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Some brain damage schadenfreude. A scientology 'success stories' video leaked: http://www.56.com/u73/v_MTE1MDcxOTQy.html I made some gifs from a few bits but honestly the whole thing is amazing.      
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Yvonmukluk posted:It's gotten to the point where you can find compilations of 'in the hood' pranks gone wrong. So it seems to me like OCK TV is just two skinny dweebs pissing off black people and trying to diffuse the situation by saying it's a jokes.
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Jul 11, 2014 09:57
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Assholes can't even get their references right, it's the red pill that lets you out. 
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Jul 11, 2014 09:59
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For the amount of Hollywood connections Scientologists have, you'd think they'd be able to hire people who are actually charismatic and persuasive in their advertisements instead of people who just look like manic weirdos. Well.
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Aerofallosov posted:
Nah, it's just not funny. Granted I am old and cranky, but BACK IN MY DAY  a fun prank was putting a rubber band on the little sprayer on the sink and waiting for someone to turn it on. No one ever thought "BOY THROWING THIS MILK ON THE GROUND WILL BE ~HILARIOUS~" and we'd have probably slapped em upside the head for mentioning something that god damned stupid.
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Jul 11, 2014 10:06
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Rabble posted:Pynselvaia
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Jul 11, 2014 10:14
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Aerofallosov posted:Oh, they did. The Schadenfreude thread has fulfilled a fantasy of mine mere days after bookmarking the thread. 
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Jul 11, 2014 10:18
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Drone_Fragger posted:I hope everyone who does those kinds of "pranks" unironically dies becaus they're not funny it's just flat up being a dick to people then going "BUT ITS A PRANK DUDE! HA HA HA!!!!" The absolute best ones are those that immediately result in so much violence that they can't even 'diffuse' the situation by yelling it's a prank. "Ey yo man let me just take your phone from your ha-FFRTRTRGFFDSDFDLSJDLKSJKLJKLRGJKLKJLKE uuuuuuuuuughIT'S A PRANK PRANK PRANK STOP STOP STOP"
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Jul 11, 2014 10:19
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im so happy see just punishment being doled out. gently caress teenagers and their rap music.
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I think this was in one of those failed prank compilations, but surely it deserves to be appreciated on its own because holy gently caress that punch. if you don't wanna see a gnarly face wound.e: VVVV in all fairness, I don't think this ~og prankster~ had time to decide how to react to the other guy's aggression. Rad Tad has a new favorite as of 10:58 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 10:49
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Rad Tad posted:I think this was in one of those failed prank compilations, but surely it deserves to be appreciated on its own because holy gently caress that punch. I even kinda like this dude, he just rolls with it and is pretty much "whelp I deserved that. Oh well." Pranksters who will actually accept that if you're a jackass to someone they might knock you out strike me as a lot less pathetic than "BAWWW IT'S A PRAAAANK." (that was still a fun punch to watch though) Magres has a new favorite as of 11:00 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 10:56
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Palpek posted:Some brain damage schadenfreude. A scientology 'success stories' video leaked: http://www.56.com/u73/v_MTE1MDcxOTQy.html what the gently caress are these people talking about         The schadenfreude is that every single one of these people paid thousands, probably tens of thousands of dollars to believe this horseshit that is Scientology.
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Magres posted:I even kinda like this dude, he just rolls with it and is pretty much "whelp I deserved that. Oh well." Pranksters who will actually accept that if you're a jackass to someone they might knock you out strike me as a lot less pathetic than "BAWWW IT'S A PRAAAANK." The thought of all the sweet YouTube hits his knockout would garner probably sweetened the deal just a little. I'm not even mad about that, because I watched the gently caress out of it. drat, that punch.
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Jul 11, 2014 13:24
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As I see it there's two options: a) Doing these things "as a prank" doesn't actually differ from doing them for any other reason. II Doing these things "as a prank" is worse then doing them for any other reason because you're actually farting at someone for the sole purpose of making money.
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Jul 11, 2014 13:37
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Can't wait to see him croak during the ol' Food Stamps On A String Prank In The Hood ITSAPRANK ITSAPRANK
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Or if a bunch of guys just stomped him into a red smear while shouting "This is a better prank!"
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Merijn posted:The schadenfreude is that every single one of these people paid thousands, probably tens of thousands of dollars to believe this horseshit that is Scientology.
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Jul 11, 2014 14:14
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Merijn posted:what the gently caress are these people talking about quote:In the late 1970s L. Ron Hubbard made an important breakthrough in the field of insanity and its true underlying cause. Both being insane and "not being OT" actually have the same common reason.
