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MissNormaDesmond
10/09/09

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Swifter
10/09/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Quoth the Marsden, Nevermore.
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RonMwangaguhunga
10/09/09

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stop eye-raping me, James Wales.
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Smitros
10/09/09

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"Card" without the "r"?
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Airvault
10/09/09

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Salieri?
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Our Lady of the Massacre
10/09/09

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Dude looks like a villain from Stargate. Also, how much of a dick do you have to be to forbid your wife from finishing her nursing degree? That said, Wikipedia is great. It's just a sad fact that the individuals behind great works are usually quite horrible.
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Swifter
10/09/09

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Rachel Marsden in 3, 2, 1....
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raincoaster
10/10/09

@Swifter: Yesterday the third-largest referrer to my blog was the search string "Rachel Marsden raincoaster". I mean, she even remembered the capitalization! She was topic du jour in Vangroover twitter circles yesterday because Matthew Good tore her a new asshole on his blog and then I brought up the fights we used to get into on Valleywag.

And don't kid yourself; she'd still hit it, if she thought it would do her any good. But now she's working for the Torygraph, which is developing quite a line in publishing barely-literate essays by Ex-Mistresses of the Lesser Gods.
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Accidental Billionaire
05/29/09

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I guess the people who argued over keeping a pedophilic album cover on Wikipedia have some obscure moral standard.

If you're in community college, I see a brilliant essay coming on. Title: Grostesque aspies on the net for for freedom and what they believe in.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
05/29/09

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Scientology... Ziontology... Sci-Ontology...

Anwho, no mention of the Mossad (Mossad Leefkeedeem M'tooskaleem)?

Also, did you know that these folks own a huge chunk of all the commercial properties in Hollywood?
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Chocolate Sex Bunny
05/29/09

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I hope Wiki knows Xenu is not going to take this lying down...
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El Matardillo
05/28/09

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I guess Scientology will now have to make all their edits anonymously.
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ellagood
05/28/09

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so what will tory christman's "suicide" look like?
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Joe Rider
05/28/09

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Other religions have done much worse.. but this is still annoying..
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Niko Bellic
05/29/09

@Joe Rider: Other religions have done some good too, and for better or for worse, did their part (over the centuries) on the path to what we have and what we are today.

Meaning: you can't just open up a bunch of store fronts and hand out a bunch of pamphlets and say "we should be given the same respect as Christianity".

I am anti-religious, but I'll give it to major religions: we have to put up with them... history is history. But fuck me if I'm going to accept to deal with a brand new pain in the ass with absolutely zero history to back it up. I don't want to hear about this Scientology shit, period.
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cdmunch
05/28/09

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Scientology is the stupidest made-up religion ever. Worse than the fucking polygamy loving, counterfeiting founders of Mormonism. Tom Cruise and Travolta should get the hell over themselves and come out as the gay power couple they secretly crave to be. Who on earth takes their messiah complexes seriously? I guess they have their heads up their assholes so far they really believe this badly-aging, bargain basement sci-fi pulp bastardizing America's freedom of religion, that this crap has a shred of credibility. It's the worst kind of opportunism, foisting a laughable mix of 1950s Martian mania and drugged out hippie "spirituality" on the mentally ill and wannabe actors looking to blowjob their way inside the industry. The fact these people have somehow bribed their way into tax-exempt status is a shame on America's rights and traditions.
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forwardmotion
05/28/09

@cdmunch: Exactly.
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LeeroySpitzer
05/28/09

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I can never quite pinpoint just how I feel about Ol' L. Ron Hubbard. Part of me knows he's a giant asshole, performing home-abortions on his wife in front of his children, protesting psychiatry out of his own warped personal experience, in which psychiatry was an enemy working explicitly to destroy everything L. Ron ever made. ([www.xenu.net] Operation Clambake presents: The H-files, consists of all the letters Hubbard wrote to the FBI in his lifetime, note the egotistical paranoid madness! It's all commies and conspiracies!)

Another part of me is completely 200% jealous. There are lots of people out there who would love to create a religion and not have the competence to do it. In his reality, maybe he was right! He died with a fierce following and left behind a cult enamored in his image, preserving his twisted words and beliefs, even reissuing them to mask some of the original vitriol and hate of Hubbard. He didn't just hate psychiatry, he hated the gays, and had a genuine distrust of minorities!

So am I jealous of Hubbard? I don't know, not really? It must be nice though, to have people treating you like Jesus and then giving you their money! Is he any wronger morally for selling an invented contrived religion than our priests and rabbis? It's as though his madness gave him an evolutionary advantage, something we try to medicate out of our society turns out to be advantageous for some people!

Asshole, Entrepreneur, Faith Leader, Evil Megalomaniac, Paranoid Schizophrenic, Father, Prophet. How many of us can pull that off?

tldr; starting religion - inquire within
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Pope John Peeps II
05/28/09

@LeeroySpitzer: Well, you seem to have emulated Hubbard's ability to use a huge amount of words to effectively say nothing at all..... so there's that.

comment editing - inquire within
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The Lone Scout
05/28/09

@LeeroySpitzer: Very true--on a good day, I can maybe do Asshole, Faith Leader, Paranoid Schizophrenic, and Father before I have to take a nap.
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Gabrielle Sheinberg
05/28/09

@LeeroySpitzer: Hmmm, this sounds familiar, almost as though it's a direct quote from the Greta Van Susteren Scientology thread from this afternoon...
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DorothyBarker
05/29/09

@Gabrielle Sheinberg: Thank you! Indeed it does/is. And that kind of internet/information technology wallpapering seems like a technique perfected by...Scientolgists. Hmm.
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random_play
05/18/09

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Goodbye Owen! Thanks for everything.
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