@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.
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.
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?
@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.
@Gabrielle Sheinberg: Thank you! Indeed it does/is. And that kind of internet/information technology wallpapering seems like a technique perfected by...Scientolgists. Hmm.
Eldersex is only really revolting when done with another elder. When done with someone 40 years younger, it's not half bad. I mention this in case you young'uns were wondering what us old guys are spending our Social Security checks -- and your futures -- on.
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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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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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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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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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comment editing - inquire within
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Unfortunately he has already been chosen so it's all for naught.
Honestly though I think Sofia Coppola could have done an amazing job on it. She has a knack for capturing beauty and emotion with sparseness.
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Just that mind image quashes my climax.
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Stanley Kubrick must be rolling over in his grave.
He was working on a Napoleon project for years.
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John Travolta.
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Tom Cruise IS the teeth of Scientology.
In more ways than one.
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It's because she looks like she's about to SAY something, which is generally pretty uncomfortable.
Between her Scientology drivel and her incoherent rambling about child-rearing, she should STFU.