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Jul 11, 2014 14:17
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quote:L. Ron Hubbard made an important breakthrough in the field of bilking idiots out of their money. He figured that instead of writing loving shitawful sci-fi novels, he would start a church and then use the money he made to be a pederast on the high seas.
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Jul 11, 2014 14:22
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Tl;dr lovely sci-fi author discovers that by couching his writing in pseudo-spiritual bullshit and pretending it means something he can fleece people of millions. e: Wait, didn't know he was a pedo too. God drat.
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God drat, Javier Mascherano literally tore himself a new rear end in a top hat in the world cup this year. After getting a concussion anyway. As much as I hate soccer for all the retarded flops and overacting, tearing your rear end in a top hat open in a soccer match is pretty horrible. At least he wasn't a brazilian player, cause that'd be a whole new level of rape jokes headed his way.
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Well at least we can agree on one thing.
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razorrozar posted:Tl;dr lovely sci-fi author discovers that by couching his writing in pseudo-spiritual bullshit and pretending it means something he can fleece people of millions. The weird thing is that I read several books on how Scientology is a scam designed to con people out of their money and believe a badly-written sci-fi story, and Palpek's post still taught me some bullshit I hadn't heard before. The Scientology rabbit hole goes insanely deep.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:41
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Everything you need to know about scientology.
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Hydrolith posted:After being cut off from their families and friends and brainwashed. It's not your garden variety pseudoscientific bullshit, it's an actual cult. It systematically breaks down the resistance of its victims, reprogramming them to accept the cult dogma. Not the first, probably not the last, but probably the most successful. I have nothing but sympathy for their victims. On the other hand, it does convince you that once you've done the training, you can tapdance through life and never do wrong (as long as you keep getting audited), which is exactly why you can't find anyone who buys into it and doesn't have that manic, intense stare. They all truly believe they've been handed the keys to life's Ferrari when everyone else is driving an early 90s Geo Metro. Tom Cruise on Oprah was relatively normal behaviour for a can-squeezer because that's just what humanity is like when they're cleared and become an Operating Thetan™, man. One Swell Foop has a new favorite as of 16:11 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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JamesieAB posted:Everything you need to know about scientology. Welcome to the early 90s in internet website design!
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JamesieAB posted:Everything you need to know about scientology. I haven't been able to find the video, but one of the main anti-Scientology dudes out there - one that Anonymous threw all the support in the world behind - posted a video of a protest outside a Scieno centre from a year earlier. Couple of people with signs, pretty much crickets chriping. Then he showed the same scheduled protest a year later and it's ABJECT LUNACY. Probably close to a thousand people, whistles, yelling, parading up and down the street in front of the Scieno depot. I've seen a few videos where he was moved to tears to see his cause get actual support, but, man, that was one of the highlights of it all. Can't even imagine what it must be like to fight a truly evil organization with almost no support and all of a sudden have the whole freaking world show up and have your back. Just fantastic. And on the prank thing, I think this will go the way of the happy slap pretty quickly. That died off with all sort of speed when kids were getting the poo poo kicked out of them post-slap and those videos started surfacing. In this case it's going to be one of the these fuckers getting killed because they're already at the getting the poo poo kicked out of them stage. Really wish we didn't have to see someone die over this, but we already know that's exactly how this is going to finally come to an end. And dare I say it will be Darwinism at it's finest. acejackson42 has a new favorite as of 16:32 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Palpek posted:Some brain damage schadenfreude. A scientology 'success stories' video leaked: http://www.56.com/u73/v_MTE1MDcxOTQy.html  The crazy emanating from my computer screen... I've never seen people talk so enthusiastically about nothing. I mean, when Louis Thoreaux went inside the WBC at least they had concrete ideas to talk about and a party line for their cult that made a twisted sort of sense. This...this is just complete insanity.I just heard the words "When she opened the indoctrination booklet" and that sentence ended with "This is what I've been missing?!" I fundamentally do not understand how you lose your mind enough to join a cult and not have something you do or say just snap you out of it entirely. I watched a netflix documentary about this a few days ago and I still just don't understand at all. TheSpiritFox has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Aerofallosov posted:Oh, they did. This makes me hope that the idiots who pull those 'pranks' will get charged with a hundred counts of harassment, mischief or whatever else you can call all of that.
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The psychology of cults is fascinating and I don't pretend to understand it all, but it has something to do with how smart people are used to understanding things the people around them don't, so when someone shows them "secret knowledge" they glom onto it and twist their minds into weird shapes trying to understand it while denying that they really don't get it. The fact that it's incomprehensible bullshit all the way down isn't a deterrent, it's just another "level" with a nugget of truth to be revealed at the end of it like a mental mouse snack at the end of a seriously hosed up maze. I give Hubbard no credit at all for knowing any of this, or for deliberately crafting such a concentrated form of loony.
