Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief

bobabode · #1 03-31-2015, 12:03 PM

What's with all the pseudo naval uniforms, the saluting and calling himself "commodore"?

nailer · #2 03-31-2015, 12:12 PM

^^^
IIRC he hung out in an area of space beyond the planetary orbits.

JJIII · #3 03-31-2015, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

What's with all the pseudo naval uniforms, the saluting and calling himself "commodore"?

See here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Org

bobabode · #4 03-31-2015, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by JJIII

See here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Org

Rhetorical question

. Did you catch the HBO special John?

bobabode · #5 03-31-2015, 06:30 PM

OK, who rated this thread as "nuts" and how was it done?

Do we have a closeted L.Ron fanboi in our midst?

JJIII · #6 04-01-2015, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

Rhetorical question

. Did you catch the HBO special John?

Did not. Knowing that the likes of Tom Cruise and others in his circle are involved is enough to keep me away. It's my anti-social side.

bobabode · #7 04-01-2015, 07:58 PM

So much of the Tea Party's paranoid anti IRS rhetoric seems to be a page stolen from Scientology's playbook from the '90s.

bobabode · #8 04-01-2015, 08:00 PM

Holy crap, 2012 tax records show the 'church' has $1.5 billion on the books? Wow...

Boreas · #9 04-01-2015, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

Holy crap, 2012 tax records show the 'church' has $1.5 billion on the books? Wow...

They have a whole lot more than that...... a whole lot.

(At one point, before the IRS agreed to giving them the status of a religion, they owed about that much in taxes.)

John