How Scientology Resembles A Broken Role-playing Game

[Smilla]

Daily Dot | How Scientology Resembles A Broken Role-playing Game

"Over the past decade, Scientology’s bizarre belief systems have become a matter of public record. Given all the controversy and pop culture jokes, it can be difficult to come up with a frame of reference to understand why the controversial organization has managed to survive for so long. (L. Ron Hubbard wrote the group’s cornerstone text, Dianetics, in 1950.)

Oddly enough, in several ways, the closest system Scientology approaches is that of a broken role-playing game."

http://www.dailydot.com/society/scie...-playing-game/

[HelluvaHoax!]

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Scientology is great fun. Bring the kids!





Hey Mom! Hey Dad! Can I be the ethics officer?




I wanna be the Holy Man!




Hey! I get to be a SO Captain!




I wanna be the Reg, closing deals!




Ooooh! Ooooooh! I get to be security!





I get dibs on the Flag Reg!




I'm gonna be the International Spokesman for the Church!!




I'm the Executive Director of the IAS!




We get to be OTs!!!

[MrNobody]

Daily Dot | How Scientology Resembles A Broken Role-playing Game

"Over the past decade, Scientology’s bizarre belief systems have become a matter of public record. Given all the controversy and pop culture jokes, it can be difficult to come up with a frame of reference to understand why the controversial organization has managed to survive for so long. (L. Ron Hubbard wrote the group’s cornerstone text, Dianetics, in 1950.)

Oddly enough, in several ways, the closest system Scientology approaches is that of a broken role-playing game."

http://www.dailydot.com/society/scie...-playing-game/

Great find, Smilla. But I may disagree a bit with dailydot here: I do think $cn is just a bad RPG, but it's not broken - sadly, it still works as intended.

[Rene Descartes]

Sea Org Member #1: That guy Joe is always writing KRs on everybody

Sea Org Member #2: Yeah, he's such a griefer. I won't group with him anymore.

Sea Org Member #3: And he is always SPAMMING us with tech!

Sea Org Member #4: Never a working ignore list around when you need it the most.

Sea Org Member #5: I think he has a hack that dumps aggro so that we always end up taking the heat for his failures.

Rd00