Posted on 07/03/2012 9:21:54 AM PDT by RummyChick
It is Scientology's higher order where members pledge their allegiance for one billion years - and may have cost Tom Cruise his marriage.
Sending six-year-old Suri to the Sea Organisation, or Sea Org as it is known, is what is said to have been the final straw for Katie Holmes before she filed for divorce.
The group is run like a military clique from the Scientology Gold Base in California which has sniper-style nest bunker that overlooks the entire property.
Members are paid just $50 a week and banned from leaving their base or they are tracked down by a special team who used emotional pressure or physical force.
Former Scientology security chief Gary Morehead has claimed that he tracked down more than 100 Sea Org members who left in his 13 years on the job using what he called a ‘blow drill’, referring to the techniques he employed to hunt people down.
If Sea Org members try to leave they are also given a ‘freeloader tab’ which is a bill for all the work they have received, and can run into six figures.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
In this case, I believe that the German government is correct.
There’s a kabbalah office close by, and they also have their share of loose screws but their influence has waned right after Madonna dumped them.
Yes, this is a place of evil. The upside is, you become battle-hardened and you have to outsmart them as liberals are brain-dead maggots. The only way they have influence in this town is because liberals do services with other libtards, that’s why they have a choke hold in the industry.
It does look like they found a warehouse of old 1970 Delta airline uniforms.
Where is Janet Reno and his tanks when we ACTUALLY need him?
I vaguely remember that name. Is he a good guy or a bad guy?
Bad guy according to the sciencefictionologists, so I give a hearty "Hail, Xenu!"
They found you?
Time for the plan then.
I agree...
There is a fine line, because once Government becomes involved, they can use that power to intimidate and threaten legitimate faiths.
But when a “religion” has multiple, credible accounts of bullying, intimidation, kidnapping, and threatening, it should be raided and investigated like any corporate entity.
Not just yet...
I don't.
Scientology is a religion.
(So is Satanism and islam, but I repeat myself)
Understood.
Mohammedanism is a political ideology (government of everybody by and for the benefit of the black-robed elites) masquerading as a religion.
Scientology is a religion.
Scientology looks to me like a ponzi scheme masquerading as a religion. I understand that you have a closer perspective on it than I do.
Nope. But it is not granted the status of a church/religion, and it is under observation by the BfV (constitutional watchdog authority against political extremism).
I've always found this bio of L. Ron pretty entertaining:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/l-ron-hubbard/
No, not quite, in a Ponzi scheme the first few tiers get there money back.
The Germans are more accurate in describing it as a multi-level marketing scheme.
I understand that you have a closer perspective on it than I do.
Yes. Lucky you.
I consider it a religion because it deals with one's spiritual nature and relationship to the universe as such.
That being said, I do NOT say that it is a "good" religion, it is about as amoral a religion as a religion can be.
And an amoral religion run by inherently flawed and intrinsically evil people is...?
Thanks. That’s a lawyer’s perspective. Certainly the church used/s abused/s every tool they could/can to avoid governmental oversight and interference.
Personally, I am at a loss to find a better word to describe an organization that addresses one’s spiritual nature and claims to offer improvements in one’s spiritual state than the word ‘religion’.
Keep in mind I am NOT saying ‘religion’ like it’s a good thing!
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