From: schaf@socrates.ucsf.edu (Chris Schafmeister)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: The latest
Date: 10 Jan 93 05:07:02 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

davidb@engin.umich.edu (David Bonnell) writes:

>As always Scientology is still booming across the planet.  There
>are now over 16,000,000 Dianetics books sold and the fastest
>growing areas are in Japan and in Germany.  There are many, many
>many more people using Scientology everyday including:

>Nancy Cartwright	Actress/Writer/Producer
>			Voice of Bart Simpson

>Chick Corea		Eight-Time Grammy Award Winning Jazz
>			Musician and Composer 

>John Travolta		Actor

>Kelly-Preston		Actor

>Philippe de Henning	Champion Racer and Winner of the 1987 Le Mans

>Maxine Nightingale      Vocalist

>Billy Sheenan		Internationally Renowned Rock Bassist

>Julia Migenes		Opera Star

>Terry Jastrow		Seven-time Emmy Award-winning Producer/Director
>			ABC sports

>Mark Isham		Grammy Award winning Musician/Composer

>Judy Norton/Taylor 	Actress/Singer 

>Kate Ceberano		Australia's Top Female Singer

>Keith Code		Top Motorcycle Instructor

>Tom Cruise		Actor

>any many, many more.

Naturally, all of these people are towers of intellect and 
personal strength. :->

Are these the people who are attracted to scientology?
The people who are more impressed by who else believes
something rather than the beliefs themselves.

Jeeze, David, most of the people you are talking to are educated
people; people who are not impressed by celebrity endorsements.

These names just tell me that ANYBODY, even people in the public
eye, can act stupid.


>Scientology literally comes from the words Scio, know, logos, the word
>or outward form by which the inward thought is expressed and made known.
>Thus, Scientology means knowing about knowing (P141 What is Scientology?)

>Scientology makes the able more able.    

Yeehaa!  Baffle 'em with that bullsh*t!

>In 1987 the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported in 1987 that an
>estimated 94,485 Americans were admitted to hospitals or morgues because
>of drug related emergencies.  Nearly 25% of these - 22,944 - were related
>to psychiatric drugs.  

Sources, David!  Names, authors, ISBN numbers...
Give us something we can verify or please sit down!

>There is a new booklet called The Rise of Senseless Violence In Society:
>Psychiatry's Role in the Creation of Crime that is published and enroute
>to all leading governmental officials in the United States.  It was made
>possible by a grant from the International Association of Scientologists.

Of course it was.

>It's time the TRUTH got out.

How very nice.

>Now over half the libraries in the United States have the new What
>is Scientology? on their shelves. It is the complete reference on
>Scientology.

If they are there, its because the librarians felt that
they had to fill the unsightly hole created by
missing copies of 'Piece of Blue Sky'.

>ISBN 0-88404-633-8
>What is Scientology?
>Bridge Publications, Inc.
>4751 Fountain Ave.
>LA, CA 90029


David, are you a real person or just a program running on
some workstation in a scientology church that occasionally
wakes up and dumps scientology propaganda into this newsgroup?

I'll take any intelligent response to this posting 
as evidence that you are real.

.Chris.
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