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Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads
An anonymous reader writes "The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a Scientology front group, has received a 'grant from Google in the amount of $10,000 per month worth of Pay Per Click Advertising to be used in our Orange County anti-psych campaigns.' CCHR believes that ALL psychiatrists are evil. They believe that psychiatrists were behind the holocaust, and these shadow men were never brought to justice. CCHR also believes that psychiatrists were behind the 911 attacks. Scientologists believe that psychiatrists have always been evil, and their treachery goes back 75 million years when the psychiatrists assisted XENU in killing countless alien life forms. Thanks Google! We may be able to stop these evil Psychs once and for all!"
The more these beliefs are discussed and examined, the more they are revealed for what they are.
It's Psychlos.
There is no belief so stupid, so crazy, so totally deranged that it won't speak to someone.
You can't make this shit up.
Just based on their name, you would think that it is a good group of people. They might as well be called the 'Children's Safety Council', while they barbecue infants.
I know Slashdot editors like to sleep on the job, but where does this story even come from? Is it really all based on a blog some supposed letter with no explanation behind it? Is this even true? Searching for it turns up some other articles (blogs) from sources I've never heard of, and nothing seems to point to this being real. Can somebody help me out here? Is the future of Slashdot fictional stories and Bennett's Blog?
is more good speech. However preposterous their ideas trying to silence any cult will just end in their views being discussed in secret and away from the bright light of open debate.
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I think you're a little slow to post ... April Fools was three weeks ago. Just say'n...
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After reading Slashdot for many years, I am coming back after two months of not visiting and what do I see? Another anti-Google posting using all the power of the anecdotal... This is a non-event, and Google will change track in this case as soon as they are pointed out their mistake.
I am not sure if I will have the courage to go through today's list. I remember this place as one where I could read intelligent comments, but those who used to make this place what it was have now almost all left...
If you can look past the weird conspiracy theories and Xenu stuff. Late last year I saw a documentary called "The Marketing of Madness." It makes a compelling case about how over-medicated we're becoming, and how simple quirks are now being labeled as illnesses to turn a profit. There might be some truth to this. CCHR might not be an entirely awful group.
I don't understand, how is this any different than any other religion that someone doesn't believe in? There are plenty of christian churches, etc that pay for advertisements against equal rights for homosexuals. This doesn't seem any more crazy.
If there were a race about which "religion" is getting more members with the most insane ideas, yep, they would take the 1st place!... In your face, resurrected Jesus.
Who cares about their take on psychotherapy or weather or not they believe in Xenu or if they are run by Tom Cruise. Heck, sometime I'll dress like a Pirate and discuss Flying Spaghetti.
The parts of Scientology that are concern me are the reports of abuse and indenturing of children and the mentally ill. Take that, along with the fact the Hubbard explicitly stated he made up Scientology as a tax dodge for profit, and you have what looks like a creepy mafia outfit.
I think there may have been a true statement somewhere in there, but it was too subtle for me to find. The anti-ADHD stuff is pure Scientology spin, promoted aggressively precisely because the benefit of ADHD medication for most people is so very, very, obvious. Similarly, the "not much better than placebo" claim is a massive overclaim. There's some specific drugs that are pretty unreliable, but the key is that that's averaging over a general population; if you look only at the people who react well to them, and you move other people to something else, it actually works pretty well.
The claim that "no real disorders have been detected yet" is just plain stupid. Talk to people who are doing neuropsych, there is a ton of very nice, concrete, research being done on various cognitive abnormalities.
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Scientology's beliefs are idiotic, but not much more idiotic than believing in some guy walking up a hill and coming back down with slates with "commandments" apparently handed to him by some deity.
The problem with scientology is the frequent intimidation, their extremely litigious habits, the abusive behaviour towards members, the rampant commercialism, the indocrtination techniques and a bunch of other things that are decidedly evil and beyond the comprehension of any decent human being.
Scientology isn't a church, nor is it a cult. Scientology is a corporation. And whereas most corporations are just greedy and soulless, scientology doesn't stop at mere ruthless money grabbing; scientology seems to want to actively hurt it's victims as well.
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1. And you care because? All churches operate that way.
2. All religions are abusive and dangerous. That is why they are evil. Two people harmed by Scientology? Awesome! Judeo- Chrisitainity and Islam hace harmed millions.
3. Again, ALL religions can be accused of those things.
I don't get this particular hatred to some cult that affects only a few thousand people when Judeo-Christianity has caused the suffering of millions for thousands of years - greatly outweighing any good that has been done in its name.
Oh, Buddhists! - see SE Asia for their assholishness.
In 3,000 years, mankind hasn't progressed emotionally and we won't until we give up these primitive ideas of God and Gods and the supernatural.
When we can embrace our humanity and acheive humility (Being "made" in God's image is the most arrogant thing ever said.), we can progress beyond being blad super smart apes.
Trouble from religion seems to be associated more with dosage level than theology. Once a week seems to be a safe dose for most people, while several times a day is an overdose. The nuttier religions tend towards the overdose end of the scale. Islam and the haredi branch of Judaism go for All Religion All the Time. Scientology goes in that direction, but more through intermittent intense experiences rather than constant daily obsession.
Fortunately, Scientology is stuck, by policy, with Hubbard's 1930s technology and their skin-resistance meter. If they were keeping up with technology, they'd have mobile apps tied to wristband sensors reporting to HQ in Clearwater, FL, auditing using functional MRI machines, and big data systems analyzing all member communications.
