The Cult of Scientology

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And for the word of prayer, our Father and our God, we thank you for this opportunity to be again in your house and to study your word and to be about the business of proclaiming the truth and uncovering error as your word commands us, Lord, not just to proclaim the truth, but to also stand against the world's philosophies, to stand against the world's ideas and to stand against untruth.
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For your word is the truth as Pilate asked Christ, what is truth? We know the answer.
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He is the way, the truth and the life.
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And we trust in him to get to you.
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So as Lord, we study tonight, we pray that we would be seekers of truth.
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We pray for the many people who have been caught up in this cult of Scientology.
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We pray, Lord, that you would bring enlightenment to them, open their eyes to the untruths that they have been convinced of and bring them into your glorious grace.
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We love you.
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We praise you.
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We thank you and all things.
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We give you glory in Jesus name and for his sake.
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Amen.
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And I want to begin tonight by saying that I have never, ever been as depressed as I was when I was studying this religion.
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That sounds funny.
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Maybe maybe I should restate that because I have had in the past bouts of depression.
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Let me say that again.
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I've never had a false religion make me so depressed as this one.
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Let me tell you why.
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When we begin to look at what Scientology is and we begin to compare it to scriptural truth immediately, what we realize is that much of what is said at the beginning sounds really helpful.
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It sounds really good and it would be something that I could imagine someone who has low self-esteem or a low self-image or a particularly difficult life experience would look to this as being their emotional savior, because that is what it promises.
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It promises that even though you've been through trauma and even though your life has been hard, your life is important.
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And here are the tools that you need to make your life better.
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What's sad is, and I know this is going to go off on a bit of a tangent, but what's sad is so many people have begun to look at Christianity that same way.
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They've begun to look at Christianity as a self-help system.
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So really, what made me so sad at looking at this is I began to look back at myself.
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I began to look back at the church.
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I began to look back at what has become modern day Christianity.
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And a lot of what they're doing to bring people into Scientology has snuck into the church and it's become the church of self-help.
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So that's why it made me depressed.
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The second reason why it depressed me in the study, and please know I'm using that word is simply it made me sad.
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I don't mean it made me clinically depressed.
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It made me sad.
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It saddened me on another level.
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It saddened me that so many people could be so willing to believe such absurdity because they hurt so much.
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Because people are so emotionally damaged, because people are so emotionally hurt.
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When they find something that they think answers the question and gives them the tools.
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It's easy to glom onto that, to grab it, to attach themselves to it and to believe in it.
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I decided tonight to do something that I haven't done before, at least in this series.
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We've been now for three months in the study of comparative religion.
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This is the last night you can thank Patsy Hoffman because Patsy Hoffman requested Scientology.
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So the last week of my life has been devoted to answering her request and which I was glad to do.
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But the first place I went, I hate it when people automatically go to the anti whatever sources.
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If I'm going to teach on Mormonism, I'm going to go find out what the Mormons believe.
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If I'm going to teach on Islam, I'm going to go find out what the Islamic people believe.
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The Muslims.
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If I'm going to teach on Buddhism, I'm going to go find out what the Buddhists believe.
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In their own words.
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Now, I'm then going to study what does it really mean? I'm then going to research further because I know generally on the on the face, they're going to tell you exactly what sounds the best.
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They're not going to tell you the worst part of it.
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But in the beginning of this, I didn't know hardly anything about Scientology.
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In fact, years ago, I made the mistake that some of you might think that Scientology and Christian science are the same thing.
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Some people have probably made that connection of Christian science and Scientology.
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And maybe there have been those who have thought that those two were the same.
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That's not correct.
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Obviously, Christian science, Mary Baker Eddy's religion is an entirely different religion, entirely different foundation.
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Scientology is really a philosophy of a religion that's based on the works of one man.
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And that man's name is L.
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Ron Hubbard.
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Now, you'll see the board, you'll see how I've got it laid out.
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I've got it laid out this way very specifically.
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And yes, I did put the dollar sign here on purpose.
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But that's for the end, because as you're going to see, as we make our way around the board tonight, that in the end.
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The almighty dollar is foundational in the cult of Scientology.
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Let's begin by hearing it from their words.
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I want to show you a couple of videos.
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They're really short, but I want you to see what they believe they're teaching and what they believe they're promoting.
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All right.
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Just give me a second to have the televisions on.
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I'll ask Cody flip the lights off behind you, or I guess that's what George is going to say.
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George has got it.
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Doesn't that sound great? If you read that, if you read what was saying, it was saying a world without war, without illiteracy, without racism, a world where everyone is functioning at their highest potential.
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Well, everyone loves everyone and no one fights where everyone understands.
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And there's there's no battle that are happening.
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I went to the next video that wasn't supposed to happen.
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I don't want to watch.
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There are tons of videos on there.
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I've spent time watching them and I've picked out a couple that I want you to see.
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But my point is, just by watching that first one, you see the promotion.
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The promotion is that by one person becoming what they would call an OT or an Operating Phaeton, and I'll explain that in a little while, by one person becoming an OT, they help multitudes of people.
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And that's the goal is becoming an OT, becoming an Operating Phaeton.
