Comments on: Scientology v. Registan http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/07/05/scientology-v-registan.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/07/05/scientology-v-registan.html/comment-page-1#comment-6885 Adam Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/07/05/scientology-v-registan.html#comment-6885 <p>"Most famously, all of those who reach OT level III will learn about Xenu, the galactic tyrant who stacked hundreds of billions of his frozen victims around Earth's volcanoes 75 million years ago before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for 36 days. The traumatised thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites that can only be removed using advanced Scientology techniques. Reportedly, the cost of reaching OT III approaches $360,000"<br /> <br /> Gee, I wonder why they don't mention that in the recruitment fliers they mail...<br /> <br /> My other favorite part from the Wikipedia article:<br /> <br /> "The word scientology has a history of its own. Although nowadays associated almost exclusively with Hubbard's work, it was coined by the philologist Alan Upward in 1907 as a synonym for "pseudoscience""</p> “Most famously, all of those who reach OT level III will learn about Xenu, the galactic tyrant who stacked hundreds of billions of his frozen victims around Earth’s volcanoes 75 million years ago before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a “three-D, super colossal motion picture” for 36 days. The traumatised thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites that can only be removed using advanced Scientology techniques. Reportedly, the cost of reaching OT III approaches $360,000″

Gee, I wonder why they don’t mention that in the recruitment fliers they mail…

My other favorite part from the Wikipedia article:

“The word scientology has a history of its own. Although nowadays associated almost exclusively with Hubbard’s work, it was coined by the philologist Alan Upward in 1907 as a synonym for “pseudoscience”"

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