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Where do Scientologists go when they die?

slate.com — The actual details of how rebirth occurs is not fully understood by Scientology outsiders, but some core beliefs are that every human being is really an immortal spiritual being known as a thetan and that the "meat bodies" we inhabit are merely vessels we shed upon death.

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  • aud24, on 08/12/2008, -6/+125MEAT BODY. WOW. L Ron Hubbard is laughing his ass off right now that all these retarded celebrities actually follow a religion he pulled out of his ass.
    • fluidfoundation, on 08/12/2008, -0/+30Observation: Hubbard must have been friends with HK-47, meatbag.
      • Nitesmoke, on 08/13/2008, -3/+19Where do Scientologists go when they die?
        They don't go to heaven where the angels cry.
      • sTiVo, on 08/13/2008, -2/+12They go to the lake of fire and fry .
      • LucFerris, on 08/13/2008, -1/+11wont see em again til the fourth of july
      • redfred18t, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Wow, KOTOR reference. EPIC

        I really need to pop that back in and play it.. such a great game
      • norm7, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Deduction: To recognize such a reference, digger meatbags play too many video games.
      • aud24, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Yea I got slammed for not knowing what the hell hk-47 meant- I guess I'm a pseudo-digger.
      • fluidfoundation, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Norm7, Irritated Reply: I know you are, but what am I? ;)
    • RTFishUL, on 08/13/2008, -8/+28Doesn't sound any more ridiculous than every other religion out there. The idea of the body being a vessel for the soul isn't exactly crazily original.
      • aud24, on 08/13/2008, -3/+16Sorry but to refer to the corporal self as a meat body is the most asinine religious title I've ever heard of... That's the absurdity- not spiritual transcendence- but referring to it as the main constituent of Hamburger Helper.
      • ruforealz, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6Vonnegut referred to our bodies as "meat".

        It seems apt.
      • btschul, on 08/13/2008, -0/+16Plus, this religion was written by a drugged up pedophilic failed science fiction writer on a boat out in the middle of the Mediterranean ocean in the 1960's.
      • Epistaxis, on 08/13/2008, -3/+8Whereas the other religions were written by...
      • Nightfall, on 08/13/2008, -2/+6I agree RTFishUL

        Religious and non-religious alike enjoy bashing the heck out of Scientology. As an Agnostic, I just can't believe people believe any of this religious crap. The whole "meat bodies" thing is about as crazy as a number of things I have read in the bible. Such as...

        If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

        Thats just one example.

        Why can't we all just let people worship whatever the heck they want? I could care less if someone wants to pray to a billy goat so long as they don't chastise me for not praying to the goat too.
      • justinp, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5I guess Vonnegut didn't get the note that we're "ugly bags of mostly water"
      • str1fe, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6Nightfall, that basically sums up my opinions perfectly as well.

        I'll just stick with worshiping the sun and praying to Joe Pesci.
      • charlietuna, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Correct, it is not not any more ridiculous than the big three, but given the more recent history of their "scriptures" the close linkage to pure works of fiction is more well known.
      • styleism, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4"As an Agnostic, I just can't believe people believe any of this religious crap."
        Forgive me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure agnosticism is the belief that it is beyond man to ever understand fully the theological. I'm afraid your an atheist, Nightfall, whether you like it or not.
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 08/13/2008, -0/+15"Sir, are you classified as human?"

      "Negative, I am a meat Popsicle."
      -Bruce Willis, 5th Element.
    • tumatakuru, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6He's a clever man to both laugh with his ass and pull things out of it.
    • alsiddiq, on 08/13/2008, -1/+1well, I think he'll be somewhere here...

      http://www.islamreligion.com/category/59/


      • Sardonic2U, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0anyone draw the similarity between thetan and satan??? hmmmmm
    • BumOfQueens, on 10/17/2008, -0/+0OMG ! Best comment Ever !!!
  • Sardonic2U, on 08/12/2008, -11/+46So while waiting do they eat "cockmeat sandwches"
    • matthewjhughes, on 08/12/2008, -8/+9Guessing you saw Harold and Kumar go to guantanamo bay.
      • JammoBlammo, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6Good. You get it.
      • dododohead, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I think he was being sarcastic in the first place.
  • zenithmbr, on 08/12/2008, -6/+47they go to oprah winfrey's bung hole
    • gobbstopp, on 08/12/2008, -5/+3ssssshhhhh......don't tell; EVERYONE will want to be a scientologist..
    • Haoie, on 08/13/2008, -0/+14They go to her couch, and jump on it.
      • artofficial, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6So...you turn into Rick James?

