The Grassy Knoll of the Internet

[Feral]

Advertising and PR people are a tricksy lot.

The dodgier the product the more tricksy they need to be.

DM is selling a product which if not dubious in itself the added extras will nearly wipe out your life. He needs to spend a lot of time avoiding the truth and creating other realities in the minds of his marks.

Now he has positioned himself with JFK, a national hero who was gunned down by a psycho assassin.

The Lee Harvey Oswald in this case is BFG, Alan Walter, Alanzo, Zinj, BTs2free, anons, RVY and many more people who have courageously exposed the lies, abuse and outright fraud of the Church of Scientology.

Grassy knoll indeed.

We need to make our own more accurate positioning metaphor.

 

[Wisened One]

YEAH!

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

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Actually, in a battle, it is strategic to take the high ground. I like the view from up here just fine...think I might have a picnic and invite some friends!

 

[dontscamme]

Actually, in a battle, it is strategic to take the high ground. I like the view from up here just fine...think I might have a picnic and invite some friends!

Critics of DM and the CoS take the moral high ground and fight The Battle of Debunker Hill.

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Good one!

 

[Panda Termint]

Alanzo, How could you possibly miss/ignore this line I fed you?

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

 

[dontscamme]

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

Then who, pray tell, is "The Gassy Mole of the Internet"?

 

[Leon]

It's actually a very good epithet. "The grassy knoll of the internet" - it means nothing and anything, and the purpose behind its use is purely to confuse. This thread is itself evidence of its success - those who saw it as applicable to them immediately went into a WTF? WTF? introversion.

Job done. Very clever dwarf.

 

[ChronicEnturbulator]

Actually, the "grassy knoll" looks like a nice place to sit down for a while and read a book or eat a sandwich:

 

[Carmel]

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We need to make our own more accurate positioning metaphor.

Yep, we've seen the likes of the "positioning" with JFK that you mentioned, all too often, and watched the folks within the ranks just lap it up.

When it comes to "our own more accurate positioning", any suggestions? My concern with that would be that anything or everything we could come up with, could or would be twisted and backfire on us......but maybe not.

 

[Feral]

It's actually a very good epithet. "The grassy knoll of the internet" - it means nothing and anything, and the purpose behind its use is purely to confuse. This thread is itself evidence of its success - those who saw it as applicable to them immediately went into a WTF? WTF? introversion.

Job done. Very clever dwarf.

That is correct if you accept that this message board is also evidence of the CofS's 'success', which it is clearly not.

Not so 'clever dwarf'.

This thread is evidence of the fact that critics question and discuss certain things that scientologists take for granted as correct.

 

[Carmel]

Actually, the "grassy knoll" looks like a nice place to sit down for a while and read a book or eat a sandwich:

We have a few "grassy knolls" around our place...although the "grassiness" does get somewhat affected by the scorching sun in the summertime. And, come to think of it, if you're gonna sit down and have a sanga, then ya have to keep an eye out for the bull ants and the snakes.

 

[Feral]

We have a few "grassy knolls" around our place...although the "grassiness" does get somewhat affected by the scorching sun in the summertime. And, come to think of it, if you're gonna sit down and have a sanga, then ya have to keep an eye out for the bull ants and the snakes.

That's a grassy gully, or a grassy knoll that has been turned inside out.

 

[Carmel]

That's a grassy gully, or a grassy knoll that has been turned inside out.

Were you too intoxicated the night of the ANZO bash to realise that's a little 'hill'? - I know this pic doesn't really show it, but one taken from the other end certainly would!

(Feral's juss jealous, 'cause he aint got no knolls at his place )

 

[Feral]

Were you too intoxicated the night of the ANZO bash to realise that's a little 'hill'? - I know this pic doesn't really show it, but one taken from the other end certainly would!

(Feral's juss jealous, 'cause he aint got no knolls at his place )

Unfortunately I have hills rising to 850 meters, the Nandewar range runs though my place.

I have more rocky knolls than grassy ones.

And your pic .... it's still a gully. Even the description of the photo said so.

 

[Leon]

That is correct if you accept that this message board is also evidence of the CofS's 'success', which it is clearly not.

Not so 'clever dwarf'.

