Pirate Pete spotted this … It looks like there’s an FSM symbol on the “$cientology i$ a $cam” sign. I don’t know any details about the protest. Anyone know? More pictures can be found here.
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Yesterday, there were Scientology protests all across the country. A group called Anonymous is determined to bring them down, and they’re using the internet to gather followers and to threaten the church. Look up Xenu.net, that’s where a lot of the details are.
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The wise and all-knowing FSM has led me to this link in my search for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology
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They are out to get us too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATZvRyB364s
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That’s plymouth, I’m sure of it!
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That’s definately an FSM symbol. Yay!
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For the good of all, this entire science fiction book by a pedophile to turn a quick buck turned into a religion and must be stopped, the FSM will surely see to this and clearly he is helping.
RAmen
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It’s 41 Ebrington street, drake circus, plymouth, Uk.
The shop on the right is a take away, on the left is a former poorhouse. I can’t find a good picture to prove it. :( Only this
http://base.googlehosted.com/base_media?q=maps:www.scientology.org/world/worldeng/global/orgpics/plyorg.jpg&size=3&hl=en
If I’d have known there was going to be a protest there, I’d probably have made an effort to join them. Interesting that they dress rather like I do.
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The Flying Spaghetti monster can beat Xenu´s ass anytime anywhere, but knowing him he probably prefer to invite him to drink a few beers around a volcano, I don’t know if Xenu drinks beer but ive heard he likes volcanoes.
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Meh… I’m not sure I can agree with the sentiments behind these protests. Scientology is an obvious hoax, but then, to me ALL religions are. Quite a lot of scientologists seem to be zealots for their religion, but again, that certainly isn’t limited to their religion.
You cannot have selective religious tolerance, and remember the 8 “I’d really rather you didn’ts”.
RAmen
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Coimbra, April 23, 1975.
“A few days ago, during the homily of Sunday Mass in a parish church in rural surroundings, the priest spoke to his parishioners about the forthcoming elections for the Constituent Assembly. Launched hand of the parabola to be better understood and told them:
— “My dear brothers in Christ: suppose that one of you is owner of a dairy cow; if socialism wins, the brother takes the cow, but will have to give the milk to the party, if the communism wins, we will stand without the milk and without the cow. ..” “
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I’m not sure I get the reason for the protest.
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Like Gnocci Man said, ALL religions are scams… except for CoFSM of course. ;-)
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-OEJ
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@ Gnocci Man
The protests are about the legality behind Co$. They have tax exempt status, which is unjustified. They have committed a startling number of crimes and so forth. The protests aren’t about the delusion of $cientology, rather, the legality of it.
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Pirate Pete? I’m glad to know that I’ve become someone’s role model!
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Coolio, it always seems like Pastafarianism has paid a lot of attention to Scientology.
RAmen
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RAmen, Gnocci Man! One would think that “true” Pastafarians would know better.
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Next time, my mom wants to go with a shirt that says “Pastafarian” and below it “Future Cyber-Terrorist” just because the CoS wants to pain the protesters as adolescent cyber-terrorists and it’d get a funny reaction.
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Gnocci Man:
Sadly, it’s not their beliefs; it’s their actions. Google “Operation Snow White” and “Operation Freakout.”
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I have heard some terrible things about this “anonymous”.
I heard a rumor that one of their group ordered a pizza delivered to a scientology church and the scientologists had to pay for it even though they did not order it !! Obviously the scientologigt church is right in calling them terrorists.
On the other hand the scientologist church only indulges in positive actions like going into the house of one of their critics, stealing a piece of paper with her fingerprints on it, and using that paper to mail a bomb threat to themselves in an effort to get a critic arrested. another tactic that they enjoy is to claim they heard a critic make a suicide threat which when reported gets the critic locked up in a mental hospital for 72 hour observation.
That way when questioned about their critics they can say ” Oh her? wasn’t she in a mental hospital?”
And lets not forget that the largest criminal infiltration of the US government (and Canada) was not conducted by a foreign government but by the scientologist church, If that sounds a little outlandish look up “Operation snow white”.