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All right.
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We're going to do some definitions in a little while.
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But let's go to right now.
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In fact, if you would, Cody, put the lights back on real quick.
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I appreciate it.
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But hey, hey, you ran right past the switch.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, there's two sets of switches.
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Before we go any further, let me very quickly just run down the founded by this this side right here, because before we go to the next video, some of this is sort of important foundational information.
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Number one, Scientology was founded by L.
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Ron Hubbard.
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Lafayette Ron Hubbard is his name.
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L.
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Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer and he was a self-help advocate.
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That needs to be understood because I've heard people say that L.
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Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer and he wrote science fiction in regard to religion.
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That is true.
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And we'll see how that's true.
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But his book that is that is proclaimed as to be the book of books in regard to Scientology is not a science fiction novel.
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It's based on his views, which we'll see are science fiction in theory.
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But he considers himself a self-help guru.
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This book is Dianetics.
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It's been sitting on my shelf collecting dust now for years.
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It was given to me by a friend who had it on their shelf back when I was teaching comparative religions years and years ago.
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This is his magnum opus.
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This is his great work, the work that they reprint into many different languages and send out all over the world.
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And I want to give you just a little bit of information about where the history in this book comes from, where the information in this book comes from.
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This is from Hubbard's own words.
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He says that the resources for Dianetics, by the way, that's the name of the book, Dianetics, Dianetics, the modern science of mental health.
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That's the name of this book, Dianetics, the modern science of mental health.
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He says the resources for Dianetics include the medicine men of the Goldie people of Mancuria, the shamans of North Borneo, Sioux medicine men, the cults of Los Angeles, and modern psychology.
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Among the people questioned about its existence were a magician whose ancestors served in the court of Kubla Khan and a Hindu who could hypnotize cats.
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Dabbles have been made in mysticism.
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Data has been studied from mythology to spiritualism.
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And that ends the quote.
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So you can understand that even though we would, you know, we would say this is purely a work of fiction, this is purely a work of science fiction, and in the end we'll see much of it is.
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His followers believe this book to be very much a self-help guide, a guide to reaching your highest potential, a guide to reaching what you were created to be.
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And in many ways, this is the Bible of Scientology.
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This is the book that you would go to that would answer life's questions.
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The book, Dianetics.
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Now, since we've learned a little bit about that word, let's look real quick at a video on the subject.
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Oh, boy.
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This is the one I was having trouble with earlier.
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Excuse me.
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May not be able to watch the Dianetics video.
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I forgot.
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All the rest of them work fine.
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You know, someone who has never fully recovered from a serious loss of experience.
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And then you own a life.
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Do you sometimes experience self-doubt, negative thoughts, unreasonable fears, upsets or irrational behavior? The painful experiences of our past clearly have an effect upon our present behavior.
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But to what degree and why? What causes the mind to depart from rational thought or behavior? That is the subject of Dianetics.
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Every moment of your life, your mind is recording everything that's happening to you.
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Every sound, every taste, smell, pain, emotion, touch, everything.
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These recordings form what is called the time track, a consecutive record of all the experiences accumulated throughout your existence.
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Your mind uses this information to make decisions and solve problems relating to your survival.
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The better its decisions, the better you survive.
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Most of this data is stored in your analytical mind, that part of your mind that thinks, remembers and calculates.
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But some of your experiences are not recorded into those analytical memory banks.
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It is the discovery of Dianetics that all of your painful experiences are stored in a previously unknown part of the mind.
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It's called the reactive mind.
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And it throws those experiences back way the same painful thing from happening to you again.
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Here's a simple and common example.
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At some point, you've probably gotten sick from eating painted food.
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Later in life, if you see or smell or possibly even think about that particular food again, you start to feel a little nauseous.
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Now you know that logically, the mere sight or smell or thought of a food can't physically make your body ill, because you haven't actually eaten it again.
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And yet you're experiencing the same sick feeling you had before.
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This is your reactive mind, making you re-experience the same perceptions it recorded in that earlier incident, in a crude attempt to protect you from what it believes is a dangerous situation.
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It reacts solely on a stimulus-response basis and below your awareness.
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The painful experiences hidden in your reactive mind are the cause of your fears, insecurities, negative thoughts, unwanted emotions and irrational behavior.
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You've been accumulating these deeply buried experiences throughout your existence.
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In fact, the most damaging among them occurred before you were born.
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Dianetics reveals how these negative experiences are stored and contains a technology to free yourself from them.
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What would life be like if all of the pain you've experienced no longer affected your abilities, emotions and behavior? You would think and behave rationally, making the best possible decisions relating to your survival.
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You would be able to utilize your imagination and creativity to their fullest.
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You would be confident, more intelligent and productive and happier.
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You would be yourself.
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Free to enjoy life again.
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Your mind would be clear.
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Interesting sales pitch, isn't it? If you think about it.
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Thank you.
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It sounds like something that everybody would want.
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We've all had pain.
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We've all had suffering.
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We've all had to experience life's difficulties.
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And the concept that you could move on in your life without having the holdbacks of that traumatic event in your life, whatever it may be.
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You see why it saddened me so? Because it really would take someone with a lot of pain and it would give them what they think is the answer to their suffering.