This thread is evidence of the fact that critics question and discuss certain things that scientologists take for grated as correct.

I don't follow your reasoning at all.

 

[Feral]

I don't follow your reasoning at all.

This thread is no more a sign that DM's epithet is successful than the forum is a sign that the CofS is successful.

The thread is very likely to be the guarantee DM's turn of phrase is seen as manipulative and with as many web users today, unpopular too.

This board is one of the many machinations that expose the fraud of the CofS and contributes to it's undoing.

With his clever turn of phrase he is going to be seen as 'behind the times' as a best case scenario and dangerously paranoid and deluded at worst.

Grassy knoll indeed.

 

[Royal Prince Xenu]

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

ROFLMAO !!!

However, I'm still in the dark. To what was DM comparing the Grassy Knoll?

 

[ARC]

A real possibility that you might have not considered, is that the "grassy knoll" term first was used by the St. Petersburg Times reporter and picked up and used by the Freedom Magazine writer(s).

On the other hand, it could be that the first person who said it was Tommy Davis, that one-man comedy show.

In any case, from the context in which it was used, it's easy to understand that the "grassy knoll of the internet" is supposed to refer to the places on the internet where conspiracy theories and rumors are spread without any application of critical thought. You know those places exist. Some "Anonymous" think the OCMB forums is such a place, and some might accuse ESMB and WWP of being such places too. What a reasonable person would interject here is that the Church of Scientology's own websites look like conspiracy theory lunacy, with their crackpot and hystrical messages about psychiatry and the like. If there is a "grassy knoll of the internet", then the Church of Scientology is at least a duke of that hill.

That said, the term itself - when you try to pick it apart - doesn't make sense if you don't belive in JFK conspiracy theories, because when JFK was shot nothing particularly interesting was happening on the grassy knoll.


If one were to ignore the context of the conversation with the journalists, one might ask if perhaps DM belives in those JFK conspiracy theories himself and think there were shooters on the grassy knoll. Then, figuratively speaking, the grassy knoll of the internet is where government agents hide to take down a great man. And as we know, anti-Scientology activists and Anonymous in particular has been accused by ineternet conspiracy theorists and neo-nazis of working for the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the Jews. Meanwhile Scietnology says we work for nazis and communists. (See illustration)

 

[Royal Prince Xenu]

A real possibility that you might have not considered, is that the "grassy knoll" term first was used by the St. Petersburg Times reporter and picked up and used by the Freedom Magazine writer(s).

On the other hand, it could be that the first person who said it was Tommy Davis, that one-man comedy show.

In any case, from the context in which it was used, it's easy to understand that the "grassy knoll of the internet" is supposed to refer to the places on the internet where conspiracy theories and rumors are spread without any application of critical thought. You know those places exist. Some "Anonymous" think the OCMB forums is such a place, and some might accuse ESMB and WWP of being such places too. What a reasonable person would interject here is that the Church of Scientology's own websites look like conspiracy theory lunacy, with their crackpot and hystrical messages about psychiatry and the like. If there is a "grassy knoll of the internet", then the Church of Scientology is at least a duke of that hill.

That said, the term itself - when you try to pick it apart - doesn't make sense if you don't belive in JFK conspiracy theories, because when JFK was shot nothing particularly interesting was happening on the grassy knoll.


If one were to ignore the context of the conversation with the journalists, one might ask if perhaps DM belives in those JFK conspiracy theories himself and think there were shooters on the grassy knoll. Then, figuratively speaking, the grassy knoll of the internet is where government agents hide to take down a great man. And as we know, anti-Scientology activists and Anonymous in particular has been accused by ineternet conspiracy theorists and neo-nazis of working for the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the Jews. Meanwhile Scietnology says we work for nazis and communists. (See illustration)

Interesting graphic!

Just to feed the trolls:

The reason there was no interesting activity taking place on the 1963 Grassy Knoll was because people had been "ushered" from that area a few minutes prior to Kennedy's appearance. The CT is that the shooter(s) were behind bushes or a wall (I've not done much digging myself), and required that the "knoll" be vacated so that he/they could get a clear shot.

I think that the biggest conspiracy that needs exposing right now is: any positive agreement that occurs between DM and upper management.