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Freezer - a buffet of manliness! ([info]freezer) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-04-15 06:04:00
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Oh No They Didn't + $cientology = Free flowing WANK!
[info]glisteningstars posts on ONTD with a 100% gossip-free defense of Scientology... Which apparently is composed solely of info gleaned second-hand from her(?) Scientologist dad.

Seven pages and counting. And there's something for everyone.

Potshots at Tom Cruise? Too many to count.

"They do believe in Xenu. It's all over the net."

"Not all Scientologists are as insane as Cruise": Check and Check

"And pot and acid are like the most non-addictive crugs[sic] so they are extremely easy to get off of."

Obligatory potshot at Christianity: Check

Broad Spectrum Religious Wank (highlighted by [info]at_liberty's "Christianity stole some stuff from Islam too, I think." - Oh, check!

And a tangetal rant about the American two-party system that I lost track of...

And all of this is within the first two pages!

And, in the interest of total disclosure - I'm over here. And since I posted here, instead of [info]i_wank, I shall refrain from responding to the bright young fellow who seems to think most of the reports of Cruise's crazy are made up.

ETA: I just remembered that ONTD is a modded community. Which means the original 100% off-topic post had to get the thumbs-up from a mod to get posted. Which makes me think at least one of the mods there likes a good wank as much as we do.

ETA2: Patched up the HTML.

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[info]mookie
2006-04-15 11:52 am UTC (link)
because maybe he's not. a lot of the shit you her about him never came from his mouth. and pople confuse what scientologist alledgedly do with what tom has actually done.

So jumping up and down on Oprah's couch and over on the Today Show, telling Matt Lauer that he was being glib and didn't understand the history of psychiatry like he (Tom) did was all just an elaborate hoax to make Tom and Scientologists look bad.

It's amazing what they can do with a little audio and video manipulation!

Another thing - I find it so very, very hard to take something seriously when there is more than one misspelling in a single sentence. I must be one of those arrogant poples.

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[info]marylake
2006-04-15 03:46 pm UTC (link)
God, how I wish that were true.

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dracothelizard
2006-04-15 12:10 pm UTC (link)
What is it with all Scientology wank lately? Not that I mind or anything, it's just that they always drag in Christianity in as well, in a 'Hey, this major religion is batshit too!'

Not compared to the Scientologists we're not, dammit!

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[info]freezer
2006-04-15 12:16 pm UTC (link)
Thing is, it's usually not a Scientologist or even someone sympathetic to them that takes the potshots at Christianity - it's usually someone looking to piggyback an "ALL RELIGION IS A SCAM!" statement that makes them sound all smart and stuff.

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[info]utahraptor
2006-04-15 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Unfortunately yes, there are quite some "lol I'm an athiest which makes me automatically SMRTER than you, u stupid theists now go & pray to your sky daddy kthnx" responses out there.

The batshit and better-than-yous are in every religion and ideology. Ya rly.

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[info]cadesama
2006-04-16 10:15 pm UTC (link)
Is it bad that I also want to pet the arrogant, pretentious, wanky breeds of atheists? They're like children! So new to the world and how they see everything! Soon they'll actually manage to open their eyes wider and become both embittered and, you know, sane.

After all, it's pretty hard to go your entire life as an atheist without ever meeting reasonable, nice people who don't share your beliefs, being that we are so phenomenally outnumbered and closeted IRL.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2006-04-15 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Every time I see your icon, I end up staring at it for a good minute or so, hypnotized.

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[info]freezer
2006-04-15 03:11 pm UTC (link)
And every time I see yours, I end up giggling for the same time frame.

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[info]jira
2006-04-15 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Both your icons keel me ded. ><; *amused*

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[info]white_serpent
2006-04-16 12:49 am UTC (link)
I'm always curious if you have a matching Ayane or Helena icon somewhere.

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[info]freezer
2006-04-16 02:16 am UTC (link)
Nope. And I've looked.

I do have a not quite as pneumatic Mai Shiranui icon, though.

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[info]aerobot
2006-04-16 05:20 am UTC (link)
Hell, some people believe that faith is a mental illness because only CRAZY PEOPLE can possibly believe in a religion.

