The Grassy Knoll of the Internet

[Alanzo]

WTF does this mean?

This is a term that DM thought up to try to make everyone on the Internet look insane, and thus discredit them.

But it, as a metaphor, really really sucks.

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where hidden gunmen lurk as the real assassinators?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where conspiracy theorists boil their brains in....conspiracy theories?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where people point to so the police know where the real gunfire came from?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???

 

[nozeno]

WTF does this mean?

This is a term that DM thought up to try to make everyone on the Internet look insane, and thus discredit them.

But it, as a metaphor, really really sucks.

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where hidden gunmen lurk as the real assassinators?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where conspiracy theorists boil their brains in....conspiracy theories?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where people point to so the police know where the real gunfire came from?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???

Hey that's my happy place you're talking about!

 

[DCAnon]

More specifically...a knoll? Really? That word is plain ol' stupid.

 

[Gadfly]

WTF does this mean?

This is a term that DM thought up to try to make everyone on the Internet look insane, and thus discredit them.

But it, as a metaphor, really really sucks.

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where hidden gunmen lurk as the real assassinators?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where conspiracy theorists boil their brains in....conspiracy theories?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where people point to so the police know where the real gunfire came from?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???

Like so many things Scientological, the meaning is vague, stange and exists almost entirely in the minds of Church members. DM is playing with "levels of abstraction" here, and using a typical PR and control tactic of using LOADED terms that have some sort of "emotional impact". Political slogans often do the same thing. The intent is NOT to communicate along some path of reason, but to CONTROL by using emotionally-charged words and slogans in an attempt to manipulate.

You are right Alanzo, what the fuck does it mean? Nothing really. And everything on some raw emotional level. "Grassy Knoll" is probably still a "reading item" to many people as it connects directly to the emotionally charged tragedy of the JFK assassination. Lots of emotion there.

Scientology PR has pretty much always been about control. Controlling the thoughts, ideas and beliefs of the target market. I remember when I first read the PR series in the late 1970s, how I immediately noticed that it had very little to do with "facts" or "truth", and ALL to do with changing people's minds so that they would AGREE with what the PR (controller) wanted to become accepted and believed.

What was great about DM's glossy booklet is that so few people can ever get through it. It is too tedious to plod through all the endless PR. I talked to a few friends in Clearwater, and they gave up after a few pages. Whatever message DM thought he was sending out largely ended up in the garbage basket.

 

[Alanzo]

KNOLL:
–noun a small, rounded hill or eminence; hillock.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME cnol, OE cnoll; c. Norw knoll hillock; akin to D knol turnip, Icel knollur, G Knollen, Dan knold tuber

GRASSY:
–adjective, grass⋅i⋅er, grass⋅i⋅est. 1. covered with grass. 2. of, like, or pertaining to grass; grasslike. 3. of the color of grass: grassy green.

Origin:
1505–15; grass + -y 1

The grassy knoll of the Internet????

Jesus Christ, what an idiot.
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[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

WTF does this mean?

It means Miscavige has entered the next level of the systematic insanity designed by Hubbard, pretty soon he will go into hiding to jack himself up with Vistaril® just like Ron did.

 

[Gadfly]

"Grassy Knoll" has a meaning unrelated to the separate meanings of each word.

"Thirty-five years after the Kennedy assassination and speculation about a conspiracy, "grassy knoll" has become a generic term connoting hidden plots and subterfuge. But who coined the phrase? Until now the answer has remained elusive, yet newly-discovered information identifies the source as a member of the news media. Here's how it happened."

See:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/gk_name.htm

The term "grassy knoll", like so many idioms, has a meaning that is "greater than the sum of its parts".

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.

 

[Alanzo]

Like so many things Scientological, the meaning is vague, stange and exists almost entirely in the minds of Church members. DM is playing with "levels of abstraction" here, and using a typical PR and control tactic of using LOADED terms that have some sort of "emotional impact". Political slogans often do the same thing. The intent is NOT to communicate along some path of reason, but to CONTROL by using emotionally-charged words and slogans in an attempt to manipulate.

You are right Alanzo, what the fuck does it mean? Nothing really. And everything on some raw emotional level. "Grassy Knoll" is probably still a "reading item" to many people as it connects directly to the emotionally charged tragedy of the JFK assassination. Lots of emotion there.

Scientology PR has pretty much always been about control. Controlling the thoughts, ideas and beliefs of the target market.

What was great about DM's glossy booklet is that so few people can ever get through it. It is too tedious to plod through all the endless PR. I talked to a few friends in Clearwater, and they gave up after a few pages. Whatever message DM thought he was sending out largely ended up in the garbage basket.

Same with me.

I couldn't wait to read it. And then when I started in on it, it was impossible to finish! "The Adultress", "Fact-Checker" and whatever the other term was - over and over - really killed it.

And if you listen to some of his speeches, which I understand he writes as well, you see the same meandering, say-nothing, style.

DM has a hard time saying what he means, obviously.

Poor wittle guy.

 

[Panda Termint]

I'm sure he said, "Classy Troll of the Internet"... isn't that you, Al?

 

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

Same with me.

I couldn't wait to read it. And then when I started in on it, it was impossible to finish! "The Adultress", "Fact-Checker" and whatever the other term was - over and over - really killed it.

And if you listen to some of his speeches, which I understand he writes as well, you see the same meandering, say-nothing, style.

DM has a hard time saying what he means, obviously.

Poor wittle guy.

I thought the "They shot their wad" comment added a new touch, that should be included in all religious publications

 

[Alanzo]

"Grassy Knoll" has a meaning unrelated to the separate meanings of each word.

"Thirty-five years after the Kennedy assassination and speculation about a conspiracy, "grassy knoll" has become a generic term connoting hidden plots and subterfuge. But who coined the phrase? Until now the answer has remained elusive, yet newly-discovered information identifies the source as a member of the news media. Here's how it happened."

See:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/gk_name.htm

The term "grassy knoll", like so many idioms, has a meaning that is "greater than the sum of its parts".

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.

I understand the whole figurative thing. But if you are going to get figurative, you need to create a specific figure.

That whole Freedom Magazine was a dark and stormy night, if you ask me.

 

[Gadfly]

I understand the whole figurative thing. But if you are going to get figurative, you need to create a specific figure.

That Freedom Magazine was a dark and stormy night, if you ask me.

Yes it was, figuratively-speaking!

 

[Pascal]

DM's tone level

WTF does this mean?

This is a term that DM thought up to try to make everyone on the Internet look insane, and thus discredit them.

But it, as a metaphor, really really sucks.

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where hidden gunmen lurk as the real assassinators?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where conspiracy theorists boil their brains in....conspiracy theories?

The Grassy Knoll of the Internet? Where people point to so the police know where the real gunfire came from?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???

DM being a chaos merchant military type uses this idiotic rhetoric all the time.

"explosive growth", as if growth a theta word could be coupled with "explosive" a word belonging at 2.0 or below on the tone scale.

"Annihilate arguments"... ad infinitum...

All anger talk... No theta. Only a crappy veneer of glossy paper and Gold PR spinstering.

It's really sad that churchies cannot see through this and demand "Ideal Management", the first target, ie DM and his useless team gone.

 

[Dulloldfart]

WTF does this mean?

It also depends on the meaning of the word "of".

Does it mean (roughly) "which is", as in "the impenetrable rhetoric of his normal prose"?

Or does it mean (roughly) "as a portion of", as in "the nether regions of his multi-faceted mind"?

The rest of it has been well explained in the previous answers to the question.

Paul

 

[ChronicEnturbulator]

"Grassy Knoll" has a meaning unrelated to the separate meanings of each word.

"Thirty-five years after the Kennedy assassination and speculation about a conspiracy, "grassy knoll" has become a generic term connoting hidden plots and subterfuge. But who coined the phrase? Until now the answer has remained elusive, yet newly-discovered information identifies the source as a member of the news media. Here's how it happened."

See:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/gk_name.htm

The term "grassy knoll", like so many idioms, has a meaning that is "greater than the sum of its parts".

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.

JFK PULLED IT IN!​

 

[degraded being]

JFK's Body Thetan's?

 

[Tim Skog]

DM shot his wad from the grassy knoll of Freedom Magazine, because he is one tough son-of-bitch!

 

[Dark Phoenix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOAjKtkfd58&feature=related
________
Mazda millenia

 

[Good twin]

It's obviously porn.

 

[Alanzo]

It also depends on the meaning of the word "of".

Does it mean (roughly) "which is", as in "the impenetrable rhetoric of his normal prose"?

Or does it mean (roughly) "as a portion of", as in "the nether regions of his multi-faceted mind"?

The rest of it has been well explained in the previous answers to the question.

Paul

I can see a crack team of tough son of a bitches now, huddled together in a course room, M9ing this Freedom Magazine issue and stumbling on the phrase "The Grassy Knoll of the Internet".

"All right...what's a grassy knoll?"

"It's a hill or prominent outcropping with grass on it, but this is specifically an idiom referring to the JFK assassination where many witnesses reported shooters in another location, other than Oswald's position at the Book Depository."

All right. That's fine. What's the "Internet?"

"It's a large system of underground tubes which connect to each other so messages can be sent back and forth between SPs."

Very Good. How about the word "OF"

CLANG! CLANG!! COMM LAG!

"All right. Let's look that one up."

15 hours later, they continue on reading aloud to each other - never noticing that the phrase "the grassy knoll of the Internet" still does not make any fucking sense at all....