Belgian justice accuses Scientology of being criminal

The Church of Scientology are dangerous people. If you have any position of relative power through fame, they will come to you and try to extort money out of you. If you refuse, they will begin to do horrible things with your life. Make accusations that destroy your credibility, make you take the fall for a crime you did not commit, destroy your bank accounts, and pretty much make your entire life a living hell until you 'convert' and "donate" weekly with sums of no less than 5 digits.

Be wary of these seemingly 'ignorant' clan of people. The fact that we think they are simply stupid means that they are masking their motives well.
 
Once I went downtown to the church of scientology to listen to the scientologists about their beleifs because I'm weird and bored.

They claim you do not have to renounce your faith to be a scientologists because it is not a religion but a self help philosophy.


on that note, theyre fucking weird.
since i am well educated on theology i tore them apart trying to get details on their beleifs, and they left the conversaton feeling used, as they should have.
 
Good to know the law is acting against such organizations. Here on this side of the world we don't see to much scientology activities, but there are a whole bunch of other "religions" that operate in the same way. Fortunately they are relatively small and the law is able to catch a few of them from time to time when people denounces them. They are still pretty dangerous though.

I tell you one thing: If it's against the law it's criminal. And we get a lot of stories around here of people being ripped off their money, huge sums, because of all this deceiving thieves.
 
Good thing Belgishia kept those loons out.

When I rule the world, Scientologists will be the second in line for mass annihilation.

The first thing, of course, will be anime and manga.
 
Wooz said:
Good thing Belgishia kept those loons out.

When I rule the world, Scientologists will be the second in line for mass annihilation.

The first thing, of course, will be anime and manga.
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I have also mulled over that idea, but I was never really able to commit to it as it would mean the destruction of Cowboy Bebop...

That and I'd have a lot less people to make fun of. I mean, you can only make fun of Emos, Jocks and Juggaloes for so long!
 
Wooz said:
Good thing Belgishia kept those loons out.

When I rule the world, Scientologists will be the second in line for mass annihilation.

The first thing, of course, will be anime and manga.
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Good thing when I rule the world, people who wish harm upon others simply because they dislike their past-times will be the first in line to go.

Arguing about anime and manga would be off-topic, I suppose.

On topic, yeah, Scientology is all about taking people's money, and has zero legitimacy. Everyone knows that. Everyone except celebrities it seems.
 
I assure you, anime and manga *will* be "past-times". My Legions of Darkness will take care of it. By the way, I didn't say anything about harming. I clearly stated "mass annihilation".

Arguing about anime and manga would be off-topic, I suppose.
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If the thread derails too much, it can always be split into another one.

In any case, I partially agree with you. Arguing about worthless things is moot.

Anyhoo

A few years ago, I saw a scientologist leaflet buried in some old books. It was the written word of none other than Ron Hubbard! It promoted the use of niacin in order to counter the effects of a global thermonuclear war, repelling the evil radiation away from the skin. Comedy gold.
 
Wooz said:
By the way, I didn't say anything about harming. I clearly stated "mass annihilation".
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Well yes, but in my book, "mass annihilation" is generally harmful to those being annihilated. Unless you were just referring to the annihilation of the anime and manga itself, which is probably what you did mean now that I've reread what you said. However, that's still harmful to me. I'd be rather sad if I didn't get to watch my Hayao Miyazaki movies, play my Final Fantasies (which are definitely anime-influenced), watch my 3x3 Eyes, read my Ghost in the Shell manga, etc. and so on.
 
Well, scientology has many legitimate self help philosophies, but theyre nothing special or unique, and are in fact quite cliche, but it requires a vast sum of money to move up in their system.

Scientology is just as legitimate to me as christianity, and all spirituality is a legitimate thing. one can not and should not condemn others for beliefs that defy what we know about science, because spirituality is, as a whole, unquantifiable, and therefor science and traditional logic and reasoning do not apply. This is a common western misconception. although, I tend to dislike the idea of organized religion, because those types of beliefs can not be shared, and trying makes no sense. spirituality is a personal thing, and no two people beleive the same thing.

on another note- extortion is still extortion, but what scientology offers is not extortion any more than tithing is.
 
it is when they threathen to ruin your life and give away your private secrets (which you had to reveal during their many tests) unless you keep paying...
 
SuAside said:
it is when they threathen to ruin your life and give away your private secrets (which you had to reveal during their many tests) unless you keep paying...
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I have heard of that, but only as unsubstantiated rumors.
Is that part of the criminalization that belgium is bringing up, and has belgium done their own investigations that involve more than just heresay?
 
they spent over a decade building the case xdarkyrex... so yes, i wager they did do their own investigations. *sigh*
 
Well. After seeing Belgishia's camo patterns, one could wonder...
 
xdarkyrex said:
and all spirituality is a legitimate thing.
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Cool, so if I start a new religion and claim spirituality, that's legitimate.

You shall all worship me, now!
 
Brother None said:
Cool, so if I start a new religion and claim spirituality, that's legitimate.

You shall all worship me, now!
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Praise be to the Holy Zilch, the Noble Nada and the Allmighty None!

May we all do nothing, never...
 
Wooz said:
Well. After seeing Belgishia's camo patterns, one could wonder...
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pffft, i bet you've never seen it in real life.

camo is fine for middle european forrests. the only problem is that the brown looks like pink or purple in pictures...
 
Brother None said:
xdarkyrex said:
and all spirituality is a legitimate thing.
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Cool, so if I start a new religion and claim spirituality, that's legitimate.

You shall all worship me, now!
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well you forgot the part where I also claimed no organized religion is legitimate.

Spirituality is a personal thing and can not ever be properly shared between two people do to the unquantifiable nature of it.

A church is a collection of people who believe different things but self marginalize. It is inherently flawed, but thats not to say the beliefs of those there are flawed, only the organization and the concept of religious unity.


:P
 
Funny thing happened a few days ago.

I was watching TV when commercial came on. Some good looking women were walking down the street and ignored a bunch of guys sitting in on the porch of a dirty home that were trying to attract them. So the guys go and clean up the house throwing away the garbage, cleaning, etc. and next time the women walk by they act interested. The screen then gives a webpage one thewaytohappiness.org.

So I'm watching this and thinking it's cheezy and probably some sort of propoganda by a religious organization. Considering there were no overt religious symbols I figure it might be something somewhat controversial. So I go and look it up online and it turns out "the way to happiness" is a brochure that happens to have multiple excerpts from Scientologys teachings.

Heh...nice try.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
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