Anonymous Scientology Protest in London

do you need the space between the end of a word and the punctuation?

;)

chris crash do you need the space between the end of a word and the punctuation?

;)

For me it is an aesthetic issue !

Let the voice of reason (Wikipedia) weigh in on this one:

On the subject of punctuation: 'Some people say that a colon must be separated from the words around it with one space before and two spaces after. Some people use no space before and one space after. The rule, like all punctuation, is up to the writer to decide.

wheels I am guessing you said something to the effect of "well then trading you bike bits for that Sam Harris works out really well for me, did i tell you it feels exactly like a brick"

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That's ok, I get most of my pleasure from simply holding the book, the heavier it is the more I enjoy it.

I imagine you assimilate information from books in a Osmosis type process.

When protesting against Scientology a mask is a good idea; from Popbitch a couple of years ago

Scientology scare <<
Tom Cruise is always watching you

medium_smart writes:
"I used to work in an office on Goodge Street. When I clambered onto the roof to smoke I looked straight into the recruitment offices of the
Scientologist Centre. I'd sit and watch morons walk in off the street to get "audited" and towards the end of their treatment, I'd lean
into the window and say something caustic. Which I thought was funny and they probably didn't. I kept up this juvenile behaviour for
about a week.

"Then one Sunday, I was at home (miles out of London) and someone knocked on my window. I opened it. There were two men in suits,
saying, "we thought you'd like to see how it feels'. They then proceeded to heckle and generally freak out anyone who came anywhere
near the house for the next five hours, as well as reading stuff from their weird book at full volume in the street and telling my
neighbours that I was a 'godless and aggressive unbeliever'."

Vinz [quote]wheels I am guessing you said something to the effect of "well then trading you bike bits for that Sam Harris works out really well for me, did i tell you it feels exactly like a brick"

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That's ok, I get most of my pleasure from simply holding the book, the heavier it is the more I enjoy it.

I imagine you assimilate information from books in a Osmosis type process.[/quote]

Yeah, I suck at reading. :)

Just out of academic interest I did one of their tests at the office in Tott. Ct rd.

When it finished they worked out the results and suddenly appered to become nervous.

They backed away from me and seemed to be looking for objects that could be used as weapons.

I was asked to leave.

Apparently my profile was somewhere around psychotic/sociopathic/ dangerous to freaky religous cults.

So i got beck on my SS and pedaled off, happy to be judged a danger to mankind.

Toodle pip.

Being labeled as psychotic by a scientologist menas you are either very sane or very insane.

markrjohnson
Apparently my profile was somewhere around psychotic/sociopathic/ dangerous to freaky religous cults.

jealous

wheels [quote]asm I just read up on scientology, yes it clearly is a threat to the things we hold dear. To class it as religion, however, is grossly inaccurate. Are you a fan of richard dawkins wheels? :)

Scientology is a religion by definition, how do you think this claim is inaccurate ?

I quite like Prof Dawkins as a person (in interviews/lectures and so on) but I think his writing lacks a little in style - or at the least doesn't really appeal to me, although I do agree with the vast majority of what he says. I am more a fan of Dennet, Harris and Hitchens.[/quote]

Scientology define themselves as a religion, but they do not deserve the moniker. Unlike Christianity, Judaism, Islam etc., they didn't even start out with good intentions. They sort of embody every single bad thing that taints peoples' perceptions of religion.

I'm not in the slightest bit religious, my view on the subject is 'why should anyone care whether there is or isn't a god?' Your militant atheism reminds me of evangelism, though.

The existence of a god cannot be proved, but it also cannot be disproved, so to say there is no God is just as unfounded as to say there isn't. I used to hold a similar point of view - religion causes all wars etc... that it is generally speaking a bad thing that should be avoided - but it's not religion that is to blame, it is people within those religions who twist the doctrine or deliberately misinterpret it. Actually it's a misinterpretation to consider it doctrine, really.

[cite] asm:
The existence of a god cannot be proved, but it also cannot be disproved, so to say there is no God is just as unfounded as to say there isn't.

Using reasonable methods of deduction leads you more towards the latter rather than the former.

You cannot misinterpret something that has no clear interpretation. What makes a moderate western interpretation of the Koran any better than a 'fundamentalist's?'

I thought the scientologists had some sort of lobby going at the moment to have it self recognised as a religion - presumably it comes with tax breaks and imunity from intellectual rigour. As far as i knew it still wasn't technically a 'religion' in the UK.

That might be a load of arse though as i've no idea where i read it.

B.

I don't think that religious texts are that mysterious. Yeah they are inconsistent, and have some questionable entries, but generally speaking there is a pretty straightforward message a lot of the time - don't be a twat, dont kill anyone, dont pillage/rape/etc.

You're right, you can't misinterpret something with no clear interpretation, but you can use it as an excuse to do bad things (which seems to be the only thing that scientology is!). That's what makes the majority of people's interpretation of the Koran 'better' than a fundamentalist who uses it to harm others.

Reasonable methods of deduction shouldn't be used when talking about religion, really. I worded that sentence pretty badly, I admit - it's not about proving whether god exists, that doesn't matter to someone who is religious, because they have faith. Faith has nothing to do with rationality or logic, and faith is what religion is all about. I haven't got it in me to blindly believe in a higher power, but I have respect for people who do - a good analogy that I read about once was that faith is sort of like a comfort blanket for some people. It's what they have to fall back on.

I find people like richard dawkins deeply threatening. I think hating anything (well talking about anything negatively) to the extent that he does is worrying, and talking that way about religion is quite ironic - he is renouncing religion the same way religions have renounced one another for centuries.

B. - you're right, scientology isn't recognised as a religion in the UK, most of europe, Canada.. In fact most of the world. In Germany i think they consider it a business, and are attempting to ban it!

Scientology want to ban Germany.;)

EDITED For legal reasons.

TheBrick(Tommy) Scientology want to ban Germany.

Many people have written rather slanderous (and completely justified) books about scientology, and scientologists have then promptly sued for libel. one of them was shipped to countries like Israel/United Arab Emirates, BY SCIENTOLOGISTS, just so they could sue them in countries with scricter libel laws!!

They are 100% mad. As I write this I am actually worrying about getting a strange man following me to college.

They are 100% mad. As I write this I am actually worrying about getting a strange man following me to college.

alex…

thats a pretty name…

would you like some sweeties and an abductuion in an alien spaceship

whew i'm off the hook, they think tommy wrote that and not me...

(Edit) CURSES!!

we've updated our files…

Great... tomorrow there will be a man in a suit, on a fixed wheel bike, following me all the way to college.

Sanity is an illusion created by our alien masters to pander to the base human instinct for stability.
It allows us to integrate the real with the patently unreal.

I mean no one actually believes politicians are from this planet.................. do they?

Toodle pip

Lets get some stickers made with something along the lines of

"Ron Hubbard raped my Hamster"

TheBrick(Tommy) Lets get some stickers made with something along the lines of

"Ron Hubbard raped my Hamster"

That's what sellotape was invented for.

"Pass the sellotape, this ones split".

Toodle pip

If scientologist rode fixed wheel bikes, they'd have 'your fixie is fair game' stickers all over them.

or

'free fixed test' stickers