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"Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets
This past Sunday members of the group "Anonymous" that has been running an attack on the church of Scientology took their battle from the tubes of the internet to the pavement of real life, staging a protest outside the central Phoenix Church of Scientology. "The protesters said they gathered Sunday in lieu of the birthday of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist once cared for by church staffers. Her 1995 death sparked media attention and a civil wrongful death suit against a branch of the Church of Scientology. A wrongful death suit by her family was a public-relations nightmare for the church for years until it was settled in 2004. The Church of Scientology declined to comment on the Phoenix protests. It did provide a news release calling members of Anonymous cyber-terrorists."
Scientology likes suing people for libel. Let's turn the tables on that. Maybe members of Anonymous should sue Scientology for libel for making accusations of terrorism.
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Anonymous, eh? Cowards.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
These fools don't know who they are messing with, it's all fun and games until someone drops your ass into a volcano..... :)
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
I don't know man. It sounds legit.
THL phish sticks
of course.. L. Ron only said they look like 1950/60's era cars and trains. They were reality-retconned, because Xenu is a psychic alien who can see the future.
;)
sheesh.. is it really that hard to work out?
http://www.xkcd.com/354/
I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is a for-profit organisation masquerading as a religion, the secrecy, their aggressive legal tactics, their apparent refusal to ever apologise for any mistake they've made, and their underhand tactics to get and keep recruits.
In the beginning was the Plan.
And then came the Assumptions.
And the Assumptions were without form.
And the Plan was without substance. And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.
And they spoke amongst themselves, saying, "it is a crock of Shit, and it stinketh."
And the workers went unto their supervisors and said 'It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odour thereof.'
And the supervisors went unto the managers, saying 'It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it.'
And the managers went unto their directors saying, 'it is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide it's strength.'
And the Directors talked amongst themselves, saying to one another, 'It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very powerful.'
And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him, this new Plan will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company, with powerful effects.'
And the President looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good.
And the Plan became Policy.
This is how shit happens!
The aim was, of course, to get over NINE THOUSAAAAANNNDD!
There, fixed that for you.
I find your lack of faith...disturbing. =)
Fighting over religion is like seeing whose imaginary friend is best.
Actually, It might have also been for the lulz.
You mad
Yes, I believe they call it politics.
The article practically insinuates that a church that was originally started as a tax shelter has been involved with some sort of misdeed! But that's just ridiculous. I can practically feel my Thetan levels rising!
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I believe you mean DC-8's -- but without the propellers...
Oops! The DC-8 was and is a pure jet aircraft. No propellers.
Good catch dude, in addition to be being a bad writer a crook and racist, L Ron Hubbard was also ignorant of airplane propulsion. That's it! The whole sick structure will now collapse.
By the way, the racism link would probably comes as a surprise to all the Hollywood stars who donate to Scientology.
http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/deny.htm
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Background: The Church of Scientology successfully threatened Slashdot into removing a post containing the text of a copyrighted "holy" text, and further links to the text.
Hypothesis: The Catholic Church wants to suppress its own holy text, the New American Bible. The NAB is the officially authorized translation of the Bible for use by Catholics in the United States.
Conjecture: If a Slashdot poster posts an excerpt from the NAB, along with a link to the full text, the Catholic Church will threaten Slashdot, and Slashdot will remove the post.
Experiment: I am posting the first 10 verses from the book of Genesis, Chapter One.
1 1 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 2 the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. 5 3 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed--the first day. 6 Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other." And so it happened: 7 God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it. 8 God called the dome "the sky." Evening came, and morning followed--the second day. 9 Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear." And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. 10 God called the dry land "the earth," and the basin of the water he called "the sea." God saw how good it was.
The full text of the NAB is available at http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/
Wait for priests to show up with their three chief weapons, fear, suspense, a fanatical devotion to the Pope... Can we come in again?
*crosses fingers*
I dare anyone to reproduce this experiment and get a different result than I did.
Jenny's got a new number! 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
They were in Las Vegas too... Drove by this on the way out of town... maybe 30 people out...
Since I don't care for Scientology (or any other religion), I honked.
Had a great time in Vegas though, I got married!
"There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free. " - Sean Connery as King Arthur
We are Anonymous Coward. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
How much did their IQ Tests cost you? Because I can go out and buy that Dr Kiroshima brain training game for my DS for £20.
Check the Encyclopedia Dramatica for "Project Chanology". There are many links there relevant to both your interests and your numbers. FTR: OVER 9000!!!!1 has in fact been reached.
In fact, why bother flying them to Earth (or "Teejeeack" as the texts call it) to kill them at all? Why not just fly them into space and depressurise the transports and eject the corpses? Is it wrong that I am thinking of a more practical way to commit interplanetary genocide?
Is it wrong that I am thinking of a more practical way to commit interplanetary genocide? Nope, it's never wrong to find flaws in other peoples made-up, for-profit religions.
You can't take the sky from me...
"You have exactly 7 hours to sleep in a crowded, slummy, cockroach infested triple-bunk in the basement. You wear black jump suits with colored arm bands. You eat only left overs. You get 1/4 the pay of normal staff. You perform grueling, hard, disgusting work from the time you get up until "personal enhancement time", where you have 2.5 hours of time to read Scientology books and tapes until bed time. You are not permitted to talk to staff "in good standing", though they are free to bark orders at you. You are not permitted to walk. (No kidding!) You must run everywhere you go, and if you are ever caught walking you are made to do push-ups or worse. You must be careful to stay out of public view because you are "out PR"." Are you sure you werent in Fight Club?
then how can we quantify it?
By making shit up.
Thats how all the religions got started, no?
Cheers.
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