history lesson
In the late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared:
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Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion
Hubbard invented some type of mental health technique which he dubbed dianetics. Not surprisingly dianetics were faced with several legal problems dealing with health professionals and the practice of medicine.
So taking a leaf out of his own book, Hubbard with lawyers changed dianetics into a religion, and the Church of Scientology was born.
Now the disclaimer for dianetics
scientology wrote:
Scientology and its substudy, Dianetics, as practiced by the Church… does not wish to accept individuals who desire treatment of physical illness or insanity but refers these to qualified specialists of other organizations who deal in these matters
Dianetics is based on 1) the principle that health is achieved by abolishing (“clearing”) negative influences (“engrams”) from their minds.
This is done by going back (often to the womb ) on a “time track” while in a “dianetic reverie” in the presence of a listening “auditor”. In other words its their version of indoctrination.
These "engrams" are defined as
definite and permanent trace left by a stimulus on the protoplasm of a tissue. Like the good pseudoscientist Hubbard is, he doesn't even care that he cannot observe these engrams and also on another note, to cure someone you must remove these "permanent" engrams. But Hubbard doesn't stop there.
To give you an idea of Hubbards retarded claim 1) abusive husband hits wife while pregnant => 2) Foetus gets an engram, which explains some psychological problems the child will have as an adult. But it gets better
While undergoing his own treatment, Hubbard found out about past lives while on this "time track". He also found out about the nasty Thetans which infest us and cause human suffering. He also found out about the evil Xenu who exiled us to Earth. He calculates the soul or thetans to be trillions of years old. Which is very interesting considering the universe is aged only in the billions of years.
Looking back at Hubbards own letters while serving in the military, it was strongly suggested that Hubbard was a paranoid schizophrenic (besides the obvious delusions others have mentioned, he also was paranoid that "communists" and others were out to get him). In fact Hubbard before he completely lost the plot wrote a letter requesting psychiatric help from the military. He was turned down.
A hilarious summary of scientology belief can be found here
http://www.xenu.net/archive/scientology_illustrated/Never apologise for being a geek, because they won't apologise to you for being an arsehole. John Barrowman - 22 June 2014 Perth Supernova.
Countries I have been to - 14.
Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, USA.
Always on the lookout for more nice places to visit.
-- Asuka
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- PeZook
