weekend event.....

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One of the most infamous church commercials ever. This played on super station WGN all the time in the late 80s. The marketing director, Jeff Hawkins, who made this commercial has since left the church and is an outspoken critic.

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I remember that ad running all the time. I had no idea what it was about and didn't care until later when someone I knew started getting into that crap.

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i hope they didn't get into it and are safely OUT and away!!!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

TBH, I kinda hated that guy and I wouldn't have cared either way, but a mutual friend of ours and I did our best to tell him not to buy into that garbage. His interest in that didn't last long, just like with everything else, and he moved on to some other stupid thing. I don't think there was anything to worry about though. He didn't have any money so the Church of Scientology wouldn't have been interested in him anyway.

[misstia]

i don't think i could ever hate anyone enough to with them to become enslaved by the CO$! If you don't have any the CO$ will recruit you for their 'Sea Org' (their fake navy) which is basically their slave org where they work 100+ hours a week for $50! Zero health care, rarely time off, your mail is opened and monitored, have to request permission to use the phone--which will be listened too, if your family tries to talk you out of the CO$, you'll be forced to 'disconnect' from them. You try to escape, they trap you and put you in their private little prisons. They hold your ID documents too, locked up in safes.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm a horrible person and no one deserves that. I guess. His karma is that he's going through life as the total loser that he is, at least that's what I've heard from that mutual friend. If he ever gets his shit together, great. I wish him well. Otherwise, he's one of those toxic people who I am glad is out of my life now. He was an employee of my dad's. My dad didn't really like him either, but my mother felt sorry for him and he totally took advantage of her kindness. Because I was not so kind to him, it caused a rift in our relationship for awhile. Her eyes were opened eventually and she finally learned not to throw your own family under the bus for some random twerp.

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there MIGHT be some people who deserve that, but not too many deserve what those people are subjected too......

random toxic twerps, whereas yeah, they can be PITAs but a lifetime of servitude? nah.....i'm sorry you were subjected to that though and am glad your mom realized what was going on.....her heart was in the right place though.....random toxic twerps DO always get theirs though...

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Yes, they do, most of the time. If you go through life being an asshole, it's going to catch up to you eventually. This guy was so obnoxious that he is still the only person I have ever pointed a gun at and meant it. Okay, it was just an air rifle so were not talking serious bodily injury and fortunately I got my head together and just grabbed the phone to call the cops. I decided I would rather he be the one to go to jail for trespassing instead of me being arrested for assault. He left so it didn't go that far, but he has had various run-ins with the law over the years. I am not a violent person normally, but if he could bring out that side of me, sooner or later, he would run into someone with a little less control and a more deadly weapon. Well, anyway, he's not my problem anymore, well, except for my tax money that supports him. Yep, he's on welfare. No surprises there. Oh well. At least I don't have to see him anymore.

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and no, you're not a horrible person!!!

[khh1138.livejournal.com]

I don't know you in real life, but your posts are always delightful and so I have decided you are a delightful person and certainly not a horrible one. Your story reminds me of how my mum was always one to think the best of other people, and I always felt like such a Grinch/Mr. Scrooge/wet blanket/mean person when I had to point out that, no, that person actually is not very nice and will you stop inviting them over because you feel sorry for them. Ugh she had some horrible hangers-on sometimes. They have a sixth sense that draws them to sweet giving people, I'm afraid.
And your Peanuts thanksgiving icon is delightful. :)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Aww! You are so sweet! That makes my day! Thank you! :)

Yes, my mom did get hurt by people a lot, which is why I tried to run off people who I could tell were up to no good. She was disabled and had been abused as a child so she didn't want to do to people what had been done to her, but sometimes people are just bad. The good thing is that once she realized they weren't worth wasting her time on, that was it. She was done with them. She was never anyone's doormat for too long.

I'm glad you like my icon. I wish it was bigger. I love Peanuts!

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

my first husband brought home that book, all excited by it.

i read it...and went "um. no. just, no." i hadn't thought of it in years.

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i hope he didn't get involved with them!

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

the man has not the attention span of a gnat, so no, it didn't stick.

we've been divorced over 20 years now and every f'sking day without him is a blessing. (hell, he hasn't even seen his daughter since she was barely 15, so why would i think he could stick with ANYthing that isn't fulfilling his own wee desires?)

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Well that's good that didn't stick. That's not good about his daughter though :( How horrible ((HUGS for her and you!))

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

she's had a great dad since she was 10 years old. and he STILL loves her with all his heart, so that's all that matters, you know? (my ex. as far as we're concerned, he's her dad.)

*hugs back*

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yep, that's all that matters!! she's very lucky!!

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

I remember it was a big thing, so I picked up a copy at the bookstore, checked what they had to say about women's rights and put it right back again, never to think about it again.

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yeah women, nor homosexuals are viewed well.....gays are considered deviants and women are basically 'non people' whom they just make 'male' in their fake navy yet still treat in a misogynist manner....LRH was pretty racist too.....it was a huge thing in the 50s when it was first released, then had a resurgence in the 80s, mostly due to this commercial....

[khh1138.livejournal.com]

I saw the cryptic ads when I was a kid, so one day I bought it in the LAX airport bookstore to pass the time on a flight to the East Coast. Even as a ~11 yr. old, it seemed laughable. Well, I remember it started out all reasonable, yes, this sounds like repressed issues in your unconscious, just like psychologists say, and you're just giving everything different names (engrams)...and then it started getting screwy and eventually I was just shaking my head, reading it just to finish it. I left it in the Logan airport upon arrival.
I hope I wasn't the inadvertent means of converting some poor Bostonian.
Looking back, I'm amazed I wasn't embarrassed to be seen reading the book but I don't think I really cared what other people thought!