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Originally Posted by Temporary_User
I would really love to take a religion course in university that dealt with Scientology. I'm not really religious, but how they get so many ppl do dedicate time/money/energy into something like this really interests me.
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You don't need a course to tell you what's going on. It's pretty obivious. Many religions, instutions, cults, companies, governments, dictators, leaders, or just basic groups of people in human history all exemplify these practices in one way or another...through the centuries they've realized that the same methods work on people - peer pressure, fear tactics, guilt tactics, confession, monetary donation or charges for penance/treatment, mind-control, addiction, etc... are good ways of controlling people.
It's a combination of guilt/fear with the extortion with control of information (they record all your secrets), with a bit of peer pressure and brainwashing->
Scientology says that with the proper time and financial investment in their courses, learning, and treatments, you will achieve a level where you master your mind and body and your worldly troubles go away. Of course, those troubles don't go away, they only get worse because you basically ruin your life doing their treatments and in desperation, you keep doing more. It's like a drug addiction. All the while, the church becomes your life and your family and friends and if you try to break, they peer pressure you or convince you to keep trying or else they shun or guilt you.
Like Jason was saying, Scientology tells people they can cure you of certain things, whether it's migraines or homosexuality (rumored to be offered to Travolta) through their treatments but you find that those things are still there (because they are real while Scientology is brain-washing bunk). You find your issues get even worse and you get more and more stressed out by this psychosis (as what would really help - professional help or psychiatric help is literally Scientology's Satan) but you have no recourse but to pay more and more as the Church and your peers pressure you into thinking that you are on the right path or keep telling you there's something else wrong with you or stopping you (suppressing as they say) and you just have to keep doing it and paying for it through your nose.