Billion Year Contract? Where do i sign?

[Stormieweather]

Originally Posted by Number 2 Pencil

L Ron Hubbard created within Scientology a group of elite - the Sea Org. And he had his most dedicated wingnuts that wanted to join the Sea Org sign a billion year contract pledging themselves to the cause.

Had?? Oh no, this idiocy continues to this day. Oh by the way, you belong to the SO once you sign this contract...body, mind and soul, through every one of your incarnations. You will work for as many hours a day as they tell you to (often 12-15 or more), and they usually do not pay you, even though they may promise to do so, in order to get you to sign on the dotted line. You will not question, you will not be involved in anything or with anyone outside of the SO, you will not have children (off to the abortion clinic with you if you dare to or accidentally get pregnant), and you will studiously indoctrinate yourself into the teachings of LRH. If you need to be 'corrected' because you've questioned what you're told or broken one of thousands of conflicting rules, you are sent off to the RPF (a boot camp of sorts, where you are forced into hard labor and under 24/7 guard). If you still don't "break" to their will, then you'll end up in another even more horrific place called the RPF's RPF, which is much like concentration camp conditions). You may stay there for years, until you 'prove' you're sufficiently rehabilitated.

If you already have kids when you sign up, they have to sign up too. You and your spouse and children may be shipped anywhere around the world, separately. If you complain, see above in regards to the RPF.

More information is here if you're interested.

Every day on the way to and from work, I drive past two complexes which house SO members. They have high metal fences around them, with locked gates. There are security cameras everywhere. There are no cars (not allowed), only buses picking up the members for their next shift. No real school for the kids....they work. Often filthy, demeaning, nasty jobs like scrubbing sewer spills or 'chicken picking' (hand cleaning carpets instead of vacuuming).

Yup, they're saving the world, all right.

[Number 2 Pencil]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

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More information is here if you're interested.

Thanks for the website, i hadn't seen that one before; and thanks for the correction, Sea org is alive and as batshit culty as ever.

The clearinghouse of $cientology info I usually go to is http://www.xenu.net/

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

Had?? Oh no, this idiocy continues to this day.

'Had' is correct. The idiocy does continue, but, whatever Scientologists might say, Hubbard isn't doing it anymore.