Anyone Besides Me Watch Louis Theroux On Scientology Last Night?

[ladybirder]

Wow! What a seriously nasty bunch of people. What did you think?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09fgkyp/louis-theroux-my-scientology-movie

[EDDIE51]

This is what Scientologists believe

There is a very good South Park episode that explains it but all the versions I can Google are infected with viruses that makes my computer refuse to run them.

[EDDIE51]

Ladybirder T stands for Theatan , a Theatan is a full member of the church of scientology . The higher the number the more senior, T8 is the head of the entire church. There can only be one T8 at anytime.
And yes the are all as mad as a box of frogs !

[murraymints]

very odd and scary

[douglas9401]

Complete and utter bampots who should be ridiculed at every possible chance, long and loud.

[mikey4444]

Obviously complete tosh Eddie, but why is it not seen as tosh by all their followers......not exclusively but nearly all Americans ?

[MallyJ]

Extremely unpleasant bullies. I've seen a few programmes about this group of nasties....seems to me to be all about the money as the more you put into their coffers the higher you get. Anyway it must nearly be time for the mothership to scoop them all up and deposit them on a planet where they can scream maniacally at each other for eternity.

[goodgoalie]

.....and nobody has yet mentioned all the guff 'believers' are eventually told - once they've paid their massive amount of of dollars, of course - about Lord Xenu coming to earth and how he vapourised thousands of aliens in a volcano (yes, really)!

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Mikey at 16.48 for best answer. Brilliant. Nearly choked on my coffee.

[fender62]

when they audit a person, or interrogate them, that person tells the auditor very personal inner thoughts and possibly illegal action they may carried out and one time or another in their lives, the church then use this information against you, dirty little secrets of what ever persuasion, money sex murder ? who knows. the members are then locked in for life.

[ladybirder]

Yes EDDIE I know there is only one T8 as I already said. What I was wondering was how many T7's there are because Cruise is a T7 and could therefore become the T8 unless there are other contending T7's.

[EDDIE51]

I don't think the numbers of T7s etc is allowed outside the organisation. They are notoriously secretive.