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  • Posted By: AnonymousSP @ 02/09/2008 2:47:22 PM

    Anti-Scientology websites:

    www.xenutv.com

    http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB4278A01A42143D5A565C486DAEE44BE4

    http://www.scientology-kills.org/

    Ex-Scientologist Websites and Forums:

    www.forum.exscn.net

    www.lermanet.com/scientologyhelp/main.html

    http://alley.ethercat.com/cgi-bin/door/door.cgi?1

    For all you Christians, Jews, Muslims out there:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_other_religions

    And just to make things fair:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

    Celebrities and Scientology:

    http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/celebrities_con.html

    http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/celebrities.htm

    http://www.scientology-kills.org/celebrities/celebrities.htm

    http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/celebrities/scientology-celebrities.html

  • Posted By: AnonymousSP @ 02/09/2008 2:46:50 PM

    "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."

    - L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418

  • Posted By: AnonymousSP @ 02/09/2008 2:46:36 PM

    "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."

    - L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418

  • Posted By: Anonymous too @ 02/09/2008 2:31:20 PM



    No blasphemy can mar my name
    so blaspheme if you will
    so pure it is that Name
    that no speakingness can soil it.

    Appoint amongst you some small few
    to tell lies and invent wicked things
    and spread out infamy abroad and within
    and to stand before our altars and insult and lie
    and tell evil rumors about us all.

    For all is Life to Buddha.

    All is Life.

    No blasphemy now can mar the name of Buddha, Lord.

    Each revilement is a prayer
    for just the mention of the name
    then cleanses all.

    Mention the Name
    and do not worry if you think some stray
    condemning thought or doubt.

    Mention the Name
    its holiness is such it can withstand
    all bludgeoning
    consult with prayer
    be calm and you will know.

    You could know of yourselves
    all that of which I speak
    and so don't argue or dispute when some come up to you
    and say another thing
    for if they knew all truly
    they would then say what I say
    and what Lord Buddha said.

    Be attentive now.

    You have preserved only a bit
    of what Lord Buddha said.

    He said much more
    but then there came men who said other things
    and changed a piece of this, a bit of that,
    and so we strayed.

    Censor not free speech and censor not free thought
    but recall in all these twenty-five centuries
    none came and spoke the Great Lessons again
    nor added to them then to make you free.

    I speak then so you can agree.

    So speak and think whatever you will
    but come again to these Lessons
    if you stray and become lost
    and slaves as you have been.

    With these and your agreement to
    we now can build the Eastern and the Western worlds
    into one great brotherhood of Man.

    Excerpt from Hymn of Asia
    an Eastern Poem
    by L. Ron Hubbard.

  • Posted By: respectful_anon @ 02/09/2008 2:27:46 PM

    To anyone about to post a comment here: Please, before you go on posting about how we're just expressing a hate for this particular belief system, please, PLEASE take 8 minutes and review this leaked video from the LEADER HIMSELF, David Miscaviage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfu7Sr50N7U

    I hope you understand what he is telling you his goal is. Guess? World domination. This is no joke and he's telling you himself. Not to mention his plan to ABOLISH psychiatric and psychological therapy, and even how they plans to do so.

    Now view the proposed replacement called "auditing": http://tinyurl.com/26dxsq (links to video.google.com)

    And THEN post your views. Anonymous is NOT out to attack anyones BELIEFS. Everyone should be free to practice whatever they'd like and we FULLY support this! They should NOT be indoctrinated into it through brainwashing and hypnosis, however. This OUTRAGEOUS and unfortunately is ONLY the tip of the iceburg!

    They are responsible for human rights violations from child abuse, sexual abuse, separation of families, and even murder! See www.whyaretheydead.net for every death the church is responsible for but was never able to be legally charged with. The most well known case was regarding Lisa McPherson who was held against her will for 17 days even though she was in obvious need of professional medical help. See www.whyaretheydead.net for info on Lisa or visit www.exscn.net -- a forum for people who've been able to escape and many are STILL separated from their families. Read their testimonials and see the appalling things they've been through. It's truly sad and this cult must be stopped :(

    PLEASE educate yourself and help Anonymous educate the WORLD on the true inter-workings of this billion-dollar cult!! We will be protesting GLOBALLY on Feb 10, at least drive by your local Scientologist office and give us a honk!!

  • Posted By: JeraldR @ 02/09/2008 2:24:00 PM

    "In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."

    - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology???s measure of mental and spiritual health.]

    "There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."

    - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170

  • Posted By: miamijer @ 02/09/2008 2:10:14 PM

    I think that "hoopes_az" should move to the Netherlands where EVERYTHING is legal! Obviously, if there was no merit to the "cult claim", then the German government would not have shut down the Scientologists. Yes, it does detroy families when the "church" alienates a member from their family because they fear that the family will persuade the member to leave the organization. It has been purported that the church takes "mandatory donations" from the paychecks of its member workers. Scientology's methods are not too different from Charles Manson and "The Family" or Jim Jones & the People's Temple in Jonestown. Brainwashing pure and simple! Get off the "narrow-minded", "bigot", and "intolerant" liberal BS bandwagon! A "cult" is something that destroys people and their families, and Scientology fits the bill to a tee. The California Indian Casinos do far more for the state (taxes) and communities (donations) than Scientology ever did or will do. Do you know of any other church that charges a fortune to be "audited and clear"?!

