La La Lou Lou
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That's one bath I would not want to clean!
Is ESMB a Giant Circle Jerk?
- Thread starter Ral Z
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That's one bath I would not want to clean!
Purple Rain
Crusader
Re: Is ESMB STILL a Giant Circle Jerk?
I think we've plumbed the depths...
BUT.
One question remains:
Is ESMB STILL a Giant Circle Jerk?
Inquiring minds and so forth and so on, don't you see.
You like to-mah-toes,
I like to-may-toes
!
BUT
I say
YES
!
[SIZE=+4]ESMB IS STILL A GIANT CIRCLE JERK![/SIZE]
!
And it's growing bigger
Straight up
And more vertical
Every day
In every way
!
!
!Of course, we might decide
"Let's call the whole thing off"
But I think not.
Wants2Talk
Silver Meritorious Patron
Look up the Olympia Concert rendition - he performs swinging proud. It's rather big.
HelluvaHoax!
Platinum Meritorious Sponsor with bells on
LOL
Actually, for decades I have laughed at TV Infomercials that sell something that is worthless--but hype it up in such a way that you are supposed to think that it fixes some morbid problem that everyone is desperate to solve. A problem that doesn't in fact exist. It's the "Dissem Formula" played out with the all-important "ruin" being hammered into the viewer.
Example: One of those late night infomercials where someone at home goes to walk down the stairs into their basement, reaches for the light switch and stumbles, falling down 12 steps to serious injury, paralysis or worse. LOL. Sorry to laugh, but it is just ludicrous because probably in the history of the world, that never happened as depicted. Sure, maybe someone fell down some steps, but it was because they needed glasses or were drunk or something quite ordinary.
And, after "finding a ruin or making one real to you" (just like Ron says!) the infomercial would try to sell you a device that attaches to your belt that you can click which turns the light on without reaching for it and tumbling down to your death.
Anyways, I had a long running joke with friends where I would mention that one day in the future someone was going to make the "perfect infomercial" where they sold something like a 2x2 ft square of plywood flooring that you could use to exercise and get healthy. The shills in the infomercial would then be shown jogging on it (grinning) and doing pushups on (grinning) and doing sit-ups on it (grinning).
In other words, they sell you a piece of floor that you already have and don't need.
That's the Cause Resurgence Rundown. For thousands of dollars, they sell you a floor to run around in circles on. Well, technically they don't even sell it to you--they rent it to you. And you additionally have to pay lavishly for an expensive cult hotel and meals during the weeks it takes you to run on their special floor.
That's Scientology, too. A late-night infomercial selling you a quick cure for the bank that causes you to tumble down the dwindling spiral (hey, for just $499,000 if you order now!)
Helena Handbasket
Gold Meritorious Patron
The Answer
This is not so bad as there are LOTS of new people showing up all the time. We have to get the message out over and over.
I also, like many others, talk about my problems, particularly past experiences in the church. It does people good to let it out.
There are some who believe the subject still has some value (to which I plead guilty). I have often posted my own views about this and that.
Overall, ESMB is a good thing.
Helena
There is a lot of "preaching to the converted" going on here.
This is not so bad as there are LOTS of new people showing up all the time. We have to get the message out over and over.
I also, like many others, talk about my problems, particularly past experiences in the church. It does people good to let it out.
There are some who believe the subject still has some value (to which I plead guilty). I have often posted my own views about this and that.
Overall, ESMB is a good thing.
Helena
Rene Descartes
Gold Meritorious Patron
Ever see those advertisements for the DVD that shows hours of video footage of...
Trains
and there's more. there is a second DVD included in the set that shows hours of video footage of
Planes.
CHOO CHOO!!
The Church needs GASS
Golden Age of Sucess Stories
A book with pages and pages of success stories.
Success Through Scientology
For a mere $200
Wait there's more.
There are 20 volumes and one can buy the whole set of 20 for $3,500
They need to be donated to the libraries throughout hte world.
Trains, Planes, and Success Stories.
Train = locomotive on Scio 0-8
Plane = DC8
Success Story = hip hip hooray
Rd00
Commander Birdsong
Crusader
sorry...
false alarm...
tuesday a URS (usually reliable source) told me five years ago here in boston a close personal friend donated $50,000 to CoS. glad i didn't post it before i checked for verification. it really didn't make sense but as we all know things like this that don't make sense happen all the time with the silver-tongued devils of Co$.
he's a great guy. blue collar dude manages a private auto shop in a mixed neighborhood. modest intelligence, no great mind but had some college, could hold his own watching "jeopardy". but knows his shit cold all the way up one side and straight on down the other with his work. from latin america down in the andes, mestizo. none of his mechanics speak a word of english. half his customers are stoned on crack or prozac but he shuffles them around like a vegas dealer shuffling a marked deck. he's got the american thing down crackerjack. he'll tell me stories of one funky thing or another that came down and say "NOT... in MY country..." and tell me what he did to keep things movin' along. my kinda guy bigtime. his momma has kicked me down a couple of homecooked thanksgiving dinners, a grand delicacy for the chronically homeless...
SHIT!!! Co$ got him for $50K?
naw...
turns out he's taken to investigating scientology on his own recently and he was just goofin' about CoS tapping him...
that was good to hear, man. the birdie-song feathers were a tad ruffled over the report...
Dulloldfart
Squirrel Extraordinaire
For your money you also get any needed, er, assistance, to get through it.
Imagine paying $30 for a month's membership to a gym club. You sign up and go one evening, then next day say screw it and sprawl out on the couch. The phone rings saying you're not at the gym working out. You say sod off. Ten minutes later they're knocking down the door and dragging you off to the gym. The next time you don't show up they kidnap the dog and won't release it until you're in there doing reps. This continues all month. The next day you don't go and they don't hound you because your membership just expired.
Paul
DoneDeal
Patron Meritorious
You know what? You just reminded me that I've never given this site any money.
The membership terms here are pretty friendly.
Ogsonofgroo
Crusader
I'll bring nachos and dips.....
OP's original post is derpy inane blather, obviously does not read around much and doesn't give a shit one way or another, so.... why even bother, except maybe to bother others?
Oh great, you haz moved on, good for you! That the sick cult of LRon, in all its sputtering splendor, does not concern you enough to engage the community, does not enrage you enough to help to end all the crazy, does not stimulate you enough to help those trapped, those still damaged by it, or a number of other things, speaks volumes of you.
Meh.