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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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The First Church of Appliantology offers more satisfying accessories...LOL
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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its a cult
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WBraun
climber
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Scientology
All the scientists go there .....
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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I belong to Flip Wilson's congregation, The Church of What's Happening Now.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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... and I don't subscribe to any religion where you have to buy your way into Heaven.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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The First Church of Appliantology offers more satisfying accessories...LOL
Appliantology: The religion for those who have moved from pantheism to frying-pantheism.
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go-B
climber
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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For one, men with silk scarves?
But feather boa's are cool!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Certainly a thread worthy of 107 posts. Make that 108.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 12, 2011 - 10:08am PT
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Today is Hubbard's 100th birthday. Excerpt from a short bio:
Parsons described Hubbard as his "magical partner," and together the men engaged in a rite in which Parsons tried to impregnate with an antichrist child a woman he considered the whore of Babylon, a goal that Crowley had long promoted. With Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead" playing in the background, Hubbard allegedly chanted spells over the copulating couple, according to Miller and others. (Ultimately Hubbard would steal Parsons' girlfriend and allegedly bilk him in a Miami yacht venture.) Years later, when Hubbard had grown famous and realized the antichrist episode didn't comport with his image as a man of culture and wisdom, he would reportedly claim to have been working on an undercover mission for U.S. Naval Intelligence to investigate black magic.
http://www.slate.com/id/2122835/
I would love to see tax-exempt status stripped from this giant scam...go ahead and make Cruise, Travolta and Beck howl.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Mar 12, 2011 - 10:20am PT
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I never knew that.
Thanks for posting it, Dirt.
Seems like another dumb fuk.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Mar 12, 2011 - 10:45am PT
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Nice. What's next? Shall we do a thread about Jews and site only refernce from Nazi web sites?
Spread a little more hate, slander and bullsh#t.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 12, 2011 - 11:06am PT
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Give me a break.
Why should any "religion" be exempt from scrutiny and criticism?
Especially one with a long track record of corruption, control, and intimidation?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Predator dreads, cool
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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hubby prided himself on being "a yachtsman," and i think, hence, the ascot. don't knock ascots, they have a place, as at horse races in england.
the best comment i've seen on scientology came in the movie "repo man". the principals are standing around a good old homeless people's 50-gallon-barrel fire somewhere near downtown l.a. one is reading a book, which looks a lot like the standard scientology handbook. the closeup on the cover, however, shows a slightly different spelling: "diuretics".
"makes a lot of sense," says repo man.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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what's wrong with Scientology?
Everything.
Sorry, but Scientology is a wicked cult.
People should know better. Look into their founder. Look into their doctrine. Look into what they teach. Look into what they do. Look into how hard it is to leave if you become a member and how these people are abused mentally and emotionally. Pure 100% Bovine Dung.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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way back there, Chaz asked: Can anyone who has a beef with Scientology tell us what's wrong with it, in your own words, without refering to an article someplace someone else wrote or a film on YouTube?
Or are you content to let others do your thinking for you?....Just like the Scientologists.
They didn't like a friend of mine's public criticism of them, so they printed up flyers warning neighbors that a sexual predator had moved into their neighborhood featuring her picture and distributed them in peoples mailboxes and stapled to telephone poles.
It they come to my house, I'm putting the dogs on 'em.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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ah but klimsie, scientology has a take on stargate, so to speak. so do you. your take versus their take.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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The mormons have their golden tablets dug from a New Hampshire corn field.
Actually a hilltop near Manchester, New York, Dingus
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luggi
Trad climber
from the backseat of Jake& Elwood Blues car
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According to Hubbard, Scientology is an "applied religious philosophy" and is "a religion in that it addresses the spirit". At the beginning of many Scientology books this statement to the reader appears:
Scientology is a religious philosophy containing pastoral counseling procedures intended to assist an individual to attain spiritual freedom. The mission of the church of Scientology is a simple one-to help the individual attain full awareness of himself as an Immortal Being, and his relationship to the supreme being. The attainment of the benefits and goals of Scientology requires each individuals dedicated participation as only his own efforts can he himself, as a spiritual being, achieve these.
Hubbard founded Scientology in the 1950's. He was influenced by "in a nut shell" by Vedic Hinduism.
The Veda he writes...A great deal of our material in Scientology is discovered right back there. This makes the earliest part of Scientology, sacred lore. Another is Taoism. Hubbard states that Tao means Knowingness. In other words it is an ancestor to Scientology, the study of how of knowing how. Scientology claims that a Scientologist is a first cousin to the Buddhist.
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