    BTW: Exactly what do Scientologists worship anyway? L. Ron Hubbard, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, or some supreme alien concocted in a pulp fiction writer's delusional mind? Desite having a PR firm of some sort, I have yet to hear of ANYTHING positive that the "church" has done for the community. If anything, their founder should have taken meds to get a grip on reality rather than dismiss them altogether. Or was Scientology the ultimate scam to fleece a gullible flock? It's author was a struggling science fiction writer!

    Just be careful that you're not so open minded that your brains fall out and common sense escapes you...

    • Posted By: gibber @ 02/09/2008 2:23:14 PM

      miamijer you are so misinformed it's pathetic. For one thing the German government never shut Scientology down. Totally ridiculous. And the rest of your information is as ridiculous as that. You wouldn't know a bigot if you had to look at yourself in the mirror.

  • Posted By: Anonymous too @ 02/09/2008 2:20:29 PM

    No blasphemy can mar my name
    so blaspheme if you will
    so pure it is that Name
    that no speakingness can soil it.

    Appoint amongst you some small few
    to tell lies and invent wicked things
    and spread out infamy abroad and within
    and to stand before our altars and insult and lie
    and tell evil rumors about us all.

    For all is Life to Buddha.

    All is Life.

    No blasphemy now can mar the name of Buddha, Lord.

    Each revilement is a prayer
    for just the mention of the name
    then cleanses all.

    Mention the Name
    and do not worry if you think some stray
    condemning thought or doubt.

    Mention the Name
    its holiness is such it can withstand
    all bludgeoning
    consult with prayer
    be calm and you will know.

    You could know of yourselves
    all that of which I speak
    and so don't argue or dispute when some come up to you
    and say another thing
    for if they knew all truly
    they would then say what I say
    and what Lord Buddha said.

    Be attentive now.

    You have preserved only a bit
    of what Lord Buddha said.

    He said much more
    but then there came men who said other things
    and changed a piece of this, a bit of that,
    and so we strayed.

    Censor not free speech and censor not free thought
    but recall in all these twenty-five centuries
    none came and spoke the Great Lessons again
    nor added to them then to make you free.

    I speak then so you can agree.

    So speak and think whatever you will
    but come again to these Lessons
    if you stray and become lost
    and slaves as you have been.

    With these and your agreement to
    we now can build the Eastern and the Western worlds
    into one great brotherhood of Man.

    Excerpt from Hymn of Asia
    an Eastern Poem
    by L. Ron Hubbard.

  • Posted By: JeraldR @ 02/09/2008 2:18:23 PM

    hoopes have you even checked out scientology. From operation snow white to operaton freakout? This group has commeted MAJOR crimes against people and goverments. Why not visit xenu.net and xenutv.com to see for yourself? How can you write about understanding their position when you don't even know it? Google " dispose of quietly and without sorrow" Google scientology and the tone scale. Learn and then maybe you can make a valid point. What you keep forgetting its that its not the faith criitcs are fighting, its the very bad actions. Big difference,.

  • Posted By: hoopes_az @ 02/09/2008 2:12:36 PM

    Using good judgement and making judgements about another are two completely different things. Example: If I were to judge Scientology, I might say they have based their religion on a science fiction writiers fantasies...or I might say they are completely enlightened. Using good judgement, I might look at the situation and say, "is it best to demean and rip on those who belive scientology? Or, would I be better served by really trying to understand their position and than make a reasoned, rational appeal for their attention".

    As for Jerald, I disagree. Scientology is a very small group...they only affect me to the extent I decide to sit her and blog about it with others. As soon as I leave this discussion, it will leave my mind and not affect me or any around me. It's a choice...their beliefs to not affect me. If someday they rise to power (which they won't) and try to take away my ability to worship as a chose (which they won't), then I will engage in the effort to assert my rights.

    Folks here are not trying to assert their rights. They are attacking the beliefs of others. You're rights have not been infringed upon. And of course, the first amendment protects you...never implied that it didn't.

  • Posted By: JeraldR @ 02/09/2008 2:10:44 PM

    So gibber, just because there are other causes you don't think the danger of scientology should be exposed? We each find our own place in the world and our own causes that we feel we can make a difference in. For a lot of us thats fighting the abuses of scientology. These college kids are not stupid and can see the truth when they check it out themselves. Funny how you can't give them credit for free thinking and knowledge. I think this is a real cause. But as a member of scientology I can see and respect where you would feel different. Like the psychiatry crack you posted.

  • Posted By: Anonymous too @ 02/09/2008 2:10:08 PM

    No blasphemy can mar my name
    so blaspheme if you will
    so pure it is that Name
    that no speakingness can soil it.

    Appoint amongst you some small few
    to tell lies and invent wicked things
    and spread out infamy abroad and within
    and to stand before our altars and insult and lie
    and tell evil rumors about us all.

