re: New Scientology Documentary HBO 7pm

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I enjoyed the documentary. My biggest surprise is how none of these people really said that Scientology is a bunch of quacks... Instead they say stuff like "I left because of the abuse".

None of them said "I left because they told me Xenu dropped me into a volcano and my spirit escaped into some clams and then eventually some people".

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I havent watched this specific series but I don't think they suck people in with the stories about xenu, I think the focus is on the self help aspect stuff that suckers the suckers into joining in the first place.

I have read some of the stuff Hubbard wrote, and he laces his theories with some scientifically accepted fact, you know what they say about a 'good lie" having an element of truth, that's sort of what he did. Pretty sure Hubbard was just looking for a gimmick to get out of paying taxes not to start a brutal cult with SS leadership.

The guy that said "only in the US could this happen" is wrong, this could happen anywhere but the fact that it does go in in the US is at least a little surprising. Seems we have no problem burning to death cults in Waco, and while our govt has plenty of time and fuel to start wars in the Mid East, tell bakers who to sell wedding cakes to and run guns to drug cartels while not protecting our borders, they don't have the wit to put an end to this nonsense.