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smokedoctor
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/11/2004 : 23:45:03 [Permalink]
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Hubbard was a sci-fi writer (and a bad one at that, the guy was a hack).
It's always amused me that people accept anything he wrote as factual. And the whole scientology thing... scary in an easy to make fun of way. They are simply nuts.
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"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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Siberia
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Posted - 12/12/2004 : 06:39:58 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
Hubbard was a sci-fi writer (and a bad one at that, the guy was a hack).
It's always amused me that people accept anything he wrote as factual. And the whole scientology thing... scary in an easy to make fun of way. They are simply nuts.
Hey, I liked Battlefield: Earth. Not as good as a Clarke, but good entertainment if you're bored and not willing to overthink stuff. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/12/2004 : 07:55:18 [Permalink]
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Scientology, it's worse than you think. Apparently, a lot worse!
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According to sworn testimonies from seemingly countless upper-level management Scientologists who have escaped the business, the "church" commits felonies as a matter of policy. So much so that several countries have designated Scientology a threat to their national security and monitor the "church" like they do any other crime syndicate. You may view many such testimonies at ww.xenu.net
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 12/12/2004 : 12:06:01 [Permalink]
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quote:
smokedoctor:
At http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=60 is an article "Evolution, Scientology Style," by Dawn Huxley posted 4/20/2002. Huxley nicely refutes L. Ron Hubbard's made-up time periods and notions.
Could those notions have been hallucinations? or symptoms of time disorientation? or acalculia? or delirium tremens (akin to seeing pink elephants nobody else sees!)? or other mental disorders?
As Dude pointed out, Hubbard was a science fiction writer. I think it's obvious that he just made that crap up. He made the whole of scientology up as a way to get rich. What blows my mind is there are so many followers of Scientology with teachings based on such absolute hogwash that it boggles the mind. His creation story should be a clue to anyone with even a wit of commen sense and a fifth grade education in science.
A good place to learn about Scientology is Operation Clambake
Enjoy…
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/12/2004 : 22:19:58 [Permalink]
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Battlefield : Earth is a huge piece of dung.
The movie (thank you Travolta) was also a huge boulder of excrement.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 05:30:44 [Permalink]
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Battlefeild earth is a copy of a Philip K Dick short 'The surface raid' which is a copy of the time machine, IMO. Man Im seein connections all over the place, maybe I can find a secret code imbeded in Dianetics.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Siberia
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 06:18:51 [Permalink]
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| Well, I wouldn't trust ANYTHING including Travolta... |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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6891 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2004 : 10:43:44 [Permalink]
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Trust is not the issue...
Travolta is a good actor (see Pulp Fiction, Swordfish, and several other of his recent movies, not bad stuff at all). Just that Battlefield Earth was a piece of crap, and he couldn't save it.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 12:39:45 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
Trust is not the issue...
Travolta is a good actor (see Pulp Fiction, Swordfish, and several other of his recent movies, not bad stuff at all). Just that Battlefield Earth was a piece of crap, and he couldn't save it.
I didn't like Pulp Fiction I can't remember Swordfish, though.
Anyway... [back to topic] I don't know if Hubbard was hallucinating or not, but he definatly wasn't on his meds. Charlatan at the best. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 12:59:20 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
quote:
smokedoctor:
At http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=60 is an article "Evolution, Scientology Style," by Dawn Huxley posted 4/20/2002. Huxley nicely refutes L. Ron Hubbard's made-up time periods and notions.
Could those notions have been hallucinations? or symptoms of time disorientation? or acalculia? or delirium tremens (akin to seeing pink elephants nobody else sees!)? or other mental disorders?
As Dude pointed out, Hubbard was a science fiction writer. I think it's obvious that he just made that crap up. He made the whole of scientology up as a way to get rich. What blows my mind is there are so many followers of Scientology with teachings based on such absolute hogwash that it boggles the mind. His creation story should be a clue to anyone with even a wit of commen sense and a fifth grade education in science.
A good place to learn about Scientology is Operation Clambake
Enjoy…
Read a goodish part of O. Clambake. It has a lot of stuff on Hubbard and Scienctology that I didn't know. Hubbard's biography was particulary interesting. The man ended up dying in '86, stark, raving mad. And he wasn't all that stable throughout most of his life.
Busted for petty theft, a bigamist, and a highly paranoid, habitual liar who wrote incessently to the FBI. And yet, he seems to have come from a very close and happy family. I cannot help but feel a little pity for him as well as Scienctology's victims. Perhaps, in a way, he was one of those victims, himself.
I recommend the site.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 13:27:52 [Permalink]
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| Tell me about it, my mom is very suggestable and she moved to St Pete Florida recently. I tell her not to go to Clearwater ever! (Ground Zero for Scientology, they own the place.) What does she do? Gets a damn job in Clearwater. I warned her repeatedly and forcefully so hopefully they wont sink their ignoramus claws into her. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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