The Miller Community Center is full of useful classes – yoga, basketball, watercolor, karate, and on Tuesdays and Saturdays, a class called H.E.L.P. Tutoring. The Hollywood Education and Literacy Project of Puget Sound offers “study and learning skills” that will let you “eradicate the barriers to study so that you can learn to do anything you desire in life.” Now one has to raise an eyebrow when “Hollywood” is used to promote “study skills” – even “South Beach study skills” sounds more legitimate with the whole South Beach Diet pseudo-science affiliation – but in this case the study skills being promoted are those developed by the (in)famous L. Ron Hubbard. We have our own scientology class here on the Hill! Pair it with a church every other block and we have a little oasis of religion in heathen Seattle.
There is some internal debate here at capitolhillseattle about whether this is a TOTAL SCAM or THE SAME AS ANY VANILLA BIBLE STUDY. We leave it to you to decide. We got to run a mostly relevant celebrity pic, so we’re happy either way.
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This post is a poorly-researched mudball of bigotry.
H.E.L.P. is not Scientology. It is the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a non-profit center founded by Tom Cruise and a few other caring Hollywood personalities in order to teach kids how to read and do better in school. No part of its curriculum has anything to do with teaching them Scientology.
H.E.L.P. does use L. Ron Hubbard’s principles on education, which have been found to be quite effective by many unbiased researchers.
Instead of mocking Scientology so much, why not consider we may be doing something worthwhile in society? We’re depicted in the media as tinfoil-hat wearing, koolaid drinking lunatics (without anyone actually asking us what we really believe), and when we do volunteering it’s a non-story or ridiculed. I’m beginning to get a sense of what it must have been like to be a Jew in Germany in the 20s and 30s.
Sincerely,
Greg
Scientologist and proud of it
http://www.liveandgrow.org
Why don’t you bother to spend a night or maybe a couple of hours of your precious time to actually take a look and see for yourself what this program is all about.
The program proved to be very efficient with many kids and grown ups who’d gave up on their study otherwise. It is about illiteracy and barriers to study. Nothing about religion. Period.
Why do you have the urge to repeat all this dirty stuff from the media about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard? I mean, if you don’t like it, it is OK, but at least take an honest look and make YOUR OWN judgement. Otherwise, you sound so stupid repeating other morons that don’t know what they are talking about.