Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology - PART ONE

[Gadfly]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Sure, "Clear the Planet" is still in wide usage--one of two goals that L. Ron Hubbard has delegated to Scientologists while he is tied up on other important business.

The other one is "Salvage this Sector".

Senior Scientologists determine which one to use, based upon your havingness and bank account balance.

NEVER leave out this TOP BUTTON (primary goal):

Safeguarding YOUR eternity!

That is the HOT first dynamic button that keeps the Scio-weenies coming back and paying more and more money.

 

[guanoloco]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Here's some Scientology propaganda:

And then there's this from the Penthouse Nibs Interview:

Penthouse: Did your father take a lot of drugs?


Hubbard: Yes. Since he was sixteen. You see, drugs are very important in the application of heavy black magic. The personal use of drugs expands one's conscious ability to break open the doors to the realm of the deep.


Penthouse: What kind of drugs did he generally use?


Hubbard: At various times, just about everything, because he was quite a hypocondriac. Cocaine, peyote, amphetamines, barbiturates. It would be shorter to list what he didn't take.


Penthouse: Did he encourage you to do drugs?


Hubbard: Well, he used them with me. He was a real night person. We used to sit around all night, sit around his office or home, get loaded up, and talk. He had a pretty liquid tongue. He loved to talk. And of course, in the fifties, he decided that I was the heir apparent, so he wanted to teach me everything he knew. He started me out by mixing phenobarbital into my bubble gum, when I was ten years old. This was to induce deeper trances in order to practice the black magic and to get an avenue to power.

Sort of "backed up" by Ron's own Affirmations:

Your psychology is good. You worked to darken your own children. This failure, with them, was only apparent. The evident lack of effectiveness was "ordered." The same psychology works perfectly on everyone else. You use it with great confidence.

I just can't quite put my finger on it but for the life of me I think there's something stupid here? I don't know...maybe it's just another Ron Says/Ron Does moment of commotion?

L. Ron Halitosis...what a guy...

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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Yeah but...L Ron Hubbard did say "you can't mix money with religion" so that is the reason no pay - poverty - no bridge - no nothing. We are dealing with broken pieces here Hoaxie - and the big beings like David Miscavige and Tom Cruise know that the rest of us are degraded beings that don't deserve to go free until the db's get the "show on the road". The DB's don't know their ain't NO SHOW~ it is confidential information that only the Oat Teas at the top of the bridge will know - and at the top - there is nothing to know...but the Oat Teas think they know. A cluster fuck for sure!!

This ^ ensures a very nice lifestyle for COB, David Miscavige!!

Ahhhh, yes, The Bigggggg Beings! One of the most magnificently & majestically stupid ICIs of all time (Idiotic Cult Idioms). Ya see, some beings are "bigger". Never mind the axiom about a static having no mass, motion, wavelength, location or....size. Hmmmm, how does that work?

For the answer, we must invoke the Hubbard Law of Commotion, which is an ingenious piece of tech to explain away the first provable lie by emphatically stating a second, opposite & contradictory, lie. So, then how can one thetan be "bigger" than another thetan?

Easy! They can have a larger theta endowment, right? Hey yeah! The extra theta naturally takes up more space. LOL.

Oh, that doesn't work for you? Okay, no problem. Here's another: A being can consider itself to be something, at which moment it becomes something. Hey, read your Axioms people, don't blame me! LOL. So if a being considers that they are bigger than you, they are bigger, right?

Now, what happens if you consider yourself to be bigger than a big being? You can get the answer by going into the nearest McRonalds and asking them to SuperSize you. . .

No need to go to Burger King for a Whopper.
The Church of McRonalds has plenty of whoppers for ya.

​

whopper n.Slang 1. Something exceptionally big or remarkable. 2. A gross untruth. 3. (Whopper) A gargantuan burger at Burger King.

​

 

[GoNuclear]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Here's some Scientology propaganda:

True, the Cof$ are a bunch of assholes. True, the Cof$ is anti psychiatry. HOWEVER ... just because the Cof$ is anti psychiatry and just because the Cof$ is generally wrong doesn't make psychiatry right.

