Scientology?

[adrienne]

With all this Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes nonsense, and all the talk about his religion, I realized I don't know what the hell scientology is. They talk like he's crazy, so what is it about? Does anyone know generally what their beliefs are?

[SpursFanDan]

a religion that costs a hellufa lot of money. No pun intended.

[E20]

Scientology in a nutshell:

Starwars and Star Trek.

You basically believe in those types of fictious universes and that someday Aliens will take away the scientologists to a better world.

[ObiwanGinobili]

My Uncle is a scientologist. It;s weird. And he is weird now too.
they don't think that you should speak or make any sound in the presence of someone who is sleeping, napping or otherwise not fully conscious because you could plant and enfart in thier brain and permantly harm their mental well being.
Also they don't believe in phsyciatry or drugs (prescribed). Or teacher led educatioon apparently since my Uncle put his kids in some freaky scientology based primary school where they played with clay till they were 8 and my cousin Jeremiah didn't learn to read till he was 10.
My Uncle got involved with them while he was at Berkley in the mid 70's studying Neurology... he became heavily indebted to the church of scientology (thier fees are outrageous) and then ended up compoundeding that initial error by accepting loans from them. He tried to leave the church cause they are weird... but ended up quittign college and working for them to pay off his debt.
Meanwhile he has since become a "true-believer" and owes them more $$ than ever.

[Clandestino]

craziest shit i ever heard

[Cant_Be_Faded]

this already was a thread

[T Park]

My Uncle got involved with them while he was at Berkley

There was your uncle's first problem.

Going to freakin Berkley.

[ObiwanGinobili]

There was your uncle's first problem.

Going to freakin Berkley.

:lmao
i think the thing was it was the farthest he could get from my grandmother - they were from CT.

[Shelly]

It all started with this, which is basically a Science Fiction book. How it esculated into a cult (and I use that term loosely) is beyond me.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1403105413.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[ObiwanGinobili]

Isn't it true that in the Mind 50's L.Ron Hubbard made a bet with a fellow sci-fi writer that he could "create a religion"???

[CrazyOne]

Part of their belief is that human souls are 75 million year old aliens called Thetans. We're polluted with these negative energies called emgrams and so they use the pop psychology techniques of Dianetics coupled with a device similiar to a lie detector to supposedly get you "clear" of these emgrams. So along the way you pay outrageous fees to get "clear", and as well, you divulge all your dirty laundry to these folks as well. (Can you say "blackmail"? Sure you can.)

It's a scam from the start.

[CrazyOne]

That's the legend, Obi... everybody denies it, but it seems very plausible.

[Duff McCartney]

Doesn't seem any more ridiculous to me than any other religion.

[CrazyOne]

I can believe you would think that...

[T Park]

Its duff, what else do you expect from that dumb F.

[E20]

There was your uncle's first problem.

Going to freakin Berkley.
Tpark, Berkely crazy?

Now that is more fucking stupid than declaring the Spurs suck. The school is one of the best.

[CrazyOne]

Hey Tpark, there's no call for that... Duff's unfounded and ignorant antagonism for tradtional religion is well known here, but there's no need to be impolite. As he grows older and hopefully gains a little wisdom, he'll see the error of his ways.

[CrazyOne]

One of my best friend's daughter started at Berkeley last year. Some of the things that go on there qualify for admission to the nearest looney bin, for sure. Fortunately, she's found some oases of sanity there and should survive the craziness enough to get a great education there.

[E20]

You need like a 4.0+ GPA to get in there, good extra-curriuclar(sp) and goood SATI/II/ACT scores.

[Jekka]

Tpark, Berkely crazy?

Now that is more fucking stupid than declaring the Spurs suck. The school is one of the best.

Hey, there's a reason it's nickname is Bazerkly.

[T Park]

The school is one of the best.

The best for housing lunatics.


Under the word "wacko" in the dictionary there is a picture of Berkley right next to it.

[E20]

Dude, just cause they're some wackos that fuck around doesn't mean it's a bad school. Berkley was the shit in Physics/Chemistry/Science. The mofos were making Brand NEW elements from scratch, no one does that except maybe for God..... and the people there have obviously won numerous Nobel Prizes in the different fields fo Science.

[adrienne]

Berkeley is where a professor was holding a rally trying to convince students that they should try to protect the Iraqis fighting against our troops, and basically to go after the Americans. Hmmm.

(There's a difference between opposing the war and opposing the troops serving our country...you can't think this guy wasn't insane no matter what your political views.)

[E20]

WTF!? I'm not talking about the Schools relation in poltics or frat parties or Druggies. The only reason I want to go there is to get a good education.

[T Park]

Also the place where they demanded the Fire Dept take down their american flag, because it might "offend" someone.


Fuck Berkley.

They could blow up the united states north of fresno all the way to the canadien border up and it wouldnt bother me a bit.

[T Park]

Get ready to get brainwashed.

The professors constantly are pushing political agendas there.

[E20]

Basically, I don't give nothing about English, History or any Fine Literature crap and I don't care if I get a 60% just to pass it. My interest lie elsewhere, where Poltics aren't really affected by it.

[T Park]

oh.

In that case, they MIGHT be ok.


Ya never know. That school is full of kooks though.

[E20]

I'll agree I've seen some crazy shit in Cali.

[Shelly]

Berkley is great school! If you can get in, you'd be a fool not to go.

[T Park]

oh no.

Weve lost Shelly to the darkside.

That and her voodoo thing lost it's head.

[E20]

Why do I need math to be a Porno Star?

[Shelly]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php

Berkeley is rated 21.

[tlongII]

Berkley is great school! If you can get in, you'd be a fool not to go.


Agreed. I would say Berkley and Stanford are the top 2 schools on the West coast.

[CrazyOne]

My friend's daughter was the valedictorian of the Communications Arts Magnet school at Taft, so she would have had a full scholarship to any school in Texas... but she's wanted to go to Berkeley for the longest time. The first year's bills ended up around $30K for out of area. Her mom moved there last month so they could save some money by being a resident. If it were my daughter, I would have told her that Dallas has some fine schools...

[T Park]

I would've told her

"You're 18, you wanna go there, pay for it yourself"