    For all is Life to Buddha.

    All is Life.

    No blasphemy now can mar the name of Buddha, Lord.

    Each revilement is a prayer
    for just the mention of the name
    then cleanses all.

    Mention the Name
    and do not worry if you think some stray
    condemning thought or doubt.

    Mention the Name
    its holiness is such it can withstand
    all bludgeoning
    consult with prayer
    be calm and you will know.

    You could know of yourselves
    all that of which I speak
    and so don't argue or dispute when some come up to you
    and say another thing
    for if they knew all truly
    they would then say what I say
    and what Lord Buddha said.

    Be attentive now.

    You have preserved only a bit
    of what Lord Buddha said.

    He said much more
    but then there came men who said other things
    and changed a piece of this, a bit of that,
    and so we strayed.

    Censor not free speech and censor not free thought
    but recall in all these twenty-five centuries
    none came and spoke the Great Lessons again
    nor added to them then to make you free.

    I speak then so you can agree.

    So speak and think whatever you will
    but come again to these Lessons
    if you stray and become lost
    and slaves as you have been.

    With these and your agreement to
    we now can build the Eastern and the Western worlds
    into one great brotherhood of Man.

    Excerpt from Hymn of Asia
    an Eastern Poem
    by L. Ron Hubbard.

  • Posted By: gibber @ 02/09/2008 2:04:17 PM

    It's not about "knowledge" phr33dom. It's about threats, clear statements of intent to destroy a religion, and duping college kids into thinking this is a valid cause. It's not. There ARE real causes.
    There's global warming, AIDS, child soldiers and sexual tourism. And psychiatry. There is so much that really needs to be reformed,. This so-called "consortium" is a front for something pretty sinister.

  • Posted By: phr33dom @ 02/09/2008 2:03:02 PM

    gibber -- Since when is bringing knowledge to the public considered terrorism? And this whole entire scientology thing does affect you. They are trying to eradicate psychiatry and prescription medications PROVEN to work.
    PatrickJ - You are either a scientologist yourself, or are severly ignorant. Your talk of smear tactics provokes hypocrisy in your previous posts. And your justification of looking at what is really happening and bashing the group's anonymous tactics SCREAMS ignorance. Why is Anonymous so Anonymous? Because the Church of Scientology completely KILLS reputations of known critics and harrasses the hell out of them. We are not hate mongers, we are knowledge seekers.

  • Posted By: JeraldR @ 02/09/2008 2:00:22 PM

    Funny Patrick J how you have to resort to name calling instead of checking the info for facts. The only ones who seem to be hateing here are those who have no facts to defend. You dare write of anonymous tactics and just pretend scientology's tactics over the years never happen? Name one other religion that has had its leaders put in prison for breaking into goverment offcies to steal files and plant bugs? Name one other religion that tried to have a writer framed and put in prison? Name one other religion that has " dispose of quietly and without sorrow" in their writeings? This isn't about religion, its about the evil actions of this group. Why not visit xenu.net and xenutv.com and learn more? Or is it maybe that you are not aloud or able to visit these two sites?

  • Posted By: gibber @ 02/09/2008 1:49:38 PM

    Calling Anonymous "activists" -- is that the new euphemism for terrorist.

    • Posted By: phr33dom @ 02/09/2008 1:57:04 PM

      gibber - - How is bringing knowledge to the public considered terrorism?

  • Posted By: gibber @ 02/09/2008 1:55:58 PM

    JeraldR I wish Scientology DID "affect each and every one of us." This world would be a much better place if everyone in it acted on a personal code of ethics, took responsibility for their own actions, their family and their community, and understood more about life.

  • Posted By: PatrickJ @ 02/09/2008 1:53:11 PM

    Would Newsweek cover the KKK's harassment of African-American groups the same way as they do the group Anonymous' threats against the Church of Scientology? Or of a Neo-Nazi group's hate talk against members of the Jewish faith?

    Smear campaigns are nothing new. Nor is it new for a group of "anonymous" individuals to hide in the darkness and cast stones at others they don't like. Their tactics smack of vigilantism.

    In our current culture it's become a sport to speak ill of others. And with the blogs and websites it's easy for anybody to publish information - whether it is true or not.

    It is more important than ever to look at what is really happening, not just listen to hate mongers.

    Patrick J.

  • Posted By: JeraldR @ 02/09/2008 1:42:26 PM

    Awww hoopes_az, Thats the rub here. scientology does affect each and everyone of us. Google scientology and front groups. This group is trying very hard to get into our goverment, our schools and our health. But are doing so under the radar so the scientology connection is not seen. The fact they are doing it this way should tell you and the other readers a lot.
    As for your silly name calling. Remember we have the very same right to voice how we feel as scientology does. Disagreeing with scientology doesn't make one a bigot or bad or stupid. It makes us worried about our homes and our families future. Funny how you just skip over any info you could have learned here and choose to attack posters instead. And you call us names?

  • Posted By: Dave in NM @ 02/09/2008 1:40:56 PM

    Scientology is a fraud and a cult - just like every other proselytizing religion.

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