You are watching all these clips, right? Tell me you're watching them ...
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The dude is a bat-shit lunatic. And an ignoramus, to boot. It's a bunch of blather. He can't even complete a sentence. 
Hi Ross. So, those are clips? I thought they were just cute pictures. How do they work again? much bloglove, Ezra Klein
Ross, I am watching them, just as you requested. These video clips are glorious. It's like stopping to watch a car wreck.
But Noah Feldman said all religious are equally rational. Now I'm confused. Help Noah...help.
And now we find out just how many C&D letters the Church of Scientology is willing to send out...
Does anyone else find it jarring that when the reasonably articulate EMT worker is speaking, his words are captioned? Apparently, Scientologists can decipher secret alien communication from remote epochs but, without the aid of subtitles, can't comprehend the contemporary Earthling patois of lightly accented English.
What's startling is not what he's saying, but the fact that he can't seem to get out a single coherent thought, not even once. Of course, he is using some Scientologist-speak that may seem nonsensical (i.e. the way they use "ethics") , but still.
I think this shit just happens to celebrities. Tom Cruise is an extreme example, but anyone who is surrounded by yes-men and shielded from criticism long enough is eventually going the fall out of a stable Earth orbit: Tom's been sling-shotted into the cognitive equivalent of deep space. Who is there that could actually explain to Mr. Cruise that he's left the bounds of reason? That he might feel compelled to listen to? L. Ron would have to come back from the dead or something. He's crazy, and once you've gone far enough overboard, there is just no turning back. He's committed. Or maybe just needs to be.
So what you're saying is that you're an SP.
Though I've joined the Church of Scientology, Ross has thus far resisted. I am trying to persuade him of his folly.
But Noah Feldman said all religious are equally rational. I don't think the claim that Moses parted the Red Sea or that Jesus rose from the dead is any more credible than the claim that Xenu screwed up our minds. I am enjoying the Church of Scientology's apparent inability to suppress dissemination of its materials on the Internet, though. This suggests a new era has dawned. It should also be said that the Church actually did set up that detox center after 9/11. They got some praise in the New York press for it.
Isn't scientology to the 20th Century what Mormonism was to the 19th Century?
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This sounds like something President Bush would say to Congress.
Posted by JB | January 17, 2008 4:35 PM