        sweet.
      • Briandrews15, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6WOOSH...(sound of tom cruise on oprah's couch joke flying over artoffical's head)

        F%@& YO COUCH N#@%A!
    • legoalert33, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8Gary?
    • str1fe, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2And you thought the place the Bible's sinners go to sounded bad...
      • Sardonic2U, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0Oprah's bung hole is big enough to house a lot of the meat bodies.....immense proportions.
  • SRSco, on 08/12/2008, -32/+5I'm a scientologist.
    • Stevenator, on 08/12/2008, -2/+37I'm sorry?
      • SRSco, on 08/12/2008, -9/+5Later at lunch with the taco lettuce crunch crunch
        She sets herself apart the bunch.
        How bad does she seem?
        She makes me wanna scream.
        On the phone with the West Glen Ellen rest home
        Talking up a tattle tome:
        How bad does she seem?
        She makes me wanna scream.
        My mom is gonna babysit tonight;
        Did you hear Melinda got into a fight;
        You whore you bitch she said, well then it serves her right.
        Talking all mad you know she really isn't being sad:
        Her baby daddy's name is Tad.
        How bad does she seem?
        She makes me wanna scream.
      • bdawg923, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2I accept your apology.
    • Sardonic2U, on 08/12/2008, -3/+5Me too.... use ketchup, it tastes better
    • Spoonicus, on 08/12/2008, -3/+22No you're not.. You're a troll.
    • tykwondingo, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3@SRSco - How many times have you left that comment?

      • SRSco, on 08/13/2008, -2/+1Twice. How many times have you trolled scientologist articles?
      • tykwondingo, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I've seen two in the past couple days. If anyone's "trolling" them, I think it's safe to say you are.

    • drbrontosaurus, on 08/13/2008, -1/+0same
  • Buckwyld, on 08/12/2008, -2/+12I know where they go:

    http://www.lifegem.com/

    Then Christie's Auction House to pay the final fees.
    • cheezintern, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2That's pretty cool idea, I'd do it if I were incredibly wealthy and could afford to throw money away.
  • dx74a19, on 08/12/2008, -9/+72***** scientology!
    • TheMachine1, on 08/12/2008, -4/+23And every other ology and ism not routed in science.
      • Chainheart, on 08/13/2008, -5/+9I see you've got everything figured out
      • TheMachine1, on 08/13/2008, -2/+11A person can use the scientific method and know little truth about the universe (like myself) and a person can use mythology and also know little truth about the universe. But with science there is a mechanism to get to the truth. Mythology claims to have it all figured out science does not.
      • thall, on 08/13/2008, -3/+4@TheMachine1:
        "Mythology claims to have it all figured out science does not."
        The arrogant attitude of some scientists contradicts that claim [that science does not].
      • RobotBuddha, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6@thallthall

        There's a bit difference in the scientific method, and the people who use it. Though going by anecdote, I've never talked to a researcher in any field who wouldn't give anything to be the person who ripped open a central concept of their field. I think most religious people would be less happy about discovering the same.
    • VenDrake, on 08/13/2008, -10/+3I love your blind devotion. It rivals religious fanaticism; very admirable.
      • ProfessorFoo, on 08/13/2008, -3/+1You don't belong on digg if you can accept other religions than Christianity.
  • fluidfoundation, on 08/12/2008, -5/+54They go into stasis for 80.3 years while their transport coffin ships try to make the Kessel Run in the least possible jumps, all while floating in pools of peanut butter and battery acid singing showtoons while getting jackhammered in the doodoo hole by Mickey the ***** Mouse with a lawn dart.

