Reviews and Media on HBO Documentary Going Clear

[Jump]

More Streisand. Yes sir, that's what this needs.



Always attack.

 

[ForLease]

9/10 on the Guardian quiz.

Should have been perfect.

I HAVE TO GET MY ETHICS IN.

 

[JustSheila]

Flunk. Moar clay.

 

[Leland]

9/10....and guessed on most....LOL.....

kind of a easy quiz....

 

[SweetnessandLight]

The Guardian: Match the statement about Scientology to the star - quiz

http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2015/mar/17/scientology-film-quiz-going-clear

Imma mazed! I got 9 out of 10 right!

"Congratulations! You're at Cleared Thetan level, whatever that means." (LOL!!!)

And guess which one I missed? The one where Tom Cruise said: "Some people, well, if they don't like Scientology, well, then, fuck you." I chose another answer because I thought he couldn't have been so stupid as to say that...to talk about the fans like that.

Whoops, I was wrongo! I should have gotten it because of his use of wrong tense...poor English...and not just the swearing!

 

[JustSheila]

So is the average score on the Scientology quotes still 3, or did the ESMB curve-wreckers blow the grading system and raise the bar too high for everybody else?

 

[Leland]

I think I missed the Rapper one....not up to date on these things...

 

[sallydannce]

Ssshhh...please! I'm trying to organise a mortgage on my great-aunts home to donate to an idle org so I can get my quiz stats up.

I feel so down-stat with my 7/10 - compared to everyone else's 9/10. I feel out-ethics and just know that finding a car-park tomorrow is going to be hell. :wink2:

 

[Free Being Me]

Ssshhh...please! I'm trying to organise a mortgage on my great-aunts home to donate to an idle org so I can get my quiz stats up.

I feel so down-stat with my 7/10 - compared to everyone else's 9/10. I feel out-ethics and just know that finding a car-park tomorrow is going to be hell. :wink2:

I'm applying for new credit cards to reverse this devastating downward trend. Perfectionism demands no less than a 10/10.

 

[Jump]

I'm applying for new credit cards to reverse this devastating downward trend. Perfectionism demands no less than a 10/10.

Thank you for funding our drive to have a quiz answer sheet sent to every library in Antarctica. Our quizzingness stats will soar to heights of unseen orders of magnitude because of your dedication. Your on source givingness will never be forgotten, until Thursday NEXT week.

ML

 

[eldritch cuckoo]

http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/scientology-goes-full-tim-and-eric-on-going-clear-documentary/

That article has already been linked, but I SP-cially like the following comment, because it tells so nicely that now (on non-scio-watch-sites) even the "fuck this, all religions are crazy and have their radicals" angle wouldn't, couldn't, help, because people, after just having watched Co$' crazy videos, state things like this:

Given that the bulk of religions tend toward "we are The In Group", with variations regarding whether the outgroup are to be avoided but endured, massacred, or converted into in-group; there must be additional characteristics that make scientologists even more insufferable when displeased. There are plenty of groups who see themselves as the only true faith in a world of evil that aren't even close to those guys when it comes to flipping out.


http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/scientology-goes-full-tim-and-eric-on-going-clear-documentary/53732/33

(You know, I just get a head orgasm if Co$' bad doctrine and behavior keeps bringing attention to the bad aspects of ALL religions, cults, and "applied religious philosophies", et al.) Oh please, please, tiny failed cult, keep calling yourself a "church" (others can go for "cherch" or "chult" or "whatabunchoffreaks" or "helluvahoax", it's okay, and therapeutic). Do eeet. The Oracle and the Architect approve.

 

[AnonyMary]

I knew all the answers. I think there is a message in that somewhere....

Match the statement about Scientology to the star - quiz

Your results

10 out of a possible 10

Congratulations! You're at Cleared Thetan level, whatever that means.

 

[JustSheila]

I don't believe this one was covered. From The Stranger:

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 If there's one thing Last Days loves, it's a notorious bully being reduced to a sputtering, foolish mess. And so it is with great pleasure that we report on the hilarious recent doings of the Church of Scientology, which is gripped in a full-scale freak-out in advance of HBO's broadcast of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Alex Gibney's documentary based on Lawrence Wright's deeply damning book Going Clear. Scientology's campaign against the documentary is being waged across multiple mediums, from full-page print ads to "in-stream" advertising on YouTube videos. (A 90-second clip of Grace Jones performing on Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special, for example, is preceded by a seven-minute Scientology video denouncing Gibney and Going Clear.) Hilariously, the Church of Scientology and its "Freedom Media Ethics" campaign have offered zero repudiation of Going Clear's portrait of the church as an abusive cult, instead focusing on personal attacks of former church members who served as sources for Going Clear.

(more at link)

http://www.thestranger.com/columns/last-days/2015/03/18/21920137/last-days-the-week-in-review

 

[Karen#1]

"Comedy Gold" the CULT smear videos are dubbed, derided, laughed at, scorned as Scientology Inc continues to be the laughing stock of the Internet

http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2015/03...rch-of-scientologys-going-clear-smear-videos/​

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[Smurf]

"Comedy Gold" the CULT smear videos are dubbed, derided, laughed at, scorned as Scientology Inc continues to be the laughing stock of the Internet​

As much as the media loves posting it... I'm regretting showing up at the Ideal Morgue Grand Opening in LA with a black eye.

 

[AngeloV]

SOON!​

 

[Jump]

SOON!​

Crikey! I'm drooling so much for this I could be totally dehydrated before it airs. I know Eldritch could have so many head orgasms to be totally exhausted.

This will be a close-run thing

 

[Karen#1]

I thought to myself "Yippee ! Marty is back in the saddle ! Hot to be featured in NBC News channel...

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/57138432#57138432
But the NBC site kept loading and I could not see the video.
Asked AnonyMary for help ..she can find anything..... but AnonyMary messaged me "Video not available"

Now wondering...did something happen ?
Or is this just a loading time delay factor ? Opinions ?​

 

[bromo]

10 out of a possible 10

Congratulations! You're at Cleared Thetan level, whatever that means.


This never in does her homework.
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[Leland]

I thought to myself "Yippee ! Marty is back in the saddle ! Hot to be featured in NBC News channel...

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/57138432#57138432
But the NBC site kept loading and I could not see the video.
Asked AnonyMary for help ..she can find anything..... but AnonyMary messaged me "Video not available"

Now wondering...did something happen ?
Or is this just a loading time delay factor ? Opinions ?​

Don't know....just says...unavailable...