I don’t mean to laugh but this is fucking amazing.

I’ve never heard of this before.

WHAT. IS. HAPPENING.

It’s something that happens in a lot of refugee camps and it is very, very stressful on families. It can also lead to women/children being vulnerable to abuses. I don’t know why “they” still enforce this kind of rule.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/politics/congress-women-military-draft.html?_r=0

Make contact with Leah and Mark. Make sure you have contacts who know your name when you go public with publishing.

Haha musicians who rape, that’s not a thing is it?

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.