I'm Considering joining the Church of Scientology! Am I insane?

You have to weigh the advantages of $cientology.
You can murder someone and they’ll cover it up.

They offer to exchange bio-hazards for lessons on how to better yourself.

If you like Katie Holmes and you’re rich and famous they’ll find someone just like her for your personal needs.

You don’t have to be a slave to your current job when you can go on their cruise ship Freewinds and move up to Operating Thetan Level VIII. This ties in well to their desire to rid you of bio-hazards.

They’ll help you with your budding acting career.

I don’t see a downside to this venture at all.

Let Me get this straight. You want to find a religion that fits to Your beliefs and drinking habits?
Shouldn’t that be the other way round. You should fit Yourself to the religion or otherwise You consider Yourself more important than God. To Me it seems You should start Your own religion, just like Ron L did.
And who knows, You may get some followers here. After all there’s lots of demand for religions that let You drink and smoke like there’s no tomorrow and throwing in some loose women You can hit Wall Street big time.

Scientology nor Hubbard claimed the Earth is ‘300 trillion years old’. Through dianetic auditing people can remember what has happened in their past lives over millions or billions of years. But Hubbard was so far advanced or ‘clear’ he could travel back through trillions of years of and retrieve memories and incidents.

I didn’t say anything about the earth.

No, they can’t.

Somehow you learned a lot about Scientology through one brief session. This is not stuff they tell you on day one. Anyway, the universe is 14 billion years old. Hubbard talked about events that happened 300 trillion years ago, which means he misstated the age of the universe by a factor of 20,000 or so. Explain why we’re supposed to pretend that’s credible.

Zen Buddhism. It makes no cosmological, supernatural or spiritual claims that might be false.

Now you’re just making up stories about Scientology.

I wish he was.

At any rate, if anyone ever needed proof that scientology’s a crock, look no further than the R6 images.

I think we’re about done here. Does anybody else want to get in on the fun?

Provide proof they can’t? You can not prove or disprove this.

Our universe may only be 14 billion years old as some scientists say but there studies on calculating the age of stars assumes that all stars were created with the same brightness so it is flawed from the beginning. But that still does not explain that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one. There are billions of other universes are out there, not one universe, there are multiverses, some way older than ours.

That’s a pretty cool motorcycle, I’d join Scientology if they gave those out in gift bags.

You need to prove it’s possible. Disproving nonsense is difficult.

As more or less all people who study it say.

This is essentially all made up and appears nowhere in Hubbard’s writings either (and clearly you’ve been reading these on the 'net because you don’t learn this until you’ve been a Scientology dupe for many, many years). And there’s certainly never been any evidence of trillion-year-old beings traveling between universes on human inventions before humans even existed. Hubbard couldn’t even keep the spelling of Xenu’s name straight in his writings, so doped up was he by that point.

Well clearly a science fiction writer knows more about physics and the universe than, you know, ACTUAL scientists. All that is needed is a scientific paper by Hubbard with math and stuff to prove it.

I think you’re enjoying this.

One might conclude a mighty wind is a blowin’.

I think £130 is pretty cheap. Mormons want 10% of your income (but maybe they tithe capital gains at a lower rate). Of course you get to amortize that across eternity.

Cmon people, of course the OP is pulling you leg. He’s just showing how quick we are to tell people they are crazy for becoming Scientologists while politely pretending that becoming a Catholic, or Mormon, or Evangelical Christian is somehow different.

Yes.

At this site? Not really.

We get it. But it’s fun anyway.

I seem to recall that the Superman comics proposed a place where Kryptonian criminals were sent-it was called the “something zone”? It sounds like the place where Xenu was sent, after blowing up all those thetans in volcanos.
My question: did the creators of “Superman” steal the idea from Hubbard, or was it the other way?

That’d be The Phantom Zone. And I think the Superman writers did it first, although it’s unlikely anyone stole the idea from anyone else.

Can you explain how your conservative belief “There should be harsher sentences for the possession and use of drugs.” allows you to “I also like a relaxing smoke sometimes.”? If you cant follow what you already believe to be true, how can you possible try to follow something so potentially life changing?

There may be, but that’s not science, it’s philosophy.

Meanwhile, Hubbard was a Kook, with a capital K. Follow him at your peril and with a fat wallet.