Un-funny truth

[bladespark]

I nearly didn't pass this on. On the one hand, I'm sure that almost everybody who reads this knows about this already, at least in general, if not the specific details.

On the other, what if there's somebody who doesn't? Who has no idea whatsoever? Only a few years back I had no clue myself, and it wasn't until I got curious and started searching the web that I discovered these events. So....

http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/

This is about Scientologists. This is NOT mocking their beliefs. Although I find their faith system to be both suspect and strange, if they wish to believe it, they are more than welcome to, and I have no right whatsover to mock them for it. (Okay, admittedly I've given in to the urge once or twice. How can you resist poking fun at Xenu? But it wasn't good or nice of me to do so!) I believe a few things that others sometimes find strange, so I really don't have any excuse. But a belief system gives you no right to perpetuate a crime. Saying that your faith believes murder is OK doesn't make it OK for you to murder somebody. Religion is no excuse for harming others, ever.

I'm far from a perfect person, but that's one thing I try never to do. My faith is not an excuse. My faith should never NEED to be an excuse, and if it ever causes me to do something that harms another person, or harms myself, then something is wrong. And since I believe that, I pass this along. Just in case...

Comments

[duke-otterland.livejournal.com]

Very disturbing...

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

holy shit.

is that real?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yep. All the events in there did actually happen. There's additional info on some of them at http://www.xenu.net/ (That's the biggest Scientology info site NOT run by the church itself. And while normally I'd advocate going to the source rather than listening to the dissafected ex-types when dealing with a religion, I make an exception for this sort of thing.)

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

i always knew something was seriously wrong with those Scientology types, but i didnt think they were dangerous.

wow.

ive lost all respect for Tom Cruise after making sure his wife couldnt go on any meds or see a shrink about her post partem depression. fucking retard.

[jtbeckett.livejournal.com]

I actually don't know much of anything at all about scientology.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Well, http://www.xenu.net/ is an informational site run by people outside the church, and http://www.scientology.org/ is the church's official site, if you want some additional information.

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

I always have this deep-seated urge to do something drastic to the Dianetics booth at the mall.

I might follow through with it. <_<

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Well, on the one hand you have "two wrongs don't make a right" but on the other hand you have Scientologists. If I could think of anything suitable that you could actually get away with, I'd be all for it, I think. Unfortunately right now my imagination is failing me on that front. (On the totally random front, my imagination is going a bit overboard just now, and I'm having to surpress the urge to dragon unicorn velociraptors, but that's another matter entirely.)