Notice: Fredric Rice may have removed segments of the replies given to
questions if they contained copoyrighted materials. After a very short
while, Scientology "experts" refused to answer questions and
started cut-and-pasting copyrighted cult propaganda. Additionally I
removed URLs in some of the replies, and left them in others. And it's
also important to note that eventually the unfortunate "Greg
Churilov" cultist was ejected from
askme.com for his typical Scientological behavior.
spook69176 asked this question on 4/18/2000:
Why do you have to pay money or time (work for the church) to become
a Scientologist?
Greg Churilov gave this non-answer on 4/19/2000:
This question has many layers, I am going to answer in several
ways. 1) Why should you get anything for free? America was built
on the time-honored principle that your contribution and exchange
is rewarded by goods or services from the other party. Scientology
owes nobody its help. All the knowledge in Scientology was hard-gained
by a lifetime of commitment and devotion from L.Ron Hubbard, and
is preserved as a legacy by the ceers. Why wouldn't you expect to
exchange some value for that?
2) It is traditional and customary for a religion's parishioners to
contribute to it.
In the Scientology cult, nothing is free. And it's one long protracted
bait-and-switch fraud. After the cult victim begs, borrows, and steals
every last cent to "go clear," they find that the reason why
they didn't achieve the superhuman powers that their cult ringleaders
promised them is because they're infested with the invisible murdered
space aliens that Xenu blew up on Earth using fusion bombs.
Then begins yet another horribly expensive process to try to rook the
cultist out of even more money at the end of which is it found that the
cult victim is still not achieving the superhuman feats that the
cult's ringleaders promise.
The solution? Another expensive process bait-and-switch that removes
the new problem keeping the victim from attaining his goals. And on and
on and on. The bait-and-switch only ends when the cult victim escapes
the cult or dies - flr]
Some, like the Mormon Church, take a 10% "tithe" from a
parishioner's income. Others depend heavily on Governemt subsidy.
Scientology depends for its survival on the contributions of its
parishioners.
This money goes to build new centers, new fdrug-rehab buildings, new
literacy projects and many other good works.
3) What do you know of that you have received for free do you
REALLY value? There is a saying, "you get what you pay for".
Giving something as priceless as Scientology technology away for free
would be a disservice to the subject and an insult to your capacity
to contribute. best, Spirit
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Subject: Scientology
[A lie in the case of the Scientology crime syndicate. First off, the
money that the crooks extort out of their followers isn't voluntary. The
cult's victims are brainwashed through processes called "TRs"
or "Training Routines" that make the subject pliable and open
to suggestion. Additionally the crooks apply a hypnotic brainwashing
process they call "auditing" which further turns the cult follower
into an unthinking robot clojne of L. Ron Hubbard, able to believe any
lie regardless of how obviously false.
[Except that Mormons give a percentage voluntarily and get services
back for that percent. In the mormong cult, you fork over your brain
and then every last penny you can beg, borrow, or steal. And you have
no choice in the matter. If you don't fork it over, the cult's done
with you and out you go - flr]
[And that's a lie. The Scientology crime syndicate's survival depends
upon the ignorance and gullibility of its victims -- victims like Greg
here, in fact, who have been in the cult for 18 years now with no sign
of mental stability -- and marked signs of insanity. How much money
is Greg into the cult for by now? He won't say, I would bet, if someone
were to ask. Indeed, the cultist is probably programmed to pretend that
asking such questions is "attacking" his "religion"
- flr]
[That's a lie. In fact nobody really knows where all the money goes.
Hubbard managed to make away with over 200 million dollars according to
Lt. Emmons of the Clearwater Police Force. And that was just pennies
of what these Scientology crooks manage to take in every year. There
is a lot of money sitting in numbered bank accounts in Luxomburg and
in Swiss accounts, and assetts continue to get seized from time to time,
but where the money goes is something you can easily figure: Into the
pockets of the cult's ringleaders - flr]
[There's that attempt to justify his master's easy ability to rook their
victims out of every last penny after they've utterly brainwashed them
- flr]
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