What is $cientology (By Martin Hunt) - Repost
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From: (Martin G. V. Hunt)
Subject: What is Scientology?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 03:50:26 GMT
Posted by request:
--------------------------- What is Scientology ---------------------------
Scientology is a dangerous, mindbending cult that was established in the
1950's by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and presents a grave threat to the concepts
and tenets of freedom and democracy. Scientology has, as its basic purpose,
the destruction of freedom and the erosion of human rights on the way to
making money; it uses any means possible to achieve this end, including legal
harassment, verbal and physical threats, hiding under the cover of "religion",
and thought reform so complete that to talk to anyone brainwashed by the cult
is to talk to little more than the mouthed platitudes of mechanical zombies.
Scientology has evolved its own language that is little more than
meaningless, incomprehensible ravings to rational, educated minds. This
newspeak is a form of semantic control, used by the church to extract profit,
either in money or personnel resources from its hapless, brainwashed victims
and to serve PR functions to fool the public. Scientology is a totalitarian
and fascist system that sees freedom of speech as an arch enemy, and freedom
of thought as a personal attack, deserving of every means to stop it dead,
sometimes literally. An example of this newspeak is the unfounded claim by
the cult to be a "church"; Scientology is a cult, not a church.
Based on science fiction and fantasy, the cult's teachings are little more
than a thinly concealed attempt at making huge sums of money for the people at
the top of the cult. Near the end of his life, Ronald Hubbard was reported
to be making as much as one million dollars per week. Hubbard is documented
as having said that the best way to make a lot of money is to invent a
religion, and that is exactly what he did with the cult of Scientology.
A mainstay of the cult's writings are based upon a kind of pseudo-science
that gives one the clear impression that it is the 1930's. Many of these
writings talk down to their audience as if they were wholly ignorant of basic
facts about geology, biology, medicine, and other branches of general knowledge
and science. The lamentable truth is that the cult's brainwashed victims are
actually willing to defend these bits of fantasy as established scientific
fact, against all reason and logic; one such delusion is "auditing".
In "auditing", Scientology charges huge amounts of money to hook the
indoctrinees up to a crude resistor-based bridge ohmmeter and ask bizarre
questions about what supposedly happened to them millions, billions or even
trillions of years ago on this and other planets. This "treatment" (also
called "metering" by the cult) is supposed to cure all manner of ailments,
both physical and psychological, for astronomical prices. The total cost of
going from "raw meat", as the cult disparagingly calls the public, to "OT-8"
is estimated to cost over 250,000.00$ US. The cult also uses another form of
this "auditing" process, called "security-checking" to obtain very personal
information about the follower's sex lives and criminal history (if any),
which is then used for security purposes as potential blackmail to keep people
quiet about the illegal activities of the cult should they ever escape its
semantic entrapment long enough to resume their former lives.
The litigious nature of the controversial cult of Scientology is well
known and reported in the literature on this dangerous cultic phenomenon.
Scientologists have, as one of their basic policies, the destruction of anyone
who is perceived by this paranoid schizophrenic organization as being an
"enemy", and baseless lawsuits, sometimes involving frames, are used for this
purpose. An enemy is anyone who, in the eyes of the cult, denigrates the cult
in any way; thus critics are subject to multitudes of frivolous lawsuits,
threats, strong-arm tactics, and outright physical attacks. For this reason,
suggestions have been put forward to ban Scientology from the courts for
barratrous abuses.
Scientology, while trying desperately to maintain a PR facade of sweetness
and light, in reality call their public by such derogatory names as "raw meat",
"bodies", and "WOGs"; these same people are thought to be so inconsequential
to the cult that they are "body routed" into the organization, as they are
thought to have no self determination or free will whatsoever, and thus no
rights. The "raw meat" are fit for little more than indoctrination using
simple hand motions like the children's game of pat-a-cake, according to the
cult, as they are too far down the cult's "tone scale", a list of all the
emotional states a person is capable of, to be treated as human beings.
Interestingly, this "tone scale" of all human states and emotions fails to
contain either happiness or freedom --- the stated goals of Hubbard's so-called
"religion".
The charade of hiding behind a religious cover even goes as far as
installing pews and an altar in most of its buildings; however, these are
seldom actually used until an investigation by a taxation branch brings down
the order from above to "make this place look churchy" by using the pews and
dressing up a cult indoctrinator as a "minister". Pretending to be a religion
serves two purposes within the cult; escaping the charge of medical malpractice
and avoiding legitimate taxation within the host country the cult has
infiltrated. The hope for the future is that more countries will stand up to
this tactic with protective legislation.
Scientology hides behind the facade of a "religion", yet to the cult
indoctrinees and those "in the know", this is merely seen as a way to avoid
taxation and hassles over using the "auditing" techniques for stated medical
purposes. The medical community has long been trying to curtail this cult's
dangerous pseudo-medical practices, such as the "purification rundown" and the
use of the "e-meter" for healing everything from backaches to bad eyesight.
For this reason, the cult perceives a need to hide under the cover of religion,
while at the same time calling itself a "science of mind" to gain credence on
the the coattails of legitimate medicine. In addition, the cult has a policy
of discrediting, attacking, and suing the medical and psychiatric communities,
as they were perceived as enemies by the paranoid Hubbard; he was at one time
diagnosed as being mentally unstable by a psychiatrist, and thus he conceived
a hatred for the healing professions.
