The Cult of Scientology is all upset

[anysia]

Tom Cruise, front man for the Cult of Scientology, made a video extolling the virtues of Scientology. (Uh huh, a 'religion' created as a bet between three SciFi writers (one of them a mediocre hack at best), and just watch the sheeple line up to pay for enlightenment. The more money they give, the more enlightened they are.) The video is leaked out, and now the CoS is up in arms and going after everyone to take down the video due to 'copyright infringement'. More like embarrassment. Cruise delivers his speech with all the glassy eyed fervor of a indoctrinated minion.

Riiiiiight ONLY scientologists would help people at an accident. Guess we had better tell all the Firemen, paramedics, and EMTs to get the hell outta there and let Cruise and crew fix everything.

CoS wants the video to disappear, totally forgetting that not everyone is ignorant, and can save, copy and upload that video faster than the flu can pass through an office.

Wanna know why Dianetics stayed on the top 100 best sellers list? Because Scientologists would buy them from one branch of a book store, and then return it to a different one. How do I know this? Because I personally witnessed it. A group of them came into on W********ks and bought the books, raving at how wonderful they were, and how they could change my life etc etc. I just politely nodded and rang up their purchases I was filling in at that store. I went back to the W********ks I usually worked at, and lo and behold, I watched this group of people trickle in over 2 days and return the books for refunds.

Here is why they stayed on the top 100 list.... W********ks only records what books are sold. The ones that are returned aren't. They are typically counted as store loss/damaged and destroyed. And the CoS knew this. Seems that other bookstores in the same area had the same store policy. Doesn't sound like much, but multiply that over several books stores in all 50 states.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I hate the Scientologists because of their insanely vindictive (often downright illegal) tactics employed against dissenters. In at least one case they forced a major advocate of space expansion to flee the country. For that reason, I consider L. Ron Hubbard to be vile -- he started the "fair game" strategy for dealing with enemies, and I will not buy anything that he wrote (I do not wish to enrich his estate) save in used book resales.

[voodoolimbo.livejournal.com]

I still cannot decide if they are more a cult or an MLM scheme.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

You're not the first book shop assistant I've heard this from as well.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

Have to admit, The Cult of Stupidology knows how to work the book selling system. It's a helluva way to skew sales statistics.

[kilgates.livejournal.com]

My internet provider, xs4all, got in a few lawsuits with scientology, which xs4all all won. So I have a nice T-Shirt which says: xs4all - scientology: 3-0.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Get a picture of that shirt. :D