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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:25 PM
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Holy. Shit.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:26 PM
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1. snarf
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:06 PM
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17. How about them Patriots* ?
:hide:
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:07 PM
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22. you better duck...
;-)
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:27 PM
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2. That's ok, Hillary channels bush and Obama Channels Reagan
or so I hear around here :rofl:
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:28 PM
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3. That was scary!
:hide:

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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:30 PM
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4. The Republican mindset paved the way for Scientology to thrive.
From everything I've read, Scientology seems to be a "personal responsibility" cult just like the Republican Party, declaring war on anyone and anything that dares to differ, with no consideration or tolerance for biological and environmental influences. :thumbsdown:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:32 PM
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5. Scientology: life among the ultimate me-isms...
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:44 PM
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6. However, Tom Cruise, who is from Syracuse, NY
donated $1,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign in 2000.

It's unfortunate that L. Ron did not keep writing science fiction instead of starting his own cult. He could have been as fondly remembered as Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein.
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:52 PM
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9. ? I thought he was from Glen Ridge, NJ. ? (I lived in Montclair, the neighboring town).
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:16 PM
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18. sorta, but mostly not
from Wiki
"Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York,<5> the son of Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer...
When Cruise was twelve, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sister Lee Anne with her.<12> Cities in which Tom lived included Ottawa, Ontario (where he attended Colonel By Secondary School), Louisville, Kentucky, Winnetka, Illinois and Wayne, New Jersey."
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:27 PM
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20. Wayne? He didn't live there - he went to H.S. in Glen Ridge. He's a big deal there.
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zalinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:48 PM
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7. Sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about
It's all fine and good to make fun of someone's religion, as long as it's not yours. Personal responsibility means that taking responsibility for dumb decisions, and not blaming it on some one else. Not everything that happens to you is not your fault, you have to take responsibility for those things that are your fault. And yes, Scientology does focus on the individual, because only you can decide for yourself what is right and wrong. Your responsibility resides with you first, then your spouse/family, then your group (which could be anything, like Democrats for instance), then mankind, then all life forms, then physical universe, then spiritual being, then god. If you, yourself, sits on the couch for the rest of your life, you help no one.

zalinda
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:53 PM
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10. How about if you don't sit on the couch, but jump on it?
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:54 PM
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12. Scientologists seek to influence public policy, re: psychiatry and psychiatric drugs.
What say you about that?
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:54 PM
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13. I didn't know 'scientology' was a religion.
Honestly!
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:55 PM
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15. In many countries, it's not. (nt)
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:20 PM
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19. much as I respect most religions, I don't see it as such
Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 02:21 PM by hfojvt
considering that its founder admitted that he started it as a way to make lots of money. Greed is one of the world's oldest religions, but it is not one that I feel the need to respect.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:55 PM
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14. Welcome, Xenu. (nt)
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JustDavid Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:03 PM
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16. Hear!
Hear!
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:49 PM
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8. That Was A Brilliant Concept By Ann. That Was Too Funny! (And Scary)
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:54 PM
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11. roflmfao! n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:54 PM
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21. I've never seen a possession before.
I guess there still is a calling for exorcists.
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