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The Church of Scientology has been called a fake and a fraud hiding behind the "skirts" of its designation as a "religion". Scientology calls its critics "religious" bigots. The origin of the Church of Scientology is relatively new, established in 1953. Compared to other, older more established religions, it's relatively easy to research the one man who was instrumental in bringing "Scientology" to the world, L. Ron Hubbard. That is, depending on the reference and whether the Church continues to sanitize and scrub clean Hubbard's image.

The internet is awash in L. Ron Hubbard sites. Depending on where you look, Hubbard is one of the most prolific and influential writers of fiction, a poet, musician, a "leading light" of popular literature in the 1930's, humanitarian, drug addict, nutjob, malignant narcissist, or Satan.

Most, if not all of the glowing attributes of Hubbard on the web,orginate from websites sponsored by the Church of Scientology. Hubbard's past has been scrubbed clean and santizied to portray the man in a "prophetic" light. While there are literally hundreds of testiments to Hubbard's prolific past as a "wise man" and "prophet" of Scientology, one small interview, published back in 1983 in Penthouse Magazine, singlehandedly deconstructs the Church of Scientology's carefully crafted depiction of L. Ron Hubbard.

Ron Jr. says that he remembers much of his childhood. He claims to recall, at six years, a vivid scene of his father performing an abortion ritual on his mother with a coat hanger. He remembers that when he was ten years old, his father, in an attempt to get his son in tune with his black-magic worship, laced the young hubbard's bubble gum with phenobarbital. Drugs were an important part of Ron Jr.'s growing up, as his father believed that they were the best way to get closer to Satan --the Antichrist of black magic. 1984 Penthouse Interview

In 1983, Hubbard's son, Ron Jr., gave an interview to Penthouse magazine. The resulting article paints a devastating picture of the senior Hubbard and his brainchild, Scientology.

Ron Jr. recounts his father as a "broke science-fiction writer" who believed the way to amass a fortune was through pedalling a "religion" to the "masses". He also recounted his childhood, of his father's drinking,drug abuse, and Satanic worship.



E-Meter

Ron was 16 when Hubbard's book, Dianetics, first hit the scene in 1950. Hubbard opened a clinic in New Jersey where "clients" were assessed using an "e-meter". Hubbard fled the state after New Jersey and the American Medical Association called Dianetics and Scientology a quack science. By 1953 the Hubbards had relocated to Arizona where the first official "church" of Scientology began with Ron Jr. a willing disciple of his father's new "religion".

Ron married in 1953. He never allowed his wife nor his six children and grandchildren to join Scientology. In 1959, after witnessing several activities which involved alleged drug dealing and the laundering of large sums of money plus his father's heavy handiness, Ron decided to leave.

Ron became aware for the first time of the patent paranoia displayed by the Church of Scientology when he realized that he and his family's movements were monitored. When his half-brother Quentin died under mysterious circumstances in 1976 and Ron's belief that his father had died in 1980 and his death was being withheld by church authorities, Ron filed suit to claim his inheritance. Penthouse sent a journalist to interview Ron, who in 1984 was managing an apartment complex in Carson City, Nevada.

Ron spoke about the policy of "Fair Gaming" utilitized by Scientologists to silence their critics. As he had spent years within the top most "inner" circle, he was more than familiar with the tactics being used against him, as he had previously used them against members who had attempted to flee to the fold:

Hubbard: it's very simple. Scientology has always had a "fair-game doctrine"--a policy of doing absolutely anything to stop an investigation or publication of a critical article in a magazine or newspaper. They have run some incredible operations on the several people who have tried to write books about Scientology. It was almost like a terror campaign. First they'd try throwing every possible lawsuit at the reporter or newspaper. We had a team of attorneys to do just that. The goal was to destroy the enemy. So the solution was always to attack, full-bore, with every possible resource, from every angle, instantaneously it can certainly be overwhelming.

He also spoke of his father's "philosophy" on combating the "enemy" in court:

Hubbard: My father drilled into all of us: Don't go to court thinking to win a lawsuit. You go to court to harass, to delay, to exhaust the enemy financially, physically, mentally. You file every motion you can think of and you just lock them up in court. The courts, for my father, were never used to seek justice or redress, put to destroy the people he thought were enemies, to prevent negative stories from appearing. He just wanted complete control of the press --and got it.