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And I hurt for people like that.
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I hurt for people who have been convinced by this movement.
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And even though it might not be as big as Mormonism or Hinduism or Islam.
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It is growing in the sense that there are people all around the world who are just grasping for self-help.
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They're grasping for things like this.
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And because I know this is out there.
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And because I know it so easily would convince people.
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I mean, these are professionally done things.
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This was not something somebody did in their garage and put on YouTube.
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That video you just watched is four and a half minutes long.
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It probably cost thousands of dollars, if not more, to produce such a thing.
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They've got the money and the resources to spread this wide.
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And though we may see it and say, boy, that's foolish.
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And we may snicker and say, boy, why would anybody believe that? People are believing it.
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People are grasping onto it.
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Because people are hurting.
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And people want an answer to their hurt.
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So that's why, as I said earlier, it was really sad.
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Because it demonstrated to me just how easily people can be manipulated.
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It doesn't surprise me when a person grows up in an Arab land.
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And they grow up in an Arab land and they become a Muslim.
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You know, I love it to see when Christ goes into that person's life and changes their life.
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And they see the truth.
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But it doesn't surprise me when a person grows up in an Arab land and becomes a Muslim.
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It doesn't surprise me when a person grows up in the Far East and becomes a Buddhist.
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This doesn't surprise me.
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What surprises me is that a 1950s era sci-fi writer could write a book like Dianetics.
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And it could so profoundly influence people.
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That there have been over 2 million people who have attended their introductory seminar.
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Now after that, the numbers get askew.
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But they have well documented over 2 million people have taken their introductory seminar.
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Which is a first session of auditing.
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We'll talk about what auditing is in just a bit.
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2 million people.
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Well, there's 6 million people on the planet.
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Pastor, that's not a lot of people.
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One soul that is led astray by this is sad enough.
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But 2 million people looking for self-help in the hands of L.
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Ron Hubbard.
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That's tragic.
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It's tragic.
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So let's talk a little bit more about what they believe and what they teach.
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As I said, the teachings of L.
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Ron Hubbard are found in the writings of Hubbard himself.
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The teachings of Scientology, rather.
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The primary text is Dianetics.
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But also they have a creed.
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I also read that they had a catechism.
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But I couldn't find it.
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So that could have been erroneous.
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But all a catechism is is a way of children to remember a creed.
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Or a confession.
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But I read somewhere.
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There's a couple things I'm going to say tonight.
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I'm going to add a caveat and say I don't have this documented.
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This is something I understand is possibly true.
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Just understand there's going to be times when I say that.
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Because I've done a lot of research.
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But I'm limited in time.
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But I know there's a creed.
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And I like to read it to you.
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These are the essential beliefs of Scientology.
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The creed of Scientology.
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Taken directly from their website.
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This is not taken from a website that would have an axe to grind.
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This is directly from what they believe and what they teach.
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The creed of the Church of Scientology was written by L.
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Ron Hubbard shortly after the church was formed in Los Angeles on February 18, 1954.
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By the way, Hubbard before this was a Navy man.
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He claims to have been completely blinded and damaged while in the service.
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But yet, through the process that he came up with the Dianetics and all this, was completely healed.
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However, there are no documents that show his injuries or anything like that.
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His entire history of his being blind and all these things are much contended within the community of history.
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The historical community.
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There's just no evidence.
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But the Scientologists will believe it.
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And it's not a point to argue with.
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Who cares? But that's what I'm saying.
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Don't use that.
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If you're going to talk to a Scientologist, don't use that as your argument.
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It doesn't matter if he was blinded and got healed.
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It doesn't matter at all.
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But there isn't any evidence of it outside of his claims.
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This succinctly states what Scientologists believe, according to them.
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We at the church believe that all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights.
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That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practice and their performance.
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That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives.
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That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity.
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That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense.
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So far, so good.
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That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments.
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That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions, and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.
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That sounds good, but the truth of the matter is, in the history of Scientology, if anyone has ever spoken out or written against them, there has been a horde of response from them.
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So they say, you should be able to freely write or say whatever you want, unless you're writing about them.
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I want to mention, and by the way, I do not watch South Park.
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I don't recommend watching South Park.
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But I will say this.
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Most of you know what that is.
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It's a very bad television show.
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It's a cartoon on the Comedy Channel.
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There was a character on the show.
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His name is Isaac Hayes.
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I put his name up here.
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He was on the show.
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They had lampooned every other religion.
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Islam, Christianity, everything.
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Mormonism.
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When they came to Scientology, they lampooned it, and they lampooned it well.
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Hayes left, and he said it's not right to make fun of religions.
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When two months earlier, or some very short time earlier, he had said, oh, everybody gets made fun of.
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It's no big deal.
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But when his religion was lampooned, he was out of there.
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Interestingly enough, it's okay unless you're talking about us.
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I just think that that part of their creed is somewhat hypocritical.
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All men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own kind, that the souls of men have the rights of men.
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They make a big deal about soul being the real us.
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Not that that's bad.
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Christianity talks about the soul as being the living part of us, the real part of us.
