So, I get this call. You know, the kind of call wherein the caller reads your name awkwardly off a computer screen, tele-marketer style, while trying to sound like they know you, which is creepy because they DON’T. Anyway, it went like this:
“Hey, I’m calling about the personality test you took online.”
“I didn’t take on. Goodbye.”
So I figure that this is just a random mis-dial…and thinking, “hehe, personality tests” as a remember all the Scientology jokes and gags I’ve heard.
But today, I get a letter, written in the same casual, creepy style, assuring me that it’s okay if i forgot about the test, I can still enrich my life through the teachings of good ol’ L. Ron Hubbard (the book Dianetics, in particular).
JESUS FUCKING HAMSTERS! HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET MY ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER? I hardly ever even tell my full name to people I’ve talked to online for years, so there is no way I gave out my phone number and address, especially to them.
Needless to say, when I called their number and the woman answered “Hello, Chruch of Scientology”, I told them what I thought of them very politely. :mad:
You don’t need any of this, actually. Simply rent Battlefield Earth, with John Revolta, at your local video store, and you will be moved to seething hatred.
The truely horrifying part is that the movie only covers the first half of the book. You know your inner Thetan wants to see Battlefield Earth II: Xenu Boogaloo.
Barbara Schwarz is history’s most prolific filer of Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a May profile in The Salt Lake Tribune. Schwarz says she is a daughter of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and a granddaughter of President Eisenhower and said she endured a number of kidnappings and mind control and microchip-implanting procedures in her quest to learn the whereabouts of her alleged husband, whom Schwarz said disappeared after he was charged with murdering Barbara Schwarz (yes, the same one). She has, said the Tribune, “carpet-bombed” “every” federal agency with “thousands” of FOIA requests, followed by “dozens” of follow-up lawsuits (one containing 2,307 pages, naming 3,087 defendants). [Salt Lake Tribune, 5-5-03]
I doubt you would find many CoS apologists openly active on the SDMB. That is more the style of the Southern Baptist Cult-- NOT the Scientology Cult. If you want to find the CoS connection to the SDMB I suggest looking into any legal disputes The Chicago Reader is currently embroiled in. THAT is how the CoS works. Bleed, bleed, bleed people and organizations to death.
This is IMO only. But I still expect some cult-dude to trace my IP address and have me either audited, shot, or both depending on the whims of Xenu or Kirstie Alley or whoever’s in charge now.
I do remember an open Scientologist online. It was awhile ago and I do not remember his handle. He had a statement of his faith on his sig. I remember him denying anything about Xenu.
When I was about 14 or so, my father was the lead counsel in a case that was, eventually, to ban the distribution of several Church of Scientology books in my state. We often discussed his cases and he would let me stay up late with him at night in the study as he was preparing for the next day. We had already got an injunction to prevent their sale/distribution, so these books weren’t in circulation yet (ahem, pre-internet days), but dad had copies of them at home so I got to read all of the books that were at issue. Unfortunately, it was so long ago that I can’t remember any passages word for word, but anyway, these same books are probably still available somewhere in some jurisdictions and I remember the general themes and the subject matter.
Let me just say that those books were off the hook:
What controls your mental state? - well its someting that’s living a foot or so behind your head and just hanging there invisible and monitoring you.
Yeah - I like science fiction as much as the next guy – well, maybe a little more, but if you want to turn some b-grade sci-fi movie script into a state protected religion then you are facing an uphill battle.
In terms of the OP - I fully understand your ire at having your name, address and phone numer disclosed to the COS. Not sure who is responsible for this though, given the number of ‘lists’ traded these days. But I despise them for a different reason:
They traffic in bullshit.
Somehow I recently got on a snail mail list for a group called Avatar, that is a (less expensive) offshoot of Scientology. Really weird shit. And the people look so HAPPY. Ewwww.
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