Scientology - weird cult

[Super Nova]

I think all of these are just a crazy.......

- Creation ex nihilo in which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a divine being
- Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world
- Emergence myths in which progenitors pass through a series of worlds and metamorphoses until reaching the present world
- Creation by the dismemberment of a primordial being
- Creation by the splitting or ordering of a primordial unity such as the cracking of a cosmic egg or a bringing order from chaos
- a primeval abyss, an infinite expanse of waters or space
- an originator deity which is awakened or an eternal entity within the abyss
- an originator deity poised above the abyss
- a cosmic egg or embryo
- an originator deity creating life through sound or word
- life generating from the corpse or dismembered parts of an originator deity

These all have the same credibility as the one the bible tells. You know the one invented by a bunch of Jewish scribes while they were held as slaves in Babylon.

[freediver]

Which one is the big bang theory?

[Hynde]

Something came from nothing?

That would be less absurd.

The god story also has something coming from nothing, but with the addition of a magic poof, whose origin is not explained.

[freediver]

Unlike the big bang, which is a completely rational homosexual.

[IQS.RLOW]

Unlike the big bang, which is a completely rational homosexual.

What is your belief Freediver?

You seem to have a lot to say on this issue as well as evolution but I have never seen you reveal your position. Why is that?

[Super Nova]

Looks like Tom is going to have a hard time going forward......... Good.

Is the Hollywood legend now a liability for the Church of Scientology?

When his third wife filed for divorce, a spokesman for Tom Cruise asked the media to respect the privacy of the actor's family. The tabloids thought about this for a split second before splashing with ''TOM AND KATIE TO DIVORCE - more details pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 21''.

Another headline from last week: ''CULT STALKS KATIE''. The ''cult'' is Scientology, to which Tom Cruise has belonged since his 20s. The headline from the Sun, whose owner, Rupert Murdoch, took to Twitter last Sunday to describe the religion as ''something creepy, even evil''.

But do not expect to hear about Xenu, the intergalactic dictator who tried to kill billions of souls by stacking hydrogen bombs around volcanoes 75 million years ago

Cruise is not only the world's most famous Scientologist but also one of its most powerful operatives. Sources claim he is No. 2 to David Miscavige, the organisation's leader and best man at his wedding to Holmes.

Miscavige was responsible for transforming Scientology from the eccentric self-help sect founded by the science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard into one of the most powerful social networks in Hollywood. And Cruise was central to that transformation.

For more than 20 years, the star of Top Gun has publicly saluted the Church of Scientology.

Reputedly no religion in the world extracts more money from its followers. (Many, it should be said, insist that it is worth every cent.)

Reaching ''Clear'', a level of enlightenment that strips you of all inherited fears and irrational thinking, could set you back as much as $45,000 over several years. But do not expect to hear about Xenu, the intergalactic dictator who tried to kill billions of souls by stacking hydrogen bombs around volcanoes 75 million years ago. That yarn costs a whole lot more.

Cruise really was the jewel in Scientology's crown. But the question he ought to be asking himself today, as he contemplates his half-century, is whether the scales have tipped and he is now a liability.

From a public relations point of view, the Cruise-Holmes divorce is more than a car crash: it is as if Xenu's spaceship (which, according to Hubbard, looked like a DC-8 without engines) had plunged into one of those volcanoes.

Holmes has filed for divorce in New York, where it is thought she stands a better chance of being granted sole custody than in Scientology-saturated California.

The message sent out from her supporters is unequivocal and one calculated to appeal to parents everywhere: she wants to drag little Suri out of the strange world of auditing, E-meters and ''Thetans'' - floating souls trillions of years old who inhabit human bodies.

But could Scientology harm Suri?

Scientology's online enemies have been quick to jump in. Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief of New York's Village Voice and an opponent of Scientology, reckons that ''what may have convinced Katie to run was the frightening prospect that faces all Scientology kids beginning at six years old - a form of interrogation known as 'sec [security] checking'''.

There is no evidence that Suri was going to be ''sec checked''. A spokesman for the church said last week that he had never come across Hubbard's document except in material from the group's critics (though he did not deny its authenticity). But ex-members of the group who grew up in it claim to have been subjected to inquisitions when still very young - the aim, they say, being to extract information about their parents.

It is also claimed by critics that Cruise himself is closely monitored by his Scientology minders. Again, it is denied, but one can understand why Miscavige might regard his star turn as a loose cannon these days.

Remember the time he jumped up and down on Oprah Winfrey's sofa to declare his love for Holmes? Scientologists squirmed. The church also threw a fit when the gossip website Gawker hosted an ''indoctrination video'' - intended for internal consumption only - in which Cruise spoke passionately but incoherently about the meaning of his religion. (Gawker's founder, Nick Denton, has flatly refused to take it down.)

Miscavige's policy of cultivating Hollywood seemed inspired when posters of Cruise hung on the walls of teenage girls. But that was before the actor started saying things that confirmed suspicions he is not the smartest Thetan in the volcano.

And now it looks as if Murdoch is using the divorce as an excuse to declare war on the organisation. Watch your back, Tom.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/cele ... z204BbE04Z

[Outlaw Yogi]

I don't believe in the big bang theory.

I believe there are constant smaller bangs at the centre of most galaxies (including our own Milky Way) that create new astral bodies ect.

[Neferti]

Scientology is a crock ... all religions are. The various scriptures are also a crock .... memories of Silly Old Men carved in stone or tales passed down and elaborated upon like the Dream Society of the Indigenous Australians? Remember that they, our Indigenous friends, were around before Jesus and even before the Dinosaurs so they would have been here in Terra Australis, carving spears out of stones to spear kangaroos and wallabies before the Big Bang? Or did the Indigenous people cause the Big Bang? Or just the little bangs? How they ate the kangaroo before they discovered fire or cutting utensils, who knows. Perhaps, raw 'roo is tasty?

Nobody can prove anything and never will so why bother arguing?