"Dianetics" by L. Ron Hubbard, is now a cure for obesity.

[flvegan]

I know it is. I just saw a commercial for it. According to my BMI I'm obese. I should buy this book and do everything it tells me to. No matter what. It says that my confidence will increase as well. I could use some confidence to go with my new 6-pack abs (that I'll get from reading "Dianetics"), right?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Hey, If Ya Don't Want It, Don't Buy It. Sheesh! LOL

:P

[Tektonik]

10. nice stalking there

[LeftyMom]

2. Your skepticism is caused by alien ghosts haunting your brain.

If you keep pushing checks at me, I can make them stop. Also, you should donate your house, your car and all of your time. :evilgrin:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I have this Thetan...

That has been attached to my ass for years now. Left cheek. Can't get rid of the bastard for nuthin'.

Does nail polish remover work on them?

[LeftyMom]

6. Sign your house over to me and I'll tell you how to get rid of it. It works for so many celebs!

How do you think they got so far in life? Not with ass thetans, that's for sure!

[flvegan]

8. Considering...that'd be a conflict of interest.

Otherwise, it'd just be creepy and wrong.

[LeftyMom]

9. The extraterrestrial ghosts on your butt are telling you to think that.

Without them you'd trust me.

[melody]

3. It is certainly a natural emetic

After you read it, you'll be compelled toward projectile vomiting at regular intervals.

[NYC]

5. The book works

if you buy a lot of them, tie them together, then do weightlifting.

I actually read that book about 15 or 20 years. Someone had left it in my neighbor's apartment, brand new, she couldn't find out who left it. I felt that no book should go unread. (I can be such a fool.)

After reading it, my motto became:

If I can read Dianetics, I can read anything.

[originalpckelly]

7. OMG! That fucking criminal organization needs to be shut down once and for all.

The people at the top of the organization are a bunch of mobsters. People may make fun of their beliefs, but the real problem isn't that, every religion has nutty crap, it's the way they use the "e-meter" (a primitive LIE DETECTOR!) to get people's personal information and then they blackmail them with it. That's why all these big stars go in, but they never come out. They'd have all their dirty secrets aired in the public.

I've watched hours of hearings on the BS they've tried. These are truly horrible people.

To this day, the infiltration of our government by Scientology's upper echelons remains the biggest infiltration in our history.

No prosecutor or judge will take them on, because they personally destroy if not actually kill their major enemies. They send out private detectives to troll through your background to dig up any little thing that could be used against you.

If they don't find anything, then they harass you. If that doesn't work, and you're not famous, they'll consider killing you in a "suicide" or a "car accident".

They use the same methods as the CIA, and because they don't have to worry about any oversight or laws, they are nimble.

The South Park people are lucky more didn't happen to them.

[Initech]

14. I agree, fuck Scientology.

I'm all for progress and respecting other people's religious beliefs and all that crap, but seriously, fuck Scientology. They are a criminal organization.

[rasputin1952]

They've been outlawed in Germany, not sure of any place else

but they should be exposed for the scam they are...damn Thetans are greedy...

I am not typing this, I am not typing this...

[WindRavenX]

11. it amazes me this is an actual tax-exempt organization

It's nothing more than worldwide pyramid scheme.

[mitchum]

12. Well, why was Kirstie Alley so fat?

[Matsubara]

16. Have you seen her "Look Who's Talking" Co-star John Travolta Lately?

He's well on his way to Marlon Brando-ville.

[mitchum]

17. Gawd, he's always been pudgy, but sheesh...

That's the only way he'll ever be compared to Brando

[ComerPerro]

22. I don't get it. How is that picture funny?

[Sapphocrat]

13. Yep, surefire way to drop weight, instantly...

As a matter of fact-- Oh, sorry, I thought you said Diuretics.

[rasputin1952]

15. Heh...and I thought Dainetics was only a cure for sanity...

damn...damn...damn...x(



Stinking Thetans, volcanoes, souls w/o a home, arrggghhhh.

[ComerPerro]

18. so is the Bible, according to the 700 Club

[ComerPerro]

19. people who bash Scientology crack me the fuck up

[rasputin1952]

20. OOOoooooooo....

Don't want to piss those Thetans off...

[ComerPerro]

21. seriously, I love how some sets of beliefs are untouchable, while others are just a joke.

[spoony]

23. Untouchable?

You must have some different site loaded in another window and meant to post that there.

[ComerPerro]

24. yeah, I must be, because people never go apeshit when you question religion of any kind here

[spoony]

26. Oh, so what you meant to say

was that you're pouty because when you say things smearing the intelligence of billions of people I or someone else might call you on it.

But from what I've seen, you're perfectly allowed to continue to do so, as are others allowed to reply.

[ComerPerro]

28. What I am saying is it is perfectly ok to ridicule one set of beliefs for reasons

that make other beliefs "sacred"

[rasputin1952]

25. Well...I can understand your POV, there are many things that

seem "untouchable", but we should all question our beliefs from time to time. In the case of Scientology, Unarians and a host of other "new" religions, it is important to look at the source. Hubbard was a Science Fiction writer, not that good of one either, and he made the statement that he "was going to start a new religion". He did, based on some rather interesting aspects of space and time. And just like some Western religions, when questioned about the "reality" of the religion, he would say that Thetans, and others were controlling the persons thoughts, and that's why the could not "see the light". Over the years, I have questioned many things about my own religion, Christianity, and I have found many things lacking in the Common Sense of the whole thing. But, like w/Hubbard, instead of Thetans, I was told satan was controlling my thoughts, and that's why I would question the Bible and the teachings of the "wise". Satan does not control my thinking, and neither do Thetans; thinking is the very essence of human life, questioning is what makes life worth living...:)

Personally, I love discussing religion w/Rabbis, they have questioned and thought about things for a very long time...much of which makes great sense this day in age...:)

Question authority, it does the spirit good...:D

[ComerPerro]

27. Well, a lot of the "sense" the older religions seem to make comes from years of answering the same

questions, over and over. Plus they speak with authority because they have had years of indoctrination and training. Scientology, meanwhile, is relatively new.

I compare Scientology to a more extreme form of Bokononism, where the religion was started almost as satire or a joke, but then just grew.

I don't see it as having much substance, but then again I don't see it as any more or less sacred than any other organized religion. Only major difference is that the big ones have been around longer.

[rasputin1952]

29. Yes...There are many things in all religions that should be

questioned honestly...Too bad so few appear to do so...:(

[ComerPerro]

30. well, a lot of that comes from the faith aspect of it. And this happens in many

those who practice put faith in the religion, and therefore in many cases how the practice is, well, practiced. So they naturally wouldn't question it. And any outside observer who does question it is, well, quite frankly, an outsider.

[rasputin1952]

31. Faith has it's place...but when confronted w/fact, all other bets

are off.

People had faith that the earth was flat...their faith proved wrong. People had faith that the sun moved around the earth...their afith proved them wrong.

Who knows, sometimes faith is a good thing, but it cannot stand against fact...:)