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Scientology-should it be destroyed?

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  • #32
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Gerry Asstrix wrote: »
    I have nothing against religions, or people practising them in their own time, but...


    I''m not racist, but...


  • #33
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    Wikipedia and Xpose, quality sources:D
    Did you read the sources in the former?


  • #34
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I dont see why people are so quick to condemn scientology yet sit in a church on sundays worshipping a space magician who sent his son who is also himself to die for sins that he created us with to begin with to save us from himself and become a jewish zombie, its just as nonsensical, the church is a moneymaking organisation as well, or was the vatican built on prayers?


  • #35
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,444 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    Many people have died (been murdered?) because of Scientology and it's practices. I think that's enough to warrant an outright ban on the cult.

    how many millions have been murdered, killed, stoned, burned at the stake, hung, poisoned themselves etc etc in the name of christianity and other religions

    i have yet to see a crazed scientologist blow themselves or explode a car bomb in the middle of a busy town


  • #36
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    Wikipedia and Xpose, quality sources:D

    Wikipedia 101 - When you scroll down to the bottom of the article, you will find a long list of references used to write the article. Most, if not all, of the references come from mainstream media outlets.


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  • #37
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Name a religion that isn't based on absurd claims and 'practices'?

    It's all just different forms of insanity.


  • #38
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    Wikipedia 101 - When you scroll down to the bottom of the article, you will find a long list of references used to write the article. Most, if not all, of the references come from mainstream media outlets.

    It pisses me off when people decry Wikipedia as something you shouldnt use as a source, its still the greatest resource on the net for information.


  • #39
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Name a religion that isn't based on absurd claims and 'practices'?

    It's all just different forms of insanity.

    clearly space warlords and aliens is nonsense, but a zombie jew and talking snake and virgin birth and all that? well sure thats completely plausible.


  • #40
    VinnyTGM
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    krudler wrote: »
    clearly space warlords and aliens is nonsense, but a zombie jew and talking snake and virgin birth and all that? well sure thats completely plausible.

    Maybe Mary was artificially inseminated.


  • #41
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,106 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    No, Scientology is far more preferable than almost all major religions.


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  • #42
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Name a religion that isn't based on absurd claims and 'practices'?

    It's all just different forms of insanity.

    Name one religion that forces it's members to refuse modern medical treatment. Most, if not all mainstream religions are fairly moderate with a minority of extremists. Scientology is an extreme cult led by extremists. You just can't compare Scientology with any other mainstream religion. It's a dangerous cult led by sociopaths and lunatics.


  • #43
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    krudler wrote: »
    It pisses me off when people decry Wikipedia as something you shouldnt use as a source, its still the greatest resource on the net for information.

    I don't disagree with that, it is a great resource for information. The problem is that a lot of people take the information on the wiki page at face value and don't actually click on the links to see where the information actually comes from.


  • #44
    Narcissus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Narcissus


    Biggins wrote: »
    Yes.

    Simple answer to a simple question.

    this.

    Also, worth a watch http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/


  • #45
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    VinnyTGM wrote: »
    Maybe Mary was artificially inseminated.

    you'd wanna be pretty desperate to do it with a robot..


  • #46
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    I don't disagree with that, it is a great resource for information. The problem is that a lot of people take the information on the wiki page at face value and don't actually click on the links to see where the information actually comes from.

    Very true, but this "wikipedia,pffft sure anyone can edit that" attitude is just stupid, any stupid edits are quickly dealt with and the majority of whats on there is sourced from reputable publications or historians or whatever.


  • #47
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,719 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Not yet...:pac:

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
    krudler wrote: »
    I dont see why people are so quick to condemn scientology yet sit in a church on sundays worshipping a space magician who sent his son who is also himself to die for sins that he created us with to begin with to save us from himself and become a jewish zombie, its just as nonsensical, the church is a moneymaking organisation as well, or was the vatican built on prayers?

