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Scientology Super Power Building

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  • That took me on a deeper reading trip late into the night...
  • ooo i love me some dirty expose on scientology's dark underbelly
    can we talk about The Hole?

  • Totally, I read about dark scientology for hours after seeing Cabel's tweet.
  • what's the Hole?
    I read that utterly epic New Yorker piece on scientology awhile ago but don't remember The Hole

    what kind of crazy shit is gonna come to light with the Katie Holmes exodus???
  • Scientology used to seem like a scam to me when they were just taking your money and filing your confessions away for blackmail purposes. But now that they have this amazing tech dojo for transforming you into a superhuman, it kind of seems worth it.
  • I agree that it seems totally worth it.
  • yeek!

    Sea Org is still the most insane part of scientology, to me, though. The Opus Dei of Scientology?? Or something

    http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-07-03/news/32527394_1_sea-organization-marty-rathbun-scientology

    "Members are not allowed to leave the property without permission, and if they do go AWOL, they are tracked down by military-style teams who are allowed to inflict emotional or physical punishment, ABC News reports.

    Former Scientology security chief Gary Morehead said he has hunted down at least 100 people who have tried to escape the organization in his 13 years there."

    You sign a billion-year contract!!! You owe them money if you ever escape!

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/06/scientology-s-sea-org-an-escape-story-for-katie-holmes-and-suri-cruise.html

    "When I was 9, my mother got transferred to Los Angeles. Our family moved into a rundown apartment, and my public-school days were over. Instead I went to Cadet School, a training school for the Sea Org, where I learned the basics of reading, writing, and math, but had no classes in subjects like history or geography. After school, I worked for hours in the basement of the Sea Org offices, filing papers and doing other organizational tasks. I often stayed there overnight with my fellow students, sleeping on cots.
"

    "Early on in my new job, I had to sit down with a man in his 40s who had admitted to masturbating, and tell him to cut it out. I was 15 years old.
"

    She finally escaped by GETTING PREGNANT, which is not allowed.

    That was her exit strategy!!!!!!!!
  • edited July 2012
    recent story about the kid in australia that agreed to be a part of the sea org at the age of 8, and was then worked to the bone until he escaped at the age of 20 having never seen the internet, television, etc
    in a work camp outside of sydney
  • HOW IS SEA ORG EVEN STILL LEGAL

    OBAMA SHOULD BE LIKE "IMMA SHUT DOWN SEA ORG BEEYATCHES"

    If Romney said he was going to shut down Sea Org I'd probably vote for him, honestly.
  • i wonder if chan marshal is in or out now that she split with ribisi and he got married
    i wonder if beck will ever get out
  • I feel like it wouldn't be legal if anyone actually investigated/knew about it, right?
    It's child labor, it's child neglect, it's not sending kids to school, etc. All illegal!
    I feel like they are so rich and so high profile with celebrities that nobody takes seriously the idea that it is actually an illegal fucked-up brainwash child abuse cult
    which is itself very fucked
  • not to mention that lady who had a psychic break and jumped out of her car on the road in LA and was begging passersby for help but because they don't believe in psychiatry two guards who had been following her jumped out and grabbed her and took her to a weird room where she died eating her own hair. And no one ever got in trouble.

    I assume shit like this happens all the time
  • Somehow I feel Scientology is so powerful and protected is because in the US, power and protection from the law are considered virtues! Right?
  • I often go deep with the Scientology links and then I fantasize about breaking kids out of that school in Oregon. But they probably don't want to leave, and then what about parents who somehow don't know it's a Scientology school?

    I think Beck is locked in tight, he's still married to the other Ribisi...so sad.

    http://www.xenu-directory.net/mirrors/www.whyaretheydead.net/childabuse/michelle.html
    http://counterfeitdreams.blogspot.com
    http://exscientologykids.org/
    http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012148.ece


  • edited July 2012
    Man, the renderings look amazing. I'm really struck by how removed from fashions they are, like everyone involved is deeply culturally scientologist. Do you all know what I mean? It's like the architecht is clear, the furniture designer is clear, the designer of finishes and materials is clear. The whole thing is so styled out so as to look like nothing else. It seems really deliberate, especially considering the technology they use... I mean it's obvious the machines are just for show, right? They measure somethin, but what they measure sure isn't important. What is important is that they intimidate by looking magical. It's probably not even the world's most advanced exercise equipment.

