scientology & celebrities

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.

Yeah I seem to recall reading that Miscavige is about 5'1"

It's like North Korea: either the goofy aesthetics raise awareness of what they're doing or they distract from the sadistic practices underneath (like the story quoted above that's about to scroll off).

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 didn't either and spent the afternoon doing just that.

yeah the voice did that long cruise ship story, right? about people being held prisoner aboard the sci boat. that was a good one.

'cruise' ship

So the news up there is that Miscavige's dad and Hubbard's last granddaughter involved with the church at all have both fled the compound and left the church.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/scientology_roanne_leake_ron_miscavige_sr.php

there's your new york post headline: SINKING CRUISE SHIP

something tells me rupert would love nothing more than to destroy one good celebrity-riddled pseudo-religion before he kicks the bucket. the psy-ops better watch their backs.

This one has a good scene of the church (through Cruise's assistant) trying to get Cruise's CAA agents to punish Comedy Central/Viacom for the South Park episode.

Miscavige, he says, had told Doven to get tough with the agency.

"Huvane and Nicita were sitting there trying to explain to us that this is what Comedy Central does. It's comedy, don't get your knickers in a twist," Rinder says.

"Little did they know that Doven had been wound up in a meeting at ASI [Author Services, Inc., another Scientology entity] by Miscavige. 'You better get in their faces! You better impinge on them!' Miscavige yelled."
...
"And he's there pounding his fists on the table at CAA, shouting, 'Fuck this! Fuck this!' It was quite funny, actually. You could see Rick and Kevin looking at each other, wondering what was going on."

Best headline:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/xenu-enraged-katie-betrayed

that headline would make a great vintage science fiction paperback cover.

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.

― contenderizer, Sunday, July 1, 2012 6:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ posts very much in character

Pretty much my entire family has seen ghosts, and I totally feel like i believe in them, but sadly i have never actually seen one.

i deny you a ghost experience

"thought-based organization"

http://tribalinsight.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/i-want-to-believe.jpg

man, i love ufos. they rule. i loooooooove the recent ufo footage on youtube. there must be a thread for that. there is that footage of one day in the summer where all over the world people have video of ufos and its incredible.

there must be a thread for that.

if not, feel free to start it. i would watch a few youtubes of indistinct shiny or blobby things doing stuff.

otm. i want the best real ufo youtube links