scientology & celebrities

I get ads from sc1 on twitter pretty often. But I have tweeted stuff about them in the past so it isn't too surprising to me.

yeah i knew it was a paid ad, i just wondered if they'd targeted it at everyone on twitter or more specifically. like presumably that's how you pay for an ad, by hitting everyone who follows x, y, z? i guess not necessarily.

probably also due to keywords in your tweets

makes sense. i think going clear actually aired in the uk for the first time on monday so they're obviously doing their dirty work. it's strange i suppose kinda heartening that a sinister institution like scientology still can't feign normality - like the way they fake things is so juvenile and kind of smug - like your granddad learning how to use the internet but he's on roids and dictating to a pr person. "if you need propaganda, the dr is in!"

ha

yeah, I've totally noticed that vibe when scientology goes after critics -- it's also very anxious. I've seen the same thing when "vax truthers" try to turn the tables on the actual scientific community, e.g. as seen in many memes/macros found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VaccineResistanceMovement/

Leah Remini will be on 20/20 on October 30th discussing Tom Cruise and Scientology.

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

http://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2016/03/ruthless.jpg

Tell-all book by Scientology leader’s father coming in May

I wonder how many different ways you can phrase "my son is a dickhead"

can't wait to find out!

Where's shelly

This has some Scientology gobbledygook at the beginning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFrTAJUQKq4

david miscavige's expression in that framed photo is cracking me up

Lisa Marie Presley about to jump ship.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/something-huge-about-go-down-scientology-could-destroy-church-once-and-all

The new issue of Celebtrity is finally out!

https://66.media.tumblr.com/40c2a981a388f20ba4d4a2063f8a4270/tumblr_o6z2poeR171qbypg1o1_1280.jpg

Where's my Student Hat?

found this piece of mail in my driveway, addressed to our neighbor, who is visited often by scientology drones (they dress like bible salesmen) and if their knocks are unanswered, they always peer in his windows and go around back and try his back door. and if that fails, they make a phone call. this happens a lot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-10%20at%2010.56.36%20AM_zpskpvtjsmk.png

"...the greatest push of the last 2500 years."

I feel like trailing scientologists on their rounds would be a good reason to invest in a drone.

You wouldn't even need to film them or anything. Just make 'em paranoid, wondering if Miscavige is keeping an eye on them or something.

^^ Love the mind games at work there.

Two guys show up at your door, you're like "Hey, someone was just by here an hour ago asking if I'd seen you."

"I have no idea what a 'suppressive' is but you guys seem to fit his description."

http://roa.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/980x608/gallery-1462463449-dianetics-racing.jpg

When Scientology Sponsored Race Cars

John Travolta​. ​Mario Andretti.​ The Pope. Aliens​. Germans. The Indy 500. Milwaukee. The Church of Scientology. Welcome to 1988's bizarre intersection between motorsports, religion, and sponsorship.​​

terrific pictures

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/scientology-in-taiwan/493493/

interesting

http://tonyortega.org/2016/09/16/video-city-council-candidate-exposed-as-scientology-spy-in-live-public-hearing/

Two weeks ago, we reported that a Scientologist named Clay Bock was running for a city council seat in Garden Grove, California. We pointed out that there’s nothing keeping a Scientologist from running for office, but we figured voters might want to know that Bock had a long history helping out Scientology’s most unhinged front group, which agitates against psychiatry.

Well, this week, Garden Grove’s city council found out a lot more about Clay Bock when a woman named Paulien Lombard addressed the council in a live meeting with a stunning allegation: Clay Bock was also a Scientology spy.

This series debuts tonight:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/leah-remini-scientology-aftermath-review-950854?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=Direct&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

From the L.A. Kooks thread:

Posted here not at all for lols, more like "ohhhhh shitttt", also hoping this isn't going to turn into the Scientology Salvation From "Psychiatry" bit, if this is the Kubrick daughter who made a reputedly worthy doc about her dad but then seemingly disappeared into the Church:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stanley-kubricks-daughter-raising-funds-aid-ill-actress-shelley-duvall-948882?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

― dow, Saturday, November 19, 2016 5:42 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

erp, just saw this:
The location listed on Vivian Kubrick’s Go Fund Me page for Duvall is Clearwater, FL. Neither Kubrick nor Duvall lives in Clearwater; it is, however, the location of The Church of Scientology’s business operations.

http://horrorfreaknews.com/things-need-know-donating-vivian-kubricks-fund-shelley-duvall/13449

― dow, Saturday, November 19, 2016

Sorry, xpost Remini's series debuts 11/29, not 28.

also, she's much bolder here supposedly, though I haven't read it yet because reddit:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/leah-remini-doesnt-hold-back-in-reddit-ama-about-scientology-w452813

redirects me straight to a pic of nicole kidman's new haircut.

Here's the AMA itself.

^ Wow, that's an amazing AMA.

lol @the Nicole Kidman revelation (haircut)

apparently the number of times the ama thread has been downvoted is increasing rapidly, which is... odd

^ I reckon that's intentional from those who just wish the thread would disappear into obscurity.

just call it what it is, some scientologists are using bots to try to purge it

jason lee apparently left the church? the wikipedia source for this is an interview where he says: "If [my wife] Ceren and I had an idea for a business, it certainly wouldn't happen at the cost of someone else's," Lee said. "And being that we don't practice Scientology, and that we aren't particularly interested in opening religious centers in general, we have no plans to open a Scientology center."

my wife and I have no plans to start our own religion at this time

lol yeah they chose the noncontroversial approach of just blurting out "BY THE WAY WE ARE TOTALLY NOT SCIENTOLOGISTS NOW" in the middle of an interview

leah remini's admission during that ama that she'd given 'millions' to scientology makes me wonder just how much the church's big hitters like cruise and travolta must have handed over in the past 30+ years. tens of millions? hundreds?

hey all that slave labor doesn't come free

it literally does, that's why it's slave labor

they get like $25 a week iirc, so i guess it's more like endentured servitude or somethimg

if you tilt your head back far enough, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the joke sailing over your head

xp

wait, i mean indentured servitude (unless they're working in retrun for false teeth)

jason lee apparently left the church? the wikipedia source for this is an interview where he says: "If [my wife] Ceren and I had an idea for a business, it certainly wouldn't happen at the cost of someone else's," Lee said. "And being that we don't practice Scientology, and that we aren't particularly interested in opening religious centers in general, we have no plans to open a Scientology center."

― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 10:14 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What? That's awesome. I'm gonna go watch the 100% video in his honor.

where's the nicole kidman thing in the ama? i couldn't find it.

kudos to leah remini btw - courageous.

the thing i feel about scientology which i think she kind of gets at, is that it suits the religion for it to be like a "laughing stock" or "lol scientology" - and most people, even left-leaning people who'd see themselves as smart, seem to reach the crazy sci-fi part, lol, and leave it at that. the sinister abuses, the money, the subjugation, the harassment and destruction of families, all of that is often ignored in favour of pointing and laughing at the thetan crap.

tbf it is really funny

idk they could hand-wave it as allegorical within a generation and be not much sillier than waving your arms to part the seas, or gods with elephant heads