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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The story of Xenu

(As Buffalo Springfield said, "There's something happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear")


75 million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having on average 178 billion people. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with people "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.


Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of people to paralyse them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections." The kidnapped populace was loaded into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s, "except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't." DC-8s have jet engines, not propellers, although Hubbard may have meant the turbine fans.

When the space planes had reached Teegeeack, the paralysed people were unloaded and stacked around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were lowered into the volcanoes, and all were detonated simultaneously. Only a few people's physical bodies survived. Hubbard described the scene in his abortive film script, Revolt in the Stars:

Simultaneously, the planted charges erupted. Atomic blasts ballooned from the craters of Loa, Vesuvius, Shasta, Washington, Fujiyama, Etna, and many, many others. Arching higher and higher, up and outwards, towering clouds mushroomed, shot through with flashes of flame, waste and fission. Great winds raced tumultuously across the face of Earth, spreading tales of destruction. Debris-studded, and sickly yellow, the atomic clouds followed close on the heels of the winds. Their bow-shaped fronts encroached inexorably upon forest, city and mankind, they delivered their gifts of death and radiation. A skyscraper, tall and arrow-straight, bent over to form a question mark to the very idea of humanity before crumbling into the screaming city below...
—Revolt in the Stars treatment

The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for 36 days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data" (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The interior decoration of "all modern theaters" is also said by Hubbard to be due to an unconscious recollection of Xenu's implants. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.

The Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and locked him away in a mountain, where he was imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery. (Some have suggested that Xenu is imprisoned on Earth in the Pyrenees, but Hubbard merely refers to "one of these planets" [of the Galactic Confederacy]; he does, however, refer to the Pyrenees as being the site of the last operating "Martian report station", which is probably the source of this particular confusion.

Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since then.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And Tommy Boy believes this crap?

I love the part where the space planes (craft?) are described as exact copies of DC-8s but without propellers (turbo fans?). Hey folks, we have real space craft and don’t know it! Just whip up a warp-drive and attach it to a DC-8 and Shazam – interstellar space travel is at hand. Actually the physics of that combination would instantly produce space junk. Tommy Boy should volunteer as the test pilot since he was so “hot” in Top Gun.

And I thought it was hilarious when the old westerns depicted the guy in the white hat galloping at full speed and firing 25 shots, from his six gun, and killing the bad guys (black hat) but they could not nail him with their Winchester rifles. The Xenu story beats that scenario by a mile – or light year if you prefer.

Yep, it sure makes me a believer – in wet-dream fiction.

Tommy Boy, take a cold shower and see a “nut cracker” real quick. I didn’t say psychiatrist because Tommy Boy doesn’t believe in them – might spoil his wet-dream.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Be careful, Scientology has been known to sue for copyright infrindgement!!

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Why Does Scientology Have a Copyright on the Truth?

Posted by Ernest Miller on Wednesday, August 28 @ 10:13:43 EDT

Politechbot published a recent position paper on copyright infringement from the media relations director for the Church of Scientology International (Scientology says it's threatened by "unadulterated cyber-terrorism"). The position paper attempts to justify Scientology's silencing of its critics via copyright law. Scientology objects to publication of its secret doctrines on the Internet and uses copyright law to get those documents removed from public view. What I've always wondered though, is why these documents are protected by copyright at all.

It seems to me that a claim of revealed truth for a particular work should exempt it from copyright law under the merger doctrine of idea/expression dichotomy. The idea/expression dichotomy ensures that facts and ideas cannot be copyrighted. Under the merger doctrine, if there is only one, or a few ways to express an idea, then the expression cannot be copyrighted because it would effectively give a monopoly over the idea, which is prohibited by the idea/expression dichotomy.
Shouldn't the merger doctrine apply to claims of revealed truth? My paraphrase of the Quran is not the Quran, and it would inevitably express an idea that is different than the idea expressed by the Quran itself. The idea and expression of the Quran are one and the same; my hypothetically adulterated Quran is simply not an acceptable substitute. The same applies to Scientology. Nothing but L. Ron Hubbard's own words is acceptable; you cannot change a single word without adulterating the facts of Scientology.

In court testimony, Warren McShane, President of the Religious Technology Center (holder of Scientology's copyrights), stated that:

There cannot be any alteration at all of Mr. Hubbard's work. The way he had laid it, there is an exact sequence of steps. It's very detailed, and there can't be any alteration to it.
Indeed, the RTC webpage makes this clear:
Past religious teachings, traditionally passed down by word of mouth or recorded by scribes, were subject to both alteration and misinterpretation. In contrast, this century?s technological advances have facilitated the permanent recording of Scientology scripture in books, tape-recorded lectures and films. Because the original writings and recordings by Mr. Hubbard can always be examined and verified, the technology, in truth, can never be lost.
Alteration is not permissible - the ideas expressed would not be the same.
There are many similar quotes from Scientologists, all making the point that L. Ron Hubbard discovered certain facts and his expression of these facts cannot be altered without changing the facts themselves. By its own admission then, Scientology is using copyright to maintain a monopoly over facts.

