#Cult of Scientology Links

[msclaritea]

Latest Tea from Hollywood: Vain, Main Man, Cillian Murphy, screwed his face up getting plastic surgery. So now, the entire Hollywood Mafia is doing everything for him. They got Robert Downey Jr speaking more often than the lead.

You think I'm going to forget how the same group backing Murphy, made sure to run another actor and actual A Lister', into the ground, screwed up every interview, and set in motion a publicity stunt to kill his Oscar buzz? Fuck no.

It really is not about the award. It's about the low and dirty shit some of these groups pull. Liars, bullies and cheats should never prosper. What can I say? I'm Old School.

[delicatefury]

I’ve been watching videos on cults on YouTube all day. And guess what ads I keep on getting.

Scientology.

I don’t know if this is a success or a failure of the algorithm.

[handbellanon]

^ I keep getting mailers about a free personality test and then you read the fine print and it’s from the Church of Scientology. I think the flip not, thanks

I keep having to tear down extremely predatory/misleading Scien.tology flyers in my school's art building. This is the third fucking time I've ripped the fuckers up and I'm getting Real Fucking Tired of it.

[punctuationbreakdown]

About that Scientology connection...

One of the details that came to light this week in the latest article detailing the horrific allegations against Neil Gaiman (which I believe are true, to be clear, but not the primary focus of what I'm writing about here) is the extent of his ties to the Church of Scientology. I was most engaged with Neil's work as a teenager and in my early 20s, and I didn't recall seeing mention of the connection at the time (granted, that was more than a few years ago!). I couldn't let it go after reading the Vulture article, so I started to dig a bit and found a lot of information being shared on Reddit and even further digging uncovered archived forum posts from over a decade ago by former CoS members.

There are a lot of details in this article by Mikey Crotty, who appears to be an independent comics journalist, which was published by Mike Rinder on his blog in 2023. Rinder was famously an executive in the "church" in Australia and ran SeaOrg (the elite force of CoS, essentially, and responsible for internal discipline within the broader org) before ultimately leaving the organization and speaking out as loudly as he could about the abuses he had been complicit in as a member (at great personal risk, as anyone who is familiar with the tactics used against former CoS members will know).

The piece was written as an exposé about Gaiman's novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was semi-autobiographical. Crotty discusses details about Gaiman's family, Gaiman's participation in CoS, and the coverup his father orchestrated for an apparent suicide of a student of Scientology who had immigrated to the UK and was living with the Gaimans at the time. This suicide is written into The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

Neil's father, David Gaiman, was head of worldwide communications for the Church of Scientology in the 60s, and was leading the PR spin to protect the organization from increasing legal scrutiny in the UK at the time. Around the same time, a suicide occurred while a young man, Johannes Scheepers, was living with them (the Gaiman's took in CoS students as lodgers at their home on a regular basis, apparently). The Gaiman family launched a campaign to depict him as a broken down gambler to avoid further scandal for the organization. The logic doesn't quite add up, and it's more likely that Johannes was a new adherent who had been badly taken advantage of. You can read more details in the article I linked. Crotty makes the case that not only were the Gaimans lying about the death of the student, even going so far as to claim he wasn't actually lodging with them, but that Neil then went further to spread these lies in the form of fiction decades later (we now know this book was written as a result of the prompting of Amanda Palmer, who was encouraging him to confront his childhood experiences with CoS per the article in Vulture).

The article also points out evidence of Neil's continued involvement with Scientology:

Neil Gaiman’s history with Scientology is very murky; deliberately so. His family are practically Scientology royalty in the UK, he met his first wife Mary McGrath while she was studying Scientology and lodging at Harrow House and he himself worked as a Scientology Auditor for several years in the Eighties and was a Director of a Scientologist’s property company ‘Centrepoint’ until 1999.  He now won’t discuss his own Scientology connections and states, without any details, that he’s no longer a member of the Cult that supported Apartheid up until the mid eighties, believes homosexuals are deviants and mental illness is a manifestation of personal failure in the sufferer’s current or past life; beliefs which are anathema to most of Neil’s adoring audience. His connection to Scientology and apparent departure from the cult first went public as part of a court case in 2002 where when asked “Are you still involved with the Church of Scientology?” Neil said “I don’t understand the question”, subsequently asked “Are you still a member of the Church of Scientology?” he replied “I don’t consider myself as such”. Even then his admission that he worked for the Church for 3 years is somewhat confusing: “I worked for a 3 year period after getting out of school as a ‘Counsellor’ for the Church of Scientology”; in fact he actually worked as an ‘Auditor’ in a process made famous in the award winning 2015 Documentary ‘Going Clear’ which explains how officials in the Church of Scientology keep in-depth records on everything its members say during private ‘auditing’ sessions and then use their secrets against them. Renowned Journalist and author on Scientology Tony Ortega says that Gaiman “became a Class VIII auditor, and even ran the Birmingham “org” as its ED, executive director. “. While there is no contradiction in Neil’s actual admission of working for Scientology up till the late Nineties and subsequently leaving the cult and its beliefs sometime in the early Noughties, conflicting details arise in the period since, when Neil has insisted he’s not a Scientologist. According to public records he was a shareholder in the family firm G&G Foods, which produces the vitamins used in Scientology’s highly criticized Narconon and De-Tox practices, since 2011. He transferred approximately a quarter of a million shares to Scientologist shareholders in 2013. There’s the book ‘Ocean’ also from 2013 and then there’s also his production company ‘The Blank Corporation’. ‘The Blank Corporation’ is Neil’s production company which works on all his adaptations such as ‘Sandman’, ‘Anansi Boys’, ‘Good Omens’ and the upcoming ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane’ in partnership with Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros, the BBC and others. According to the website and any interviews, Neil founded ‘The Blank Corporation’ in 2016 with his Vice President and former P.A. Cat Mihos. According to the official Companies registration however, the company was actually set up by Neil and then wife (and still devout Scientologist) Mary McGrath in 2000. The company is still registered to a Scientologist’s P.O Box in Wisconsin, where Mary McGrath still works for the Church of Scientology. One company; two very different stories, it’s just another mystery, like what really happened to cause Johannes Scheepers to take his own life in 1968.

I want to note that based on what I've read, being a Class VIII auditor is the highest level you can go as an auditor in CoS without becoming a member of SeaOrg. Auditors are individuals who are key to the brainwashing process members of CoS undergo; they utilize the org's "technology" to identify past sins by doing intensive interrogation sessions with members. This means Neil was well trained in how to psychologically interrogate org members and held a position of relative power over them as he documented their dearest secrets for the org (primarily to blackmail them with should they ever want to leave, based on CoS records and former members' experiences).

I found forum posts where others reviewed public records that confirmed the majority of these claims, although unable to confirm the PO Box in Wisconsin. His sister, Lizzy Calcioli, is the current company director of G&G, which supplies pseudoscientific vitamin treatments to drug rehabilitation seekers that are horribly abused by Narconon (CoS does not allow actual medical intervention or medical practices in its org). According to public filings, Neil still owns shares in G&G.

There is also this interview from 2010 with the New Yorker, in which Neil claims he is no longer a member of CoS, but expresses sympathy with them:

These days, Gaiman tends to avoid questions about his faith, but says he is not a Scientologist. Like Judaism, Scientology is the religion of his family, and he feels some solidarity with them. “I will stand with groups when I feel like they’re being properly persecuted,” he told me.

It is also well known that celebrity members of CoS are encouraged/allowed to lie about their connection to it in order to support their monetary success. Because of course they're going to contribute back to the organization through that success, which it appears Neil has done.

Additionally, we know from public accounts of CoS's practices and leaked documents that once someone leaves the organization, they are not allowed to continue to associate with anyone within the cult. Isolation of former victims is one of the many tools used against them. The fact that Neil maintained a marriage for decades to an active member who still works for CoS, as well as relationships with his family members who are leaders in CoS, indicates he is either still on the books as a member or is contributing to CoS in order to avoid alienation from his family. Any sympathy a desire to remain connected with his family might conjure is misguided in my opinion, because we know that he's likely profiting off of shares in a company that takes advantage of and contributes to the traumatization of vulnerable patients as a CoS affiliated business.

Had I known Neil Gaiman was so closely connected to the "church" sooner (one degree away from L. Ron Hubbard himself as a child!), I would not have supported his work in the way that I did in the past. And I think he knew that a significant portion of his audience would respond the same way, which is why he obfuscated and downplayed those connections.