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But the way that they make it is very interesting.
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We'll talk about that in a minute.
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The creed goes on to say that the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in nonreligious fields, and that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights overtly or covertly.
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And we of the church believe that mankind is basically good.
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Therein lies the foundation for the entire heresy.
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And we're going to talk about that in a little while too.
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But that is a big deal in Scientology.
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You are basically good and all of your bad is a result of external factors.
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That in and of itself, it means it's anti-biblical right away.
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That mankind, that he is seeking to survive, that his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.
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We believe that the laws of God forbid man to destroy his own kind, to destroy the sanity of another, to destroy or enslave another soul, or to destroy or reduce the survival of one's companions or one's group.
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And we of the church believe that the spirit can be saved and that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.
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It's an interesting belief system.
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It all comes back to what can the mind do? The mind can heal all things.
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In fact, the word dianetics is supposed to be a connection of dia and nous, two Greek words, dia being through and nous being mind.
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It's supposed to be the combination dianetic meaning through the mind.
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The idea of how does salvation come through the mind? Salvation comes through self-help, through our ability to overcome through the mind our problems.
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Now comes the fun part.
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Let's define the rest of these words.
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We've looked at dianetics.
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That's the name of the book.
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That's what it means through the mind.
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An engram.
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An engram is any negative experience that you have had in this life or in previous lives.
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And we're going to talk about reincarnational eschatology in a moment.
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But anything that you've had happen in this life or in previous lives that is held over in your spirit, that is bringing you negative energy.
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These are engrams.
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They are negatives from your life, whether it's something that happened to you.
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Remember the pit video? A guy got shot and later hears a firecracker and he has that moment of fear.
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Well, that to them would be an engram.
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They would seek to rid the body of engrams or to seek to rid the soul of engrams through a process called auditing.
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Auditing is done with one of these machines.
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This is called an e-meter.
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I have a couple of pictures here of different ones.
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It's very similar in its function to a lie detector.
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Instead of being strapped to the machine, you have two what look like V8 juice cans hooked to a wire.
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In fact, one person I heard in an interview about Scientology said the original ones were V8 juice cans hooked to a wire.
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Now they're a little fancier.
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But it's hooked to a device that has a meter.
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You hold these in your hand.
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I'll be happy to pass these around if you want to look at those.
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You hold the metal rods in your hand and they ask you questions.
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And as they ask you questions, they read your meter.
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And they can tell where these negative engrams are, where these engrams are in your life.
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And they can give you the ability to work them out.
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You begin as a PC.
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That does not mean personal computer.
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Everyone who begins, begins as a PC.
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A PC is a pre-clear.
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A pre-clear.
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Before you have been audited, you are a pre-clear.
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Once you have been audited to the point that you no longer have these negative engrams, and you no longer have these attachments, these things that are holding you back, you become a clear.
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Alright? You go from being a pre-clear to a clear.
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A PC to a clear.
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By the way, I have another picture if anybody is interested.
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I have a picture of John Travolta holding the E-meter.
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Looks quite younger and his hair was more full.
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And I have a picture of Priscilla Presley holding the E-meter with her thumb up like this.
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So if you want to pass those around.
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So this is the belief.
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You have these negative things, they are engrams.
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Before you start, you are a pre-clear.
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Once you get to clear, you are on the road.
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And I want to say right here, I am a little bit confused how this takes place.
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But my understanding of once you are a clear, you go on to become an operating Phaeton.
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Or what they would call an OT.
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You have gone from a PC to an OT.
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Now what is...
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I see some of you beginning to smile a little bit.
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I was the one who had to look all this stuff up.
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This is really interesting.
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Operating Phaeton.
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What is a Phaeton? According to L.
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Ron Hubbard, a Hubbard, Theta is the Greek letter Theta.
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He said the Theta was the symbol for the spirit.
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That is actually not true.
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Pneuma is the word for spirit in Greek.
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But be that as it may, his argument was Theta was the symbol for the spirit.
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And a Phaeton is your spirit.
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Right now, your spirit is held back by engrams.
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But what happens is through auditing, these engrams go away.
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And when you are a clear, you become an operating Phaeton.
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Your spirit is finally functioning as it should.
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It is finally working as it should.
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You are an operating Phaeton at that point.
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You are an operating spirit.
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So you have gone from being full of all of these problems and issues.
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And then you have gone to become an OT.
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Now, there are eight levels of OT.
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According to my research, Tom Cruise is a level seven.
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I do not know that anyone has made it to level eight other than Hubbard himself.
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However, it is understood that deity is level eight.
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God himself is an operating Phaeton level eight.
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So what does that tell us that they believe about L.
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Ron Hubbard himself? That he himself attained deity because he attained OT level eight.
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And Tom Cruise is right behind.
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Now, here is the interesting thing.
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Your initial conference costs very little for you to go and get the initial audit.
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That costs very little.
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But every audit after that on the way to becoming clear is a little bit more and a little bit more.
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One of the things that I read said that it was potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars for somebody to actually become an operating Phaeton, to actually get through all of the necessary clearing that it would take to become an OT.
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That kind of it is interesting because I want to go back to the writings of Hubbard because something he said very early on is this.
