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But the point is is that it is not a religion. It is closer to psychology.
You might as well say that a head doctor is a priest. Just read that DIANETICS book. I got a third of a way through and threw it in the trash. |
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"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message ... wrote: I saw his interview with Diane Sawyer last night. They showed video of him flying his sweet P-51. It's a really nice one. It has "Kiss Me Kate" painted on the nose. He had Diane Sawyer in the back seat. He also had two other warbirds escorting and filming him. One of them was a british warbird, I think a Sea Fury, and the other might have been another p-51. I definitely like his taste in planes better than John Travolta's. To bad they let insane people fly planes. I guess if you got enough money............ Better than putting all that money up his nose, eh? R / John |
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miket6065 wrote: But the point is is that it is not a religion. It is closer to psychology. You might as well say that a head doctor is a priest. Just read that DIANETICS book. I got a third of a way through and threw it in the trash. Christianity is a "mystery" religion. The mystery being the death and resurrection of Christ. "Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed." 1 Corinthians 15:51 Islam is also a mystery religion in that Mohamed ascended into heaven, the good followers can obtain Paradise, etc. Religions like stoicism, or lots of others are really just ways to live your life. I would guess Scientology is something like that. I am not going to spare enough mouse clicks to even look it up. Walt |
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oups.com... It's no more ridiculous than Christianity, Judaism, or Islam as far as I'm concerned. What makes one religion's lies, myths, and superstitions superior to another's? Most religions arose thousands of years ago, when the general ignorance the human race can excuse the introduction of superstions and myths. Today, we can read the writings from those ancient times and say to ourselves "I know that story isn't true, but I see the issues people were grappling with back then with their limited knowledge, resources, and understanding". Scientology doesn't have that excuse. Scientology arose in the 20th century when people, at least in the societies where it arose, were generally pretty smart and educated. People today should be smart enough to know, for example, that the scientologist's "e-meter" - which they use to measure negative energy, or auras, or the presence of alien spirits or whatever, and is probably a light meter - is a big load of doodoo. Today, if you're gullible enough to let someone measure your negative energy with an "e-meter", and you believe it worked, you've got some serious problems. But, just to give SOME credit to scientology: from what I've read (not much), their founder created the religion because he was horrified by some of the abuses he knew about in the field of psychiatry. There were apparently many early psychiatrists who viewed their patients as little more than lab rats, and conducted inhuman experiments upon them. So, I think the cult's founder was motivated by trying to help people by providing an alternative to what he viewed (not without reason, either) as an evil branch of medicine - psychiatry. Never-the-less, somewhere along the line scientology veered off into whacko land, with talk of alien spirits and such. Why did I just spend 10 minutes thinking about this and responding to it on RAM where it's completely off-topic? I guess just because I find the subject very interesting, and there it was. Oh well - I'm going back to drinking my beer and watching movies. |
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Tony Whitaker wrote:
Oh well - I'm going back to drinking my beer and watching movies. I like documentaries like "History of The World Part One" and "Blazing Saddles." Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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"miket6065" wrote: But the point is is that it is not a religion. It is closer to psychology. You might as well say that a head doctor is a priest. Just read that DIANETICS book. I got a third of a way through and threw it in the trash. I'd say you're significantly more persistent than most. |
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Or a woman, in Sawyer's case.
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"Dan" wrote in message
news:OQu0g.2423$iF3.1974@dukeread01... I like documentaries like "History of The World Part One" and "Blazing Saddles." Excellent!!! Those movies go well with beer, too. |
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The Frozen Canuck wrote:
"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message ... wrote: I saw his interview with Diane Sawyer last night. They showed video of him flying his sweet P-51. It's a really nice one. It has "Kiss Me Kate" painted on the nose. He had Diane Sawyer in the back seat. He also had two other warbirds escorting and filming him. One of them was a british warbird, I think a Sea Fury, and the other might have been another p-51. I definitely like his taste in planes better than John Travolta's. To bad they let insane people fly planes. I guess if you got enough money............ What do you mean? Scientology? It's beyond me how anyone can belive in that. Nope, I meant actors. It's not about story telling anymore. It's about folks running around spending most of their day trying to pretend they are someone else, where people throw them into a position of being a role model based on their work, where in their personal lives they can't keep it together! Jumping from one marriage into another, living above the law because of their celebrity or money. Of course, it doesn't help that the public supports and condones this kind of behavior. A majority of these folks are completely unstable in their "normal" lives and just don't know how to deal with the world! Let's put "Mav" in a P-51! |
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"Steve Hix" wrote in message ... Fifteen TF-51D's were built during WW2, IIRC by North American. Converted during the war from P-51D-25-NT and designated TP-51D, redesignated TF-51D in 1948. |
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