His alleged ongoing involvement also changes the way I perceive his actions - Deception and manipulation is, by former member's accounts, standard procedure for leaders within Scientology. It should come as no surprise that he will continue to deny any evidence, attempt to blame his victims, and lie lie lie to avoid potential consequences. It is, after all, the example he was given and trained in as an active participant in a destructive cult that he has never publicly disavowed and that he appears to continue to support.

I think this information should be taken into account as former (hopefully) fans react to his responses to these accusations. I wish for peace for the victims who are now speaking out, and I hope they are able to reach the resolution they deserve.

[kaydensb]

100% Legally Sourced Media (Google Drive)

Here is a link for a whole bunch of movies, tv shows and more - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15yd2vLoCzlTDknjTgo965gCoAV8S0Emt

below is a list of the things currently on my google drive, I may add more and keep updating this list periodically as things get put on the drive.

Audiobooks and Audio Dramas

Fiction

1984 By George Orwell

Animal Farm By George Orwell

Chemistry By Rachael Sommers

Daisy Jones and the Six By Taylor Jenkins Reid

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens

Dracula By Bram Stoker

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe By Fanny Flagg

Friends of Dorothy By Sandi Toksvig

Jurassic Park By Michael Crichton

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott

Neon Roses By Rachel Dawson

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen

Red, White & Royal Blue By Casey McQuiston

Should Have Known Better By A J McDine

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Exorcist By William Peter Blatty

The Murder Game By Tom Hindle

The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde

The Woman in Black By Susan hill

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop By Fannie Flagg

Torchwood

We Play Games by Sarah A. Denzil

Non Fiction

A Billion Years My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology By Mike Rinder

All I Know Now By Carrie Hope Fletcher

Apparently There Were Complaints By Sharon Gless

Best Foot Forward By Adam Hills

Between the Stops By Sandi Toksvig

Beyond Belief By Jenna Miscavige

Coming Up for Air By Tom Daley

Dare to Dream By Izzy Judd

Deaf Utopia By Nyle DiMarco

Escaping the Kingdom of God By J. Andrew Robinson

Fathomless Riches By Rev Richard Coles

Freddie Mercury The Definitive Biography By Lesley-Ann Jones

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing By Matthew Perry

From Here to the Great Unknown A Memoir By Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Help I S*xted My Boss By William Hanson & Jordan North

