Creative storytelling is unlocked with ChatGPT. With some creative prompts, you can guide AI to write an amazing piece of fiction, incorporating real characters into stunning fictional scenarios. That’s exactly what we did with the following story featuring Imhotep and L. Ron Hubbard, the creator of Scientology. The resulting similarities are humorously abundant. Enjoy! First,…
Category: Cults
The Rise and Fall of Scientology’s Magic: A Case Study in Cult Evolution
Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear From their book, The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation. by William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark Despite predictions of its demise, religion remains a vital force in contemporary society, and the academic study of religion is experiencing renewed interest. For decades, prominent social scientists anticipated that science,…
From the Scientology archives … Robert Vaughn Young
In the late 1980s Robert Vaughn Young “escaped” from Scientology with his then-wife Stacy Brooks. He was among the highest-level executives ever to defect from the church. Young made a major contribution to Hubbard’s Church until he learned the truth about L. Ron Hubbard and his past. Robert revealed much of this truth after he…
If he comes back, they’ll call it … L. Ron Hubbard, starring in “The Night of the Living Dead.”
Hold onto your thetans, folks, because the rumors are true: L. Ron Hubbard has clawed his way back from the great beyond, just as he predicted! But forget those past life regressions he used to charge a fortune for; this time, he’s starring in his own reincarnation flick – a zombie movie, no less! Now,…
Scientology Volunteer Ministers … faux humanitarian aid promoted by their own Press Releases.
Despicable: deserving to be despised; contemptible. Remember when those fake #Scientology “Ministers” posted the famous YELLOW Coast Guard helicopter like it was theirs? If you can’t wait … scroll to the end. Above is the website of Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers, detailing their latest “news,” shown in this screen capture today, June 8, 2024, at 1:46…
ChatGPT is an outstanding interviewer: we invited L. Ron Hubbard in to discuss his 1952 book, “Scientology: A History of Man.”
SCIENTOLOGY: A HISTORY OF MAN By L. RON HUBBARD Forward This is a cold-blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years. This is useful knowledge. With it the bond again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man…
Writer of a 1981 Master’s thesis examines the fictional origins of Scientology
THE TRANSCENDENTAL ENGINEERS: THE FICTIONAL ORIGINS OF A MODERN RELIGION A Master’s Thesis by Hugh Alan Spencer, 1981 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada This collegiate thesis by Hugh A.D. Spencer has been cited on very few occasions over the past several decades … BoingBoing and Scientology Books and Media were those sites that gave it more than mere…
Is Scientology a True Religion for the Twenty-First Century or Just Another Space Opera Cult?
THE MOVIE: Battlefield Earth To put it bluntly, Battlefield Earth stands out as a colossal failure in the sci-fi genre, “much like the Hindenburg disaster did for Zeppelin air travel.” While not explicitly a Scientology film, Battlefield Earth, based on L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi novel, was heavily influenced by the religion. Scientology leader David Miscavige…
By the time Scientologists get to the crappy science fiction story of Xenu … it’s too late.
As Paulette Cooper writes in her book, “The Scandal of Scientology,” When people first enter this exciting world of the totally free, they rarely realize just how expensive it is going to be … In addition to the price of the courses, there are many other expenses. A Scientologist must buy many of Hubbard’s books,…
I asked ChatGPT if Scientology could be considered a Rube Goldberg religion.
L. Ron Hubbard … religion’s Rube Goldberg. We checked in with ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, and asked for some input based on the suggestion that Scientology could be considered a religious equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine. Enjoy the conversation… ChatGPT L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology can be likened to a religious…