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- DragonFire1024, on 04/16/2008, -1/+21And the crimes continue. Will they ever end?
Authorities in Belgium raid Church of Scientology
http://digg.com/world_news/Authorities_in_Belgium_ ... - youtellme8, on 04/16/2008, -1/+20The Internet community is going to get its hands on every story from Scientology like this and post them everywhere. Everyone will know everything, and Scientology will fall. They have picked the wrong enemies. It is inevitable now.
- ZachHauri, on 04/16/2008, -0/+19How long until the Scientology freaks get this one listed as inaccurate?
- eibmozhsawniarb, on 04/16/2008, -1/+14Yay for the Norwegian press.
- tristandark84, on 04/16/2008, -1/+10Keep digging this so it doesn't get buried by OSA!
This is the kind of stuff that they don't want us to see. DIGG IT NAO!!! - drdrew901, on 04/16/2008, -3/+11****Comment removed due to copyright claim from the Church of Scientology****
- anonylot, on 04/16/2008, -1/+8It doesn't matter how they try to spin this, it's the PR pits for them on this story. Want to bet the guy or gal who processed this woman is cleaning toilets in the RPF?
- prompel, on 04/16/2008, -1/+8No loss, according to the personality test she was "not good for anything".
/sarcasm
That very same test has been used for over 13 years to test about 1000 job applicants every year applying for ordinary warehousing jobs. Link (in Norwegian): http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/04/16/532717. ...
"Performia pays six percent in royalties to the Hubbard-foundation for use of the test." - fivo7, on 04/17/2008, -0/+5thats exactly the issue, scientology targets when vulnerable, she was alive til did test
if she had not done stress test, we dont know, but unfortunately for her and family she is 100% dead - brantw, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5Aliens can make you do some crazy things. Scientology is a bitch of a religion.
- shadowspawn, on 04/16/2008, -3/+8And somewhere, Tom is hiding in Stan's closet.
- Kasot, on 04/16/2008, -2/+7Digg me up if you support her familys decision to go public with this. Personally I'm thankful.
- rebotfc, on 04/16/2008, -2/+7Scientology gets inside your head and ***** you up. Their whole business model is based on brainwashing people.
- DragonFire1024, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5Have you ever had a personality test? They are designed so when you take one, the results are almost 95% of the time going to be bad. Then that way you pay them money to "fix" you. It is a ploy to bring people into the Church.
- scsp85, on 04/16/2008, -2/+7Scientology Spin: "We were right! Look what she did, now if we would have caught it earlier and with proper auditing she would be alive!"
- Zarokima, on 04/16/2008, -1/+5******Comment posted in spite of legal action from the Church of Scientology because they're a cult of ***** pricks******
***** SCIENTOLOGY!! - drastic8, on 04/16/2008, -2/+6seems like some scientologist is using their mind powers a little too willy-nilly....
- thelastcivilian, on 04/16/2008, -5/+9I'm not defending the Scientology test in any way here, because I think it's a little stupid, but... I'm a little skeptical on the implied causality here (the singling out of the test as a precursor to her suicide).
I imagine she was already a little out of it, whether her friends and family knew it. Having someone tell you that you're depressed shouldn't lead you to immediately jump from a window (just as playing GTA shouldn't lead you to beat up strangers). Could it have been a factor? Sure, but anything and everything could have been a factor. - DragonFire1024, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4Maybe she did have an issue or two. No one is perfect. That said, if I was depressed for whatever reason, whether or not it was long term, and I willingly went to seek help and got the results that this family speaks of, I would have been sent over the edge. We don't know what she was thinking and never will. No one does. But that said, Scientology could most certainly be blamed for her death, in terms of a 'wrongful death.' Especially if she was there assuming she was going to get real and truthful help. I think we need to know what was said during the test, when Scientology met to discuss or evaluate results, and what happened thereafter. I see this as a deep and mysterious case that probably will have all kinds of twists and might never really be solved.
- JosephShell, on 04/16/2008, -2/+6How do we start making this pricks accountable?
- DragonFire1024, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3I see people are burying this. went down one. Was at 240 a minute ago. SHOUT THIS GUYS!
- unicronband, on 04/16/2008, -1/+4*****Story bury as inaccurate due to butthurt claims from the Corporation of $¢i€₦₮o£og¥*****
- chingy1788, on 04/16/2008, -2/+5I bet you
CoS is going to mess wit that family now
thats how mean they are - Anonakitty, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2The test is designed to generate fear and magnify minor personality weaknesses so that co$ can charge you a fortune to fix them ..Its basically a kick in the teeth when your already down.Sadly for Kaja , it worked too well .