*is bitter*

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[info]cadesama
2006-04-16 10:09 pm UTC (link)
::sigh::

Every belief system looks crazy from the outside. Yeah, I'm one of the folks that thinks believing in a zombie savior and omnipotent, omniscient being that cares both about starving children and whether my pitcher throws strikes seems a teeny bit nuts. But I realize that not believing in anything along those lines seems even crazier to a lot more people (not that I come close to thinking majority=right).

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-04-15 01:19 pm UTC (link)
Well, ya know...

Tom Cruise can cure heroin addiction in three days

Just because I can't resist a dig at him and Scientology. And because the BWUH is just amusing.

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[info]pipssister
2006-04-15 01:34 pm UTC (link)
[shakes her head] I wish I didn't look at that photo gallery of him and Katie. He still looks hot sometimes. Well, when he's not looking like a pod-person. Katie Holmes has also got the pod-people thing going liek woah.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-04-15 01:40 pm UTC (link)
That whole "silent birth" thing has me creeped out. I can't imagine not being able to have sworn and cursed at my husband during labour and delivery.

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dracothelizard
2006-04-15 03:23 pm UTC (link)
According to their official site it's not completely silent after all. Apparently random screaming is a-okay, so long as it's not actual words. Which seems a bit odd to me. I mean, what if you shout words in a language you're never gonna use with the child? Does that still count?

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-04-15 03:29 pm UTC (link)
I'd still lose. I swore at my husband in French, and some random words of Gaekic that I was pretty sure were swear words, but could've been asking for a cup of tea. My children hear French, Gaelic, and Spanish on a regular basis.

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dracothelizard
2006-04-15 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Cool!

Multilingualism rocks, especially if a rather obscure language like Gaelic is involved :D.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-04-15 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Irish Gaelic! XD

I love my Irishman. (Strictly platonically though cos his wife? She's scaaaaaaaaaaaary. And half-English/half-French, which just makes her scarier cos then she screams at me in French!)

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dracothelizard
2006-04-15 03:33 pm UTC (link)
And people say French is the language of luuuurve.

Yeah, I never bought it either.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-04-15 03:35 pm UTC (link)
It is! If you love fishwives. Cos seriously that's what she sounds like.

The Gaelic, however?

*admits to lusting after said Irishman*

I have a thing for the Scottish/Irish accent.

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[info]jira
2006-04-15 07:30 pm UTC (link)
So much agreement on that.

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dracothelizard
2006-04-15 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Apparently the Glaswegian accent is the sexiest. There's been some study of some sorts.

Personally, I prefer a general Australian accent. But none of that Steve Irwin stuff, mind!

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[info]burntspaghetti
2006-04-16 12:01 pm UTC (link)
Steve Irwin really is the extreme of Australian accent. Most of us really don't sound like that. I kind of love the hybrid accents all bilingual/multilingual seem to have, too.

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[info]aegflota
2006-04-16 05:04 pm UTC (link)
I have a thing for Russian accents. And Bernard Black's.

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[info]riah_chan
2006-04-16 05:58 am UTC (link)
Spanish is way sexier...

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[info]frequentmouse
2006-04-15 07:47 pm UTC (link)
I got the giggles while pushing because my Doc, in his scrubs with beard bag, looked like Daddy Duck.

Julia, Endorphins are my favorite high

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[info]v_digitalwytch
2006-04-16 03:28 pm UTC (link)
My ob/gyn looked like a very tan Dr. Kevorkian.

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[info]smut_queen
2006-04-15 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Your first link needs 'html' instead of 'htm'. At least for me (Firefox).

*hops off to read wank*

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The Lone ONTD-er
[info]mouseykins
2006-04-15 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Oh lord, VendettaV is in there. Oh, look, there's PrDarkStar too.

The only bad thing about ONTD wank is that I always see people I know in there. Otherwise, it's hilarious.

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Re: The Lone ONTD-er
[info]jrs1980
2006-04-15 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Um, there's 34,000 people who are members of ONTD. I kinda doubt you're the only one here. Like, for instance, me. I'm here!

And, there is no bad to ONTD wank.

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Re: The Lone ONTD-er
[info]komorebi
2006-04-16 01:59 pm UTC (link)
VendettaV could use a goddamn username swap.

If I wasn't so fond of my Spider icons... *fistwave*

Now where's the Brawny...

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[info]symbeline
2006-04-15 08:45 pm UTC (link)
I'll never get tired of Scientology wank.

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[info]sashenka
2006-04-15 11:37 pm UTC (link)
Christianity stole some stuff from Islam too, I think.

No, you're thinking of Judaism [that Christianity borrows from], dumbshit, Christianity is OLDER than Islam... *headdesk*

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[info]wrongly_amused
2006-04-16 12:23 am UTC (link)
I know. That made me go O_O myself.

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[info]kijikun
2006-04-16 04:35 am UTC (link)
"Not all Scientologists are as insane as Cruise"

This is very true.

Some are crazier.

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[info]luxshine
2006-04-16 01:42 pm UTC (link)
The only thing I get out of this Scientology wank is the wish for their building across the street to dissapear.
Seriously... How can people believe that crap?

Also... if OTwhatever are supposed to have superpowers, why Cruise still uses a stunt?

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[info]omnicrom
2006-04-17 02:58 am UTC (link)
Partly because noone has ever been cleared of enough emgrams to qualify as an Operating Thetan. This is because Operating Thetans are supposed to have superpowers like the greek gods (some Scientology literature seriously claims that the gods of olympus were early scientologists) and those claims could easily be tested and debunked hurting the "church."

Some people have been "Cleared," an in-between state, but the "church" over time has backpedalled on what that meant. Originally you were basically super-human with perfect memory and health. Then a "Clear" couldn't answer a simple memory question like "what color is my shirt." Result: "Clear" has a bunch of benefits that can't be quantified like "better luck."

I think Cruise is a "Clear" mostly I think because of all the free publicity he's making for them. "There's no such thing as bad publicity" as the cliche goes.

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[info]aegflota
2006-04-16 02:36 pm UTC (link)
My dad believes in not using drugs that you don't necessarily need like anti depressants or Ritalin to heal yourself because they can have really bad side effects.

Yeah, gosh darn those nasty anti-depressant side effects! Getting better! Not trying to chop your own wrists off!

Anyway, MY dad says Scientology is rubbish, and my dad's bigger than your dad. Shut it.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-04-16 03:14 pm UTC (link)
Anyway, MY dad says Scientology is rubbish, and my dad's bigger than your dad.

Yeah but my daddy is a Methodist preacher!

... Meaning your dad wins automatically.

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This must be a fair fight...
[info]aegflota
2006-04-16 05:02 pm UTC (link)
...my dad won prizes at his Methodist Sunday School although he is just a school teacher these days, and my mum is STILL a steward at an Evangelical Church in England. Her name is ON THE INTERNET.

Do I still win?

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[info]female_fanboy
2006-04-17 01:39 am UTC (link)
Well my dad says mood stabilizers and antidepressants are for pansies, and he's a lawyer so he's gotta be right

...Then again, he drove a car through the living room wall, so he might not be the best frame of reference. *shrug*

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Also
[info]aegflota
2006-04-16 02:43 pm UTC (link)
You would probably think I am pretty conservative. However, I am also pro-life and a Democrat

Hahah. Yeah, ded liberal.

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[info]gal_montag
2006-04-16 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Her dad must belong to one of the Protestant sects of Scientology where they no longer believe that Xenu was a man, but the embodiment of the spirit of making money hand over fist batshit crazy something something something.

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[info]omnicrom
2006-04-17 02:59 am UTC (link)
The literature I know of says that Xenu was some sort of alien being. Unless by man you mean "person" in the most general sense.

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[info]gal_montag
2006-04-17 03:06 am UTC (link)
Well, by man I mean that I assume that Xenu was male and also a person. I guess I imagine him as a Star Trek alien that looks like a human but with super galactic powers and lots of silver trim on his foam rubber clothes.

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