Psychiatry constantly invents new "disorders" including some that can easily be applied to, say, anyone who questions the official version of the JFK shooting, Waco, the OKC bombing, or 9-11. Furthermore, psychiatry is responsible for pushing a lot of dangerous drugs on children ... drugs that, even if they do have some legitimate use, are at a minimum way over-perscribed. As I see it, it is a toss up as to who is more dangerous ... the Cof$ or the psychiatrists. Both should be avoided.

Pete

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Here's some Scientology propaganda:

Scientology would put ANY WORDS on those signs that they believed might get "agreement" from wogs. That's how they "create a new reality".

It could be ANYTHING on those signs. Scientologists don't care about words or their meaning. They only care about PR ("The prediction and control of Human Emotions and Reactions")

Instead of "STOP PSYCHIATRY" they could just as easily have written "STOP EVIL". Then people walking by would think to themselves: "Hey those Scientologists are good people because they are against evil!"

Hey, I have a good idea for protest sign. "STOP SCIENTOLOGY".

 

[Ogsonofgroo]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

OMFG! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (some things can never be un-seen, arghhhhh)


This is a shooper's dream, omg, like a DM/LRon/ face replacement and .... holy crap! look at that nice chalkboard!

 

[guanoloco]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

True, the Cof$ are a bunch of assholes. True, the Cof$ is anti psychiatry. HOWEVER ... just because the Cof$ is anti psychiatry and just because the Cof$ is generally wrong doesn't make psychiatry right.

Psychiatry constantly invents new "disorders" including some that can easily be applied to, say, anyone who questions the official version of the JFK shooting, Waco, the OKC bombing, or 9-11. Furthermore, psychiatry is responsible for pushing a lot of dangerous drugs on children ... drugs that, even if they do have some legitimate use, are at a minimum way over-perscribed. As I see it, it is a toss up as to who is more dangerous ... the Cof$ or the psychiatrists. Both should be avoided.

Pete

Well, the stupid part is not that Scientologists are against the drugging of children...the stupid part is that they believe Ron was against drugging children. Ron drugged his own children...Ron would most assuredly drug YOUR children and if Ron had access to your children about the only he'd care about is that they hold his ashtray or something. Ever notice that when Ron gave orders you were a total dipshit if you queried the order, asked for clarification or non-complied? That's about as far as Ron would give a shit about children...how well did they follow orders.

It's just like this picture here:

Believe it or not but these two are in perfect agreement. Both consider enforced abortions bad, the abuse of people and children appalling, slavery something to be opposed and abolished. It's just that the Scientologist is stupid without the exact time, place, form and event.

In other words he's full of Ronsense and considers that to be truth...like Ron is Mankind's Greatest Friend when privately Ron writes "all men are your slaves". Who but an arrogant asshole would write something like "humbly tendered as a gift to mankind"? Can you imagine Einstein writing that? That comes from an arrogant ego and is one of those ICIs (Idiotic Cult Idioms) that HH talks about with the implied elevation of someone "not from this planet" who has "risen above the bank" gifting us lowly lifeforms some advanced wisdom.

What a buffoon!

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

OMFG! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (some things can never be un-seen, arghhhhh)


This is a shooper's dream, omg, like a DM/LRon/ face replacement and .... holy crap! look at that nice chalkboard!

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

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Nominated for your consideration as one of the stupidest moments in Scientology...

The concept of PRESENT TIME.

Outside of Scientology it is a lovely concept. But inside Scientology, cult members are commanded to "Come To Present Time!" or scolded to "Get in PT!" while at the same time they:

* Remain stuck in every single one of Hubbard's pronouncments from the 1950's and 1960's, even though they have been proven wrong or Hubbard has contradicted them himself. Example: 1950 Hubbard wrote DMSMH and stated as scientific fact that a person could attain "Clear" by applying the materials contained within the book, at home, in "under 20 hours". About 8 years later in a filmed congress, Hubbard apologized for saying that a person could go "Clear" from DMSMH. Yet, Scientologists today are still stuck in the 1950 book and if you walk into any org in the world, they will tell you with total certainty that DMSMH produces a "Clear".