- Anonakitty, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2The ONLY people who endorse or place any value or credibility in the OCA test is Co$ themselves. It has no academic backing whatsoever.Critics claim the OCA-test that Kaja took is purpously designed to trouble and depress those who are tested. The controversial personality test Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA) is for many people their first meeting with the Church of Scientology. With 200 its questions the scientologists try to attract new members. Critics claim the scientologists want to try to pressure you into taking various courses to improve yourself, regardless of your test score. This among other ways how the church makes money. Here is an explanation of giving test results practice by Andrea Catt, former Scientology recruiter:------------------- "You talk to him about the things which are 'ruining' his life. You basically make the person feel really, really bad about the condition they are in. You take their problems and you magnify them. You look at how that is going to affect them in the future. You get the person into a state where they feel that their future is nothing unless they do something. Then you tell them that the only thing they can do is Scientology. More damning criticism of this test from The Swedish professor of psychology Gudmund Smith at Lund University concluded in 1981 that the test was untrustworthy and in his view unethical. The Lund professor butchered the questions as being obviously leading, unclearly stated and ambiguous The Australian Association of Psychologists, among others has labelled the OCA-test as "directly dangerous".
- rebotfc, on 04/16/2008, -2/+4Accidentally dug you up, what you don't understand is that scientology is very destabilizing, their very business model is to put people in a vulnerable state of mind and drain them of money.
- Joneth, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2FTA: 'Her friends and roommates claim she was in good spirits and showed no signs of a mental break down or depression prior to taking the test. The test was stamped and dated by the Church just hours prior to her suicide....The Church, which is located only meters from Ballo's dormitory, states that the results had shown Ballo was "depressed, irresponsible, hyper-critical and lacking in harmony.' ...Ballo left behind a note telling her family she was sorry for not 'being good for anything.'" Draw your own conclusions.
- unicronband, on 04/16/2008, -1/+3*for a nominal fee*
- fivo7, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2scientology just enough to tip you over edge
dead victim is dead - fivo7, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2you already did
- saxreturns, on 04/16/2008, -2/+3I see your logic, but I'm trying to work out what you smoked to end up there.
- bookishboy, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Because first I'm not really interested in killing myself, and second, committing suicide would involve giving up my lifelong dream of becoming an member of the grammar police.
- Anonakitty, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1****Response removed due to copyright claim from the Church of Scientology**** ,was reposted 10 times as a result
- MiltonWaddams, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1What crime happened here? Giving someone a personality test? My bet would be that most people who decide to take Scientology personality tests are not very stable.
- Anonakitty, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1enlightenment will commence after your cheque clears.
- sockpuppets, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Kill them with poor grammar!
- inactive, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Dugg, Shared, Posted, Emailed, Stumbled, Submitted to Mixx and Buzz!!
- rebotfc, on 04/16/2008, -2/+2Just ***** off and die, please.
- unicronband, on 04/16/2008, -2/+2Why don't you get that trend started? You could become an hero!
- nsummy, on 04/16/2008, -4/+3I hate Scientology just as much as anyone else but come on, this girl obviously had other problems. She wasn't a scientologist, just someone who took one of their personality test. If some unscientific test makes a person leap to their death then its obvious they are not in the right state of mind. Tragic nonetheless.
- pickles46, on 04/16/2008, -4/+3Somebody ought to bring this xenu guy to court.
- goplastic, on 04/16/2008, -3/+2freaking ***** - SOMEONE CALL JACK PARSONS
- fruscianteisgod, on 04/16/2008, -4/+2xenu killed her!
- Warringer, on 04/16/2008, -2/+0Already happened, see below comment...
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- PATSCRU, on 04/16/2008, -5/+1Hey, scieno obsessed folk....if this girl took a personality test and committed suicide, it obviously wasn't level 10 thetan superpowers that made her commit suicide. She had other problems. Making obtuse conclusions from willy nilly stories is just as bad as something CoS would do...try not to stoop to their level.
I took a personality test one time when i was drunk on hollywood blvd. for ***** and giggles, and all they did was ask stupid questions, tell me that I am not a well person, and handed me some literature, which i threw on the floor while laughing....if a girl committed suiced after that, then that's her problem. This story could have just as easily read "suicide after waking up from sleep" or "suicide after eating lunch" because those things are equally irrelevant to her suicide. - siszam, on 04/16/2008, -6/+1People of all beliefs commit suicide. You don't hear about when they are an atheist or a Christian or Muslim. Religious beliefs are either relevant all the time or not at all. Pretending Scientology is responsible for this is ridiculous.
- bookishboy, on 04/16/2008, -8/+2What would be awesome here would be if it turned out that she was a member of the Anonymous movement, who was planning on ending her life anyway and just decided that it'd be cool if she could arrange to have Scientology blamed for it after she was gone.
Not that I'm in favor of people killing themselves, but if you take it as a given that so many people each year are going to do it anyway, it'd be neat to find some way of assigning a larger meaning to a few of the suicides.... using their deaths to affect world events in a positive way, such as helping to exterminate the CoS.
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