A fellow geek like myself bought an Scientology e-meter off of eBay and took it apart. I’m not surprised it is just an ohmmeter. This is yet another example of a religion claiming that some measurement has a supernatural source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmkjx/whats-inside-a-scientology-e-meter
What’s scary is that they then use this bad science as an input to some version of psychology they have.
What makes people so ignorant that they believe in such obviously fake instruments.
Even after being exposed the scientologists would probably try to justify with:
The changes in resistance is exactly what the electropsychometer is supposed to be measuring.
Why won’t they just admit it? I think this generalizes to all religions as well.
Where’s Cog and doG!!!
They need to see this!!! And get tested! Those suppressive assholes!
Agreed. Let’s dunk them to see if they’re a witch…
A test, for Cog and Tin Man?
Oh brave new world that hath such people in it.
By either looking for the devil’s mark, dunking them, or telling them the story of Christ and watch if they cry. If you dunk them and they float, they are a witch. Older people typically have higher fat to muscle ratios along with lower bone mass and are more likely to float. If that’s the case then Exodus 22:18 kicks in: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
“What makes people so ignorant that they believe in such obviously fake instruments.
Even after being exposed the scientologists would probably try to justify with:
The changes in resistance is exactly what the electropsychometer is supposed to be measuring.
Why won’t they just admit it? I think this generalizes to all religions as well.”
My partner is ex scientology. She reveres L Ron and his Dianetics. Despite entire family exposing e meters (they are also ex cult members) she still believes they are effective in measuring your percentage of being “clear”…She despises modern scientology and the malign influence of Misgavich ( or whatever his name is).
@ TheMagus
Like a lapsed Catholic she understands the whole atomic bomb thing is absolute bollocks but still believes in Thetans…fuck me…we do not discuss it at all. One of those “we like our relationship, lets just shut the fuck up about those fairies at the bottom of the garden and carry on with our lives together.”
That’s how it works I reckon. Cognitive dissonance (a term she rejects).
Blockquote"That’s how it works I reckon. Cognitive dissonance (a term she rejects)."
A denial that ironically would involve cognitive dissonance.
which is why we never discuss it…my shortcomings are obvious enough without a feminine rehashing, in excruciating detail, of every one of them. Discretion/valour…anyone in a relationship can fill in the missing bits.
OMS … You dear sir, are a wonderful “catch” …
Since my boy is dating - I’ve “noticed” changes in his behaviour… he’s always been welcome to a “beer”, and I invited him to have one with me outside
“No, I don’t drink alcohol anymore”
(OK, I think)
Breakfast -
BACON has always been his indulgence, the one meat product he could stomach…
“I don’t eat bacon anymore”
(OK, I think)
He grabs a small rug and starts doing these on knee bowing motions…
“I’m just exercising…they’re new”
(OK, I think)
Ahhhh, what men won’t do for women 
My divorce and this revelation could explain my slowly falling out with my weighing scales…
Mental note to self: I don’t need a training chart pinned to the fridge, I need less beer in it, and to sell my couch on gum tree. If my divorce keeps going the way my ex wife wants I won’t be able to afford furniture anyway, or food…
@Sheldon … yah, I could never get the hang of what men want . … but TRUST me, being “alone” (not lonely) AND yourself is awesome - once you get past the heartache, and lost future dreams of “what was suppose to be” and financial setbacks…
After my first divorce, I had NO job, a small apt (as cheap as I could find), a couch and some old dishes. NO TV or VEHICLE or $$$$ or “fuck all”!!!
30 something, recovering from surgery AND I just left. He got it “all” …and I managed to survive 
You’ll get there… I once had a friend explain her outlook “abundance is the ability to do what you need to do when you need to do it”
That’s it - stuck to me like glue- never revamped this definition
Re: “If you dunk them and they float, they are a witch.”
Hmmm… Somebody please remind me to deactivate my auto-inflate arm floaties before the dunkings begin.
Was once stopped by a young bloke in the city, right outside Scientology Central. Said he was conducting a survey. I said OK. It didn’t go well.
First he asked “Are you happy?” To which I replied “Yes” . That seemed to cause him some consternation.
Next he asked “Wouldn’t you like to have somebody to make all of your decisions for you?” Horrified at the thought, I said “No”. I then sneaked a look a the clip board . I’m sure you’ll be stunned to learn there was no survey. Instead there were a few chicken scratching on a blank sheet of paper. Don’t remember what I said. Probably something quite unkind.
Tries to read ‘Dianetics’ once, in the 1970’s I think. Bought it from a second hand bookshop for 50 cents. I was robbed.
Addendum: Read a few of his sci fi books. I found them pedestrian and fascistic.
@Old_man_shouts_at_cl, I have Christian friends like that. They think that gay marriage is okay now, and don’t believe in Noah’s Ark, or the tower of babble, but they believe that their invisible organ will go to the good alternate universe if they believe and say a few magic words. They also feel that god gives them special messages from time to time… Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. Like your name btw.
doG, snorts himself awake…farts, shooting cogs banana out his butt…then turns over and falls back asleep.
Fuckin 
. Uhhhhh chimpanzees (apes is too highly evolved)
I forget you guys like to play with your poo first (ohhhh shit!!! THATS what’s taking Cog soooo long - he’s “saving it” to mark this place up!)
[quote=“Whitefire13, post:13, topic:50”]
hen
[/quote] I got one of those machines. It made my gums bleed. Ssshhheeeeeee!