* Spend many long years in auditing, looking "down the wholetrack", going "earlier similar" for the reason they cannot stay in present time. When they are not able to look into past lives, they are forced to pay for a "past life remedy" so that they can put their attention out of present time.

* Go "Clear" (which is supposed to bring them into present time) and then immediately spend decades focused on the Xenu incident 75,000,000 years ago so they can get rid of "BTs" that are the new reason they cannot stay in present time. T

* Are regularly ordered to Sec Checks (aka 6-month checks) where they are forced to go out of present time and find "crimes" they committed at an earlier time, so that they can return to present time. If they refuse to do that, they are sent to "ethics" where they are ordered to do "conditions" on things that happened outy of present time. If they can't/won't do that they are then ordered to do "repair of past ethics" and go to an earlier time when they failed to use ethics tech properly.

* Are sent out of present time in the other direction, donating or raising money for future projects like Ideal Orgs and Clearing the Planet. And, when the Scientologist gets too happy about being stuck in the beautiful future, they are then sent to yet another future reality where Scientology has been destroyed (so they will donate to the IAS). Or, when the entire planet has been destroyed--in which case they must donate to the apocalyptic, post-nuclear war future where the tech can be retrieved from underground titanium vaults.​

CONCLUSION: The cult makes money by selling Present Time and makes yet greater sums by driving cult members out of Present Time so that they need to pay even more. But, Scientologists will lecture you on the tech of "present time" and how you're not in it.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

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from another thread:

Originally Posted by HelluvaHoax!
Did you ever have the kind of dream where you suddenly wake up, deeply shaken by a nightmare that filled you with remorse about having sold people a hoax that derailed their lives with false hope?

No?

Okay, it's just a silly irrelevant question, never mind.

Originally Posted by Terril Park

No.

Also I never sell anything. Just let people know Scn is there if they are interested

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Originally Posted by sA-10
Start of session, Im not selling you, you can be clear and a new genus of man, oooooooooooh, ahhhhhhhhhhh, and if you are really good, you can go OT, oooooooooooh, ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Now pay me sucker.

Classic R-Factor!!!

That could be an entire thread: "UnReal R-Factors".

Another one that should be heard at the start of session:

I'm not helping you.​

 

[LongTimeGone]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Here's some Scientology propaganda:

Where's the photos of Lisa McPherson, Stacy Murphy, Kaysie Werninck, Heribert Pfaff, Josephus Havenith, Hillary Holton, Gabriel Graves, Alexander Jentzsch and the many others who have died whilst in the clutches of this cult?

LTG

 

[guanoloco]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

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Nominated for your consideration as one of the stupidest moments in Scientology...

The concept of PRESENT TIME.

Outside of Scientology it is a lovely concept. But inside Scientology, cult members are commanded to "Come To Present Time!" or scolded to "Get in PT!" while at the same time they:

* Remain stuck in every single one of Hubbard's pronouncments from the 1950's and 1960's, even though they have been proven wrong or Hubbard has contradicted them himself. Example: 1950 Hubbard wrote DMSMH and stated as scientific fact that a person could attain "Clear" by applying the materials contained within the book, at home, in "under 20 hours". About 8 years later in a filmed congress, Hubbard apologized for saying that a person could go "Clear" from DMSMH. Yet, Scientologists today are still stuck in the 1950 book and if you walk into any org in the world, they will tell you with total certainty that DMSMH produces a "Clear".

* Spend many long years in auditing, looking "down the wholetrack", going "earlier similar" for the reason they cannot stay in present time. When they are not able to look into past lives, they are forced to pay for a "past life remedy" so that they can put their attention out of present time.

