scientology & celebrities

your soulmate is terrifying

Thought about making one of those my FB cover pic but I don't want to be kidnapped and murdered just yet.

The music is awesome

the language of scientology is one of my favorite things about it
it's top notch word salad

That's Numberwang

there's something very pleasurable about hearing your native language spoken so enthusiastically and having no way to understand 90% of what is being said.

that's what i mean -- hearing it spoken is a unique pleasure
the interview with miscavige that's somewhere out there on youtube (and upthread) is really great for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZSjVOXAb8U

he gives me the creeps so bad!

that's what i mean -- hearing it spoken is a unique pleasure

its like my own version of AMSR maybe?

like instead of soft, gentle whispering about the mundane i enjoy enthusiastic babbling about the incomprehensible?

yeeeeeees
famiiar syntax/incomprehensible vocabulary -- i feel like this whenever i see an infomercial

also people confidently speaking via elaborate garbage words are always interesting to me

my question is: if you're lawrence wright, or have read him, do you understand what they are talking about?

not unless you paid special attention to learning the vocab and digesting the concepts, which i did not (although i did read the book)

I've sat through hours of doctors conventions in my day, which definitely lack enthusiasm most of the time, but I do find kind of nice in a numbing sort of way

it's a real trip when it all gets interrupted by a room full of 100+ people all laughing at something you had no idea was even a joke

there's something very pleasurable about hearing your native language spoken so enthusiastically and having no way to understand 90% of what is being said.

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is actually a great description of one of the things I love about Ryan Trecartin's videos

familiar syntax/unfamiliar nouns/verbs

and adjectives, of course

and probably adverbs too if they're in deep

like instead of soft, gentle whispering about the mundane i enjoy enthusiastic babbling about the incomprehensible?

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:18 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^new board description?

The people in the video remind me of what it's like talking to that subculture of people who build their own really complicated e-cigarettes. There's something about it that is completely

Looking in on American culture as a whole, I find the rationale behind various cultural movements—hobby, religion, consumer lobby group, technology workshop, self-help groups—is increasingly meaningless, since movement now seems to embody all of those things simultaneously. I'm genuinely surprised Minecraft is not a political party by now, for instance.

*completely otherworldly.

familiar syntax/unfamiliar nouns/verbs

― La Lechera, Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:41 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

old bottle new wine

*completely otherworldly.

Was wondering if you originally typed some weird word that html couldn't handle!

*completely http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

lol I haven't seen that since I accidentally triggered it in the Crackstarter thread

lol yeah that pic sums up my feelings

the Student Hat Cat lectures

how about adding 'purif' to every course description in the community college catalog

i vote Matt Ross plays Miscavage in a biopic, he's already gotten pigeonholed into the cult-leader role, why not go for one he kinda looks like

http://i.imgur.com/OS3TAU8.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/4ZIMDOi.jpg

dimpled dynamos

lol he looks kinda like Sean Hayes in that pic

God, the stuff with Quincy and the rest of his kids with Mary Sue.

Hu664rd finished writing his thousand-page opus, Battlefield Earth, in 1980. (Mitt Romney would name it as his favorite novel.)

Between that and the Mormon church buying and shelving another story of his, there's this weird frenemy thing going on between the two religions.

shouldn't we assume that the church has google alerts set up on any and all creative misspellings of their key words? we could just de-index this thread if we think it's a risk

anyway, i'd need to look it up again, but the long, babbling, incoherent circuitous footnote of miscavige defining what a "mission" is in a deposition is about as pure an expression of evil i've seen in print

I don't think anyone would think to use 6s to replace lower-case b's, so I think we're safe!

Just read the Miscavige interview with Ted Koppel -- is that what you're referring to? It's kind of amazing.

that interview is amazing but goole's referring to a footnote in Going Clear

yeah

Something to look forward to then! <_<

so we're googleproofing Hu664rd but not M1sc@v1ge? after reading Going Clear, the latter seems more frightening

certainly less fun

thread has been deindexed for a while now.

odious as he was Hubbard had this weird, unpredictable sense of mischief and hedonism about him; he took pleasure in things. He was like a precocious child playing with toys that were, unfortunately, real people. Miscavige just seems like a bully with short-man syndrome.

realnaming not cool

― duff paddy (darraghmac), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We could retroactively change all references to him to Miscarriage?

A little insensitive, no? otoh, we could do Ms. Cabbage.

I like it!

Also assigning myself to RPF for a beingness audit for my insensitive remarks.

odious as he was Hubbard had this weird, unpredictable sense of mischief and hedonism about him; he took pleasure in things. He was like a precocious child playing with toys that were, unfortunately, real people. Miscavige just seems like a bully with short-man syndrome.

shakey otm