained to me that I needed more blocks of time for auditing to make me clear. The man proceeded to tell me that each block of time was $100 bucks and when I said I didn't have that kind of money, he was ready to pick up the phone and call whoever I needed to lend me the money. I quickly became very clear!
Not sure what the real purpose of your question is.
There is no substitute for understanding but you cannot gain understanding of something without communicating with it in some way....and actually "looking" at it and observing it for yourself.
Nothing wrong with being a heathen, if that's what you choose to be, as long as you DO know that you don't know.
But you seem making an assumption that being a Scientologist involves "blind belief". Actually the complete opposite of this is true.
Just for the record here is a pretty accurate description of what Scientology is :
Scientology is an applied religious philosophy. When I say "applied" I mean you actually use it in your life to change or improve existing conditions. This is different from a religious practice. All religions if you learn about them have a basic philosophy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances, and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this, but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It does not intrude on any ones faiths of beliefs particularly in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the individual, which is why you can be a practicing Jew,for example and still use and apply the principles of Scientology in your life. It does not conflict. If anything it will enhance your understanding of your chosen religious practice.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from using it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is a non denominational religion . The dictionary definition that applies:
Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognizes the existence of superhuman power or powers.
The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a "thing" you HAVE but what YOU actually are.
The whole purpose of Scientology is to increase an individuals understanding and awareness of himself. And thereby his native abilities .
When you do this the sphere and zone of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life, his family ,his friends, his groups and mankind which he is part of.
How this result is achieved is the "technology" of Scientology, which was developed by L.Ron Hubbard after his extensive research and the discoveries he made, about the human spirit. The basic religious philosophy and knowledge of Scientology is very old, going back 10,000 years at least to the Veda or Vedic Hymns from the East. The development of the technology is new.
He completed his research before his death in 1986 and left all of his results and copyrights
to the Church of Scientology along with most of his considerable estate., when he died.
He published a book in 1951 to communicate the basic principles he discovered called: " Scientology The Fundementals of Thought"
There are currently over 8 million Scientologists in more that 150 countries world wide. However we are a new religion, only 53 years old.
The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:
1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find it works.
4. People pass it along to others.
5. It grows.
So now you know a little. (or not....whatever you choose.)
Should I join Scientology?
