scientology & celebrities

it is too bad that most frameworks for helping people come to a sense of self-actualization and confidence are profit centers for people marketing motivational and focus-based techniques but capitalism

there are more altruistic frameworks but their marketing budget is bad

Do Scientology enrollees get sponsors? Can Scientology give me a free personal trainer that's willing to go the extra mile?

Might be worth it -- never seen a fat Scientologist.

fat people are subversive by their very nature

be fat, my friends

Plenty of blubbard on the Hubbard

Appetite Suppressive Personalities

When I was doing my Objectives, I was handling some intense stuff—as everyone who has done Objectives can relate

is there a scientology buzzfeed for stuff like this?

it was just sitting there in my bank, affecting me!!!

I remember when I was directing this pilot for a show I co-created called Neighbors.I showed up to our biggest day of shooting, where we had children, student teachers, all the cast, big scenes—I remember thinking when I looked at the schedule, “Once I get through this day the rest of the shoot will be a breeze.” Well, I showed up in the morning and we had lost our locations. I was so shocked. Everybody was scrambling. But instead of getting into the worry or any previous mis-emotion slamming in on me or getting me stressed out, I just turned to my producer and said, “Okay, we need a solution. What are our other options?” And we quickly got to work on Plan B. The fact that I had no irrational counter-emotion or reaction and just went into solution mode, I feel, is definitely a testament to my auditing."

what a life-changing moment

a problem happened and i told someone that we needed a solution

it's scary how precisely like a bad infomercial for medicine that reads. i mean, presumably because the entire interview was scripted.

there was a problem, but thanks to scientology i knew how to enter solution mode. i asked my adviser for three potential options. 2 weeks later i asked my assistant to set up the decision briefing. the adviser described the 3 options. i asked my other adviser which option was the best, and he counseled me to choose option C. i'll never forget those 2 weeks of intense problemsolving and decisionmaking.

Yay you didn't fire somebody on a whim good for you.

mis-emotion slamming me over

tbh much of my life is irrational counter-emotions

She's not the only one with mis-emotions.

giving scientology a lifetime of devotion?
that's just a mis-emotion

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPdiT27WoAAwDQn.jpg

this came up in my twitter feed yesterday. presume they are targeting all of alex gibney's followers.

actually just realised i don't follow him, so not quite sure how they'd have targeted me. maybe they are just spamming a huge number of people.

I think that "Promoted by" thing on the bottom means it's a paid ad

I get ads from sc1 on twitter pretty often. But I have tweeted stuff about them in the past so it isn't too surprising to me.

yeah i knew it was a paid ad, i just wondered if they'd targeted it at everyone on twitter or more specifically. like presumably that's how you pay for an ad, by hitting everyone who follows x, y, z? i guess not necessarily.

probably also due to keywords in your tweets

makes sense. i think going clear actually aired in the uk for the first time on monday so they're obviously doing their dirty work. it's strange i suppose kinda heartening that a sinister institution like scientology still can't feign normality - like the way they fake things is so juvenile and kind of smug - like your granddad learning how to use the internet but he's on roids and dictating to a pr person. "if you need propaganda, the dr is in!"

ha

yeah, I've totally noticed that vibe when scientology goes after critics -- it's also very anxious. I've seen the same thing when "vax truthers" try to turn the tables on the actual scientific community, e.g. as seen in many memes/macros found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VaccineResistanceMovement/

Leah Remini will be on 20/20 on October 30th discussing Tom Cruise and Scientology.

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

http://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2016/03/ruthless.jpg

Tell-all book by Scientology leader’s father coming in May

I wonder how many different ways you can phrase "my son is a dickhead"

can't wait to find out!

Where's shelly

This has some Scientology gobbledygook at the beginning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFrTAJUQKq4

david miscavige's expression in that framed photo is cracking me up

Lisa Marie Presley about to jump ship.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/something-huge-about-go-down-scientology-could-destroy-church-once-and-all

The new issue of Celebtrity is finally out!

https://66.media.tumblr.com/40c2a981a388f20ba4d4a2063f8a4270/tumblr_o6z2poeR171qbypg1o1_1280.jpg

Where's my Student Hat?

found this piece of mail in my driveway, addressed to our neighbor, who is visited often by scientology drones (they dress like bible salesmen) and if their knocks are unanswered, they always peer in his windows and go around back and try his back door. and if that fails, they make a phone call. this happens a lot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-10%20at%2010.56.36%20AM_zpskpvtjsmk.png

"...the greatest push of the last 2500 years."

I feel like trailing scientologists on their rounds would be a good reason to invest in a drone.

You wouldn't even need to film them or anything. Just make 'em paranoid, wondering if Miscavige is keeping an eye on them or something.

^^ Love the mind games at work there.

Two guys show up at your door, you're like "Hey, someone was just by here an hour ago asking if I'd seen you."

"I have no idea what a 'suppressive' is but you guys seem to fit his description."

http://roa.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/980x608/gallery-1462463449-dianetics-racing.jpg

When Scientology Sponsored Race Cars

John Travolta​. ​Mario Andretti.​ The Pope. Aliens​. Germans. The Indy 500. Milwaukee. The Church of Scientology. Welcome to 1988's bizarre intersection between motorsports, religion, and sponsorship.​​

terrific pictures

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/scientology-in-taiwan/493493/

interesting

http://tonyortega.org/2016/09/16/video-city-council-candidate-exposed-as-scientology-spy-in-live-public-hearing/

Two weeks ago, we reported that a Scientologist named Clay Bock was running for a city council seat in Garden Grove, California. We pointed out that there’s nothing keeping a Scientologist from running for office, but we figured voters might want to know that Bock had a long history helping out Scientology’s most unhinged front group, which agitates against psychiatry.

Well, this week, Garden Grove’s city council found out a lot more about Clay Bock when a woman named Paulien Lombard addressed the council in a live meeting with a stunning allegation: Clay Bock was also a Scientology spy.

This series debuts tonight:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/leah-remini-scientology-aftermath-review-950854?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=Direct&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

From the L.A. Kooks thread:

Posted here not at all for lols, more like "ohhhhh shitttt", also hoping this isn't going to turn into the Scientology Salvation From "Psychiatry" bit, if this is the Kubrick daughter who made a reputedly worthy doc about her dad but then seemingly disappeared into the Church:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stanley-kubricks-daughter-raising-funds-aid-ill-actress-shelley-duvall-948882?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

― dow, Saturday, November 19, 2016 5:42 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

erp, just saw this:
The location listed on Vivian Kubrick’s Go Fund Me page for Duvall is Clearwater, FL. Neither Kubrick nor Duvall lives in Clearwater; it is, however, the location of The Church of Scientology’s business operations.

http://horrorfreaknews.com/things-need-know-donating-vivian-kubricks-fund-shelley-duvall/13449

― dow, Saturday, November 19, 2016

Sorry, xpost Remini's series debuts 11/29, not 28.

also, she's much bolder here supposedly, though I haven't read it yet because reddit:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/leah-remini-doesnt-hold-back-in-reddit-ama-about-scientology-w452813

redirects me straight to a pic of nicole kidman's new haircut.

Here's the AMA itself.