And yes re: what Alfred said. I remember reading obsessively about L Ron and his weird ways in high school and college and it's no less comforting to see how Miscavige just took it further.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
I finished the Wright book about a week ago. Part of me thought it would be funny in a black/bleak sort of way, but it was terrifying and depressing.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
it's like i should be wearing a seat belt in my pc chair
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
need a gif of 7:18-7:21
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
If I ever found myself excitedly uttering a sentence beginning, "When she opened the indoctrination booklet . . ." I would step back and take a good hard look at my life. Guess that's why I'm only OT III. :(
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
xp: was gonna say "Karl Malone to thread - stat"
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
I take a little credit for spreading that latest video, first thanks to a Maria Bustillos RT and then another one later from Aaron Stewart-Ahn that was picked up by William Gibson. THAT was a hell of a lot of notifications to wake up to.― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:56 AM (2 hours ago)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:56 AM (2 hours ago)
"When I woke up to those many RTs, I was instantly blown away! I mean I expected a few MTs and H/Ts but this put me on a clear path to the Bridge."
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/f4abfaed15cf43125e7af995d622d4d3/tumblr_n6yyr4bAWt1rgh197o1_400.gif
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
agh, who is that?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
random scientologist, or perhaps an actor
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Looks like a hybrid of Famke Jannsen and Michele Bachmann.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZqCBRAb.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Gotta admit I would be tempted to wear one of those badges, but I imagine it's like 12" by 8" and weighs about 6 pounds.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Are there any scientologists in congress?
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
not now, but Sonny Bono was one.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
More stills or animated gifs from this video please.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-06-10at111023PM_zpsfc842f34.pnghttp://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-06-10at111057PM_zpsab0bf79e.pnghttp://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-06-10at110224PM_zps53d472c8.pnghttp://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-06-10at110250PM_zps0df2b589.pnghttp://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-06-10at110335PM_zps22106b3a.png
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
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― slam dunk, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
If I ever found myself excitedly uttering a sentence beginning, "When she opened the indoctrination booklet . . ."
Haha yes thats the bit that leapt out at me (which, among that thrashing tadpole pond of crazy was pretty hard to do). You're pleased to be reading an INDOCTRINATION BOOK?
Also they all seem hopped up on goofballs. Are they maybe actors?
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
is this "vaporwave"?
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
I would really like to know what jobs these people have
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
I don't get it. Is that video for real?
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
yes
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
Haha funny you say that crut, I was playing it the other night and without seeing the video, Nick said aloud "are you watching Tim and Eric or something?"
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
Tim & Eric is exactly what I thought it was.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:13 (nine years ago) link
The bizarre jingoistic language is what throws me, and they all seem to use it heavily (cf that Cruise vid with the mission impossible music on a loop). Its like, corporate buzzword bingo but its own alien version. Grades? Bridges? Beingness of cause? Service facsimiles? WAT?
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
slam dunk doing the lord's work itt.
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 08:48 (nine years ago) link
i found my soulmate he is the beingness is restored guy
― boj (anky), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 08:50 (nine years ago) link
your soulmate is terrifying
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Thought about making one of those my FB cover pic but I don't want to be kidnapped and murdered just yet.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
The music is awesome
― Kornblud (admrl), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
the language of scientology is one of my favorite things about itit's top notch word salad
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
That's Numberwang
― Kornblud (admrl), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
there's something very pleasurable about hearing your native language spoken so enthusiastically and having no way to understand 90% of what is being said.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
that's what i mean -- hearing it spoken is a unique pleasurethe interview with miscavige that's somewhere out there on youtube (and upthread) is really great for that
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZSjVOXAb8U
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
he gives me the creeps so bad!
that's what i mean -- hearing it spoken is a unique pleasure
its like my own version of AMSR maybe?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
like instead of soft, gentle whispering about the mundane i enjoy enthusiastic babbling about the incomprehensible?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
yeeeeeeesfamiiar syntax/incomprehensible vocabulary -- i feel like this whenever i see an infomercial
also people confidently speaking via elaborate garbage words are always interesting to me
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
my question is: if you're lawrence wright, or have read him, do you understand what they are talking about?
― ryan, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
not unless you paid special attention to learning the vocab and digesting the concepts, which i did not (although i did read the book)
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
I've sat through hours of doctors conventions in my day, which definitely lack enthusiasm most of the time, but I do find kind of nice in a numbing sort of way
it's a real trip when it all gets interrupted by a room full of 100+ people all laughing at something you had no idea was even a joke
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is actually a great description of one of the things I love about Ryan Trecartin's videos
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
familiar syntax/unfamiliar nouns/verbs
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
and adjectives, of course
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
and probably adverbs too if they're in deep
like instead of soft, gentle whispering about the mundane i enjoy enthusiastic babbling about the incomprehensible?― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:18 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:18 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^new board description?
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
The people in the video remind me of what it's like talking to that subculture of people who build their own really complicated e-cigarettes. There's something about it that is completely
Looking in on American culture as a whole, I find the rationale behind various cultural movements—hobby, religion, consumer lobby group, technology workshop, self-help groups—is increasingly meaningless, since movement now seems to embody all of those things simultaneously. I'm genuinely surprised Minecraft is not a political party by now, for instance.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
*completely otherworldly.