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From: tim@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Dianetics, Church of Scientology Want info.
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Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 18:05:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 27 18:05:35 1983
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    Scientology is pretty absurd.  Among other things, it claims that
Mars and Venus have been populated by sentient races; that we are all
really "Thetans", several-inch-long little souls that are trillions
(yes, trillions) of years old; that the E-meter, which is not even a
reliable skin galvanometer, can lay bare the deepest secrets of
Thetans; and that it is perfectly all right to harass enemies of the
cults by whatever means are available.

    You can find some amusing material on Scientology/Dianetics in
Martin Gardner's excellent book "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of
Science", available from Dover Books.  The book is worth getting in
its own right.

    Tim Maroney