Yep. Nailed it. Stan as an Operating Thetan (OT) IX was just hilarious!
Posted on 03/30/2015 8:38:19 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
HBO caused a major stir on social media with Sunday night’s broadcast of “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” a blistering documentary about the Church of Scientology and its celebrity devotees. People Magazine published a teaser for the film Sunday, which was first screened in January at the Sundance Film Festival. Sensational in content but not in tone, Going Clear has been making headlines since its first screening at Sundance in January. It has also upset that secretive, combative and often embattled Church, which in a lengthy statement attacked the film as “insidious religious persecution by bullies toting cameras” and the ex-Scientologists who participated as “the usual collection of obsessive, disgruntled former Church members.” Such invective from the Scientology crowd, which includes such luminaries as John Travolta and Tom Cruise, almost guaranteed a huge audience tuning in. In a story published just minutes before the HBO debut, Director Alex Gibney told TheWrap that some of the Hollywood people interviewed in the film received physical and legal threats. Spanky Taylor, a publicist for stars such as Johnny Depp and Edward Norton, told her story of having to escape a church building in Los Angeles after being physically restrained from leaving. “I will tell you that the threats that have been visited on her have been particularly brutal,” Gibney said. “A major thing the church got by on for many years was intimidating people into silence, based on their threats of litigation and brutish psychological games.” The hashtag #goingclear generated an online buzz, becoming one of the top trends on Twitter. Most Twitter users reacted predictably to the exposé.
A “religion” founded by a second-rate hack sci fi writer as a bet isn’t much of a religion.
“South Park” exposed that cult some years back.
It’s a cult...why can’t people understand English?
Yeah remember South park took them to woodshed on Trapped in the closet epiosde
Yep. Nailed it. Stan as an Operating Thetan (OT) IX was just hilarious!
Cool, I’m glad HBO did that! I’m going to be getting HBO direct on my Apple TV shortly, because they started going direct through Apple TV. I dropped cable a while back and I’m getting individual services to see things through those services. It’s a bit different than cable, but it functions for what I want to do!
Scientology does one thing: take. And take and take; body, money, soul, family. It takes all and gives nothing.
Where’s El Ron?
Any adult who willingly, even considers, joining this stupid cult is evidencing a second, or more likely, a third rate mind.
““South Park” exposed that cult some years back.”
Hilarious.
Its why they began to portray Chef as a pedophile. Isaak Hayes is a scientologist and quit the show over it.
Exactly. South park is still my favorite show.
They are soooo sued.
Didn’t Germany say that it isn’t a religion?
Practicing medicine without a license? “Hey, hold these two juice cans and we’ll diagnose your mental health - watch the meter”
I’m told that Hubbard started Scientology on a bet.
It was this South Park episode that got Isaac Hayes (the voice of Chef, of “chocolate covered balls “fame) got so POed that his precious “religion” was dissed he left the show. Never mind that over the years South Park ridiculed homosexuals, handicapped, right wingers, left wingers and just about every other religious/racial/ethnic groups.
Back in the 80’s I bought and started reading “Dianetics.” What a massive load of bovine scatology it is!!! I never finished it. I threw the book over the side of the ship (was in the Navy at the time). I had never seen such a collection of lies and falsehoods until the current administration.
It’s another way to drag one’s soul to the infernal regions.
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