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| The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends. It was started in 1952 by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in fulfilment to his declared aim to start a religion to make money. It is an offshoot to a method of psychotherapy he concocted from various sources which he named "Dianetics". Dianetics is a form of regression therapy. When it began, it was actually a business - it was then further expanded to appear more like a religion in order to enjoy tax benefits. He called it "Scientology". The results of applying their crackpot psychotherapy (called "auditing") is to weaken the mind. The mind goes from a rational state to an irrational one as the delusional contents of the subconscious mind are brought to the surface and are assumed to be valid. It also makes a person more susceptible to suggestion since it submerges the critical thinking faculties of the mind into a partial subconscious state. It results in a permanent light hypnotic trance and so from thenceforth that person can be more easily controlled. The person will, to a much greater extent, believe and do whatever they are told. And of course this is used to the full in persuading them to hand over further money and dedicating themselves further to the cult. The result of applying their oversimplified and inapplicable rules in life is to lose the ability to think rationally and logically. A person loses the ability to think for themselves and so they lose the ability to challenge incorrect ideas. This makes them easier to control. It also isolates and alienates the person from society so that they withdraw from normal society and into their "Scientology" society. This further increases their susceptibility to the influence of their group. They end up being afraid of society, believing all society to be controlled by a group of drug companies, psychiatrists and financiers all of whom report to more remote masters. In other words they are in a state of mass paranoia. They therefore avoid reading newspapers and the like since they fear it will disturb their safe Scientology world. It is a downward spiral into madness. The science fiction content of Scientology is revealed to them after they have reached the state they call "Clear", meaning freed from the aberrations of the mind. However, perhaps "brainwashed" would be a more applicable word to describe the mental state of someone who has survived the near entire delusional contents of their subconscious mind brought to the surface and presented to them as "truth". On the "advanced" levels (called OT levels) above the state of "Clear" they encounter the story of Xenu. Xenu was supposed to have gathered up all the overpopulation in this sector of the galaxy, brought them to Earth and then exterminated them using hydrogen bombs. The souls of these murdered people are then supposed to infest the body of everyone. They are called "body thetans". On the advanced levels of Scientology a person "audits out" these body thetans telepathically by getting them to re-experience their being exterminated by hydrogen bombs. So people on these levels assume all their bad thoughts and faulty memories are due to these body thetans infesting every part of their body and influencing them mentally. Many Scientologists go raving mad at this point if they have not done so already. On the surface the Church of Scientology seems reasonable. The insane content of it is only revealed to a person when the early stuff has done its work and made them more susceptible. After a short while a person "believes" that Scientology is doing them good. They are then persuaded to help their new-found group further by donating money and/or working for the organisation for almost no money. Many people do exactly that. Problems with Scientology Disconnection is a Scientology practice of cutting all ties and all communication with someone who is declared a Suppressive Person (evil) by the Church of Scientology. This may include family, friends, loved ones, work associates, acquaintances, or anyone else found Suppressive by the Church. Fair Game A Suppressive Person or Group becomes fair game. Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population. A statement on a Church of Scientology website describes this group as including notorious historic figures such as Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan as well as others who "are less obviously seen. The term is often applied to those whom the Church of Scientology perceives as its enemies, i.e. those whose "disastrous" and "suppressive" acts are said to impede the progress of individual Scientologists or the Scientology movement. By FAIR GAME is meant, may not be further protected by the codes and disciplines or the rights of a Scientologist. The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to: suppress Scientology or Scientologists are all beyond any protection of Scientology Ethics, unless absolved by later Ethics or an amnesty ... this Policy Letter extends to suppressive non-Scientology wives and husbands and parents, or other family members or hostile groups or even close friends. ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. On May 12, 2007 Journalist John Sweeney of BBC News made comments highly critical of Scientology and its teachings, and further reported that since beginning an extensive investigation he had been harassed, surveilled, and investigated by strangers. Sweeney wrote, "I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, denounced as a "bigot" by star Scientologists, brain-washed ... and chased round the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers. Back in Britain, strangers have called on my neighbours; my mother-in-law's house and someone spied on my wedding and fled the moment he was challenged." In another passage, "He (Scientology representative Tom Davis) harangued me for talking to ... heretics. I told him that Scientology had been spying on the BBC and that was creepy." And in another passage, "In LA, the moment our hire car left the airport we realised we were being followed by two cars. In our hotel a weird stranger spent every breakfast listening to us.” Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology's name for a project during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard, to gain tax exempt status for the “church”, and to find out personal information about the organisations critics.. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members; the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history with up to 5,000 covert agents. This was also the operation that exposed 'Operation Freakout', due to the fact that this was the case that brought the government into investigation on the Church. Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Eleven highly-placed Church executives, including Mary Sue Hubbard (wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard and second-in-command of the organization), pleaded guilty or were convicted in federal court of obstructing justice, burglary of government offices, and theft of documents and government property. L Ron Hubbard was convicted of Fraud, and sentenced to four years in prison – he has stolen $200million from the “church”. He died in hiding, a fugitive. Death’s believed to have been caused by Scientology Josephus A. Havenith – German Scientologist. Went on a retreat to Fort Harrison Hotal, and was discovered dead in his bath – the cause of deth was attributed as drowning, yet his head was above the water. The water was, however, hot enough to have burnt all the skin from his body. Margarit Winkelmann – Walked fully clothed into Clearwater Bay and drowned herself after scientologists took her off her psychiatrical medication. Heribert Pfaff – Died of a seizure in the hotel in 1998, after scientologists took him off his seizure medication, and instead placed him on a course of vitamins and minerals. Roger Nind – an ex-scientologist. He was trying to claim back a $70,000 refund from the organisation, and so flew from Australia to Clearwater. He was killed in an “accident” the very next day. Noah Lottick – the amount of money the Church had claimed off him left him virtually bankrupt, driving him to suicide. He was found clutching in his hand $171, the only money the Church had not took off him. Lisa McPherson. In 1977, Lisa joined the Church of Scientology. She became and active member, spending thousands of dollars a year on “audits”, and self-improvement courses. In 1994 alone, she “donated” $75, 275 to the church for ‘services’, and a further $55,000 as a “donation”. Nov 18, 1995. Lisa has a minor traffic accident. She is physically unhurt, but walks around naked and mentally unstable after the crash. She is taken to hospital as a precaution, to see a psychiatrist. Scientologists appear at the hospital, and take Lisa away into their own care. She is put into solitary confinement at the Scientology owned Fort Harrison Hotel. Dec 5th, 1995. 17 days after being taken from the hospital, Lisa is taken from her room and put into the back seat of a van. It would have made sense if she was driven to the Morton Plant Hospital – distance away = 1.1 miles. They didn’t. It would have made SOME sense if they had driven her to one of the many hospitals with emergency services in the area. Distance away = 5 to 20 miles. They didn’t. Instead, she was driven to Columbia New Port Richey Hospital, for the reason that there was a scientologist doctor on the staff there. Distance away = 24 miles. It took approximatley 45 minutes to make the journey from the hotel to the hospital. She is pronounced dead immediately upon arrival. Lisa was severely underweight, severely dehydrated, and was covered in various bruises and cockroach bites. She had been left to die without food or water. |
| QUOTE (Lulz0matic @ Mar 23 2008, 09:35 PM) |
| Definition of an SP? If we're going right down to basics. |