    See, I can make ***** up too.
    • compgeek, on 08/13/2008, -3/+6that was ***** pricelss you made me laugh my ass off. boy did I ever need that I was having a ***** day
    • Clusterfrak, on 08/13/2008, -0/+9Or as I call it, Saturday.
    • DeadBabyFloat, on 08/13/2008, -0/+7you didn't make that up, The Bloodhound Gang did.
      • brewer, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2well, he sorta paraphrased them for the last 16 words, but yeah.
      • fluidfoundation, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1And Hubbard didnt make up Mars, but we're not splitting hairs here.
    • redfred18t, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3How can I sign up to your religion?
    • Ladymongoose, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Careful.... in 2000 years that could be a religion too.
    • MysticSavage, on 08/13/2008, -1/+2Your views intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
  • Sonan, on 08/12/2008, -7/+56They go into the ground where they decompose just like everything else that dies.
    • zadadka, on 08/12/2008, -2/+8...or their ashes are spread across green swathes or in the seas...(or even all over the Pacific if you tried to get them into space)
    • sprooj, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Up until we get to the singularity that is.
    • Lukesed, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6While I'm on my deathbed, I'll have one of my limbs amputated and burned so I can snort my own ashes.
  • Shogi, on 08/12/2008, -4/+19They don't go anywhere, they're dead. Duh.
  • aud24, on 08/12/2008, -13/+2AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... you made my day! That's sad- but that was ***** hysterical... that is the fluidfoundation guy did- the rest of your comments suck dong.
  • aud24, on 08/12/2008, -10/+1Is that a Star Wars allusion?- I'm a little slow on the uptake.
    • TheAkolyte, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5Dude, use the reply button.
    • sysop073, on 08/13/2008, -1/+2And the google button
    • aud24, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1To both of you I was being intentional and facetious. Dude
  • gobbstopp, on 08/12/2008, -3/+14soooooo.. then why are there so many goddam people being born exponentially? are insects and animals 'becoming' people eventually? that would explain my neighbor shawn, i guess..
    • NathanielJ, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3I wish I was born exponentially.
      • Sardonic2U, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0If you believe what the hindu's do that there is transmigrations of the soul, there should be a balance of people being made and insects being born..so it can explain your neighbor he must have done something good as an insect to become a human being, but still retained his insect nature for whatever reason... the exponential birth rate is just a function of more people living and begatting and begatting and begatting... you know like in the other work of fiction.
  • RMoore08, on 08/12/2008, -9/+17Hell.
  • Calcularius, on 08/12/2008, -3/+12away
  • DeskFlyer, on 08/12/2008, -2/+14Volcanoes.
  • UltramegaOK, on 08/12/2008, -8/+25They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
    Go to a lake of fire and fry
    • theOster, on 08/13/2008, -2/+4yeah, thats what i was thinking
    • Snoosy, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1See them again til the 4th of July.
    • jawbreaker4fs, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I literally clicked this and did ctrl+f to see if anyone else was thinking that too... good work, sir.
    • bdbthinker, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1that's what i was thinking....and the term Meat Bodies just reinforced it.
  • aftern9ne, on 08/12/2008, -1/+14I've got thetans coming out the wazzoo.
  • Sp1k3, on 08/13/2008, -1/+13They catch a ride in Xenu's DC-10-like spaceship, or so I've heard.
  • lorductape, on 08/13/2008, -1/+40the closet... with tom cruise
    • JammoBlammo, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Seven minutes in heaven. Or not heaven.
    • BlaqReaper, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Now I'm startin' to get angry, so I pull out my gun!
      I'm gonna give you a count of three to open this closet door.
      1. I'm gonna shoot you both.
      2. I'm gonna cap some bitch.
      3. ...
      Now I'm in the closet. Now I'm in the closet too.
  • k0rt, on 08/13/2008, -0/+35"In a widely reprinted 1990 Los Angeles Times article, Hubbard was quoted (apparently from a lecture given in the 1950s) describing how, after death, a thetan is carried to a "landing station" on Venus, where it is "programmed with lies," put in a capsule, and then "dumped" back on Earth, where it wanders in search of a baby to inhabit."