DBKP found another instance of Hubbard Sr.'s penchant for instructing his minions to "destroy" the enemy. In 1968 Hubbard sent out a directive from his current abode, as the "Commodor" aboard the freighter, the Royal Scotsman. This was the origin of Scientology's Sea Organization or Sea Org:

ADVANCED ORGANIZATION Yacht Royal Scotsman

HCO ETHICS ORDER

To: Those Concerned No. 30 INT

From: The Founder E/O No. 28 INT added to



Subject: RACKET EXPOSED 6 MARCH 1968
(BPI and goes in Auditor)



PETER GOODWIN JIM STATHIS PETER KNIGHT MRS. KNIGHT NORA GOODWIN RON FROST MARGARET FROST NINA COLLINGWOOD FREDA GAIMAN FRANK MANLEY MARY ANN TAYLOR GEORGE WATERIDGE

are hereby declared Suppressive Persons for pretending to have and distribute forged and altered "Upper Level Materials" which were of a Research nature and not for distribution.

All Certificates and Awards are cancelled.

Having stolen or illegally procured these dangerous materials (at the instigation of a Psychiatrist) these persons did plot to misuse them to cause Insanity and Death.

False report for money that they would furnish the real materials.

They are declared Enemies of Mankind, the planet and all life.

They are fair game.

No amnesty may ever cover them.

If they ever come to a Qual Division they are to be run on reverse processes.

Any Sea Org member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45.

The Criminal Prosecution Bureau is to find any and all crimes in their pasts and have them brought to court and prison.

The Public Distribution of False or Forbidden data is a Suppressive Act and a High Crime.

L.RON HUBBARD Founder

Source - Fredric L. Rice
Note: R2-45 referred to a "bullet in the head by a .45"

For more of L. Ron Hubbard: Scientology Saint or Black Magic Sinner? at DBKP.com


By LBG

Source - Xenu TV - PBS Late Night
Source - Lermanet - Penthouse Interview
Source - Holy Smoke - Hubbard Memo
Source - Mystae.com
Image - E-Meter
Image - Dianetics
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The Church of Scientology has been claiming that its been under attack by the group known as Anonymous. Yet there's been virtually no news coverage and limited press releases or "no comment" made by the Church in mainstream media.   

The bulk of the accusations originate from an "anonymous" website where a video claims that back in January the Church was bombarded by harassing phone calls, faxes, and emails containing death and bomb threats. The anonymous video also claims that the group Anonymous sent them a "white powder" in envelopes that resembled anthrax and were responsible for gunshots fired at churches. The video goes on to claim that Anonymous "hacked" into Church of Scientology websites. 

DBKP decided to take a closer look at a video, "Anonymous Exposed - Religious Hate Crimes and Terrorism" which has its own web page and is also posted on Youtube.

The video is posted on this website: Anonymous-Exposed.org.





We decided to take a look at the claims made within the video and whether they had any validity. Here is the transcript from the video:

January 2008 a message from Anonymous is sent to the Church of Scientology:

"Leaders of Scientology, we are Anonymous. Anonymous is therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed... for our own enjoyment. We shall proceed to expel you from the internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in it's present form."

To justify inciting others to commit hate crimes against the church Anonymous claims the right to free speech contained in the First Amendment while showing contempt for the first part of that same Amendment that guarantees the freedom of religion.

Their "attacks" begin on January 17 - Anonymous illegally brings down a Church of Scientology public information website-- attacks continue for 5 days

-a barrage of harassing phone calls begins:

Jan. 18th - 241 harassing phone calls, obscene faxes, death threats

Jan. 19th - 356 harassing phone calls, death threats

Jan. 21st - 139 harassing phone calls, threats of physical violence, email threats

Jan. 22nd - 142 harassing phone calls, bomb threats

Jan. 23rd - 272 harassing phone calls, more bomb threats to three churches, 50,000 obscene emails, threats of violence

Jan. 24th - 663 harassing phone calls

Then on Jan. 25th, Anonymous reiterates its message of hate:

"You shall be smitten down time and time again as we intend absolute annihilation of the Scientology cult"

But later that same day Anonymous attempts to change their message:

"I'd like to clarify our objectives to the press and the public. Allegations that Anonymous wishes to physically harm any human being as a part of our campaign against the cult of Scientology are patently untrue.

Yet they immediately escalate their assault: arson threat.

January 28th, another bomb threat

January 30th - envelopes containing an unknown white powder resembling anthrax are delivered by mail to 24 churches.

January 31th - gunshots fired at church property, more obscene faxes

Feb. 2nd - vandalism

Feb 4th - website attack

And on Feb 13th Anonymous issues to the "Church" of Scientology their "ultimate" threat:

"One 5 kilogram pack of nitroglycerin will detonate in the Churches of Scientology. These explosives will be in the most logical, however hidden, location in each church. This will be the world's biggest terrorist attack on a religion. Lives will be lost."

