I've been watching videos on Scientology recently and these guys are nuts, which is probably old news to most of ye. Does anyone here know of anyone in scientology or who left it? Are YOU a member?

A couple of the vids are,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJlZ_f1594
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9bCdHqU3s

Anyone been to any of the Anonymous protests?

yeah, I knew someone. He got into it thru narconon. He met Tom Cruise. He was interesting in an odd way. He knew of certain manipulative tactics for example, the help button. He had a persistant stare that was wierd. He used to sell their books and hook people up to e-meters. When I met him, he had left the cult. I found the scam or confidence game to be facinating. They use authoritative hypnosis to indoctrinate people.

Wow, crack isn't the strongest drug.

I went to the first one, more or less for the novelty factor. It was good fun but it didn't feel like much of an accomplishment.

I really thing this fits better in RGT so I'm moving it there.

-Zeno

Connecting Scientology with religion or theology is a disgrace. If nothing else, move thread to Business, Finance, and Investing or Laughs or Links!

a disgrace to whom?

if you think the scientology guys are crazy you should check out christianity

+1

I actually cant decide which is more crazy.

If cultural anthropologists aren't studying 4chan right now, then science has failed us all.

Will that be the same research that has shown that World of Warcraft Guild leaders are very good manager material and that Second Life meetings and education are effective?

Ofcourse a large part of the paranormal research from the sixties onwards can be attributed to the cold war scare and disinformation campaigns, where the russians even went as far as to fabricate movies of bringing dogheads back to life and showed of various paranormal phenomena such as telekinenis or the ability to view with ones finger (pdf)

I now believe Scientology played a large role in the paranormal upsurge of the last 4 decades. A motive would be there as to prove to the world the paranormal powers of the operating thetans if found to be true, or if found to be false, they could ride on the soviet scare and disinformation and keep the public from ever knowing it was found false.

Such massive funding for the Stargate project. Such continuity. There would have to be a group working there that are convinced of their true paranormal powers. What best to pull these pseudo-scientists from a pool composed of the freshly established Scientology? Who better to consult than a true operating american thetan, when you are up against those vicious russian farmers who can kill the president by merely thinking about it?

I believe what happened is that either Scientology has falsely claimed such research as succesfull due to them, or they really had large part of it with key researchers being Scientologists. Perhaps they tricked the CIA into believing their expertise and successes?

Ingo Swan
Dr. Karlis Osis
Hal Puthoff

It also would fit nicely in the following timeline:

Ummmm if this is true we just need to go to Venus to get the 5th Invader Force.