Scientology

[abbersmom]

I think this is the name of it by Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

[finn's mom]

Originally posted by abbersmom
I believe that prayer help, but I also believe that it often needs to be in conjunction with modern medicine.

I agree with that, wholeheartedly!

[RICHARD]

Across the street from my work is the Scientology HQ......

They are a curious bunch....all the 'followers' dress exactly the same-women wear blue Dickies pants and an olive green polo shirt- the guy wear shirts and ties.....

they are always buzzing around the facility...at the moment they are setting up a stage in the parking lot for this once-a-year,
festival they do....

[finn's mom]

Originally posted by RICHARD
Across the street from my work is the Scientology HQ......

They are a curious bunch....all the 'followers' dress exactly the same-women wear blue Dickies pants and an olive green polo shirt- the guy wear shirts and ties.....

they are always buzzing around the facility...at the moment they are setting up a stage in the parking lot for this once-a-year,
festival they do....

For some reason, your description made me giggle. they wear matching outfits? interesting! i like dickies pants, though!

[Lady's Human]

I have a hard time taking anything by L Ron Hubbard seriously after trying to read his science fiction writing. Battlefield Earth and the Mission Earth dekagology (10 books, each easily over 1000 pgs long) are essentially unreadable.

[gemini9961]

Originally posted by RICHARD
Across the street from my work is the Scientology HQ......

They are a curious bunch....all the 'followers' dress exactly the same-women wear blue Dickies pants and an olive green polo shirt- the guy wear shirts and ties.....

they are always buzzing around the facility...at the moment they are setting up a stage in the parking lot for this once-a-year,
festival they do....

Ahh yes....another person close to Scientology HQ's. Here in FL (Clearwater to be exact) is a huge Scientology mecca. You can see them all walking down the street yes in MATCHING clothes. Here they had on olive green pants and like beige/white shirts. They walk in a group together. They "buzz" from building to building for their classes. It's really strange, all these matching people walking around cult-like. (I'm not saying they are a cult, but nonetheless it's freaking weird) They don't really look around at other people, only themselves. They are always in a group together. I personally think it's a bunch of bull but Kari didn't want any bashing so I'll leave it at that. This is just what I have seen from them.

[gemini9961]

Ok one more thing about this. I don't know if anybody remembers the Lisa McPherson case that was here locally where I am. Well she died under Scientology care because she was not taken to a hospital. I don't know if these needs to be posted here but it was a big deal when it was happening. Any google search with her name will bring up info if anyone else wants more.

[finn's mom]

Originally posted by gemini9961
Ok one more thing about this. I don't know if anybody remembers the Lisa McPherson case that was here locally where I am. Well she died under Scientology care because she was not taken to a hospital. I don't know if these needs to be posted here but it was a big deal when it was happening. Any google search with her name will bring up info if anyone else wants more.

Well, actually that's more what I wanted to hear than that they look weird because they're in matching clothes. (not judging a book by it's cover kinda thing) I just wanted to know if anyone has any actual stories, not just stuff they've observed. And, I appreciate you not going into too much bashing. If you had personal experience with someone who studied or followed it, then, please bash away. Know what I mean? But, as for stuff like them not going to the doctor ever, that's factual, and, that's the stuff I wanna know about. I try to avoid taking medicine, for the most part. I don't take anything for headaches, for example, and, I rarely get them anyway. I just know what seems to trigger mine, I avoid that stuff, and, then, I drink green tea if I get one. But, as for never going to the doctor, I don't think I'll ever get to that point.

[JenBKR]

I don't know much about it, but I had heard on tv that the War of the Worlds movie was closely linked to Scientology. Out of curiosity I looked it up a little. From what I got, they believe that we do not have souls, and that we are actually burned up aliens that landed here centuries ago (I think I looked under google, don't remember the actual site. I'll let you know if I remember). That was pretty much enough for me...not trying to bash just letting you know what I read.

[finn's mom]

Originally posted by JenBKR
they believe that we do not have souls, and that we are actually burned up aliens that landed here centuries ago

if you can find the site, please show it to me, as everything i've read has said that they believe we are a soul, and, that the body is just a vessle for communication, or something to that affect. I've not seen anything about aliens in the stuff that i've read. Yikes. i'm not debating, just wondering where you got that.

[JenBKR]

Originally posted by finn's mom
if you can find the site, please show it to me, as everything i've read has said that they believe we are a soul, and, that the body is just a vessle for communication, or something to that affect. I've not seen anything about aliens in the stuff that i've read. Yikes. i'm not debating, just wondering where you got that.

I will look for it, and try to remember. It might not be correct (I don't believe everything I read on the internet!) but it freaked me out a little! I'll look today

[finn's mom]

this is a summary of about ten different sites i found....i don't believe everything i read, either...but, here's basically what i'm reading....

Scientologists believe that a person is neither mind nor body, but a spiritual being - a soul.

i don't know, i'm still looking and can't find anything about aliens. i'm curious now, though. but, when it comes right down to it, this is the kind of stuff that makes religion in general so hard for me to grasp. cuz a lot of the origins of the bible seem about as realistic to me as aliens do. it's all so far out of my understanding, that's why i continue to search, i guess.

[JenBKR]

I think this is the website:

http://www.xenu.net/

Here is an exert:

The science fiction content of Scientology is revealed to them after they have reached the state they call "Clear", meaning freed from the aberrations of the mind. However, perhaps "brainwashed" would be a more applicable word to describe the mental state of someone who has survived the near entire delusional contents of their subconscious mind brought to the surface and presented to them as "truth". On the "advanced" levels (called OT levels) above the state of "Clear" they encounter the story of Xenu. Xenu was supposed to have gathered up all the overpopulation in this sector of the galaxy, brought them to Earth and then exterminated them using hydrogen bombs. The souls of these murdered people are then supposed to infest the body of everyone. They are called "body thetans". On the advanced levels of Scientology a person "audits out" these body thetans telepathically by getting them to re-experience their being exterminated by hydrogen bombs. So people on these levels assume all their bad thoughts and faulty memories are due to these body thetans infesting every part of their body and influencing them mentally. Many Scientologists go raving mad at this point if they have not done so already.


I think I heard the "burned up aliens" on the radio, and read this, and combined the two. This is an anti-scientology site, so may not be true. It's hard sometimes to distinguish between fact and fiction on the net!

[finn's mom]

geez, that's scary. but, again, religion is mostly scary and confusing to me anyway. there are anti everything out there. thanks for posting that, though.

[JenBKR]

I know, everything can be so confusing sometimes. Religions are so complicated. Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe!