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Who is Xenu? Or..How Scientology came to be..

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Leatherface

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Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

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Xenu: Ruler of the Galactic Federation.

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

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sly

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Looks good for an Xbox game. Definitely not next-gen. When is "Xenu" coming out on the Xbox 360?
 

dem

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Seriously.. couldnt they base the religion on GOOD science fiction? Its really like the worst story ever. Something that would come out of a grade 4 creative writing class.
 

calder

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Haha, good overview - based on some longer Scientology histories (most of them written by reporters researching the religion) I have to agree that it is the worst scifi ever written. Millennium did an episode called "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" that mocked Scientology by making up a similar religion. They tried to make the origins of the fake knock off cult Selfosophy just as ridiculous as Scientology but couldn't quite pull it off. :lol
 

Prospero

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This thread has reminded me that it's already 11:30 a.m., and I've yet to hear of Tom Cruise doing something today that's crazy enough to warrant a new GAF thread.

Come on, Tom old buddy--don't let me down.
 

Lhadatt

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I actually heard some people talking about this on the radio this morning. They explained the whole Xenu thing, but the sheer insanity of it didn't quite register until I saw your summary. :lol

More Scientology wackiness at http://www.xenu.net/.
 

DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Lhadatt said:
I actually heard some people talking about this on the radio this morning. They explained the whole Xenu thing, but the sheer insanity of it didn't quite register until I saw your summary. :lol

More Scientology wackiness at http://www.xenu.net/.

Wait... this is real?!?!?! <goes to xenu.net> WTFBBQ!!! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
 
All this TOM CRUISE mess on GAF finally made me curious enough to look it up

The basic tenets of Scientology result from an eclectic mixture of Eastern philosophy and the personal research of Hubbard into a variety of disciplines, as well as the ''data'' uncovered from ''auditing.'' Auditing is Scientology's ''counseling'' or extensive examination of the present life and ''past lives'' of the ''preclear,'' or initiate. In one of its many definitions, Hubbard has described Scientology as ''the Western Anglicized continuance of many earlier forms of wisdom.'' These include the Vedas, Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism, Gnosticism and early Greek civilization; and the teachings of Jesus, Nietzsche, and Freud. According to Hubbard, ''Scientology has accomplished the goal of religion expressed in all Man's written history, the freeing of the soul by wisdom.''

Scientology divides the mind into two components -- the analytic and the reactive, roughly parallel to the conscious or rational mind and unconscious or irrational mind. Experiences of extreme shock, pain, or unconsciousness cause ''engrams,'' or sensory impressions, to be recorded in the reactive mind. These mental pictures are, in turn, the cause of our emotional and even many physical problems today. They can be dislodged only through Scientology.

While these memory pictures are perfectly recorded, they lay dormant in the brain until restimulated by a similar incident. When restimulated, they cause conditioned, stimulus-response behavior which is counterproductive to one's well-being. Thus, when the brain sees a similar situation to a past threatening experience -- even though it is not now a threat to survival, it responds as if it were, producing a form of inappropriate and self-defeating behavior. For example, a boy falls out of a tree just as a red car passes by and is knocked unconscious. Later, even as a man, red cars (even red things) may restimulate the episode in various ways and cause irrational reactions. This man may thus refuse to ride in a red car and may even get ill or dizzy when confronted with the possibility.

In this sense, we are all more or less conditioned beings -- ''machines'' that simply respond to their operator (i.e., the reactive mind). Scientology believes this restimulation is fairly automatic. In other words, we are not free beings: we are slaves of an ''aberrated'' (reactive) mind. Scientology maintains that through Dianetic and/or Scientology therapy, we can be directly exposed to our engrams, ''erase'' them, and become ''clear,'' or in control of our behavior (''at cause'') rather than at the mercy of a damaged reactive mind (''at effect'').

Unfortunately, Scientology informs us, through reincarnation we have all been accumulating engrams for trillions of years. Thus, to resolve hidden engrams, not only must the initiate be mentally whisked back to reexperience the damaging events of this life, but of many past lives as well.

According to Scientology, each person is really a thetan, an immortal spirit who has been so damaged by engrams that he has forgotten he is immortal and even forgotten he is a thetan. Thetans have absolute control over their bodies, but, sadly, they think they are bodies (a terrible fate) and hence are bound by the MEST (matter, energy, space, time) universe. Each time a body dies, the thetan must enter another body, but this brings with it all its trillions of years' accumulation of engrams. Thetans thus are no longer free, but are in bondage to the material universe. Scientology claims it can free the thetan.

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04.html


Wooooooooooh my head hurts :(
 

Phoenix

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"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of human who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive far, far away, amongst the stars."

- Battletology
 

calder

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It's tough to pick just one, but my favourite element of the Scientology creation story is just how extreme Xenu's reaction to overcrowding is. Ok, I rule 70-something planets with hundreds of billions of people on them and I need to thin the herds something fierce.... I know, I'll trick billions of them into being drugged unconscious, then I'll fly them through the endless void of space to a remote planet to stack them up like cordwood around volcanoes in unfathomably huge piles of sleeping aliens. After that it's a simple matter to drop some nukes and voila, huge volcanic eruptions take care of the rest for me. A fiendish, sublimely simple plot!
 

Blackace

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calder said:
It's tough to pick just one, but my favourite element of the Scientology creation story is just how extreme Xenu's reaction to overcrowding is. Ok, I rule 70-something planets with hundreds of billions of people on them and I need to thin the herds something fierce.... I know, I'll trick billions of them into being drugged unconscious, then I'll fly them through the endless void of space to a remote planet to stack them up like cordwood around volcanoes in unfathomably huge piles of sleeping aliens. After that it's a simple matter to drop some nukes and voila, huge volcanic eruptions take care of the rest for me. A fiendish, sublimely simple plot!


I love how it is much like Jim Jones did to his follows...
 

Leatherface

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calder said:
It's tough to pick just one, but my favourite element of the Scientology creation story is just how extreme Xenu's reaction to overcrowding is. Ok, I rule 70-something planets with hundreds of billions of people on them and I need to thin the herds something fierce.... I know, I'll trick billions of them into being drugged unconscious, then I'll fly them through the endless void of space to a remote planet to stack them up like cordwood around volcanoes in unfathomably huge piles of sleeping aliens. After that it's a simple matter to drop some nukes and voila, huge volcanic eruptions take care of the rest for me. A fiendish, sublimely simple plot!


:lol

Just the fact that this is a mildly popular "religion" makes me understand why humanity has so many problems. A good 80% of us are idiot brain fuckable goats!! :lol
 

DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Leatherface said:
:lol

Just the fact that this is a mildly popular "religion" makes me understand why humanity has so many problems. A good 80% of us are idiot brain fuckable goats!! :lol

I think you're way low on the estimate. ;)
 
So lately I've seen a few posts around here on Xenu and other Scientological beliefs. That's origin story stuff, but not really how Scientology began. Did Hubbard just claim that he had visions of the truth and convince some people?
 

Manics

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JoshuaJSlone said:
So lately I've seen a few posts around here on Xenu and other Scientological beliefs. That's origin story stuff, but not really how Scientology began. Did Hubbard just claim that he had visions of the truth and convince some people?


That's a good fuckin question. Considering the guy's military service was called into question after he "embellished" it, how the hell did he sell the story of Xenu and it's wild theories?
 

Justin Bailey

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JoshuaJSlone said:
So lately I've seen a few posts around here on Xenu and other Scientological beliefs. That's origin story stuff, but not really how Scientology began. Did Hubbard just claim that he had visions of the truth and convince some people?
Well he didn't start and talk about Xenu right out. I believe it started with his wanna-be self help book, Dianetics and just kinda sprouted from there. The Xenu stuff wasn't told until you were properly brainwashed into believing anything he said.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics

Dianetics appeared as a complete system of published self-improvement techniques in the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (DMSMH ISBN 1403105464), a comprehensive work detailing Hubbard's discoveries and techniques. The book was officially published May 9, 1950 and became a nationwide best-seller. Due to the interest generated, a multitude of "Dianetics clubs" and similar organizations were formed for the purpose of applying Dianetics techniques to one another, a number of these original groups and organizations still exist today.
Dianetics provided the seed from which the philosophical framework of Scientology grew. Scientologists refer to the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health as "Book One."
 

