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Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Unknown Target on September 05, 2005, 05:49:07 pm
Some more, slightly funny, craziness that I have found. I got interested in this after watching a YAAFM (You are a ****ing Moron) on New Grounds, and thought..."Man...There is NO WAY people can be this dumb." So I searched it and...wow...it's crazy.

First of all: The official site:

http://www.scientology.org/

Second of all: Pretty much "The Truth":

http://www.xenu.net/index.html

Basically, for those of you that are unfamiliar with them (I was too, but I started to research them and found out a lot about them). They believe in the teachings of a man named Ron L. Hubbard, who was an ex-science fiction writer turned religious prophet. Here's what he has to say (in my words) -

Some 75 million years ago (or so), there was an evil ruler named Xenu, who controlled all of the galaxy. In total, he controlled 76 planets in this "sector,", however, he had a problem: all of the planets were becoming overpopulated. To solve this, he kidnapped and froze 13.5 million aliens and transported them to Earth, landing them next to active volcanos. He dropped H-Bombs into the volcanos, causing them to erupt and kill all of the frozen aliens. However, to keep their spirits from escaping, he set up electrostatic fly-trap like things in our atmosphere, keeping them captive on Earth, wherupon he forced them to stay inside special cineplexes, watching special 3D movies of Christ, Mohammid, etc, brainwashing them so that they would be more easily controlled. Eventually, as humanity arrived, these beings latched onto us, thus causing us to believe in their "false" reality (aka our real reality).


Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't believe in this, even though I, personally, think it's insane. However...read up on their practices and such. Pay special notice to the "Sea Org".
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Bobboau on September 05, 2005, 06:02:27 pm
yeah, scientology, one of the few cults creepier than the mormons and catholics.

you failed to mention how they have a bunch of very big name actors and such, like Tom Cruse, and John Travolta
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: mikhael on September 05, 2005, 06:32:52 pm
Oh great. Hard Light's gone. They'll sue us out of existence.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: TrashMan on September 05, 2005, 06:54:25 pm
Idotic cults and groups can be found among:

muslims, jew, catholics, black, whites, jellows, reds, stray, gay, pink, green, liberal, conservative, x, y, z....or in other words - everywhere.

but this one REALYL takes hte crown as being the most lunicrus..
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Martinus on September 05, 2005, 07:15:06 pm
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Originally posted by TrashMan
Idotic cults and groups can be found among:

muslims, jew, catholics, black, whites, jellows, reds, stray, gay, pink, green, liberal, conservative, x, y, z....or in other words - everywhere.

but this one REALYL takes hte crown as being the most lunicrus..

[color=66ff00]I agree but don't even dare blaspheme the noodily overlord, our wheat-constituted saviour, the Flying spagetti monster.

*prostrates before his glorious image*
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Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Bobboau on September 05, 2005, 07:21:04 pm
your forgeting about thouse frik'n crazy Rigatonists.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Martinus on September 05, 2005, 07:26:06 pm
[color=66ff00]The thing that gets me most about scientology is that it's so fantastically underhanded, you go onto the website and are asked to take a test which is quite long and obviously looking for a straightforward pattern. Even if you answer positively to all the questions they still tell you that you're 'broken' and need their help.

L.R.Hubbard is one of the most inspiring con-men I've ever seen. I think it's proof that you could get away with almost anything and make a buck.
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Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: BlackDove on September 05, 2005, 07:47:43 pm
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Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]I agree but don't even dare blaspheme the noodily overlord, our wheat-constituted saviour, the Flying spagetti monster.

*prostrates before his glorious image*
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*prostrates too*
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Kamikaze on September 05, 2005, 07:50:12 pm
The Wikipedia articles on Scientology are pretty good reads too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Ford Prefect on September 05, 2005, 07:55:45 pm
In Hubbard's defense, I thought Battlefield Earth was a pretty cool movie.
Title: Re: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Knight Templar on September 05, 2005, 08:06:37 pm
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
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You just discovered Scientology? :wtf:
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Unknown Target on September 05, 2005, 08:34:25 pm
I knew about it, but didn't know what it was about.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: ZylonBane on September 05, 2005, 09:21:55 pm
You mean you didn't know it gives you force powers?

(http://davidpoland.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/tom_cruise_kills_oprah.gif)
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Martinus on September 05, 2005, 09:26:50 pm
[color=66ff00]I'm torn ZB, I'm not sure who I want to win. :confused:
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Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Ace on September 05, 2005, 09:27:53 pm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
In Hubbard's defense, I thought Battlefield Earth was a pretty cool movie.


Die... please just... die...

If you have offspring, take them out with you... please... for the sake of humanity...
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Martinus on September 05, 2005, 09:29:02 pm
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Originally posted by Ace


Die... please just... die...

If you have offspring, take them out with you... please... for the sake of humanity...

