scientology & celebrities

it's like i should be wearing a seat belt in my pc chair

need a gif of 7:18-7:21

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. :(

xp: was gonna say "Karl Malone to thread - stat"

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)

"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."

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agh, who is that?

random scientologist, or perhaps an actor

Looks like a hybrid of Famke Jannsen and Michele Bachmann.

http://i.imgur.com/ZqCBRAb.jpg

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.

Are there any scientologists in congress?

not now, but Sonny Bono was one.

More stills or animated gifs from this video please.

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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?

is this "vaporwave"?

I would really like to know what jobs these people have

I don't get it. Is that video for real?

yes

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?"

Tim & Eric is exactly what I thought it was.

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?

slam dunk doing the lord's work itt.

i found my soulmate he is the beingness is restored guy

your soulmate is terrifying

Thought about making one of those my FB cover pic but I don't want to be kidnapped and murdered just yet.

The music is awesome

the language of scientology is one of my favorite things about it
it's top notch word salad

That's Numberwang

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.

that's what i mean -- hearing it spoken is a unique pleasure
the interview with miscavige that's somewhere out there on youtube (and upthread) is really great for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZSjVOXAb8U

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?

like instead of soft, gentle whispering about the mundane i enjoy enthusiastic babbling about the incomprehensible?

yeeeeeees
famiiar 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

my question is: if you're lawrence wright, or have read him, do you understand what they are talking about?

not unless you paid special attention to learning the vocab and digesting the concepts, which i did not (although i did read the book)

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

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, 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

familiar syntax/unfamiliar nouns/verbs

and adjectives, of course

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

^new board description?

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.

*completely otherworldly.

familiar syntax/unfamiliar nouns/verbs

― La Lechera, Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:41 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

old bottle new wine

*completely otherworldly.

Was wondering if you originally typed some weird word that html couldn't handle!