Holiday Songs For Scientologists

[matthewf]

Run time: 02:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDjo2yejNkI   Posted on YouTube: December 12, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 13, 2008 By DU Member: matthewf Views on DU: 877

 
Hey DU,
Hope you enjoy "Holiday Songs For Scientologists"

Also, check out my extended blog on this on the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-filipowicz/holiday-songs-for-sciento_b_150629.html

And if you like it, please DIGG it here. It helps it get featured.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Matthew_Filipowicz_Holiday_Songs_for_Scientologists

Thanks,
Matt

[ihavenobias]

1. K & R. I'll DIGG it in a second. n/t

[matthewf]

3. Thanks for the comments here & there!

[stlsaxman]

2. Beauty!

:rofl:

[matthewf]

4. Glad you liked it stlsaxman!

[pnwmom]

5. Thanks. I know an 80+ year old lady who was kicked out of Scientology

because she got too old to work for them. She had been living with and working for them for 30 years with no Social Security or retirement benefits or anything. Fortunately, she had the family she'd deserted who was willing to take her back.

It's a disgrace that this org is allowed to continue under the guise of religion.

[percussivemadness]

6. Yes it is a disgrace

but no more so than the Mormon religion...

[pnwmom]

8. The Mormons don't kick their elderly out, do they?

After taking their whole paychecks for decades?

[percussivemadness]

14. yes, if they no longer wish to be Mormon...Plus, mandatory tithing of 10% of your gross salary

over one`s life time can add up to far more than scientology...People ridicule scientology for their beliefs, however, noone ridicules Mormon beliefs, even though their basic belief structure has been proven to be a fallacy. Now, lets also talk about the regarding of women as mere "baby machines", the elders rituals in the sacred temple, the fact that a woman can only get into heaven assuming her husband tells her her special "name", and for that to happen she must be subservient to him at all times. Then again of course we have the belief that "native americans" are cursed, black people are inferior, homosexuality is unnatural and much much more.

I understand that scientology is a scam and hardly a religion (though that depends on one`s definition of religion), however, compared to Mormonism, it is like comparing burglary to mass murder.

[pnwmom]

15. The 80 year old wanted to stay with the Scientologists. They kicked HER out

because they thought she was too old to work for them anymore.

You don't understand that there's a whole group of Scientologists that are much more involved than the people who just pay for some courses. All she had was room and board from them -- no earnings to show after living and working with them for 30 years. And no pension, and no Social Security. That's much worse than tithing 10%. And the worst thing is, she still considers herself a Scientologist -- they're the ones who decided to off-load her, not the other way around.

I've never heard of anything comparable to that in Mormonism.

[percussivemadness]

16. then you need to do your research

I am not disagreeing with you in respect of scientology, however, you are defending mormonism, which shows you how little you know about this insidious, evil cult that America allows to exist and flourish in our midst.

[pnwmom]

17. Mormons tithe 10%. Scientologists who work for the org get their room and

board as long as they can produce -- and when they're too old to work, they're dumped in the streets, with nothing.

Explain to me how the Mormons (who remain Mormons) are worse off.

[matthewf]

10. Mormons are bad, too.

[matthewf]

9. Wow. That's horrible, pnwmom.

[pnwmom]

18. It's hard to believe, I know, but there are many other stories like hers

out there.

Here's a link I just found.

http://www.upperbridge.org/claire-reppen.html

"The picture below was taken in Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 1998. One sees an emaciated Claire Reppen, a "Star of the Team" and by then a "senior Citizen" being made to do hard Labor on a Sunday.
One can, but ponder what kind of organization makes the elderly do hard physical labor even on Sunday for essentially no pay, so that it does not have to pay outside contractors to build its Christmas lights and decorations
This is one of the last pictures taken of Claire."

[beac]

7. K&R, dugg and rated 5-stars on YouTube!

Thanks for a good laugh to start the weekend. :applause:

[matthewf]

11. Thanks, beac!

[ihavenobias]

13. Ditto. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Beautiful.

I hope you don't mind that I added it to the Truthiness Encyclopedia's page for $cientology's Winter Holiday (http://www.wikiality.com/%24cientology/Winter_Holiday)