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Posted 24 January 2008 - 01:22 PM

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Posted 27 January 2008 - 11:22 AM

Here's the Tom Cruise video to which the article refers:

Scientology qualifies as a nutty cult, as this article from Time demonstrates.

That said, are Scientologists' beliefs really any more delusional than those of Christians? As an example, try to wrap your mind around the Holy Trinity. You'll twist your neuron networks into pretzel shapes.

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 09:21 PM

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That said, are Scientologists' beliefs really any more delusional than those of Christians?

Not necessarily, but Christians don't often speak in acronyms, and I don't remember the last time they destroyed somebody's furniture or left heel marks on the cushions.

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As an example, try to wrap your mind around the Holy Trinity. You'll twist your neuron networks into pretzel shapes.

On that topic, I like the conversation between Clint Eastwood and the priest in Million Dollar Baby.

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Posted 12 February 2008 - 02:11 AM

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That said, are Scientologists' beliefs really any more delusional than those of Christians? As an example, try to wrap your mind around the Holy Trinity. You'll twist your neuron networks into pretzel shapes.

Eh....you just can't limit the concept of God to the constraints of the universe. Then it gets a little less mind bendy. I mean, how many crazy sci-fi concepts can we get past....temporal paradoxes of both the grandfather and predestination variety, anomalies that flow backwards through time....

Its not that big of a stretch to have an entity outside of time and space that exists simultaneously as at least 3 other entities....at least in terms of mind bogglingness. :-)

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Posted 12 February 2008 - 10:09 AM

Merlinus Ambrosius said:

I mean, how many crazy sci-fi concepts can we get past....temporal paradoxes of both the grandfather and predestination variety, anomalies that flow backwards through time....

We call that stuff science fiction for a reason.