Wanted to share what I found during a visit to an old haunt.
The Manolo, he has been wondering about Tom Cruise and has referenced the Church of Scientology. Now, I've heard about this movement and it's famous alumni. But out of curiousity, I decided to read more.
I popped by the wikipedia write up posted by Manolo. It read like a bad sci-fi book review. Here's an excerpt:"75 million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having on average 178 billion people. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with people "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.....
..... Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of people to paralyse them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections." The kidnapped populace was loaded into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s, "except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't." DC-8s have jet engines, not propellers, although Hubbard may have meant the turbine fans."
Note that the links within the quotation are from wikipedia itself. However, I found the entire article bodering on the surreal. Go read if you want, make your own judgements. However, in the interests of impartiality, I surfed by the Scientology website again. And again, I couldn't find anything that referenced anything remotely sensible.
Attest!
The official website has a section where you can try and find out more on how Scientology can help you - you clink on the link you are interested in most e.g. marriage, personal life, business.career. But whatever section I went into, all I saw were exhortations to buy a book (or 4) that would help me, and a whole mass of "endorsements" from people who signed off with only their initials. Their INITIALS.
That in itself is already a shady tactic. Any true believer would be proud to stand by their god and put their name proudly to their religion.
So. Not a lot of confidence inspired in me, guys.
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