While claiming they are peaceful, in less than 3 weeks, Anonymous members made or encouraged 8,139 harassing or threatening phone calls, 3.6 million malicious emails, 141 million hits against church websites, 10 acts of vandalism, 22 bombs threats, and 8 death threats against members and officials of the Church of Scientology.

These are the facts.

And yet, are these truly the "facts", or the "facts" according to this anonymous video posted on its own website and on youtube?


The website itself is "anonymous". There's no link to the Church of Scientology. No "home page" or "About US" to refer to. At the top of the page is "The Documentary". There is no reference to who made this documentary. 

The page "informs" those who visit it that its purpose is to "inform Anonymous members who may be unaware of the criminal acts committed by their leaders, and to prevent others from being misled by "Anonymous" propaganda, this video has been produced to provide the facts".

The site then states the video "reveals "Anonymous" repeated incitements to hate and violence" and yet the website fails to reveal who's behind its inception. The site goes on to state that the "Church has not interacted with these "Anonymous" individuals nor does it desire to." 

It goes on to state: "However, death threats and threats to plant nitroglycerin bombs in churches have made it necessary to take security precautions and identify members of this group responsible for these crimes". 

The only thing remaining on the site is the video and the blurb above it:

Anonymous - Religious Hate Crimes and Terrorism directed at the Church of Scientology

Since January 17, 2008, "Anonymous", a group of cyber-terrorists hiding their identities behind masks and computer anonymity, has targeted the Scientology religion, its Churches, leaders and parishioners with hate speech and hate crimes."

The irony behind this blurb is double edged, you have an anonymous website that has no author, no link to an official Scientology website, chastising another group, Anonymous, for being "anonymous". It's also an anonymous website that is doing exactly what Scientology has itself cried foul, of accusations without proof.

We wondered why the makers of this video made the decision to remain "anonymous" in putting out this video "documentary" about the alleged cyber-terrorist group Anonymous?

Could a partial explanation be that an "anonymous" website allows the persons who made it to make accusations without supplying proof? For example, the "envelopes of white powder" that were sent through the mail to various Scientology churches.

"Mailings of a suspicious white powder to 10 Church of Scientology addresses prompted the evacuation of dozens of people and the closure of a major thoroughfare Wednesday as hazmat teams were called to examine the packages.

The letters were sent via the Postal Service to Scientology properties in Hollywood, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Monica, Glendale and Tustin. Police shut part of Glendale's busy Brand Boulevard for two hours before sounding the all-clear, while 60 people were cleared from buildings in Tustin, authorities said. Source - LA Times

At this juncture no arrests have been made, in fact, there haven't been any "persons of interest" and the authorities have yet to name Anonymous as a suspect yet this video points the finger of blame squarely at Anonymous as the culprits behind the white powder incident.

"Initial field testing by LAPD indicates the powder is harmless," said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. "However, further testing will be conducted. We will also work to assess what threat, if any, was associated with the mailings and determine whether any federal statutes were violated."

The Church of Scientology had no comment about the incidents. The mailings come after a cyber attack last week on the Church's website. Authorities said there was no evidence that Wednesday's mailings were connected to the hacking. Source - LA Times 

Read more The Church of Scientology: Hiding Behind Anonymous Video at DBKP.com

>By LBG

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Recently DBKP wrote of the Cyber-War being waged between the mysterious groups known as Anonymous and the Church of Scientology. When we went to find Scientology's take on Anonymous, whether the organization had issued any statements or the like regarding their sworn enemy, we came across the remants of a video battle waged on Youtube. From what we observed, one side managed to "eviscerate" the other in plain cyber-site.

Scientology had issued a statement to Newsweek, calling Anonymous "a group of cyber-terrorists... perpetrating religious hate crimes against the Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists for no reason other than religious bigotry".

In the Newsweek article an Anonymous spokesperson said the group, hardly a cyber-terrorist act, had "plans to start a lobbying campaign to have the church stripped of its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, which was reinstated in 1993. (In 1967, tax authorities revoked its tax-exemption status on the grounds that the organization's auditing scheme operated as Hubbard's personal for-profit venture, and in 1984 the U.S. Tax Court found the organization guilty of "manufacturing and falsifying records to present to the IRS, burglarizing IRS offices and stealing government documents, and subverting government processes for unlawful purposes.") " Source - Newsweek

According to ABC News, Scientology chose to fight back "with its own public relations onslaught, releasing a recent video titled "Anonymous Exposed," which claims to identify individuals it said were members of the group and accuses them of being accessories to criminal acts that include death threats and destruction of property."

