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canuckistan
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Scientology is all about sucking as much money out of the vulnerable/impressionable hoi polloi as possible ("you NEED this $800 session/product or you can't go to the next level and get clear of those nasty thetans!!")...... with a few specially treated show pony celebrities like Cruise to parade around for legitimacy.
PT Barnum had it right, there is one born every minute. But you've gotta give Ron Hubbard credit--he figured out just how to milk it with expensive, multi-leveled psycho-gobbledeegook. |
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Bulsajo
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| The classic satire on man-made religion based on "a bunch of lies" and the destructiveness of scientific technology combined with soul-killing stupidity is Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle." I vaguely recall wondering who might be the "wampeter of my karass" (or something like that...) |
The only things keeping me from being a Bokononist are smelly soles. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| canuckistan wrote: |
Scientology is all about sucking as much money out of the vulnerable/impressionable hoi polloi as possible ("you NEED this $800 session/product or you can't go to the next level and get clear of those nasty thetans!!")...... with a few specially treated show pony celebrities like Cruise to parade around for legitimacy.
PT Barnum had it right, there is one born every minute. But you've gotta give Ron Hubbard credit--he figured out just how to milk it with expensive, multi-leveled psycho-gobbledeegook. |
Internet Hoax Snares Cruise
By Sarah Hall
Wed Sep 28, 7:28 PM ET
Apparently, if you jump on a couch in a frenzied enough manner on national television, people will start to believe just about anything about you.
Tom Cruise was the victim of a recent Internet scam in the form of a fake press release posted on the British Website Pressbox.co.uk that claimed the actor would be giving a series of lectures on metal-health issues. 
The release, purportedly issued by the actor's lawyer, Bertram Fields, claimed that Cruise would be bellying up to a podium at Los Angeles' Scientology Celebrity Center to discuss topics such as "How Psychiatry Invented Schizophrenia and What Scientologists Can Do About It" and "Handling Sexual Disorientation: Out of the Closet and into the Auditing Room."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050928/en_celeb_eo/17470;_ylt=AtdnmeIAsT3GHx5kdSwxeafK.nQA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4dDg2MG9mBHNlYwMxNjk3 |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:25 am Post subject: ... |
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If you read Dianetics, he has one good point:
If you don't understand what you've read above, then go back and read it again until you do understand.
Fair enough, but couldn't finish it.
On the other hand, I'd far more approve of a thread assailing Christianity.
Does my not following Scientology lead me to an eternity of fire and brimstone?
Let Scientology poo-poo psychiatry. Have you read Nicole Kidman's comments?
Scientology will not overturn Roe v. Wade.
We do not have a president who has his own private spiritual dialogue with L. Ron Hubbard.
Let people believe what they will. His religion doesn't debase Beck's music or Chick Corea's.
Worst case scenario: a sequel to Battlefield Earth.
And, relatively speaking, that's like Jesus directing Howard the Duck II. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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| Nowhere Man wrote: |
If you read Dianetics, he has one good point:
If you don't understand what you've read above, then go back and read it again until you do understand. |
Or until we tell you to go, & that you "really do" finally "understand" 
Enter opening riff to the Eagles' "HOTEL CALIFORNIA"
( you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave )
A shameless "pseudo" religion, Scientology can likely most accurately be described as a money sucking SATANTIC KULT.
Lest we be deceived 
Tom Cruise's Mom 'Dead' to Friends 
Friday, April 27, 2007
By Roger Friedman
Tom Cruise: Runaway Mom 'Dead' Now to Friends
It hasn't been a great week for Tom Cruise, PR-wise.
Perhaps inspired by Cruise's Scientology fundraiser in New York last week, both the Star and US Weekly are featuring Cruise and wife Katie Holmes on their covers. The subject of their stories: a possible divorce, brought about by Katie's frustrations with Scientology.
While Cruise should be worrying about what's left of his career, instead he seems to be digging his heels in deeper when it comes to his religious devotion. He doesn't seem to realize that a whole new generation now associates Cruise with Xenu, aliens and science fiction.
On top of this, word comes to us from Marco Island, Fla., where Tom's mom, Mary Lee Mapother, lived for nearly two decades until exactly a year ago.
As I've reported before, it was roughly a year ago that Tom's mother left her Florida home for Tom's Beverly Hills manse and never returned.
This was a shock to her longtime second husband, Jack South, who accompanied her on a trip to see new baby granddaughter Suri. After going west with Mary Lee, South went south and east.
He returned to Florida alone.
Since then, with perhaps one exception, Mary Lee Mapother has not once contacted her many friends in Marco Island.
"She just vanished," says a friend. "It's like there was a death."
Jack South, friends say, has been consoling himself with his children from his first marriage, and with friends who can commiserate with him.
What happened to these people sounds a lot like what happened to Holmes' former friends � including her "Dawson's Creek" castmates � when Holmes went out to be interviewed by Cruise in April 2005 for "Mission: Impossible 3" and never returned home. 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268977,00.html |
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