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And this is a direct quote that he said.
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He said, writing for a penny a word is ridiculous.
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If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start a religion.
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End quote.
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Writing for a penny a word is stupid.
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You make a religion, you make a million dollars.
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Well, he certainly died having proved that very true because he died as a multimillionaire.
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But you see how it works.
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It starts out as a self-help program.
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We'll begin to help you.
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We'll get you tasting the good life.
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And now you begin to mortgage your house.
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You begin to sell all you have.
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You begin to do away with any inheritance you may have had.
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You begin to give all of your money to this program.
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Somebody said, I don't know anybody who's a Scientologist.
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Neither do I.
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I don't know anybody who can afford it.
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But who do we see who are Scientologists? People who can greatly afford it.
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Multimillion dollar athletes and singers and actors and musicians.
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That's what we see.
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And again, people see that and that makes them want to be.
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Hey man, Tom Cruise is talking about the value of these things.
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And begins to trickle down into the system.
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All right, now getting back to the definition.
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So we understand the Phaetons.
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Operating Phaeton is an OT.
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He mentioned in the video the analytical mind, the reactive mind.
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That's something to understand.
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They believe that all the engrams affected are held in the reactive mind.
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And that's what's being cleared.
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We don't understand the reactive mind in medical science.
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It's only understood by, of course, Hubbard and his ilk.
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And that's part of another thing cults often do.
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You can't see what we can see.
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You don't know what we know.
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And that's that.
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All right, I want to make sure that I haven't left anybody behind.
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I'm sure that you guys are very confused now as to why anyone would believe this.
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But does everybody understand on this side of the wall? I don't want to get into much of the history of Hubbard.
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I've got an entire stack of stuff on the history of Hubbard.
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It really doesn't matter.
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What matters is what he's telling these people.
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What matters is what they believe.
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He is a man who went from being a sci-fi writer to a self-help guru to a religious leader.
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That's the chronology of his life.
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And all the rest is really unnecessary for us to know at this point.
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The major heresies.
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The entire system is a cult.
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So to say heresies, the entire thing begins and ends with heresy.
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But I wrote these down as the things that really stuck out in my mind as the thing that got my most attention.
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Number one, they forced the idea that mankind is good by nature.
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What does the Bible say? The Bible says that we are by nature children of wrath.
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Ephesians chapter 2.
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The Bible says there is none who does good.
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No, not one.
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There is none who understands.
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There is none who seeks after God.
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Romans chapter 3.
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And it goes on to say in the Old Testament that the heart is deceitfully wicked.
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Who can know it? That the heart itself, the internal nature of man.
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That's what it means when it talks about the heart.
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It's talking about our very nature itself is so corrupt that we can't even understand the level of corruptness.
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We can't even understand ourselves.
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Yet they would say we are by nature good and it is these external influences that have caused us to be bad.
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That's the second one.
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Problems come from external influences.
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Would you agree that some of man's problems come from external influences? Could we agree with that? Yes, we could obviously agree that some of the things that we deal with.
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But could you also not very quickly affirm that much of our problems come from within ourselves? That we have a propensity to sin.
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We have a propensity to do wrong.
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And when we do wrong, that brings problems.
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And the thing about external influences is that generally the external influences that hurt us come from the inside of someone else.
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You know what I'm saying? It's only taking a step back to say all my problems are external.
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They're coming from someone else.
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It's only taking one step back and say well who did it come from? It came from inside them.
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So it's still going back to the heart of man.
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It's still going back to the problem of the sin nature.
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And that's the third one I put here.
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These first three kind of go together.
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Mankind is good by nature.
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Man's problems come from external influences and denial of the sin nature.
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There is no sin nature.
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And that's the three main what I would call anthropological problems in Scientology.
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Anthropological being man focused.
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The study of man.
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Anthropology.
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They have a skewed view of man.
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Now these four also go together.
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These three go together and these four go together.
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I say the other heresies.
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They have an evolutionary biology.
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They have a reincarnational eschatology.
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They have a mythical cosmology.
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And they have a Christless sociology.
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Oh boy, those are big words.
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I bet everybody can tell.
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First and foremost, evolutionary biology.
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They believe that mankind did evolve.
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Okay? They believe that we evolved.
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And they talk about evolution as part of their system.
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Yet at the same time, they believe in reincarnation.
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So even though we're constantly evolving physically, our spirits have gone from one physical person to the next physical person.
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That these spirits are seeking to become clear and phaetons so that they can go on.
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But until then, we're still, we're just simply hitching a ride with these physical bodies.
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Our phaetons are within us.
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They have the engrams around them.
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But they're simply hitching a ride on this evolutionary track.
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Okay? Now, interestingly enough, going back to the clear and preclear, they don't believe Jesus ever was an operating phaeton.
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They say Jesus was just above a clear.
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If you think about the hierarchy, Jesus was well below L.
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Ron Hubbard.
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In fact, some people have actually, some people, and I don't know that L.
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Ron Hubbard ever did this.
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But Walter Martin made the point in his teaching on this, and Dr.
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Walter Martin is very respected.
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He said that it became L.
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Ron Hubbard, E-L.