    One has tenure, the other doesn't. Simple as that. Also worth noting that for all the harm the RC Church does they do also do some good, a claim I'm not sure can be made of Scientology.


  • #48
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...



    One has tenure, the other doesn't. Simple as that. Also worth noting that for all the harm the RC Church does they do also do some good, a claim I'm not sure can be made of Scientology.

    So as long as a bullsh1t belief has a few hundred years behind it thats all it takes? awesome, I'm setting up my own religion, my great great great great great grandkids will be sorted.


  • #49
    wolfric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭wolfric


    This is what it'd be like if people started really believing Flying Spaghetti Monster.


  • #50
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    wolfric wrote: »
    This is what it'd be like if people started really believing Flying Spaghetti Monster.
    hey hey hey hey hey now.


  • #51
    Superlativeman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭Superlativeman


    No, you Fascist!


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  • #52
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    OisinT wrote: »
    hey hey hey hey hey now.

    Flying Spaghetti Monster all the way.
    Anyways, the spagetti explains string theory.:cool:


  • #53
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    Lots of lunatics out there OP, http://theflatearthsociety.org
    these guys believe giant ice walls hold in the worlds oceans but hey each to their own i say.


  • #54
    sligopark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    Many people have died (been murdered?) because of Scientology and it's practices. I think that's enough to warrant an outright ban on the cult.

    http://whyaretheydead.info/


    I don't like scientology but Pancho your arguement that could be used against christianity too, american emperialism and the british ...

    www.irishholocaust.com

    ;)


  • #55
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    Lots of lunatics out there OP, http://theflatearthsociety.org
    these guys believe giant ice walls hold in the worlds oceans but hey each to their own I say.


  • #56
    eamon234
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    Let's not forget their horrendous attitude towards the psychiatry profession.


  • #57
    sligopark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    eamon234 wrote: »
    Let's not forget their horrendous attitude towards the psychiatry profession.

    Let's not forget the horrendous attitude of the psychiatry profession to the general public ... drug them, drug them and when that fails lock them up ...

    still no reason to ban a group of people with similar views collectively defending them?


  • #58
    weiland79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭weiland79


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    Anyone see the guy's that protest outside the Dublin office on Abbey street. I think they are there every weekend and they wear these masks.
    Not really sure why they picked these masks, anyone know?


  • #59
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    krudler wrote: »
    Very true, but this "wikipedia,pffft sure anyone can edit that" attitude is just stupid, any stupid edits are quickly dealt with and the majority of whats on there is sourced from reputable publications or historians or whatever.

    As I said, wikipedia is a great source of information and as you said the vast majority can be traced back to reputable sources.

    I spend hours going off on wiki tangents and generally spend ages reading the different sources. I wouldn't, however, cite it as a reference or anything academic. I would cite the reference provided on the wikipedia page if it was reputable.

    The Maurice Jarre incident last year springs to mind as an example of why you can't always rely on it.

    I don't hear anybody speaking up for tv3 and xpose!


  • #60
    Don Juan DeMagoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 219 ✭✭Don Juan DeMagoo


    OP, interesting notion.

    Maybe before we start banning or destroying religions or the people who believe them (because it doesn't fit in with our own grand sheepish views of the world), we should cut off your internet connection and all those of similar opinions.

    OMG look they have different ideas than us, they are not normal, they are crazy. We should BAN or DESTROY them.....

    Flip sake... grow up and read a book or go travel the world, broaden your narrow mind

    If I walk into a room and the people in it are worshiping an expired tin of tuna, I tend not to judge them as it is "their" life.

    However if I walk into a room and see the occupants are watching the X factor, I do tend to harshly judge them!
    I have written countless letters trying to ban and destroy it, as I am sure Simon Cowell is indeed the Devil and his soul objective with the X factor is to try and woe that Tweedy one and I find it utterly revolting!!

    WHO IS WITH ME?? :p


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  • #61
    Pookah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Pookah


    VinnyTGM wrote: »
    Maybe Mary was artificially inseminated.

    Come again?


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