Church spokeswoman Karin Pouw added that the church is "working with federal and local law enforcement."[The video] summarizes our position."
Source - ABC News: Scientology's Anonymous Critics: Who are they?




Video entitled "Anonymous Exposed" on Youtube

This is the video we found on Youtube entitled Anonymous Exposed. From what we observed the video had fallen into enemy hands. Rendered a mere shell of itself, its guts cyber-surgically altered, with evidence of Rick Rolling, it was clear that Anonymous had won.

We found the original Anonymous Exposed video on Youtube and posted it here for comparison sake. It's a prime example of bloodless cyber-warfare. Essentially Anonymous or someone had taken over the original Scientology video and turned it into a weapon of supreme satire.



The altered video floats across cyber-space, effectively rendered impotent by an anonymous cyber-surgical strike. Scientology's own message had been replaced with inside satire sharp enough to slice through the cult-like hyperbole.

In the cyber-war that rages between Scientology and the group known as Anonymous, the remains of the Anonymous Exposed video tell a story of a bloodless battle fought across the territory known as Youtube, of a win for Anonymous and another digital "pie in the face" for Scientology.

By LBG


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While we go about our daily lives, surfing the web, using it to pay bills or catch up on the latest news and chat with friends and family, little do we realize that just beneath the digital surface of the worldwide web a war is being waged, the first Cyber World War, of a modern day David versus Goliath.

Goliath is the Church of Scientology, a multi-billion dollar enterprise, who is being systematically unmasked by the group known as Anonymous, the modern day David.

Who is Anonymous and why did they declare war against the Church of Scientology?

Tom Cruise is perhaps the most famous Church of Scientology member on the planet. We mention planet because in the "Church" of Scientology, what we would consider science fiction, tales of intergalactic warfare and galaxies play a key role in the shrouded secret world of Scientology.

The origin of Scientology as a "religion" compared to other religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism is quite recent, founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a prolific science fiction writer in the early 1950's. Hubbard's Dianetics, a self-improvement book based on a mind-body-spirit relationship, was regarded in some circles as a scam and a "lunatic vision of Freudian psychology" while others believed it offered a new way to religious bliss.

Hubbard set up the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in 1950 in New Jersey and then moved to Arizona in 1952 where Hubbard "expanded Dianetics" into Scientology, referring to it as an "applied religious philosophy".

While some may be aware of Hubbard's involvement in Scientology's origins what they don't know is how Scientology "works" as the group shrouds its "church" in secrecy. The secrecy may or may not be related to any sort of "religious" overtones, instead the secrecy may have been devised to cloak Scientology's method of charging its flock quite a bit of money to learn its "secrets" in order to rise up in the rank and file of the "church".

Piece by piece, his (Hubbard's) teachings are revealed to church members through a progression of sometimes secret courses that take years to complete and cost tens of thousands of dollars. Out of a membership estimated by the church to be 6.5 million, only a tiny fraction have climbed to the upper reaches. In fact, according to a Scientology publication earlier this year, fewer than 900 members have completed the church's highest course, nicknamed "Truth Revealed."

Read more of Scientology Versus Anonymous: The First Cyber World War at DBKP.com


By LBG


Source - Wikipedia - L. Ron Hubbard
Source - Los Angeles Times - Defining the Theology
Image - Anonymous
Source - Anonymous Revolution
Source - CNET - Anonymous Steps up its war with Scientology

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If there's any doubt that the enforcement of political correctness in the U.K. is turning ordinary citizens into criminals, a 15-yr-old youth was issued a criminal summons after he had written on a sign that Scientology was a cult.

Police confiscated his protest sign at a demonstration against the Church of Scientology at their headquarters in London and then issued him a criminal summons. According to the British newspaper the Guardian, the 15-yr-old had written on a sign: "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult". The police called it "abusive and insulting".

Just who was abusive and insulting?

The unnamed 15-yr-old boy stood his ground and quoted a 1984 High Court ruling by Justice Lahey in which the justice described the religion as "corrupt, sinister, and dangerous".

We agree. We find the fact that anyone could face a criminal proceeding for calling Scientology a cult abusive, insulting, and sinister.

This means that Scientology, which is a cult, can now pedal its wares without fear of impunity.

