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Pastimes : Calling All SI Satanists -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (851)	4/10/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1187

Have you studied Scientology at all? L. Ron Hubbard started a world religion over a bet. Well, what Scientology lacks in depth of mythology it makes up in sheer stubbornness. The structure is some simple psychobabble, and the primary tool is something called an "audit". Basically the practitioner asks you a string of predetermined questions. And the kicker is - the audit isn't over until you give all the right answers! Give a wrong answer - the question is asked as if it had never existed. Until you're worn down into giving the Right Answers. What's your reward for all this? Next level! New audit! Oh yeah. If you resist/refute scientology, you're branded a Suppressive Person, a sort of evil incarnate.

To: epicure who wrote (851)	4/10/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 1187

In the middle of a forest, there was a hunter who was suddenly confronted by a huge, mean bear. In his fear, all attempts to shoot the bear were unsuccessful. Finally, he turned and ran as fast as he could. The hunter ran and ran and ran, until he ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff. His hopes were dim. Seeing no way out of his predicament, and with the bear closing in rather quickly, the hunter got down on his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, "Dear God! Please give this bear some religion!" The skies darkened and there was lightning in the air. Just a few feet short of the hunter, the bear came to an abrupt stop, and glanced around, somewhat confused. Suddenly, the bear looked up into the sky and said, "Bless us, Oh Lord, for these thy gifts which we are about to receive..." ---------------- I thought of posting this on the Ask God thread, but the little devil that I am figured that they just wouldn't get it.