From: kes...@cyberpass.net (keshet)
Subject: Juggernaut
Date: 2000/03/15
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I was fortunate (?) enough to see a copy of the program for
Scientology's New Year's Event. Pretty standard fare, with a
sports arena seating diagram, street map, list of tours 
available, and schedule of events (including a Sunday Service 
with the Reverend Heber Jentzsch and a concert with Isaac 
Hayes & The Dukes of Soul).

On page 7, "Sign the Commitment to a Scientology Millennium", 
the following appears:

    We are on our way to clear a planet and free a world
    population. With the advent of the year 2000, we intend
    to create a true Scientology juggernaut and make this
    -- LRH's postulate -- a firm reality.

    To create that juggernaut you are invited to sign a
    commitment pledging your adherence to the Code of a
    Scientologist and the intention to making this new 
    millennium -- the Scientology Millennium.

"Juggernaut" caught my attention. The word is derived from the 
title of the Hindu deity Krishna, whose idol is drawn on a huge 
cart in an annual procession. At one time it was (mistakenly) 
thought that fanatics would throw themselves under the wheels 
to be crushed, as a sacrifice to the god. Thus, the definition 
(from the American Heritage dictionary):

    Something, such as a belief or an institution, that 
    elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which 
    people are ruthlessly sacrificed; an overwhelming, 
    advancing force that crushes or seems to crush 
    everything in its path.

Scientology "crushingly" defined in its own words.

	Keshet

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