I reject the "Anonymous" campaign against Scientology, and its widespread acceptance ( Read more... )

"Paramount Pictures is terminating its relationship with Tom Cruise's production company, citing the actor's controversial behavior, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone said." - Wall Street Journal just now.

Where the worlds of pants-filling terror and head-throbbing annoyance meet: ACTION MOVIE MARKETING:

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming "Mission: Impossible III" got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb ( Read more... )

These people seem like Scientology Junior combined with TM and Faux Feng Shui.

Clear your space - Clear your life!
Can thoughts and feelings affect our environment? According to this new best-selling book, the Do It Yourself Space Clearing Kit, author Christan Hummel says yes! ( but why does he say that? )

After today's phrenology session I had an interesting talk with Brain Lady. I found myself explaining to her why she sounded like a postscientific wacko at first, before I learned more about her. Most of the problem is her language. She speaks Science and has been working at very technical jobs in the mental health field for 20 years, but when she' ( Read more... )

So here's the plan. I'm going to sell Dungeons & Dragons, specifically I think "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", as a cult. The idea is that the D&D books, while masquerading as a game, are actually the keys to an ancient and powerful spiritual tradition. And I alone am the chosen one who has been given the burden of showing Mankind the Way. The ( Read more... )

Music for Maniacs is a fine mp3blog for aficionados of outsider music and other oddities. Today's post revealed one of the main problems "New Religions" or "Cults" have; their gospel music blows chunks.

Submitted for your consideration, L. Ron Hubbard's music from 1980 for Battlefield Earth. Both of those tracks were intended as "soundtracks" to ( Read more... )

I decided to do some armchair research on this thing I'm trying. First stop was wikipedia, where a neurofeedback article had been flagged as both "neutrality disputed" and "needs to be cleaned up since May 2005". Uh oh. Sure enough, there are links to Scientology everywhere, and the tone of the article is not only dismissive but actively ( Read more... )

Edit: feisty_robot points out that this was originally a satire piece, and that the editors of the Toronto Fashion Monitor had been taken in. I guess they're no longer the continent's paper of record for me ( Read more... )

I cannot stop watching it.

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/24/tom_crui.shtml