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08 October 2005
Tom and Katie are likely to follow the church's "silent birth" guidelines. Creepy people breed too.
I just spent the better part of the evening trying to explain to friends the principles of Scientology. Xenu. Thetans. E-meters. But the part about the silent birth--that's what made them gasp.
Oh yeah..minimize initial stimuli - that's sure to make the kids more malleable. It's like the difference between programming a vcr (old vcr) and a tivo.
I just watched The Stepford Wives, so this feels extra creepy.
This is one of the few things about Scientology that makes sense, IMO... the less screaming and shouting your young'un hears in its first waking moments, the better, I would think. Less trauma = less stress.
L. Ron Hubbard, the hucktster, is laughing his ass off at these idiots. Well, he would be if he weren't dead.
He literally made up the silliest "religion" he could in order to prove that people were stupid while also getting rich, and having his ego stroked, to boot.
Sadly, it worked like a charm.
Funny thing: my LDS grandfather loves to tell me what a whacko old L. Ron was. Sorry gramps, you're not one to talk...
I'm kind of curious as to the stats about Scientology since TC went feral. I wonder if they've hooked more people or whether there's a certain % of the population that have been tweaked and gone into enquire about it (and been hooked!) since the buffoonery hit the news.
I went and enquired a loonnnggg time ago, just to suss them out. I remember being there for maybe 30 mins, taking pamphlets, asking questions...that sort of thing. I must have given my address because I went overseas for a year and my mum said she got TONS of mail from them, which she sent back and it took over 6 months to get them to stop. The amphetamine of the marketing set.
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