scientology & celebrities

cool!

The key to that tour is that it was given by this super hot blonde girl from Redondo Beach who showed me around and took me into the Narconon exhibit

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Roffle.

album cover is amazing

omg

Back cover.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

which ilx cell can we send in to infiltrate and gather hot scientologist pix?

Just reading that article now, finally. This bit kind of jumped out at me:

The Church of Scientology had recently gained tax-exempt status as a religious institution, making donations, as well as the cost of auditing, tax-deductible. (Church members had lodged more than two thousand lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service, ensnaring the agency in litigation. As part of the settlement, the church agreed to drop its legal campaign.)

Am I reading this right to infer that they *got* tax-exempt status by harrasing the court system!?

Clearwater, FL kinda creepy imo.

― ENBB, Tuesday, February 15, 2011 4:15 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It is a little creepy downtown, but Clearwater Beach is A+. You have to pass through downtown and through that massive Scientology compound to get to the beach. You can tell the Scientologists from others by their dress; they all wear the same outfits.

Also, Keith Richards came up with the riff for "Satisfaction" while staying in a Clearwater hotel room, so it has got that going for it.

RE: Scientologist babes, I was just watching The Parking Garage Seinfeld episode, and this woman Jerry keeps checking out and is later throws them out of her car because of something George did is a Scientologist.

Farrakhan likes them.

He praised Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Farrakhan extolled the virtues of Scientology and its auditing process, which is considered spiritual counseling by its members.

"L. Ron Hubbard is so exceedingly valuable to every Caucasian person on this Earth," Farrakhan said.

"L. Ron Hubbard himself was and is trying to civilize white people and make them better human beings and take away from them their reactive minds. … Mr. Hubbard recognized that his people have to be civilized," Farrakhan said to a cheering crowd.

i mean there's no doubt in my mind that the auditing process can be beneficial to people (analyzing the unconscious mind is very beneficial to our emotional lives, imo) but why do they have to be so damn creepy?

Farrakhan clearly hasn't heard Hubbard's discography

I'm just hoping that this all ends in Charlie Sheen joining the Nation of Islam.

From bowling shirts to bow-ties.

I was just reading about the loopier sci-fi aspects of Nation of Islam theology last week and thinking how much they reminded me of Scientology - super race of aliens long long ago, big spaceships, etc. So I'm not surprised there's some sympathy.

The Gaddafi part of the speech however - smdh.

Sc1ent0l0g1sts currently being given 5 minutes every night after the Channel 4 News to tell us how great Sc1ent0l0gy is - *why?

(*OK I know it's because it's 100 years since LRH's 'birth'... or manifestation or reincarnation or whatever... but I still find it odd that a national broadcaster would do such a thing)

C4 gave Ahmadinejad 10 minutes on Christmas Day 2008.

Another great idea

Somehow I think that Scient0l0ogists are going to come across as crazier than the leader of a potentially nuclear capable theocracy.

Are or aren't?

Farrakhan likes them.

Public Enemy - It Takes a Spaceship of Thetans to Hold Us Back

Yo! Bum Rush the Sea Org

Tour Scientology's crazy-ass state-of-the-art printing center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ujgRFmJjyE

What they're doing with that crazy-ass printing center:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2011/09/freedom_cover_349x466.jpg

Called Freedom, the Scientology mag has its own elaborate website and leads with the cover story titled "The New Yorker: What a Load of Balderdash." Employing a typeface similar to the New Yorker's signature font, the articles in the mock (but clearly expensive and thorough) publication take issue with "The Apostate" author Lawrence Wright, New Yorker editors and fact checkers, and Haggis himself in a piece titled "A Freedom Profile of Paul Haggis: The Hypocrite of Hollywood."

looked at their website- dudes are pretty fuckin pissed at the new yorker

Caption contest:

VOTE “Hold on guys, I know how much every one of you loves to betray your religion, but you can’t all be Judas…”
VOTE “Listen Larry, if you don’t believe me, the rest of these guys will give you exactly the same story…”
VOTE Lawrence Wright and the 12 Apostates

Hence, it’s only fitting to close this special edition of Freedom in tribute to that most venerable of New Yorker traditions—a Cartoon Caption Contest.

lol I don't think they started having that contest until the 90s

Man, these dudes are relentless: http://www.avclub.com/articles/scientologists-spent-a-long-time-investigating-sou,63919/

Suggesting that stories of the average Scientologist’s legendary sense of humor may have been somewhat overstated (at least at levels below OT IV, when every Scientologist completes their Comedy Auditing Trials), former Church of Scientology executive Marty Rathbun has revealed via leaked internal documents that the organization targeted South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for a lengthy period of time following 2005’s “Trapped In The Closet.” The episode—which suggested Scientology was a scam based on a fantasy concocted by a sci-fi writer, scurrilously mocking Scientology’s origin and core beliefs by writing them down and then saying them out loud—sparked an investigation into the duo by the Church’s covert Office of Special Affairs operatives, who spent well over a year looking for information that could be used against them. This, they believed, would discredit Parker and Stone in the public eye, and validate Scientology as a totally legitimate religion with nothing sinister about it at all.

