Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 249

insert gif of Kevin from The Leftovers saying "I live here now"

 

Thinking about it I have only been handed a pamphlet about Dianetics one time and it was at a gas station in downtown Clearwater literally down the street from Fort Harrison. The guy was obviously a convert.

None of my generational Scientologist friends tried to convert me. Legacy Scienos I have met are all actually pretty cool interesting people, just very damaged. A lot get into drugs and fighting.

One of Scientology's main rackets down here is churn and burn high attrition rate telemarketing call centers (their other racket is Chiropractors). The old rumor is that they use these as a conversion pipeline. The high performers they want to keep and promote get targeted. I was in an orientation for one of those places once and a lady straight up asked the trainer about this. She was speechless lol

 

I doubt I could be friends with a religious person.

 

Being friends with Scientologists is more like being friends with someone whose parents roped them into an MLM scheme when they were younger than being friends with religious person.

 

I went to a hardcore show at Scientology's main private school back in the day.

 

i wondered about that. it might be a predominantly western Christian thing (since outward proselytization isn't as prominent in other belief systems the way it is for Western Christians), but i guess how many practitioners of Scientology openly try to discuss the tenants of the movement (at least the ones they know about) the way you'd expect someone like a young Evangelical to? organizationally, new religious movements (and any organization, for that matter) thrive on being able to properly establish themselves as legitimate in the eyes of their contemporaries, but i don't know how outward followers are about their beliefs the way Evangelicals might be (even if Scientology does have a really strong recruiting push).

 

Converts talk about it openly, but they mainly stay in their little bubble downtown. Legacies don't really discuss it with their non-COS friends unless asked, and then they usually just downplay it as just a self improvement thing.

 

Any level of religious? Weird.

 

We are so fucking back

 

I feel like it wouldn’t be much of an issue for me unless they start actively pushing it in the context of the friendship

 

I think it's been talked about before, possibly even in this thread, but it's crazy how good/'well known' virtually every character actor in Twister is. Virtually everyone in that movie that isn't Paxton/Hunt/Hoffman/Elwes is someone I've seen in other movies/somewhere else before. I think there may be a couple of the extra's on Elwes team that we see briefly that I don't recognize, but that's about it.

 

It makes me very uncomfortable even briefly doing this

 

I can't remember the last time I drove with shoes on.

 

You are an insane person

 

stopping short and your heel starts bleeding

 

I’ve driven barefoot once, maybe twice in my life. Both times I was leaving the beach I think.

 

You kick off the sandals after a long day. It is as relaxing as unbuttoning your shirt or unbuckling your belt.

 

Are you jankin it in the car too?

 

Didn’t that band get cancelled

 

This is a family website.

 

We had a dude in the neighborhood that would drive around and eat cheese and jerk off at people. The swiss cheese pervert