Mama’s Boy By Dustin Lance Black

Notorious by Raphael Rowe

The House of My Mother By Shari Franke

The Mayor of Castro Street By Randy Shilts

The Phantom Prince By Elizabeth Kendall

Under the Banner of Heaven By Jon Krakauer

Under the Bridge By Rebecca Godfrey

Documentaries and Docudramas

A Very British Sex Scandal

Abused By My Girlfriend

Aids - The Unheard Tapes

Alex Brooker: Disability and Me

Bad Influencer - The Great Insta Con

Bowie - The Man Who Changed The World

Children of the Underground

Dancing for the Devil - The 7M TikTok Cult

Daughters of the Cult

Desperately Seeking Soulmate - Escaping Twin Flames Universe

Dinosaurs - The Final Day with David Attenborough

Dirty Pop - The Boy Band Scam

Driven - The Billy Monger Story

Escaping Polygamy

Escaping Twin Flames

Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender

Frozen Planet

Frozen Planet II

Good Grief with Reverend Richard Coles

Hatton Garden - The Inside Story

Hell Camp - Teen Nightmare

I Am Not A Rapist

I Cut Off His Penis - The Truth Behind The Headlines

Ireland's Mother and Baby Scandal

Killing Patient Zero

Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

Lewis Capaldi - How I'm Feeling Now

Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal

Living Every Second: The Kris Hallenga Story

Lord Montagu

Mama's Boy

Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction

Murdaugh Murders - A Southern Scandal

Murder Among the Mormons

My Wife My Abuser - Captured On Camera

Pennywise - The Story of It

Planet Earth

Planet Earth II

Queen - Days Of Our Lives

Sacred Soil - The Piney Woods School Story

Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice

Scientology: Going Clear - The Prison of Belief

Soham: The Murder of Holly & Jessica

Stolen Youth - Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence

Strike - An Uncivil War

Strike! The Women Who Fought Back

Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface

Surviving Amber Heard

Take Care of Maya

The Bambers : Murder at the Farm

The Boys - The Sherman Brothers' Story

The Exorcist Untold

The Family

The Krays - The Mafia Connection

The Menendez Brothers

The Millennium Dome Heist With Ross Kemp

The Movies That Made Us

The Pembrokeshire Murders - Catching the Gameshow Killer

The Program - Cons, Cults and Kidnapping

The Times of Harvey Milk

Uprising

Waco - American Apocalypse

Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil

Wonders of the World I Can't See

Films

A Haunting in Venice

About a Boy

All of Us Strangers

Bad Tidings

Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Thing

Beetlejuice

Boy Erased

Boys Don’t Cry

But I'm a Cheerleader

Chocolat

City of Lies

Clue

Cool Runnings

Corpse Bride

Dallas Buyers Club

Dawn of the Dead

Death on the Nile

Deck the Halls

Die Hard

Dirty Dancing

Donnie Brasco

Downton Abbey

Edward Scissorhands

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fried Green Tomatoes

From Hell

Gone Girl

Gremlins

Hairspray

Handsome Devil

Heathers

Heathers - The Musical

Home Alone

Hot Fuzz

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

IT

Jaws

Jingle All The Way

Jumanji

Jurassic Park

Kill Your Darlings

Kindergarten Cop

Kinky Boots

Labyrinth

Legally Blonde

Legend

Les Misérables

Les Misérables: The Staged Concert

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Women

Love Actually

Mean Girls

Milk

Minamata

Miracle on 34th Street

Murder on the Orient Express

Murdered for Being Different

Newsies

Oliver!

Philadelphia

Pirates of the Caribbean

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Prayers For Bobby

Pride

Pride and Prejudice

Red, White and Royal Blue

Rent

Scarface

Scream

Scrooged

Secret Window

Shaun of the Dead

Sister Act

Sleepy Hollow

Star Wars

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Addams Family

The Amityville Horror

The Blair Witch Project

The Conjuring

The Craft

The Crow

The Exorcist

The Greatest Showman

The imitation Game

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Santa Clause

The Shawshank Redemption

The Sixth Sense

The Sound of Music

The Tourist

The Woman in Black

Three Men and a Baby

Three Men and a Little Lady

Titanic

Twister

Uncle Buck

Unicorns

West Side Story

What We Did on Our Holiday

White Christmas

Zola

Stand Up Comedy

Adam Hills

Chris McCausland

Chris Ramsey

Daniel Howell

Daniel Sloss

Dara O'Briain

Ed Byrne

Fern Brady

Greg Davies

John Bishop

Rhod Gilbert

Sarah Millican

Sean Lock

TV Shows

90210

Agatha All Along

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

Being Human

Bridgerton

Celebrity Race Across the World

Cuckoo

Daisy Jones and the Six

Deadwater Fell

Desperate Housewives

Doctor Who

Downton Abbey

Eyewitness

Fire Country

Good Omens

Good Trouble

Heartstopper

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

Interview with the Vampire

It's A Sin

Killing Eve

Looking

Mary & George

Midnight Mass

Missing You

My Family

My Wife and Kids

Nevermind the Buzzcocks

QI 

Queer as Folk

Shameless

Sky Med

Sleepy Hollow

Switched at Birth

Taskmaster

The Alienist

The Artful Dodger

The Clearing

The Couple Next Door

The Fosters

The Haunting of Bly Manor

The Haunting of Hill House

The Jetty

The Midnight Club

The Misinvestigations of Romesh Ranganathan

The Pembrokeshire Murders

The Perfect Couple

The Society

The Stranger

The Unofficial Science Of…

The Watcher

Torchwood

Under the Banner of Heaven

Under the Bridge

Virgin River

WandaVision

White House Farm

[viiridiangreen]

Was nobody going to tell me that Neil Gaiman's parents moved within a mile of the global Scientology HQs in the UK when Ron Hubbard was extremely still around & that they led the media charge against his enemies even as the cult got outlawed and L-Ronnieboy got declared Persona Non Grata & cuntpunted out the country??? And that then some horrible shit with a shady "suicide" happened and they interviewed Tiny Little Seven Year Old Scientologist Neil on the BBC as part of the associated public narrative cleanup???? And that as an adult he made his parents' lies into The Ocean at the End of the Lane????? Or was I supposed to learn about it from a random Facebook link to notorious ex-Scientologist whistleblower Mike Rinder's blog?

https://www.mikerindersblog.org/neil-gaimans-scientology-suicide-story/

[nerdgirlriot]

In order to combat whatever supportive bot army Gaiman's chosen PR firm has unleashed upon social media, here is a link to a long post which chronicles the Gaiman family's connection to Scientology.

Note that the story clears up some of the details of the childhood memory that Gaiman recounts as inspiration for Ocean at the End of the Lane. A supposed lodger at the Gaiman house was bumming around England apparently feeding his gambling addiction. Warning that there is discussion of suicide in the post.

It also discusses Scientology a lot, which is understandable since Neil's father (and I did not know this until I read the post) was a higher-up in the cult's UK branch. Specifically, David Gaiman was the in charge of Communications. He was the cult's PR guy, who would go after critics of the cult by trying to discredit them.

Sound familiar?

This is the standard practice for all critics of Scientology, even to this day. Look at how awfully public figures who've left the cult are treated. Also, I don't think I've ever seen Neil denounce the cult, even if he keeps quiet about still being a part of it. There is speculation that his production company, The Blank Corporation, is how he funnels his money to the cult. I'm not sure about wether it's true, but it's something to consider.

[morsmortish]

this probably doesn't work with the chinese black family headcanon (and with the magical world in general), but i can't stop thinking about walburga as the daughter of two religious fanatics, speding her afternoons reading the bible in her room as a child and, on halloween, praying to god to save the souls of all the children who stopped at her house asking for sweets...

honestly all my hcs exist in various aus from canon…is canon reg chinese? nope! but i will write extensively about how him being chinese fits into the same series of events as canon, and how he is influenced by this culture and what it means for the story? yep! but it is still an alternate universe where the house of black are not white (because let’s be real. in canon, they are. sadly.)

and this. the house of black alternatively existing as part of an extremist christian faction…that’s the SHIT! thinking something more akin to a cult, like scientology or likewise. not much space for original ideas or individualism or even existing much outside of one’s faith, until who one becomes is intrinsically linked to the values of the church…okay! i see you!

walburga is taught wrong and right more in the sense of sinful or not sinful. she recites psalms and proverbs and parables, but beneath that, she lacks a true sense of identity. perhaps it scares her when she sees her own children start to experiment with self-expression and/or existing outside of the religious values she raises them on. this freedom of deciding one’s identity is something she never had, and watching her children reject what she believes to be the ‘safety net’ of religion is so terrifying to her. for walburga, as long as her faith is strong, she is protected. she’s never know any other way. and all she wants as a mother is to protect her children, but watching them start to form their own paths, away from her, away from religion, away from purity and safety…

[glagglepilled]

Scientology literally has its own private prison.

Look up "The Hole (Scientology)" on wikipedia.

I have my own doubts about the reality of some of the RAMCOA claims, but considering what some places have been able to get away with (Scientology infiltrated the US government ffs), I can't be sure enough to discount them.

I am not denying ritual abuse, or cults. And the shitty things they do. I am aware that things like this do happen, and im not denying the fact that it could cause more complex or more severe DID. But, the difference between this and what **most** people in the RAMCOA community claim is that there is actual proof / proper accounts of these events/places/groups existing. which there is not for most RAMCOA claims. And no i am not asking every single person in this community to give me proof, but there are no convincing documented accounts or proof of any group or cult using "scripts" or "alpha", "beta" whatever programming to abuse kids. In fact the only research documents i can easily find about this "alpha" "beta" "omega" programming is by well... Colin Ross where he is talking about satanic ritual abuse,, yknow the thing very very linked to conspiracy nonsense. (anyone feel free to send me more research or evidence about this as long as you dont call me "fucking stupid" in the process like the last guy.) Im not saying everyone in the RAMCOA community is lying, which is why i said "a lot" in my original post. but there has been an increase in people saying utter nonsense that has no proof. RAMCOA itself is probably not a good acronym to use if you are an actual ritual abuse or organised abuse survivior, due to its history. you will probably just lead people to nonsense. sorry anon a lot of this is unrelated to you but i wanted to make a follow up post lol

[wwemcumuscleslover]

Well since the polemic around Emily Armstrong and her link with scientology...

And one of my topic is Jason Beghe, I was a Surprise when I founded that he is a Former Scientologist and how much he fought to expose the darkside of the cult...

I saw one documentary on YouTube with him

[msclaritea]

It breaks my heart to say this, but given what we now know about who controls the Star Trek franchise, and it's actors, that would mean that Levar Burton falls under that purview. He's always had a very steady career. Then he auditioned for Jeopardy, after campaigning so hard for it, and...flubbed it, messed up. It didn't seem like something he would mess up at, given so many years of film work. But he did, and we lost a chance of getting an intelligent, black host of Jeopardy. We instead got stuck with the very hyped up Jennings and media darling of Jewish ancestry, Mayim Bialik. I'm beginning to think Levar Burton messed up his own audition so the other hosts could win. Steve Harvey doesn't count for shit. He does so much for his overlords, you have to wonder if the man will ever walk straight up, again. Every night time talk host, pretty much every game show host. Now, Hollywood Gay Mafia leader, Ryan Seacrest is doing Wheel of Fortune. The Israeli loyalists, in this country, who run most of the media don't want a black host of any game or entertainment, unless they're a complete tool and/or Queer. It's no wonder I don't watch any of it.

It's clear, now, that at some point in history, professional black men, probably as a result of being let into the Freemasons, turned on their own and began helping those who want to destroy or keep down, black communities. One of the biggest myths was Frederick Douglass, who in reality was a cruel man.

[numbwhileintertwined]

(ongoing) Youtube videos to watch (uncategorized)

(note: most things here have links attached, but the ones that failed will have the channel name)

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Code Orange Hysteria: Is Halloween Consumerism Out of Control?

The Terrifying World of Temu

How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping

TikTok Shop is a Nightmare

fast fashion has ruined media consumption

tiktok's obsession with the it girl aesthetic & consuming in the...

designer brands are for broke girls

How Consumerism Ruins Our Planet and Finances

Your Perfume Obsession is Keeping You BROKE!

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Gen Alpha is Absolutely COOKED

Millennial Parenting Videos Keep Getting Crazier...

performative cleanliness & the hygiene olympics

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kids ACT like adults because they want to be TREATED like adults

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poor spoiled rich kids on tiktok

the scammers of manifestation tiktok

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[scumgristle]

LOLinkin Park

Not everyone was impressed, however. Emily Armstrong’s links to Scientology, and in particular her links to the convicted rapist Danny Masterson.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s wife Chrissie Carnell-Bixler was one of Masterson’s victims, with the musician writing after the guilty verdict was handed down: “My wife and the survivors did the unthinkable. Go ahead and send her love. She needs it.”

Hearing the news of Emily Armstrong’s appointment, Cedric Bixler-Zavala left a comment on Dead Sara’s Instagram. “I’m surprised none of you wrote a letter on Danny Masterson’s behalf since your corny ass singer showed up to support him in the prelims. Remember Emily? Remember how your fellow Scientologist goon squad surrounded one of the Jane Doe’s when she was trying to leave the elevators? The court sheriffs had to escort her away from your awful cult.”

“Remember when we did the purification rundown Emily? Were you direct to safe point me cuz of what my wife knew?”

“Why can’t you shut your mouth during the detox program where people are going through some rough shit but your corny ass is singing like an unsupervised child? Is it cuz you’re a born in Scientologist that gets a pass?”

“How do you reconcile the homophobia found in the teachings of RLH’s book dianetics? Do you fans know about your friend Danny Masterson? Your rapist friend.”

The comment seems to have been deleted but is widely available on multiple screenshots.

Linkin Park and Emily Armstrong have yet to respond to the comment.

[scienceoftheidiot]

I'm probably exposing myself to a lot of shit I can't currently deal with if I reblog this post with my thoughts on it directly so I'll just paraphrase it :

Someone is mentionning interest in Steiner Waldorf as something that people immediately link to being conservative and how for them it's not.

