scientology & celebrities

i think you are either reading something into my comment that wasn't intended, or just misreading the syntax?

loool at "college of the mind," nothing like those other colleges

ah sorry mordy, my bad, i thought you were being sarcastic - like implying that cruise was that person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllYkNu1sl4

stoked for the madness

i am truly looking forward to this.

interesting to see if it actually prompts any action - the trailer seems to be going for that angle, assuming the euro one i watched is the same as that one linked above, which is blocked for me.

i wish i had read the book more recently.

As long as the information in the movie is based on the same as the hyper-vetted book, I don't see why it would prompt any legal action, for the same reason: if they sued, they'd have to introduce all sorts of crazy stuff into evidence they'd rather just keep hidden/made up.

they sure have an ugly building. aren't religions supposed to make good buildings or something.

Lord Elron was more into boats, tbh.

love the scientology building so much

thetans in the architecture

SF scientology building is kinda cool (the old Transamerica building)

Guess they like the style; the one in Madrid is very similar.

i.e. wedge-shaped, ship-like. Flatiron building better watch out.

As long as the information in the movie is based on the same as the hyper-vetted book, I don't see why it would prompt any legal action, for the same reason: if they sued, they'd have to introduce all sorts of crazy stuff into evidence they'd rather just keep hidden/made up.

I meant to wonder if this doc will cause backlash against scientology, rather than a legal action by the "church". The trailer I saw (which I think is the same one linked here but can't tell) had all these snippet quotes of "this will blow the whole thing open" etc. I guess to me it seems like scientology already won the big battles in the 80s and 90s - I am psyched for this doc but I don't expect it to do any actual damage. The book was incredibly neutral, it just told stories and indicted that way, which was highly effective. I guess I don't expect the doc to do anything more than reach a bigger audience.

the big jump from New Yorker subscribers to HBO subscribers

prob will be bigger globally - the book also was banned in the uk - even if the doc doesn't come out here a lot of people will still watch it.

Can the doc legally include all that crazy Tom Cruise stuff (like his Mission Impossible theme infomercial)?

god i hope so

http://i.imgur.com/0Eq72g8.png

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mistah wright!

What did you all think?

Having read the book, I guess it was a bit underwhelming. Mainly because the book is just so exhaustively detailed.

I thought the doc explained the e-meter more clearly, and some of the personalities came across nicely. Also, lol at that awful song.

I loved it. I never read the book but I knew a lot of the details. I didnt know about the machinations behind getting tax exempt status though, thats mindblowing.

Insane. If only the IRS could have held their nerve.

I dug it. I havent read the book & most of my knowledge is Hubbard/Parsons occult & early dianetics, so I found this v interesting + fking nuts

Hubbard footage (the color interview footage) STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
his mouth/teeth/lips so creepy
everything about him tbh

looooling at the meeting footage. william gibson retweeted someone saying that some of it looked like a bioshock level lol

cavidge is a weird one
reminds me of the pastor from True Blood

i actually went back and looked at the handshakes between cruise and miscavige a couple of times. creepy out.

The musical chairs story is some truly evil shit, again I think the book got across the horror of that even more than the doc, though I liked the way the doc did it. It might just be a case of the shock value being diminished entirely by knowing the big revelations.

L Ron's mouth and teeth :(

Guess my favourite part of the book didn't get in:

http://i62.tinypic.com/312e0kx.jpg

oh man, guess I have no reason to watch this now. :\

http://www.bustle.com/articles/72106-where-is-shelly-miscavige-wife-of-scientology-leader-david-miscavige-she-hasnt-been-seen-in-7

hubbard + parsons occult shenanigans deserves it's own 2hr doc imo

Damn Parsons, slow down.

hubbard + parsons occult shenanigans deserves it's own 2hr doc imo

yeah this stuff is practically a bottomless well.

why no mention in the doc about miscavige's missing wife?

oh sorry missed that link above!

i wish that the doc had included more about the auditing process. there's something fascinating about it--and it seems to be the kernel of a "real" experience which gets people hooked and which allows for all the other flim-flam to be attached to it.

i wanna watch this so badly

Started it last night, and this

Hubbard footage (the color interview footage) STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
his mouth/teeth/lips so creepy

is OTMFM.

closeup of teeth def the biggest thing not mentioned in the book

Pretty uncanny how much he looks like Philip Seymour Hoffman in some of those interviews. Or vice versa I guess

also maybe that one woman who was in sea org-- seemed like her departure from the church happened after the book got published?

lol @ at least 3 gary larson books on the NYT bestseller list along with dianetics

i wanna watch this really badly too but what's the deal with the teeth?

He and the Lieutenant of the Morannon have the same dentist, apparently.

nothing really wrong with his teeth he just looks like darrell hammond

http://photos.vanityfair.com/2015/03/30/55196c270acde13473db3807_going-clear-LRH.gif

ah i see
he has stained old man pointies
these days rich old ppl all have veneers so you don't get teeth like that anymore

i'm assuming as soon as Hubbard died and leveled up to space god or whatever, he commanded the cosmos to amputate the lower half of his face