Needles & Grooves

probably because its been like a decade since anyone talked about Scientology so the culture of infamous cult behavior is kinda disappeared from common knowlege

That’s the problem, people stop talking about it while nothing changes behind the scenes, you have new celebrities from established Scientologist families who are just given the benifet of the doubt, and everyone’s just confidently forgotten about all the heinous shit this church does to both members and non members.

People need to rewatch Going Clear and remember how much of a shit organization they are.

What are the lizard people up to now?

@jamieanderson1968 that whole lizard meme is going through a bit of a cultural shift now... people are realizing the origins of that meme comes from the antisemetic book "protocols of the elders of zion" (or more specifically david icke using that books ideas as propaganda) and are understandably kinda stopping using it.... i am using the worms meme that smiling friends used now

@jamieanderson1968 Nothing specific, just sick of the discourse shifting when the church hasn’t changed at all. You have celebrities coming from established Scientology families like Chloe Fineman and Sabrina Carpenter, who are just given the benefit of the doubt by the general public, and even the slightest most half-assed “denial” is taken and ran with (or radio silence on Finemans part).

Also that garbage Tom Cruise part of the Olympic closing ceremonies

I caught about 10 seconds of Tom at the Olympics and that was 10 seconds too much.

I guess it feels a bit strange to specifically save all types of reserve spite for Scientologist when they don’t seem to be any more worse or problematic than any other organized religion. At least that’s how my brain sees it? I hear someone’s a Scientologist and my brain puts them into the bucket of “This is a religious person a la Christian, catholic, Jewish, Islamic, on and on”

I think that’s part of the problem: legitimizing them as a religion so it’s treated as acceptable as any other. It’s a straight up cult based on a failed sci fi writers work that attempts to lure in wealthy donors with pseudo-science and uses a sunk cost falacy combined with classic cult tactics to keep them in once the batshit Xenu stuff is revealed.

And that’s not even beginning to dig into their criminal history, including empowering and defending serial abusers and rapists. Oh and the fact that there’s multiple people who tried to leave the church and we’re never heard from again. Yeah totally legitimate, not a cult….