We wondered what Tom Cruise, producer, movie star, and the world's most famous and vocal member of Scientology would say about police arresting people for calling his church a cult? Is his religion so fragile that a 15-yr-old boy, in a peaceful demonstration, now faces a fine or jail? Since when does a worldwide church with megabucks allow the U.K. police to act as their enforcers, effectively silencing its detractors? What does this say about the British government, who are protecting a "religion" and not the rights of its citizens to voice their opinions about a religion?

This smacks of the Saudi Arabia's Sharia police, which are referred to as Haya or the Commission. The Haya are under the aegis of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The Commission are the watchdogs of the Saudis and are hyperguardians of all things Islam. Women, not accompanied by a male member of her family, can be promptly arrested by the Haya. Improper dress or enforcing the strict Islam dress code and arresting those who, in the minds of the Commission, speak "ill" of Islam are some of the daily duties of the Vice and Virtue Squads that hit the streets of Saudi Arabia.

Now we're beginning to see some of the same type of pattern, of a police organization, the Brit coppers, being used to effectively silence critics of a religion, Scientology.

Political Correctness, the use of governments and laws to foist thought behavior and what people can and cannot say in order to "not offend". It's evident that the police are now being used to protect certain people and organizations from being "offended". Being "offensive" is now considered an illegal activity and punishable under the law.

This is a matter of legal ethics, people are being punished for vocalizing what others have deemed to be unethical, offensive, or insulting. The people who should be offended or insulted are the taxpayers who foot the bill for this and the citizens who are being branded as criminals for exercising their right to free speech.

Scientology and the British authorities should be ashamed of themselves. The Brit police for making criminals out of people who protest that Scientology is a cult. Scientology, for hiding behind the skirts of the British government, allowing people to face criminal charges because they've offended the religion.

In order not to "offend" the British authorities have become the offensive, abusing their authority, turning people into criminals for exercising their right to free speech.

Only cults are afraid of criticism and are willing to punish people.

By LBG

Source - The Guardian - Teenager Faces Prosecution for calling Scientology a cult
Source - The Economist - Vicious About Virtue
Image - Anonymous





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Scientology for Dummies

The Scientology Cross

Scientology has been in the news lately.

A group of hackers with the name of "Anonymous" has vowed to destroy the Church of Scientology and about a week ago, Scientology websites in the US and UK started crashing.

"Anonymous" Hackers Vow to Destroy Scientology

"Anonymous" Hackers Issue Third Video Warning to Scientology

Below is the first video warning issued to Scientology by "Anonymous". The "Anonymous" tagline on all three of their video warnings has been "We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget."



Two days ago, "Anonymous" supporters took to the streets in Phoenix, AZ in a demonstration outside the Phoenix Church of Scientology, staging a protest in commemoration of the birthday of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist once cared for by church staffers.

McPherson died while under the care of Scientology.

As we are not up to speed on Scientology, we thought we'd run down some information on the Church of Scientology.

Is it a cult?

Is it a religion?

We will start out by saying that all religions start out as cults--Christianity, Islam and Jews all started out as a small band of believers in their religions.

So, being branded as a "cult" doesn't sway us one way or another.

There is some discrepancy as to how many Scientology members there actually are. In 2007, the Scientologists claimed 3.5 million members in the U.S., but a 2001 survey published by City University of New York, stated that "when asked to identify what religion you are", 55,000 in America claimed Scientology.

Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices as well as a profitable multinational network of corporations created by American speculative fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard developed Scientology teachings in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics.

Hubbard later characterized Scientology as an "applied religious philosophy" and the basis for a new religion.[1] Scientology encompasses a spiritual rehabilitation philosophy and techniques,[1] and covers topics such as morals, ethics, detoxification, education and management.

From the Scientology website:

The word Scientology literally means "the study of truth." It comes from the Latin word "scio" meaning "knowing in the fullest sense of the word" and the Greek word "logos" meaning "study of."

Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The Scientology religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these:

Man is an immortal, spiritual being. His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realized — and those capabilities can be realized. He is able to not only solve his own problems, accomplish his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also achieve new, higher states of awareness and ability.

In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results.

Through Scientology, people all over the world are achieving the long-sought goal of true spiritual release and freedom.

Seems like a noble enough goal.

Tom Cruise is the Top Scientologist in the public eye

Scientology does have the distinction of being the only religion created by a science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard.

Hubbard established Scientology's doctrines over a period of about 34 years beginning in 1952 and continuing until his death in January 1986, with the basic principles set out during the 1950s and 1960s.

