tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post7691138928397810324..comments2023-04-22T12:32:24.799-07:00Comments on The House of Substance: Tom Cruise and the SlavesSubstance McGravitashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-40399079733313906502011-02-08T19:28:35.834-08:002011-02-08T19:28:35.834-08:00@guitarist manqué:
Why do you find Terry Gross ne...@guitarist manqué:<br /><br />Why do you find Terry Gross nearly unendurable? I've sort of fallen out of the habit of listening to Fresh Air now that it's not part of my commute, but back when I was listening regularly, I thought she was one of the best interviewers I'd ever heard.<br /><br />(Not looking to argue. Just curious.)bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-72198302008474275172011-02-08T14:18:00.446-08:002011-02-08T14:18:00.446-08:00Your fishy ways may be okay in Innsmouth, but not ...<i>Your fishy ways may be okay in Innsmouth, but not here!</i><br /><br />Look this is the People's Front of Innsmouth, not the Innsmouth People's Front.fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-46391269208031044812011-02-08T12:40:15.698-08:002011-02-08T12:40:15.698-08:00Oh good, I'll have a podcast of that by this e...Oh good, I'll have a podcast of that by this evening.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-85121500061288018952011-02-08T12:33:16.858-08:002011-02-08T12:33:16.858-08:00While I find Terry Gross (US NPR for all you furri...While I find Terry Gross (US NPR for all you furriners) nearly unendurable she's interviewing the author of this article now and he's remarkably good. Belay that, it was just the first half hour. I'm sure it's out there in the toobz somewhere.guitarist manquénoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-47284368593242461412011-02-08T12:07:50.510-08:002011-02-08T12:07:50.510-08:00SPLITTER!!!!!
Says the Deacon of Devil Reef!
You...<i>SPLITTER!!!!!</i><br /><br />Says the Deacon of Devil Reef!<br /><br />Your fishy ways may be okay in Innsmouth, but not here!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-53809031101621479062011-02-08T11:56:27.055-08:002011-02-08T11:56:27.055-08:00Heretic!!! We of the "Rugose Righteousness&qu...<i>Heretic!!! We of the "Rugose Righteousness" sect welcome the thought of personality displacement, and the subsequent Triassic adventure. </i><br /><br />SPLITTER!!!!!fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-53822345100372418962011-02-08T10:58:03.028-08:002011-02-08T10:58:03.028-08:00Tom Cruise and the Slaves
Worst band name ever.<em>Tom Cruise and the Slaves</em><br /><br />Worst band name ever.vacuumslayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13901012758319102936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-40357446219377883022011-02-08T10:53:47.367-08:002011-02-08T10:53:47.367-08:00Putting it at the centre of Scientology is like sa...<i>Putting it at the centre of Scientology is like saying that the Great Race -- “enormous, iridescent cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter" -- are central to the Cthulhu mythos.</i><br /><br />Heretic!!! We of the "Rugose Righteousness" sect welcome the thought of personality displacement, and the subsequent Triassic adventure. <br /><br />The funniest thing about Scientology is that it really seems like an update of Mormonism.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-72354057701063484042011-02-08T03:56:08.098-08:002011-02-08T03:56:08.098-08:00I will say my workplace was awfully annoying after...<i>I will say my workplace was awfully annoying after some people seemed to find results with Landmark: the emphasis on recruitment was huge and unpleasant.</i><br /><br />I would second this.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231744174759800033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-46063201912938408092011-02-08T01:54:31.227-08:002011-02-08T01:54:31.227-08:00I remember the introduction of the volcano into pu...I remember the introduction of the volcano into public Scientological iconography: it was a huge deal.<br /><br />As for the "good" it can do things like EST and the even-more-watered down Landmark Forum seem to do similar things without the aliens, and one occasional commenter on this blog thinks it helped, so there is, at the least, something that a lotta people think helps them confront their demons and conquer them. It's hard to, say, endorse acid as I have and refuse different ways of fucking with your head. I will say my workplace was awfully annoying after some people seemed to find results with Landmark: the emphasis on recruitment was huge and unpleasant.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-76201069163525369062011-02-08T00:30:54.039-08:002011-02-08T00:30:54.039-08:001. Two of your links are to the same BoingBoing po...1. Two of your links are to the same BoingBoing post.<br /><br />2. In that post, Cory Doctorow suffers major Fail about the history of scientology when he says<br /><i>I'm pretty convinced that the volcano/galactic tyrant business is the basis for the Scientological faith</i>.<br /><br />AFAIK the whole galactic tyrant / captive Thetans / volcano business was retconned into scientology at quite a late date, to explain why none of the converts had yet achieved the promised status of "Clear" despite years spent resolving every imaginable engram from infancy and from immediately-previous incarnations. 'Genesis' it isn't. Putting it at the centre of Scientology is like saying that the Great Race -- “enormous, iridescent cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter" -- are central to the Cthulhu mythos.<br /><br />It isn't <i>essential</i> to the theology, is what I'm trying to say. At any time the church hierarchy could announce that they'd contacted the disembodied spirit of LRH and received a new posthumous revelation that replaced the volcano with some other back-story, and it wouldn't make any difference.<br /><br />3. <i>many of the defectors are believers in the good that Scientology can do</i><br /><br />Sometimes I think that the human race really isn't very intelligent.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-19889771685351628322011-02-07T23:32:03.808-08:002011-02-07T23:32:03.808-08:00The most interesting thing about the article to me...<em>The most interesting thing about the article to me is that many of the defectors are believers in the good that Scientology can do, they just don't like how the hierarchy works. A standard religious conundrum I guess.</em><br /><br />Yes, I have been bothered by this before, most particularly in the <a href="http://bjkeefe.blogspot.com/2009/06/scientology-investigative-report.html" rel="nofollow">series the St. Petersburg Times did</a>. I guess I explain it to myself by realizing (1) that generally speaking, people like easy answers and comprehensive frameworks, (2) that lost souls (i.e., targets for recruiting in any cult) are particularly susceptible to this, and (3) that given that most of the "apostates" have spent most or all of their every waking hour, for decades, immersed in a particular environment, one cannot reasonably expect them to have any other way of talking about matters.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-62550431244534747402011-02-07T21:40:47.976-08:002011-02-07T21:40:47.976-08:00People love being scammed.
It explains the last 3...People love being scammed.<br /><br />It explains the last 30 years, at least.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com