Dude...is your cousin depressed or something?

Tax exempt status for churches is something I still don’t get.

If you speak out against them, you get a website. Sometimes they picket in front of your home. They will spread flyers in your neighborhood or where you work detailing your “crimes” or things you shared in your counseling sessions.

I think it’s really touching that she feels a guilt or a desire to “do the right thing” because she pushed the church so much. If you see her commercials from when she was younger, she is so idealistic about the church. She really had no idea what they do to people. I wish her success with all this.

Sounds about right.

“boyhood crush” is such a cute turn of a phrase.

He was also one of the most published writers in the US, which is so weird.

I thought place like AA and NA have to use evidence based practices.

They’re prepping to slither into political “bribery”/contributions now and training for politics.

Does the rest of the world call Mormonism a cult? Because there are a lot of similarities to Sci.

He will never end it. They see him as a messiah and they see Suri as the second coming of LRon. No kidding. Now that she’s out of the church, there are a lot of people who’ve moved on since she’s a SP with her mom. But Tom Cruise is routinely celebrated in the church as someone who has “brought Scientology” to like a…

I don’t disagree with you but the way that this cult utilizes its members as slave labor and acts as a great money laundering front is something that should absolutely be investigated and if nothing else, heavily fined.

Yes, and they’ve moved on from America to Europe, Asia, etc, where celebrity worship has only intensified.

God, I hope so. The problem is they’ve been certified as a church. How is the government going to take that back, ever, just because followers complain. It will never lose its religion status, but hopefully, fewer people will afford to become members.

Not trying to dox here, BUT, if you are assaulted in any way you do NOT tell anyone about it. Especially if the person who raped or assaulted you is above you in the organization. You are threatened to be exiled from the church, as the victim, for “sexual deviance” or something like that. If you do try to push forward…

People who rely on subsidies to SURVIVE but who also voted for Trump are true and pure depression to me. I think about their cognitive dissonance and BAM, I slip into a depression.

Omg, let’s you and me discuss dark matter!!!!

Awww you look so cute, though!

Immediate gratification. Good artists are booked up for months. I think lots of celebrities don’t want to wait and go to who ever is free in the city they’re living in or they’re visiting.

um. I’d love to hear this hatchet story.