Except that the crazy is _less_ out in the open in that they don't tell you about aliens until you give them lots of money.
As for Scientology seeming fun:
(photo of three miserable, angry and generally morose-looking Scns guarding the portal to the Bridge to Total Free Dumb)
Now that's a gang of folks "at cause" if I ever saw one. :wink2:
Of course, I wouldn't be particularly joyful either if there were thousands of people gathered to protest and condemn my wacky, abusive, money-grubbing little homunculus of a leader and his legal (and not-so-legal) antics. I mean, this little monster could, by decree, change every destructive policy of Co$ in one shot and all the Scns would have to abide by it silently, submissively and under threat of eternal worthlessness just as they abide by the current rottenness.
On the other hand, if I had Magick OT Powers and was smart, I'd just "goof the floof" and command all the Anonymouses to enter the building in an orderly, single-file line with cash and credit cards in hand, chanting, "Why Yes, As A Matter of Fact, I WOULD Like to Purchase 64 Sets of "The Basics" at USD$3000 Each for Global Dissemination Purposes, Please!!"
Edit: Who said not to check out the FreeZone? By all means, check it out!! You can read up on almost everything Co$ offers FOR FREE instead of being financially pillaged to the tune of half a million USD only to find Xenu waiting to do some floof-goofing on you... After all, ElWrong ripped off just about everything in Scn that produces decent results (i.e. biofeedback-assisted psychoanalysis AKA "Auditing" with the "E-Meter") from legitimate researchers and slapped his own rubber-lipped terminology on it. Well-meaning underlings all over the world did "research" on one another for decades and sent him the results which he stamped his own name upon and, as usual, gave little if any credit to anyone else. His own, original contributions are, with few exceptions, stupid, useless or dangerous.
