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A question on Holywood Squares: What is it that Tom Cruise says that society can do without? Answer: psychiatry. Cruise and Travolta are two well-known celebrities who are members of this "church".

 

Members of the Church of Scientology spend a lot of time trying to discredit the sciences of psychiatry and psychology. They oppose the treatment of mental illnesses with drugs. Why is this? As near as I can tell it is because psychiatry is in competition with Scientology for the dollars of its adherents. What's your take?

 

"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion". --L. Ron Hubbard

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Scientology...what a load of shit. I wonder if Cruise or Travolta or any other of those whackos has bothered to talk to anybody who's life has been dramitcally improved by those two sciences; both through drugs and traditional counseling?!? the_finger.gif

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I know someone who is on the Scientologist's enemies list. They're vindictive bastards. Among other things, they went through her neighborhood distributing flyers identifying here as a convicted child molester, and have tried gathering information from all sorts of friends and relatives. Of course, she did testify in a trial against the "church." The things at the core of their belief are as bizarre as can be, so their dismissal of psychiatry carries as much weight as Ramtha's mandate to buy land above a certain elevation because there will be a terrible flood when the lizard people emerge from Mt. Rainier.

 

Of course, now I've done it. Coming soon to my neighborhood, my picture on a bunch of fliers. yellaf.gif

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I don't have a problem with religions in general or the Church of Scientology in particular, except where they pass themselves off as "scientifically" valid and where they attempt to discredit various scienfic disciplines. I think that the US government was wrong to defend Scientology in Germany after it stepped outside the conventional bounds of religion and its tax exempt status.

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And thus, having ration- alized his expedition to L. Ron's modernistic office / cathedral / warehouse / condominium complex, JOE seeks The Answer to his problem...

 

Joe:

Oh oh oh

Mystical Advisor

What is my problem,

tell me

Can you see?

 

L. Ron Hoover:

Well, you have nothing

to fear, my son!

You are a Latent

Appliance Fetishist,

It appears to me!

 

Joe:

That all seems very,

very strange

I never craved

a toaster

Or a color T.V.

 

L. Ron Hoover:

A Latent Appliance

Fetishist

Is a person who

refuses to admit

to his or herself

That sexual

gratification can

only be achieved

Through the use of

MACHINES...

Get the picture?

 

Joe:

Are you telling me

I should come out

of the closet now

Mr. Ron?

 

L. Ron Hoover:

No, my son!

You must go into

THE CLOSET

 

Joe:

What?

 

L. Ron Hoover:

And you will have

 

Joe:

Heh?

 

L. Ron Hoover:

Hey!

A lot of fun!

That's where

they all live

So if you want an

Appliance to love you

You'll have to

go in there

'N' get you one

 

Joe:

Well...that seems

simple enough...

 

L. Ron Hoover:

Yes, but if you want a

really GOOD one,

You'll have to learn a

foreign language...

 

Joe:

German, for instance?

 

L. Ron Hoover:

That's right...

A lot of really cute

ones come from

over there!

(Fifty bucks, please)

And a cheerful group of

Appliantologists dance

into the room wearing

aluminum foil lab smocks,

lock arms in a circle

around JOE, making sure

he pays in full, all the

while singing with L. RON

as he delivers his final

instructions...

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