scientology & celebrities

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!

*completely http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

lol I haven't seen that since I accidentally triggered it in the Crackstarter thread

lol yeah that pic sums up my feelings

the Student Hat Cat lectures

how about adding 'purif' to every course description in the community college catalog

i vote Matt Ross plays Miscavage in a biopic, he's already gotten pigeonholed into the cult-leader role, why not go for one he kinda looks like

http://i.imgur.com/OS3TAU8.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/4ZIMDOi.jpg

dimpled dynamos

lol he looks kinda like Sean Hayes in that pic

God, the stuff with Quincy and the rest of his kids with Mary Sue.

Hu664rd finished writing his thousand-page opus, Battlefield Earth, in 1980. (Mitt Romney would name it as his favorite novel.)

Between that and the Mormon church buying and shelving another story of his, there's this weird frenemy thing going on between the two religions.

shouldn't we assume that the church has google alerts set up on any and all creative misspellings of their key words? we could just de-index this thread if we think it's a risk

anyway, i'd need to look it up again, but the long, babbling, incoherent circuitous footnote of miscavige defining what a "mission" is in a deposition is about as pure an expression of evil i've seen in print

I don't think anyone would think to use 6s to replace lower-case b's, so I think we're safe!

Just read the Miscavige interview with Ted Koppel -- is that what you're referring to? It's kind of amazing.

that interview is amazing but goole's referring to a footnote in Going Clear

yeah

Something to look forward to then! <_<

so we're googleproofing Hu664rd but not M1sc@v1ge? after reading Going Clear, the latter seems more frightening

certainly less fun

thread has been deindexed for a while now.

odious as he was Hubbard had this weird, unpredictable sense of mischief and hedonism about him; he took pleasure in things. He was like a precocious child playing with toys that were, unfortunately, real people. Miscavige just seems like a bully with short-man syndrome.

realnaming not cool

― duff paddy (darraghmac), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We could retroactively change all references to him to Miscarriage?

A little insensitive, no? otoh, we could do Ms. Cabbage.

I like it!

Also assigning myself to RPF for a beingness audit for my insensitive remarks.

odious as he was Hubbard had this weird, unpredictable sense of mischief and hedonism about him; he took pleasure in things. He was like a precocious child playing with toys that were, unfortunately, real people. Miscavige just seems like a bully with short-man syndrome.

shakey otm

We're never going to know what really happened to Shelly Ms. Cabbage, are we?

imo the guy really sounds like a psychopath

trying to say his name i always end up sounding like 'the impressive clergyman' from the princess bride

haha David Mawwiage

according to t0ny 0rt3g@'s site, shel-cabbage is supposedly at a secretive compound near big bear.

This place?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489172/Exclusive-pictures-secret-Californian-Scientology-base-Shelly-Miscavage-lives.html

that's the place, but i hadn't seen those photos so thanks for the link. i got hooked on ortega's site after reading 'going clear,' and i've since read about so many levels of crazy not even mentioned in the book. i also have a friend who's an ex-scientologist who has told me all kinds of insane stuff about the process of being audited. i'm fascinated by it.

Just finished the book, where is the Cabbage's evil download on missions? There'slike hundred pages of end notes and sources.

Better yet, here's the transcript of the deposition:
http://www.davidmiscavige.wikiscientology.org/text/Deposition_of_David_Miscavige,_the_Witness,_July_19,_1990_-_Part_1

MR. HERTZBERG: I WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THE CUSTODY OF THE TAPE, WHAT IS YOUR INTENTION WITH RESPECT TO CUSTODY OF THE TAPE?

