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(Washington Post) Hero Ex-Scientologist wins $8.7 million from church. Xenu surrenders.   (washingtonpost.com) divider line 111
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9/10 2002-05-10 09:45:09 AM  
WA-HEY!!!! Hero indeed!

How much do you want to bet he gets kidnappned and re-brainwashed by those Scientologist farks?

 
lupin 2002-05-10 09:45:23 AM  
cult

 
lupin 2002-05-10 09:46:01 AM  
na na na na na na na na BATMAN!!! i mean LEADER!!!!

 
9/10 2002-05-10 09:46:23 AM  
But on FACTNet.org -- his Web site, which stands for Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network -- he issued a buoyant statement, gloating, "The cult that vowed it would never pay me one thin dime has now paid over 86 million thin dimes."

Priceless ...

 
sagacity 2002-05-10 09:46:56 AM  
serves them right. 86 million thin dimes.

 
frunch 2002-05-10 09:47:35 AM  
Sweet! L.Ron is more like EnRon...screw scientology! Freakin' mini-navy! What a load of horse manure!

 
Henchman 2002-05-10 09:48:26 AM  
You know, I'd be willing to let the Catholics off the hook if they could somehow transfer the damage payments to the Scientologists. Of the two, I'd rather see the Xenu-xuckers bankrupt.

 
shlabotnik 2002-05-10 09:50:59 AM  
I need to get aboard this Scientology gravy train.

 
Pylonius 2002-05-10 09:51:13 AM  
Another blow to Scientologists. Will they ever give up?

 
Flamebait 2002-05-10 09:51:53 AM  
Screw you scientology-haters. Why should the other religions have a oligopoly on taking money from their followers. More competition is good. Scientology is a far more profitable relgion than those other. Wait for their IPO, it will outperform Islam Corp. (ISLM) and Christianity Inc. (CHRT) anyday.

 
number_twenty3 2002-05-10 09:51:57 AM  
Not to worry, Scientologists! You still have all the money that rolled in from Battlefield Earth!

[/sarcasm]


Check out Operation Clambake, a hardcore anti-Scientology site

 
madpiper 2002-05-10 09:52:31 AM  
Leah Remini, that hottie from CBS' "King of Queens" is a Scientologist. Damn. I thought she had more sense than that.

 
scarneck 2002-05-10 09:52:33 AM  
Yeah, but Battlefield Earth ROCKED!!

 
Claude Damage 2002-05-10 09:56:02 AM  
Lowtax said it best...

 
The_Box_ 2002-05-10 09:57:00 AM  
That Scientology cult is evil! Who is their god? Satan?

 
Henchman 2002-05-10 09:57:46 AM  
Man, all this thread-reading is making me hungry. I'm going to go have a bowl of E-Grahms.

 
Claude Damage 2002-05-10 09:59:27 AM  
Ah, forget it. Search the somethingawful archive yourself.

 
wanker 2002-05-10 10:03:27 AM  
IRONBAR:

I was just thinking the same thing... Thought it was my computer for a second... Checked the settings... Nope... Just the threads...

 
stardog 2002-05-10 10:06:00 AM  
"I'm smiling," he said. "It's like being the first plaintiff to get a victory against the cigarette companies."

Who were also responsible for their stupidity.

 
Irascible 2002-05-10 10:06:58 AM  
Hot farking damn! There is a little justice in this world. (even if it takes 22 years for that Wollersheim dude to find it)

 
b0rg9 2002-05-10 10:07:42 AM  

 
loupa_maray 2002-05-10 10:07:43 AM  
FARKI'N A !!!
This guy has a cool "cult awareness" site: FACTNet.org
Check-it-out...
--
AfterLife = Anti-Life

 
No Sleep 2002-05-10 10:08:29 AM  
I think the stretched thread size is due to Vman's "wheeeee" post.

 
acetylene 2002-05-10 10:08:40 AM  
Ironbar, Wanker:
That would be VMan, I believe. The spacebar is your friend, VMan.

 
apteryx 2002-05-10 10:11:10 AM  
L Ron was a good writer. In fact, Scientology's beliefs sound like the plot of a sci-fi book.

How anyone can buy his infectd-by-thetans crap is proof that most of us are basically stupid.

 
ZzeusS 2002-05-10 10:12:11 AM  
"The church's conduct was manifestly outrageous."

"infliction of emotional distress."

"Yesterday, as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge was set to begin yet another hearing, the Church of Scientology of California suddenly threw in the towel."

YEAH!

