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They also gave us this giant poster with a really complex system of levels of spirituality, including one that is said to allow you to obtain "Super Power"

Also, when the director detected the "troubling thoughts," my friend was thinking about sitting in a lazy-boy chair. edit: another thing that proves just how gullible they are is that they believed we were from the press just because we had notepads and pencils. We gave them no other proof, nor even our real names.

That's about where I'm at.

We spent more than an hour interviewing the director of the local branch, they gave us free literature, books valued at over $112/each. They couldn't actually answer any of the really tough questions likes "How did L. Ron Hubbard come up with this belief system." The answer they gave was "He was counseling a lot of people, and a lot of them came to him claiming they had past lives, and they got better after having discussed their past lives, and so thus he was able to conclude and come up with Dianetics." They gave my buddy an e-meter reading, they asked him to hold on to these metal tubes which were hooked up to this machine and first asked him twice to recall the events of the day(they say the machine picked up changes in spiritual energy that occured when you thought about something that troubled you), and then in the other test the director pinched my buddy to see the reaction, my eyes were fixed on the needle guage of the machine which stayed totally still but the director insisted that it was picking up my buddy's thoughts, who played (for the most part) along with what was being said. It was sorta silly. I asked where they got the machines and who manufactured them, all she said was "it's a company in California, I can't give you their name, but they make them to very exact specifications we give them." The manual actually says the machine does absolutely nothing unless you're "qualified to use it."

My friend and I went to one of their churches today under the guise of newspaper reporters. It was both terrible and interesting at the same time.

Chicks are shorter than dudes on average by 10%

When short people are excessively aggressive it's often called the Napoleon Complex given that Napoleon was said to be short. This is because his height is often misquoted as 5'2" in reality he was 5'6" which is slightly short by today's standards but considered average during his time.

Pontius Pilate would've been sorta awesome.

"Strange Lands" - Hudson Bell

I agree... lame. I thought Pilate was a good name for a band.

Freaky stuff. I don't think anyone really believes in Scientology, it's all about attention.

Teehee....

At least those things were popular to collect at some point. I used to be big on collecting coins, all sorts of them, I still have a lot but they never see the light of day anymore.

I always wonder why nobody during the entire film-making process doesn't stop and say, "Maybe this isn't something that'll make a very good movie." Not that I could expect every movie to be deep, or moving or otherwise amazing but I don't think it's too much to expect that someone somewhere apply at least some kind of standard.

Yeah, a worse concept than maybe even Stealth.

Youtube can. Also S2000 is gay.

I'm not interested in seeing either of these. I may see Cars at some point to kill time, but I have way too little faith in Adam Sandler to ever pay to see any movie of his again.

The fart box or the baby box??

I'd heard the title, and I thought it must be a metaphor for something. I thought no way is there they would make a movie by such a lame title if it was actually going to be about snakes on a plane. And yet...

"Like A Rolling Stone" - Bob Dylan

Another postal service related one. The tracking system apparently only lets you know the time and place the package is sent out... and then lets you know nothing until the package arrives. So basically it lets you know when there's been 0% progress and when there's been 100% (by then you've gotten it so it doesn't matter)... so it's not really tracking anything. It's pretty much useless because it doesn't really tell you anything but is still advertised as something with some kind of useful purpose.

My worthless DVD player that can never seem get through an entire movie.

People that smell like they've smoked an entire tobacco plantation. I don't care if people smoke, and I know people who do smoke but never smell of it. So I think there's no excuse for smelling like shit on account of smoking.

"Believe" - Bernard Fanning

Whenever I use any sort of service you pay for, and they give you a range of time in which you get what you want, it's almost always the maximum of the range. For instance, when you order something and it has to be shipped, and they say it should arrive in 2 to 9 days... it's always 9 days and never 2, or the local train system that says a train arrives every 5 to 15 minutes, it's always 15 and never 5. Why bother making people think it could be several times faster than ever is in practice? It gets frustrating.