What if...(a question about what you would say)

What if you were walking down the street and you walked a past a Church of Scientology and there was a guy out front asking if you'd like to get one of these "tests" done...

What would you say?

 

What tests?

 

No thanks?

 

I'd say Test? TEST! Get those Needles Away From me Then Throw A baby At Him And Run

 

http://www.scientology.org/oca.htm

It's how they reel you in...

 

something tells me you watched south park tonight...



it depends on if i was busy or not; i'd take their "test" if i was bored enough

 

Xenu is my homeboy...but seriously...if you are gonna believe in xenu you might as well believe in god, mummies, goblins, werewolves, and vampires...

 

been there, done that. not merely to quote the old saying, but it just so happened, one of the places i lived in portland oregon, there was a scientology center just up the street from my old appartment i was living in. there were a couple of my neighbors who were members of it too. they were also part of the group i rpg'd with at the time. sort of small world kind of trip. anyway, i'd just have to say "sorry, but no way".

i went in there out of curiosity once. took their silly little 'test'. what a goofy bunch of pseudo-psycho psued-sci-religeo-whatever else anyone might want to call it, crap. not any worse then a lot of what passess for belief in other religeons, usually without the pretentions of pseudo-science though.

meh, and they gave me my very own shiney new copy of L.Ron's "dianetics". whoopie.

of course i'd ALREADY READ strainger in a strainge land. part of my curiosity was to try and see how much it actually resembled "fosterism".

well i didn't get to see much of anything, just a room with a bunch of racks of the dianetics book, and one or two other sorts of materials they had for sale.

(which no way was i about to buy anything anyway).

all i can say is i was more bored and more then a little more depressed when i came back out, then i had been before i went in.

i couldn't and can't see any big deal about it. unless you want to call boring self serving insanity 'demonic'.

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Some friends and I were bored and wandering around Hollywood so went in and took their test. Its long, about 400 questions, if I remember correctly. Pretty much no matter how you answer them, the results will say that you need help, which only scientology can give you. They said I was totally deficient in all areas of my life, which I thought was funny. They will go on to try to sell you some scientology books. Its really not much fun. We already knew what's up with them (scientology = bs + Hubbard is hack of a sf writer) so, at least we wasted their time and money.

 

I'd just keep poking him with a stick until he went away

 

i just either ignore them or say not interested. Boston has a pretty large Scientology church down near Copley, so i walk by it frequently.

 

No...actually I was walking back to my hostel last night and there is a Church of Scientology on the way from the MUNI station to where Im staying, and some guy was standing outside asking people to come take a test...the guy that was walking near me was, like, "No, I don't have time." And I was thinking to myself what I would say if the guy asked me...

 

I think I would make them take a test of my own. I think I could crack them.

 

only if it's free...

 

Don't answer him no matter how many times you pass him, it will demoralise him and perhaps one day he'll stop bothering people on the street.

 

I just make eye contact and say nothing

 

it'd probably be something along the lines of "no, thank you."

 

Gee, you all are being a little boring...

I thought you might have some creative answers for me...

You all are getting lame in your old ages

 

^well if it helps, i'd tell him that i just had sex with my uncle's monkey and ask for an HIV test...

 

I think I would ask the guy if that South Park episode really showed "What scientologists actually believe." I can't see myself actually taking the test, but I could have a fun conversation with the fellow