Scientology

[tommymtcom]

Any of you guys scientologists? What's that like and what did you make of the recent documentary?

[spike]

are you scared to post in news & debate, tommy?

[tommymtcom]

Lenny says N&D is haunted.

[spike]

lenny just doesn't like confrontation.

[tommymtcom]

lenny just doesn't like confrontation.

Really? We should confront him about that.

[BurtReynolds]

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[epilogue]

Guys we really shouldn't be talking about this. Not out in the open.

[Mine]

2 documentaries worth watching. Aired on BBC in 2007 and 2010.

[jwfocker]

Going Clear was amazing.

[Mine]

It's very well done. I liked how they managed to tell the history of the cult and what is essentially an expose trough the stories of the ex members. It must have been tricky because the subject is a goldmine for a sensationalistic pseudo tabloid type of expose.

[nyquillyn]

2 documentaries worth watching. Aired on BBC in 2007 and 2010.

I'd never really heard of them linking the Holocaust to psychiatry before. Jesus f'ing Christ.

[Mine]

They have a dedicated museum or something. They have an odd relationship with Judaism, the thing Kirstie Alley says, asking would you ask a Jew if they're in a cult, is something i noticed many of them say in the press. I can't think of a dumbest example to pick to prove that point.

The Lip Tv has been doing good shows about them https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLipTV/s ... cientology

Also tonyortega.org is a source of a huge amount of information on the topic.

I'm amazed at the amount of stuff you can get away with once you're vaguely considered to be a religion.

[Mine]

http://www.people.com/article/cathriona ... iend-death



Here's a story about scientology and mental illness

On March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times. She bled to death on her bedroom floor. Jeremy is currently being held at Rochester Psychiatric Center, having been found not responsible for Elli's murder by reason of mental disease or defect.
Perkins, his mother and father, his sister, and her husband are all members of the Church of Scientology, a group that believes modern psychiatric medicine derives from an ancient alien civilization's plot to drug and enslave humanity. Scientologists like Tom Cruise vehemently and publicly oppose the pharmacological treatment of mental illness. Unfortunately, Scientology's own brand of therapy, called "auditing", is worthless.

Elli Perkins was a senior auditor (counselor) at the Church of Scientology of Buffalo, New York. Her son-in-law, Jeff Carlson, was the Executive Director of that church. Jeremy himself had taken Scientology courses there, and was even flown out to Los Angeles to join Scientology's paramilitary Sea Organization, although he was promptly sent back home due to his mental problems.

After consulting a Scientologist osteopath, Dr. Conrad Maulfair, Elli was treating Jeremy with vitamins, which he disliked. Within hours of Elli's murder, which occurred on L. Ron Hubbard's birthday, the Church of Scientology initiated a crash cover-up to hide its connections to the case. Jeremy's family has since "disconnected" from him, per Scientology policy. This web site reveals Scientology's true role in the death of Elli Perkins and the destruction of Jeremy's life.

PerkinsTragedy.org

[contamination]

I just watched Going Clear: Scientology.

[Mine]

I was thinking, it's ironic how this used to have the reputation of being the religion of the stars while it actually seems everybody who's still in has very little if any left of a career in show business with very few exceptions.