    There ya go.
    • compgeek, on 08/13/2008, -2/+20RIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHHTTTTT...........
    • secrity, on 08/13/2008, -4/+12It's as good as any other description of an afterlife.
      • Ladycomet, on 08/13/2008, -0/+9Agreed. I don't hear any other explanation that makes any sense. Not saying I buy it, just saying ***** is *****.
      • RobotBuddha, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5I think it's a bit odder than a lot of them simply for giving a location. Venus isn't exactly the other side of the universe or anything. It's like having it be Austin,TX. Just a bit strange to have the place of judgment be somewhere we can actually go, or at least photograph.
    • cheezintern, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4I see, it makes perfect sense
    • drbrontosaurus, on 08/13/2008, -1/+2What's scary is how you can draw parallels between Scientology's and say... Catholicism's ideas about life after death. Two thousand years from now, will people be expecting the second coming of L Ron Hubbard?
      • rancidpony, on 08/13/2008, -2/+1He's already about 8 years late.
      • cheezintern, on 08/13/2008, -1/+2How is it scary? I really don't see a significant difference between the two. Both (Catholicism and scientology) offer its believers an explanation of creation, a reason for existence, and an explanation of the afterlife. Granted one's a bit more thought out and all-inclusive than the other, but if scientology appeared during a time in history when people were poorly educated, lived short, meager lives, and were looking for answers,such as around 2000 years ago, it would probably have been more successful, IMO.
    • everslim101, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Blow up Venus - no more lies?
  • compgeek, on 08/13/2008, -6/+6they go to where all the other wackjob religious zealots go. a place that is nothing but a black void since they probably don't believe in heaven or hell so they merely float in sensory deprivation for all enternity.

    on a serious note though yea why are all these celebs following a religion he pulled out of his ass? jeez at least a religion like christianity or islam or judaism has some historically documented fact to it. scientology is pure and utter ***** and nothing more than the rantings of an insane man who got a bunch of idiots to follow the stupid ***** he spews
    • tykwondingo, on 08/13/2008, -3/+5It's just as credible as any other religion, albeit quite a bit more insane than most but just as credible. Mythologies are not the way to the truth, Science is... you'd think more people would've realized that by now.

      Science FTW.
    • compgeek, on 08/13/2008, -2/+3you make a good point. there's myth's in every religion all I'm saying is that scientology has absolutely no fact about it whatsoever as opposed to the abrahamic religions which have (even though they have myth) some fact to them and documented historical accuracy that to me is the reason that they are more credible that scientology. however your point about sciencetific advances being the way to the truth of the human existance is well put
      • Epistaxis, on 08/13/2008, -1/+2Yeah, nine out of ten paleontologists agree a talking snake introduced the first man and the first woman to the sin of knowledge.
    • dopre, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6"at least a religion like christianity or islam or judaism has some historically documented fact to it"

      somebody pulled those out of his ass a little bit longer ago and therefore they are documented. If something is documented that doesn't mean that it is true. Do you think that in 2,000 years, if Scientology survives, it won't be considered as serious as today's 'serious' religions that have talking snakes, heavenly virgins and all that other religulous crap.

      I don't see how can somebody be serious in making fun of one superstition while believing in another stupid superstition. That's why South Park creators had to 'kill' Chef, because Hayes didn't like that they are making fun of Scientology, but he didn't have problem with them making fun of all other religions and atheists.

      It is all religilous.
    • Gndoab, on 08/13/2008, -1/+4sensory deprevation is still senses.

      How does one still have senses after death? how does one see blackness when blackness is still seeing.

      how is anything experienced when there is nothing to experience it? and is that non-experience still experience?

      Pinch! Ouch Ouch.
      • coyote1284, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2I think I've had this conversation before, but I was ***** baked.
      • justinbonnet, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1the human conscious, science has no ***** idea what that is.
    • RobotBuddha, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2I used to work for a company that occasionally worked with "celebs". From the few I met, having people agreeing with you 100% of the time and never being called for saying something stupid does what one would expect to a person's ability to rationally judge things.
  • noahgelman, on 08/13/2008, -6/+37Scientologists die, deteriorate into the ground and become nutrients which are then absorbed by the roots of trees which are cut down and processed into paper which the Bible is printed on.
    • mixsense, on 08/13/2008, -1/+12Somebody has been watching Dane Cook.
    • dopre, on 08/13/2008, -1/+4I think that I heard that from Dane Cook...
      That's all I am going to say.
    • noahgelman, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8I did get that from Dane Cook. I thought if I gave him credit I'd be buried all to hell.
    • AntzNZ, on 08/13/2008, -2/+3Dane Cook ***** sucks.
    • Gooba, on 08/13/2008, -1/+1Holy *****, a Dane Cook joke didn't get buried.
    • coyote1284, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I think it went something more like this:
      Scientologists, you know, Scientologists die, deteriorate into the ground, IN THE GROUND, and become nutrients which are then absorrrrrrrrbed by the roots of trees which are cut, cut, CUT down and processed into paper which the Bible, the ***** BIBLE, is printed on.

