Free Stress Test

SheroN

Has anyone taken part in the free stress test on Abbey street? I was waiting for a friend near by last Saturday morning and they asked me about 3 times. Some eastern european lad did the test and disappeared upstairs after the guy a few minutes after the test.

It's some scientology stunt I take it? How is the test meant to work? How do they reason the "science" behind the test. There was a machine on the table from what i could hear was meant to sense stress.

garthv

Aye, its how they hook you in.

LadyJ

I did it at some fair one time. They ask very intrusive questions and then try get you to go to scientology meetings. Steer clear!

magick

SheroN wrote: »

Has anyone taken part in the free stress test on Abbey street? I was waiting for a friend near by last Saturday morning and they asked me about 3 times. Some eastern european lad did the test and disappeared upstairs after the guy a few minutes after the test.

It's some scientology stunt I take it? How is the test meant to work? How do they reason the "science" behind the test. There was a machine on the table from what i could hear was meant to sense stress.

Welcome to scientology , ur new name is MoonBeams!

Cuddlesworth

Yeah its a scam.

They tried to tell me I was stressed and overworked. This was at 10:30 when I was an hour and a half late for work with a pillow in my hand for the desk. I would doubt the accuracy of their machines.

SlinkyToo

I was at school with a fella who went in there to do the test. A week later he came into school without his glasses proclaiming that short sightedness was a state of mind and that he had spent the night communing with Tom Cruise on the astral plane.

The test is designed to highlight personality flaws and weaknesses in your mental state even if you don't have any.

When I lived in Texas, the Hubbards had a test centre outside the Texas A&M facility and it had a 24 hour police guard so the testers wouldnt be harassed by protesters. That shows you how much power this folks have.

5starpool

Isn't the whole stress thingy worked around the dianetics thing that L Ron Hubbard wrote his book about? It is all part of the scientology scam though as far as I am aware.

Maybe they can make me famous though. I'd believe in spaceship bound redemption for a lead with suitable pay in a hollywood blockbuster, and I'd even give them 10%. If you are reading this, scientology type odd people, then bear me in mind!!!

Scientologists alright. I got stopped by them years ago.

The basic purpose of the test is to evaluate your perceived weaknesses and sell you courses to overcome them. They exploit peoples weaknesses.

Tell them to **** right off, they are a dangerous cult that have destroyed many lives.

Spud83

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Rob_l

I went in took his test and ridiculed the bastard I pointed out to the fools how no matter which way I answered there questiosn they would respond that it was a personality flaw ie too confident due to a lack of something or not enough confidence due to a lack of something I think its a page of like 100 questions or summit and you rate your answers from 1 to 5, 1 being not very much and five being very much bla bla bla, the guy looked genuinely shocked as I ranted and then began ridiculing the literature he was trying to sell me:eek:
because I had pretented to be interested on the street and then flip moded him once inside.

SheroN

I over heard the tester asking the lad doing the test did he take drugs and asking him about his relationship with his girlfriend. He was then trying to give him some book, they even had it in polish.

Karoma

Heh. They're still doing this? Aye; it's a Scientology hook. Mad. It's been going on for yeeears.
They have their books in most of the widely-spoken languages.

SheroN

They'd have a hard job getting money out of me anyways. I rarely even get my round it let along throw cash away needlessly.

Unpossible

How do they reason the "science" behind the test.

Its tagged with the "fiction" part

Punchbowl

Rumour has it also, that Tom Cruise actaully signed up to Scientology at that office on Abbey Street when he was filming 'Far and Away' here

Rob_l

Unpossible wrote: »

Its tagged with the "fiction" part

this in fact fact
Ron l hubbard the founder first made his name as a science fiction writer and later as the creator of a religion which borrows heavily on others science fiction

And I is famously quoted as saying
"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion."
(Hubbard?)


many believe his reason was to avoid paying tax

Unpossible

Rob_l wrote:

Ron l hubbard the founder first made his name as a science fiction writer and later as the creator of a religion which borrows heavily on others science fiction

I know, thats why I said it

BrandonBlock

Now I'm in the closet... now I'm in the closet too..

GhostInTheRuins

I remember a while back someone posted a list of the questions they ask and what the best answers are. I'd like to go and take the test knowing the right answers and see the shock on their faces when they think I'm the reincarnate of Ron Hubbard or some such.

leninbenjamin

Rob_l wrote: »

many believe his reason was to avoid paying tax

others think it started out as a bet with one of his friends.

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

I remember a while back someone posted a list of the questions they ask and what the best answers are. I'd like to go and take the test knowing the right answers and see the shock on their faces when they think I'm the reincarnate of Ron Hubbard or some such.

I think it's actually impossible to pass the test, that's how it's designed.

Lands Leaving

These cnuts need to get the boot out of the country sharpish, they just prey on unhappy people then ruin their lives. Fcuks.

Did anyone else see the panorama about them? They're nuts, and dangerous too. Don't get at all why John Sweeney apologised for shouting at yer man, he totally deserved it and any rational person would do the same thing at that point, if not sooner. Man's a hero.

beans

Aye, they deserve equal amounts of ridicule, contempt and a warey eye. The 'beliefs' may be nuts but their business-plan is tried and tested, and they do have a history of doing whatever they have to do to make it work.

As in FBI infiltration and other types of espionage within various US government bodies, campaigns of intimidation against vocal opponents, and there's even a body of evidence pointing to deaths directly caused by denial of treatment, imprisonment etc.

It's all an endless string of self-improvement designed to suck an individual dry financially - in the process they isolate them from the non-Scientologist community, their family (if in opposition), cementing their influence.

Morally repugnant for feeding on the vulnerable, ridiculous in their deification of a megalomaniac sci-fi author and the adoption of his alien stories, ruthless in their consolidation methods... there's nothing good I have to say about Scientology

</rant> But I do believe the point cannot be made enough times.

A link for the curious

SlinkyToo

Yeah get rid of those religious nuts - alien loving freaks.

While we are at lets get rid of the ones who believe in a Carpenter doing miracles thing as well.

Overheal

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