Of course, Scientology could avoid this dilemma by admitting either that, a) Scientology is not a fact or b) Paraphrases of Scientology materials are perfectly acceptable substitutes for the materials Scientology publishes.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This one is for Tommy and Greta - (courtesy Drudge)

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_large_object.html

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Large New World Discovered Beyond Neptune
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 29 July 2005
11:08 am ET


A newfound object in our solar system's outskirts may be larger than any known world after Pluto, scientists said today.

It also has a moon.

Designated as 2003 EL61, the main object in the two-body system is 32 percent as massive as Pluto and is estimated to be about 70 percent of Pluto's diameter.

Other news reports that the object could be twice as big as Pluto are false, according to two astronomers who found the object in separate studies and another expert who has analyzed the data.

If the mass is only one-third that of Pluto, then theory holds that it can't be larger than Pluto, according to Brian Marsden of the Minor Planet Center, which serves as a clearinghouse for data on all newfound objects in the solar system.

Marsden, who was not involved in the discovery but has reviewed the data, told SPACE.com that the mass estimate is very firm, within 1 or 2 percent. "I don’t think it is bigger than Pluto," he said.

Where it fits in

This is still a big world, once again raising the prospect that something larger than Pluto might still lurk out there.


Scientists base their size calculations in part on the object's reflectivity. Since they don't know exactly how much the surface brightness of distant objects varies, there is some wiggle room in their size estimates.

A team led by Mike Brown of Caltech has been observing 2003 EL61 for a year but was seeking more data before announcing the discovery. Brown said today it may possibly be larger than Sedna, which has been the largest known world beyond Neptune other than Pluto.

Sedna is between 800 and 1,100 miles in diameter. Pluto is about 1,400 miles across.

Brown figures 2003 EL61 has a diameter of around 930 miles.

Is there any chance it is bigger than Pluto?

"No," Brown said in a telephone interview. "Definitely not."

In fact, Brown's team got the new data they had been waiting for, from the Spitzer Space Telescope, last week. While not fully analyzed, he said the Spitzer observations show "absolutely" that the object is not bigger than Pluto.

Who gets credit?

The object was spotted independently by a group led by Jose-Luis Ortiz of the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain. Ortiz' team announced the finding in astronomy circles recently and the finding, including the claim that it might be twice as big as Pluto, was reported by an online news site today.

Ortiz said that based on his team's observations, there was one outlying theory could allow 2003 EL61 to be larger than Pluto, but he does not think it is right.

"I do not think it is larger than Pluto," Ortiz told SPACE.com today.

Brown was surprised last night to learn that Ortiz' group had independently found the object, which only yesterday gained the tag 2003 EL61 from the Minor Planet Center. It was a rare case of one group of astronomers unwittingly scooping another.

Brown said that Ortiz' group rightfully deserves credit for making the discovery.

About that moon

2003 EL61 orbits the Sun on an elliptical path beyond Neptune in a region of space known as the Kuiper Belt. It is significantly inclined to the main plane of the solar system where most of the planets travel. It is one of several objects out there now known to have a satellite.

The moon around 2003 EL61 is small, making up only about 1 percent of the mass of the system, Brown said.

"This satellite is the smallest satellite relative to its primary known in the Kuiper belt," Brown said. "Pluto's satellite, Charon, is about 10 percent of the mass of Pluto.

Marsden, of the Minor Planet Center, said it is surprising the object was not discovered earlier. He said it was probably just barely too faint to be spotted in the sky survey done by Clyde Tombaugh that led to the discovery of Pluto 75 years ago.

Brown's team first spotted 2003 EL61, which had no name at the time, using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory on May 6, 2004. They did not realized they had found it until Dec. 28, 2004, after scrutinizing their data in and ongoing effort to find Kuiper Belt Objects.

In a series of three images, the object is seen moving across the sky in relation to relatively fixed background stars.

Ortiz's group initially detected the object in 2003 and spotted it again this year, leading to their announcement yesterday
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Docford, L. Ron Hubbard's babblings sound amazingly like the rants of a schizophrenic. This level headed woman got a headache half way through reading that thing. Confused Confused Confused
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks RDTF, So Greta's a kook! Laughing
PS. her facelift didnt change her looks either! Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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space planes (craft?) are described as exact copies of DC-8s but without propellers (turbo fans?).


A DC-8 without propellors??????? Rolling Eyes

Maybe someone should let them know the DC-8s were built as jets in the first place? Shocked Uh, they never have had propellors. Confused
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



Lew, you are 100% correct. No props. It's always been a jet.
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