* Go "Clear" (which is supposed to bring them into present time) and then immediately spend decades focused on the Xenu incident 75,000,000 years ago so they can get rid of "BTs" that are the new reason they cannot stay in present time. T

* Are regularly ordered to Sec Checks (aka 6-month checks) where they are forced to go out of present time and find "crimes" they committed at an earlier time, so that they can return to present time. If they refuse to do that, they are sent to "ethics" where they are ordered to do "conditions" on things that happened outy of present time. If they can't/won't do that they are then ordered to do "repair of past ethics" and go to an earlier time when they failed to use ethics tech properly.

* Are sent out of present time in the other direction, donating or raising money for future projects like Ideal Orgs and Clearing the Planet. And, when the Scientologist gets too happy about being stuck in the beautiful future, they are then sent to yet another future reality where Scientology has been destroyed (so they will donate to the IAS). Or, when the entire planet has been destroyed--in which case they must donate to the apocalyptic, post-nuclear war future where the tech can be retrieved from underground titanium vaults.​

CONCLUSION: The cult makes money by selling Present Time and makes yet greater sums by driving cult members out of Present Time so that they need to pay even more. But, Scientologists will lecture you on the tech of "present time" and how you're not in it.

Ever notice that Ron Hubbard and his policies are the reactive mind of Scientology? Any "stimulus" that is experienced by Scientology "triggers" a "response" and that response is some pre-set structured and pat response laid out by L. Ron 40, 50 or 60 years ago. In such a way Scientology is completely predictable and can only respond as dictated by Ron and his policies so when technology evolves to such a state that boggles the mind the true bogglement will be that Scientology will still be using a mimeograph or a telex or something like that.

Also just like a factual stimulus response machine Scientology is completely incapable of adjusting to PT or predicting the future. All it can do is react because it is stuck to L. Ron and his policies and when confronted with a situation that is beyond the scope of L. Ron and his policies it cannot do anything - such as the internet.

Besides, Scientology doesn't work 100% of the time because it apparently never cured Ron of his Venesian freight locomotive allergy because he died with an ass full of Vistaril.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Ever notice that Ron Hubbard and his policies are the reactive mind of Scientology? Any "stimulus" that is experienced by Scientology "triggers" a "response" and that response is some pre-set structured and pat response laid out by L. Ron 40, 50 or 60 years ago. In such a way Scientology is completely predictable and can only respond as dictated by Ron and his policies so when technology evolves to such a state that boggles the mind the true bogglement will be that Scientology will still be using a mimeograph or a telex or something like that.

Also just like a factual stimulus response machine Scientology is completely incapable of adjusting to PT or predicting the future. All it can do is react because it is stuck to L. Ron and his policies and when confronted with a situation that is beyond the scope of L. Ron and his policies it cannot do anything - such as the internet.

Besides, Scientology doesn't work 100% of the time because it apparently never cured Ron of his Venesian freight locomotive allergy because he died with an ass full of Vistaril.

Another aspect of this moronic mindset that Scientologists walk around with all day is that "The tech was perfected by Ron and must never be changed."

But here's the actual truth. From 1950 thru 1986, Hubbard changed the tech virtually every single day for 36 years!

Then he unexpectedly died in '86 and suddenly the tech is supposedly (and coincidentally) perfected at that very moment, never to be changed again.

More truth: If Hubbard had lived another few years, there would have been dozens, hundreds or even thousands of further changes to the "perfected tech". The only thing that stopped the tech from being altered further is that the Prime Alter-Iser dropped dead.

The average Scientologist thinks that the DMSMH Clearing "tech worked" back in 1950 and that Hubbard was only "streamlining" it and making it better. KSW mandated that the "tech" must never be changed. But Scientologists readily accept Hubbard (and later Miscavige) changing it, without questioning it.

Mind control, it's not good for ya. LOL.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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Drumroll....one of the best of all time stupid things.

"Scientology makes the able more able".​

You know, one IQ point per hour of processing and all that. SuperNaturally SuperPowered SuperHumans!

As Scientology always does, it just says words. But there is no evidence or proof of what the words say.

But really happens in the real world when those "ABLE" beings are tested in a real life situation? That's where the [STRIKE]rubber[/STRIKE] renter meets the road (to total freedom).

There must be some reason why Homo Novis are not as able to pay their rent as easily as Homo Sapiens. I wonder what it could be?

