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OCBuckWife;1160181; said:
Their usual method is to try to get people in to be "audited" first. This "personality test" is free. They use that appointment to proselytize some, yes.

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This pic looks like it was taken for a cheesy corporate video.
 
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Charles Manson and Scientology
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Scientology critics like to present Charles Manson as a typical Scientologist. Manson, however, only dabbled into Scientology for a short time, alongside many other subjects. Scientology had nothing to do either in the horrible murders he pushed his followers to perpetrate. This does not prevent critics from presenting a completely distorted picture of the reality. These pages provides all the facts necessary to understand the situation in a correct perspective.[/center]

Apart for a couple of expressions found in his discourses, and contrary to what Scientology critics imply, there is almost no trace of direct Scientology influence linked to Manson and his crimes. Of course Manson exploited some concepts to better entrap the Family members, but then he also exploited concepts from the Bible, Nietzsche, and even the Beatles. To a much greater degree, in fact.
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Trementina Base
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Trementina Base is the popular designation for a property of the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) near Trementina, New Mexico.

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According to the CST, the purpose of the base is to provide storage space for an archiving project to preserve L. Ron Hubbard's writings, films and recordings for future generations. Hubbard's texts have been engraved on stainless steel tablets and encased in titanium capsules underground. The project began in the late 1980s. [1]
The base includes a number of dwellings and the archives themselves, the latter in a network of underground tunnels. The base also has its own private, concrete airstrip, the San Miguel Ranch Airport (NM53); it is not shown on FAA sectional charts or in navigation databases by the owner's request.

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An aerial photograph showing the base's enormous Scientology symbols on the ground caused media interest and broke the story in November 2005. According to a Washington Post report, the Church's first reaction was to attempt to suppress the information:
The church tried to persuade station KRQE not to air its report last week about the aerial signposts marking a Scientology compound that includes a huge vault "built into a mountainside," the station said on its Web site. ... Based in Los Angeles, the corporation dispatched an official named Jane McNairn and an attorney to visit the TV station in an effort to squelch the story, KRQE news director Michelle Donaldson said.​
The church offered a tour of the underground facility if KRQE would kill the piece, the station said in its newscast. Scientology also called KRQE?s owner, Emmis Communications, and ?sought the help of a powerful New Mexican lawmaker? to lobby against airing the piece, the station reported on its Web site. [5]​
The huge symbols on the base, distinguishable only from an aerial view ([6]35?31'28.56"N 104?34'20.20"W), are specifically those of Scientology's Church of Spiritual Technology.[7] Former members of the Church have said that the symbol marks a "return point" for Scientologists to help find Hubbard's works when they travel here in the future from other places in the universe.[8]
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So, me and the lady were walking downtown Colorado Springs yesterday on the way to dinner and were approached by one of these dead-behind-the-eyes nutjobs yesterday trying to hand us Scientology literature and calling us "friend". I bayed at him and continued walking. Got a good chuckle from the other folks around us.
 
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If Scientology had come along 2000 years ago, had a book written about, buildings erected in its honor across the world and promised eternal paradise after death it would be a lot more popular. :p
 
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Jake;1467850; said:
If Scientology had come along 2000 years ago, had a book written about, buildings erected in its honor across the world and promised eternal paradise after death it would be a lot more popular. :p
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If we had contemporary books quoting Jesus' friends as saying Jesus talked with them about how he was starting a religion because the "real money was in religion", and then started his ministry soon after, you'd have Scientology.
 
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Jesus did not come for the money. Yes he did have somebody around that keep up with money, Judas, but it was for food. It even says in the Bible that Jesus has no home or food. He was a sinless man who took on the sin of the world, and the notion that Oprah say that there is no sin is in no way right. That is like saying since there is no sin then murder is ok. It took somebody who was truly without sin to take it all away from us. Scientology is like Mormonism. Joseph Smith was just a con artist trying to get money though religion. Sounds like Hubbard to me.
 
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joefoshow;1467858; said:
Jesus did not come for the money. Yes he did have somebody around that keep up with money, Judas, but it was for food.
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I can't believe it, finally, someone who knew Jesus personally "back in the day!" How freakin' awesome was it when you met him and he told you himself what is plan was? Did you get his autograph? Dude you should totally hit up ebay!
 
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OCBuckWife;1467859; said:
I can't believe it, finally, someone who knew Jesus personally "back in the day!" How freakin' awesome was it when you met him and he told you himself what is plan was? Did you get his autograph? Dude you should totally hit up ebay!
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Eh, that's nothing. My late father had a personal relationship with god. I know this because he told me so back in the 1980s...the last time he put any effort into having a personal relationship with his children. :ohwell:
 
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