The Church of Scientology finally opened their new Paris org a few months ago, the former Samsung HQ in Saint Denis, with a rush to open in time for the Paris Olympics for ‘the greatest chance for European dissemination ever seen’, basically doing what they’ve done preciously during Olympic Games; annoying locals and visitors giving out a tonne of leaflets about dianetics, their front groups (Narconon, The Way to Happiness, A Drug Free World) and offering people stress tests and touch assists.
French cult watchdog Miviludes has put out a warning that these seemingly harmless sounding leaflets are front groups for a dangerous cult, proving yet again why France, along with Germany, is the one of the only nations on earth willing to take a hard line against Scientology.
Very impressive…
… Had they not just last week given the second in command of that dangerous cult one of the highest honours France can bestow. So… cult is bad. Bloke who is best friends with the cult’s leader, has for decades influenced the direction of the cult, and has (allegedly ) directly and knowingly profited from the slave labour in the cult? He’s great.
Perhaps someone could ask Tom if he wants to serve L Ron Hubbards 4 years jail time after the French courts convicted him of fraud in-absentia back in the 80s, if Ron’s his hero he’d probably be delighted to…
Messy, and as I’m sure you’re well aware, TC (not to be confused with Top Cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fvhLrBrPQI) is doing the Olympics’ closing link to the next games in LA.
But apparently, he’ll do all his own stunts for it, so who knows what might happen…
Let’s hope he doesn’t get injured. Last time he broke his foot on the set of a mission impossible movie he (again, allegedly ) had the crew interrogated as to who was meaning him harm as scientologists believe the only reason you get injured or such is because someone is PTS (potential trouble source) to you and their bad thoughts towards you caused you harm. If he had to have the entire Stade de France put on the E-meter to see how many people meant him ill-will, it would become the longest closing ceremony in history…
Ah, Scientology, the most blatantly fabricated bunch of invisible sky friend nonsense yet.
Used to work with a bloke whose family were into that brain rot. He was basically an indentured serf for the local branch of xenophiles until he escaped in his early twenties, at which point his entire family disowned him.
Wood chipper for the leaders, counselling for the victims.
Scientology is basically a quasi religious ponzi scheme that expands in the spiritual vacuum of today’s science confused. Many people need the security of being told what to do, when and how to do it. They don’t need why. There is also confidence gained by many in finding common beliefs.
I wonder if AI will be learning these predictable human natures and succeed in concocting a suitable ‘religion’. Oh wait, maybe tech already has.
The trouble is that because a central tenet of Scientology is that all mental health professionals are evil (front group CCHR has a delightful museum I’ve visited on Sunset Blvd called ‘Psychiatry: an industry of death’ which puts the blame of everything from the holocaust to MKUltra to Covid on psychiatry) it often takes years to get the victims into counselling. They’ve spend decades being scared witless about these people so there’s such deep conditioning they need to overcome before they can accept help.
) directly and knowingly profited from the slave labour in the cult? He’s great.