reporters should tell the persons they talk to, who represent scientology, that they don't believe them. "Fair game" allows them to lie. Straightforward untruth. There is absolutely no reason why we ought to believe a single damn thing they say in defense of themselves. fark scientology, and fark its believers. Commercialized religion. WTF. fark you, scientology.

Watch this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-126281853779690652

It actually made me perspire out of nervousness. I can't identify what, in particular, but it has to do with the fact that scientology is a business, whose trade is religious ideas. The preciousness that is often a quality that characterizes a religious belief, that is to say, that a religious belief differs from others, perhaps in its immediate priority, is in scientology, mixed with finance and explicit ideas of social status. How sickening. I wish I never learned about scientology. But since I did, I have come on Fark to basically just type my mind out. It feels great saying,
"fark scientology, and fark those who are so dim that they commit themselves to a shiat ass religion, where people shiat in their pants, dig it out, and put it in a blender. From there, they add bleu cheese, piss, more shiat, and more bleu cheese, until the blendered contents smell so farking bad that they take it out, dry out half and snort it when it is ready, and then with the rest, they like, drink it cold with a straw. Or they put it in the microwave and let the smell waft about the house. They make the house silent and just sit there and smell the most farking disgusting shiat ever known to man, and they like it, without knowing why.

Phil Moskowitz: Weak people go nuts with infinite resources, period. Give people too much money and not enough character and you'll get Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, and all the other freakshows we've seen running down the road with half their clothes on.

yep. people who are used to regularly interpreting themselves as a good; more specifically, a good to be consumed. So, as a good, what else is there to do, if you're dumb like tom cruise or jon travolta? You join the status quo of religion: scientology. shiat, if you're already rich, you're ready to work your way quite high up on that religion hierarchy. fark. I'm glad that, as of yet, scientology isn't a world religion. fark scientology. If you're reading this and you're a scientologist: fark you. Yeahhhh, fark you. That's Seratonin and Dopamine at once. Ahhhhhhh....very nice.

Gidgie: shaneo785: reporters should tell the persons they talk to, who represent scientology, that they don't believe them. "Fair game" allows them to lie. Straightforward untruth. There is absolutely no reason why we ought to believe a single damn thing they say in defense of themselves. fark scientology, and fark its believers. Commercialized religion. WTF. fark you, scientology.

Watch this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-126281853779690652

It actually made me perspire out of nervousness. I can't identify what, in particular, but it has to do with the fact that scientology is a business, whose trade is religious ideas. The preciousness that is often a quality that characterizes a religious belief, that is to say, that a religious belief differs from others, perhaps in its immediate priority, is in scientology, mixed with finance and explicit ideas of social status. How sickening. I wish I never learned about scientology. But since I did, I have come on Fark to basically just type my mind out. It feels great saying,
"fark scientology, and fark those who are so dim that they commit themselves to a shiat ass religion, where people shiat in their pants, dig it out, and put it in a blender. From there, they add bleu cheese, piss, more shiat, and more bleu cheese, until the blendered contents smell so farking bad that they take it out, dry out half and snort it when it is ready, and then with the rest, they like, drink it cold with a straw. Or they put it in the microwave and let the smell waft about the house. They make the house silent and just sit there and smell the most farking disgusting shiat ever known to man, and they like it, without knowing why.

It really is a business, and it really is terrifying. My husband's father's family is very connected with Scientology, though he isn't. His dad USED to be in it, along with one of his uncles. His uncle recently left and is now having all kinds of issues with them and can't even see two of his children anymore. His kids were literally told by Scientology to choose between it and their father, and two of them actually picked Scientology. So I'll probably never meet these two cousins, since they're not allowed to go to any family functions, not allowed to have contact with anyone who has contact with their father, etc.

There's a lot more I could say, but I really don't think I need to elaborate on the crazy I've been privy to just through the family inside stories.

Ugh. The families inside the stories speak I think as suitable representatives for all the people who have experiences like your husband's and their own. Very straightforward adherence, whether inadvertent or not, to the definition of "cult." What's worse, like we've said, is that it's a business; as such, it follows the competitive model of capitalistic business. Furthermore, being a business that encourages competition (work your way to the top! buy buy buy, !!), is there a proper limit? By proper limit, I mean this: Is there a point in which someone can just be a mere learner, a follower, eager to learn the ways of their religious leaders? Where they can passively participate in religious praise for the sake of itself and itself alone; not anything in line with progressing and advancing through "religious ranks" ? The answer is no.

/sad stuff, scientology.