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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

The IRS, no.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

The IRS is so low on the totem pole as far as the, I mean, the international bankers, he would say, runs everything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Got it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But use, that these bankers also use big pharma and big psych.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

to control the population.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And Scientology's famously against pharma and psych.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And so this is sort of how L. Ron Hubbard characterizes this big war between Scientology that's trying to set everyone free and big pharma and big psych that's trying to enslave everyone on the planet.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah, controlling their mind, controlling their body through chemicals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But you asked the question, why would all these people hold on to their stories?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

They would never want to leak.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Like, by even...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Anyone who would want to leak would not even want to be a Scientologist anymore.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Like if you truly believe in Scientology and you got your shoulder to the wheel and you're a Sea Orc member, you think Scientology is literally the only thing that can save every being on this planet from a fate of eternal amnesia and slavery.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And so it's like, I mean, you've seen the matrix, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So you've got everyone, once you're unplugged from the matrix and you realize, yeah, you can get plugged back in and live your nice life, but you're a slave.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

That's how Scientologists see this planet.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

They actually, they refer to earth as a prison planet.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

I personally, because when I was in those shoes, I say there's nothing anybody could have said to me to get me to change how I felt and thought about Scientology.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's almost foolproof that the more evidence you try to present that there's something wrong with what Scientology is doing, the more you're just working for the psychs.