To: null and void
Most respectfully asked, Do you consider Scientology a religion? What about the outer space stuff were you / are you accepting that as something that did happen? Again respectfully asked as you are the first person I have ever communicated with who was a member. Thanks
To: OutInTheColdAgain
Yes. Scientology is a religion. It deals with ultimate questions of existence. It has rituals and practices intended (or at least asserted) to improve one's spiritual wellbeing.
OTOH islam is also a religion...
23 posted on
04/07/2004 12:13:36 AM PDT by
null and void
(John f'ing Kerry - More positions than the Kama Sutra...)
To: OutInTheColdAgain
Oh! I missed this part:
What about the outer space stuff were you / are you accepting that as something that did happen?
Some members do, some don't. I'm willing to allow that a lot could have happened in the past 13.5 billion years. Whether the Hubbard version is accurate? Dunno. I rather doubt it happened exactly as he described it. He was a hack science fiction writer, after all!
The conclusion I finally came to was it didn't really matter if the incidents run in session "really" happened. It is sufficient that the person running them achieved relief from something that's bugging them and/or recovery of abilities.
28 posted on
04/07/2004 12:39:40 AM PDT by
null and void
(John f'ing Kerry - More positions than the Kama Sutra...)
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