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What will the Thetans say? Top Scientologist launches rebellion over church leader's 'alterations
Daily Mail ^ | 1/3/12 | Graham Smith

Posted on 01/03/2012 10:14:11 AM PST by Nachum

A senior Scientologist has condemned the controversial religion's leader for turning the organisation into an autocratic, heavy-handed fundraising machine. Debbie Cook, one of the most respected members within the Church, sent a shock email denouncing chairman David Miscavige to 12,000 Scientologists just minutes after midnight on New Year's Day. She accuses him of turning the Church, which numbers celebrity followers including Tom Cruise and John Travolta, into a tyrannical regime in direct conflict with the doctrine laid down by founder L Ron Hubbard in the 1950s. Writing under a banner of 'Keep Scientology Working', Mrs Cook called out

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: church; rebellion; scientologist; thetans
Title: What will the Thetans say? Top Scientologist launches rebellion over church leader's 'alterations and violations'
1 posted on 01/03/2012 10:14:14 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Hail Xenu!


2 posted on 01/03/2012 10:15:31 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Nachum

Miscavige (The Human Yardstick) will have her killed. That’s his MO.


3 posted on 01/03/2012 10:19:06 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: Nachum

I am proud to say that my husband and I are on the official scientology enemies list and have been since 1975.


4 posted on 01/03/2012 10:20:41 AM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

She should hide out with some friends in rural america, any Scientology goons show up and they will disappear like Scientology victims have in the past.


5 posted on 01/03/2012 10:23:54 AM PST by GraceG
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To: svcw
I don't think I ever made the official list.

So you have questions about Scientology...

*sigh*

6 posted on 01/03/2012 10:28:12 AM PST by null and void (Day 1078 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Nachum

What will the Pope say? What will the Mormons say? What will the Sola Scripturalists say?


7 posted on 01/03/2012 10:28:12 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Nachum
Has to be a reason she waited till a few minutes after midnight.

Worst drunk text ever?

Does se really have inalienable rights or alienable?

8 posted on 01/03/2012 10:29:04 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: svcw
"I am proud to say that my husband and I are on the official scientology enemies list and have been since 1975. "

Yes, but do the Borg know about you?

9 posted on 01/03/2012 10:30:22 AM PST by FW190
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To: svcw

Sounds like Dear Leader Obama, doesn’t it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEPEgLYejMw


10 posted on 01/03/2012 10:40:38 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: Nachum

A respected scientologist, now there’s a fine oxymoron.


11 posted on 01/03/2012 10:48:49 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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12 posted on 01/03/2012 11:44:29 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Nachum

Has Greta weighed in with her opinion yet?


13 posted on 01/03/2012 11:51:36 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: svcw

“I am proud to say that my husband and I are on the official scientology enemies list and have been since 1975.”

How do I get on that list?


14 posted on 01/03/2012 12:04:53 PM PST by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: cizinec

Pretty humors really.
My husband’s friend convinced us that this new group had communication classes they were offering to college students, for a few dollars.
So we decide, hey we are in college we could use something like this.
Went to the first meeting, and they actually hooked you up to a lie detector to monitor the answered to the “ever so important” questions they were asking to find out which class would be best for you to take.
My uncle, taught me how to have zero reaction to show on the machine, the “teachers” were dumb founded that I recorded nothing.
They let us sign up anyway.
You’d go to these classes, read some material and then were quizzed about what you were reading.
I told them that the material was so incorrect that it was a waste of my time to answer their idiot questions.
Yet, for a few dollars more, I was advanced to another class.
The second class was really weird, you sat their while the “teacher” insulted you, you where not supposed to react, which I did not and then I was excoriated for being bored, why not I was.
So I started to ask more questions, by this time my husband was challenging them on their supposed “scientific” information.
Apparently “questioning” them is a no no.
So we both had to go to different “teachers”, husband to be taught real science (bad more on their part, and me to a new teacher to insult me.
The guy actually slapped me to get a reaction. I grabbed his hand told him if he touched me again I would pull his heart out of his ass and make him eat it.
That same day my husband (who is a scientist) started drawing scientific equations to prove them wrong, and demanding to see where they were getting their info.
Needless to say we were called into their office for another talk.
They said we must repent of our outbursts and go back to the classes assigned into to reclaim our sanity or some such thing.
My husband looked at me and I started laughing so hard I thought I was going to wet my pants.
They got madder and madder, talk about reactions.
So they stormed out, slamming the door after asking us to wait.
The leader came back with a piece of paper, that said if we were not willing to start the classes over, of course more money this time, we would forever be placed on their enemies list and denied clarity forever.
It was really hard to even attempt to not laugh. I pick up the paper and tore it in half and asked for another option.
The guys literally threw cash at us, the amount we had paid plus one dollar and screamed at us to leave.
When we walked out of the office, all of the teachers were lined up in the hallway, facing us as we walked out they each turned their backs to us and faced the wall (think it was about 50 people on each side).
By the time we got to the door, I could hardly walk from laughing. I opened the door, my husband turned to these people all facing the wall and said “th th that’s all folks”
I guess they couldn’t leave the hall until we closed the door, so we just stood there laughing for about 5 minutes, when the door shut we could see them leave the hall back to there class rooms.
And that’s how we did, asked questions and challenged their scientific information.
There is an office down town, and I went about six months ago gave them my name, the girl said “I can’t help you”. Boys these people really hold a grudge. ;-)


15 posted on 01/03/2012 12:37:58 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: svcw

WONDERful story. WELL PLAYED.


16 posted on 01/03/2012 12:42:07 PM PST by Lazamataz (Romney is the Pale Obama. That's all.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Nah, he might just send her to “volunteer” aboard the SS Scientology for a decade or so until she is re-educated.


17 posted on 01/03/2012 2:35:51 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: svcw
I can hardly believe that they gave you your money back. Everything else rings totally true from the contact I have had with those people. It's just hard to believe that you bent them so far out of shape that they actually gave you back your money. They are all about the money.
18 posted on 01/03/2012 7:30:26 PM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

They actually gave us one dollar more, something about ending the contract being ended in a professional manor. The whole thing was surreal. We still laugh about it.


19 posted on 01/03/2012 8:01:39 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: cizinec; svcw
“I am proud to say that my husband and I are on the official scientology enemies list and have been since 1975.” How do I get on that list?

X2 I have been wanting to make this list for quite a while.

20 posted on 01/04/2012 6:18:26 AM PST by verga (We get what we tolerate and increase that which we reward)
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