Manics

Banned
Justin Bailey said:
Well he didn't start and talk about Xenu right out. I believe it started with his wanna-be self help book, Dianetics and just kinda sprouted from there. The Xenu stuff wasn't told until you were properly brainwashed into believing anything he said.


There's a Scientology office within a 5 minute walk from my condo. I've always had the urge to walk in there and tell them I can skip a bunch of levels cause I already know about and believe in Xenu then see what happens. :lol
 

=W=

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He wrote a science book full of crackpot ideas, found out that didn't exempt him from taxes, started calling it a religion, got a few of his drinking buddies to help him gather some impressionable morons and called them followers. Huzzah! No more taxes! Then all he needed to do was kiss the asses of the most insecure people in Hollywood and they fed him money and recognition.
 
Justin Bailey said:
Well he didn't start and talk about Xenu right out. I believe it started with his wanna-be self help book, Dianetics and just kinda sprouted from there. The Xenu stuff wasn't told until you were properly brainwashed into believing anything he said.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics

But isn't that odd? I mean think about it. In a day and age like today, anyone can jump on the net and do some quick research to learn about Xenu and all that shit ... yet people still get brainwashed. Why pay for sessions to learn "the truth" when you can google it?
 

android

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Maybe we should just sticky a Tom Cruise/Scientology thread, since there seems to be a new one every other day.
 

Manics

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android said:
Maybe we should just sticky a Tom Cruise/Scientology thread, since there seems to be a new one every other day.


I second this motion. Scientology provides enough comedy to warrant a permanent stickied thread.
 

Justin Bailey

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ManDudeChild said:
But isn't that odd? I mean think about it. In a day and age like today, anyone can jump on the net and do some quick research to learn about Xenu and all that shit ... yet people still get brainwashed. Why pay for sessions to learn "the truth" when you can google it?
This is why I'm actually happy that Scientology is getting all this press (thanks Tom!), because I feel that the more people know about it, the more they wanna stay away from it.

I mean, xenu.net is the second page you see when you type "scientology" into google.
 

pulsemyne

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So he supposidly had a huge galactic empire which must of had ultra sophisticated technology and the only bombs he had were A bombs? Come on where's the death rays!
Oh and if he had nukes then why the fuck would he need to drop them into volcanos? Couldn't he just have nuked most of the planets and be done with the overpopulation. Or just got everyone to a single planet and nuked that to bits.
Some people will believe any old shit! :lol
 
Manics said:
There's a Scientology office within a 5 minute walk from my condo. I've always had the urge to walk in there and tell them I can skip a bunch of levels cause I already know about and believe in Xenu then see what happens. :lol

As long as you catch up promptly on all the past due fees to reach the Xenu level, I don't think they'd have any problems. :lol
 

LakeEarth

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pulsemyne said:
So he supposidly had a huge galactic empire which must of had ultra sophisticated technology and the only bombs he had were A bombs? Come on where's the death rays!
Oh and if he had nukes then why the fuck would he need to drop them into volcanos? Couldn't he just have nuked most of the planets and be done with the overpopulation. Or just got everyone to a single planet and nuked that to bits.
Some people will believe any old shit! :lol
Or how bout, you know, throw the planes into the sun? Or how bout instead of giving them a mix of glyerol and alcohol to knock them out to send them a billion trillion miles away and shit, just give them fucking poison and be done with it!

I mean honestly... they inject fucking billions of people to kill them... why didn't they just inject them with poison? Did they really need the planes, gas, H bombs, volcaones, spirits, spirits watching movies, etc etc?

And for the record, I am impressed by scientology. Sometimes I think the 'plot' of their religion is so over the top just to test out how good their brain washing technique is. IT'S GOOD!
 
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