#the church of Scientology

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

TORY CHRISTMAN

TORY CHRISTMAN

27 JUNE 1947

EX-MEMBER OF SCIENTOLOGY

            Tory Christman was a former member of the Church of Scientology and today is a critic of the church.

            Christman is an American woman who was brought up a Catholic and turned to Scientology in 1969 after reading a book by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. She joined the church with the hope of improving her life. She suffers from epilepsy which caused her difficulty during her time with Scientology, as the church does not approve of taking medication. During her time with Scientology she came in contact with celebrities such as John Travolta and she had to complain to MTV when South Park did a parody of Travolta. Christman was in charge of monitoring criticism of Scientology on the internet and her job was to remove it, or attempt to.

            Christman was a believer in freedom of speech, which made her question and doubt the Church of Scientology. She lost over $1 million during her time with the church, having to do numerous Scientology courses.

            She left Scientology in 2000 and as a result her husband, family and friends cut ties with her, as per the rules of Scientology. She went to Florida and joined a group who protested against Scientology and has since become one of Scientologists most prominent critics.

#torychristman #churchofscientology #scientology #LRonHubbard #thechurchofscientology  

[taylorvaughnsaidso]

okay but THIS IS SO WEIRD. And denying 'being a part of the church' ma'am...you opened a whole school????? with scientology teachings????

she really is just still talking isnt she.

[lisamariepresleyforever]

"Churches, that don't have a soul," she seethes on So Long. "Religion so corrupt and running lives. Farewell fair weathered friends."

If the song refers to her rumoured split from the Church Of Scientology, she is unwilling to talk about it directly, but she acknowledges that most of the songs on the record were the result of a dramatic, but cathartic, rift in her personal life. "My head was spinning, I was surrounded by a lot of things that I needed to rid myself of. I needed to shake some barnacles off." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19992974

[4kylebrennan]

The Miscavige Effect

David and Denise Miscavige The Miscavige Effect; Scientology’s Dark Side “An article in tomorrow’s paper may interest you,” said the voice on the phone. “It’s not directly about your son, Kyle, but I’m confident you’ll find the subject intriguing.” The speaker was Joe Childs, a Clearwater-based journalist who’d written multiple stories about the Church of Scientology.  “Let me know what you…

[jisreal64]

Hey guys I have a question, is it wrong that I think that the Disney Hatedom is a cult akin to Trump’s MAGA? I just think that because it has a lot of cult-like beliefs and qualities; being supported by both liberals and conservatives, threatening and doxxing people who work for or with the company, and even going as far as to physically attack people, all because of shit like Star Wars, Nimona, Blue Sky Studios, and the Owl House? Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think they’re all bad or evil, people like Don Bluth and Jeffery Katzenberg actually had valid reasons for hating the company imo, and people who genuinely don’t like most of the stuff they produce or the vibe they have are fine as well, I just hate the people who either hate it religiously or use the “I don’t hate the movies” excuse (to me that’s like a White American saying they can’t be held responsible for slavery because their ancestors were Irish immigrants, even though it’s actually about privilege and not about who’s ancestors did what). It’s gotten to the point where I have more respect for organized religious cults than them:

Although I do think a lot of them are just people who don’t know any better, I just feel like they done to both me and others to get away with it.

[theinvisiblemuseum]

Thank you for opening my eyes to regdora 🙏

but of course, if i’m going to be weird and obsessive about something, i need to inflict others with my psychic visions as well 🫡

[theexodvs]

Given the (warranted) suspicion given towards the disease denialism found in both Christian Science and Scientology, it can be said that if the claims of the neurodiversity movement were attached to organized religion, they too would be constantly lambasted.

[revshoggoth]

Tom Cruise and I are a lot a like. We're both 5'5. We're both handsome popular and talented. We're both in UFO cults. The biggest difference between us is that he thinks mental health is real but mental illness is fake, and I think mental health is fake but mental illness is real

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"It’s insane, it’s just insane,” Valerie Haney kept saying as she emerged from her first day undergoing the Church of Scientology’s top-secret “religious arbitration” process. Haney’s outfit that day—a tight black minidress and thigh-high leather boots complementing her long, curly hair and spiky sharp fingernails—was as different as possible from the drab Sea Org uniforms she had been forced to wear for decades.

Her two attorneys, Guy D’Andrea and Graham Berry, were ready with their notepads, and all eyes were on Haney, who was set up in front of a portable backdrop in a hotel room at the Commerce Casino, just a mile away from Scientology’s massive printing plant warehouse southeast of Los Angeles—where she had just spent the past several hours reliving the most traumatic events of her life. “How did you feel going in there?” D’Andrea asked after a privately hired court stenographer had put Haney under oath.

“Scared,” she replied. “I was shaking.” Seven years after escaping from Scientology in the trunk of a car and taking her fight against the church all the way to the Supreme Court, Haney had been forced to go crawling back to the place she had never wanted to set foot in again. Valerie Haney was born to parents who had already signed Scientology’s billion-year “Sea Org” contracts by the time she arrived in 1979.

In a new 54-page sworn declaration, Haney explains why spending the first 33 years of her life in Scientology—raised by the church rather than by her parents—helps to explain how she got where she is today.

[tilbageidanmark]

(All the other memes I made..)