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What you have to understand is that before this stuff broke, the crazy part of Scientology was hidden deep, deep down. You had to be a high-level member before you got to find out the true origin of the world. By the time you ever heard the name Xenu, you'd been a church member for years and attended hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Clearings and been alienated from everybody in your former life. You have a choice at that point. You can leave the church knowing that you have no friends, no assets, and that once you're gone you will be labeled a Suppressive Person and the people you considered your brothers will be duty-bound to destroy your life, or you can stay and try to reconcile things in your head. After all, it's not really that crazy an idea, is it? Christianity's got some pretty out-there stuff too, doesn't it? And this sure would explain a lot of things. Yeah, you know what? It makes perfect sense! Wow! I'm so glad to have my eyes opened after all these years of not knowing that there were millions of ancient extraterrestrial souls inhabiting my body!
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The entire basic premise of Scientology - boiled down to its very core - is the process of gathering enough negative information about you that it can be used against you as blackmail if you decide to leave and from there keep you around and paying them money. And here's the glorious thing - enough people now know this that even the most heinous poo poo that you actually did can be written off as 'Scientology shitheels making it up because I won't give then $90,000 for OT2.' There are still some gullible folk out there who either think people still believe what Scienos say combined with the sunken cost fallacy, but their ranks are thinning out. We aren't too far away from the IRS realizing this as well - once it cracks through that no one believes a word these shitheels say about anyone anymore given their complete dishonesty at every level in the past, that'll be it. And I really, really hope ole Miscarraige is in power to see it happen.
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Trundel posted:This makes me hope that the idiots who pull those 'pranks' will get charged with a hundred counts of harassment, mischief or whatever else you can call all of that. Someone has to care enough to file charges and it's probably a lot more satisfying to just slap the poo poo out of the dumbass a couple of times and call it even.
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A rare case of standing fencing response
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canepazzo posted:A rare case of standing fencing response Looks like a good way to mess up your backyard.
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RandomFerret posted:You have a choice at that point. You can leave the church knowing that you have no friends, no assets, and that once you're gone you will be labeled a Suppressive Person and the people you considered your brothers will be duty-bound to destroy your life, or you can stay and try to reconcile things in your head. Duty bound to destroy your life? Like, specifically to work to undo someone or something like that? Not just amish style shunning but active life sabotage? I don't know that much about scientology except what pops up in a thread now and then and the jokes I've seen and the lawsuits I've heard of for people who say bad things about the church. What exactly do they do to people who leave? I'm starting to go through that operation clambake website, is it all there? Sorry to scientology derail this stuff is just fascinating and I know almost nothing about them. flakeloaf posted:The psychology of cults is fascinating and I don't pretend to understand it all, but it has something to do with how smart people are used to understanding things the people around them don't, so when someone shows them "secret knowledge" they glom onto it and twist their minds into weird shapes trying to understand it while denying that they really don't get it. The fact that it's incomprehensible bullshit all the way down isn't a deterrent, it's just another "level" with a nugget of truth to be revealed at the end of it like a mental mouse snack at the end of a seriously hosed up maze. You know I can kinda get this as a former catholic. I tried to make it all fit. I learned about evolution and I tried to fit it in with church dogma (not all that hard, Catholics ascribe to intelligent design which is just "Evolution Because God". At the same time, Catholicism has had forever to flesh itself out into the War and Peace of religions and Scientology seems more like The Hardy Boys meets the novelization of ET or something. Really, what it comes down to is the difference between Catholicism which can and does allow for you to form communities with people who are not Catholics without it threatening your faith and Scientology which purposefully isolates you from anyone and then uses blackmail and threats to keep people in line. I guess most people don't realize the blackmail and isolation until it's already under way? I just don't understand on any level letting some outside group dictate who you spend time around or associate with, to determine for you who "good" people are and who "bad" people are.
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TheSpiritFox posted:Duty bound to destroy your life? Like, specifically to work to undo someone or something like that? Not just amish style shunning but active life sabotage? Like bankrupt you with frivolous lawsuits, phone your house at all hours, picket your workplace, present your family members with faked proof of affairs and literally harass you until you kill yourself.
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Aerofallosov posted:Maybe I'm old and cranky, but I just don't see it being funny. Same here. Some poor bastard working minimum wage has to go clean up after these little shits. I remember ages back when there was (very briefly) a fad to go into stores and just jump right into the displays, smashing everything and then running out. So satisfying when the idiots doing it got arrested. Ruining other peoples' poo poo isn't funny.
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