ladyjane
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Post by ladyjane on Jul 13, 2013 22:03:46 GMT -4
I noticed that a couple of weeks ago John Travolta popped up everywhere trumpeting how wonderful Scientology is and how it helped him so much after Jett's death. I wonder if it was a ham-fisted attempt to counter Leah's departure when it went public. It was just so odd because it came out of nowhere.
Meanwhile, Kirstie Alley creeps me out because she keeps tweeting Connor Cruise trying to arrange get-togethers with him. She clearly has no cognisance of how abnormal it looks to the public for a 62-year-old woman to tweet about hanging out with an 18-year-old. It makes her look like a desperate hanger-on trying to ingratiate herself with Connor's father.
She probably thinks it somehow implies Scieno solidarity when it just looks weird.
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Post by Mugsy on Jul 14, 2013 15:02:16 GMT -4
From the link. Sorry, but these grandiose titles just make me snort. Like how many adjectives and nouns to you need to string together to sound important? It's like kiddie beauty pageants with their Ultimate Grand Supreme Queen crap.
It sounds like made-up names that the He-Man Woman Haters Club would give each other.
I know little about Leah Remini, but it appears the abrasive tenacity that makes her unlikable to so many here is what helped her get out of the cult.
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sumire
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Post by sumire on Jul 15, 2013 1:40:24 GMT -4
From the link. Sorry, but these grandiose titles just make me snort. Like how many adjectives and nouns to you need to string together to sound important? It's like kiddie beauty pageants with their Ultimate Grand Supreme Queen crap. And just like with kiddie pageants, the more money you spend, the more trophies and crowns you get! Have you seen the Platinum Meritorious Humanitarian With Honors-type titles the clams give to people who give them money? Not for completing courses or doing anything, you just have to cough up some dough. I noticed that a couple of weeks ago John Travolta popped up everywhere trumpeting how wonderful Scientology is and how it helped him so much after Jett's death. I wonder if it was a ham-fisted attempt to counter Leah's departure when it went public. It was just so odd because it came out of nowhere. Ooh, maybe Travolta has been questioning, too, and the Church has been pounding him back in line. Jenna Miscavige Hill raised an interesting point in one of the Remini articles:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 12:57:27 GMT -4
This is why I'll always feel just a little bit sorry for the 2005 version of Tom Cruise who made a fool of himself with Matt Lauer and on Oprah's couch. He was THE star of Scientology. All indications are that during the time surrounding his divorce from Nicole he was straying from the church and then a few years later he was intensely "religious." I'm guessing those years in between were hell for him. The pressure on him must have been immense and it showed.
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sumire
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Post by sumire on Jul 18, 2013 12:53:58 GMT -4
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Aug 8, 2013 11:21:00 GMT -4
This could certainly be interesting.
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Post by chonies on Aug 8, 2013 11:26:35 GMT -4
Wow. This could be explosive. Two simultaneous hopes: this implodes Scienos down to the nub, and that they find Shelly alive and well. Both unlikely but not impossible.
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alpierce
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Post by alpierce on Aug 8, 2013 11:35:00 GMT -4
This may put a chink in their armor, but one silver bullet isn't going to bring these lunatics down. I imagine they have their tentacles very far into federal as well as state governments. A far more effective strategy, I think, would be to somehow revoke their status as a religion, then let the IRS get em.
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Post by chonies on Aug 8, 2013 11:58:02 GMT -4
But I think a chink like a (possibly) high-profile investigation and murder case would get the gears a-rollin' on their current federal protection.
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alpierce
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Post by alpierce on Aug 8, 2013 12:59:56 GMT -4
The FBI Or local law enforcement needs some evidence that anyone is missing, and considering the number of people that go missing each year, I don't think they (law enforcement/FBI) would be inclined to do anything without a lot of political pressure from above. You know, we only hear about celebrities who are part of the crazies. I wonder how many politicians are?
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