I recently realised there are quite a few similarities between World of Warcraft and Scientology:
- Both initially nearly failed as business ventures, then went on to become very profitable
- Membership fees
- Your family / friends (unless they too are members) get upset when you join
- Both see you spending large amounts of time attached to gadgets, which purport to make you feel better
- Both have been the theme of Southpark episodes
- Both are never-ending – the more you take part, the more you discover, and in turn more is revealed to you to keep you hooked
- Both ban you for talking about drugs
- If you post either manuals on the Internet, you get sued
- Both have a leadership which periodically updates material
- Both encourage you to level-up :-)
- If you die in either, you get reincarnated without your stuff (and it costs you money to get it back).
- Famous people - Branden Routh (Superman) plays WoW, Tom Cruise plays Scientology
- Both have popular newsgroups
- Both feature cool looking armor :-)
Some (imho) interesting reading:
Travolta Hospitalized With Critically Low E-Meter Reading
The Beginner's Guide to L Ron Hubbard (Google Video) - also see Bare-Faced Messiah [The true story of L Ron Hubbard] and of course Wikipedia's L Ron Hubbard article.
Scientology and Germany
And finally A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant :-)
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