scientology & celebrities

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

people still talk about ghosts. i think i know more people who claim to have seen or otherwise perceived a ghost than people (like me) who've been denied such experience.

i can't remember the last time anyone brought up the subject of ghosts with me. years. maybe i need to hang with a more spectral crowd.

it's all about angels now

that's true! i hadn't thought of that. they took over for the ghosts.

ghosts are too halloween. angels definitely easier to sell.

i work with a fan of angels but she is a really nice woman in every respect so i lay off

i heard some radio show a few years ago that said that the ghost-seeing trend of the 19th c was due in part to people having hallucinations caused by the fumes released by the gas lamps in their homes. like, they were seeing things (ie not lying), and they were calling them ghosts (what else could they be called? phantasms?), but really they were fume-based hallucinations.

Had a customer complain that we kept our 'angel' books in the 'new age' 'mind body and spirit' section of the shop - "Why aren't these in history?!"

that's just sad

kind of sad but mostly lol

book 8 of Paradise Lost = history
iirc it had the most angel action
angels talking about angel food and angel reproduction
not a lot of ghosts in PL

i have a mindset that finds pandemic's customer's complaint cheering and invigorating.

ha
We also once had a load of some football hooligan memoir which were signed by the author. As I was tidying up the section a guy standing with his girlfriend picked up a copy, sighed, replaced it, picked up another, tutted, replaced it, picked up a third and said with disgust "Fuckin' Hell some cunts written in 'em all!"

oh that is too rich. that's homer simpson territory.

people are talking about ghosts all the time FYI.
my wife is obsessed with ghost shows on tv. paranormal witness, celebrity ghost story, ghost hunters, ghost encounters, my ghost story... there are more too! people talking about seeing ghosts, goobers using pseudoscience to detect ghostly energies etc.

I hate those ghost shows! And I share scott's feelings about ghost talk. IMO someone replaying an evp for seven minutes does not count. Straight up seeing a fucking ghost does.

wow, okay, i stand corrected. i don't have cable. i didn't know there were so many of those shows. in real life though people never bring up ghosts. to me. maybe they don't want to spook me.

BOOO

AHH!

I live near quite a few reputedly haunted buildings but I have never seen a ghost.

I have a friend who has seen some.

i had no idea the voice had done such extensive scientology coverage; all those articles linked at the bottom could keep me busy for hours.

I thought anyone who did stuff like that VV set of articles got the pants constantly sued off them by the $cinos.

The comments section is surprisingly engaged, too, in a good way.

not even miscavige can stand in the way of page views

http://www.scientology.org/sites/default/files/04_Church_of_Scientology_Inglewood_David-Miscavige_0.jpg

http://www.scientology-tampa.org/sites/default/files/05-Scientology-Tampa-Grand-Opening-David-Miscavige.jpg

http://www.scientology.org/sites/default/files/1_05-Church-of-Scientology-Sacramento-David-Miscavige-t_0.jpg

Ugh he looks like a creepy robot.

http://www.scientologynews.org/sites/default/files/church-of-scientology-washington-dc-opening-speaker-david-miscavige.jpg

it IS really sci-fi! like a network t.v. mini-series a la V. if they didn't torture people or whatever i would be all for them.

http://www.scientology-phoenix.org/sites/default/files/phx/10-Church-of-Scientology-Phoenix-David-Miscavige-and-OLs.jpg

http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/tom-cruise-david-miscavige.jpg

Lifts or no, if Tom Cruise is a good three inches taller than that guy, then Miscavige must be tiny.

Also, can I just say "miscavige of justice?" There, thanks. I feel better.