[color=66ff00]I was going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was drunk whilst posting.
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Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: IceFire on September 05, 2005, 09:34:18 pm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
In Hubbard's defense, I thought Battlefield Earth was a pretty cool movie.

Eww :)
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Liberator on September 05, 2005, 09:44:28 pm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
In Hubbard's defense, I thought Battlefield Earth was a pretty cool movie.


0_o
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: StratComm on September 05, 2005, 09:56:04 pm
My understanding of that movie was that anyone not directly involved with its production (meaning the Scientologist propogandists who are responsible for that atrocity) thought it was absolutely horrid, from the script to pretty much everything else.  The only thing it may have had going for it - maybe - was its special effects, and since I never had the patience to see more than a few minutes of it I never saw any of those either.

On a somewhat related note, was that movie actually pulled by its publisher on the ground that it contained subliminal cultist propoganda?
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Styxx on September 05, 2005, 10:02:52 pm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
In Hubbard's defense, I thought Battlefield Earth was a pretty cool movie.


Ok, now tell one about a parrot.


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Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]I agree but don't even dare blaspheme the noodily overlord, our wheat-constituted saviour, the Flying spagetti monster.

*prostrates before his glorious image*
[/color]


Ramen!
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on September 05, 2005, 10:08:14 pm
i cannot believe styxx has made it into this thread without even a mention of Sam, the volcano God of the Cult of the One True S.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Grey Wolf on September 05, 2005, 10:29:53 pm
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]The thing that gets me most about scientology is that it's so fantastically underhanded, you go onto the website and are asked to take a test which is quite long and obviously looking for a straightforward pattern. Even if you answer positively to all the questions they still tell you that you're 'broken' and need their help.

L.R.Hubbard is one of the most inspiring con-men I've ever seen. I think it's proof that you could get away with almost anything and make a buck.
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P.T. Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute and two to take him."
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Ford Prefect on September 05, 2005, 11:24:37 pm
I refuse to give one inch. I'm no Scientologist but Battlefield Earth kicked ass, and I make no apologies for it.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Ace on September 05, 2005, 11:50:00 pm
You must have liked it for Travolta's codpiece then... :ick:
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Night Hammer on September 06, 2005, 12:54:56 am
:lol:

I do find Scientology pretty strange

but there are some others i find pretty strange as well
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: aldo_14 on September 06, 2005, 04:53:00 am
[q]Dougal: God, I've heard about those cults Ted. People dressing up in black and saying Our Lord's going to come back and save us all.
Ted: No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.
Dougal: Oh right.[/q]
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Styxx on September 06, 2005, 08:26:30 am
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Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
i cannot believe styxx has made it into this thread without even a mention of Sam, the volcano God of the Cult of the One True S.


Blast! Now I'll have to pay the penitence!

* places a 12-pack on the freezer *
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on September 06, 2005, 09:24:20 am
That better be Samuel Adams
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Flipside on September 06, 2005, 09:28:48 am
The worst part was, Hubbard died 1 and half months before he could reveal the joke...
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: BlackDove on September 06, 2005, 09:33:18 am
I thought Battlefeild Earth was a great movie too.

I was however, 12 years old when I saw it.

Don't remember much about it today.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: IPAndrews on September 06, 2005, 10:01:56 am
The DC8s are a nice touch.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Sandwich on September 06, 2005, 12:08:13 pm
I was embarassed when I didn't stop Battlefield Earth in the middle. :o
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Primus on September 06, 2005, 12:19:43 pm
I :lol: at scientology.
Actually, I :lol: at all cults and their followers.

...Until I'll create my own and become a millionare, then I will :lol: you all.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Styxx on September 06, 2005, 12:24:50 pm
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Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
That better be Samuel Adams


Actually, it's Skol.
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: Roanoke on September 06, 2005, 03:32:41 pm
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Originally posted by aldo_14
[q]Dougal: God, I've heard about those cults Ted. People dressing up in black and saying Our Lord's going to come back and save us all.
Ted: No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.
Dougal: Oh right.[/q]



Heh heh, you could fill a thread with Dougal quotes :D
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: TrashMan on September 07, 2005, 03:57:46 pm
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Originally posted by Primus
I :lol: at scientology.
Actually, I :lol: at all cults and their followers.

...Until I'll create my own and become a millionare, then I will :lol: you all.


no you wont! For *I* shall create a new cult before you do and it will be greater then yours... And of course members of my cult will have to pay me great ammouns of mony and will havwe the holy task of "making other cult leaders dissapear".
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: LtNarol on September 08, 2005, 10:56:44 am
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Originally posted by Flipside
The worst part was, Hubbard died 1 and half months before he could reveal the joke...


I dunno, I still get a kick out of it :nod:
Title: The Church of Scientology
Post by: pyro-manic on September 08, 2005, 06:20:05 pm
Bunch of nutters, the lot of 'em. Funny though...

I saw Battlefield Earth a while back. I think it actually could've been good, if they'd got a decent production crew and writer on board...