I don't know what you see, but on my computer, Scientology.org keeps advertising on my blog. I don't have much control over the ads Google puts up, so I thought I'd write a blog entry that might keep Scientologists from advertising here.For a good source of information about Scientology, check out good old Wikipedia. Follow the links. It's truly fascinating.
From one the of these Wikipedia links:
The Bridge to Total Freedom, or simply The Bridge for short, is the Church of Scientology's guide to members of how to advance expensively in the church through auditing and other services. The Bridge is explained by a chart that shows the levels one must pass through to reach Clear and ultimately, Operating Thetan. . . . The Bridge costs roughly $300,000 US.
Any religion can't be all bad if it motivates its practitioners to generate $300,000 in discretionary spending, can it?
What is an Operating Thetan, you ask? According to Wikipedia: Scientologists believe that a "thetan is an immortal spiritual being; the human soul."
And:
According to Scientology doctrine, a thetan exists whether operating a human body or not. Scientology advertises itself as being able to "rehabilitate" the thetan of a practitioner to a state where the individual can operate with or without a "meat body". The term "operating thetan" would then apply as it does when an individual is operating a body. The Operating Thetan (OT) levels are the upper level courses in Scientology.
"Meat body," such a poetic term.
And finally, there is Xenu:
Xenu, also Xemu . . . was, according to the founder of Scientology and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology dogma holds that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm.
The only logical and effective response to unconscious individuals and organizations is non-reaction. Hey, I'm cool with all you Scientologists out there, daddy-oh. But I would prefer that Scientology.org refrain from advertising on my blog.
Here is a YouTube video on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, the first in a five-part series.
That will do the trick, I should think. If not, there's more where that came from--much more.
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