Bingo, I'm in a confusing situation and having to be careful around some local evil doers that are a bit touchy or much more so about whether or not we're attending a theist place or not. Not sure what to do. This weekend another road trip to a nice Scientology Church is planned. I found UU in 2012. Lately, I've attended UU. The last theist place was LDS. It was a special post natural disaster situation with a missing better half, the death of both parents, red tape and scrambling for a new job. I'm not romantic so an entirely overly romantic situation for my liking. Aside from not knowing what to do or say about some eoe issues, I was doing great until some got to insisting on literalism and I'll leave out another long story from an LDS elsewhere. In short locally I'm ending up at UU with studies, tv, YouTube, and occasional activities with the Scientologists that haven't arrived here yet. They do have great media skills.
"nice Scientology" that is surely a contradiction in terms?
Not an organisation I choose to be involved with, in fact not something I want to even be remotely associated with.
They have their share if scape goaters and confused folks that get involved. Mostly people hear horror stories about any group often started by instigators or smearers. Lots of theists love to portray Scientologists as the great evil. Plenty of theists go on about which other groups are cults or all evil doers. Some have very evil plots and think it's cute. It's estimated that generally around the world 80% of the people we meet aren't going to be trouble.
Here's an example. Scientologists support CCHR. Churches can't directly right now supposedly to separate church from state. One big campaign is to end psychiatry fraud with the Monsanto drug campaign to level everyone and give them drugs that actually maim and kill. So a young woman goes to one of the tamest orgs. She felt quiet and shy and didn't say anything to the greeters. A few approached her and said that she needed to go to a hospital right away for a through check up as she obviously had some serious mental disorder since she didn't say hello.
The presiding Scientologists were not happy about that treatment of the young woman who fortunately got to know the sincere ones. Not sure what happened to the 3 suggesting the hospital. Anyway, a smearer could take something like that throw it in the paper to discredit the entire group. Intentionally slander or not, it doesn't reflect what they really stand for at all. Some of the antics are much worse.
An aunt lives in Tampa and they get smeared loads down there by theists trying to claim they're a great evil taking over. It's more like they're helping end a lot of crime and cooperating with many friendly theists, too.
@WarmFluffy I'm sorry but if you are an apologist for that neo fascist bunch of con man bullies and murderers I would appreciate your not peddling your BS to me, you're obviously utterly brainwashed and terrified of squirrel busters turning up on your doorstep.
Posted by LenHazell53One afternoon in The Sacred Grove
Posted by CManSo Very True
Posted by LenHazell53Anyone else know this?
Posted by CManQuestion: Why are the mormon$ allowed to build & operate ca$ino$ in residential neighborhoods? Answer: Because the house always wins!!!
Posted by LenHazell53While mourning the deaths at Colorado Springs park to honor five people killed and 17 wounded in a weekend shooting at a gay nightclub.
Posted by snytiger6Just as I thought...
Posted by snytiger6LMAO... Help me Joseph Smith...
Posted by snytiger6The desert quadrillogy.
Posted by snytiger6An apt description.
Posted by snytiger6Missionary positions...
Posted by snytiger6Sadly, I was raised Mormon...
Posted by LenHazell53LDS opens new incontinent "men only" old folks rest home in SLC
Posted by LenHazell53Proof that Mormons really are special
Posted by LenHazell53And Why is President Nelson Scrooge McDuck evicting people at Christmas? To build yet another Temple in Utah that no one wants or needs. These bastards just get worse and worse [fox13now.com]
Posted by CManHappy conference weekend
Posted by LenHazell53Saw this on reddit, sums things up quite well I thought