An introduction and overview to Scientology.An introduction and overview to Scientology.An introduction and overview to Scientology.
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- L. Ron Hubbard(uncredited)
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- TriviaOnly shown in Scientology facilities.
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Host: Something happened in the world that was a bright piece of hope for man. Such a thing occurs every few hundred, or a thousand years. Some genius rises, and man takes a new step toward a better life, a better culture. There is a difference with Dianetics and Scientology. *It* has *never* happened before, in all the countless years of time. In this brief moment, we have our temporary chance for handling and continuing life. Clouds loom over this culture and planet. In this short interval, in this one place, we have our freedom before us. We *can* arise above the decay - the final flash that will inevitably extinguish this planet. It is not our mission to save it. It is our mission to free you. You are an immortal being. Your life will not halt because this planet halts. You can go on. Now we could play this very low-key. We could sort of giggle and say, "We can help you a little to lead a slightly happier life." Yes, we could say that. Stating that, if you cooperated, we could make you more cheerful. But that would be like offering someone a diamond, and saying it was glass. Right this instant, you are at the threshold of your next trillion years. You will live it in shivering agonized darkness, or you will live it triumphantly in the light; the choice is yours, not ours. If you, this minute, say, "I will, for better or for worse, go on in Scientology," you will open the door to your own future. If you say otherwise, you slam tomorrow shut in your own face. I'm sorry, but that's the way it really is.
- Crazy credits"Persons appearing in this video are thanked for their contribution which was solely in the form of acting and not as technical nor editorial assistance." (No one is credited or identified by name except for L. Ron Hubbard, Norman Starkey, and the production company.)
- ConnectionsReferences The Secret of Treasure Island (1938)
Orientation seems to present Scientology (and maybe I'll find out someday) as an action-oriented philosophy. (Dead French philosophers are now cursing Monsieur Hubbard, I can tell. One's actions? Guided by philosophy? Quelle horror!) The film showed plenty of different people, famous and not so, who had benefitted from Scientology. These guys seriously want to do something useful with their lives, and Scientology seems to be the way they have found to carry out that desire. Of course, the actors in the film were scripted and rehearsed, but I thought they evinced a sincerity that pushed right through the screen. We've all seen the 2-dimensional infomercial cut-out housewives and hail fellows. This is a very "real" bunch of people in the film.
My friend asked me how I could believe the actors because they were all Scientologists. Wouldn't they just be saying things to get you to like their religion? So I asked him why, with a hundred other religions, and presumably a few other careers available to them, these people would become Scientologists and spend their entire working days working at it as a profession in the first place? Go back a few years in their lives and ask what changes had Scientology wrought in their lives that made them choose it in the first place?
I watch for sloppy edits and bad transitions in TV all the time and found none here. Unlike lots of short films, its focuses were sharp, and the sound wasn't echoic or hollow. I liked the guy who tackled head-on why some people criticize Scientology. Overall, it was a good film. I bought a book. So far, Hubbard is more understandable -- and productive! -- than Hegel.
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- Nov 5, 2001
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