[ragingbullmode]

got excited over the new linkin park album but reading up on this new singer… 😭🔫

[prettyboyharrington]

not linkin park bringing in a new singer that's actively a scientologist, you know scientology, the "religion" that doesn't believe in mental health or mental health care and actively tries to bring down psychologists and mental health workers when chester passed by suicide

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Jesus Christ, if Randall Tier is the best we can do for proof that mental illness is treatable, I’m fucked.

[msclaritea]

BY JOHN DILILLO

NOV. 11, 2021

"Method acting is a Hollywood tradition that’s netted many an Oscar and irritated thousands of coworkers, but it’s likely never been this stinky before. For The Power of the Dog, the new Netflix psychological-thriller-meets-cowboy-romance, Benedict Cumberbatch joins the unwashed ranks of celebrities like Jake Gyllenhaal and Ashton Kutcher. To stay fully in character, the actor didn’t shower for six days.

It was a choice wholly encouraged by Oscar-winning director and writer Jane Campion.."

YOU DONE FUCKED UP, CIA, AND SCIENTOLOGY CONNECTED, GEORGE CLOONEY .

"The Clooney family connections to Washington and politics at the highest level is nothing new. Fun fact, his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of, you guessed it, Abraham Lincoln.

Not only is Clooney related to Washington royalty, he’s not the first person in his family to make it big in entertainment.

Cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was George Clooney’s aunt, the sister of his father Nick Clooney. George’s other aunt, Betty Clooney, was also a famous singer in the 1950’s. And yet another famous singer, “You Light Up My Life” singer Debby Boone, is George’s cousin. Recall that his father was a gameshow and TV host and it almost starts to seem as if being from certain families makes it a lot easier to break into Hollywood.

Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools where he served as an altar boy from the time he was young. By middle school Clooney had developed Bell’s Palsy, a type of facial paralysis. Bell’s Palsy is rare in adolescents, as it’s most commonly linked to sexually transmitted herpes and extreme stress. It’s worth noting that Clooney’s fellow United Nations and Council on Foreign Relations pal Angelia Jolie has also long struggled with Bell’s Palsy. In Clooney’s case, what with the rampant systemic child sex abuse we are learning has gone on for decades in the Catholic church and the connection between Hollywood, child sex abuse and Hollywood-linked military programs such as MK Ultra (recall Clooney’s father’s military ties), his having Bell’s Palsy as a child is certainly an interesting side note....Clooney studied acting with leading Scientologist Milton Katselas at his Beverly Hills Playhouse for 5 years, from 1982-1987.

In the book co-authored by the now-deceased-under-extremely-mysterious-circumstances Andrew Breitbart, Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity, Milton Katselas is discussed at length. As well as Scientology in general and it’s connection to Hollywood.

'Here’s the cliff’s notes: Think of Scientology’s presence in Hollywood as an intelligence dragnet to identify those who will trade compromising secrets for power and influence.'

One of the very top lieutenants of that intelligence operation, for decades, was Milton Katselas.

July 15, 2007, New York Times, ‘The Actualizer’: “Students have left Katselas’s school, the Beverly Hills Playhouse, because of the pressure they felt to join the Church of Scientology… they could not ignore how many of their classmates and teachers were Scientologists … and the assorted weirdness..."

[anotherpapercut]

wait actually I feel like it would be extremely easy to goad Ron DeSantis into doing something that would get him sued by the church of scientology. do any of you live in Florida I have some ideas

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

ELLI PERKINS

ELLI PERKINS

1949-2003

SCIENTOLOGIST WHO WAS MURDERED BY HER SON

Elli Perkins was a Scientologist who worked as a senior auditor inside the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York and also worked as a professional glass artist.

            Perkins was married to Don Perkins and they had two children. Their son Jeremy, aged 24 started showing disturbing behaviour and started hearing voices. Jeremy didn’t get the professional psychiatric care that he needed, as Scientology is against its members using medication and seeing psychologists. Instead, they sent him to Sea Org in California to get help which failed and he was returned to his parents. Jeremy’s condition became so bad he could no longer work. The Church of Scientology classified him as Level III ‘Potential Trouble Source’ and his mental illness exhausted all their efforts to cure him and instead they banned him.

            In 2001, Jeremy was arrested for trespassing at a University in Buffalo and he was placed inside a hospital and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Elli asked the court to place Jeremy into her care and she became his carer. Elli sought out alternative methods for treatment. A Scientologist doctor suggested that he should take vitamins and an executive director of Scientology suggested she should give Jeremy more work to do around the house to tire him out.

            On 13 March 2003, Jeremy’s parents agreed that he should stay with Scientologist Albert Brown for treatment and he was to leave that afternoon. That morning Elli told Jeremy to take a shower, when he came out of the shower he found his mother in the kitchen talking on the phone. He grabbed a knife and killed his mother with it. He later stated that because he couldn’t take his own life, he decided to take his mother’s instead. He said that he believed his mother was evil, that she gets mad at him when he plays the drums, makes him take vitamins and when she told him to take the shower that morning that was the ‘last straw’. Jeremy was placed into professional care (outside of Scientology) and put on medication which improved his condition.

            After the murder, the TV program 48 HOURS aired a segment on Perkins death which received complaints from Scientologists.

#scientology #churchofscientology #elliperkins #jeremyperkins #48hours