there was something kinda mesmerizing about "auditing room hallway" x3 tbh
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I expected & got a lot of a specific type of wacky from this article, but I did not expect a sinister custom motorcycle & SUV refinishing scene.
― A Alphabetical Leader (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I loved it. I kept looking for differences in the hallways! Like in one was the doorknob a different color or something.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Jastrow added. “It’s the fastest-growing religion.”
Waiiit this is what Mormons say about their church! How many religions used alleged exponential functions as a sales point?
― A Alphabetical Leader (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Not mine. When I was growing up we were always the fastest-declining religion and we had all better meet nice jewish girls and make jewish babies before we all disappear like the kids in Back2Future
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
2Back2Future
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought islam was the fastest growing religion!
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
So this isn't in this week's issue? Gonna have to read it online then, not that patient.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's in the Feb. 14/21 issue, which arrives this week. (I haven't received mine yet.)
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Judaism is not evangelical, so in the end, they're kind of cool with it, right?
― w/no hesitation (mh), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Considering I just got my Feb. 7th issue today, I don't think I'll see it this week. I don't know why, but for some reason I don't get it ahead of the newsstands, it is kind of annoying.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i was gonna post how the sci-fi element of it baffles me, how i can't believe ppl can get behind that
all that stuff about xenu, volcanoes, etc. isn't revealed until you reach the level of "OT III" (which can take years and loads of $$$ to reach...they definitely don't advertise that part up front)
― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
So it's like a Ferrari with a magic book in the glove box: FOR OWNER ONLY.
― A double shot of Sesame Street (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Paul Thomas Anderson really should take a Flip cam and make his Scientology movie now.
― A double shot of Sesame Street (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Brando was a clam?
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
he had an injured clam iirc
― zvookster, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
brando might've been the one celeb too crazy for scientology
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still not quite sure what the whole "double ring" ceremony is about. I've looked it up online and all the answers are vague.
― Has No Shame (MintIce), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the folks who are wandering around wearing gray shirts and black pants on any given day around there all look exactly the same, male and female versions of the "pc" dude from the mac ads w/justin long.
― omar little
yeah, i see these drones pretty much every day either in hollywood or next to the celebrity centre. such drab, joyless creatures. they are always scurrying somewhere, i just get an impression that they are treated very poorly
― buzza, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Brando was kind of a one-man thing. Definitely not cult material.
― w/no hesitation (mh), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
we need more pics.
motion quadrant!http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_Motion_Quadrant.jpg
― Darin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_Motion_Quadrant.jpg
superpower hallway!http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_hallway.jpg
― Darin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
superpower drill spacehttp://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_drill_space.jpg
― Darin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
superpower elevator lobbyhttp://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_elevator_lobby.jpg
― Darin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I totally want to see a B movie with a bloody Jenna Elfman being chased by David Miscavige down that corridor.
― Darin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
It must've been amazing for that person whose car broke down and Marlon Brando pulls over to help out.
― Loup-Garou G (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Darin, might you possibly have a picture of an auditing room hallway? i have always wondered what one of those looks like.
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"It must've been amazing for that person whose car broke down and Marlon Brando pulls over to help out."
Except that's Brando's version of events. In all likelihood he fell down outside a McDonalds after eating 10 double cheeseburgers.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Because he was fat, you see.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, he was notorious for loving cheeseburgers.
There are some great anecdotes about him supposedly being on a diet, but he'd sneak to the edge of his property at night and his next door neighbor, Jack Nicholson, would throw a bag of cheeseburgers over.
― w/no hesitation (mh), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
brando.xls
There are some great anecdotes about him supposedly being on a diet, but he'd sneak to the edge of his property at night and his next door neighbor, Jack Nicholson, would throw a bag of cheeseburgers over.\
lol - love this
― ENBB, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"Actually, he was notorious for loving cheeseburgers."
Ding!
A friend lived down the street from Christian Brando in Studio City says Brando used to slip his handlers, buy a dozen burgers and sit in his car down the street, gorging.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I know those photos are real, but somehow, they still look like those weird Photoshopped creations designers make for ppt presentations to solicit funding for the new stadium.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blog.kierantimberlake.com/wp-content/uploads/interior-view-at-concourse-looking-south_existing.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, my favorite photo of the man himself:
http://i52.tinypic.com/2q0ojmt.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Larger version and explanation here
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
tomatoes totally feel pain
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Murderer.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
those pics are wiiiiiild
― goole, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
so wait, those superpower pics above *aren't* just photoshoppy computer generated representations? they do not look real to me.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the hallway one looked like a real photo but yeah the others are definitely computer generated
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
My mistake. Thanks for suppressing my progress.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
glad we could "clear" that up
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
KSW guys
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno if this has been covered already midthread, but the Haggis/Wright/St. Petersburg Times exposés (devastating though they are) are not quite as o_O as 'Operation Freakout' & what happened to Paulette Cooper in the 70s:
http://www.lermanet.com/paulette-cooper/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout
― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this NYer story is important because it puts a mainstream-elite stamp of approval on public distrust and disapproval of scientology. generally this has been confined to south park style parody plus committed internet-based activism and documentation. plus there has been a serious climate of fear around them, right? like atul gawande on healthcare or jane mayer on cheney, now "everyone" can say, boy, kind of problem here, even though all the details were in plain sight.
― goole, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it does feel especially weighty because of that. i also like that it doesn't hesitate to criticize some of the more OTT anti-Scieno sentiment too.
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link