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 3/29/2000:

what is Theta?

Greg Churilov told this amusing whopper on 3/29/2000:

Hi, Anonymous. Theta is a greek word, the symbol is like an "o" with a horizontal line across is. When L.Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology) was developing the primary axioms of Scientology, one of the principles that surfaced from his research and laid the foundation for the philosophy was that there is that which is matter, part of the physical universe, and there is that which is spiritual, and is NOT a part of the phy classification he assigned greek letters to these separate parts, like is done in math or physics. Things material were assigned the letted "delta", things spiritual were assigned "theta".

[And no, the cultist gets it wrong again. Hubbard used the word "theta" to mean "life" and the word "entheta" to mean "death."

Hubbard further went on to demand that anything even remotely accurate about the criminal activities and the frauds that the Scientology cult was engaged in was "entheta" -- which in Scientology cult jargon means "death."

Thus to speak the truth about the criminal cult was to kill oneself.

Bizarre and freakish but the coining and redefining of words is one of the classical earmarks of a dangerous cult - flr]

Following math nomenclature, he later coined the word "thetan" - meaning "one unit of Theta" or one Spirit. The reason why new words were used in Scientology is because it is a new subject, and it was important that meanings do not get cluttered with old symbology (words like Soul, ghost, spirit, life-force all have connotations of their own).

[And that's nonsense as well. Dangerous cults will redefine words in ways that aren't used "on the outside" to foster the feeling that they (the cultists on the inside) have something new that outsiders can't understand. The redefinition of words and the creation of new non-words is one of the classic earmarks of a dangerous cult.

As for what this cult's mad messiah came up with, none of it was new. Even the drug-induced hallucination "research" that Hubbard did wasn't new - flr]

A human being is composed of a Thetan, a Mind, and a body. The theta uses the mind to drive the body. If you were to compare it (a limited analogy) to computer terms, the body would be the hardware, the mind would be the software... but the Thetan would be the User, the actual being - without whom nothing would happen.)

[The cultist forgot to mention that people are also composed of unknown numbers of invisible murdered space aliens that only the Scientology crime syndicate can scrape off of you -- for horrible amounts of money, of course - flr]

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