The only thing I can figure out is that other beings "on this planet" have a com lag--and therefore wogs like the landlord above can't yet perceive how able the Scientolgists are.

 

[guanoloco]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Here's some stupid Scientology talk...

That button is so flat for me...

I'm so overrun on that song they keep playing over and over...

Don't go all out-list on me!

That just doesn't indicate at all!

 

[Ogsonofgroo]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

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Drumroll....one of the best of all time stupid things.

"Scientology makes the able more able".​

You know, one IQ point per hour of processing and all that. SuperNaturally SuperPowered SuperHumans!

As Scientology always does, it just says words. But there is no evidence or proof of what the words say.

But really happens in the real world when those "ABLE" beings are tested in a real life situation? That's where the [STRIKE]rubber[/STRIKE] renter meets the road (to total freedom).

There must be some reason why Homo Novis are not as able to pay their rent as easily as Homo Sapiens. I wonder what it could be?

The only thing I can figure out is that other beings "on this planet" have a com lag--and therefore wogs like the landlord above can't yet perceive how able the Scientolgists are.

Ah yes, the famous 'Bill Paying Tech' or 'How to Stiff Wogs'

"In the case of a tradesman demanding for a bill only slightly overdue you will usually find they have done poor work or slow work if you're at all solvent and paying your bills. Don't say 'We're too poor and we can only send you a little but we will try.' ... Say properly 'I don't see that your bill is much overdue. It takes a bit of time to pay a bill you know. I will check over your account and see if it is all right. And by the way, people who dun us either have insufficient finance to handle our business or something is wrong with their bill. I am setting your bill aside for audit and if you call again about it, we will sever the account."

"Disbursement NEVER pays from a received bill alone. All bills received are first filed in the Disbursement files. Then the file is reviewed as a whole when the time comes to pay bills. It is forbidden to short circuit this line and pay bills just as they drop into the In basket. They are filed. Then all files are reviewed once a month, summated and the result entered in a statement sheet in the file folder and on a Bills Summary Sheet.... when thereafter requested to do so, the Disbursement Section makes out the cheques as indicated or readies the cash."

(Thanks Jeff J. ~ http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cos-bill.htm )
Jeff's brief blog entry on the topic goes on to list just a few years worth of court actions taken against the cult for non-payments. I have a feeling a complete list would fill a book or three. The level of contempt created against those who have the audacity to demand their dues runs deep, now whether this is stupid or brilliantly deranged is moot, but considering the cult's adversity to courts and bad PR, hmmmmm, I lean towards stupidity.

on page 5, Hubbard states: "Only pay by this system: PAY EVERYTHING UP TO A DATE ALWAYS and no further."

BUT! >

In contrast to Hubbard's policy on creditors, his policy on payment for services mandates prepayment. From HCOPL 27 November 1971 Issue III, "FREE SERVICES = FREE FALL" (all text in this policy letter is in capital letters): "An Auditor or Course Supervisor delivering a service to an individual without having to hand a fully paid invoice for that service and who does not send the person back to the registrar to be signed up for that service is: A. Covertly robbing his fellow staff members of their pay, and B. In a condition of Treason to his org, and is so assigned."

(Thanks Wiki folks ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_Finance )

The old windbag certainly had his priorities straight eh!

Smell stupid do I!

Sorry if this has been tabled before, kinda hard to keep up with the over 400 pages of Stupid Moments

 

[GoNuclear]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Well, the stupid part is not that Scientologists are against the drugging of children...the stupid part is that they believe Ron was against drugging children. It's just like this picture here:

What a buffoon!

If I was going to shoop this photo, which I don't know how to do, I would do it Lee Ermey style, as per Full Metal Jacket ...

Crew cut dude to clam: Let me see your oatee 3 face! Garrrah! (war cry and grimace) That's an oatee 3 face! Now Let me see your oatee 3 face!

(Clam does his oatee 3 face, pictured)

Crew cut dude to clam: You don't scare me! Work on it!

