Posted on 02/18/2005 10:03:26 PM PST by huac
"...“I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can. And that is my goal,” Elfman said. To do this, she says, it is my “duty to clear the planet.” By “clearing” she means to rid the world of “body thetans” — aliens who Scientologists believe inhabit the earth from a nuclear explosion 75 million years ago..."
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oops, that article is from 1998. A bit late to demand the aclu take action.
It wouldn't have mattered if that article was printed this morning! The ACLU will never take action against these whack jobs.
"The ACLU will never take action against these whack jobs."
It would have been an interesting experiment to demand it. Would show them up as hypocrites if they did nothing.
Do you think rove is 'body thetan'?
No, Darth Rove is a Sith master who controls the "body thetans". Haven't you been keeping up over at Democratic Underground?
Yeah, you were right. The scientology creeps are trying to fool people in the subways with free 'stress tests.' I found this article from a few weeks back.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1865&dept_id=152944&newsid=13883800&PAG=461&rfi=9
Looks like the T.A. is on top of it though. The super-theta masters at the scientology center will have to come up with a new scheme.
Well, as we are talking movies...Spielberg never did much for me. I wasn't that impressed with Jaws(personal taste) and ET was drivel. I liked Indiana Jones, but that was Lucas's idea, he produced and handed the entire package to S with a bow. Regarding Schindler, I don't go to movies to be educated but entertained. A truly great work on the Holocaust was the documentary, Shoah. Schindler pales compared to this (I understand that S paid for part of it, but had no real part of it's filming). S does support WW2 vets and Holocaust cause. He also supports the worse of the progressive Democrats and all they have attempted to wrought on our country. He is also a close friend and fellow traveler of Rob Reiner.
Regarding "Apocalypse Now", we know it wasn't about Viet Nam (in my opinion, it wasn't even a good adaptation of Heart of Darkness). Unfortunatley, due to it's popularity, it really helped to re-inforce the Left's myth regarding the "crazy vet".
It's in the paper, so it must be true. Can someone in Texas please fax that article to Dan Rather?
Good point.
yes Bodhi is Danny's cousin. Ironic, since Elfman is a longtime raging conservative. I met him back in the day at one of their early shows - a very keen minded individual with a wide variety of interests.
OMG! That is hilarious!
I almost just looked at the fat guy in the fore and missed Xenu!
I Love It!
I don't think I could ever be brainwashed into being a Scientologist, but I'd be willing to let Jena give it her best shot.
She continued that “the more successful I became, the more suppression I bumped into … especially in the entertainment industry, which really is home to rabid suppression.”
Jenna Elfman on Scientology
How did you get into Scientology? (From a magazine interview)
**My husband has been a Scientologist for years, and I kept hearing him talk about Dianetics. So he gave me the book, which I said I'm not gonna read--it's too big. I'm not a big reader.. And then one day I ran into a situation that made me like, frazzled. I had a job dancing on Murder, She Wrote, and I was spending the night at my now-husband, boyfriend-at-the-time's house. I was so used to the alarm that it didn't wake me up, and I woke up an hour and a half after I was supposed to be there. And you know, you get that panic: "Oh, God! Ohhhh!" I got in the car and I was all frazzled and starting to cry and was rushed, and I couldn't think. I couldn't even put my seatbelt on. I was just a mess. Then I went, Wait a minute--that's purely reactive and insane. Look, I went, you're in the car, you can't get there any faster. So just turn the music on, enjoy. This has happened to me before and I arrived on the set and messed everybody's day up. Being so apologetic is really pushing people away and turning them off--and I had a horrible shoot. It's not optimum. So this time, I said, wait a sec. Now let's just apply what you learned last night. And I went da-da-da, da-da-da and got a lot more analytical about the situation. When I got there, I said, "I'm very sorry I'm late. The alarm didn't wake me up." And they said, "That's fine. We're not going to get to you for another few hours. Just take your time, relax. Get some coffee." Like, wow! I went, This is great. I like this. This helps me. It's just very simple: Scientology helps me live my life better. **
Jenna Elfman
Actress
She discusses smoking pot and doing dancing gigs (she was on tour with ZZ Top as a "She's Got Legs" girl) before she was introduced to Scientology by her husband, Bodhi, an actor and writer.
Now, when she's down, she goes to the E-meter, a device used by Scientologists for "auditing" someone's mental state - but which some critics say is merely a lie detector. "You know how your head feels heavy when you're having a problem?" she tells the magazine. "It's actually mass that you can weigh. It's compressed mental energy. And the E-meter sees changes in that."
Quote from the Mirabella interview:
"Bodhi [Elfman, her husband] also introduced her to the Church of Scientology. 'He didn't push it on me or anything. I started becoming curious, from hearing him talk about it. I took a course where you get the basic concepts. It was everything I felt I already knew, but I was missing pieces, so I couldn't apply it to life.' She doesn't proselytize--'our founder, L. Ron Hubbard, says if it's true for you, it's true for you, and if it's not, it's not. There are all these misconceptions about someone pushing it on you'--but says that Scientology restored her confidence and helped her focus on career goals. 'I went, This is for me--I like this! It just kind of cleared everything out.'
"'Psychiatrists believe man is an animal, which means there's no soul, which I think is a lie.' The statement suggests acceptance of Scientology's virulent antipsychiatry stance, and a lack of experience with therapy, a fact she readily cops to. She favors a Scientology process involving a machine called an E-meter. The subject holds two canlike objects hooked up to the E-meter. 'You know how your head feels heavy when you're having a problem?' Elfman says. 'It's actually mass that you can weigh. It's compressed mental energy. And the E-meter sees changes in that.' A counselor asks questions about what might be bothering you, Elfman explains, and if your response jolts the needle on the E-meter, you know you've found the root of your problem. 'The counselor helps you pinpoint exactly, so there's no maybe-it's-this, maybe-it's-that. There's lightning-fast progress, because you're handling only the charged areas. You don't dilly-dally. What you can do in literally about a half hour will take people a year or two to do in therapy.'"
These actors are dumber than a box of rocks.
Coppola didin't do Viet Nam veterans any favors with "Gardens of Stone" or "Apocalypse Now"
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