I spend a fair amount of time in Clearwater, and love the Scientologists. I'm always poking around their weird little digs. I used to take pictures of the non-progress of this building, but I quit about a year ago, after nothing ever changed.

It should also be noted that it was built with a huge basement, which is unheard of in Florida. As a result, the front doors are currently about 7 feet above the surface of the ground.

Those Scientologists do amazing work.

Hail Xenu!

Anyways, this seems interesting to visit on an urban exploration trip, although clearwater is a little ways away.

"The difference is this, we build for eternity," Shaw said. "When we do that, we want it perfect."

Well, that and it takes time to organize the human sacrifice and orgy properly.

I tend to agree with this guy.

The Scientologists CAN'T open this building, because it's gigantic, and there's going to be about 3 homeless people wandering the halls once it opens, except for the Sea Org, of course.

And since Super Power is going to be hugely expensive, and isn't even required to go up the Bridge (or even invented by L. Ron Hubbard, for that matter), it's going to be an impossible sell.

Tom Cruise and Travolta will do it, sure.

What the heck is "Scientology," anyhow?

Atvar: What the heck is "Scientology," anyhow?

A green-lighted link about the Super Power Building. I weep with joy. These guys have been a bizarre obsession of mine for years.

I'm no Christian, but there's light-years of difference between mainstream religion and the Church of Scientology (commonly known as the CO$).

Scientology primarily consists of a series of very expensive "courses" that supposedly clear the human soul of parasites, called "thetans". This is achieved by one-on-one "auditing" sessions, which is a sort of bizarre hypnotic psychotherapy that takes the individual into past lives.

As the Scientologist climbs the "Bridge", he or she is supposed to gain amazing powers, such as the ability to move objects with a thought, or leave the body and transport anywhere in the universe.

And then it really gets weird.

Basically, it's a carefully constructed corporation that is designed to steal human beings' hearts and minds, all for the almighty dollar. As such, it's probably the most evil corporate entity on the planet today. And they don't even have to pay taxes.



An excellent description (semi-fictional) account of life in Scientology

Xenu.net will answer any questions you'd ever have.

I would comment, but as Scientology uses much of its money to hire lawyers and sue anyone who casts any sort of negative light on their beliefs or writings... I think I'd like to keep my house, thanks.

Besides, they're doing a fine job of explaining what their 'religion' is all about by that behavior as it is.

My link was supposed to go to the above Xenu.net, but apparently, I'm retarded :P

Selling an invisible product with fear is one of the lowest things I can think of, and we allow it.

I submitted this article earlier with a funnier engram.

I always mean to put on a blue shirt and dress pants, tie a sweater around my neck, grab a manila envelope, and just jump into the herd one day. What the heck do they do all day, and why do they look so busy doing it?

lol Kickaha.

Brilliant, KickahaOta.

Agreed StretchCannon,

Now hurry up and finish your college degree, or you will be poor the rest of your life.

Someday we ought to abandon those religion crap.

Screwball religions freak me out. That's why I make sure I'm always firmly grounded in the teachings of J.R. Bob Dobbs.

God I hate these farking scam artist sumbiatches. Had to work with a bunch of them for a while. Absolute idiots. No business sense either, surprisingly.

I don't care for any religion, anyway, but these guys are a FARKING BUSINESS. Sue me you biatches. Go ahead.

Eris and her servent the mighty FNORD shall cast down all of these false religions. Come to the one true way, the five true ways.


Hail Eris.

HolyGeekboy:

I would comment, but as Scientology uses much of its money to hire lawyers and sue anyone who casts any sort of negative light on their beliefs or writings... I think I'd like to keep my house, thanks.

And on that note, isn't Scientology great? You know what else I love? Battlefield Earth. What a masterpiece.

all hail the mighty BOB!

Tax excemption for religion empowers liars.

saying anything negative about scientology on the internet is like trying to argue about evolution with a creationist: they believe that quantity of words beats quality of words

so what's going to happen now that fark farked with scientology, no matter how slightly, is that fark is going to get lots of nasty letters about libel and slander and other somesuch contrived bullshiat from their secret bunker legion of zombie minion lawyers who chainsmoke and dress in airplane steward/ stewardess outfits (what is with that? they all chainsmoke and dress like that)

i think someone should biatchslap these loonies into the next dimension as much as the next farker, but i love fark too much to see it suffer under the weight of the braindead withering gaze of a scientology lawsuit scribbling campaign ;-(

They build for eternity? Seems they should have made it a little bigger.

fluxrad:

Screwball religions freak me out. That's why I make sure I'm always firmly grounded in the teachings of J.R. Bob Dobbs.

All Hail Herr Dobbs!

don't be a playa hata folks, just start your own loonie religion

like me, to heck with scientology, my religion is called smile-ontology(tm)!

the religion of different kinds of smiles!

heathens who don't believe my religion look like this:

>:-(

initiates, those who wish to be saved, look like this:

:-(

after months of intensive brainwashing and all their money, they can hope to look like this:

:-/

my highest minions and priests look like this:

:-)

and me of course, i look like this:

8-D

why?

because i took all the dumb fark's money and screwed all the women!

so join smile-ontology(tm) today!

A short survival guide to life in Wasteland

Buy an AK-97 assault rifle.
If there's someone hanging around your neighborhood you don't know, shoot him.

You know, if Osama Bin Laden were to start targeting people like Scientologists, NAMBLA, Westboro Baptist Church, and other such radically unpopular groups, I think he'd have a much easier time winning over the minds of Westerners.

