The Scientology thread - the OG!

Varine

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Maybe we should get some dolls and ask the Haitians where the Scientologists are touching them?
 

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Fatmankev

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A "religion" based on a science fiction novel written by L. Ron Hubbard. Basically, people are the vessels containing immortal souls of some benign creatures. At some point in the past, some evil space emperor rounded up all these immortal souls with his space cruisers and took them to Earth, where he was somehow able to make them lose all of their memories so they'd be trapped in misery for eternity... or something. I guess Scientology's aim is to help these 'immortal souls' (a.k.a. people) to remember bits and pieces of their past, so that they might somehow break free of this memory-loss conundrum and go back to their true existence.

Key phrase in that explanation: "...based on a science fiction novel..."
 

FireCat

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Hmm They follow a science fiction novel? It sounds pretty nuts!
 

Fatmankev

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I've gotta disagree. This is by far the nuttiest mainstream religion I've ever heard of.
 

FireCat

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All religion It's pretty equal nutty in some way.

A religion" based on a science fiction novel
A religion" based on a book

Moar

Aetherius Society: They believe Jesus, Buddha and Krishna are in fact aliens

Jedi Religion – Jediism
The Jedi Church believes that there is one all powerful force that binds all things in the universe together. The Jedi religion is something innate inside everyone of us, the Jedi Church believes that our sense of morality is innate. So quiet your mind and listen to the force within you!

The Church of Euthanasia. "Save the Planet, Kill Yourself"
The Church of Euthanasia is a weird religion in all its aspects; even the name of the movement is peculiar. This so-called religion was created by Reverend Chris Konda and it promotes the idea that Earth cannot sustain the entire human race anymore.
 

KaerfNomekop

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Aetherius sounds pretty sane compared to the others.

I'd support the Church of Euthanasia, if not for the fact that few people actually want to kill themselves regardless of how miserable they actually are in life.
 

Fatmankev

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Church of Euthanasia sounds halfway batty. I respect their ideals, but Christ... the four pillars of foundation of the church are: Suicide, Abortion, Cannibalism and Sodomy. I mean, come on. Cannibalism? And they even limit it to those who are already dead. If they're already dead, then why do you need to eat them?! Their whole notion is that there are too many people and we need to do what we can to purge the world of this plague that we are. I respect that they don't condone murder or any act of life-taking if it's not the person's own will, but the shit is still fuckin' whack.

But I agree, Aetherius at least gives a fathomable explanation to everything behind it. I'd be more prone to condoning a religion like that than most anything else.
 

FireCat

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Well, church of euthanasia is sick and Utterly Insane organisation. There's no doubt about that.
 

KaerfNomekop

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If they're already dead, then why do you need to eat them?!
So that you don't eat other dead animals, and there'll be more food to go around for those who don't agree with you.

I thought it was going to be something like the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, but apparently I was wrong. Porn in whatever form is not the way to go, especially not on the homepage of your site.

Well, church of euthanasia is sick and Utterly Insane organisation. There's no doubt about that.
How exactly is it sick and utterly insane?
 

FireCat

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suicide · abortion · cannibalism · sodomy
If it isn't insanity, what is it. Eh?
 

Fatmankev

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So that you don't eat other dead animals, and there'll be more food to go around for those who don't agree with you.

I'm just having trouble with it. I can keep a fairly open mind about things, but this doesn't make sense to me. What's wrong with eating animals? I didn't see anything about that in my "research" (five minutes of reading wikipedia), but I guess the "more food to go around"(fuck, now I feel like Firecat) does make sense in a way, since they don't believe in forcing their practices and ideals unto others.

But, time to prove Firecat's point: http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/graphics/new/sexisgood.jpg

Just perusing their "family album" (again?!), came across this picture. Fuck anyone that would condone that kinda shit. They are insane.
 
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