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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    08/04/09

    In reply to Face-Slashing Pol Will Go To Trial
    Where did you get that picture of a dashing young Grandpa Munster?
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    I expect a shadowy league of vigilante superheros will start picking off the leadership one by one.
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    Image of Iwillnotauditionforastar Iwillnotauditionforastar
    08/03/09

    @iplaudius: No. All you have to do is destroy the aura of invincibility. Gravity will take care of it from there on its own timetable.

    See: Iran.
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    Image of Iwillnotauditionforastar Iwillnotauditionforastar
    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: "The world will know...before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed."
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    We could form a much more pleasant alternative cult based on sardonic humor, youtube videos, celebrity bashing, and macabre magazine jokes.

    Hi.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Would there be backrubs? I like backrubs.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/03/09

    @MissNormaDesmond:

    Check.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    New rule: An organization may not receive tax exemption if it is, or significantly resembles, a bizarre religious-corporate mega-entity precipitating the plot arc of a Thomas Pynchon and/or Neal Stephenson novel. We could call this the Pynchon/Stephenson Litmus Test.
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    Image of Matthew_Maurice Matthew_Maurice
    08/02/09

    @skt.smth: I would think that merely having a "marketing unit" pretty much means you're a business not a church.
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    skt.smth promoted this comment Matthew_Maurice was starred Matthew_Maurice was unstarred
    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    08/02/09

    @Matthew_Maurice:Well, if you claim to be a religion, and you have enough money to put a fancy face on the organization, you can pretty much do anything you want in the United States. Nowhere else in the world does there exist a greater tendency to extend trust and benefits to people who merely claim they are devoted to a higher power.
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    Edited by skt.smth at 08/02/09 10:37 PM skt.smth was starred skt.smth was unstarred
    Image of mexiback mexiback
    08/02/09

    @Matthew_Maurice: And let's not forget about the "celebrity centres", because is a fact, that celebrities are simply 'better' human beings than the rest of us.
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    Image of Iwillnotauditionforastar Iwillnotauditionforastar
    08/03/09

    @skt.smth: I am right now processing the incorporation documents for the Madoff Church of the Invested God.

    Le Chaim!
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    Edited by Iwillnotauditionforastar at 08/03/09 12:37 AM Iwillnotauditionforastar was starred Iwillnotauditionforastar was unstarred
    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: I lawled.
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    08/03/09

    @skt.smth: Or just get rid of the tax exemption status of religious organizations; all of them tend to get surreal at some point.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    08/03/09

    @pony_express: I can get behind that, but first, let's at least stop giving tax exemptions to crazy, world-domination-plans-having, ex-member-blackmailing organizations.
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    Image of MaxChampion MaxChampion
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    Foster, these people are being held in prison-like conditions. How do you think they're going to get their hands on a mobile phone with camera capacity, let alone be able to use it?

    In a lovely bit of synchronicity (probably orchestrated by Miscavige), St Petersburg residents each received an 80 page magazine from Scientology this weekend, that dedicates 44 pages to savaging the SP Times reporters and the first four whistleblowers, referring to them as KingPin, the ConMan, Fact-Checker and Adulteress.

    No, I'm not joking. Download it here: http://www.freedommag.org/

    If that's not corroboration...
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    skt.smth promoted this comment MaxChampion was starred MaxChampion was unstarred
    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    08/02/09

    @MaxChampion: I'm not going to download or read that document, but I'm assuming that "KingPin" and "ConMan" are being outed for illegal or unethical activities, based on the nicknames given to them. Question: if these people admitted to illegal activities in the course of being "analyzed" as Scientologists, isn't the "church" culpable for knowing that information and not divulging it to authorities. The idea that this would help their image seems really absurd to me, since it basically just looks, to the public at large, like they collect damaging information on their members as a matter of policy, in case they need to use it for blackmail.
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    Image of minge minge
    08/03/09

    @skt.smth: Oh, it's crazy. I read the thing from cover to cover. You have *no idea* how nuts this thing is. And they had a month to get it ready.

