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its followers even believe they are part of a religious movement.
Plainly put, Scientology is a for-profit business which uses religious cloaking to hide its true purposes.
Anything else occurring because of Scientology is simply a side effect, a fringe benefit to keep the flock happy and give them a reason to keep handing over their hard-earned money.
by agreeing to play with physical bodies or objects, they were insidiously fooled into eventually agreeing they themselves were these physical objects they were playing with.
However it needs to be understood, in order for the OT Levels to “work” on someone, they have to accept this as literal truth a not as a parable or fable.
Also, the person doing NOTs can also start to perceive and blow BTs off other people’s bodies in their environment.
If this were really true, the church ought to have armies of OTs clearing everyone on Earth, as a service of charity, for free. Wouldn't a truly "clear" world be more valuable than any amount of money?
Most Scientologists would rather write a check than actually go do something themselves or get their hands dirty.
By any yardstick you care to use, OSA has done an absolutely horrendous job for many years.
It seems as if this organization does nothing except raise money for itself.
If you have never read any of Orwell's essays or books, I cannot recommend them enough.
Hubbard literally advised Scientologists to do the very thing Orwell spent his entire life fighting against, trying to prevent totalitarian dictatorships from destroying the rights of Man.
people were supposed to get materials and services for their money.
The truth is a powerful weapon and the internet is a platform Scientology cannot control.
Now this part is crucial. In fact, most of the video hangs on this statement. This is called a straw man argument, and all it means is she is inventing completely different reasons for why Anonymous is protesting Scientology, and she will then use these invented reasons to ridicule Anonymous throughout the rest of her rant.
Scientologists assume if you don't like Scientology, it's simply because you don't understand it or know anything about it. Because they think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, they are absolutely certain you would too if you only give it a chance.
