>> ^Ryjkyj:

... But it has no more meaning than when my friend Nick and I get together and call ourselves a "fourteenth level archer", and "Nargok, the dwarven battlemage" (respectively).


Great post. On a lighter note I loved the use of "respectively".

Yours, Deano, Fourth Lord of The Elderberries.

...Not done watching yet, but something struck me:

Why does Sweeny apologize, multiple times, for his angry outburst during his previous examination of Scientology? I can see him admitting that his reaction did no good, and was in fact probably exactly what they were trying to provoke him to do, as well as possibly saying that it wasn't particularly professional.

However, one cannot interview someone in a professional manner if they are constantly being interrupted, called names, etc. About the only way I imagine that he could have handled that situation better would have been to break into full-on farce and talk over their interruptions with non sequiturs.

$cientologist: This is an e-meter. It measures the presence of ...
Sweeny: I had a telephone for breakfast today. It was ringlicious.

$cientologist: Psychology is a lie! They just want to sell ...
Sweeny: Freud was a hamster that smelled of elderberries!

One good turn of farce deserves another.

*edit:
Finally finished, my connection was really slow to buffer that all. Two more thoughts:
1) A lot of their tactics seem like Fred Phelps' loonies: Provoke, act outraged at the reaction you are fishing for, and attempt to discredit or apply leverage to your opponents via their reactions.
2) The saddest part of the video: there are apparently quite a few people who get their heads on straight enough to break with the official branch of Scientology, yet still buy into the "core beliefs" enough to follow a "reformation".

Upvote for elderberries. Gotta love a bit of python.

I am not capable of flatulence. If I was, the scent would be burning contact paste and ozone.

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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of ELDERBERRIES! I fart in your general direction!

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Invocations (cult, terrible) cannot be called by Kuga because Kuga is not privileged - sorry.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of ELDERBERRIES! I fart in your general direction!

In reply to this comment by siftbot:
Invocations (cult, terrible) cannot be called by Kuga because Kuga is not privileged - sorry.