Flare Sci-Fi Forums: Who asked about Scientology?

This is topic Who asked about Scientology? in forum The Flameboard at Flare Sci-Fi Forums.

To visit this topic, use this URL:
https://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/11/220.html

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

There's loads of links here:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/Faiths_and_Practices/Scientology/

I find it interesting that the number of "opposing views" links outnumber the regular links by around 2 to one. I have read L.Ron Hubbard's science fiction for many years, though not continuously. I do not believe Scientology is reality-based. It appears to be nothing more than an attempt to use "religion" to separate people from their money. The fact that it began as a bogus form of psychology and had to temporarily shut down before being repackaged as a religion seems to bolster this opinion.

--Baloo

------------------
Remember: pillage before you burn!
-- G. Khan
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

There was a two-hour special on Scientology this evening on A&E... Very interesting.

------------------
Avon: "You really do believe in taking risks, don't you?"
Tarrant: "Calculated risks."
Avon: "Calculated on what? Your fingers?"
-- Blake's Seven, Ultraworld

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

This site contains some especially damning evidence, as well: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/

------------------
Remember: pillage before you burn!
-- G. Khan
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Does anybody here remember the "Millennium" episode with that Jose' Chung character (the same one from the X-Files' "Jose' Chung's 'From Outer Space'"?

It did a bit on a scam religion called "Self-ology."

Which was an indirect, not-so-subtle but un-sue-able dig at Scientology.

------------------
Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson

Baloo and I have been reading the same books :)