And since you seem like a law abideing church group,read what judges have to say about scientology.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/archive/quotes.htm
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It’s 4chan’s attempt to eliminate Scientology. It was funny for about a week, and now it’s just annoying.
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Scientology… come on. Are you serious?
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I will be at the 4/12 protest in Clearwater, FL, proudly proclaiming FSM is the one true religion!!! Could a 50ish pirate wench be a secret cyber-terrorist? A round of grog for all Anon Pastafarians!!!!
RAmen!!!
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I think its hilarious that during the whole protest Anon managed to stay peaceful, but several scientologists were arrested for assaulting them. I’m sure the FSM supports what they are doing to scientology and will continue to touch them with his noodley appendage
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Gnocci, if you think that these protests aren’t justified, then go Xenu.net. Scientology is a lot more than a hoax; it has an uncanny knack of destroying people’s lives.
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“Meh… I’m not sure I can agree with the sentiments behind these protests. Scientology is an obvious hoax, but then, to me ALL religions are.”
Issue isn’t their beliefs. Issue is the suffering they cause others.
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This is the official summary that was posted on their website. Also, the link is to other pics, and there is a good one of the FSM sign in it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24708249@N07/2335218433/in/set-72157604122866516/
“United Kingdom: Plymouth
Turnout Plymouth: 40-50 people.
10:30AM – 6:00PM
It was very wet.
We split into three groups at one point, heading into the very densley packed town centre to follow both the scientology carts who were giving out propaganda and stress tests. We met them with our leaflets and well made signs.
They tried several tactics including baiting us out to nowhere to keep up busy with a decoy and taunting us to stay with them.
They had hired a security guard who we can happily say had very little to do that day. The anon outside the Org spent the day handing out flyers as did the anon picketing the carts through town. Eventually all three groups met back at the org until the protest ended at 6pm.
We had two ex-Plymouth staff members with us as well as many people from around the South West region and despite the weather we had a great time. The public was very receptive.
Scilons took many videos and photographs and hopefully the news team that interviews the ex-staff members will run a story on us.
There were no police this time. The worst we had was some Big Issue sellers saying that Scientology was good, and some old people who lived next door saying we were doing no good. ”
Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24708249@N07/sets/72157604122866516/
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The protests are not directed at the religion, but specifically the CHURCH’S ACTIONS. There’s a difference. I support people’s rights to be Catholic, but I condemn the Inquisition.
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I have to agree with Gnocci Scientology makes every bit as much as sense as the Flying Spaghetti Monster maybe we could have join meetings and find what we have in common
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I was at the first Anon protest last month, good times. Its a shame they are against Pastafarianism though.
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Gnocci Man, Cabin Boy Jon:
It’s not that Scientology does or does not make sense – if they peacefully practiced their religion, no one would have cared. But when they wring every penny from their followers and cause the deaths of innocents, there’s a problem! You really ought to check out http://xenu.net, as was previously posted, if you really want to see why the Church of Scientology is a truly terrible organization. No one wants to condemn them for their beliefs, but like Pontius Pirate says.. for their actions!
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Egads, Cabin Boy Jon- I admire your tolerance, but I don’t think I could enjoy my pasta at a meeting with scientologists! Can I be tolerant of them from afar?
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Anon and the FSM? And here I thought they were the bad guys.
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I am one of the Legion, but also a Pastafarian. Scientology has done quite horrible things as you can see by looking at the many sites on the web.
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More protest info:
http://www.whyweprotest.net/
http://www.enturbulation.org/
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I don’t get why people hate on Scientology…I mean, it is organized religion and that sucks but is it any suckier than other organized religions? Are they out somewhere hurting kittens or something?
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Okay, I did a little research, weird stuff.
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I also do not understand why this particular brand of flim-flam is any worse than any other. I do know that to date, Scientologists have killed fewer people than Catholics. Maybe we should go protest the Pope in a ‘bombard Manuel Noriega with loud rock and roll’ style, but we should sing pirate shantys.
