FREAKS!! And I'm surrounded by them. They OWN my downtown. My neighbors, my landlord are all of this 'belief'. These people patrol past my house on their little bicycles at all hours of the day and night. The youths march up and down the sidewalks, carrying satchels and looking serious. They are getting involved in the community because it builds 'trust', and they need that in order to acquire more recruits.

It is frightening and obnoxious.

http://www.ami.com.au/~bradw/cos/Wakefield/us-01.html is a very long 'book', but a pretty good, in-depth look at their cult.

They are known for aggressively pursuing anyone who has something negative to say about them, including internet message board posters and hosts. Beware.

Stormie

Stormie, you're just being parano
[no carrier]

:lol2:

Not that L. Ron Hubbard ever wrote fiction worth reading. I give new strange books a two-page test read. None of L. Ron's work ever passed. (A lot of Piers Anthony doesn't, either, and he's a better writer.)

Couple that with reading two biographies of L. Ron Hubbard back to back, and I'm totally immunized. I also tell LaRouchies to stick it. I've read issues of The New Federalist, thank you.

The kind of think (okay, I meant thing, but think works too) you'd find in the Lyndon LaRouche party organ, The New Federalist, may be seen here. This is about ten years old, which seems typical of Googled-up references to TNF. Well, if it's not around any more, we're saving trees to eat up carbon dioxide, I guess.

I actually think Hubbard is possibly the worst sci-fi writer ever published. Deeply trashy, formulaic space adventures or low rent fantasy worlds, all usually have something to offer. Hubbard's stuff was unreadable.

I bought Battlefield Earth at a second hand bookshop in Luxor (Egypt) because it was the biggest book there and I had another week to get through and was already bookless. I made it 3/4 of the way through. And for me, on holiday, in a foreign country and with a book I had spent money on, is unheard of.

I'll say it again ... watch the movie ... laugh at it, not with it.

This is very good:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...de_scientology

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/index.html

http://lmtbenefit.tripod.com/LMT.html

They way they moved in and took over Clearwater is just amazing. They are in complete control of that city.

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/timeline.html

http://www.lisamcpherson.org/gabe.htm

He had a real envy problem with other writers like Asimov, Heinlein and others.

South Park NAILED what scientology is all about.

Creepy, sad news.

doesn't all major religion teach the same "core" belief --> Don't be an asshole.

If so, then Scientology isn't major. It's "core" belief is that a fool and his money are joyfully accepted.

Holy crap--Narconon is the Scientologists? I had no idea. (I thought it was "Narcanon," but google seems to say they're the same thing.)