On that thought, you know if Scientologists got together to fight Wahabbi Muslims to the death in machine-gun battles, I think they'd have a much easier time winning over converts to their cause.

/the enemy of my enemy is my friend
//best case scenario is to have all your enemies fight each other

Wow, 60-70 million spent on a big building for a stupid hokey religion instead of, say, shelter for the homeless and food for the hungry. Religion is such bullshiat.

I live a few blocks from one of the big Scieno compounds in Los Angeles, the big blue building that used to be a Jewish hospital that moved to the Westside in the 1970s... anyway, the building used to have an oversized (as in wider than the building itself, ugh) illuminated sign that read "SCIENTOLOGY."

Anyway, the St. Petersburg Times article was interesting, because this building near me has been under renovation for nearly three years...(the oversized sign thankfully removed, hopefully for good). Though it's not empty, it's been stripped town to the steel girders at its tallest tower, and no progress has been done for almost 2 years...Hmmmm...

bbcrackmonkey:

the enemy of my enemy is my friend

Nope, its "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less." Rule 29.

/obscure?

"The difference is this, we build for eternity," Shaw said. "When we do that, we want it perfect."


"Nothing lasts forever", Connor MacLeod

When I read about this, I thought of the film Mystery Men where just about everyone has a secret identity and super powers, like deadly accuracy with plateware, extreme mysteriousness, or uncontrollable rage.

That would be fun. I'd like to be The Banker.

Remember Lisa Mcpherson.

Maybe they are just waiting to see how wide Kirstie Alley's ass is actually going to get before they decide how large to make the doors. Did any of you actually think of that? After all, without their very public "celebrity members" how else would these wierdo's get members of the general public to fall for their BS? It cracks me up when I think about it, on the one hand John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are both supposed to be at the top of the heap in scientology and as Operating Thetans can supposedly perform all of these miracles (including things like time travel and the sort) yet both can make incredibly crappy movies (battlefield earth) or become major lard butts and no one calls them on how that can happen to them if they have so much power to control the "environment" in which they operate.

After several court actions, this "religion" was banned in Germany.

I look to the Invisible Pink Unicorn for all my pseudo-religious needs. But only under the rubric of the Shor-Dur-Pur-Sav as a subgenius of course.

If we were to be talking about sicking enemies on eachother why sick the mob on scientology? they dont hate the cult perse but everyone hates ass hat realitors who keep prime business locations fallow for fear that the WOG heathens might snap'em up. I dont know about you but i like the idea of a scarface type beating the crap out a scientologist's face with a pillow case full of dianetics till he signs the deed.

I despise Scientology. Those farkers took an excellent psychotherapy tool and promoted it so extensively as something that ties in with their fictitious religion that mainstream psychology can't use it, causing a lot of needless suffering.

This list of well known scientologists has some surprising entries.

We all know about Tom Cruise and John Travolta, but Sonny Bono, Greta Van Susteren, & Isaac Hayes (i.e. Chef). But the one that floored me was jazz pianist Chick Corea.

It's not that I know any of these people at all, but being of fan of Corea's for so long, I guess I've pictured him being much more concerned about putting together his next cool album not being concerned about his "bridge progress".

Scientology, blah. Bullshiat, money-making greed-inspired fictional business. Anyone who does not know about this crap needs to do some reading up on xenu.net. These guys are just out to make money. They jealously guard their fake religion and will scare, sue, stalk, etc. anyone who attempts to ridicule it. I bet they are pissed today while looking at Fark.com!

Not that obscure, NarrMaster.
/cheers for Shlock.

I got threatened with a lawsuit from Ava Paquette, a Scientology lawyer, for posting these PhotoShop Contest entries to FARK:
http://www.rantradio.com/shows/sktfm/
I also had tons of different anti-Scientology T-shirts printed up that I love to wear when the weather's nice.

No wonder Tom Cruise can leap off a motorcycle in slow motion and spin 360 degrees.

Yup...
Look at the list from inmate... rich folks..

What do expect when the founder of a religion is quoted as saying "if you want to be rich, found a religion"

Why didn't I post this earlier? One of the best Scientology links of all time. If you want to hear John Travolta and Frank Stallone harmonizing to the lyrics of L. Ron Hubbard, this is your lucky day!

http://www.ronthemusicmaker.org/listen.htm

(Fark won't let me a href it for some reason, probably on the Scientologists' part, but well worth the copy-n-paste)

I have to post this in the other Scientology thread now.

2005-01-02 09:03:09 AM Inmate_55170-054
This list of well known scientologists has some surprising entries. ... But the one that floored me was jazz pianist Chick Corea.

I would not be surprised if most of the church members became involved out of necessity. In listening to entertainment industry people, you discover this church is a powerful lobby. People that make, fund, or distribute projects have some connection to the church.

Unfortunately, entertainment is more "who you know" than
"what you know". So in order to play the game, you have to have to join the team. It's disappointing, and sad.

enigmaleh:

In listening to entertainment industry people, you discover this church is a powerful lobby. People that make, fund, or distribute projects have some connection to the church.

Plus they operate a "Celebrity Center" in Los Angeles, that caters to the every whim of their famous members.

The Scientology of Tom Cruise is not the same Scientology of a Sea Org member. Not even in the same ballpark.

It's been rumored for years that Travolta can't leave the Church, because they know he has had gay affairs. (Part of their "security checks" is documenting any "out-ethics" activity). Just a rumor, that's all.