Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA07940 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:45:49 GMT X-Originating-IP: [137.110.248.206] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Scientology Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:41:16 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F1181XwxIM9cgk0000bada@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2002 15:41:16.0945 (UTC) FILETIME=[3DFE2810:01C199ED] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:27:56 -0500
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>On 01/10/02 07:24, tazzie said this-
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> >Could I have a desricption of exactly what is *scientology*?
>
>http://skepdic.com/dianetic.html
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>The organization itself is considered to be criminal in some countries.
>
>- Wade
If I remember correctly (it's been a while) Scientology began with the
publication of a book by L. Ron Hubbard back in the late 40s as an answer to
the problems of psychiatry that psychiatrists seemed unable to cure. Hubbard
declared it a religion when the govenment sent him a huge tax bill for the
money he was making with his system. The government has been calling him a
criminal ever since and has denied Scientology the status of religiion for
tax purposes. Hubbard has since died and the people who took over his
"church" have been accused of brain washing and other crimes. In the later
years of his life Hubbard withdrew from his church and had little to do with
the running of day-to-day affairs. He spent most of his time on a yacht
where the IRS could not easily get their hands on him. He is basically a
science fiction writer who hit on a new idea and found ways to make a
fortune with it. My own view is that he never did anything I would call
criminal. I can't say the same for the people who took over his "church."
I've been following his career off and on since I was eighteen. Ron's last
gasp before he died was to write a ten-volume science fiction series that
demonstrated he still had a way with words. It was mostly action-adventure.
Grant
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