Why does Scientology have as advertisements for their latest Volunteer
Minister public relations scam a picture of two people tearing apart
the Earth?
Within the Scientology organization there's a concept they call
"ruin." When Scientologists speak or write the phrase
"find someone's ruin," when they're talking about police, law
enforcement individuals, judges, reporters, human rights activists, or
freedom of speech activists, they mean to find some way to silence the
individual or otherwise destroy them.
But there's a second class of individual which Scientology employs the
phrase "finding people's ruin" about. Those people are those
who haven't signed up for Scientology "courses" (Scientology
calls these people "Wogs") and "finding their ruin"
means to find some word, picture, or some other way to
"restimulate" the individual so that they will walk into a
Scientology business office and sign up for "courses."
The concepts of "ruin" and "restimulation" within the
Scientology criminal enterprise are complex yet in brief Scientology
tries to "restimulate" an "implant" in people to make
them walk like zombies into a Scientology business and literally hand
over their money. Photographs are often used to "restimulate"
people's "implants" and you're probably already familiar with
two of the organization's most blatant: The errupting volcano and the
crossed out Christian cross.
What makes these visual depictions "restimulative?" Well,
L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's mad messiah, wrote that some 75 million
years ago the Galactic ruler named Xenu had a population problem so he
collected trillions of his citizens, froze them, transported them to
Teegeeack (which is now called Earth) and chained them to volcanos
where Xenu dropped fusion bombs on them to blow them up.
Xenu collected the fragments of these murdered space aliens on magnetic
ribbons, transported them to "implant stations" on Mars,
and showed them movies about such things as religion. Xenu then dropped
these murdered aliens back on to Earth where they float about and
connect to humans -- which Scientology calls "Body Thetans" --
and they cause all of humanity's problems; social, economic, mental,
emotional, and physical.
Because people don't know about these invisible murdered space aliens
infesting them until after they pay Scientology tens of thousands of
dollars to start scrapeing them off (using what Scientology calls
"auditing" which is at best hypnosis) when they see things
like an exploding volcano or a crossed out Christian cross (Hubbard
said that Jesus Christ was an "implant") their Body Thetan
"restimulate" on the event that blew them into pieces and
so they act on the human they infest to get them wanting to
"handle" the infestation.
And "Wogs" don't know why they suddenly find themselves wanting
to walk into a Scientology business and hand over their money. At least
that's what Scientology believes. In actual fact L. Ron Hubbard
was mistaken when he came up with the bizarre notions outlined above. In
actual fact it doesn't work yet that doesn't keep the organization from
persisting in their delusions.
Two people ripping apart the Earth in the criminal enterprise's latest
"restimulative" advertisement is more of the same, designed to
make money off of the latest terrorist attacks against the United States.
The organization hopes that seeing the Earth ripped apart will get the
Body Thetans infesting people to in effect "wake up" to the
point where they drive their host (that's you and me) to walk into a
Scientology office to sign up for "courses" to scrape the
alien infestation off.
Does all this sound insane? There was a time when the Scientology
organization denied the existance of Xenu, Body thetans, flying saucers
that looked like DC-8 airplanes, implant stations and all the rest. The
endless media exposures over the past ten years or so has forced the
organization to publically admit to all of these bizarre notions. It's
also interesting to observe Scientologists' reactions when Wogs start
talking about Xenu and Body Thetans et al. Scientologists wll scatter
and run and hide to keep from hearing about it.
If you've ever wondered why Scientology has exploding volcanos in their
advertisings, now you know.
Here's an article which contains numerous lies by the Scientology
organization. See how many you can count:
Scientology reaches out to troubled with ad campaign
Billboards are going up in major U.S. cities claiming to have an
answer for those in distress. Some mental health experts question
the church's motive.
By DEBORAH O'NEIL
For Americans troubled by economic uncertainty, fear and grief, 1,100
Church of Scientology billboards going up in major U.S. cities claim to
have an answer.
"No matter how bad it is ... SOMETHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT."
The billboards are part of an unprecedented national media campaign by
Scientology to reach what it calls "a nation still troubled by the
Sept. 11 attacks."