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Why would that matter? E-L is the name for God in the Old Testament.
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Elohim, El Shaddai, you know, we've heard these names before.
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The E-L is the prefix for the name of God in the Old Testament.
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So it became L.
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Ron Hubbard, as in a deified person.
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And, of course, they believed he was well over Jesus Christ, who himself was only preclear.
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Or opposed, he was only a clear, just above a clear.
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All right, so they have an evolutionary biology.
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They have a reincarnational eschatology.
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They believe that there is a reincarnating of our spirit into new bodies.
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And that goes on until we achieve clarity.
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In fact, they do not ever say that L.
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Ron Hubbard died.
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He did die.
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But they won't say that he died.
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In fact, I couldn't find it in my notes if I wanted to, but there's somewhere in my notes where it actually has a quote of what they said.
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But effectively, it was this, that his spirit moved on to consider research as an operating thetan.
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He didn't die.
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He departed the body to continue his research as an operating thetan.
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So, I mean, that's the belief, is that your spirit just moves from one to the next.
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And when you become this operating thetan at this certain level, you go on to this higher plane of existence.
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So reincarnational eschatology.
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Mythical cosmology.
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Oh, I've been waiting for this one.
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I have a tract called, What is Xenu? I have to read this to you.
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Because if I didn't, you wouldn't believe me.
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This is what is taught, not at the base level.
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And I want to tell you, if you're ever going to talk to a Scientologist, if you ever happened upon one and you wanted to share the gospel with them, don't ask them about Xenu.
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This is OT level three stuff.
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You don't learn about this until you're an operating thetan level three.
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Don't laugh, I promise.
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This is OT level three.
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But this is the history of our universe, according to L.
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Ron Hubbard.
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Here's where we find out how good of a sci-fi writer he really was.
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Because, honestly, George Lucas doesn't hold a candle to this guy.
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Once upon a time, 75 million years ago, to be precise, there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu.
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Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy, including our own planet Earth.
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In those days, Earth was called Tigiac.
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Xenu had a problem.
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All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated.
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Each planet had an average of 178 billion people.
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He wanted to get rid of the excess population, so he formulated a plan.
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With the help of renegades, Xenu took complete control and defeated the good people of the loyal officers.
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Then, with the help of psychiatrists, he called in billions of people for income tax inspection.
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Hang with me, please.
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But they were instead given injections of paralyzing mixture of alcohol and glycol.
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Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC-8s, except that they had rocket motors instead of propellers.
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Here it is in his own handwriting, by the way.
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Yeah, it sounds like a really good science fiction movie.
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Well, maybe a really bad one, because I do believe Battlefield Earth had something to do with the belief in this.
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That was a pretty bad movie.
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These DC-8 space planes flew to Earth where the paralyzed people, numbering in the hundreds of billions, were stacked around the bases of volcanoes.
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When everyone had been piled on Tigiac, H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes.
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Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs, and everyone was killed.
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The story doesn't end there, though.
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Since everyone has a soul called a Phaeton, remember the Phaetons? Xenu had to trick the souls into not coming back.
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So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by nuclear winds, he had special traps that caught their souls in electronic beams.
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The electronic beams were sticky, like flypaper.
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After he captured all these souls, he had them packed into boxes and taken to huge cinemas.
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This is where it gets interesting, because I want you to hear this real important part.
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Their souls had to spend days watching special 3-D motion pictures that told them lies about what life should have been like, and these films confused them and tricked them into believing things that were not true.
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They were false pictures and were told false things, including stories about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other religions.
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In this story, this process is called implanting.
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You see, the Scientologist believes that Christianity and Islam and all of these other religions have simply been implanted into our minds.
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They didn't actually happen.
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These things didn't actually exist.
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You see, the story of Christ, the story of Muhammad, that all these things were simply implanted into the minds of these creatures that would ultimately become the souls of men.
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When the films ended and the souls left the cinema, they began to stick together in groups.
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They had all seen the same film and thought they were the same person.
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They clustered in numbers of a few thousand.
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There were only a few living bodies left, so they stayed in clusters and inhabited these bodies.
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Those bodies were our ancestors and evolved into what we are today.
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As for Zinu, the loyal officers finally overthrew him and locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets.
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He is kept there by a force field powered by an external battery.
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Zinu is still alive today.
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I compare this to the Phantom Zone in Superman 1 and Superman 2.
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And by the way, going back up a little bit in the story, when it talks about putting everybody on planes, sending them to Earth, this whole idea of implanting and these things not being true, making them watch films, it sounds very much like Matrix.
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The Matrix is nothing is real, everything was just implanted into people's minds.
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It sounds very much like that idea.
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So it's very science fictional and you can imagine it being a movie.
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That is the end of the story.
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And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called body thetons.
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If each of us is to be a free soul, then we must remove all of our body thetons and pay enormous sums of money to do so.
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And the only reason people believe in God, Christ, Muhammad, or Satan is because it was in the film their body thetons saw 75 million years ago.
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That's the belief.
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The only reason why the story of God, Christ, Satan, Muhammad, or any of the other belief systems in the world are even there is because this was put on a film by a galactic overlord named Sinu 75 million years ago.
