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*Three-year mega bump*
At the moment, the top 7 in All Topics on Digg are all about Scientology. Why the sudden interest? |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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I dunno but I want to believe this blurb that Will Smith is NOT, in fact, turning to Scientology.
http://www.usmagazine.com/node/13674 Or his wife (not as clear on that). I am at a point with Cruise's mania and wack-job behavior, that I'll never pay a dime to watch one of his films again, knowing where the money is going. If it's on HBO or TNT, fine, otherwise no. I wouldn't pay to watch Smith's either, if it turned out that way. Life is too short to give your hard-earned money to pyramid scheme cults posing as religions. Hell, it's too short to give it to the standard religions too, for that matter. Just go to Charity Navigator, pick your best cause and send it there. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Mel-Bun!
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Hum-de-dum...one of the main HQ's for the CoS is just down the street from where I work. Huge complex. They even managed to get a street named after L. Ron there. The people seem perfectly normal. It's just every so often they turn their huge parking lot into a tent for some kind of revivalist thing.
Big sign out front that exhorts you to read "Dianetics" because 21 million other asshats have read it. And also tries to get you to come in for a free stress test. They are surrounded by a huge Kaiser Permanente complex, the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. Wonder if they set up HQ on purpose to take advantage of people in distress? Further down the street is the "Citizen's Commission on Human Rights" which runs the "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum". I'm not kidding, they have a whole museum dedicated to "exposing" psychiatry as a killer. This has the CoS stamped alllllllllllll over it. Umm...yeah... Specialists are people who know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing. Generalists are people who know less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything. I'm somewhere in the middle. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Not sure about anything today, but about a week ago (or roughly a year ago in "Internet time") some Scientology propaganda starring Tom Cruise was leaked and fawned over by all the major media outlets.
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What is this anonymous group, and why is everyone on digg getting so excited about them? Sounds like a bunch of geeks who want to scare people. Sad really.
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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The Tom Cruise video that leaked a week or so ago made a pretty big impression on the "internet community."* A group of "hackers" called "Anon"** have launched Denial of Service attacks on all of Scientology's websites, phone lines and fax lines. Someone claiming to represent "Anon" has released a number of portentous videos on YouTube saying that they intend to "dismantle" Scientology. It's actually pretty interesting, assuming you don't care about either side's position (I don't): A largish, rich organisation, unafraid to fight dirty if they need to, vs the "crowdsourced" might of the massed opinion of the internet. If the "Anon" people can stop their followers getting bored quickly, they might indeed be able to achieve something pretty amazing in the real world - maybe not their stated aim, but they may be able to cut Scientology off from the 'net for good - and when your organization relies on publicity to gain new funds, that's akin to "winning the air war" - not the final blow, but a very serious weakening. Interesting times. * = By "Internet Community" I mean: Something Awful forum goons, 4chan members, ebaumsworld members and related sites, basically. ** = Almost certainly a subset of the people mentioned as "Internet Community", although I suspect that a fair few people care less about the "target" and more about the fact that someone thought of a target for this sort of thing that would have virtually no moral or legal implications. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Nice... Anonymous in the house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jsIe...eature=related See if you want to give this asshole money after watching this. PS - Chanology is Anonymous' "religion" thereby giving them the same legal protections as Scientology, etc. Sweet. More Good times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8mJ...eature=related ...into the light of a dark black night. Last edited by Moogs : 2008-01-25 at 19:01. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Here's the video Scientology doesn't want anyone to see. The link may die at some point...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcHpG...eature=related Another beauty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly-hT...eature=related (this is the first part of the Cruise medal ceremony the post above) ...into the light of a dark black night. Last edited by Moogs : 2008-01-25 at 19:21. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Thread split since the recent events have little to do with the old thread.
Well, all but one of the current topics headings are completely useless.*
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Wow I didn't know Tom was so instrumental in helping right after 9/11, AND partners with the US Department of Education, NASA and more!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOJmffRVbA God help us. Nation of idiots, if even half of this stuff is true. Wheeeeee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqKA...eature=related ...into the light of a dark black night. Last edited by Moogs : 2008-01-25 at 19:43. |
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That is supposed to be one of the more well known meeting places for 'them'. Other than that a whole load of IRC channels. Basically they are a 'group' who go around hacking sites for sport. What they appear to be loosely trying to do now is get an internet movement kick started against scientology. I look at them rather like a delinquent child of the internet population, and right now I am glad they have found a reasonable target outlet for their teenage angst. It's a bit like your troubled child discovering that he / she likes eating mud at the bottom of the garden.. If they were torturing small animals and running the streets naked at night then this latest fad is one to be encouraged rather than criticized! Personally I am all for them taking Scientology down.. but wonder how long it will be before they get bored of the target.. 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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And he didn't ask for permission either.
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Ruling teh World
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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http://partyvan.info/index.php/Project_Chanology
Here is the wiki page concerning this movement. Be prepared to loose some brain cells by reading it, but the movement overall is interesting. It will be the first real true test to see if the internet can bridge the gap between the virtual and physical world. Last edited by World Leader Pretend : 2008-01-26 at 13:48. Reason: Lol at the silent editing job |
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careful with axes
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPol_m8wm8Y Scientology nuts vs anti-Scientology nut!
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There should be a version of Celebrity Death Match based on this.
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Only, not based on claymation.
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