Scientology was at first secular: "Scientology would be a study of knowledge," Hubbard stated in 1952. Hubbard later began to characterize Scientology's beliefs and practices as a religion in 1953; by 1960 he defined Scientology as: "a religion by its basic tenets, practice, historical background and by the definition of the word 'religion' itself." In 1969 he wrote that "It is fundamentally an applied religious philosophy." Hubbard recorded his doctrine in archived writings, audio tapes and films.

The world according to Scientology?

There is no single Scientology book that serves as the equivalent of the Bible or Koran. Knowledge of Scientology is achieved through the study of 18 basic books and over 3000 recorded lectures.

The primary belief of Scientology is "that man is a spiritual being whose existence spans more than one life and who is endowed with abilities well beyond those which he normally considers he possesses."

Unlike Christianity, Scientology believes that man is basically good.

Like Christianity and Islam, Scientology has its heretics and apostates.

Although "Scientology" is most often used as shorthand for the Church of Scientology, a number of groups practice Scientology and Dianetics outside of the official Church.

Some groups are breakaways from the original Church while others have started up independently. The Church labels these as "apostates" (or "squirrels" in Scientology jargon) and often subjects them to considerable legal and social pressure.

These groups avoid the name "Scientology" so as to keep from being sued, instead referring to themselves collectively as the Free Zone. Such groups include Ron's Org and the International Freezone Association, among others

Scientology's Satan?

The story of Xenu (or Xemu) is a controversial one.

Critics of Scientology say that the Xenu story is an incredible one. Of course, many religious stories seem incredible to non-believers.

Scientology is accused of trying to hide the Xenu story.

The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members. It is described in more detail in the accompanying confidential "Assists" lecture of 3 October 1968 and is dramatized in Revolt in the Stars (an unpublished screenplay written by L Ron Hubbard during the late 1970s). Direct quotations in this section are from these sources. (See also Scientology beliefs and practices)

Scientologists believe that seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having an average population of 178 billion.[1][2][3] The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth. Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of his citizens together to paralyze them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections". The kidnapped populace was loaded into spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The spacecraft were identical to the Douglas DC-8 with the exception of having different engines.

When they had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously. Only a few aliens' physical bodies survived. Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars:

Other Scientology beliefs are:

* A person is an immortal spiritual being (termed a thetan) who possesses a mind and a body.
* The thetan has lived through many past lives and will continue to live beyond the death of the body.
* Through the Scientology process of "auditing," people can free themselves of traumatic incidents, ethical transgressions and bad decisions which are said to collectively restrict the person from reaching the state of "Clear" and "Operating Thetan." Each state is said to represent the recovery of native spiritual abilities and to confer mental and physical benefits.
* A person is basically good, but becomes "aberrated" by moments of pain and unconsciousness.
* Psychiatry and psychology are destructive and abusive practices.

Scientology "psychburst" demonstration

Scientology's crusade against psychiatry might pick up some steam if psychiatry keeps inventing mental "diseases".

What were once signs of bad behavior has increasingly become uncontrollable "diseases" and "mental conditions". It could have something to do with how Medicaid pays for treatments, or it could be a sign of "defining deviancy down".

FAMOUS Scientologists

John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, Jason Lee, Isaac Hayes, Tom Cruise, and Katie Holmes are among the Hollywood adherents of Scientology.

James Packer, formerly the richest man in Australia is another famous Scientologist.

CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING SCIENTOLOGY

* Scientology's disconnection policy, in which members are encouraged to cut off all contact with friends or family members considered "antagonistic."[146][147]
* The death of a Scientologist Lisa McPherson while in the care of the Church.
* Criminal activities committed on behalf of the Church or directed by Church officials (Operation Snow White, Operation Freakout)
* Conflicting statements about L. Ron Hubbard's life, in particular accounts of Hubbard discussing his intent to start a religion for profit, and of his service in the military.[148]
* Scientology's harassment and litigious actions against its critics encouraged by its Fair Game policy.[148]
* Attempts to legally force search engines such as Google and Yahoo to omit any webpages critical of Scientology from their search engines (and in Google's case, AdSense), or at least the first few search pages

Scientology in the nutshell.

We don't know if it changed anyone's mind--one way or another--but one thing about it.

We learned a couple things.

by Mondoreb
images:
* cynical
* newstoob
* stop-wise
* success.com
Sources:
* Scientology.org
* Scientology
* "Anonymous" Hackers Vow to Destroy Scientology
* "Anonymous" Hackers Issue Third Video Warning to Scientology



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