This "proof of religion" here clearly lies mainly in the semantics. It's like all the proofs of these things is based on misunderstandings of language and the thought that it's something constant that wasn't invented by man to communicate... Most of the proofs in this movie look like this: A could be likened with B. B is true. Therefor A is true. Even the definition of their made-up words are weird circle-definitions.
They just try to talk for so long that you get lost in their words, get confused and then accept just about anything. "There are eight dynamics because the infinity sign looks like an eight turned up." Do you hear how absolutely insane that actually sounds? How can you use words like "beingness", "doingness", "thinkingness" and "havingness", say things like "energy is energy" and still take yourself seriously like the narrator does?
They also try to convince you that theatans are different from other dualistic ideas about spirit and body because they separated the mind and body. Basically the mind is the brain and the body is the rest of the body while theatan is the soul. All with tons of added fantasies.
If Scientology told you that killing yourself was like the most awesome thing ever (therefor killing yourself is great and true), you would all do it. That's how little you actually think for yourself if you believe in this. In the end, it just tells you to buy they books and stuff to get to know more and you're left with a lot less faith in humanity. I don't like religion very much, but I don't think I've seen any worse argument for a religion than this movie.
In the end it's not even a very good movie. Most of the scenes should have been re-shot (like "Give me some room, I can't breath"). Basically the only reasons it doesn't get zero is because A) I can't put any lower, B) the photography is pretty at times, C) it was so stupid I almost started laughing and D) it used the Wilhelm scream for no reason apparent reason.
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