I guess I’m pretty indifferent to Scientolgy, but I do note that several here hate it. If you are one who does, you’ll like this article:
In other Scientology news, they apparently have had about 4,000 videos taken off of Youtube for “copyright infringement.”
They’ve been put back up.
A german Scientologist using a fake LLC filed DMCA claims against a huge amount of videos.
I’m not surprised. The French culture, like that of many other nations, has long nurtured a strain of xenuphobia.
[d&r]
Took me just a little bit to see the joke!:smack:
(groan)
Their “church” in Murfreesboro, Tennessee closed a few years ago, and their reading room on the square is now a barber shop.
Nashville’s “celebrity centre” closed, too.
In the Bible Belt, they have no traction.
Odd, if you think about it.
Top Ten Reasons Why the Frenchies Haven’t Warmed to Scientology [in an extremely ineptly drawn and insulting fake-French accent/Franco-Anglais patois (and this from somebody who never studied French)]:
10) “So, le humanite vas transported to nous monde in Le Douglas DC-8s? No Concorde? No Airbus? [snort]… Ee does not seem like un fashionable mode pour le transport, no?”
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“Le ‘Sea Org’ – est l’Navee pour Scientologie, oui? Et le “Org,” q’est-ce que c’est?” “‘Organization’.” “Oo, non ‘le orgasm’? Piensa que le ‘Org’ ees, as you say, ‘all wet’.”
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“‘Dianetics’… [Tsk, tsk, tsk.] Les femmes Francaise no se necessite un “diet” Americain… On take l’pleasur en notre cuisine, en notre champagne, en notre galoises… et les femmes Fr. son le visiones de l’ideal de beaute.”
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“Le lingo et jargon impenetrable d’ le Scientologie rivals cette d’ Academie Francaise-la et nous theoreticians como Derrida, Deleuze, etc… Et on still are trying comprehendien nous obscurantists pour l’langue. Non merci.”
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“Le appelle ‘Teegeeack’ pour le Monde primordial – sounds comme 'T.G. Ach” en Deutsch. Mon Dieu!.. un Monde originale et Edenique – un tabula rasa – con les Deutschen? C’est conte Hell. Con l’sauerkraut."
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“Juliette Lewis, q’est-ce que c’est? Elle est une actress coarse et dense, no? Le cult d’Scientologie should have converte la belle Sophie Marceau, Isabelle Adjani, o Julie Delpy, if they possesse le bon taste en les femmes…”
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“Et ‘le ditto’ pour l’ musicien Beck. 'Ee no es so mal, mais les DJ David Visan o Frederic Galliano son mas a la mode…”
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"Monsieur Hubbard, ee say les ‘Thetans’ inovatee l’communes. Non! Les Monsieurs Marx, Engels, Lenin, zee formulatee l’communism, et suis inspiracion was le Revolution Francais! ‘Liberte, egalite, fraternite…’ "[breaks out into an impassioned rendition of ‘La Marseillaise’].
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“Vous expect a-uns to take zees religion seriously? Nous non take non religion seriously comme-les Puritains, les Judes, et les Moslemicos! Pour ons Catoliques modernes et seculares, l’religion d’ l’etat est about le ritual, les catedrales histoires, les mythes d’Biblique, le identity national Francais…”
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“Le Monsieur L. Ron Hubbard, 'es un Americain!”
When I went to get my nose pierced, my friend John, (who had taken me) and I passed by the reading room down on E. Carson Street. I was soooo tempted to go in and start messing with their heads.
I wonder how long before Tom Cruise decides to visit France, and take Kool-Aid Katie with him?
Zut alors!
Vive la France!
I can’t even get these guys to stop emailing me. I have blocked every domain they have used to send me crap then I got an email from planetarydissem at gmail.com. Googled and found it is yet another Scientology group.