The New Road

Scientology Introduction

Someone posted a thirty minute introduction to Scientology on Google Video. I'm scared to post to it since Scientology is so litigious and I really don't care that much about it. If you want the link just email me personally. Anywho, it's not particularly interesting, though it is oddly robotic. The people are either drugged up or have first-take-itis.

One segment that really stuck out was a meeting with the 'Orgs' (churches) 'Director of Processing'. Which is to say; the dude that gives you audits with the e-meter. Anyway, right from the get-go this guy just tears into psychology. I mean, he is off the hook about how psychology and drugs are just messing people up left and right. And how psychologists are deranged and evil, and should be given to other psychologists and then 'they would be finished'. If I was some random dude off the street who just came in to see what this was all about, I'd be like, "where is that door again?"

Serious PR problem there. If you asked people what was the number one problem in the world, my guess is that Psychology would be pretty damn low on that list. You have to kind of warm people up to hating psychologists. You know, put in some video of psychologists making coats out of puppy fur between sessions.

Oh, yeah, there was this thing about government mind control drugs at the beginning of the video. But, that's just the usual "I line the shopping cart that holds my belongings with tin foil" type of kookiness. The psychology stuff was what really struck me as batshit crazy.