Religion
The Unfunny Truth about Scientology, Part 2
by Lonnie on Feb.20, 2009, under Religion
I’m very proud to bring to you the sequel of the original video … I did not produce this, but I am standing strongly behind those who did .. Enjoy
By the way – if you want to see the original …
Woman wrongful death suit against Scientology for her son’s suicide
by Lonnie on Feb.19, 2009, under Religion
A Florida woman has filed a lawsuit against the “Church” of Scientology for her son’s suicide. The mother contends that her son shot himself because he was denied anti-depressants by the Church.
Please continue on to read the entire article… but after or before you read and come to an opinion, you need only to click here for a google search to find out Scientology’s view on medication
What / Who is anonymous? my open response to “Louanne”
by Lonnie on Feb.17, 2009, under Religion
In my previous posting that you can read here, I got a response from someone named “Louanne” who essentially lumped all of “Anonymous” in as one large cohesive group, so I decided to respond openly. In their response, they also included some links to back up what they believed and in the interest of fairness I had no desire to censor it… So here is my response:
Louanne tries to make a sweeping generalization of who “Anonymous” is, almost as if they are one cohesive organization which they are not.
So what/who is Anonymous? it’s you … it’s me .. it’s your neighbor, it’s anyone out there with an opinion… even scientologists are Anonymous until they are not.
There are a large group of Anonymous people who are outraged by some of the things that have gone on in the name of Scientology, as well as the tactics of the “church”.
When you have such a large number of people who are outraged over something, there are always factions of people who act more aggressively than others, and those people do not reflect the views necessarily of the rest who dislike Scientology, so such a broad generalization is nonsense at best.
There are those who protest peacefully and work to present the facts to the world and let them decide for themselves, and naturally, it’s in Scientology’s best interest to put on a PR campaign and try to make Anonymous appear as sort of a terrorist group when in fact, each individual is responsible for their own actions.
How about a word from L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology’s founder… What do you think of all this Mr. Hubbard?
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion”
Reader’s Digest reprint, May 1980, p.1
So to further respond to Louanne, and to be balanced… I’ll provide some links of my own, please chime in if I forgot something, won’t you?
- The Unfunny Truth About Scientology
- Operation Clambake – The Inner Secrets of Scientology (there is a wealth of information here)
- Scientologists Attack (video) – Once you’ve read up on how scientology teaches it’s followers to react to SPs
- Suppressive Person Defense League – Read up about the church’s suppressive person doctrine’s
- The Shadowy Story Behind Scientology’s Tax Exempt Status
- A petition to have Scientology’s tax exempt status removed
- Germany moves to ban Scientology
- WikiLeaks document archive on Scientology – The holy grail of official church doctrine and everything else you can think of.
- Let’s let Anonymous speak for themselves, Who is Anonymous? (video, recommended)
More links to come as time permits, there is such a wealth of information out there, google is your friend, in the mean time! participate in my survey:
Anonymous picks up their attacks on Scientology
by Lonnie on Feb.16, 2009, under Religion
The Anonymous collective is moving on from the first anniversary of its protests against the Church of Scientology with a round of further demonstrations.
The next round of global protests will span several weekends. Anonymous claims its campaign has scored a number of successes over the last 12 months, since indignation at attempts to censor the infamous Tom Cruise Scientology ward ceremony video touched off the first round of protests against the church in January 2008, which initially involved online protests, nuisance calls and controversial attempts to blitz Scientology websites. February 2008 marked the start of a ongoing series of monthly protests outside Scientology offices and centres across the world.