But the blitz disturbs some mental health experts who express concern
about both the church's motive and its expertise in treating emotional
distress.
The advertisements promote the services of Scientology's volunteer
ministers, parishioners trained in basic Scientology principles that the
church says can solve problems ranging from grief to marital difficulties
to drug addiction.
"Call a Scientology volunteer minister," the ads read:
1-800-HELP-4-YU. And while the billboards don't say so, the services
are free, the church says.
The Church of Scientology is spending $1.1-million on the billboards,
which have gone up in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco,
Sacramento, San Jose, Cincinnati and this week in Clearwater. More are
slated for Atlanta, Boston, Miami, Washington, D.C., Chicago and St.
Louis.
In New York alone, there are 1,000 billboards, many mounted in the subway
system. Clearwater, the spiritual headquarters of Scientology, is getting
eight, and some of those will rotate to Tampa.
It's a "pretty impressive" campaign, said Robert Coen, a longtime
predictor of advertising spending and senior vice president at Universal
McCann in New York. It doesn't match the efforts of mega brands such as
Coca-Cola or Loreal, he said, but for a single entity, it's "a significant
effort to get their message across."
The campaign grew out of Sept. 11, said spokeswoman Linda Simmons Hight of
the Church of Scientology International in Los Angeles. Since the attacks,
the ranks of the volunteer ministers have grown from 5,000 to 14,000, she
said. Scientologists wanted to help at ground zero, and many did.
"That's what brought it together," Hight said. "We have
volunteer ministers. We're soon to have 6,000 more and we can do something
about any situation in life."
Mental health leaders say the campaign looks like a recruitment technique
that could mislead emotionally vulnerable people.
"We are concerned Scientology may be playing on people's vulnerability
to increase their membership," said Cynthia Folcarelli, executive vice
president of the National Mental Health Association, the country's oldest
and largest nonprofit mental health research and advocacy organization.
"The (billboard) message clearly conveys the idea, "We
understand you're in emotional stress and we can help,' " Folcarelli
said. "We have seen the Scientologists present themselves in other
settings as mental health counselors when in fact they're not qualified
to provide those services."
The National Mental Health Association criticized Scientology soon after
the Sept. 11 attacks when the church promoted a hotline number under the
heading "National Mental Health Assistance." The hotline scrolled
across the bottom of the screen on Fox News, but made no mention of
Scientology. The cable news channel yanked it after being told of its
Scientology connection.
The Church of Scientology is opposed to psychiatry and psychology. Church
founder L. Ron Hubbard believed Scientology's applied religious philosophy
offered a better way to deal with life's pains and make people happier.
Volunteer ministers study a 19-chapter text called The Scientology
Handbook that provides lessons such as improving communication skills,
resolving conflicts, getting people off drugs, handling confusion in the
workplace and improving domestic relations.
The ministers also learn how to conduct "assists," procedures
Scientologists believe help people overcome physical or emotional
difficulty.
It takes about 40 hours to complete all the chapters, although some
volunteers study only select ones, said Sarah Gorgone, who coordinates
about 200 volunteer ministers in the Clearwater area.
"They have the tools to be able to help people," Gorgone
said. "If you have a friend that's on drugs and you're like, "I
don't know what to do,' you feel helpless. If you have a tool to help your
friend get off drugs, you feel better."
But Folcarelli said mental health professionals spend years studying and
are licensed.
"Mental health training is not a do-it-yourself proposition,"
she said. "They (Scientologists) not only aren't trained to provide
counseling, they reject what years of science and research have taught
us about appropriate mental health intervention."
Church leaders aren't surprised to hear criticism from "an industry
that doesn't really have the technology to help people, that has false and
misleading ideas about what constitutes the human mind and spirit,"
Hight said.
Volunteer ministers do not proselytize, nor is the campaign about
recruitment, she said.
"It's Scientologists who have solutions to problems who are willing to
go out of their way to share that with other people," Hight said.
St. Petersburg Times
February 8, 2002
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/08/Worldandnation/Scientology_reaches_o.shtml
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