moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
|  Bible Copyrighted?
Imagine the Bible being copywrited. That is what Scientology is doing with their own writings. They try to hide these "sacred" books from view sayig only scientologists may view them. In fact, they have even been in court and filed motions that their "writings" cannot be divulged in open court due to religious practice.
This is a cult for money pure and simple and they go after every single website that even hints at any critizism. They even state that any person that is against the church may be dealt with in any manner no matter what. They even condone killing ex members who critizise the church. This would be like catholic preists killng the boys they molest. In Germany, they are not a religion and even John Travolta (a BIG Scientologist) goes there year after year trying to get them to recognize the religion. What is needed is a concerted effort on the web and in the courts against this sham. |
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ramones74
Rock The Proverbial Casbah
join:2002-01-24
Mckeesport, PA | I swear to L. Ron Hubbard, will you pay for your insolence! |
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Mashiki
Balking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| said by ramones74:
I swear to L. Ron Hubbard, will you pay for your insolence!
I think it was either a joke or a bet between Hubbard and Clarke that the only real way to make money in the world is to form you own religion. Welp...it seems to have worked for him.
Feel free to correct if I have the second party wrong. |
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Frosties
Premium
join:2001-10-01
Sweden
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In Sweden we had a case where a person submitted their so called book as evidence, and as this made it public information, you could just write to the parliament and request it as that and one exemplar was made public at the office so you could look at it. The Scientology members did a sitting in the office and handing the book by them self so that no other person should get the opportunity to read the book. But you still could send a written request to receive a copy by mail. Now the Swedish parliament has changed the policy for just this book after pressure from the American members and a request from the American Embassy. So your Embassy runs these peoples errands. That is just stupid.
What the book states is that there leader came by a space ship to earth among other things. 
Don't buy into this crap, please. |
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ramones74
Rock The Proverbial Casbah
join:2002-01-24
Mckeesport, PA | reply to moonpuppy
Man, first Sweden gets the Backyard Babies. Now they don't tolerate a blatant cult...and the chics! I'm moving to Sweden right now.
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I'm not from Philly, but some say I'm blunt. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Frosties
Frosties, can you warm me up?  j/k
Anyway, I am not buying into this crap. I think that Scientology will die when Hubbard does. Once he goes, I would love to see the immense power struggle for his money. After that, it will mire itself in political infighting and die a slow death. |
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Derek_Wildstar
Marry me, Leryn Franco
join:2001-02-24
Iscandar
| said by moonpuppy:
I think that Scientology will die when Hubbard does. Once he goes, I would love to see the immense power struggle for his money. After that, it will mire itself in political infighting and die a slow death.
quote from actualhubbard.org:
Having fully completed his research and seen its broad application expand to six continents and over 60 countries, improving the lives of millions of people, L. Ron Hubbard departed this life on January 24, 1986. Instead of an end, however, it marked the beginning of an unprecedented expansion of the religion of Scientology around the world, as more and more people continue to benefit from his technologies.
Well, so much for that theory...
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I use conjecture and hearsay. Those are kinds of evidence. - Lionel Hutz |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to moonpuppy
said by moonpuppy:
Frosties, can you warm me up? j/k
Anyway, I am not buying into this crap. I think that Scientology will die when Hubbard does. Once he goes, I would love to see the immense power struggle for his money. After that, it will mire itself in political infighting and die a slow death.
I hate to break it to you but he died about 15-20 years ago. Bridge Publishing (the Publishing Arm of the Church) even published a 10-book Science Fiction Series that he "wrote" years after his death (ie: It was written not just published after his death). |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to moonpuppy
Oh crap....guess we have to deal with this for a few years more. |
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MrBradTX
join:2001-05-23
Carrollton, TX
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to moonpuppy
said by moonpuppy:
Imagine the Bible being copywrited.
Specific modern translations of the Bible ARE copyrighted. The New International Version (NIV) is copyrighted by Zondervan Publishing, if memory serves. |
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MrBradTX
join:2001-05-23
Carrollton, TX
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Mashiki
said by Mashiki:
I think it was either a joke or a bet between Hubbard and Clarke that the only real way to make money in the world is to form you own religion. Welp...it seems to have worked for him.
Feel free to correct if I have the second party wrong.
It was Walt Disney when I heard it. That much sounds like an urban legend. |
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finortis
join:2001-11-30
| reply to ramones74
Oh but wait...wouldn't they have to find where each and everyone of us lives first for that? Umm, maybe Hubbard finding his E Meter insufficient to the task of routing this out might call the Psychic Friends Network for assistance in this. Too bad they're both frauds.
Then again, if that mothership does land, I might tell the aliens where your house is first  ROFL |
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Mashiki
Balking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON | reply to MrBradTX
Nah...I've actually got the article out of a newspaper but it wasn't clark it was Hubbard and Heinlen. |
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