PC
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cabin boy jon. they might make just as much sense, but remember
A: they have no graph.
B: they get people dead.
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I never said we had anything in common! I find scientology both ridiculous and disturbing, along with pretty much all other religions, but I also dislike it when people attack others beliefs. If I had known that the scientologists had been proselytizing at the time, I might not have reacted as I did. But regardless, those posters can hardly be seen as polite and innocent critiques; I find many of the anti-scientologists just as disturbing as their nemeses, and I confess, the whole situation scares me.
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I guess I’m just one of those naive “if only we could all get along” people. Oh well.
FNORD,
RAmen
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JORDAN , NIKE , ADIDAS , PUMA shoes only $20 per pair !!!!! Welcome to http://www.netsowntown.com
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I have the sacred Spagetti….blasphemer!
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As a proud Pastafarian, and as a “member” of Anonymous, I’m proud to see that sign.
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I don’t see what the problem is here. We are supposed to be tollerant of all religions and belief systems, Right? So perhaps we should spend less time worrying about scientology, and more time loving our fellow man…
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oh my god, i just read some of the hate mail and some of these people are off their rockers. I personally am christian though question my religion daily because of the lack of tangible answers in the world. Christians are supposed to be taught acceptance and understanding, kindness and the ability to forgive. I mean come on, people can believe what they want, why would you want to force your own beliefs on them? Spreading your beliefs does not mean “Oh hey lets go force feed people what i believe and see if they choke.” That makes about as much sense as the people who chew tobacco… “Hey Edd I have an Idea! Lets go chew on something with pieces of glass in it that was left out to dry with rats and probably has a substantial amount of rat shit in it!”
I mean come on guys… what the hell is up with the world now?
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For too many years, religion has been given a free pass. And, to a large degree it still is. While I support a person’s right to believe a silly thing, I also believe in another person’s right to protest that silly thing. Would love to see more people stand up to belief in silly things…
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Scientology…tsk tsk…as a vertebrate and inhabitant of Earth, I, like many other species, find the whole notion of humans arriving on Earth from space offensive. A Mexican walking fish sits at the top of my family tree…and I’m damn proud of it…
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Gnocci Man and Cabin Boy Jon: You are both wrong, and apathy is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS trait.
I agree with Pontius Pirate when he says, “I support people’s rights to be Catholic, but I condemn the Inquisition.”
Its fine if you guys want to blaspheme against The Church of the Spaghetti Monster, thats your right, but the Cult of Scientology has something called the “Fair Game Policy”. To quote directly from the Scientology founder: enemies of the cult “May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
Scientology is not just a “funny religion”, its a CRIMINAL CULT, which poses serious threats to society. And the mentality of “Oh, Scientology is just one of many wack religions” is the same as seeing one single enemy soldier in war and thinking, “Well, theres so many more I’ll just let him pass by and kill whomever he wishes since I can’t kill the entire enemy army at once.” Look, theres shit tons of info available about how fucked up Scientology is. Join the resistance. When was the last time you protested something? Start taking stances! Educate yourself, and join the next worldwide protest on April 12th in a city near you.
xenu.net
enturbulation.org
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I was at the austin texas protest dressed in my pirate gear in support for his Noodly Goodness.
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I think that this was his noodliness’s stamp of approval for protesting false gods rather than an organized protest of pastafarians. besides, where is the full pirate regalia?
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There are protesters like this with posters and guy fox masks at every week’s Farmer’s Market here… Their main beef is that Scientology isn’t just a cult, it’s a rip-off. They want to arm people against a scam.
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Anybody who says that they’re pushing their faith is ignorant. Look in all of the pictures. See anything that says, “convert”? No. It’s telling people that Scientology is dangerous because of the things it does, you can look up what their faith entails if you want. All they’re saying is to stay away, not to convert to pastafarianism, the one true faith. RAmen.
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GOOD, IT IS ABOUT TIME! THEY ARE FOOLS AND MERE MORTALS!!!!
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