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75 million years ago, a galactic warlord named Zeno had a problem.

His empire spanned 76 planets, and the population had gotten out of hand.

And his solution was elegant in a monstrous sort of way. He lured billions of people into tax

offices under false pretenses, froze them in glycol, loaded them onto DC8-shaped spacecrafts,

flew them to Earth, and dropped them into volcanoes. Then he detonated hydrogen bombs and the

souls of those billions, untethered, disoriented, and subjected to 36 days of electronic brainwashing

attach themselves to the only conscious beings left on the planet.

Humans, people like you and me,

and we've been carrying them ever since.

One man claimed to have uncovered this specific history,

and in the spirit of generosity,

he built a church to help remove those hitchhiking souls

one by one, level by level,

and for thousands upon thousands of dollars no less and

that church is the church of Scientology and to understand how something like that becomes real

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