Date: 15 Mar 2000 04:19:12 GMT
Message-ID: <8an30001e2p@enews1.newsguy.com>
I was fortunate (?) enough to see a copy of the program for Scientology's New Year's Event. Pretty standard fare, with a sports arena seating diagram, street map, list of tours available, and schedule of events (including a Sunday Service with the Reverend Heber Jentzsch and a concert with Isaac Hayes & The Dukes of Soul).
On page 7, "Sign the Commitment to a Scientology Millennium", the following appears:
We are on our way to clear a planet and free a world population. With the advent of the year 2000, we intend to create a true Scientology juggernaut and make this -- LRH's postulate -- a firm reality."Juggernaut" caught my attention. The word is derived from the title of the Hindu deity Krishna, whose idol is drawn on a huge cart in an annual procession. At one time it was (mistakenly) thought that fanatics would throw themselves under the wheels to be crushed, as a sacrifice to the god. Thus, the definition (from the American Heritage dictionary):To create that juggernaut you are invited to sign a commitment pledging your adherence to the Code of a Scientologist and the intention to making this new millennium -- the Scientology Millennium.
Something, such as a belief or an institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed; an overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path.Scientology "crushingly" defined in its own words.
Keshet -- Keshet@cyberpass.net * http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/scn/racism/ Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts. -M.Twain
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