I know it's come up in the past, but I was just writing a bulletin post for the MySpace on how retarded Scientology is and I thought it was too good of a rant to just be viewed by the three or four people who will actually click on it, so here's my rant, feel free to contribute your own. (Note: I don't typically attack people's religious beliefs, but believing in Scientology is like believing in werewolves or Martians so they deserve it)
I was just poking around Wiki reading about Scientology and holy shit you have to be high to believe what they believe. Pretty much everything from that South Park episode is dead on, but the really crazy part is that you don't even get to hear that stuff as a member unless you've paid them an assload of money. They actually think that finding out about Xenu and his space DC-10's before you're "ready" can kill you! Also, this all supposedly happened millions of years ago but the aliens used cars, planes, and boats that looked almost exactly the same as 1960's era vehicles and wore clothing that was very similar to the clothing of the time. Right, this alien civilization was millions of years old, consisted of 27 planets; so they obviously had interstellar travel, and they had only 60's era technology? It also mentions that Scientology's supporters complain that people try to pass the religion off as a science-fiction fantasy. Uh, I don't know if anyone pointed this out to you guys, but L. RON HUBBARD WAS A SCI-FI WRITER! Before he ever started claiming to know the secret history of the universe, he wrote shitty pulp fiction stories under about a dozen completely uninspired aliases. Oh, also he was a huge pill popper. He also spent a lot of time on his private fleet of ships (largely because most countries were so sick of his BS, they wouldn't let him in anymore), being waited on by teenage girls in hotpants (gotta admit, can't fault him on that) and was known for flying into drug-fueled rages and locking his crew members in the chain locker and throwing them overboard blind-folded. So, he was a sci-fi writer, a drug addict, and a pedophile; sounds like the religious founder I've been looking for, sign me up! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to found a religion based on concept that Star Wars was real and Darth Vader piloted TIE fighters full of wookiees to Earth three kajillion years ago and that's the true story of evolution!
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Cattivo
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Posted:
Dec 14 2007 01:30 pm
It's just a money-making scam thought up by a hack of a sci-fi writer. Unfortunately, in the process, it's destroyed many a life by forcing people to do such things as reject needed medications.
TheRoboSleuth
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Posted:
Dec 14 2007 05:39 pm
Ummmm.... Now you know how athiests feel. Congrats.
ReeperTheSeeker
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Posted:
Dec 14 2007 10:24 pm
So scientology is all about getting high and believing in aliens as our creator or some shit? And they despise so much, like psychiatry, hey i think psychiatry is bull shit too but if people need to pay someone to listen to their problems, go for it. Man, the older i get the more i think atheist have a sweet deal.
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TheRoboSleuth
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Posted:
Dec 15 2007 04:36 am
ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
So scientology is all about getting high and believing in aliens as our creator or some shit? And they despise so much, like psychiatry, hey i think psychiatry is bull shit too but if people need to pay someone to listen to their problems, go for it. Man, the older i get the more i think atheist have a sweet deal.
Athiesm sucks. Its depressing, and even when and if you manage to get past that stage, you still feel embarrased because about ninety percent of the big name athiests are giant assholes and they write books named things like "The God Delusion" and "How religion poisons everything". Way to make us look bad guys.
Its also an issue if you have religious friends. Good friends are okay with it, even if they are a bit concerned. Bad friends curse you and leave. Like telling your friends you play DnD.
Grimmriffer
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Posted:
Dec 15 2007 07:13 pm
I'm an agnostic. Some folks say that means that I'm really an athiest who wants social acceptance by taking an inoffensive middle ground, but, honestly, I think agnostic best describes me beacause I don't really know and I've really stopped caring.
Sure, I'd like to believe in a God and an afterlife where we are judged according to our actions and not our beliefs, but I honestly don't see any evidence for it. Truthfully, I'm leaning more towards the "life is the result of billions of years of complex chemical reactions and you rot in the ground when you die" verison of the truth because, frankly, it appears to be more accurate. It's depressing, but not as depressing as billions of people going to hell beacause they didn't "follow the right path," whatever that may be. And if God is real and truly just, then his plan superceeds any human religion.
I guess what keeps me from being an athiest is that I really want there to be a God, and I haven't stopped hoping there is one, even though I kinda selfishly want him to exist on my terms.
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ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
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Posted:
Dec 15 2007 08:58 pm
Wow, we're getting deep on this thread. I believe in God and Jesus but i don't believe in celibacy and guilting people into ‘the right path’. Sunday School was fun, mostly because we didn’t have final exams but I forgot most of what I was taught. I believe in science nowadays because science has advance humanity so much (at least technologically). I do believe in a higher power, I just don’t devote every moment to that higher power like Ned Flanders. And note how the forum says “Let's all bash Scientology” and we’re talking about other religions. I guess ignoring a religion can be considered a bash.
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Char Aznable
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Posted:
Dec 15 2007 08:59 pm
You consider Scientology a religion?
Syd Lexia
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Posted:
Dec 15 2007 09:07 pm
I liked that song Cult of Scientology by Living color. Vernon Reid kicks ass.
Scientology is so pathetic. It doesn't even deserve the name religion, nor does it deserve the term cult. Its bottom barrel science fiction. The fat slob that contributes to wookiepedia constantly is better than any scientologist, because his fiction at least has the good sense to be entertaining exactly 1/3 of the time. The stargate dude is better. Stargate!
Even funnier is that if the good doctor had bothered to write one of his own, Scientology would have never even taken off. It would be simple, with maybe what, three directives? Four at the most.
And another thing. Have you noticed that any public figure that endorses this sham is slightly unhinged? They're all bat fuckin crazy. I guess your neutrons need to be unaligned to some degree, or at least psychiatric medication does help to some degree.
ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
Posts: 2752
Posted:
Dec 16 2007 09:38 pm
RobotGumshoe wrote:
Scientology is so pathetic. It doesn't even deserve the name religion, nor does it deserve the term cult. Its bottom barrel science fiction. The fat slob that contributes to wookiepedia constantly is better than any scientologist, because his fiction at least has the good sense to be entertaining exactly 1/3 of the time. The stargate dude is better. Stargate!
Even funnier is that if the good doctor had bothered to write one of his own, Scientology would have never even taken off. It would be simple, with maybe what, three directives? Four at the most.
And another thing. Have you noticed that any public figure that endorses this sham is slightly unhinged? They're all bat fuckin crazy. I guess your neutrons need to be unaligned to some degree, or at least psychiatric medication does help to some degree.
I find it so amazing that people around the world can band together to fight against something like this! especially how it started on one of the 4chan message boards!