      /parody
    • SPRFRKR, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Which is why I want to be fed to lions when I die.
  • ren1999, on 08/13/2008, -0/+20I would like to contribute to the destruction of any religion that charges money for its so-called secrets.
  • Rivfader, on 08/13/2008, -8/+1They burn in eternal hellfire!

    /sarcasm off
  • mydigga, on 08/13/2008, -10/+4They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
    They go to a lake of fire and fry
    See'em again till the fourth of July
  • digitallysick, on 08/13/2008, -2/+10He really didn't die he is using his powers to control your mind to make you think he did. His level is over 90000
  • borez, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6Well I'm glad that's cleared up then.
  • hellahyphy, on 08/13/2008, -4/+9Religious people scare me!
  • keithnoir, on 08/13/2008, -2/+7I'd Ask Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they will tell you...
  • dthebear, on 08/13/2008, -2/+8they all go to tom cruise's basement
  • supermanred, on 08/13/2008, -0/+17What? They don't regenerate immediately like Time Lords? *****, Ron Hubbard sucks... I mean if you're going to make up a ***** religion based in sci-fi you might as well make it kick ass compared to other religions...
    • Sonan, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3But then it might not be believable.

      oh, wait...
    • Lynxpro, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2My sentiments exactly. If one is to make a full-tilt UFO cult, I'd say appropriating the Doctor Who mythos would be a good start. That once you die, your soul appears on Gallifrey and are reborn into the race of the Time Lords and given the power of regeneration for near-physical immortality.

      Of course, some people are already convinced that they live in The Matrix, which of course was a film trilogy that stole its central myth from Doctor Who, so there you go.
  • kds405, on 08/13/2008, -11/+9The ideas of Scientology would be accepted if the organization wasn't so expensive. Buddism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are no different in terms of crazy ideology.
    • flashback99, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3I love the knee jerk religious reaction to statements of fact like this. I can imagine the religious freaks immediately digging you down thinking:

      "No it isn't the same, because in MY faith. blah blah blah blah [insert religious ***** here]..."
    • Lynxpro, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3What exactly do you consider "crazy mythology" in Buddhism, especially non-Tibetan Buddhism? It is basically an agnostic religion in that case since any potential "gods" are unimportant to the cycle of being.

      Plus, if you go back to early Buddhism or early Christianity, both religions should be viewed as liberating their followers from the older religious dogma...Buddhism being a liberation of the followers of Hinduism, and Christianity liberation from Judaism.

      • kds405, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2I never said mythology but there is the crap with the Dahli Lama and life cycles and all that. Thanks for reminding me. All religion is slavery. The only way to find happiness with the universe is by your own devices. I feel if you cannot do that, you are weak.
  • Meocross, on 08/13/2008, -1/+4This stupid Scientology Organization obviously stole other churches idea's and are mixing lies to gain profit, i swear put them out of business Anon Team!
  • scoottie, on 08/13/2008, -3/+1they go to tom cruise
  • chikuten, on 08/13/2008, -6/+8so scientoligists they want to believe in an alien, and christians want to believe in an imaginary being floating in the sky. both sound ridiculous to me.

    maybe you religious people should get hobbies instead of playing make-believe.
    • Chainheart, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5They do, it's called theology
      • RobotBuddha, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3I think that's more the hobby of atheists. We seem to be far more interested in the scriptures and mythology of religions than the average practitioners are.
      • Chainheart, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Just a few atheists I know who are often ex-apologists/theologians have had that hobby. The rest of us just dabble in it (the arguments for/against god)

        The people who make a living (or do they?) in the field of theology are quite devoted to their work, I can't grasp how they can muster up enough interest to do it
  • Sharky35, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6Anyone else get the Life Insurance ad "What happens to your family if you die" IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARTICLE?
    That was worth the price of admission.
  • whathefrank, on 08/13/2008, -11/+2I hate scifags...They are the only people I hate and the only people in the world that warrant hate against them. I like everyone else and in fact am a member of the aclu and make many contributions to other religious charities.

    SCIFAGS on the other hand can all die the worst most painful deaths and go to hell never to return with their cult *****.