Q. MR. MISCAVIGE, DO YOU HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION? A. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT QUESTION MEANS.

the passage in question:

THE WITNESS: WHAT IS A MISSION? OKAY. WELL, YOU HAVE A SITUATION AND A SITUATION IS DEFINED AS A DEPARTURE, MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THE IDEAL SCENE, AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT THERE'S SOME Y. Y IS DEFINED AS AN EXPLANATION THAT OPENS A DOOR TO A HANDLING, AND

IF YOU HAVE ACTUALLY PULLED THE STRINGS ON THE SITUATION, ALL THE WAY DOWN, YOU WILL NOW HAVE A Y, WHICH MEANS THAT THAT SITUATION CAN BE RESOLVED.

A MISSION WOULD TAKE A SITUATION, KNOWING WHAT THE Y IS, AND THEREFORE, KNOWING WHAT EXACT HANDLING STEPS ARE THUS POSSIBLE AS A RESULT OF THE DOOR BEING OPENED BECAUSE THE Y WAS FOUND BY EVALUATION, AND THEY WOULD BE ON -- THEY WOULD OPERATE ON WHAT IS KNOWN AS A SET OF MISSION ORDERS, AND THE SET OF MISSION ORDERS IS AN EXACT SERIES OF STEPS, SOMETIMES CONSECUTIVE, SOMETIMES NOT, SOMETIMES THEY CAN BE DONE CONCURRENTLY WITHIN EACH OTHER. THEY ARE NUMBERED IN EACH STEP.

THEY LIST OUT THE PRECISE ACTIONS THAT THESE PERSONS WOULD DO, KNOWING, OF COURSE, THAT ONCE THEY ARE PERFORMING THEM, THEY ARE TO BE SENSIBLE ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, IF THEY COME UPON ANY OTHER INFORMATION, AND THEY NEED TO RESOLVE SUCH MATTERS TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR MISSION PURPOSE. THESE MISSION ORDERS HAVE AN EXACT PURPOSE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED, EXACT MAJOR TARGETS, EXACT PRIMARY TARGETS EXACT VITAL TARGETS, EXACT OPERATING TARGETS; THEY HAVE LISTED THE MEANS OF MISSION COMMUNICATION, AND THEY ALSO HAVE LISTED THE TARGET DATE FOR COMPLETION.

THE MISSIONAIRES -- THERE WOULD BE A SERIES OF PEOPLE SELECTED TO DO THIS. IDEALLY AT LEAST TWO, AND HIGHER, GENERALLY YOU WOULD THINK TWO TO THREE, ALTHOUGH AT TIMES YOU MIGHT HAVE AN ADDITIONAL MISSIONAIRE KNOWN AS AN INSURANCE MISSIONAIRE. THEY WOULD READ THESE MISSION ORDERS. THEY WOULD READ ANY APPROPRIATE MATERIALS THAT WERE RELEVANT TO THESE MISSION ORDERS SO THAT THEY WERE THOROUGHLY SKILLED IN WHAT SITUATION THEY WOULD BE DEALING WITH. THEY WOULD ALSO REVIEW THEIR MAJOR TARGETS AND HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE THEM IN CLAY TO GIVE A PERFECT EXAMPLE THAT THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH, AND THAT WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH WHAT THEIR MISSION OPERATIONS WANTED THEM TO ACCOMPLISH AND WHAT WAS STATED ON THE MISSION ORDERS.

AT SUCH A POINT AS ALL THIS BRIEFING WAS COMPLETED, THEY WOULD THEN FIRE AND THEY WOULD BE OPERATED WHEREBY THEY WOULD REPORT ON THEIR OT TARGETS, DONE, IP, BUG, AND THE MISSION OPS WOULD KEEP TRACK OF THESE MISSION TARGETS THAT WE DONE IP OR BUG, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEIR MISSION STAY DEBUGGED, THAT THEY COMPLETED THEIR MISSION TARGETS, THAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED THEIR MISSION PURPOSE AND ACHIEVED THE MAJOR TARGETS OF THEIR MISSION, AT WHICH POINT THEY RETURNED HOME.

I feel like it's appropriate that David Miscavige yells that at you

the total commitment to and relentless application of gibberish that his only just 5 degrees off from everyday speech