This is great. I hope this paves the way for many more lawsuits and drains the CoS into extinction.

 
dapharmer 2002-05-10 10:13:51 AM  
the thread shiat is from vman.. these frikken idiots and their desire to make wide threads.. we dont care for your theatrics

 
No Such Agency 2002-05-10 10:14:02 AM  
Ironbar: I think it was Vman with his very-long-sentence-of-no-spaces :-( God this is annoying at 800x600...


Frankly, I'm surprised this guy is still alive. The Co$ has had years to ruin him, after all, and they've shown no disinclination to do just that to others. I'd think that for almost $10 million, they'd have made it a point of honour (or the nearest Co$ equivalent). Maybe they thought that if they stalled long enough he'd finally commit suicide...

 
meshman 2002-05-10 10:14:27 AM  
Scientology getting sued for millions, the catholic church being sued for kiddy diddlers... Things are looking up!

 
TheHighHat 2002-05-10 10:16:27 AM  
Hurray!!!!!!

Great use of HERO tag.

Hopefully this COMPLETE sham of a religion will be gone forever.

Can you believe, an entire religion based on science fiction!

Although......

Christianity is based on an oxymoron.....the virgin mother

 
RepoMan 2002-05-10 10:16:55 AM  
Yeah, his whole thing about midichlorians is ridiculous.

Uh, wait...

 
PlatinumDragon 2002-05-10 10:17:39 AM  
No Such Agency:

It's just as annoying at 1024x768 with my wildly inflated text size.

A lot of Hollywood actors are Scientologists. The Co$ actively recruits for exposure... and money.

The FreeZoners are probably the last hope of Hubbard's religion ever being anything more than a tninly-disguised scam.

In other news... FREE XENU! TAKE THAT OSA! HAHHAAHAHAHAH! KEITH HENSON OWNZ J00!

ok, i'm done spiking the ball now.

 
No Such Agency 2002-05-10 10:19:04 AM  
Leah Remini, that hottie from CBS' "King of Queens" is a Scientologist. Damn.


Catherine Bell, the hottie on "JAG", is also a Scientologist, as is "Jenna Elfman" from Dharma & Greg. It always sucks when hot women are in scary cults. I just can't get it up for somebody who's essentially an accomplice to massive fraud...

 
batmn42 2002-05-10 10:20:03 AM  
GET OUT NOW!!! THE THREAD'S GOING TO BLOW!!!


Why doesn't Fark have a FLAME tag yet-- way overdue...

 
jasonakramer 2002-05-10 10:21:01 AM  
I'd like to sign a billion-year contract for Total Fark, please.

 
ZzeusS 2002-05-10 10:23:59 AM  
Oh NO! Not Catherine Bell!

nnooooo

Wish there was an easy way to spot these things in public. Like the special sunglasses in that one movie that shows the aliens. I need that for CoS.

Aliens I tell you!

 
real remon 2002-05-10 10:28:11 AM  
Yes, but was he 'cleared' ?

 
RepoMan 2002-05-10 10:29:24 AM  

Zzeuss, all ready for the $cientologists

 
MyrtleBeachDesigner 2002-05-10 10:30:18 AM  
I am starting a new religion based on the worship of boobies.. Boobietologist

 
MyrtleBeachDesigner 2002-05-10 10:31:55 AM  
I remember the first time I was shot out of a cannon

 
scarneck 2002-05-10 10:35:06 AM  
A boobie religion?

Works for me!

If boobies doesn't convince you that God exists, nothing will.

 
EmJSea 2002-05-10 10:39:31 AM  
Don't Scientologists eat babies? Or did I just read that on the internet.

 
gilga 2002-05-10 10:40:50 AM  
I am willing to sign a billion-year contract with the Church of Boobietology.

 
melsbasketcase 2002-05-10 10:44:25 AM  
Vman made the threadview scrolly because all his words are
typedtogetherlikethis.

 
God- 2002-05-10 10:44:42 AM  
Good for him..... Most cults (catholocism, scientology,penticostal, etc...) really should be aboloshed...Yes, I know, freedom of religion, I wholly support it, but the problem is that they brainwash their followers and rarely if ever follow their own doctrines and cannons. Any religion/cult who is so hypocritical has no right to exist....

 
Frankeinstein 2002-05-10 10:44:49 AM  
I will deprogram ex-boobietologists with Pics of Anna Nicole

 
isol8d 2002-05-10 10:47:14 AM  
That chick Greta Von Somethingorother from FoxNews is a scientologist. I wonder if this will make the news there?

 
reaten 2002-05-10 10:50:30 AM  
Can I getz a HELL YEAH from the congregation!?!?

 
stebain 2002-05-10 10:54:38 AM  

Is this one of the cannons?





 
Bad_CRC 2002-05-10 10:55:00 AM  

 
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