scientology & celebrities

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One of the most interesting/wtf scenes in the book of Christane F. is when she visits some drug rehab clinic run by scientologists in Germany. They made her sit in a room silently all day and touch a football periodically, look at it from different angles, etc.

mind reeeling from frank stallone/leif duet

They made her sit in a room silently all day and touch a football periodically, look at it from different angles, etc.

an american football? or a soccerball?

american football would be more perverse, i guess?

Ha, I was imagining an American football, but I have no idea! Probably a German one!

Do scientologists allow soccer?

Are you sure they weren't just... German?

german gov't hates the scientologists iirc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_in_Germany

When it became known that Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system included a disk defragmenter developed by Executive Software International (a company headed by a Scientologist), this caused concern among German government officials and clergy over data security and the potential for espionage.[3][65][69] To assuage these concerns, Microsoft Germany agreed to provide a means to disable the utility.[65][69] Following letters of complaint about discrimination from Scientology lawyers, some American companies such as General Electric, IBM and Ford Motor Company instructed their German subsidiaries to cease the use of protective declarations.[70]

just O_O

Holy crap. You can download that L Ron Hubbard and Friends album BuT you have to JoUrNey to blacK market sItEs. org

Shoulda been Isaac Hayes and Chick Corea on that comp.

7. WHY WORSHIP DEATH? performed by Chick Corea, Julia Migenes.

I know, I know--just watched that YouTube video above. Yikes.

Don't forget his ode to the Fairlight:

“Dear Sir Fairlight:
“Please have the engineer store on your floppy disc that we have now been properly introduced. I am very glad to make your acquaintance. You have very charming circuits and I am certain that we can co-vibrate to the astonishment and ecstasy of a vast audience. With all praise to your exulted frequencies, consider me your friend.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Way back a long time ago when I was a young teen, I got talked into going into a Scientology recruitment center in Boston to fill out one of their surveys. While I was there they showed me some kind of recruitment video that depicted a secret meeting of the most powerful leaders of the world discussing their plan for humanity. Their discussion recalled events in ancient history (maybe ancient Rome?) that included some semi-pornographic footage.

That was about all I sat through and my memory of it is hazy at best. I mention it because I'm wondering if anyone on here have seen anything like this on the internet. I'd like to know if this was real or just some confused memory.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q94/codebreaker2001/Dio.jpg

BTW, anyone else catch in the NYorker piece that Haggis recalls the early e-meters (I think) as being constructed out of soup cans, like a toy telephone?

http://i54.tinypic.com/2rordeh.jpg

How can anyone not think that thing is hokey? Also, the e-meter looks suspect.

Oh, that's just the beta model. The new ones are much nicer.

they use Progresso cans now

http://www.rtc.org/pics/intro/intro_girl.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQg3H663Mh_fBP_W6z4O_Cny8SoskkLv2Drykz187-AW5wlQbWr

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

http://vimeo.com/6587408

This interview w Timothy Wyllie from Scientology spinoff The Process Church of the Final Judgment is pretty great. And quite a bit less opaque than the usual Hubbardian technobabble.

i really really wonder about all the successful ppl in the entertainment biz who have nothing to do w/ these people at all, what are their interactions like. there must be tons of stories. of course stories of tom cruise with his proselytizing tent at a shoot get out, but that kind of thing must happen in miniature all the time, right?

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i remember reading some article by joey lauren adams in the 90s about "what she learned on the set of mallrats" (in premiere or one of those now-dead movie mags, rip) and she was like "never discuss religion with people unless you know what everyone practices. this is nothing more than an apology to jason lee." and it never made sense to me until years later i learned that lee is a scientologist.

BTW, anyone else catch in the NYorker piece that Haggis recalls the early e-meters (I think) as being constructed out of soup cans, like a toy telephone?

I was enticed into a Scientology store front in the early 80s and given the e-meter test, and it was definately some kind of re-purposed food storage can. They asked me to remember a painful memory (I thought of my mother's death) and sure enough, the meter deflected. I knew generally how "lie detectors" worked, so this was no surprise to me. I don't remember any conversations after that, but they never contacted me again.

Comedy dude from melb who had a show called "music jamboree" did a Sci skit, its p funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM7WtAWYDN4

(just ignore how annoying his voice is. It totally is)

http://www.xenu.net/archive/so/seaorg_contract.jpg

Why seahorses?

Never a bad time for this, in my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TedkQP_hM

This interview w Timothy Wyllie from Scientology spinoff The Process Church of the Final Judgment

uh this is kind of a mischaracterization of the Process Church. The "Love/Sex/Fear/Death" book that Wylie put out recently is BONKERS

ive been reading a bit of jung lately and his thoughts on the consequences of assimilating contents of the unconscious seem very relevant to the story of scientology. namely, one possible consequence of the individual is that of megalomania (as can be clearly seen in those thom cruz videos) and in the collective being secrecy and controlling access to information. maybe ill get my thoughts together and write something up

this article!

the end where he basically narrates his confrontation with tommy davis is awes

unfortunate side effect of making me find paul haggis sort of sympathetic :/

He is horrible at everything he does, but at least he likes gay people!

i was thinking while reading it, if paul haggis is the bro who takes down scientology, does that cancel everything else out?

There are one or two things he's done I don't hate, but I think they're the ones he had the least control on the end result.

tbh i dont understand why being a guy who wrote some bad movies once makes him a piece of shit?

Due South was awesome too

because we are joking around dummy

Please don't call me names, max...

he's probably a good guy at heart but he seems like a total dweeb in that article - "as a rebel, i reject society's rules and am sympathetic to the world's underdogs, so i became a scientologist"

Yeah, that article (what I read, since I didn't finish it) made me like him even less.

sry man i got carried away :-/

EZ Streets was great

^^^he's a total idiot! anything good that comes of his life is strictly bonus

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