    They abuse people, take advantage of governmental systems, and don't believe they have to adhere to the same laws we do!
    I would like to see more people, groups and entertainers take a more active opinion against scientology.
    • secrity, on 08/13/2008, -3/+7Buried for using a homophobic term.
    • whathefrank, on 08/13/2008, -7/+1ummm... I'm gay and if you've ever met or talked to a scientologist you'd agree their HUGE fags. Their more bent than Clay Aiken getting a blow job from liberache through a gloryhole at a Cher concert. Most of them are obvious closeted gays which explains ALOT about why they feel the can supress other peoples freedom...
  • Clusterfrak, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Usually a funeral home so there relatives or estate can pay thousands of dollars for their meat to rot in peace. Some of my inlaws are in the funeral business, people waste thousands on corpses. Cremate and scatter me.
  • SheepBoy13, on 08/13/2008, -2/+5In the ground?
  • MarkusDee, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8Being dead is probably a lot like that time before you're born.
  • rdrr, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5worm food... everyone is worm food.
  • Graves138, on 08/13/2008, -0/+17They rot in the ground, just like christians, jews and atheists.
  • whathefrank, on 08/13/2008, -7/+5I hate scifags...They are the only people I hate and the only people in the world that warrant hate against them. I like everyone else and in fact am a member of the aclu and make many contributions to other religious charities.

    SCIFAGS on the other hand can all die the worst most painful deaths and go to hell never to return with their cult *****.

    They abuse people, take advantage of governmental systems, and don't believe they have to adhere to the same laws we do!
    They don't even use common courtesy!!! Their rude, obnoxious, creepy ass people and the world would be better off without them!
    I would like to see more people, groups and entertainers take a more active opinion against scientology.
  • Jorry7, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6You mean Oprah's minge
  • Enlightenment, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4In the case of "chef", he goes into reruns.

    Scientogist are so full of sh*t, they should be buried in a garden.



  • masterofshadows, on 08/13/2008, -7/+2"Where do Scientologists go when they die?
    They dont go to heaven where the angels fly
    They go to a lake of fire and fry
    see em again til the fourth of july"
    --Apologies to nirvana
    • vinceislegend, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3That's from a Meat Puppets song. Nirvana covered it.
      • masterofshadows, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1cool i didn't know that, only ever heard the nirvana version. Im gonna have to go look that one up now
    • NathanielJ, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3That's also at least the fourth damn time I've seen it while scrolling through the comments.
  • Flushnasty, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6Sounds like a ***** up and pointless version of reincarnation to me.
  • irspariah, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5Why would anyone give a *****?
  • bluesman3535, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5All this article indicates is that Slate is pro-$cientology and that LR Hubbard studied Buddhism [no $ required] and used some Buddhist beliefs in a 'new' way to entice the spiritually hungry. All the pro-
    $cientology links at the bottom cracked me up.
    • RobotBuddha, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3No $ required? If you have a good library, perhaps not. But 'decent' translations of buddhist texts can cost a pretty penny, more so to get them in pali, and books on learning pali aren't cheap either. It's not quite the same thing, I know. But things aren't quite so easy as walking into a temple and asking for free books or instructions either.
    • Puirtabeul, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2The article doesn't really strike me as being for or against anything, but just throwing this stuff out there. It isn't slandering Scientology, and it isn't singing hosannas to the disembodied thetans. The links at the bottom are a tad suspicious, but the article itself is decent.

      It's really no secret that a lot of ideas in Scientology come from world religions. In principle, I want to like Scientology as it's simply mysticism dressed up in kooky pulp sci-fi mythology, but in practice it's been used to promote cultism too much. I suppose I have a different view of it than most, as I came at it from William Burroughs and a background in Hinduism and Buddhism, so I can recognize some of the ideas and I think that the sci-fi mythology is useful (because no one with a good head on their shoulders could possibly take it literally, which is often the point in using symbols to convey spiritual meaning; they have greater power as symbols than they might as things) but its potential has been wasted on founding an obscurantist money-sucking cult. So, thanks for that, L. Ron.

      Anyway, Scientology mostly rips off Anastasius Nordenholz:
      http://www.scientologie.org/english.htm
  • brstilson, on 08/13/2008, -7/+2They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
    • brstilson, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I take it no Nirvana and/or Meat Puppets fans are around.
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