STEINER FUCKING WALDORF

STEINER. FUCKING. WALDORF.

ANTHROPOSOPHY

You are saying there's a way to look at this pile of steaming shit and not be a conservative ?

Like I'm not saying this person is, but I'm convinced they either haven't dug enough into it to know or refuse to, because the WHOLE philosophy is rotten to its core.

The very basics of it are New Age racist, ableist, homophobic, anti-scientific bullshit, coming from the élucubrations of Steiner who was a Nazi sympathiser when he was alive, who was just like his fervent followers religious extremists that are against modern medicine, against treating kids for diseases (they are deserved)(also being not white or disabled is a sign you were a bad person in a past life and have to pay for it with this one)(not being straight is one of the things you might have to pay for later because it's bad btw), of course they're against abortion, and the schools ask kids who have been subjected to abuse (recognized as more likely to happen considering the manipulation and extreme psychological stress kids are put under in the Steiner schools) have to forgive their abuser and make peace with them, and continue sharing space with them.

Not even counting their agricultural practices that ask you to bury cow horns full of shit and a mix of various things at a special time of the month/year and dance around it. And refuse all ways to treat contagious diseases of your crops of course. Biodynamie =/= organic agriculture

This thing is the fucking European equivalent to Scientology, and even then, I'm convinced they're actually WORSE.

Anyone who claims to have departed from this base... Well why do you keep the Steiner-Waldorf name then?

So yeah. Unless your interest is in debunking their bullshit and being vocal against them, I am going to think you're sketchy if you have anything good to say about Steiner-Waldorf shit

This big blog I keep seeing on my dash is now blocked, thanks to a post that I actually felt resonated with me at first (about having interests and hobbies that have you easily catalogued as conservative when you aren't. Interest in WWI/II history does that to you.)

While they are not illegal here, they are on the Cult Surveillance committee radar (MIVILUDES).

Be very fucking wary with Steiner Waldorf and anything that is close or less close to them, I beg you.

(French/European peeps, avoid anything about biodynamie, Pierre Rabhi (openly far right), La Nef (banks/insurances), or Weleda products (with a W not a V. I have nothing against whiteboard pens). Crédit Mutuel had ties with them for a while too, but I don't know about now.

[akajustmerry]

i thought the scientology stuff was kind of weird reading it, couldn't fully wrap my head around the A->B us as the readers were meant to grasp from that (other than ofc implying that unaddressed trauma causes ~dark~ urges that are then expressed through further abuse which seemed bizarre compared to the rest of the article). The only useful reason I could see for including it outside of that was perhaps to tie in the relationship with his ex-wife, like if she was acting from a similar belief (trauma=dark urges) it could've provided even more fodder for her "holding out hope" for him to change since she clearly wanted him to address that stuff. Not that people ever need extra reasons to hide/cover, and it definitely didn't /have/ to be mentioned, I just could see that being a factor.

yeah exactly! it's not necessarily that it's entirely irrelevant, especially when the article links Gaiman's use of the term Master specifically to certain Scientology beliefs. But correlating a violent upbringing in Scientology to being a predator is just that, a correlation! At best, as you say, it's potentially one factor of many, but, again, I do not think it's fair to point to traumatic upbringings as causation for becoming violent. Especially when not a lot is known first hand of Gaiman's time in Scientology. It's just disconcerting to even imply that kind of link as a main factor when there are so many public survivors of Scientology and other cults who have never done these kinds of things. It's clear from his pattern of behaviour that he assaulted these women because he was opportunistic and wanted to.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

With all the Scientology talk today and Princess Eugenie on holiday with Hannah Bronfman (rich niece of the cult leaders): remember when Meghan was trying to get into Hannah's circle and allegey even attended NXIVM training? I feel there is more gossip here probably scrubbed by MI5 before weddding. by u/Ill_Independence_698

With all the Scientology talk today and Princess Eugenie on holiday with Hannah Bronfman (rich niece of the cult leaders): remember when Meghan was trying to get into Hannah's circle and allegey even attended NXIVM training? I feel there is more gossip here, probably scrubbed by MI5 before weddding. https://ift.tt/zEBFtmq post link: https://ift.tt/DeKUsyf author: Ill_Independence_698 submitted: January 12, 2024 at 02:00PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit