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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
They don't sell emeters...they sell sessions with them, for a couple thousand dollars a pop on up. It really is like world of warcraft, in that you keep having to do 'training' to advance up levels, except every level has an arbitrarily larger dollar figure on it. And that's the only way to succeed in ridding their bodies of thetans.
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I thought they sold them. The fact they rent them makes it worse somehow?
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
I'm not sure what you are arguing here, cuz it sounds like "hey, theyre not so bad, they're just like the Methodist church down the road!"
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I'm not really arguing anything here. Just trying understand what makes one group a religion and another a cult. I mean Scientology charges people for sessions with "E" meters. The Catholic church serves up some wine and a little wafer and tells people it's the blood and body of their savior. Both sound pretty goofy to me. I'd say cult like even.
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
Let me say again: Scientology operates NOTHING like what people think of when they think of religion. If you picture a pay by the minute 'consult a psychic' pyramid scheme, you'll be closer to the truth. The internet is completely full of accurate and verified information about their horrible practicies (which I haven't even gotten into as they'd sound off topic), if you are really curious about it, go do some rudimentary research and I think you will change your mind.
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Well I've done a lot of reading today and I must say no, they operate just about like every other religion I've read up on. They just happen to be at a younger age. The fact that other churches did awful things in the 12th, 14th, 15th or even early 19th century to force their beliefs on people doesn't change they way seemingly all religions get their followers. Who knows maybe in a 100 or 200 years they'll be the fastest growing church in the world? Each religion I've looked into hooks a generation then depends on spreading through children. Scientology just happens to be working on this generation.
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
I also ask again, since you did not respond to it:
If I started an organization founded on the principle that I was the supreme Banker God of the universe, and that the only way to secure your wealth in the afterlife was to give it to me in this one, and I would deposit it for you in your Celestial Account, would you be defending my organization as a religion?
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I'm sorry, I missed this question completely. But no I'm not giving anyone any cash to provide me with a better life after I'm dead. If there is an after life I'm placing my chips on getting in by living the best life now that I can. My feelings on the whole subject is I'm not in position to say whether or not their is a God. I feel a spiritual connection at times but look at religions and they way they operate and really don't understand at all.