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All the history is false.
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All the history is false.
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It didn't actually happen.
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It's something that we simply, our body thetons remember because it was in the film.
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I'm sorry? Yes, yes.
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He's found clarity.
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He's found clarity.
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He's a clear.
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He's an operating theton.
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So now he knows about the history.
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He knows about what actually happened.
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Through this process of Dianetics, he understood.
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He understood how to become clear.
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He became, through the process of understanding, he became an operating theton at level eight, which is a deified state.
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Oh yeah, God is big in Scientology because they say supreme being, but they'll still use the word God.
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They'll say we've been endowed by God with these inalienable rights, but to them God is more of a force than personal.
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So it would not be, they might call God personal, but it's the idea of their God is more of a force than a person.
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Do they pray? I didn't find anything about prayer.
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I didn't see anything about prayer.
52:32
The auditing sessions, as you saw in the pictures I sent around with Travolta, that is their therapy.
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That is what gives them their heightened levels.
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And from what I understand, a worship service, if you want to call it a worship service, a service in a church of Scientology would be secular music, pleasant secular music, auditing sessions, and listening to lectures by Ron Hubbard which were recorded.
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Different ones.
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Ron Hubbard? Yeah.
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Yeah, he would have said that there were, you know, well I don't know once he got up to level eight.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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All right.
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And that's what gets down to the Christless soteriology.
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We already said they have an evolutionary biology, they have a reincarnational eschatology, they have a mythical cosmology, the story of Zeno and the Galactic Empire.
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But the Christless soteriology, the Christless soteriology, they do not believe in any way, shape, or form in the Christ of Christianity.
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In fact, they believe that he is an implanted notion, not an actual being.
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That he was simply implanted into the minds of these thetons in this pre-living existence before mankind was really mankind and all that we believe about him is untrue.
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The sad thing is this is their symbol.
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I don't know how many of you can see it.
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I couldn't get a bigger print.
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It's a cross.
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That's the symbol of the Church of Scientology.
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It's a cross.
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But it's a cross, you'll notice.
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I'll try to show, I'll try to draw.
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It's a cross with a star inside.
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I'll read to you.
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The cross closely resembles the Christian cross, but differs from it in the addition of four diagonal rays between the conventional horizontal and vertical arms.
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The eight points of the cross represent the eight dynamics in Scientology, which are self, creativity and procreation, group or community, species survival, life forms in general, matter, spirit, and infinity or supreme being.
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So they don't have a cross, they have an eight point and every point has a different meaning.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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But I've got to ask you, that looks like a cross, doesn't it? That looks just like a cross.
55:49
Why would anyone develop a religion, put a cross on it, and call it a church? Well, could it be that the religion that is most widely practiced in the land where that religion was created just happens to have crosses and call themselves a church? Again, it all goes back to this.
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It is sadly the biggest money-making scam in the history of religions.
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Well, I know you're...
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Yes, I agree, a hundred percent.
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But I also want you to think about this, I want everybody to think about this, because this really, this has been on my mind.
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It would be very easy to lampoon our own beliefs.
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It would be very easy to make fun of Christianity and to say, ha, ha, ha, they believe...
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I mean, I've heard Richard Dawkins do it a million times, an atheist who says, you know, we believe in a fairytale man who lives in the sky.
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You know what I'm saying? So, it is very easy to lampoon and joke about what someone else believes.
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The sad thing is, it seems to me that there is so much evidence that this is, in every way, shape, or form, a great story by a talented science fiction writer.
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Yet, they, the many who follow after him, salute his picture and call him the greatest of the great.
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Based on reincarnation, you believe in a fairytale man.
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Okay, so you go up there again.
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Well, no, because he's reached the highest level now.
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He doesn't come back.
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Oh, so he's not...
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No, there's a point at which he goes on, and that's...
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Yes, since he reached that highest level, he wouldn't be.
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Sure, very similar.
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Well, Nirvana is nothingness.
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The interesting thing about Buddhism, we didn't ever talk about Buddhism this whole eight weeks, four, three months that we've been studying.
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I never got into Buddhism.
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The interesting thing, in Buddhism, Nirvana is nothingness.
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You're seeking nothing.
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That's the idea, is that you're moving on through reincarnated states until you finally reach the point where you're next, because that's the highest state of being, to be nothing.
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I mean, that's...
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Again, I don't have time to go into Buddhism tonight.
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I don't...
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I didn't really want to get...
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I didn't really want to go into that one this time.
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Maybe next time I do comparative religions, we'll start with that one, but I just...
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I spent...
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We did three months, and I try to keep myself limited, because if not, I'd go forever.
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Somebody had a question.
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George, you had a question.
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From what I understand, it is supposed to be as private as a confessional.
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They treat it like the confessional in the priesthood, so I can't imagine it being recorded, but I don't...
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I didn't find anything about that.
59:48
All I remember reading was that it is treated as a confessional in a church.
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When you're auditing, it is just as private, so whether or not they record things for that purpose, nefarious purposes, I don't know, but I'm sure it wouldn't be public if they have it.
01:00:05
They're keeping it for their own reasons.
01:00:10
That book you just showed...
