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PREVIEW: Contemplations #139 | Cults: Part III

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Josh, Stelios and Beau discuss the life of Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, what Scientologists believe and what criteria qualify them to be regarded as a cult.

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0:17.0

Hello and welcome to Contemplations this is part three I believe of the cults mini series that we're doing and today we're looking to get sued and we're talking about Scientology and I am joined once again by Stelios Panayotti got your second name right this time. Thank you.

0:18.0

Thank you very much.

0:19.0

And Bibi Dade also known as Bodeed, I don't have any more nicknames for you. I'm not going to do the same twice,

0:25.0

but I've got to come up with one at some point. And yes, we're going to be looking at what

0:30.6

Scientologists actually believe, as well as the structure of their organization which seems to be very exploitative is my kind of

0:40.0

summary of everything that's going on here, but it is actually insane.

0:44.6

The past couple of cults we've looked at, I've tried to be a bit charitable.

0:48.6

That's over with.

0:50.1

Scientology, it's obviously a full-blown cult. You know, the word cult is kind of epitomized by

0:58.9

Scientology I think and the fact that it's such an organizing the fact that they sue people into

1:05.2

oblivion for criticizing them means in my mind that they are utter scum and deserve no sympathy

1:11.1

whatsoever and we are going to tear them a new one basically.

1:15.0

So I hope you enjoy us being horrible about insane people

1:20.0

because I'm going to talk about the life of El-Ron Hubbard

1:22.0

and it reads like the script of a comedy.

1:25.9

It is unbelievably... I was reading it and it's just like, surely this isn't all true and then I look it up I check the sources like

1:34.7

I checked his military records and things like that with the official Navy, US Navy sources and

1:40.8

compared it to the Church of Scientology website.

1:42.8

And this is like, oh, right, so they're just lying about him.

1:46.2

He's not this great man.

1:47.0

He's actually one of the biggest losers I think I've ever read about, ever.

1:52.0

And I'm not saying that to be hyperbolic I actually mean it so let's

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