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[actourdreams]

So, uh, I had a run-in with some Scientologists today. They were doing their “free stress test”, and in my mission to investigate every crackpot who distributes information in a T station, I accepted. (This mission has gotten me some quality things, including an argument about Thomas Jefferson with the leader of the Young Communist Party, a flier

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The way they pitch it is very restrained - nothing about paying for enlightenment or dead aliens stuck onto you. They say that you have an emotional and a rational mind, and all the bad stuff that happens to you is stored in the emotional mind, from where it... reaches out and pollutes everything, or something. And if you take up Dianetics - they don't tell you what Dianetics consists of, mind - you can put your rational mind in charge. So, it sounds like some kind of behavioral therapy thing. I do hope that even naive people who have avoided Scientology's rep would start to call bullshit with the weird-ass techno-meters that "measure your stress" in some undefined manner.

Basically, they think that people are immortal souls, and that by having successive levels of therapy - which get successively more expensive, of course - you can get closer to remembering your immortal extraterrestrial self. There's also some kind of crazy creation myth involving the evil god Xenu and some volcanoes that explains the reason that we're kept from our true, immortal selves is because there are dead aliens stuck to our souls, but it's been a while since I read about that.