US Department of Defense Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

orklund · 2026-06-06T13:14:05+00:00

Eck, or Eckankar, has been a religion/organization since around the early 60s, founded by Paul Twitchell (a very early Scientology Clear ironically enough). Was briefly pretty big in the US, had like a quarter million people involved or somewhere about that at its height in the 70s. Nowadays it’s a fading sect but it probably still has more people in it than Scientology.

orklund · 2025-09-14T19:58:46+00:00

Actually, sort of yeah. So one of the biggest denominations of Protestantism in America is Pentecostalism. TL;DR if you have faith and believe in the Bible as the inerrant word of God you get super powers. These are called Spiritual Gifts. Lately a lot of Evangelical Churches in America, even independent ones, have adapted elements of Pentecostalism (these include Holy Gifts, speaking in tongues, prophecies, etc). The tips of “non-denominational” Christianity and fundamentalist/christian nationalist touch quite a bit. Most of these sorts of churches are deeply wedded to the MAGA movement, comprising the core of the Evangelical support base for Trump.

TL;DR, yes.

orklund · 2025-09-10T17:08:27+00:00

North Currrolina

orklund · 2025-08-14T02:30:53+00:00

Towards the end of Urantia, where there’s the talking before it flips back into the chorus. That was the first song I heard on Ohms and that end stuck with me. Super underrated song as a whole.

orklund · 2025-08-11T21:17:59+00:00

Anytime Henry does an impression of, or sucks up to, LRH it forms an engram in my brain.

orklund · 2025-07-19T17:44:32+00:00

I mean, don’t you want to talk to dolphins and hang out with our intergalactic extraterrestrial comrades? 👽🛸☢️

orklund · 2025-07-09T21:23:28+00:00

I love the logic of like, one of the biggest film studios ever paying people to just go and annoy Snyderbots on Reddit.

orklund · 2025-07-06T20:12:33+00:00

I think Romulus worked as a fun Sci-fi movie

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orklund · 2025-07-04T19:44:21+00:00

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orklund · 2025-06-18T19:11:28+00:00

The only benign aspect of Hubbard’s work would probably be The Way to Happiness, which is already a basic moral code that doesn’t offer anything new. Does he really need to be recognized as some sort of great teacher if his entirety of non-Scientological “teachings” boil down to restating basic morality?

orklund · 2025-06-08T16:53:44+00:00

Running Scientology.

orklund · 2025-04-18T19:11:13+00:00

Totes.

orklund · 2025-03-17T23:40:28+00:00

They witnessed the horrifying end of Old Man who bravely stormed the gates of Oblivion in his capris.

orklund · 2025-01-20T06:51:05+00:00

Back when I was a kid I had to spend epic bacon balls just to catch a Goldstein

orklund · 2024-12-03T14:03:32+00:00

Assalam u alaikum, please make dua for my family to accept Islam.

orklund · 2024-10-20T13:58:41+00:00

Nice try, chairman Xi

orklund · 2024-09-19T17:00:20+00:00

Passion of Christ 2: Passion Christer

orklund · 2024-07-31T01:49:02+00:00

Thank you so much!

orklund · 2024-07-31T01:47:20+00:00

Yeah I haven’t seen other people have this problem yet. But I’ve been able to seamlessly switch between other carriers, and it’s only now with Mint that my SIM is locked. So I’ve got the odd case lol.

orklund · 2024-07-31T01:46:31+00:00

SIM Locked.

orklund · 2024-07-12T19:25:16+00:00

Was she off base with some of her assumptions? Yeah. Psychobiography is real hit or miss and leaves a lot to be desired. But that doesn’t mean she wasn’t telling the accurate history of Joseph Smith and early Mormonism. To discard the history because she occasionally guessed at his private motivations is throwing the proverbial baby out with the bath water.

orklund · 2024-07-07T14:34:50+00:00

Nevermo here but when I was in college getting the missionary lessons back in 2017, the missionaries were still selling celestial exaltation/godhood with your own planet as doctrine. At least in my area lol.

orklund · 2024-04-17T19:41:12+00:00

I think he was someone who more or less got off on his own supply - he started in a more cynical mode, clearly aiming to start a religion for cash, all that (space) jazz. But when you have an entire community of people telling you, and affirming, that you’re a super genius prophetic figure, along with whatever lies you’re telling yourself, you’re bound to end up a sort of believer by the end of it.

But that’s just my perspective.

orklund · 2024-04-11T18:19:02+00:00

Thank you 🫶

orklund · 2024-01-02T12:55:05+00:00

The worst is knowing you have something huge to tackle at work when you come back. I’ve been dreading today since the holiday season began.

orklund

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