Posted on 07/02/2012 8:53:36 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Rubert Murdoch has a lot of Thetans perturbed with him. That’s because the founder and chairman of News Corp., which owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, among other media properties, tweeted Sunday that there is “(s)omething creepy, maybe even evil, about these people.”
Murdoch was referring to adherents of Scientology, like actor Tom Cruise, who prefer to think themselves as “Thetans” – a term coined by L. Ron Hubbard, the cult’s founder – rather than “people.”
Murdoch followed up his original tweet with another reporting that his twitter account had been bombarded with “hundreds of attacks” from Thetans. That confirms to me that the media mogul is right about Scientologists.
There is, indeed, something creepy about them. And some of them may not only be creepy, but downright evil.
What particularly troubles me about Scientology is that it refers to itself as the “Church,” blasphemously placing itself on the same level as the true Church, which was established by Jesus Christ.
Scientology is no authentic “religion.” It is the product of Hubbard’s imaginings, which drew upon his experience as a science fiction writer, as well as his dabbling in psychotherapy, which led to his creation of a self-help system he called “Dianetics.”
The creepy part of Scientology is its teaching that we are all, everyone, descendents of Thetans brought to Earth 75 million years ago by Xenu, the tyrant ruler of the “Galactic Confederacy.”
Xenu supposedly brought billions our ancestors here in spacecraft (which resembled Douglas DC-8 airliners). The spacecraft were stacked around volcanoes into which hydrogen bombs were exploded. Thetans clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living and supposedly continue to do so to this day.
This is the belief to which such celebrity Scientologists as Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa Marie Presley and Leahy Remini adhere. It sounds similar to me to the twisted beliefs of the Heaven’s Gate “religion” in San Diego, 39 members of which committed suicide – they preferred to think of it as “shedding their containers” – back in 1997.
The Scripture warns that “many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.” L. Ron Hubbard was such a false prophet. And the Godless “religion” he created truly has deceived many.
Okay, I have to claim ignorance here. What is the deal with the clams?
I'd like to know, too -- and I don't want to go research it on the Internet in case they send aura-control worms back to my computer.
I mean, look how well L. Ron's theories have worked out for Cruise and Travolta.
"Bollocks!!!" says I ...
He claimed that if a tester would make a tiny 'clam' with their thumb and forefinger and rapidly open and close it, many or most non-clears would react violently at the engram. It would be too disturbing for a non-clear to watch a Scientologist's little finger 'clam' to open and close.
He claimed many non-clears would suffer severe jaw pain from watching, pain that could last several days.
As a result, former Scientologists and those who debunk Scientology refer to Scientologists as 'clams' and a gathering to discuss Scientologists or a website about issues with Scientologists as a 'clambake.'
Scientologists are not humored by being called clams.
O.M.G. Hubbard was even loonier than I remember. That summer of '69, when the moon landing and Woodstock happened, the Beatles released Abbey Road, and Gloria Steinem was just gearing up, I read Dianetics while waiting for my husband to complete basic training.
Crazy as things were, with riots in the streets, Nixon in the White House and Army officers who had been drafted distributing LSD and marijuana around Fort Benning out of resentment, I thought Scientology was a pantload.
In 1952, Hubbard wrote a book called 'What To Audit,' later renamed 'The History Of Man.' In the introduction Hubbard claims he will prove 60 or 70 trillion years of evolution. At some point in our past, per Hubbard, we're descended from clams. The whole 'volcanoes blown up by atomic bombs scattering engrams' had taken place before that, so some engrams were in the clams, tormenting them with the 'open, close' bit. Those engrams are still around, in those of us who aren't 'clear' because they were in clams and we're descended from clams.
So be careful not to let any auditing Scientologists rapidly snap his or her little finger clams open and closed around you.
By the way, most engrams that aren't currently in bodies are in processing plants on Mars, per Scientology. However, there is one Martian out-of-body engram processing plan in the Pyrenees.
Yep. I don't know if Tom Cruise has visited it yet.
Or something.
I'm sober, right now ...
Scientology makes a lot more sense when I'm at that stage of drunkenness one drink short of passing out ...
I haven't been that drunk for a LONG time.
However the clam explanation goes, it's nuts.
And little snapping finger clams don't bother me in the least. Does that prove I'm clear, without paying for it?
How would I know? I'm sober!
Ask me some time when I sloppy, stinking, staggering, puking, falling-down, almost passed out drunk ...
I can't guarantee a comprehensible answer, though ...
I can't even guarantee that I'll ever be in that condition again ... I don't like being hung-over.
Unbelievable.
Literally.
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