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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:05 pm
Escapee, the day isn't over yet but I haven't bought one today either. Jimmer, no plasma tv here, lol.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:08 pm
Hermi, I read ages ago that the COS takes care of its own, that it has tons of money and some of that goes to keeping its members out of poverty. But I read that article like 8 years ago. Yes, it seems like an extravagant amount of money to me to donate from your income. I felt the same way when Madonna donated vast sums of money to open a Kabbalah center--and the group pressured her for even more. I read her husband was livid and it caused a lot if fights.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:08 pm
I didn't say I didn't drink coffee today, just haven't purchased one. Free coffee at work, ya know.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Interesting, Nyheat. Well, <tongue-in-cheek> if I ever lose my job and my house and my car, I can always convert to Scientology. That's good to know! Oh, and hi Escapee! 
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Is she trying to buy her way into Heaven or Nirvanna or whatever the Scientologists call it?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:19 pm
I think there is an awesome irony in that the voice of BART SIMPSON, the creation of a guy who makes his money making fun of people like the Scientologists, is giving so much money to that organization. I don't watch The Simpsons ever, but I'm willing to bet they've mocked Scientology on a show or two. One could interpret the Scientologists' crusade to not use medication fro psychiatric illnesses as a way of giving back. There is definitely an argument that humans medicating themselves is messing with evolution/natural selection, etc. We are moving faster at manipulating the environment, than our species is evolving and there are many arguments out there that we really don't know the long-term evolutionary effects of the medications we are taking. The same way people crusade to eliminate phosphates from cleaning supplies, smoking from public places, etc, could be the same way that CoS is trying to eliminate use of medications in psychiatric treatment. Yes, I realize it is a stretch, and I realize that the CoS is not using the evolutionary argument as their reasoning for eliminating medications. But if someone truly wanted to play Devil's Advocate, you could say they do things for their community, etc.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:23 pm
Oh, me too, I drank coffee from home with some sugar free chocolate in it.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Here is a link to some info on the connection between Scientology and celebrities... Scientology Recruits Hollywood
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:56 pm
I've heard that argument Eeyore and I happen to think there's something to it. I also don't give money to cancer 'research' either and am so sick of the 'business' of cancer I could scream! This donation is ridiculous and so is she if she isn't kicking herself all over her back yard right now.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 1:30 pm
I don't get it. These folks are giving their money to something they believe in, isn't that what most people do? Maybe their cause isn't something that I, or a lot of people, believe in but I'm sure there are causes I find worthy that others wouldn't. So these people give millions to scientology, it's something they believe and clearly they have the money to give, what difference does it make to anyone else?
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 1:37 pm
I go back to what Brenda said. She is free to give her money to what she wants to, and I am free to think what I want about her choice.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:07 pm
I know people who think I am crazy for spending $4 on a coffee, so I think it's normal for a lot of people who aren't scientologist(sp) to think that woman is crazy for donating all that money. I think they need the money to build the underground world in which they plan on living in when the world gets hit with the big mass that is spiraling thru outer space toward us and...ok I'm out of breath, just being silly.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:09 pm
ROFL! I know people who think I am nuts for my feelings on animal rights. I am nuts, but that is not why! 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:10 pm
when the world gets hit with the big mass that is spiraling thru outer space toward us You did know there is an out-of-control U.S. spy satellite that may hit North America in the next month, don't you??!! I'm serious!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:26 pm
<93> I am sure the parents of the children who suffer from psychiatric disorders (and there are more and more every year) would really have a lot to say on the subject of scientology's attacks on psychiatric medications.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:27 pm
Yep I read bout that Hermi. And there's only a 30minute window for them to be able to pinpoint where it will hit.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:30 pm
I am not getting into this discussion again. I think I have made my points already and don't want to be repetative. Let me just say one thing because some people just don't seem to understand and the Cos uses this to their advantage: The Church of Scientology is NOT A CHURCH!!!!!!! LOLOL It is a registered business name. You can go in a register Walmart as a business name, Staples is a business name, the Church of Scientology is a business name and they are a business venture. Tom Cruise himself says this but it seems to be un-noticed by some. If you bought a hardware store and had the name registered as The Church of Hardware would that make you a church? Or a religion? Go back to your conversation now. LOLOL
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:38 pm
What makes a church a church and a religion a religion?
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:46 pm
I don't know Jimmer. Some might think I worship at the alter of Target as often as I go there and "donate". I just know that Mr. Scientology himself, Tom Cruise, has told us it's not a religion, and he's the expert. The expert on everything, or so he says. 
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:46 pm
I dunno but I know when the organization themselves says they are not a church or a religion that the point is rather mute. LOLOL
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:48 pm
Maybe if they call themselves a church?
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:49 pm
lol! Hermione, yep, heard about that satellite coming down, but I'm talking the big meteor(is that right?) ya know the end of life one. Rissa, I hear ya! It's crazy because I happen to be a fan of some of Ron Hubbard(sp?) science-fiction books.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:51 pm
It's such a weird line when judging how someone else spends their money. I know I was sick to my stomach when the neighbors bought a new one of those things you put in a tree to sit in when you deer hunt, but their roof has a leaking hole in it where they keep a big pot. None of my business, but I can still think it's the wrong way to have spent the money.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:07 pm
You can also think it's stupid, lol!
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