CathrynRose said:
For you article junkies .... from: http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/history/history98.html
The secrets of Scientology / A day
Cruise announced in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer that Holmes is no longer a Catholic. Asked whether their baby would be baptised a Catholic, he said: "You can be Catholic and a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and a Scientologist. But we're just Scientologists."
That part of that interview was scary to me and shows the alleged brainwashing power of Scientology - that someone who was a lifelong Catholic would throw away her religion and allow someone else to speak for her about her religion (and from what I read, she had been an active Catholic before she met up with TC).
CathrynRose said:
(quoted from the article)Posing as an interested disciple, I first call into the Scientology Centre on London's Tottenham Court Road where I fill out an Oxford Capacity Analysis Test, designed to measure emotional state in order to highlight areas that Scientology can improve. Although the test is free, I am encouraged to purchase a copy of Hubbard's Dianetics (for £6.99) and to contact them when I finish reading it.
My results apparently prove that I am depressed, nervous, critical, anxious and unable to communicate. I am told that I am in dire need of spiritual enlightenment and that only Scientology can help me.
I thought it was interesting (to say the least) for a group that is so against Psychiatry to be using what is basically a personality test to start the 'koolade' drinking process.
I found a
site that has what it says is questions from the Oxford Capacity Analyisis Test. That site seems to think the test is just sort of silly and as "good as the weekly horoscope in the same. The test has absolutely nothing to do with reality, other than producing a result that may make a gullible person buy a course. "
I think it's allegedly much more sinister than that - I'd assume that whatever you answer to the questions becomes part of your record that would allegedly be used in your audits. Looked at in that way, the test is allegedly a blueprint of how best to suck you in to Scientology.
For example, someone who answers "yes" to these questions:
- Do you get occasional twitches of your muscles, when there is no logical reason for it?
- Are you usually concerned about the need to protect your health?
- Does an unexpected action cause your muscles to twitch?
might be someone who is a bit of a hypochondriac and could allegedly be approached in a way that makes them fearful about their health (while reasuring them that Scientology can protect their health.)
Some of the other questions might suggest things the person feels guilty about or subjects the auditor allegedly can explore during the audits to get information for future alleged blackmail. I'm thinking of things like these questions:
- Do you make thoughtless remarks or accusations which later you regret?
- Do your past failures still worry you?
- Do you enjoy telling people the latest scandal about your associates?
- If you saw an article in a shop obviously mistakenly marked lower than its correct price, would you try to get it at that price?
- Do you sometimes give away articles which strictly speaking do not belong to you?
The writer of that website seems to think the questions are random, but I think they are anything but. The person who is filling out the test allegedly is basically giving Scientology a blueprint of how to best get into the test taker's head. The Scientologists allegedly don't even have to work too hard to brainwash the people who come to them - the converts start brainwashing themselves as soon as they take the test.
I've read a lot about cults in the past - a friend of a friend was in a cult - and everything I see about Scientology alledgedly makes the other cults look like amatuers.
HI gang, just Bumping, great stuff, CathrynRose! 