01:00:15
They wouldn't call it a Bible.
01:00:17
They would say this is the...
01:00:18
Is this their education when they look at the answer? Yeah, this is the first step.
01:00:22
Reading this would be the first step.
01:00:32
Oh, sure.
01:00:36
Absolutely, yes.
01:00:37
I mean, obviously, I don't remember then.
01:00:39
I don't remember back then, but you'd be surprised how many people have this on their shelves.
01:00:44
They don't even know what it is.
01:00:45
They just have gotten it from other people's houses or as their parents die or whatever, they go in, they get all their books and they put it in their house and they end up with a Dianetics copy.
01:00:56
I got it from Garrett Wilkinson.
01:00:58
Remember him? I was teaching a class and he asked me about...
01:01:02
It was back when I made the confusion between Scientology and Christian Science and he said, no, and like I said, this was years and years ago and I knew they weren't the same, but I confused them in a conversation and he said, no, no, no, I've got the book.
01:01:15
Let me bring it to you and I was like, great.
01:01:16
I'll sit on my shelf and collect dust because I'm not...
01:01:19
It would be very hard to redeem the time as the Bible tells us to do if I took all the time to read this book.
01:01:25
So anyway, but I've read portions of it.
01:01:28
I've dog-eared a lot of it.
01:01:30
It's got a thesaurus in the back which...
01:01:32
or not a thesaurus, a dictionary which gives definitions to those words which we talked about.
01:01:37
It gives...
01:01:38
I dog-eared a few places in here where he talks about the thetons or engrams.
01:01:43
There are three types of engrams.
01:01:44
There's the conscious survival, the pro-survival and the painful emotional engram.
01:01:50
There's three different types and he explains what the three different types are and of course it's all things that he's made up but it sounds...
01:01:59
it sounds like wisdom.
01:02:02
It sounds like something that would be right next to any other medical book because honestly, if you read a medical book, you wouldn't know all the words in there and the big words sound fancy.
01:02:12
They sound important.
01:02:13
They sound like they mean something and he fooled the world.
01:02:18
I mean, he fooled a lot of people in the world rather into believing what he was saying was true.
01:02:22
It's a scary thing to think that people can be so deluded and the thing I want to finish with, the thing I wanted to kind of...
01:02:27
I know you have a question.
01:02:27
Did you have a question? I wanted to finish just by saying people are easily deceived and we are people.
01:02:48
My point in that and that's really kind of come into my mind and heart the last few days in studying this.
01:02:53
How easy are we deceived? Frightening.
01:03:49
Yeah, I didn't mention that.
01:03:51
He has built or is building a church of Scientology.
01:04:02
That's what I said.
01:04:03
They go in there to congregate to...
01:04:05
They have secular musical services.
01:04:08
They have...
01:04:08
They listen to the teachings of L.
01:04:10
Ron Hubbard as they've been reported.
01:04:11
And they call it a church.
01:04:13
Yeah.
01:04:13
Not a meeting place.
01:04:14
They meet, yeah.
01:04:15
They call it a church.
01:04:16
It's the church of Scientology.
01:04:17
Yeah.
01:04:18
I call it a meeting place.
01:04:19
Well, sure.
01:04:19
I'm saying they would call it the church.
01:04:21
And let me...
01:04:22
Like I said, let me finish what I was saying because I think...
01:04:24
Again, I just want to stress this.
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It's so easy to be deceived.
01:04:30
People are easily deceived and we are people.
01:04:33
There are just as many people in the church now.
01:04:37
I would...
01:04:38
Let me back that up.
01:04:39
There are just as many people claiming Christianity who are teaching things that are just as damning, that are just as bad, that are just as far-fetched, and it's just as anti-biblical.
01:04:52
Don't you let them deceive you.
01:04:57
That's what I...
01:04:57
That's really just what's been on my heart.
01:05:00
How easily are they deceived? Well, let's look at our own front door, too.
01:05:05
This just drives me to...
01:05:15
We'd all be deceived.
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If it wasn't for grace, I wouldn't be here.
01:06:23
It's real.
01:06:50
It's a sad thing.
01:06:51
And as I said, there's a lot that...
01:06:53
A lot that reminds me in my teaching of things that we need to deal with ourselves.
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Not to be deceived.
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Not to seek truth and not be deceived by her.
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So let's...
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Father, thank you for this time.
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And Lord, I do pray that it's been beneficial to the body.
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And I do pray, Lord, that we will pray for these people that are so lost and so far from you.
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And Lord, we know that so many influential people have bought into this lie and are now in their lives out promoting it.
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We just pray for them, Lord.
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We pray that the gospel of grace would reach their ears and that the Holy Spirit would convert their heart.
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We thank you for grace.
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We thank you for the mercy that you give us.
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We pray that you would help us with our doubts.
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Help us with our faith.
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And keep us from error.
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As people, we are so easily drawn away by error.
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And there are so many people out there who call themselves Christians, Lord, who are teaching error.
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And they have no concern for what they're teaching.
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They teach whatever satisfies the congregation.
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And Lord, empower us by your Spirit to not be that way.
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Help us, O God, to seek after you.
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen.