Scientology ads

[FickleFreckled]

Well, yeh…gorgeous but not much upstairs…

 

[Barry_Gabriel]

Yes; they are very well-done. We should have such effective commercials. Definitely geared toward people who feel they don’t belong, esp. kids, and with an almost “salvation” theme. One of them definitely has a feel of “Come to us all who are labored and heavy-burdened and we will give you rest.” Very unnerving.

The lighting on the close-ups is weird and creepy. It gives one of the girls the appearance of having elongated reptilian pupils.

I wonder if L. Ron Hubbard really had this in mind when he wrote Dianetics, I think in the late 50’s or 60’s (?) or whether somebody saw dollar signs and appropriated it after his death. I haven’t done a lot of research into Scientology because, frankly, I stay away from that kind of stuff, but I know the general gist of it. I tried to read Dianetics when I was a kid - I thought it was going to be science fiction because it was written by Hubbard - and it bored me to tears. I didn’t get very far.

Hubbard was still alive back in the 60s and 70s when I first encountered the Scientologists, and was still directing his “church” after it became a religion. He was a hands on type of guy. Though he did delegate to his top people, he made the final decisions. He often directed his operations from his private yacht, usually somewhere off Bermuda or thereabouts.

 

[ThuriferAcolyte]

In a documentary on Scientology, it showed how before the “church” of Scientology received tax exemption status, it had its auditors (counselors) dress up as priests, with a roman collar. Such deception. Now obviously they don’t do that.

 

[FickleFreckled]

Gee, why should they be any different from all the other people wearing roman collars who aren’t priests?

But that’s a whole 'nuther topic.

 

[AJTheMan]

My brother-in-law was into Scientology in the early 70’s and it cost him thousands of dollars. They were into it for the money back then.

Back then? Scientology still is very much a business. Bottom line is what rules it.