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.

Anonymous asked this question on 4/23/2000:

What could L. Ron Hubbard tell you that you wouldn't believe, if he were alive today?

Greg Churilov couldn't answer this question honestly on 4/23/2000:

Another effort to attack my Religion.

[Good grief. But this one offers a rather telling insight into the Scientology cult. Ask any question about Hubbard and the cultist is programmed to automatically equate Scientology with Hubbard, and Scientology with "religion." This shows that the Scientology crooks make L. Ron Hubbard their insane messiah. With Christianity, if one asks a question about Jesus Christ, one would be asking about the religion of Christianity. The Scientology crime syndicate apparently tries to inflict their cult followers with the same notion. Only the Scientology crooks program their followers to pretend that any question about Hubbard is some how an "attack." How utterly insane - flr]

Jeez I thought we had a First Ammendment going.

[<laughing> This cultist doesn't appear to know what the First Ammendment contains - flr]

Oh well. I can't speculate about what L. Ron Hubbard woud say or do if he were alive. He passed away in 1986.

[Actually he died screaming from what looks like a drug overdose while on the lam from the law on a ranch in Northern California. The crooks pulled some fast ones to get Hubbard's remains safely destroyed so that the cause for what killed him could never be proven to the satisfaction of a court in the event murder charges were ever brought against David Miscavage or any of the other ringleaders who stood to seize the massive amounts of money Hubbard squirreled away (Lt. Emmons' report covers over 200 million dollars that the Feds were able to find easily, by the way. There's no telling how much money he managed to rook from the ignorant, gullible followers like this one - flr]

Scientology is not a personality cult.

[How insane. Ask a question about Hubbard and the cultist is programmed to equate it as an attack on his "religion." Then in the next breath the cultist demands that Scientology isn't a personality cult.

That's Scientology for you: Making the able more able - flr]

It is a body of knowledge and an applied philosophy.

[Presumably the flying saucers, Xenu, invisible murdered space aliens that form "body thetans" and all the other insane notions that their mad messiah concocted in his drug-indiced hallucinations constitute a "body of knowledge" and an "applied philosophy."

In fact the philosophy of Scientology can be seen quite well in the many documents that the Feds seized from the criminal cult which are now available on the Internet.

As an aside, many more documents that are available that fully describe the philosophy of Scientology will become public domain in the year 2009 since that will be 25 years after the mad messiah's death. On that day, the Scientology crooks will be faced with even more embarassing problems trying to keep their brainwashed followers paying that money - flr]

Scientology techniques work for me not because Mr.Hubbard said so, but because the techniques are EFFECTIVE. Now, there iology's critics can't seem to make. That is the difference between the PRACTICE of Scientology and the RESEARCH & DISCOVERY conducted by L.Ron Hubbard.

[Timothy Leary also did the same "research" that Hubbard did. Only Timothy Leary didn't create a criminal organization out of his drug-inducted hallucinations - flr]

What makes up the practice of Scientology are a vast number of effective techniques, self-betterment exercises, courses and guidelines for counseling, which are applied EVERY DAY with SPECTACULAR results all over the World.

[Funny how the cultist doesn't provide testable refernces. And it's also amusing to note that the criminal organization is getting raided and busted all over the world and that 69 of the ringleaders were busted in Spain with 18 still up on charges. Indeed, the mock "International President" Heber Jentzsch that used to wait tables for Hubbard is facing 30 years in a Madrid prison if Spain decides to go after the ringleader. But that's okay; Hubbard gave him the title "International President" to specifically use him as a fall guy to take the rap to buffer Hubbard from the long arms of the law - flr]

What makes up the hundreds of lectures and thousands of writings of L.Ron Hubbard during his long years of research contains a lot of speculation, hit-or-miss, experimentation, thesis and hypothesis, hard work, and so on.

[Presumably taking psychoactive and illegal drugs constitutes "hard work" in the Scientology crime syndicate - flr]

Some times in his lectures Mr.Hubbard went completely off the subject and entertained his audience with a joke or an anecdote. Sometimes he speculated about "what ifs" about this universe. Some of his lectures contain references to UFOs. Some include stuff about then- president Richard Nixon, or about the Cold War, or about sailing. Some lectures include talks about photography (a hobby of Mr. Hubbard's).

[And that's a lie which probably allows this cultist to excuse some of the insane, stupid, obviously false, and criminal statements and policies that Hubbard came up with.

For instance, Hubbard fear and hatred of women comes out in numerous audio taped lectures that Hubbard rooked his victims with. How does the cult's ringleaders handle these embarrassing things that Hubbard had to say? It was all a big joke. Yeah, that's all it is. Just Jokes. Sure - flr]

He would occasionally speculate wildly about our origins as a species or our place in the Universe.

[So when this cultist finally scrapes up enough money to purchase OT3 and find out about Xenu and body thetans and the insane notion that the universe is 75 billion or 75 trillion years old, he can pass it all off as some kind of "wild speculation" or a joke. But the fact is that all the so-called "New era dianetics" bait-and-switch scams that the happless cult follower is forced to purchase from then on is predicated upon this drug-inducted hallucination of Hubbard's - flr]

I am not a believer or non-believer of these long dissertations where he shared his thoughts, while he conducted research into the unmapped areas of the human mind and spirit.

I am satisfied applying the Scientology tecniques to my life and seeing how all areas of my life improve as a result. Scientology is not about belief or about faith. That is a very personal and individual thing.

["Faith?" A minute ago the cultist was trying to demand that Scientology was a technology - flr]

Scientology is about improving conditions in life. best,

[After all, look what it's done for this guy - flr]

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