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Interesting article on Scientology.
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Well...
In essence, the Cult of Cash were fleecing it's remaining members for money to build "Ideal Orgs" which went way over budget in costs, then the fundraised for years to renovate these empty buildings and when any of the donators questioned where all the money was going they were deemed suppressives and ousted from the church. This includes fools who paid hundreds of thousands towards the building of these places.
The article suggests that most of the money has been directed towards the increasingly wealthy inner circle that they can't be audited or investigated because of church status and the reason they are buying and making half arsed renovations is to convince the stupid Scientologists and the public that the Cult is doing really well when there seems to be less than 50,000 members worldwide.
Also someone says "If we can get 30,000 signatures to petition for a death star, why can't we petition for an investigation into Scientology and it's quesitonable methods and finances?
I saved you all an hour of laughter.
In essence, the Cult of Cash were fleecing it's remaining members for money to build "Ideal Orgs" which went way over budget in costs, then the fundraised for years to renovate these empty buildings and when any of the donators questioned where all the money was going they were deemed suppressives and ousted from the church. This includes fools who paid hundreds of thousands towards the building of these places.
The article suggests that most of the money has been directed towards the increasingly wealthy inner circle that they can't be audited or investigated because of church status and the reason they are buying and making half arsed renovations is to convince the stupid Scientologists and the public that the Cult is doing really well when there seems to be less than 50,000 members worldwide.
Also someone says "If we can get 30,000 signatures to petition for a death star, why can't we petition for an investigation into Scientology and it's quesitonable methods and finances?
I saved you all an hour of laughter.
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That's a very good question.Audley Strange wrote:
Also someone says "If we can get 30,000 signatures to petition for a death star, why can't we petition for an investigation into Scientology and it's quesitonable methods and finances
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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I've great respect for the Inner Circle, or whatever they call themselves, I just wish I'd thought of it first. They've managed to get obscenely rich fleecing a bunch of wealthy morons. Anyone that gets involved in Scientology deserves whatever happens to them. Fucking idiots.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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I deem thee clear.laklak wrote:I've great respect for the Inner Circle, or whatever they call themselves, I just wish I'd thought of it first. They've managed to get obscenely rich fleecing a bunch of wealthy morons. Anyone that gets involved in Scientology deserves whatever happens to them. Fucking idiots.
That's £30,000 please.
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Good. It interferes with my depression.Audley Strange wrote: I saved you all an hour of laughter.
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More tl;dr hilarity from the second rate trekkies.
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