XPost: alt.religion.scientology, sci.skeptic, alt.suicide.holiday   
   From: michaelereuss@spam.this.com   
      
   > "|-|erc"  wrote:   
      
   > Quote where Hubbard writes you cannot take anti-depressants, that's your   
   > claim.   
      
   Well, personally, Hubbard took lots of drugs. This is well documented by   
   his son, Nibs, and by people who traveled with him on the Apollo. Pinks,   
   grays, pain-killers. Hubbard wrote lots of early Scientology material   
   while high.   
      
   And he smoked like a train, also. He was hooked, as most smokers are, on   
   nicotine. Hubbard had lots of addictive behaviors. Scientologists have   
   traditionally smoked cigarettes in above average numbers. And they seem   
   to pretend that they are not experiencing a good, old-fashioned,   
   meat-body addiction. Charming...   
      
   But mostly Hubbard was addicted to lying. He lied in a sociopathic way.   
   He lied make himself seem more important, more grandiose, smarter than   
   anyone else, right up there with the great men of history, not just some   
   cheap-ass cult guru.   
      
   One thing LRH didn't lie about was wanting to be rich, powerful, loved,   
   worshipped. The evidence of his life supports all these notions. He   
   started a religion to give him those things. The money-grubbing in the   
   cult of Scientology today, is a legacy of Hubbard's desire for the cult   
   to provide him with massive personal wealth and power while he was still   
   alive.   
      
   In spite of Hubbard's drug use, it's nevertheless true that his cult, as   
   a general rule, is very hostile to the taking of drugs by members, and   
   this is true under nearly any circumstance, including drugs prescribed   
   for epilepsy and the like. This is a fact. It's beyond dispute.   
      
   The reason the cult is hostile to the taking of drugs is because they   
   are also hostile to the notion that people are corporeal organisms in   
   the first place. The cult wants to promote it's own unscientific and   
   unproven notion that "people" are really spirits who don't require   
   bodies and brains, at all. They want to advance the silly notion that   
   treating meat for meat problems fails to get at the root cause of the   
   "real" problem, which always seems to be determined (by them, doctors   
   all) to be psychosomatic. And then, they always promise the cures for   
   those psychosomatic illnesses, via expensive auditing with the e-meter.   
      
   Scientology was officially prohibited by the FDA from claiming that   
   auditing cures physical diseases. And that's exactly what you'll see if   
   you read the fine print on your new e-meter. But they get around that   
   nasty old FDA, by saying (to themselves) an "acceptable truth." They   
   tell themselves that there are no physical diseases, only "spiritual"   
   diseases. So, now they're free to charge for the auditing cure.   
      
   A funny thing, though; although Scientology is hostile toward drugs,   
   generally speaking, they will right around and promote the use of   
   vitamins and Niacin, often in huge doses. The hypocrisy and failure of   
   logical consistency in this is simply staggering.   
      
   Furthermore, when that nasty old practical reality impinges on their   
   delusions, Scientologists will forget their hostility to drugs, as they   
   did in the case of the late Lisa McPherson. They had a Scientologist   
   doctor unprofessionally and unethically prescribe choral hydrate for   
   her, without the doctor ever having examined her. At the time, her   
   behavior was wild, psychotic, and erratic, and her "handlers" wanted her   
   more docile and sedated. Their answer then was to treat the meat. Why   
   the inconsistency? Why did they think the drugs would do any good in   
   this case? Because they knew that the drugs worked. And they didn't want   
   to deal with a sick, psychotic woman.   
      
   Of course, a few days later, Lisa McPherson turned up dead, with   
   cockroach bites all over her arms.   
      
   One of the most amazing aspects of her death, which is never mentioned   
   by any Scientologist, is that all this happened only a few months after   
   she had been declared "Clear" by the cult, the state at which they are   
   told they will gain perfect health and miraculous increases in their   
   abilities. Right! Except when you end up psychotic, and then dead.   
      
   What a fucking opportunistic scam.   
      
   Chumps like Herc, who have fallen for it, hook, line, and sinker, come   
   on here and show that they're still just as stupid and brainwashed as   
   those Scientology idiots at FLAG who claimed they could take care of   
   Lisa better than psychiatrists could. No one could have cared for Lisa   
   worse than the Scientologists did. And now, Tom Cruise goes jumping on   
   couches and slamming others to promote this same stupid mindset, which,   
   if it weren't so dangerous, would merely be goofier than shit.   
      
   This suck-ass cult never learns, it would appear.   
      
   That's why it deserves to be ridiculed into dust bin of history.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Michael Reuss   
   Honorary Kid   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)