Scientology, A religion?

After about 5 hours of research both of official scientology pages, and critiques pages I´ve come to the following conclusion. There definitely is something that we all don´t see going on, and I defintely would not call the organization a religion. A system of self imbetterment perhaps. If your curious about how I came to the conclusion that its more like a cult, and based in making money,
check out this link http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com/2009/03/seven-questions-every-scientologist-has.html . (and then perhaps do a google search, you´ll be suprised at the number of extreme critics...and for a laugh watch Tom Cruises testimony...my goodness :) ).
The other thing that really shocked me was the 400,000 cost to go from joining the religion to their OT 8 highest level!

Comment away!
Molly

Man is Basically Good

Can you get any more veg?? (ok, I don´t think thats how you spell veg...but if it were with spanish procunciation it would be). If I wrote man is Basically anything on a philosophy test, or a literature test i´m sure the response would be a lot of question marks. Basically I´ve heard used in a preppy since frequently (soooo basically the other day I was talking with so and so and they were like TOTALLY...you get hte picture).
Basing a religion on a phrase that contains the word ´basically´? Isn´t that a bit extreme? Perhaps some of you have noticed that i´m studying Scientology for a project in philosophy on religions. I had heard some people talk about it (more like in magazines or whatever becuase its one of the celebrity fads) and now after reading I think i´m just more confused! The information on the first part of the website I would describe as a ´how to be human´course for space aliens. Like really, they say to take emotions, and they all have numbers 1-9 and once you can identify their number you know which number emotion you need to react with. Are we human or are we dancer?

But then the question occured to me, even if it is a cult, and the system does seem strange, if the people who believe in it really are happy then what else matters? I have yet to discover any other reason to life besides happiness, so something that helps you to achieve it can´t be all wrong, right?

Does anyone have any personal experience/ opinions about Scientology? I would be SUPER interested to hear them! At the very least their conectps and broad followship have peaked my interest.

Write me a comment, and I´ll keep you guys updated as I keep studying and putting together my report,

Molly

A world without Netflix? :O

Yes you read that right, there DOES exist a world without netflix. And I´m not even talking about the people in africa who don´t have DVD players. Right here in spain, the concept as is foriegn as rootbeer! Not only do they not have the service here, but no one has even heard of the concept, man someone is going to make it big when they launch it here (takers? :) ).
Another intersting tid bit, it never occured to me but the same person generally does the translation for the voices of the actors. Actually, that isn´t quite definitive, I was talking about it with my friends earlier and it turns out that for some actors it works like that, and others they weren´t so sure. At the very least we came up with the definitive answer that in trilogies, etc they use the same person to be the characters voice.
Imagine how strange it would be if Tom Cruise came out with a different voice in every video he was in in english? It must be strange, I guess that would also take away your ability to regonize the vioce of an actor?

Ok, those are my strange tidbits for today (can you tell I just got back from goin to see X-man with my friends lol, don´t go see it btw, even my friends who like action didn´t like it...)

Molly