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Look! Another Tom Cruise Scientology Video!

The Idea of Progress — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:32:15 +0000

Better watch it before Lord Xenu has it removed!

Tom Cruise speaking about Study Technology

Scientology in Tom Cruise’s words

The Idea of Progress — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:19:00 +0000

Like we didn’t know he was crazy before…This was apparently leaked from a private Scientology event. Kudos to the hero who smuggled it out.

EDIT: The Scientologists work fast. They’ve already got the first video pulled (”due to a copyright claim by the Church of Scientology” according to YouTube). I’m going to repost it with a working copy, but if it goes down, please visit Gawker, who is hosting their own copy which they have said they are refusing to take down. Take that, Tom Cruise!

EDIT 2: I’ve had to repost this three times now, since the videos keep getting pulled– again, if it doesn’t work, check out the Gawker link

EDIT 3: That’s at least five times I’ve changed videos!

EDIT 4: From one of the posted videos:

Scientology mini dictionary:
*KSW (short for Keeping Scientology Working): A policy written by
Hubbard in the 1960’s that requires all Scientologists to follow his
words and his rules exactly.
“Orgs: Orgs is an abbreviation for “organizations” and describes
all churches of Scientology throughout the world.
*David Miscavige: He is the current leader of Scientology.
He’s the equivalent of the Pope to the Catholics.
*Out-ethics: any behavior that violates any of Hubbard’s
rules of conduct.
*Put ethics in on someone else: make others conform
to Hubbard’s rules of behavior.
*Criminon: Scientology front group that tries to recruit through the prisons.
* SP: Suppressive Person. Anyone that doesn’t like Scientology and/or criticizes Scientology.
*PTS/SP: another bogus Hubbard term to define behavior that goes
against Scientology rules.
*LRH technology or “tech”: all the Scientology policies, rules, mandates, procedures

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Quote of the Day (2002 Edition)

The Idea of Progress — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:29:00 +0000

“Tom Cruise is becoming the Scary Flaming Eye from “The Lord of the Rings,” and I fear that nobody can stop him.”

Cintra Wilson in Salon from 2002.

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Web Surfin’

The Idea of Progress — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:04:00 +0000

You don’t need to aimlessly click around the internets looking for something to kill time with. I’ve done that for you.

-Why would you want to play something as boring as the Sims? If you’re malicious enough, you can make their little AI lives miserable.

From Crooks and Liars.

-Belgian courts have finally done something that American courts have been unable to: bring the Church of Scientology up on criminal charges.

From robmonroe.net.

-The scariest thing you’ll see all week (unless you watched the Klaus Nomi video)

-Have you ever Googled yourself? Perhaps it’s time to learn to Ungoogle yourself. There’s a part in this that mentions that prospective employers will probably Google your name. That’s true. I know, because it’s part of my job (I work at a recruitment firm).

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What Goes On.

The Idea of Progress — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:35:00 +0000

So, apparently R. Kelly is insane. We all knew that he was a pervert. We all knew that he was a mad filmmaking genius. But the man now thinks that he is the Martin Luther King, Jr. of his generation. And he said this in an interview, so all of us could see what goes on inside that head of his. It must be an exciting place to live.

…
The Scientologists have pissed off the BBC. Seems that the Beeb has been making a documentary about them, and they responded by making a documentary about the BBC. Uh-huh. The producers of the programme (like the spelling?) respond.

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They might be putting bathrooms in CTA stations. On one hand, a good idea when you’ve really got to go and options are limited. On the other hand, homeless people using them as apartments. Maybe it’d keep drunk frat boys from pissing between cars.

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Elijah Wood is going to be playing Iggy Pop in a movie. Honest.

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