I saw Scientology commercial on regular TV *cable-Sci Fi Channel* tonight. I have never seen anything posted on any websites, pamphlets being handed out, TV commercials, or them ranting and raving at people, before. It feels kind of odd to see whoever promoting it on TV...well I guess they are just joining everyone else.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LmFXfQbZRII&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LmFXfQbZRII&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Commercials just like that ran nonstop for most of the nineties. My childhood of daytime television watching was scarred by all those exploding volcanoes. Which is funny, because I've read elsewhere that Scientologists were deployed to buy copies of Dianetics from bookstores, then the same copies would show back up, unread, in boxes from the manufacturer to be sold again. It was a scam to keep Dianetics on the bestseller list.
i have heard of republicans doing this to in some form or fasion (im sure democrats have done it also) im sure it cuts down on costs though if you bring it back to the publisher
Yeah, a lot of wingnut welfare involves buying right wing authors' books in bulk, to be given away to similar-thinking book clubs. The ancillary benefit is that it helps place those authors on bestseller list. The Scientologists aren't that sophisticated. Found this LA Times piece by googling "dianetics bestseller resell sticker." I wanted a source for the "showing up with the price tags already on them" that I remembered, but found something even more awesome. The baddest picture, ever, at the top of that story: Caption: F- it. Now I want to join.
And at that glorious moment when they mutually arrived at Operating Thetan level VIII (4:21 in), all the people dying on the shoulders of the 405 were magically healed of all that ailed them (1:05). (I'm pretty sure this is how Crash was greenlit. The lousy Oscar movie, not the Cronenberg one.) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UFBZ_uAbxS0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UFBZ_uAbxS0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Seriously, I see now why the after-brunch biker on the right took over after Hubbard went down. Guy has crazy Nostradamus eyes: I'm pretty sure I too would sign over my life savings to buy a copy of the secret Xenu texts, once he put those voodoo eyes on me. ---- Wait a minute, to bring it back all around. While looking for an article about all the Scientologists behind Crash, I see this, from last month: "Who is Still NetFlixing Crash?" Crash the #1 movie rental? Crash? Because of a faulty algorithm? Unlikely. Looks like they're moving beyond Dianetics with this rent/return scam. I hope all the Scientologists forced to rent copies of Crash have to sit at home and watch it, all the way through, each copy they get. Has to be more painful than auditing. Forget it; I no longer want to join. Also, I'm pretty sure Jenna Elfman is going to win next year's Oscar.