Although the cult of Scientology often makes irrational and unscientific
claims for medical treatment and healing, the reality is that these "effects"
can all be easily explained by the placebo effect and by the crushing effects
of complete thought reform, sleep deprivation, dietary control, semantic
disturbances, and milieu control exacted by the cult on its victims. These
brainwashing techniques lead the victim to "attest" to all forms of miraculous
"cures"; if written "attests" are not made, then the poor "preclear" is sent
off to "ethics" --- an action that every Scientologist fears. In fact,
Scientology has a specific policy on people who do not "improve". They are
seen as being evil, suppressive, or a source of trouble; thus if the cult's
efforts fail, the "preclear" is held entirely responsible in a kind of catch-22
situation, and made even more of a victim.
There are two faces to Scientology; one for public consumption, and an
entirely different one, hidden from public view, for those "in the know". The
public is told that Hubbard is "just a human", and that the cult does not treat
of religion; but the fact is that Hubbard is known to be God once one has been
brainwashed into the "upper levels". The public is given a PR story that the
cult is a "religion", all the teaching are "belief", and all gains are
"spiritual" in nature. Nevertheless, the indoctrinated know, or rather are
brainwashed into believing, that Scientology is a workable method for treating
human ailments, both medical and psychiatric, and every word of Hubbard's
science-fictionlike scribblings, no matter how ludicrous, are "scientifically
proven facts" referred to as "source" or, more significantly, "Source", and
thoroughly researched. This "research" in fact involved Hubbard sitting down
at a typewriter and writing whatever came to mind, a skill he developed while
writing pulp science fiction.
Scientology is well known for publishing various "codes" and "creeds" of a
lofty and humanitarian nature, but the cult does not adhere to these altruistic
statements in the smallest degree; they are just more PR material to make the
cult look good in the eyes of a sceptical and increasingly hostile public.
As time goes on, and more people lose their children, relatives, and friends
to this dangerous, lawless, immoral, and litigious cult, legislation will
surely be enacted in the free democratic countries of the world to limit its
pernicious effect upon our society. Every time a brainwashed cultist wakes up
to wonder what happened to the last few years of his or her life, and steps out
of the shadows into the bracing sunlight of freedom of speech and thought,
another nail is hammered into the coffin of this ugly phenomenon. The
Scientology cult itself admits this; it says it has a problem with its
"field" (the public) being "muddy" (hard to expand into). One can only hope
that as time goes by, the cult will grow more distant from the paranoid and
schizophrenic man who created it; already the cult has gone through its
reformation, of sorts, as slightly more liberal minded groups have split off
from the cult and set up their own operations.
Former members of this cult are requested to speak out against it; tell the
world the dark secrets of the "SO" and the "RPF". The SO is the Sea Org; a
heavily controlled slave-like segment of the cult that signs billion year
service contracts for wages lower than the average income of third-world
countries. The RPF is the deceptively named Rehabilitation Project Force, a
dark, secret, and hidden section of the cult used for punishing "downstat"
members. Every recruit is irrationally expected to increase their production
every week or they become "downstat", having falling statistics for production.
The RPF is similar to a concentration camp; some of the unfortunate wights who
end up here do not see the light of day for years. The RPFers for the Los
Angeles Cedars of Lebanon Centre are imprisoned in cavern-like tunnels
extending under the streets of Los Angeles, fed on a starvation diet of beans
and rice, forced to work up to 125 hours a week, are not allowed to speak, and
are dressed in filthy grey rags. There is an even darker and more secret
organization for punishing "downstat" members called the "RRPF", or Ron's RPF;
if anyone out there has experiences to relate of this cruel section of the
cult, they are encouraged to speak out against this flagrant abuse of basic
human rights.
If you, the gentle reader have information of torture, inhumane treatment,
murder, or other nefarious behavior or human rights abuses by this cult, then
let the world know --- don't let what happened to you or people who were in
the cult with you happen to another person out of ignorance of just how evil
this cult really is. Fear not reprisals; people who have escaped the cult
number in the hundreds of thousands! It has been estimated that there are
several times more "disaffected" Scientologists than there are people
trapped in the cult at present.
The author of this FAQ shall, in all likelihood, be attacked by the cult
for writing this, but this tactic will not serve. For the author believes so
strongly in the truth that nothing shall swerve him from this path. In this
world, we must fight for what we believe in; for if we turn a blind eye to
the dictator or to those who would limit our freedoms, then we shall be
forever on the retreat, and we shall end up having a life not worth living.
Let this be a call to arms, "for we have nothing to fear but fear itself".
--
LaserClam
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>Date: 3/6/03 2:51 PM Eastern Standard Time
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>Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
>From: (Martin G. V. Hunt)
>Subject: What is Scientology?
>Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 03:50:26 GMT
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>Posted by request:
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>--------------------------- What is Scientology ---------------------------
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> Scientology is a dangerous, mindbending cult that was established in the
>1950's by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and presents a grave threat to the
>concepts
>and tenets of freedom and democracy. Scientology has, as its basic purpose,
>the destruction of freedom and the erosion of human rights on the way to
>making money; it uses any means possible to achieve this end, including legal
>harassment, verbal and physical threats, hiding under the cover of
>"religion",
>and thought reform so complete that to talk to anyone brainwashed by the cult
>is to talk to little more than the mouthed platitudes of mechanical zombies.
Just like those catholic nazis?
LaserWOG
Are you characterizing all Catholics as Nazis?
Is this Church policy?
LaserWOG
Chris Leithiser
> > Just like those catholic nazis?
>
> Are you characterizing all Catholics as Nazis?
>
> Is this Church policy?
>
> LaserWOG
Yes.