I am a Scientologist. Hail Xenu. I come in Peace to save humanity from the earthlings that have gone astray. Praise Ron Hubbard (and the L. in his name). Listen children, the evil psychiatrists on your planet earth have been stealing your hard earned money from you for years and years on end. They make up stuff and then sell it to you for extremely high prices . This is against the intergalactic code of this sector of this galaxy (see the Oscar award winning movie: 'Battlefield Earth' for details). Which I know for the simple reason we have had a cosmic-patent on such transfers of wealth from peasants and fools to masters of con for nearly 700 million years. And what's fair is fair. I will share the secrets of the entire universe with you today. In fact, your timing is perfect as we are offering a special one time discount at this very moment. Below is our current price sheet. Read it well as you consider the fact that the entire destiny of earth and the foreseeable future of this entire universe depends on how much you can spend (i.e. give to us) right here and right now! The REAL meaning of being HUMAN: $ 5,000.00 The REAL meaning of TRUTH: $ 10.000.00 The REAL reason your life SUCKS: $ 25,000.00 The REAL purpose for your life: $ 100,000.00 The WAY you can have POWER: $ 1/2 million bucks. Another WAY you can have POWER: 5 million bucks. The list goes on and on, but hurry as this offer won't last. Much Love, Xenaluthanian All Praise to Scientology
Gotta love these statements. What have you been reading? I would prefer my life experience as proof. I have taken antidepressants and after finding the right one I can attest that some do work.
Psychiatric drugs are often given freely for solving administrative problems (Ritalin or Adderall for "ADHD").
Autism and ADHD is not an "administrative problem". I have Aspergers Syndrome (a form of Autism) and I know how it feels during an episode. To put it simply my cognitive mind would recede and my lizard brain would take over. The problem with the lizard brain is that it only knows fight or flight. Too often it chooses fight. It is quite an interesting feeling when my lizard brain is yelling "MUST FIX PROBLEM NOW" while my cognitive brain is a voice in the distance saying "chill out". I found a med that actually reduced the frequency and severity of these episodes.
I lived with an autistic kid and we knew when he missed a dose. On the meds he was a quirky kid , Off his meds he was a kid who could not control himself no matter how hard he tried. He would usually apologize for his bad behaviors once he was medicated again. Please note that the medication did not make him a zombie. It just slowed things down so he could handle it.
Are some kids over medicated? Yes. are Ritalin or Adderall useful in some cases? Yes.
Where are all the Freedom of speech proponents? .... Oh, I forgot, it's freedom of speech for things I agree with. Sorry.
I dated a psychology student once. Now i'm not saying I agree with scientology...
'Scientologists believe that psychiatrists have always been evil, and their treachery goes back 75 million years when the psychiatrists assisted XENU in killing countless alien life forms. Thanks Google! We may be able to stop these evil Psychs once and for all!"'
How is this any less believable than, we killed our deity, and once a year he comes back to life and we consume of his flesh?
I usually refer to it as an organized crime syndicate, myself. The main difference that comes to mind is that instead of selling psychoactive drugs, they prohibit their people from buying psychoactives - even ones that they desperately need - from anybody.
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Scientology's believers are far more ignorant because L Ron Hubbard said 'if you want to make a bunch of money, start a religion and charge for it' ... and then he did ... and its a pay for play religion ... and people like Tom Cruise and John Travolta actually pay ridiculous amounts of money to 'move up' the chain of 'believers'.
Its one thing to believe in what you believe is fantasy (God) ... its an entirely different thing to have some guy tell you he's going to rip you off ... and then you let him rip you off.
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....because L Ron was a delusional narcissistic paranoid and pathological liar, and he was scared of the doctors.
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Patently false.
A guy walking up a hill and coming back with stone tablets handed to him by the creator of the universe is somewhat believable. Failing that he actually encountered a weird deity, we can at least accept that the tablets contain good advice, and he may be hearing voices.
The whole alien conspiracy theory thing that Scientology pushes is a huge ball of weirdness, and any rational person would look at this and go, "None of this is good advice, and you're all looney." Nobody is going to look at a list "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not fucketh thy neighbor's wife while thy neighbor doth haveth a tavern run with thine drinking buddies," etc, and say, "Okay, all of this shit is insane, this is all terrible advice, and I don't want to live in a society built on this lunacy."
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... it has usually been referred to as "putting the inmates in charge of the asylum".
LIZARD!
I'm hyperplastic or something; the rules don't work on me. What is called the "lizard brain" (basal ganglia) does not strongly activate the amygdala (emotional center) in times of conflict. Usually people face conflicting facts by shutting off the analytical mind (prefrontal cortex) and activating the amygdala--your basal ganglia does not like hearing facts it disagrees with, and your prefrontal cortex takes a lot more energy than anything else, so you throw a cheap tantrum to avoid spending energy on thinking.
With me, I'm constantly re-evaluating my position. I don't have strong emotional reactions. This means I quickly re-form my mode of thinking, a lot. People are different by the day and the world changes around a lot; it's energy-intensive, but I constantly re-assess everything.
I'm unsure if this was a contributing factor in what happened when I started taking phenotropil, but I'm off it now and I no longer have ADHD! ... this isn't as cool as you think. A lot of mental aberrations are gone, but I'm not suddenly the world's most articulate man (that would be Winston Churchill), and I'm more emotional (that got fixed--amygdala works now, anger REALLY SUCKS and the first time you really feel it you will want to know how to make it NEVER happen again), and for the most part just as socially inept as before. But I can think clearly now.
Yes, it's permanent. No, I haven't learned how to be normal yet. Methylphenedate didn't do that either.
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This is almost certainly because they applied to Google's Adwords grants program:
http://www.google.com/grants/e...
There seem to be no ideological criteria (imagine the shitshow if there were?)