scientology & celebrities

I wonder if Haggis has googled Xenu yet.

From his letter: To see you lie so easily, I am afraid I had to ask myself: what else are you lying about?

I totally feel that, it's a reason I left the Mormon church...so weird seeing your religion's leader saying something on the TV to cover PR that completely contradicts what you're told at church.

I think Scientology is like a blown up version what I dislike about religion. Pedantic self-righteous lying bastards. -> Oops, I guess I'm still pretty much an atheist despite mentioning on the Prayer thread that I mellowed when it came to religion. heehee

The T-shirt would read 'I spent 13 years talking about it and all I got was this $150,000 debt.'

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Had to redo the link, try again. Alternate, Gawker summary:

http://gawker.com/5456002/how-to-spend-150000-on-scientology-the-larry-anderson-story

Oopsy:

http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/david-miscavige-violates-tom-cruises-confessional/

Ding ding... Round Two

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/28/church-of-scientology-john-sweeney

Watched that last night. Interesting that there's a "reformation" movement of scientologists who've left the official church but still believe in scientology as a religion, which I was completely unaware of before.

Did that image work?

http://images.onesite.com/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/ceri_radford/sweeney15.jpg

That one did

First one was better though

GAH NOT AVAILABLE IN U.S.

This guy, so creepy

http://wwwimg.bbc.co.uk/programmes/i/512xn/44e31897325e72522fc6a2271f3c738f144ae9cb.jpg

http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/images/raiders_face.jpg

(obviously his face is about to melt because he's looking into a volcano as atom bombs detonate to slaughter trillions of frozen space aliens)

Yo aerosmith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPlYQx5vjcg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HHr9g3VDFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9oGzBCmGmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEy8qfuTPpA

hell yes nick b, thanks so much

Man this is an awesome doco.

wow, amazing how much healthier and happier Rinder looks now that he's out.

I didnt see the first doco, but those clips early on in this one with adherents all saying how good $ci is were creepy... the vacant, distant stare in their eyes. Reciting the lines like rote.

I just kept thinking of the Movementarians (even though Groening denies that was explicitly a dig at $cientology, but I dont buy it).

Couldn't get into the documentary. Sweeney seems to be on a mission to 'prove' they were after him. Their 'scientology methods' included calling him names and interrupting him? Is that it? The only disturbing information here is that the government give scientology tax breaks and the torys are harbouring a supporter in the ranks.

There was a bit much of the paranoid camera angles and over dramatic music, yeah. That did annoy me.

and his voice is so doomy and dramatic all the time!

I thought he spent too much time on how he personally was so persecuted and not enough time on the breakaway scientologists who still practised, the lives of the ex-scientologists - how you cope with leaving something like that is way more interesting to me than some english dude being aggrieved in stentorian tones.

I wish we could see all of the celebrity interviews. I probably could watch 10 hours of that.

The look on Leah Remini's face when he asks her about Xenu is so difficult to put into words.

All the slebs reactions made me want to puke. Kirsty Alley was defensive as fuck in a really ugly way. No wonder they denied it being on the doco.

I mean come on. "Would you say this to a JEW?!"

Well no, because uh.. COME ON.

I just kept thinking of the Movementarians (even though Groening denies that was explicitly a dig at $cientology, but I dont buy it).

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Considering Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson, Nelson, and others) is a $cientologist, I tend to believe him. Sadly, that's one topic that's probably off-limits to the writers; they can ill afford to piss off one of the show's defining voices.

That did occur to me yeah.

[In portentous, dramatic voice] "Years ago ... we investigated ... this crazy cult ... and its crazy track record ... of craziness. They called me names. They even made me ... yell. Now, years later, we return, to see ... if anything ... has changed. And if ... it will happen ... again." [looks over shoulder] "But am I prepared ... emotionally ... physically ... for exactly what I expect will happen? There's only one way ... to find out" [picks up rock and throws it at hornet's nest/angry moose/sleeping lion/policeman's head]

ha ha otm

i guess i should be more freaked out by these guys than i am? discrete cabal of christian theocrats (i.e. C-Street creeps) wielding undemocratic influence over foreign and domestic policy is way scarier tbh

If you have only watched the nine-minute edit of the video where Tom Cruise accepts the award for the Freedom Medal of Valor, you should really watch the full 40 minutes, because it is exceptional. Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMvAXpq7Xj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9onb8RcVnmE

lol

its just KSW *swoosh* - and the suppression is shattered!

My favorite part is when he talks about that and the fact that his mere existence as OT9000 keeps sociopaths (suppressive persons) away from him.

I assume he means that when he encounters a SP he just does the manual of bullying tactics that is used to shout them down?

no, SPs can't get close to him. they are like physically repulsed by his massive amounts of theta.

he doesn't need to do "suppression shatter" but he's still a big fan of it.

I tht people were just physically repulsed cz he is Tom Cruise.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright

Brolin says that he once witnessed John Travolta practicing Scientology. Brolin was at a dinner party in Los Angeles with Travolta and Marlon Brando. Brando arrived with a cut on his leg, and explained that he had injured himself while helping a stranded motorist on the Pacific Coast Highway. He was in pain. Travolta offered to help, saying that he had just reached a new level in Scientology. Travolta touched Brando’s leg and Brando closed his eyes. “I watched this process going on—it was very physical,” Brolin recalls. “I was thinking, This is really fucking bizarre! Then, after ten minutes, Brando opens his eyes and says, ‘That really helped. I actually feel different!’ ” (Travolta, through a lawyer, called this account “pure fabrication.”)

this whole thing is O_O as hell and you all need to read it. i knew some of the lingo and understood it to be a big scam but this is nuttier and more horrible than i expected.

Waiting for my hard copy to show up, I'm still not keen on reading articles that long on screen.

that shit about the kids' education is pretty horrible

In late September, Davis and Feshbach, along with four attorneys representing the church, travelled to Manhattan to meet with me and six staff members of The New Yorker. In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet...

great article

First Scientology piece I've read that addresses its latent/blatant homophobia, not to mention explicitly alludes to certain high-profile closeted gay Scientologists, which would be merely salacious were it mentioned in a publication other than the New Yorker.

Waiting for my hard copy to show up, I'm still not keen on reading articles that long on screen.

I'm not either, but I just couldn't stop...