Will Smith, proponent of freedom and...Scientology?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:26 am

Pop society's obsession with Scientology is hilarious.

Apparently Will Smith is a bad boy.

Also, grab all those Viacom-owned 80s Saturday morning cartoons and don't upload anything because Viacom is about to get your infos. Unrelated of course.

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:56 am

Honestly, it's already too late for Will Smith to not be associated with Scientology. He's in denial if he thinks this is going away anytime soon.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:38 am

There needs to be a new Fucked Company / dead pool (or better yet, assassination politics for celebrities sinking their careers with Scientology.

Scientology is like the new gay (girls dropping musician idols who out themselves).

I just realized that this might mean that Will Smith treated Independence Day like your neighbor would a Civil War reenactment.

gavin19 · Post by **gavin19** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:24 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:assassination politics

Damn those clickable links. I just spent an hour reading that

I just realized that this might mean that Will Smith treated Independence Day like your neighbor would a Civil War reenactment.

Lol.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:50 am

Hmm...so Big Willy opens a new school

But the school's Sept. 3 opening, on the leased campus of a former school in Calabasas, will be accompanied by a whiff of controversy. Some of its teachers are members of the Church of Scientology, and it will use teaching methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Doesn't sound good.

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So many megastars sink themselves into weird cults because, seemingly, they have run out of other pastimes. Travolta, Cruise with their 'free stress tests'

and Madonna with her obscure branch of Judaism.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:09 am

I always thought that being a superstar makes you snap inside after a couple of years, making you long for some spiritual feeling to counteract the shallowness and constant pressure of being famous. No wonder these people turn to such extreme cults.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:12 pm

@ DEL: To be fair, some people say it ain't so. IT CAHN'T BE!!!

FrederikJurk wrote:I always thought that being a superstar makes you snap inside after a couple of years,

Elvis did shoot at his TV, but back then I guess "going crazy" with your money meant donating to Civil Rights cases, if we follow his example.

Christ in a trombone, I can't believe this.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:13 pm

^Yeah, must be something like that. They either turn to drugs, booze or cults.
So few of them keep a level head.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:15 pm

Ed wrote;

@ DEL: To be fair, some people say it ain't so. IT CAHN'T BE!!!

AW HEALL YEAH!

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:15 pm

DEL wrote:Ed wrote;
@ DEL: To be fair, some people say it ain't so. IT CAHN'T BE!!!

AW HEALL YEAH!

Why the fuck don't I know where I'm getting that from, anyway?!

Seriously, it just entered my head. Is it even Smith-related?

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:49 pm

Well, $cientology has these celebrity centres...
I guess there is a certain appeal for those celebs, because the people there listen to their problems without going "OMG ITS WILL ZMITH!!11".
Besides, they don't have to work for $cientology like the average joe, because $cientology uses them as advertisment...
But they don't mention the incredible prices for their moron courses, of course. ^^"

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:28 pm

xenu ownz!!1!

lolz

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:32 pm

Funny thing is: they deny that whole Xenu thing.
Even (new) members don't hear that story until they are OT III--- and until they reach that OT III state, you can be sure that they are total nutjobs.
speaking of nutjobs: did you know that $cientology wants you to believe that humanity evolved from clams? xD

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:41 pm

so what are the pros of scientology really? i refuse to believe so many are joining pureley on a religous basis..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdaRuTwWl9I

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:55 pm

L. Ron Hubbard should have stuck with sci-fi novels.....he actually wrote some really awesome novels in the 50-60's....aside from battlefield earth and mission earth, hes got tons more

funnily enough he was abusing uppers and downers as well as alcohol when he wrote the initial framework that is modern scientology

my family was involved with scientology when i was a kid

to answer your question sven, i think the main draw for people initially with scientology is the self-help/self analysis parts....which makes up the bulk of the beginner courses...

they are supposed to better enable you to run your life and control that which is controllable

i would not recommend it to anyone....its brain washing and basically prepping you for the later courses....

there is a lot more to it than that, but i dont have time to break it all down....

people should definitley read more on the subject cuz in my experience most people have no clue what scientology is about....its good to be informed

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:48 pm

Oh well, I rather see another scientologist then another monotheist.

E. Randy Dupre · Post by **E. Randy Dupre** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:52 pm

sven666 wrote:so what are the pros of scientology really?

Here's a list I composed earlier:

Here ends the list.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:43 pm

E. Randy Dupre wrote:
sven666 wrote:so what are the pros of scientology really?
Here's a list I composed earlier:

Here ends the list.

I selected the white space with my mouse to reveal the hidden text, but there wasn´t any. I´m a bit disappointed.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:52 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:Pop society's obsession with Scientology is hilarious.

Apparently Will Smith is a bad boy.

Also, grab all those Viacom-owned 80s Saturday morning cartoons and don't upload anything because Viacom is about to get your infos. Unrelated of course.

That is sad to hear about Will Smith. Just last Sunday, I was watching something on 60 Minutes about him-he seems like the kind of guy that would just laugh at such nonsense, but apparently not. I will pray that he gets out of that cult.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:28 am

jonny5 wrote:L. Ron Hubbard should have stuck with sci-fi novels.....he actually wrote some really awesome novels in the 50-60's....aside from battlefield earth and mission earth, hes got tons more

I haven't read any of his stuff cover-to-cover, but I picked up one of his paperbacks, opened up, and he's got some black character talking in ridiculously exaggerated jive, being disinterested in a gigantic fire taking place nearby (I assume) and being unnaturally obsequious.

It seemed like all the racism of a Redd Foxx skit without any of the humor or relevance. I dunno, maybe I should crack it open again sometime...it's sure to be different from what I've read before ;)

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:40 am

MOMMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT

I don't get the scientology hate. It has the lowest body count of any religion. It can't help that it doesn't have the history and mysticism that surrounds the ancient cults.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:17 pm

It has the word "science" in it, therefore it must be good.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:12 pm

Twiddle wrote:It has the word "science" in it, therefore it must be good.

The first known appearance of the word "scientologie" is in a German work criticizing things which appropriated the appearance of science but which were actually psuedoscience, amusingly enough

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:22 pm

I don't know anything about scientology, except that I'm more down with faith based religions about aliens than about god.

I don't want to offend anyone, (so I shouldn't write this), buuuut,

It really makes me angry when people say they have jesus christ in their heart, because that's like saying that they have my favorite swear word in their heart.

*joke*

I'm Alec · Post by **I'm Alec** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:43 am

JoshF wrote:MOMMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT

LL?

shmups.system11.org

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