Has anyone actually been to a Scientology event ?

[Haggis_McMutton]

I got a flier for one being held in a couple of days.

It's supposed to help me tell which people in my life are holding me back and which are helping me reach my full potential.

I'm quite tempted to go for shits and giggles. I'll have to see if I can co-opt one of my friends.

[BigBallinStalin]

Do it... for SCIENCE!

[Symmetry]

Meh- why bother? It's not as if they aren't trained to deal with people who don't agree with them. It'll be like talking to a Jehovah's witness for fun.

It won't be fun.

[luns101]

I haven't been to an official Scientology event, but I did visit an offshoot of them that was more like a hybrid of Scientology and Hinduism with a little outer space stuff thrown in for fun. Back in college I took a World Religions class. We visited a place called the Unarius Academy Of Science in east San Diego. The place was littered with portraits of one of their founders dressed in a fairy costume and wielded a magic wand (no, I'm not making this up). She supposedly convinced Satan to repent, and there's one portrait in particular that had her granting the devil amnesty, with a stairway leading to outer space (heaven?).

Anywayz, there were several "tour guides" there to answer our questions. This old guy came and spoke with me about the fact that he wasn't really there in the facility talking with me...he was actually about 200 years in the future on a spaceship. My friend Ernest kept messing with him about how to work the control panel, and if there was an escape pod. The guy didn't even know he was being made fun of, and just continued to talk about how easy it was to maneuver throughout the galaxy. He said the only reason we were talking was because he was actually remembering a "past life experience", and that it was necessary for him to improve his current life (200 years in the future, remember?) by learning from a mistake in the past. I asked him if he could help us out by letting us know who was going to win the World Series for the next 10 years, but he walked away since he could see we weren't interested in converting. I would highly recommend attending, but it probably won't be as fun as what I experienced.

Oh by the way, there's a Scientology ranch in San Jacinto, CA that's very bizarre as well. It's called Golden Era Productions. They make Scientology videos there and give free tours every Sunday. I've never visited, but have played on their adjacent golf course.

Basically, just go visit California to meet your Scientology needs.

[Woodruff]

Meh- why bother? It's not as if they aren't trained to deal with people who don't agree with them. It'll be like talking to a Jehovah's witness for fun.

It won't be fun.

That's what I'm thinking. Also, make sure you give them false personal information.

[saxitoxin]

Meh- why bother? It's not as if they aren't trained to deal with people who don't agree with them. It'll be like talking to a Jehovah's witness for fun.

Christopher Columbus: Should I sail west?
Symmetry: Meh - why bother? It's not as if we don't already know the world's flat. Plus, there'll probably be mosquitoes.

Benjamin Franklin: Should I go fly a kite today?
Symmetry: Meh - why bother? When you've flown a kite once you've flown it a thousand times. Plus, there'll probably be mosquitoes.

Neil Armstrong: Should I go to the Moon?
Symmetry: Meh - why bother? It's not like you'll see anything there we can't already see with a telescope. Plus, there'll probably be mosquitoes.

[Phatscotty]

just a note: The scientologist's bought the old and historic Minnesota science museum in downtown Saint Paul.

Very interesting sight to see for the first time. Everybody thinks about it every time they see it. Not actually an event, but there is some kind of effect it has on everyone who grew up here.

These guys mean business. This used to be the coolest block downtown. I can't find any pictures of it, but they had a huge dinosuar skeleton made out of Iron that dominated the intersection.

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after

[GBU56]

Here's a Scientology Church locator. Now all of you can save your worthless souls.

http://www.scientology.org/churches/locator.html

[heavycola]

I'm quite tempted to go for shits and giggles.

That's what tom cruise said.

[hotfire]

just a note: The scientologist's bought the old and historic Minnesota science museum in downtown Saint Paul.

hmm i wonder what kind of movies they play on that rediculously huge movie screen

[AndyDufresne]

I'm quite tempted to go for shits and giggles.

That's what tom cruise said.

We'll never get you back, Haggis!?!


--Andy

[heavycola]

just a note: The scientologist's bought the old and historic Minnesota science museum in downtown Saint Paul.

hmm i wonder what kind of movies they play on that rediculously huge movie screen

I popped into the Scientology HQ in the City of London last year because it was pissing down and they were having an open house thing, with biscuits. BISCUITS - these people are cunning like that. Upstairs they had a huge room filled with large-screen TVs in booths, and each one told a different story about different aspects of L Ron Hubbard's awesomeness. So maybe that is what they will show.

Then i went downstairs and made a half-hearted attempt to talk trash about xenu with the lovely man who was operating the tea urn, but he just smiled in a friendly manner and my heart wasn't really in it.

[2dimes]

They gave us some newspapers and had a table filled with books. I told the lady I couldn't read.

[whitestazn88]

i went to the church out here in LA, not the main one but one of the offshoots in the burbs. they tried to charge me for the tour, i said no. they tried to charge me to watch the movie, i said no. they tried to charge me to buy the book, i said no. they told me to leave. i did.