    There are PI photos of the sources' houses, lurid statements from their still-in ex-wives, many many quotes from supposedly confidental files...it goes on and on. If the magazine had been put together by critics it couldn't have made the CoS look crazier.

    Deserves its own post, imo.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    The St. Petersburg Times deserves a Pulitzer. And perhaps a Nobel.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment Edited by Dr. Nick at 08/02/09 9:11 PM Dr. Nick was starred Dr. Nick was unstarred
    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/03/09

    @Dr. Nick: And then a nice hot bubble bath and a nap.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    08/03/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Preceded by a massage, of course.
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    This Chairman of the Board is quite a change of pace from Ol' Blue Eyes. I don't believe that Sinatra ever body-slammed the staff. I don't know why I find these horror stores so compelling. The fact that somebody so pious could be the epitome of evil makes me smile. Where the hell is my so-called compassion? I mean, the hard labor camp is bad enough, but BANG, BANG, BANG is just unforgivable.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    08/02/09

    @SeaBassTian: Sinatra was too busy "slamming" the ladies, if you get my meaning. *wink wink*



    *wink*
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    Later, Mr. Miscavige was quoted as saying:

    "..Oh pshaw... Cherry is actually a soft wood. I was merely using Mr. Rinder's brylcreem soaked cranium to lubricate an imperfection in the veneer..."

    No witnesses to the scene were available to corroborate Mr. Miscavige's assertion, due to several layers of restraining orders, which were ritually delivered by a pair of well dressed lawyers in pinstripe suits with silver piping, the day after the incident. Once again, the inscrutible mysteries of Scientology tantalize the uninitiated masses.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    The creepiest thing about Scientology to me is the way they ape evangelical Christianity: there's a Christian Cross on their podiums, with a subtle "X" at the middle. Crossing it out, as it were. I don't know why I find this particular part of their symbolism disturbing. But I do.

    Now I need to go fortify my castle keep.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    08/02/09

    @Baroness: Yes, that is very creepy. Kind of satanic or a suggestion that they intend to replace Christianity as the dominate religion in the U.S.?
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    Image of MarcAbian MarcAbian
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    Is it just me or this guy the epitome of a cartoon super-villain.

    A tiny Napoleonic leader that runs a malignant global organization with it's own para-military wing and intelligence division, who also happens to beat his underlings unmercifully. All he needs now is a volcanic island lair.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/02/09


    @MarcAbian:
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    To the next person who's considering defecting: please, avail yourself of some miniaturized audiovisual recording devices. You'll be glad you did, and so will everyone else.
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    I think those Scientology execs suffered a serious miscavage of justice.
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    Image of LeeroySpitzer LeeroySpitzer
    08/02/09

    In reply to Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
    I'd do him. What, am I the only one attracted to men with power?
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    Image of Joy_Rebar Joy_Rebar
    08/02/09

    @MarcAbian:If he's only 5 feet tall, how did he manage to smash that guy into the wall?
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    Image of MarcAbian MarcAbian
    08/03/09

    @Joy_Rebar:

    According to various ex-sci accounts he often had body guards and enforcers. Also, the people he abused wouldn't resist because they would be declared a 'supressive person' (and be disconnected from all friends and family in the cult) or sent to the 'Rehabilitation project force' which is period of enforced labor that can last for years.
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    Image of Iwillnotauditionforastar Iwillnotauditionforastar
    08/03/09

    @MarcAbian: Walls go from floor to ceiling. Did you imagine him smashing the head 10 feet off the floor?
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    Iwillnotauditionforastar promoted this comment Iwillnotauditionforastar was starred Iwillnotauditionforastar was unstarred
    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    07/31/09

    In reply to Face-Slashing Pol Will Go To Trial
    Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect landlord lobby money or powerful committee appointments.
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    07/31/09

    In reply to Face-Slashing Pol Will Go To Trial
    Good, the man is a butcher.
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