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dear god…that was…i linked it right away.
I know. hahahaha
So awesome.
i am sooo jealous of them!
I need an excuse to go to Hollywood…just for the museum. I wonder how pregnant women fair on the E meter, plus it’d be a cool story to tell my son someday.
I’m still thinking about doing the Celebrity Center brunch on Sundays, but I can’t talk anybody into going with me. I think it would be fun to act like I’m all interested in Shitology. And steal the silverware.
The E meter things are scary! The Scientologists were out in force in Old Town Pasadena last Saturday. They asked if I wanted my free stress test. I responded, I want nothing to do with your organization. I was irritated, but calm. That was until I walked across the street and there were more of them with tables of books and unsuspecting Christmas shoppers with the metal cylinders in their hands. Tell me about what is going on in your life. Another Scientologist saying to someone, I can tell you really want to understand. You really want to know. Thats when my calmness left me and as I passed the last table I shouted, CULT! and then walked to Lucky Baldwins for a pint. Imagine the audacity of setting up tables in one of the busiest commercial districts in the area and offering stress tests two days after Thanksgiving. Freaking shysters.
I don’t think I would have had Alex’s restaint and ability to apply subtle slams if I were in an L. Ron Hubbard museum. I’d be walking through yelling, “CULT! CULT! CULT!”
But that’s the whole thing, Patrick – Alex and I want to infiltrate. We want them to have no idea what we are thinking. We want them to feel open enough with us so that they start talking about Xenu to us, and blithering about thetans.
I actually saw, yet again, the Stress Test displays they have up in the subways and someday – when I have time and can get my act together – I am SO going to take one.
And – like Alex – I will pretend to know NOTHING about ANY of it. So that the Scientologist will then feel free enough to blither at me in an evangelical haze about his silly beliefs. I love that shite!
Don’t you think they’ve already figured out who you are by now?
Patrick –
If you’re gonna ruin our Scientology-busting fun, please stop. You don’t get it. We enjoy snickering at these people.
We hate the cult, like you do, but we are fascinated by the psychology. We want to GET CLOSE TO THE CRAZY.
So shaddup and let us have our fun.
Ok, ok, I’m just teasing you.
“GET CLOSE TO THE CRAZY.”
See, now that I get.
Exactly. Like: hmmmm, if I act absolutely oblivious and unthreatening, and act like I don’t even know who L Ron Hubbard is, and ask a ton of questions … then they will FREELY LET OUT THE CRAZY. And I SO want to be there when that happens! I want to hear them rave about thetans!
But we definitely need stormtroopers like yourself, willing to scream “CULT” in their faces. It must be a multi-faceted approach.
:)
You know, it’s scary, in an exhilirating sort of way, to consider that you are serious.