This is the third time this week I've heard Tom Cruise pimping

[ET Awful]

Scientology bullshit and trying to claim credit for helping people.

He's pimping the detox system that Hubbard came up with that basically involves nothing more than massive doses of niacin and sitting in a sauna.

It's bullshit, it's deadly, and it's deceptive. There is no scientific evidence of ANY kind to show that their "Purification Rundown" can truly eliminate any toxins. Of course, shows like E! TV are pimping and praising Cruise for pushing it on people.

What's funny is that now that he's conned people into believing it, by giving services free to workers at ground zero, he's offering it to other people for a mere $5,000 each. That's some expensive niacin.

Not the best source, but some info can be found at: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8329-Scientology__Detox__Furor.html

[lapfog_1]

1. P. T. Barnum would be SO proud. - EOM

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. How does it work...

On getting them damned alien spirits to let go of your body? I have three attached to my legs and one attached to the left cheek of my ass. Makes it hard to walk and sit down.

;-)

[ET Awful]

5. LOL . . . I've always found the best way to get rid of them

is to get them high. I know it kind of contradicts the whole thing, but them Thetans tend to relax and let go once they get a good hit of ganja :).

[reprehensor]

3. Bare-Faced Messiah.

This will blow your mind!

Bare-Faced Messiah

To each, his own lil' cult.

I must say, however, Hubbard was good at writing crass pulp fiction. Battlefield Earth is an aexcellent s/f novel, horrible movie.

[Blue-Jay]

4. If I were to join a religion invented by a SciFi author,

It would have to be on made up by Phillip K Dick, Asimov, Larry Niven, or Phillip José Farmer. More interesting that way...

[realisticphish]

6. douglas adams

now THAT would be interesting....


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Blue-Jay]

7. Ah yes! Fun too!

How could I forget? Maybe even Terry Pratchett!

[salvorhardin]

8. Personally

I'd take Michael Valentine Smith's religion anyday.

[ET Awful]

9. I grok that :)

Thou art god. :)

[Kat45]

10. Here's another one for you: the cover of The Rolling Stone

Interview with Tom Cruise, in which scientology is mentioned quite a bit (including the detox thing). He even took the interviewer to some scientology places--they have one place where their 'celebrity' followers go. Apparently, he got all his sisters involved in scientology, and fairly recently got his mother into it as well. Scary shit.

[jonnyblitz]

11. i took their personality test in Boston once when I was a teen

I think they were located on Newbury st at the time though I could be wrong it was so long ago. where you in Boston back then in the early 80's and, if so, do you recall them being around at all? I remember them and I also remember the hare krishnas in the common all the time..:hi:

[ET Awful]

12. I think they're on Commonwealth Ave. now. . . they just have their

"recruiters" out on Newbury offering the "personality" test.

[Kat45]

13. I remember seeing them around Boston back then.

A friend of mine told me that he took one of those personality tests, then ended up taking a class. He didn't want to do any more, but they kept harassing him for quite some time. (I think the only reason he did it in the first place was because the young woman that approached him was cute.) I remember the Krishnas around too; I don't know what happened to them--are they still around at all?

Here's something I find disturbing: I've seen the scientologists with a kiosk in a mall near me. There's a big poster for the "Dianetics" book, which is what tipped me off as to who they were. I think they're selling the book and trying to give personality tests and such. To me, it doesn't seem right for a group that considers itself a religion (at least I think they do) to have a kiosk in a mall.

:hi: Hi Jonny!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. They don't call Scientology the Rich Man's Religion for nothing.

The program may very well have helped people on a psychosomatic level. But it probably has more to do with the sauna than anything else. And I believe they also do massages to get the toxins out of the muscles. And possibly a nice colonic as well.
Duckie