According to those documents, Scientology operatives staked out the South Park production offices to compile personal information on the staff, and even concocted schemes to infiltrate the writers’ room using a Church plant who’d worked for Troma Entertainment’s Lloyd Kaufman. Through that mole, the Church established “leads” on several friends of Parker and Stone—including then-married couple John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn—whom they also targeted for “PRCs” (public records checks) and “special collections,” which Rathbun explains to the Village Voice is a Scientology code word for digging in the trash and looking for anything they can use against you, be it phone records and bank statements or even empty bottles of liquor and food containers that could help them “figure out your diet.” Unfortunately for the Church of Scientology, they were apparently thwarted in their attempts to dig through Parker and Stone’s trash. Thus, they were unable to put together the detailed description of their diets that would prove, once and for all, that the Church of Scientology is not a creepy cult built on subterfuge and intimidation tactics. Without it, the case is still somewhat open.

it's funny to imagine that you could smear the creators of South Park.

uncover pictures of them wearing dancing bear t-shirts at a string cheese incident concert

looks like a good read

The crusade against the IRS soon became the justification for a wide range of crimes, which only intensified the church’s paranoia. Scientologists hired private detectives to spy on IRS agents, in the hope of discovering unsavoury habits – alcoholism, adultery, violation of housing codes – to publicise. In the mid-1970s, members infiltrated IRS offices – one Scientologist had landed a job as a clerk – and stole 30,000 pages of documents relating to the church, including reports critical of Hubbard. One of the stolen memos documented a meeting in which IRS officials discussed changing the agency’s definition of a religion, a court recently having ruled that Scientology met its criteria. The church’s caper was eventually uncovered, and 11 accomplices, including Hubbard’s third wife, were sent to prison. Hubbard, named as an unindicted co-conspirator, spent the rest of his life in hiding.

interesting

er whoops, wrong paragraph!

this one:

Urban has written elsewhere that the history of religions in the 20th century is the ‘privileging of the mystical, secret, elitist aspects of religion’, often to the neglect of the mundane. More than any other new religion, Scientology has used secrecy as a source of power. Urban shows that it has been ill-equipped to handle the challenges of the internet age: the ‘haemorrhaging of information online’ is the ‘greatest single threat faced by the church in the 21st century’. Official doctrine, including the revelations formerly available only to those who had reached the highest level of Scientology training (and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to get there), is freely available on the internet to those who have never taken a course. Over the past decade, according to the American Religious Identification Survey, membership has dropped by roughly 20,000. Defectors have chronicled their disenchantment online, and the Xenu story has circulated widely. One of Hubbard’s biographers, an ex-Scientologist, told Urban that this may be the ‘last generation of Scientologists’.

i read the Inside Scientology book a couple months ago -- the war with the IRS bit is incredible. highly recommend the whole book, such a bizarre saga.

the more i read about l ron hubbard, the more he seems about as close to a movie villain as one could possibly make up. what a horrible man.

are there really people out there who don't know enough about scientology to actually be bamboozled into joining it? my sense is that they start with the most banal new-agey bromides and only commence unloading the weirder stuff once they've got you invested financially and otherwise.

and what's this about david miscavige's wife being "missing" for several years?

The people who took things over when Hubbard packed it up and headed for the hills were about 20 times worse, imo

@rupertmurdoch
Watch Katie Holmes and Scientology story develop. Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people.

@rupertmurdoch
Since Scientology tweet hundreds of attacks. Expect they will increase and get worse and maybe threatening. Still stick to my story.

whoa shit

controversial position to take

Scientology LOLs are the unleaded fuel of the internet.

controversial position to take

not controversial but potentially v. lol-generating!

like, hundreds of alien attacks?

I mean consider these strong words from an LA Times commenter

I agree on Murdoc being an EVIL man..however this scientology this is not a religion it IS a cult!!! Yet we all idolize these people...my question is why???
Just because someone can act doesnt mean they are our leaders! I appreciate the words of wisdom they offer how ever 9 times out of 10 they are so far off base as to what the public feels or thinks it is rediculious! Take Cher for example..on a sound bite from a radio talk show Cher is stateing that the destain for our current president is due to racisim! She needs to concentrate on her lousey singing carrer rather than try to start a race war by once again pulling the race card!! If Tom Cruise wants to be a religious nose picker i dont care just do not try to push your values upon us..his marrage record sounds the goodness of this Scientology!! Just another POWER and CONTROL tact!! Todays women are alot more educated than that (thank goodness)!

Murdoch = game recognise game

I was at the international base. Mr. Miscavige was not there, but I was supposed to be doing numerous things at the Int base at his direction. I was on the phone to him every day, sometimes several times a day. And there were certain things he was unhappy about, that weren't done to his satisfaction. Anyway, I was on the phone to him, somebody was pounding on the door. I was on the phone, so I couldn't answer it...Somebody pried the window open, two big guys came in. Mr. Miscavige said on the phone, "Are they there?" Yes, I said, they are. And he said, "Goodbye."

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/scientologys_di.php

Lots of stuff apparently happening:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/scientology_roanne_leake_ron_miscavige_sr.php

what if sciti and rupert murdoch get in a war and wipe each other out

even though i know for a fact that people will believe anything it still kinda baffles me...the whole believing in anything thing.

whatever happened to ghosts??? people used to talk about ghosts all the time. they saw them and they knew people who saw them. people were all about ghosts when i was younger. now, not so much. don't get me wrong, i love aliens too. not pyramid scheme aliens, but the good kind.

u can buy e-meters on ebay