Posted By: DrZook @ 02/18/2008 6:28:15 AM
Comment: The Church of Scientology has become a truly farcical cult! members of that Church cannot even speak honestly regarding their own philosophy. The concept of the "soul" as held in Scientology is not that one "has" a soul, but that one IS a soul. When you say the word "I" as in "I like grapes" or "I enjoy classical music" or "I feel tired" that which is saying "I" is in fact the human soul. The human soul is you, not your body or your mind or some sort of cosmic energy or whatever. The human soul is simply you yourself. because this is a fairly novel concept, the Founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard created a new term, that being "thetan", meaning the person themselves, not their body or mind. A very simple idea really. A thetan is immortal. A thetan may own and operate a body. The very idea of "past lives" or "reincarnation" is really therefore a false one. The truth is that "reincarnation" is just the fact that an immortal spritual being, a thetan has owned a succession of bodies from some point in the far distant past, up to the present. Thus it is farcical that a Church of Scientology member would deny emphatically that a baby could be a human being whose spiritual identity is that of someone who has gone before. How the heck would they know? Since L. Ron Hubbard lost his last body in 1986, it is highly unlikely that he would have hung around waiting for Katie Holmes to make a new body for him to operate. Why wait that long. It would be far more likely that he would have found a new body shortly after his death. Thus, given that Scientology is a philosophy that accurately describes the nature of the human "soul" as a thetan, then L. Ron Hubbard would be a young man or woman celebrating his or her 22nd birthday in 2008. The Church of Scientology certainly seems full of pretty crazy people these days, if they can't even be honest about the most basic concepts of their philosophy. The only people left now, who practice the actual philosophy of Scientology are protestant Scientologists. People who left the Church of Scientology because it has become a totally insane cult. These protestant Scientologists are called "freezoners". You don't hear too much about freezoners because they are regular, sensible people who quietly practice the philosophy of Scientology, not raving mad cultists who worship the almighty dollar like the Church of Scientology types.
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