Celebrities & Scientology

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limey said:

What is the Clam's natural enemy? Maybe there should be a cult dedicated to that and the destruciton of scientology.

The seagull? Maybe we could start a cult that stands in airports shouting, "Mine! Mine! Mine? Mine!" as we have picket signs painted w/ pictures of a gull carrying a scared clam off to it's nest of hungry gull-lings (gull-ettes?).

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4. When asked to make a decision, would you be swayed by your like or dislike of the personality involved? + ? -

Number four is my favorite. What an asinine question. Anybody who answers anything but yes is lying out their ass. Let's see, I say no when a guy I don't like asks me out on a date, does that somehow make me a flawed person?

185. Are you sometimes convinced of the correctness of your opinions about a subject even though you are not an expert? + ? -

We certainly know how Cruise answered that one.

158. Do you laugh or smile quite readily? + ? -

Yes, especially when involved in discussions about $cientology.

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lurkernan said:

Scientology? It's a religion based on mental illness.

And Bad Science fiction. As a regular reader of Sci Fi and Fantasy, that much is blatently apparent to me. I can name a dozen books with more believable myth structures than Xenu and his Amazing Thetan Ghosts.

Exactly! I mean, if you're gonna choose a religion based on a work of sci-fi, at least go with GOOD sci-fi. Say H. P. Lovecraft.

Cthulhu Fhtagn!

(I'd love to try and convert Tom Cruise by talking about how one needs to be eaten first, and the shuggies and the stars being right).

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Just imagine what a cult started by Phil K. Dick fans would be like! First you gooble down enough speed to give a horse a stroke and then sit back, relax and wait for the pink laser to beam hidden gnostic knowledge into your brain.

As far as I am concerned, Hollywood would be a far more interesting place if more folks joined [blue]The Church of the Subgenius[/blue]. That, and I'm waiting for all out gang warfare to break out between the Clams and the Celebrity Kabballah crowd, West Side Story style.

Xenu! Say it loud, and there's music playing!

Praise "Bob"!

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Guinastasia, thanks for the book suggestion and the link. I will definitely check that out.

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L.Ron Hubbard was always a hack writer. He just got lucky. When I think of Scientology and it's roots in crappy scifi, it's a wonder that those easily led folks aren't following the teachings of Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", grokkin' all the free love in group marriages.

Well, that's been done too. Just check out the Church of all Worlds website. I've read a few articles about them (granted, in Neo-Pagan magazines, so they may have been biased), but the CoaW seems pretty harmless, with the nudism and environmentalism and a high proportion of sci-fi geeks. I guess it'd appeal to a different set of rubes than the Co$

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I'm digging through old xenutv clips and came across Ted Koppel's interview with David Miscavige. Now I see where Tom learned the MattMattMatt!

Mr. MISCAVIGE: He absolutely admits to wanting to get a Scientologist kidnapped, that's in your Washington Post.

KOPPEL: So why didn't you bring charges against him?

Mr. MISCAVIGE: He didn't succeed. He didn't succeed. Our point is this- Ted, Ted, you're missing the point.

In his next reply he fits in another "Ted, you're missing the point." Awesome.

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Oooh! More fun. I'm reading an old Sally Jesse Raphael transcript and this ex-sci's saying that Patrick Swayze was even involved at some point. But get this.. the top Scientology leaders were trying to court Demi Moore and she was "ready to sign on the dotted line" until then-hubby Bruce Willis pulled her aside and said "Demi this needs a lot more investigation before we get involved." Go Bruce!

How Scientology must be fuming that Kabbalah snagged Demi instead.

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Wow, as if I needed another reason to love Bruce.

ETA: A celebrity's decision to be or not to be when it comes to clamhood has started to have a massive impact on how I feel about them. I read an article yesterday wherein Johnny Depp admitted that he had a massive alcohol problem earlier in his career and was basically drunk out of his gourd for the filming of Gilbert Grape. He was surprised Lasse Hallström wanted to work with him again in Chocolat because Johnny felt like he'd been a bit of an asshole on the Gilbert Grape set because of the booze.

My reaction to the entire article: Eh, Johnny was young. At least he's not a clam.

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There's been a Co$ tent at the local farmers' market for at least a year (advertising free stress tests, naturally). Yesterday for the first time, there was one for the local branch of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. I stopped by and dropped off some pocket change. The NAMI volunteer said that Li'l Tommy Clambo's rants have prompted a lot of people to lend their support. So hopefully some good is coming from the bad.

Anybody know where I can get a shirt that says "Suppressive and proud of it!"?