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pleco
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BigPapaSmurf
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 Posted - 11/10/2006 : 08:00:07 [Permalink]
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| I would say it is brilliant, but I dont want to be sued. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 12:52:36 [Permalink]
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I'm a slow reader, and couldn't keep up with the set pace of the frames. There should be a way to control that. Also, I found the soundtrack irritating and incomprehensible. The music should be an "opt-in" option, if they want to keep it at all.
I dearly hope this review keeps Scientology off my back.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 13:30:43 [Permalink]
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Heh, not bad. Considering the utter scoundrel and outright looney-tune that Hubbard was, it was really pretty mild.
Over the years, a number of us have written about these dirtballs. They prey upon the desperate and the gullible, and once in, it's very difficult to get out.
Scientology has been banned in several countries, notably Germany, some years back and if I remember right. Who sez the Bosch are stupid? They're smart enough to kick Scientology into the sewer where it belongs, while we're still stuck with them.
It is interesting to note: quote:
Meaning of the word 'Scientology'
Although today associated almost exclusively with Hubbard's work, "Scientology" was originally coined by philologist Alan Upward[23] in 1907 as a synonym for "pseudoscience".[
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Original_Intent
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 15:21:42 [Permalink]
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I saw this a while back. It was originally HTML based, but Scientoloists found it with google. Ditto for the version I saw, found it by web name. Don't look fo this to be up to long.......
If I had any amount of money to blow (like, maybe Michael Moore could do it) I would write a book using as much of this as I could. I would challenge the lawsuit under the premise tha you can't copyright history. Therefore, if this is copyrightable, it cannot be history. Therefore, if it is not history, it can't be religion unless it was completely manufactured. I would then contact the Jedi Knights, and front them the money to become to file suit to become a religion, which has been denied to them.
Anything to help them lose that tax-free status.
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pleco
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 00:15:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
... The music should be an "opt-in" option, if they want to keep it at all. ...
????????? Did you forget you had volume control????
My problem was it went on too long but I think I watched enough to get the gist.
Battlefield Earth is still one of my all time favorite books.  I said book, not movie, the movie didn't capture the book at all.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 00:27:09 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
... The music should be an "opt-in" option, if they want to keep it at all. ...
????????? Did you forget you had volume control????
My problem was it went on too long but I think I watched enough to get the gist.
Battlefield Earth is still one of my all time favorite books. I said book, not movie, the movie didn't capture the book at all.
"Oh Ron, why'd you have to change?"
I use a surround-sound, over-the-ears headset. (I use this because it lets me hear people creeping up behind me when I'm playing City of Villains.) It took me a few unpleasant seconds to turn down the volume.
I never read Battlefield Earth, as I just didn't get into Hubbard as science fiction writer. I did try reading Dianetics when I was a kid, but returned it to the library after a few pages, as it didn't seem to make any sense.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Ricky
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