Optimisticate

First person: I escaped Scientology after 22 years

"No one who...conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." - Freud

62 years ago, January 30, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated. His tech lives on.


February 2010 - The beginning of the end.

March 2010 - Kirstie Alley takes over cult promotional duties from Tom Cruise and excels.

subgenius

Great, and that's no tabloid is it?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.---Voltaire
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.---Napoleon Bonaparte
My adversary is my benefactor--Anon
What Would Ron Do?

azonymous

No tabloid and no comments...yet...

Jett Travolta
Kyle Brennan
PAST LIFE IMPLANTS
AUDITING BODY THETANS

BTANONNYC

good article, found it funny/disgusting that there was a dianetics advertisement right fucking next to his picture : /

"Fuck L. Ron Hubbard
And fuck all his clones"

-Maynard James Keenan

XENU, BODY THETANS, ETC, ETC.

ARC

Tom Newton (or impersonator) being funny in the comments.

Also, this seems strange or misguided:

What?

We know it's not available on amazon.co.uk, but when I search there I find books about the military (also named The Complex, as in the military-industrial), the Baader-Meinhof complex, X-Men and the Stand Alone Complex (Ghost in the Shell). Maybe the guy has looked at a lot of Scientology books and get recommended Scientology books because he's logged in?

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SP_thats_me

He left in 2006, not 2005, according to the book.

Optimisticate

Digging around using a personal account as well as a corporate account turned up no books called "Complex" that are pro-scientology. However, I did find another book (and maybe it's for another thread?) called "Scientology" that is coming out in March (next month). Still trying to figure out if the author is mis-guided in his "facts" (ie. LRon being made a frikking blood-brother which is known to not be true). Here's a link to the reader on amazon with a little preview of the book:
And this book came out Feb 3:
*Edit: Don't click the thumbnails links, I don't know WTF happened there but I can't edit them out. Please use Amazon links in text.

"No one who...conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." - Freud

62 years ago, January 30, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated. His tech lives on.


February 2010 - The beginning of the end.

March 2010 - Kirstie Alley takes over cult promotional duties from Tom Cruise and excels.

Lorelei

James R. Lewis...sounds familiar. Isn't he a known Sci / NRM apologist?

Protesting the abusive practices of the Cult of Scientology is pertinent to my interests.
Scientologists: Aren't you tired of buying the same books over and over?
In Soviet Russia, YouTube video watches YOU! Report YouTube Asshats here FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
So I herd u liek BODY THETANS. o_O !!

A-non-non-anon

That book linked to is a load of Apologist Bullshit. I flicked briefly through a copy, and the logical and factual errors made me RAAAAAAAAGE

And yes, Lorelei, he's the guy who had a trip to Japan paid for by Aum Shryenko, and then told the Japanese government that AS didn't do the Sarin Gas attack.

Did you 2WC with the wrong terminal?
Did L&N fail on the Body Thetans?
OSA, what are you hiding from your Body Thetans?

Anonymous

yes
he seems to be an idiot

A.Non Hubbard

James R. Lewis was one of the guys who was a hired apologist for Aum Shinrikyo after they gassed the Tokyo Subway. He and another jackass named Gordon Melton were paid by them to fly over and at a press conference say Aum Shinrikyo aren't capable of such acts.

Who Is David Miscavige?

Spangly

In fact, here's Private Eye's review of the book which also has a bunch of background about James R(etard) Lewis:

BadCult.info is a growing list of simple answers to "Why is Scientology Bad?"
Book TR.IMs for signs/leaflets: tr.im/bonnie and tr.im/complex. Also, tr.im/rundown for SP Times. ABC's Four Corners show is at tr.im/exfiles

A.Non Hubbard

That's a great review. I forgot about it.

Who Is David Miscavige?

Lorelei

Thanks for verifying that. I knew I recognized that name.

Protesting the abusive practices of the Cult of Scientology is pertinent to my interests.
Scientologists: Aren't you tired of buying the same books over and over?
In Soviet Russia, YouTube video watches YOU! Report YouTube Asshats here FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
So I herd u liek BODY THETANS. o_O !!