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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:19 PM
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Ignore the Joe Klein "cult" crap. TIME Magazine has an established history of Bias
Time magazine has a history of hanging the "cult" tag on people who are just trying to make a difference in the world. This whole "Obama cult" meme is typical of the suppressive press. The orientation of the writers is obvious. These writers are paid by their bosses to write this stuff.

There are vested interests in this country who don't want to see Obama win. He is a threat to them because they want to enslave people and he is in the business of freeing people.

So just turn the page on this "cult" nonsense. It's entheta.

I picked up one of the clippings. It was from Time Magazine. The writer was obviously biased against Scientology. In the article Scientology was called a cult.

"Scientology's not a cult. It's just a group of people trying to make a difference in the world," I informed my father. "This writer obviously didn't talk to anyone in Scientology or he wouldn't have written these things." I handed the article back to him.

"Well, there are other articles," he handed me several other articles. I looked through them. The orientation of the writers was obvious.

"Dad, this is just entheta," I told him, remembering what Hubbard had taught about this kind of journalism on one of his tapes. "That means it is against theta, or goodness. We're not supposed to read this stuff," I told him coldly, pushing the articles back to his side of the table.

"But just read some of them," he pleaded with me.

"I don't need to read them. I know what they say without reading them. They are written by the suppressive press. These writers are paid by their bosses to write this stuff. They want to destroy Scientology because it works. There are vested interests in this country who don't want to see Scientology expand. It is a threat to them because they want to enslave people and Scientology is in the business of freeing people."

http://www.culthelp.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1044&Itemid=15
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:20 PM
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1. Joe Klein is from the Geogetown Cocktail Party cult
Always be suspicious of secret meetings of powerful people.
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juajen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:23 PM
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2. Gee, what are you saying? I believe I smell a cult hanging 'roun heah'.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:26 PM
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3. TIME biased?
Say it ain't so!

We used it for toilet paper when I was a kid.
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bidenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:28 PM
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4. is this a joke?
You're telling us to ignore Time because Scientologists say it's bad ("entheta?!")?

I hope this is a joke. Otherwise I may have to power up the Little Kool-Aid Dude meter to see what reading this thread gets.

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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:31 PM
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5. Your post is suppressive!
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bidenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:32 PM
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6. ok, you had me worried. i feel better now!
:D
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:34 PM
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7. No one with a Salvador Dali avatar should be literal!
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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:43 PM
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8. PRAISE XENU!!!!
Edited on Thu Feb-07-08 03:44 PM by Sannum
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 05:41 PM
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12. Sounds you you're ready for another audit
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:44 PM
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9. Look, I know the idea of enthusiasm is shocking and possibly horrifying to Hillary supporters,
but don't you worry that frothing over "cults" is only marginalizing yourself?
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 04:09 PM
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11. Marginalizing myself?
Do you think this board is a contest between supporters of candidates? I don't.

It's a forum to say what you think, not what you want someone else to think you think. I don't care one whit for what any Hillary supporter says... most of those throwing around the word "cult" are just being nasty.

But that doesn't mean there's no cult.

I identified the hardcore of the early Obama movement as a cult months ago, because I know cultism, religion, faith-healers and self-help scams, and this stuff is hard to miss if one has made any study of pathological movements. And I say what I think. Other people say what they think.

If being correct and candid marginalizes me, then am I supposed to adopt a false, but more popular, platform? I'm not running for anything. I am not presenting myself... I am just talking, in a forum where people are free to disagree.

Obviously, the majority of Obama supporters today are not cultists. But the hardcore of the movement are predominantly cultists, as evidenced by their behavior.

And no, this thing is not just politics. I have never seen such clear-cut cult behavior in the Democratic Party, ever. The Deaniacs were a political movement. The Obama thing is, at heart, a quasi-religious personality cult.

That doesn't mean it is wrong to vote for him. I don't think I have ever told anyone to not vote for him. The question of whether the movement (sic) is built upon a cult mind-set among the core believers isn't a partisan question. It is a sociological question, and independent of who anyone votes for.

The fact of the cultish mind-set is like the fact of Hillary's IWR vote... it is a trait, not a conclusion.
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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-07-08 03:51 PM
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10. Load your weapons
Night is falling and the HillaZombies are coming out.
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