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I got solicited by scientology

ComfySlippers said:
I'm sensing naivety here.
Their "methods", despite hiding them at all costs, have been public knowledge since the early '80s.
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That doesn't mean that everybody knows about them. Furthermore, at face value, the methods they use to recruit actually make a certain amount of sense. Because they don't tell newbies the crazy stuff until later.

If you don't realise that, then I'm not the one who's naive.
 
arthwollipot said:
That doesn't mean that everybody knows about them. Furthermore, at face value, the methods they use to recruit actually make a certain amount of sense. Because they don't tell newbies the crazy stuff until later.

If you don't realise that, then I'm not the one who's naive.
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Since all it takes to find out the crazy stuff is to look it up on the internet yes, those who fall for it are dumb.
 
tsig said:
Since all it takes to find out the crazy stuff is to look it up on the internet yes, those who fall for it are dumb.
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You could say the same thing about any subject. People who complain about religion without knowing anything about it are dumb. People who criticise rocket science without looking up the equations are dumb.

Sure, everybody should look up everything on the internet before engaging with it, but they don't - and that doesn't necessarily mean that they're dumb.
 
I'm bummed. No one has solicited me for a religion in ages. Not even Mormons, not even Jehovah's Witnesses. They flat out don't want me. That's insulting.
 
Scientologists usually have a booth at most events here in the PacNW where they give free personality tests......with e-meter.
 
I was window-shopping on Oxford Street one freezing day in the late 70s when a nice young lady asked me if I'd be interested in taking a personality test. I'd never even heard of Scientology and thought the questions on the test were idiotic, but when she tried to sell me what looked like bad science fiction books I just walked out. I could only afford to buy good science fiction books.
 
They set up a cernter in the California university town where I attended in the mid-70s. I was approached one sunny day while eating lunch by myself on the quad. Alone = lonely = mark, right? I was pretty unwordly at the time and might have fallen for it had L Ron not given it such a ridiculous-sounding name. The name just sounded stupid and made up, which of course it is.
 
arthwollipot said:
You could say the same thing about any subject. People who complain about religion without knowing anything about it are dumb. People who criticise rocket science without looking up the equations are dumb.

Sure, everybody should look up everything on the internet before engaging with it, but they don't - and that doesn't necessarily mean that they're dumb.
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Why yes I could and do, anyone who decides without evidence is dumb.

Anyone who pays tens of thousands of dollars to discover secrets that a simple internet search could reveal to them is dumb.
 
tsig said:
Why yes I could and do, anyone who decides without evidence is dumb.
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Well, then pretty much everybody in the world is dumb according to you. Because pretty much everybody makes decisions without doing research on them first. You, however, are clearly the homo superior who always does thorough research on the internet before deciding whether to by cheddar or jack.

tsig said:
Anyone who pays tens of thousands of dollars to discover secrets that a simple internet search could reveal to them is dumb.
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Except that's not what they're paying for.
 
arthwollipot said:
What do you think magic tricks are?



The e-meter trick is approximately at the same level as three-card monte, and that still gets people every day.
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No.
Magic tricks can be entertaining.
Scientology couldn't entertain a blind, one legged chimpanzee.
The level of dumbness is so dumb it breaks the dumb-meter.

Someone upthread stated "The name was stupid"
Pretty much sums it up.
How dumb does someone have to be to think that "Scientology" is a real word?
Internet searches not necessary.

And for the other person upthread who felt neglected for not getting harassed I bring you some joy and will share it with you. I'm like that.
The JW crowd appeared a few days ago. 30 years since I last saw them.
I thought they'd become extinct.
(I've never had the "magic underpants" crew harass me. I should try harder)

Funniest thing I've seen in years.
So funny that I fell off the wall I was sitting on and hurt my bottom.
A broken coxis is worth it if the humour "made the needle float"

All religions suck. But Scientology is not a religion or a "church"
Ask every other developed country on this planet why this cult is banned.

Simples.
 
arthwollipot said:
Well, then pretty much everybody in the world is dumb according to you. Because pretty much everybody makes decisions without doing research on them first. You, however, are clearly the homo superior who always does thorough research on the internet before deciding whether to by cheddar or jack.

Except that's not what they're paying for.
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Deciding between cheddar or jack is the same as deciding to join

Scientology?


I would appreciate if you would not make personal remarks as hilited.




What are they paying for?
 
arthwollipot said:
I see. So that's the level of discourse we're working at.



Seeya. Have a nice life.
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Discourse?
You are talking about Scientology.
What would you have me do?
Dress up like a clown and make funny noises with my nose?
I'll check my fridge, if there are kippers in there I'll stick them in my ears and roller skate naked.

Talking of kippers, I smell a fish.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
 
arthwollipot said:
I would have you show a little empathy for those who have had their lives ruined. You're blaming the victims.
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I'm guessing that you haven't been on this planet very long.
Scientology is a poorly written aged old scam.
Fall for it? You're dumb.
The only people who have no choice are the ones who are children of their dumb parents.. Let me think, oh there hippy parents who were .... Drum roll please, too stoned to not realise that the pretend sailor, in his pretend boat, with his pretend navy was....Dumb!
 
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