Come to think of it, just "YOU DON'T SCARE ME! WORK ON IT!" works all by itself. Anyways, somebody should do a FMJ shoop of this one.

Pete

 

[GoNuclear]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Here's some stupid Scientology talk...

That button is so flat for me...

I'm so overrun on that song they keep playing over and over...

Don't go all out-list on me!

That just doesn't indicate at all!

Yes, and I can just picture your extreme red faced embarrassment if, in the extremely unlikely event that someone followed you around with a videocam and mic your whole time as a clam, and happened to capture all of your most extreme clamspeak moments, and he proceeded to screen them for you. I know that if it were me, I would be dying a thousand deaths as I watched myself spout all manner of sci fi clamtastic horseshit in session and all the time I spent with other clams shooting the breeze in clamspeak, and giving in again and again as I was redged within an inch of my life, etc. But the worst of it would be watching myself engaged in arguments over religion with others, putting other folk down, etc. I most certainly played the fool. Thank God Jesus paid the price for my foolish and prideful sin. Even still, it's hard for me to look back and not kick myself over all of that. At least I am at the point now where if I were to hear some foolish clamspeak now coming out of the mouths of others, I could at least be charitable, not judge them, not attack them, etc. I would be gentle and ask questions to hopefully get them to look at the doublethink and catatonic brainfart they are stuck in. But as far as my case, my clamspeak, my looking back, etc... it will be a lot easier once the Cof$ has its grand finale collapse, even if it goes out with a mere whimper.

Pete

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Ah yes, the famous 'Bill Paying Tech' or 'How to Stiff Wogs'

Originally Posted by LRon, HCOPL of 28 March 1965, "Emergencies and Accounts Personnel"
"In the case of a tradesman demanding for a bill only slightly overdue you will usually find they have done poor work or slow work if you're at all solvent and paying your bills. Don't say 'We're too poor and we can only send you a little but we will try.' ... Say properly 'I don't see that your bill is much overdue. It takes a bit of time to pay a bill you know. I will check over your account and see if it is all right. And by the way, people who dun us either have insufficient finance to handle our business or something is wrong with their bill. I am setting your bill aside for audit and if you call again about it, we will sever the account."





Sorry if this has been tabled before, kinda hard to keep up with the over 400 pages of Stupid Moments

Thanks for posting that! Amazing stuff I hadn't seen in decades. Never was posted on the Stupid Thread but it's an incredible addition.

So, let's see how it works. A Scientologist or Scientology organization hires a wog to do a job. The amount and terms are agreed upon. Later Scientology breaks the agreement by not remitting payment on the contractual due date.

Instead of Scientology apologizing and doing everything possible to make up the damage to the vendor, it attacks the vendor with accusations and other absurd delay tactics.

Hubbard instructs the Scientologist to lie: ("Don't say 'We're too poor and can only send you a little but we will try'.")

Hubbard then instructs the Scientologist to harm the poor innocent vendor (who was depending on Scientology to pay for work they already delivered!).

More attack and introversion tech ensures ("And buy the way, people who dun us either have insufficient finance to handle our business or something is wrong with their bill"). This is how to intimidate wogs with sec check ("what are your crimes") insanity.

The fact that Hubbard wrote down his hideous scam techniques as "policy" (scripture) is truly unbelievable.

In Scientology, lying, attacking another when you break your contract, withholding payment when it is due and trying to cave in the victim of all this criminal activity is considered "IN ETHICS".

Any more questions on why the cult is crashing and burning a slow horrible death in open public view?

 

[oldtimer]

Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology

Yeah they kind of missed that goal

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8743096...-to-Reach-Goal-of-Clearing-the-Planet-by-1969

Here it is 2013 and they haven't even cleared the sidewalk on L. Ron Hubbard Way

[video=youtube;JvB4PqH6FwU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvB4PqH6FwU[/video]

Thanks for your reply about my comment about "Clear the Planet". I have always been somewhat vulnerable to controlling people, and now I realize that one of the major drawbacks of Scientology is that "they" (Scientology, the movement) is very controlling. No wonder I got sucked in.