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> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network.
by aliasxneo 5mo ago
> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network.
That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.
- coliveira 5mo agoScientology is essentially a scheme to get private/incriminating information from very important people. Why the surprise?
- colechristensen 5mo agoScientology is what happens when a science fiction writer acts out a dystopian plot in real life instead of writing a novel. Read Stranger in a Strange Land, read about Hubbard and Heinlein's friendship, and look at the timeline of when Scientology started and Stranger in a Strange Land was published.
- CGMthrowaway 5mo agoThat may be true however today it is 2026 not 1961, LRH fell off the earth in 1980, and it is feasible that after the raids in 1977 and/or upon gaining tax-exempt status in 1993, some sort of deal was cut with the US state/intel apparatus to co-opt the church for another purpose
- colechristensen 5mo agoNo, shady deals and intel capture fits perfectly fine with the original dystopian novel in the real world.
- saghm 5mo agoFrom reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons yesterday after someone posted a link to it in the comments for another thread, I came away with the impression that Hubbard seemed to be into some pretty weird stuff long before scientology.
- sysguest 5mo agodamn I wonder how many scientology believers in intel actually believe in scientology... I mean, it shows how much intel agencies can "screen for high intelligence individuals" ?
- sidewndr46 5mo agopeople believe in scientology as much as they believe in a literature club. If you listen to someone like Tom Cruise's statements he says "I have gotten to where I am today because of Scientology". He doesn't name off specific procedures, treatments, practices, etc. Partially because they are barred from naming them. But if you're looking for a club you can advance it, I highly suspect Scientology is as quid pro quo as anything else out there. In other words, it's more of a social function than a religion.
- psychoslave 5mo agoReligion is all about social function, at least from social science perceptives I guess.
- sidewndr46 5mo agosure, but that is reductive. From a theological perspective it's entirely about salvation if you're Christian. Judaism, isn't so clear.
- psychoslave 5mo agoReducing theological perspectives to judeo-christian views is also very narrow. That said, focusing on some narrow topic is also totally legitimate, as human being we can’t encompass everything and the rest in our tight attention window.
- sysguest 5mo agowell even if it's "social function", do want to be labeled as retarded? I just can't imagine tainting my name by joining those scientology retards...
- giancarlostoro 5mo ago4chan validated in their protests against Scientology was not in my bingo card.
- marcosdumay 5mo agoAt this point I'm waiting for the aliens appearance in the Epstein files.
- psychoslave 5mo agoSuch a low level of expectation of ethical level for non human beings is not fair.
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- reaperducer 5mo agoAt this point I'm waiting for the aliens appearance in the Epstein files. There was an front page article about aliens and American pedophile leaders in the most recent issue of The Onion. I don't see it online. Maybe it takes a while for the dead tree stories to appear there.
- errendgame 5mo agoFor people like me who had no idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology
- skrebbel 5mo agoThat was amazing. I once witnessed a protest like that, in Hannover Germany I think. The idea of 4chan people actually going up the stairs and out of the house into the open air and talking to people, like with molecules and sound waves and all that stuff, it still blows my mind.
- giancarlostoro 5mo ago
- QuercusMax 5mo agoScientologists being involved with intelligence agencies doesn't surprise me even a bit, it makes a lot of sense as a CIA cutout.
- futuraperdita 5mo agoInfiltration of government institutions has been doctrine for the group since the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
- acidhousemcnab 5mo agoAny belief system or club that validates sociopathy as a "higher" state of evolution or enlightenment will worm it's way into intelligence agencies.
- red-iron-pine 5mo agothe mormons are big in feddy gov agencies, for example
- pstuart 5mo agoScientologists back in the days, and likely still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
- Deprogrammer9 5mo agoThose weirdos followed me around Ybor near Tampa when I said something negative about them online in public. IT WAS WEIRD! But I gave no Fs
- stronglikedan 5mo agoMan, I wish something like this would have happened to me when I was younger and spunkier. For years, I've had so many scenarios planned in my head for how something like that would play out! Even today, I might not just ignore it even though my propensity to give fucks has waned over the years.