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i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
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Scientology certainly comes across as being scifi
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Now bigotry stems from ignorance, and the only way to combat ignorance is education and communication. Therefore, Scientology are doing themselves no favours by being so secretive about their religion and refusing permission to air the interviews with the celebrities,
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Afterall, Jesus didn't tell his disciples to run a smear campaign on Pontius Pilate or the Jewish Elders who set in motion his crucifixion did he?
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Neon, as far as Christianity being secretive. What did you miss the De Vinci Code, Opus Dei and all that?
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There's also quite a difference between being "pretty dismissive" of psychiatry and hosting an exhibition claiming that it's all evil, mainly based on it's links to the Nazis.
I once sailed on a lake made by Hitler, but that doesn't mean all lakes must be evil, though one pretty lake doesn't excuse the Holocaust either.
(It's interesting how often the links between Scientology and Nazism recur: ever noticed how the banners outside their London headquarters resemble those at Nuremberg?)
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I nevertheless think that, given the cuurent state of mentla health in the west, that there is a clear issue there and they're entitled to have an opinion on it.
I would disagree. I don't think anyone's entitled to have an opinion on somethign as serious as mental health, unless that opinion is based on a sound theory, in agreement with the anatomy and physiology of the brain and central nervous system, which is backed up by observable and reproducable evidence. Otherwise how would you know that your opinion isn't a load of complete rubbish?
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Body thetans (alien souls) attaching yourself to your soul being the cause of all your troubles and illnesses - is that something which should form the basis of a system of mental health treatment?
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i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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I doubt you're completely arguing against psychiatry and I'm not exactly defending it completely myself.
I'm just surprised that anyone would go as far as to defend Scientology at all to argue against anything, which is why I've made the assumption, or rather the hope, that most/all people in this thread so far are basing their opinions on second hand evidence of Scientology, as I'd find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone with direct experience of it, bar Scientologists themselves, would go to those lengths.
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This technique could be performed in a doctor's office rather than in an operating room, and required only a few minutes to perform. Freeman advocated this procedure for patients with even fairly mild symptoms. He personally performed the operation on thousands of people and promoted the idea of lobotomy as a casual procedure, claiming it would one day be as common as dental work.[1]
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Lobotomy was most prevalent in the United States, with approximately 40,000 persons lobotomized, followed by Great Britain with approximately 17,000 and the three Scandinavian countries with a combined figure of approximately 9,300.
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Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President John F. Kennedy, was given a lobotomy when her father complained to doctors about the 23-year-old’s moodiness and growing interest in men. The procedure was personally performed by Dr. Freeman. Instead of producing the desired result, however, the lobotomy reduced Rosemary to an infantile mentality that left her incontinent and staring blankly at walls for hours. Her verbal skills were reduced to unintelligible babble. To avoid political scandal, the nature of Rosemary's affliction was hidden by her father for years, described to the public as the result of mental retardation. Her sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in her honor in 1968.
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i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
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