have any ilxors done any coursework at COS?
― Mordy , Friday, 28 February 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
james franco may have dabbled
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
i have
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
i've mentioned on ilx before that i've done a ton of coursework at landmark (aka est 2.0) tho not very recently (probably last course i did was about eight years ago). i've always been curious about scientology bc i know werner erhard took a bunch of courses w/ scientology b4 starting est and they accused him of stealing some of their "technology" and put him on their enemies lists, etc. i always heard rumors that they were behind the 60 minutes hit job.
― Mordy , Friday, 28 February 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Going Clear is the first book on scientology that I've read, so this is all blowing my mind. Letting depth charges loose on shadows is kind of lol, but damn this dude was dark.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
Is stability in the e-meter reading what counts? I kind of want to try and game it and become OT7 from one sitting.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
mordy start a landmark thread
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
there is such a thread: Landmark Forum
― Mordy , Friday, 28 February 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Finished Going Clear yesterday. I'm doing my best to not refer to people as SPs and PTSs or talk about my engrams.
― how's life, Friday, 7 March 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
I kind of want to try and game it and become OT7 from one sitting.
will never happen
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
someone pointed out to me that the whole john travolta "Adele Dazeem" thing is so much funnier once you think about how top-level scientologists are supposed to have master's grasp of spoken language and possess total mental clarity
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
he misspoke because of SPs like you, gr8080
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
I kind of want to try and game it and become OT7 from one sitting.will never happen
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, March 7, 2014 11:27 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, I can see that's not how it works now that I've read more. It'd perhaps be more fun to make the needle jump around consistently throughout the audit, suggesting that you've committed great crimes against the church.
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
but really, I'm not going to do any of these things bc I don't want TC to punch me in the face
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
TC would never bother to do thatYou would get sent to the trailer to crawl from end to end for weeks while deliberately placed crumbs permanently embed themselves in your knees. Or you would just disappear.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
;_; feel like I am owed at least one punch from TC
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
you have to already be very involved in scientology for them to send you to the trailer. new joiners don't see any of that hardcore shit.
― Mordy , Friday, 7 March 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the trailer was for executives on the Gold Base, no?
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if the org chart is done
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
if you go to get tested, or to take an introductory course, and basically spend the time making jokes and clearly not taking shit seriously, they basically ask you to get lost.
― Mordy , Friday, 7 March 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
get lost, enturbulator!
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
not cool, joke-man. very disrespectful.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 7 March 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
james franco?
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 March 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
I am almost done I think? if true, the stuff TC has been privy to is like whoah
― gbx, Friday, 7 March 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
elisabeth moss ;_;
We are almost at the ocean when I bring up Scientology, the church Moss was raised in. Her affiliation with the church remains the strange, odd fact of her biography, the thing that does not belong in her regular-chick story. “I’m not going to talk about it anymore,” she says firmly. “I said what it meant to me, and anyone can go and look at that if they want to know what I feel. But now it’s private, off limits.”She has previously spoken about how the church is personally helpful to her, not anti-gay, and “grossly misunderstood by the media.” But Moss does not talk about Scientology even with friends and seems very comfortable with how uncomfortable it makes other people. “I would feel the same way, honestly,” she says. “I think if there was something that I didn’t know and didn’t understand, I would probably feel as opinionated. You know how you’re opinionated about when someone breaks up? Celebrities break up and you just feel like you know what happened?”
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 10 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I always wondered how many Scientology jokes the Simpsons writers have had to throw away/suppress.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 March 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
The Joy of Sect episode had some pretty thinly-veiled digs, and the Leader of the Movementarians looked a lot like LRH:
http://thezipdownlow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/joyofsect.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 10 March 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. Guess those digs didn't appear on Cartwright's radar.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
GATII success stories!
http://tinyurl.com/p2bklle
― polyphonic, Monday, 9 June 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
it's full perception, exterior. solidly stable.
― how's life, Monday, 9 June 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
This is a good song btw
http://www.56.com/u98/v_MTE0ODc3NTc1.html
― polyphonic, Monday, 9 June 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
that video was absolutely insane. Every time I try to read even the tiniest bit about scientology I feel like I'm down the rabbit hole with no way back except to shake it off and ignore it. so weird
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
This is something that I never even thought was possible. The amount of in-PTness I feel and how myself I am. Honestly, I had no idea that Objective processes could do this to a person.
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
And the C/S gives you a new process, it's like opening up a present. You're like "Oh my god! I'm gonna run that? This is awesome!"
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
Are your needles floating or are you just happy to see me?
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the floating arm thing caught me off guard. I was like "how did they bring whammy bars into this?"
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:43 (nine years ago) link
What's insane is Lawrence Wright's book. Tom Cruise should be committed.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
I take a little credit for spreading that latest video, first thanks to a Maria Bustillos RT and then another one later from Aaron Stewart-Ahn that was picked up by William Gibson. THAT was a hell of a lot of notifications to wake up to.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
And yes re: what Alfred said. I remember reading obsessively about L Ron and his weird ways in high school and college and it's no less comforting to see how Miscavige just took it further.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
I finished the Wright book about a week ago. Part of me thought it would be funny in a black/bleak sort of way, but it was terrifying and depressing.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
it's like i should be wearing a seat belt in my pc chair
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
need a gif of 7:18-7:21
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
If I ever found myself excitedly uttering a sentence beginning, "When she opened the indoctrination booklet . . ." I would step back and take a good hard look at my life. Guess that's why I'm only OT III. :(
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
xp: was gonna say "Karl Malone to thread - stat"
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
I take a little credit for spreading that latest video, first thanks to a Maria Bustillos RT and then another one later from Aaron Stewart-Ahn that was picked up by William Gibson. THAT was a hell of a lot of notifications to wake up to.― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:56 AM (2 hours ago)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:56 AM (2 hours ago)
"When I woke up to those many RTs, I was instantly blown away! I mean I expected a few MTs and H/Ts but this put me on a clear path to the Bridge."
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/f4abfaed15cf43125e7af995d622d4d3/tumblr_n6yyr4bAWt1rgh197o1_400.gif
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
agh, who is that?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
random scientologist, or perhaps an actor
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Looks like a hybrid of Famke Jannsen and Michele Bachmann.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZqCBRAb.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link