Anybody Signing Up for Scientology?

[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Those aren't essential either ... I haven't even played a game in at least a couple weeks. :lol:[/QUOTE]

I get a rash if I haven't played in a few days.
 
[quote name='Kayden']I have no idea what the truth is, and I'm not claiming to know it. I have no idea what the truth is about anything.[/QUOTE]

Agreed.

[quote name='Kayden']No one does.[/QUOTE]

How would you know Kayden, you have "no idea what the truth is about anything"

[quote name='Kayden'] I certainly don't wish to paint myself as some type of 'hero.' [/QUOTE]

Yes - I really should have said anti-hero. I think your nihilistic viewpoint is fine as long as you don't speak for the motivations of others - for example, I could say that your materialism/nihilism is a result of you wanting to rebel against your parents/society/et al, but to be fair to you I would rather hear about your reasons/motivations for your viewpoint in your own words.

[quote name='Kayden']However, not knowing the answers doesn't make me want to cling to self absorbed delusions of grandeur and fairy tales. Is there more than what we can see? Breathing certainly proves that point. That doesn't mean I'm going to jump on the 'the big all knowing guy in the sky made a kindom for me' bandwagon.[/QUOTE]

You talk as if religion is synonymous with "conversion to fundamentalist christianity". People can be religious/spiritual without taking the stories of the Bible (or the Bhagavad-Gita, the Koran, sermons of the Buddha Bodhidharma, etc) in a fundamentalist, literalist sense.
 
[quote name='camoor']
You talk as if religion is synonymous with "conversion to fundamentalist christianity". People can be religious/spiritual without taking the stories of the Bible (or the Bhagavad-Gita, the Koran, sermons of the Buddha Bodhidharma, etc) in a fundamentalist, literalist sense.[/QUOTE]

I just chose that because it's easy to understand. Most religions have simular rewards for doing good.
With hinduism, if you're good you come back in a higher caste. With budhism you keep coming back until you're 'perfect' at which point you become with the universe. Taoism is just about being groovy and getting along with the universe.

I think some religions have some good messages, but do totally absorb it and make it the foundation of your life seems rediculous to me. Are there good lessons to learn? Yes, but should it dictate your every action?
 
[quote name='camoor']Yes - I really should have said anti-hero. I think your nihilistic viewpoint is fine as long as you don't speak for the motivations of others - for example, I could say that your materialism/nihilism is a result of you wanting to rebel against your parents/society/et al, but to be fair to you I would rather hear about your reasons/motivations for your viewpoint in your own words.[/QUOTE]

How about common fucking sense? Which unfortunately isn't so common. :lol:
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']How about common fucking sense? Which unfortunately isn't so common. :lol:[/QUOTE]

See to me, common sense would imply a humanistic understanding of the world. Most of the strict materialists that I meet have what I would term as a cold and alien viewpoint.
 
[quote name='camoor']See to me, common sense would imply a humanistic understanding of the world. Most of the strict materialists that I meet have what I would term as a cold and alien viewpoint.[/QUOTE]

Humanism is for fucktards. I'm sorry but that's the only way to describe it. :lol:
 
[quote name='Kayden']I just chose that because it's easy to understand. Most religions have simular rewards for doing good.
With hinduism, if you're good you come back in a higher caste. With budhism you keep coming back until you're 'perfect' at which point you become with the universe. Taoism is just about being groovy and getting along with the universe.

I think some religions have some good messages, but do totally absorb it and make it the foundation of your life seems rediculous to me. Are there good lessons to learn? Yes, but should it dictate your every action?[/QUOTE]

I believe that you have a very basic understanding of religion, as if it's simply an elaborate moral system of punishments and rewards. Many religious sects further this misconception by advertising their ideology in this manner (IE if you don't do what our elders say, you are going to hell/come back as an ant/etc)

However I think this totally misses the spiritual side that most religions possess.

To put it another way, doing good deeds may generate good karma, but where's the enlightenment?
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Humanism is for fucktards. I'm sorry but that's the only way to describe it. :lol:[/QUOTE]

;) ;) When did you become a Republican? ;) ;)
 
[quote name='camoor'];) ;) When did you become a Republican? ;) ;)[/QUOTE]

I'd say I would be an almost pure democrat ... except I don't believe in helping people for any reason. If they can't support themselves they can die in the streets.

Of course, that's the biggest issues IMO, as it actually affects me. :lol:
 
Here is the core belief of scientology. Hey, you get it without paying $250,000. A hecka deal. Well, without further ado, in the words of Hubbard Himself:



The head of the Galactic Confederation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet -- 178 billion on average) by mass implanting.

He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb on the principal volcanoes (incident 2) and then the Pacific ones were taken in boxes to _Hawaii_ and the Atlantic area ones to _Las Palmas_ and there "packaged."

His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits, etc., was placed in the implants.

When through with his crime, Loyal Officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confed.) has since been a desert.

The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia, etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.

One can _free wheel_ through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "free wheel" (auto running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep, etc., and one dies....

In December '67 I knew somebody had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have _all_ the data now but only that given here is needful....

Good luck.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I'd say I would be an almost pure democrat ... except I don't believe in helping people for any reason. If they can't support themselves they can die in the streets.

Of course, that's the biggest issues IMO, as it actually affects me. :lol:[/QUOTE]

You're not a Democrat, dude. You're a libertarian. Next election, you could be one of the three people that votes for the libertarian candidate for any given office. You can also hang out with Michael Creighton and talk about how global warming is a myth and therefore everyone should be given an SUV that gets 2 miles to the gallon for their 18th birthday.
 
[quote name='evilmregg']You're not a Democrat, dude. You're a libertarian. Next election, you could be one of the three people that votes for the libertarian candidate for any given office. You can also hang out with Michael Creighton and talk about how global warming is a myth and therefore everyone should be given an SUV that gets 2 miles to the gallon for their 18th birthday.[/QUOTE]

Hence the "would be". :lol:

Well, I'm not going to waste my time with that. :lol:

Also, global warming is bullshit. ;)

I said that once before, without the ";)" and apparently they thought I was serious ... :lol:
 
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