Xenu was a galactic warlord who ruled this sector of the galaxy 75 million years ago. One day he policed up all the rebels and brought them to Earth (only back then it was called “Teegeeack”). He put them all in the caldera of the great volcano on the big island of Hawaii and dropped hydrogen bombs on them, killing them (for a re-enactment of this event, consult the picture of the erupting volcano on the cover of Dianetics).
Unfortunately for us humans, the ghosts of these rebels (the “thetans”), having been vaporized and scattered by the explosion, now infest all our bodies in varying numbers. They cause headaches and phobias and basically every type of sickness, disease, and dysfunction you could name.
Thank God that L. Ron Hubbard came up with a way of exorcising these spirits, otherwise I don’t know WHAT we’d do! Oh, but you have to be a member of the cult. And you have to pay to have each thetan removed. And, you can’t tell for yourself how many thetans you have left in you, only a trained “auditor” can do that. And sometimes a thetan will infiltrate back into your system, causing further inconvenience and requiring more “auditing” etc.
You might say, “what a wacky story”. Well actually, it is. But if you join the cult of $cientology, you don’t actually get to hear it until you reach a level called “OT 3” (“Operating Thetan 3”). One might go a few years in the cult before being allowed to purchase and read the story of Xenu! OT 3 comes after OT’s 2 and 1 and a few other, lesser levels of spiritual enlightenment. By then, most $cientologists will basically believe anything the cult tells them, or are too afraid to ask questions.
BTW, I am happy to see the wicked cult discussed on this board. (Used to be, many moons ago, I was the only 'Doper who wanted to talk about how sick and weird they are.)
I certainly believe you Derleth, I saw Google’s directory change practically before my eyes. Obviously, they were fiddling with things while we were trying to find out what was happening. Hopefully it’s true that Google has learned the error of their ways.
Hrrm I thought the Xenu thing was plagerized by Hubberd… or maybe he wrote it…
All I remember is I read some dumb-ass short story in some SCIFI collection book in some used bookstore that sounded a lot like the premise behind Scientology.
Hrrm actually ya know, that sounds almost exactly the same as the plot from BattleField Earth. I wonder why?
Hrrm 75 million years ago you say? Wasn’t HI underwater at that time? Oh wait reason… must stop thinking…
So here’s a legitimate question, one that I’ve posed a few times before:
Why isn’t there any organized counter-scientology effort out there?
There is some work, the vast majority of it in Europe, but nothing systemic…
Here’s my plan: We, anyone who will help (like people who remember HTML), should launch our own anti scientology attack. After all we are trying to fight ignorance aren’t we?
I’m picturing doing exactly what scientology did to google. We make web sites for out own little group, exactly the same as scientology, but with enough fundamental differences that we escape copyright infringement. (Think a whole new generation of Ohm meters using whatever high tech gizmos we can generate)
Then after we generate our organization we launch an effort to get scientologists away from the CoS. Shortly after that begins we start throwing up ‘personal’ web pages of people caught between the two warring cults.
And of course we need to log everything that happens so when we’re done we can launch our “Behind the Scenes” page.
CRorex, Operation Clambake is the big Anti-Scientology Front (ASF). It is run by dedicated individuals, plenty of them former clams (clam = Scientologist/wog = non-Scientologist), and spreads - get this - the copyrighted materials of the CoS itself. You can download the OTs that the Cult doesn’t want anyone to see before they’ve paid thousands of dollars and have done thousands of hours of unpaid work in the Orgs (Scientology Labor Camps/Brainwashing Centers). How? Lawsuits. Through various lawsuits at various times and places, bits and pieces of the OTs have become public knowledge through court records. Operation Clambake people, and various other ASFers, go to those courts and secure copies of the OTs perfectly legally.
All Operation Clambake is doing is displaying materials in the public record.
Of course, the DMCA might yet give the CoS the power to kill Operation Clambake, but even if it does, the ASF will not die. It is too spread out. Too many people with computers already have a problem with the CoS. They can’t Fair Game them all. (Fair Game = The Cult practice of making someone the target of Cultist anger. A Fair Game implies that anything a Clam does against the person is ‘fair game’ and that no mercy should be shown, laws be damned.) If Operation Clambake dies tomorrow at midnight, a replacement would spring up before noon and that would be mirrorred globally before the next day.