BTW - I've got a better use for that money, if you're interested,...
Showing posts with label scientology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scientology. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
It's Intimacy (With A Belief) That Can Leave You Alone
I guess this explains Cher's bed-hopping a little better:
"Everyone's curious about Tom and Scientology but he wasn't a Scientologist when we were together, he was just Tom.
Sonny was into Scientology for a bit but not me. I've no interest in Scientology whatsoever. They're crazies."
I'm tempted to say "takes one to know one" but, after this (and her recent statements on Miley Cyrus) Cher's still not "that far gone" - yet,...
Monday, September 23, 2013
TMR's Very First Public Affairs Story & Answer Period
STORY:
ANSWER:
Ted Turner should be the first man to set an example and - after he castrates himself - get out of our face.
STORY:
ANSWER:
No, Bozo, you ARE an idiot,
and YOU succeeded in derailing your campaign.
QUOTE:
"While we’ve been focusing lately on major crises gripping the top echelons of the Church of Scientology, it’s useful to remember there are still quite a few folks out there in far-flung locations, doing what they can to “clear the planet” — spread the word about Scientology so it can take over the world.And what better way to do that than with ads placed on Craigslist?"
STORY:
ANSWER:
The conservative base is in a like-to-lose mode, leaving the rest of us waiting in the wilderness, for a mad man to implode.
STORY:
ANSWER:
This outcome should've been so obvious, I'm wondering why it's even peddled as news,...
Friday, September 20, 2013
Barbara Walters: Scientology Can Kidnap People For As Long As I Like Their Schools And Tom Cruise Is Nice
I sincerely have no idea why this show is allowed on the air,...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
You're Minding Your Own Business - Turn On The T.V. - And Then Your Mind Is Becoming Your Own Business
I feel like I'm one of the few who seem to think we should be expecting something better, and different, from the kids of Boomers:
Both fathers have a common ancestor: Archie Bunker. David is crotchety and stubborn and just a little less racist than Crawford. Crawford shows up at the office and scuttles a business deal when he screams, before a group of Chinese investors, “The Chinese are a lovely and honorable people, but you can’t trust them! There’s a reason Shanghai is a verb!” David mistakes Warner’s wife, Camilla (Vanessa Lachey), for a maid, just because she is Latina.For a show to pull off this kind of character, it helps to make clear that it does not share his worldview—that it wants the audience to laugh at how racist the racist is being and not just laugh racistly. Dads fails pretty catastrophically on this count because the two guys who should be rolling their eyes or, more realistically, panicking about all the dumb things their dads are saying, are too busy being racist themselves, though it’s not clear the writers know just how questionably the boys are behaving. For that business meeting with the Chinese investors, Warner and Eli have their employee Veronica (Brenda Song) dress up like a “sexy Asian” so she can tee-hee provocatively at their prospective clients, which is the same kind of fresh satire found on Pax Dickinson’s Twitter feed and ends up helping the guys’ business quite a bit. The episode ends with some family bonding: the two sons, their two dads, and Veronica joking about how small Asian men’s penises are.
All over the airwaves. With a nice healthy promotion campaign and everything. Because we've got money for that. That's what we got. That's all we got.
And - cherry on top - it stars the Scientologist, Giovanni Ribisi, which should speak to the great insights that shit delivers.
Fools:
And my apologies to "whites of good faith" (as that old saying goes) faced with their country doing this to them, too.
We're trapped, y'all,...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
L. Ron Hubbard & Joseph Smith: They Do A Job On You
This was so obviously on it's way, it hardly qualifies as worth repeating:
Disconnection - Something else Scientologists and Mormons, as NewAgers, have in common:
They'll talk kindly to you if you're in - or they're trying to get you in - but not if you don't join.
A little nonsensical inner power trip.
I've seen the two Mormon missionaries who tried to convert me almost every day, but they rarely acknowledge we've ever spoken now, though I was as cordial as a person could be. How they can live with themselves, compartmentalizing and abandoning people they live with that way, is something worthy of study.
Like a mental health study,...
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Ann's So Refreshing (But A Bit More "OMG!" Than "OM")
And now, let's take a marriage moment for some mindless blather:
"I don't know what led to this particular divorce, but needing fertility treatments and enduring them without success must create pressure that some people don't handle very well. There's something very sad about a woman's desire to continue her struggle by extracting support from the husband who failed to make her pregnant. I recommend handling divorce with grace and realism, but a lot of economic advantage-taking can ensue, and you rarely know the whole story of who did what to whom and why a stepped-up legal attack seemed like a good idea. This is, above all, a failed relationship, and you can never see the ground level of that failure."
I sincerely don't know why NewAgers meditate, or join Scientology, to get "clear" when all they have to do is read Ann Althouse and the mind can reel to a complete stop,...
A Man Needs A Woman Like An Actor Needs A Co-Star?
'Seeking brainy Scientologist in the industry': Tom Cruise 'outlines strict criteria as he enlists Church dating service to find wife number four'
Money does weird things to people,...
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
"Je Suis Celui Que Vous êtes il Que Vous êtes Moi Et Nous Sommes Tous Ensemble" Is No Joke In French
How did "being open-minded" get to be considered good, when so many examples of it's pitfalls surround us?
Roger Gonnet,...is the subject of a special feature in the latest edition of French magazine XXI,....
This time however, his journey from dedicated Scientologist to the movement's most vociferous critic in France is told in the graphic-novel format.
Gonnet's story is the centrepiece of a 34-page dossier dedicated to Scientology in the latest edition of XXI, which appears quarterly.
L'Evadé de la Secte (roughly, He Escaped from the Cult) is built around his experience of the movement: but it also works in the basic story of Dianetics, Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Bringing his story to life in a 30-page strip is Renaud De Heyn, a Belgian comic-book artist and illustrator with several books to his name.
...De Heyn recounts how Gonnet and his wife Françoise got pulled into Scientology by his uncle, who with an American friend ran a successful franchise of the movement.
At the time Gonnet was a business consultant and Françoise a teacher: but this was in 1973, at the tail end of what was still a thriving hippy movement in France, when people were open to all kinds of unconventional ideas.
Tell me something I don't know - TMR's got a "delusional thinking" tag.
At the bottom of the post - look.
At the bottom of the post - look.
I'd love to have someone illustrate my cult story, especially for the French, since part of it takes place there and I find the frogs, generally, so on-the-mark about cults but so "off" when assessing America. And the cult of homeopathy.
We, both, require more study.
Where was I? I don't know - Scientology's on trial in France, and will probably be getting the boot soon, or something. In this, we can learn from The Frog Nation. Nobody needs this shit.
But make no mistake:
From here on out,...
That's about as "open-minded" as we should plan on getting about anything.
FOR REALS,...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
It's When The Porcelain Starts To Go You Get Worried
People start selling shit when they get in trouble, right? I just started selling shit:
Man, if they could make me a loan, I'd join up and then - armed with their training - they'd be guaranteed I'd pay it back!
I know - old joke - like "Baby On Board"...
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