    Also I love how much desk space there is. You are looking at all the tables and you realize, they really don't work with computers. They just need table space for their special papers and dials.
  • do you think they are reading this thread
  • Do you think they are making us write it?
  • I heard they bought Mikey.
  • mikey!! noooo!!!!
  • You guys, it's not really a religion. It's just a practical way to problem solve. I mean, it's not for everyone, but it can HELP, you know?

  • "No you got it all wrong, Homer, it ain't like that--"
    "YOU BETTER RUN, EGG!"
  • I'm just saying, if you push away all the mumbo jumbo it's purpose is just to consciously re-experience painful or traumatic events in your past in order to free yourself of their limiting effects. It's about personal freedom. And no drugs. And aliens. And sea org. But mostly freedom. Not like, you can do what you want, but more like, you won't be haunted by demons (who are actually aliens).

  • The demons will be kept safely in a locked cabinet and only deployed if you start to waver in your commitment to KEEP SCIENTOLOGY WORKING.
  • And you might end up in pictures, kid.
  • THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE KID
  • edited July 2012
    mike:
    one puny ounce of self help syrup for every giant bathtub full of bullshit, shitty books u gotta buy, courses you gotta take to solve yr everyday shit, recruitment of the weak and dumb (via schools and fake drug counselling organizations that funnel back to the main thing, terrible pyramid scheme money shit, violence shit, trapping people shit, big brother shit, killing people shit, "disappearing" people shit, putting people in tiny rooms in the desert shit where u dont see them for like maybe most of a decade because maybe they will say some shit about your shit, making people build tom cruise some custom SUVs and motorcycles for no money shit, following u around and embarrassing you if you ever get smart enough to leave shit, not letting you look at the internet shit, keeping you dumb and hooked on the syrup shit, "love bomb" shit

    if you want a slightly better bang for your buck, holler. i got some deals going on some other threads
  • (Dude. They got Mike. Just smile and nod. And don't go to sleep!)
  • NOT LETTING YOU LOOK AT THE INTERNET!?!?! What the fuck?

    Nevermind. I take it all back. Bunch of bullshit.

    Thanks Alan, that was close.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scieno_Sitter

    Scieno Sitter is a term coined by critics of the Church of Scientology to refer to a content-control software package created by the organization, which, when installed on a computer, blocks certain Web sites critical of Scientology from being viewed.[1][2] Critics assert that the program is a form of internet censorship.[1][2]
  • omg, wait this is kind of brilliantly fucked

    "By popular demand from Scientologists, a program has been developed to prevent you from being subjected to 'entheta' and hate mail on the Internet. This filter allows you direct access to our sites rapidly, without being dev-t'ddev't[›] by vilifying material, forgeries, and hate messages. In this fashion your attention can remain focused on dissemination and setting people's feet on the Bridge to Total Freedom."
  • my favorite beck album is "sea org"
  • It's easy to make fun of Scientology but... we only know about them because they are successful, and they are only successful because the organization is based on America's favorite values. Therefore, let us embrace them into our hearts and minds, as we have our own favorite American values. God bless
  • edited July 2012
    "... the total number of people who identify as Scientologists is just 25,000 in this country of more than 300 million human beings." village voice article

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    Truly shows the power of a small group of dedicated people and what can happen with crowd-funding.
  • woah check out them rastas!!
  • I'm closer to rastafarian than anything else. When I want to give thanks, I thank Jah.
  • There should be a Rastafarian Super Power Building.
  • I'm going to call my house the Super Power Building and see if it sticks.
  • Weird bummer about rastafarians is that they are kind of not cool with gay folks :(
  • Also, you quite literally can't be white and truly rasta, because Babylon is white society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Afrocentrism
    Double :( :(
  • I feel that deeply though
    that's legit
    weird modern-world-influenced religion!!! Like does that mean in 1,000 years when there are no more races, Babylon will still be white society? If so what will that even mean
  • We're all black

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