Recovered Scientologists
Recovered Scientologists
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Re: Recovered Scientologists
I'm at a complete loss at how the IRS calls them a religion when they have hard evidence that their founder openly speculated, "Hmm, inventing a religion is a great way to get rich."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: Recovered Scientologists
I'm not sure I see how that makes it different from other religions.
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Re: Recovered Scientologists
We don't have primary source material from Jesus, Zoroaster, Abraham, etc. that explicitly says the same thing. Yes, it's because the faithful probably destroyed those documents, if they ever existed, and also there's the thousands of years of translation, censorship, blah blah blah, to contend with, and Scientology is modern. But them's the breaks.TPRJones wrote:I'm not sure I see how that makes it different from other religions.
Plus some secondhand accounts just for good measure:You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
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I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!
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Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
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Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.
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Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult.
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Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."