Why fear Scientology?

Question

I read how everything about that costs big dollars. So, that counts many of us out. Or maybe I am misinformed?

Answer 1

many people have the rong idea of what scientology is and they beleive that it is about aliens and xenu which is not true...i have scientologist firends who dont beleive in this at all...personally if that was true id think that was pretty weird and creepy as well,,, but people seem to be illinformed by the media who critisize it.....scientology is not something to fear and nobody has any proof to say that it is about aliens......

Answer 2

The money's no reason to fear scientology, except in so far as it makes them powerful.



The real reason they're dangerous is because of their attitude to the rest of society.



1. Scientology doctrine values strength - if you get ill, or if you're failing to reach your target statistics, then either you "pulled it in" or you've been hanging around with bad people (SPs) or you did something wrong yourself. In other words, there's no support there for the week, once they're in.



2. Scientology doctrine teaches them about enemies. People who criticise scientology are viewed as criminals - literally. Doctrine says that critics *must* also be secular criminals. Critics are considered "Supressive Persons" and doctrine says that they can be attacked in any way in order to destroy them. Other parts of the doctrine also encourage violence - things like "don't be afraid it use violence in a just cause" (scientology, to its adherents, is always a just cause).



3. Scientology has been show to act on these aggressive messages - It infiltrated the IRS. It tried to have a perfectly innocent author (Paulette Cooper) imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. They libel their critics and sue them to silence them.



4. Scientology is expansionist. It wants to "clear the earth" which roughly speaking means making everyone a scientologist, subject to scientology's "ethics" (internal justice system). Quite how this will happen with the amount of costs to reach "clear" now has never been explained. Only slightly more realistic is their goal of destroying psychiatry. No more anti-depressants. No more mental hospitals. Just scientology instead.



5. Don't worry too much. Scientology is, as anonymous say "full of fail". They've been caught attacking their critics (e.g. Woods v Scientology) and they've doctrine alone is enough to put them on the watch list of Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Quite often their attempt to deal with Anonymous protesters end up attracting the attention of local press and annoying the local authorities with false complaints and minor assaults on protesters. The economic downturn will eventually impact on the Church's profits, and in due course, I hope, it's extravagent spending on buildings and (ever more) on law suits, will drive the organisation to bankruptcy...

Answer 3

Fear is usually deliberately created and stirred up to keep people from actually looking and finding out for themselves. (News papers TV News, Internet etc,)

Fear of something that is not actually a threat to you is an irrational response... That's what they count on .So yes, I would agree that you are at least misinformed.

Folks pay lots of money for things like houses and cars etc but that doesn't make them afraid of those things.

Anyway people usually spend money on things that are valuable to them and find out about what they are buying first, before they spend "big dollars".

For some, increased understanding , spiritual awareness and ability is valuable.

You can gain more understanding of life from reading a book about Scientology (which would also get you more informed) .That doesn't have to cost you anything.(Check your local library)

What's frightening about that?

Answer 4

If you were a drug pusher or someone who profits from immoral activity, there may be some reason to fear Scientology. But truth is, when you get straight and start helping instead of harming your own life gets happier. So even these type of people have little to fear from Scientology.

Answer 5

A man was found video taping the church of Scientology.

A few days later, he was murdered.



A woman was found in a car crash. She had not taken her medication, and was certifiably insane. Scientologists took her from the hospital, because she was a Scientologist, and locked her in a cabana for 5 days until she died of starvation, because Scientology does not believe in mental help.



A man stabbed his mother 77 times because she refused to get treatment for his paranoid schizophrenia, because the church of Scientology frowns upon it.



Tom Cruise at the placenta of his daughter, because the Church told him to.

Answer 6

You don't have to be rich to join. To move up and get to the upper levels it does indeed cost a lot, but it's still very much cultish and dangerous for those at the bottom.

Answer 7

Here is some Scientologist scripture written by the 'religions' founder L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer.



"""The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet - 178 billion on average) by mass implanting.

He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken - in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged". His name was Xenu[an intergalacic warlord]. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc was placed in the unplants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert.

The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.

In December 1967 1 know someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.

One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.

One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing.

You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.

Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. """

Answer 8

Look what it did to Tom Cruise! And he has money....

Answer 9

They're annoying, secretive and have influential people hidden all over.



Apparently

Answer 10

i don't know why people do but i don't :0

Answer 11

i don't think there's a religion that excludes poor people.

Answer 12

This is why: http://theunfunnytruth.ymnd.com/