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Since: Sep 18, 2006
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(Msg. 16) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:44 am
Post subject: Re: /. 4e D&D QnA [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"Seebs" <usenet-nospam.TakeThisOut@seebs.net> wrote in message
news:slrnfs8866.j2u.usenet-nospam@guild.seebs.net...
> On 2008-02-26, Hong Ooi <hong.TakeThisOut@zipworld.com.au> wrote:
>> Seebs? Is that you?
>
> Yes.
>
> Executive summary, since a few people may wonder where I've been since
> 2005:
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> I got sucked into some vB bulletin boards, and I've been very busy. Since
> I was last active in rgfd, I have:
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> * done oodles
Been busy, eh?
> And, for those who haven't run into this: Take half an hour to do some
> research on the Church of Scientology. If there exists a human rights
> issue
> on which you have opinions, you probably already hate them and just don't
> know it. Pre-teen kids working >10 hour days for little to no pay,
> coerced
> abortions, kidnapping, denial of medical treatment, systematic torture and
> brainwashing, and of course, their famous harassment of critics.
> Conveniently, a solution has been found: They can't sue EVERYBODY, and
> they
> are currently reeling from the discovery that some random guys from the
> Internet managed to get 7500+ people out protesting at over a hundred
> different CoS sites on three weeks' notice.
Anonymous rocks. Good things are happening there.
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^v^v^Malachias Invictus^v^v^
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the Master of my fate:
I am the Captain of my soul.
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(Msg. 17) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:44 am
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Alien mind control rays made Seebs <usenet-nospam DeleteThis @seebs.net> write:
> And, for those who haven't run into this: Take half an hour to do some
> research on the Church of Scientology.
double plus, they're good inspiration for evil cults in your game.
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Since: Apr 19, 2007
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(Msg. 18) Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:40 pm
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On Mar 2, 12:01 am, tussock <sc....DeleteThis@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Wow, a *million* people on the terror watch list over there. Go, go
> project freedom. Good luck getting someone less insane next time, guys.
well... choice R is mostly a continuation... choice D is 180 to the
other side... complete with Nation of Islam endorsements. >> Stay informed about: /. 4e D&D QnA |
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Since: Feb 26, 2008
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(Msg. 19) Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:13 pm
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On 2008-03-03, tussock <scrub.TakeThisOut@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Good man. Have you considered how it is people end up in a position
> to be drawn into nutcase cults like scientology?
A lot of it is lack of information, which is one of the reasons the cult's
been suffering badly of late -- too easy to get information now.
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Copyright 2008, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam.TakeThisOut@seebs.net
http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! >> Stay informed about: /. 4e D&D QnA |
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:14 pm
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Seebs wrote:
> * Internet. When they reacted to the protests by ostentatiously
> snooping at someone's house, instead of being afraid, he told
> people... About five thousand people knew within an hour or two.
> Twenty or thirty thousand within a day.
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> I think the last one is a big part of what's happening; simultaneously,
> there's a huge boom in the number of people aware of the problem, *and*
> a huge change in how effective their usual tactics are.
<shrug> That's not a new thing either though, people have been
seeking help with the harrasment and leaking docs since before there was
an internet, and most got support somewhere.
I guess people have stopped looking at these things as individual
cases, and like you say there's a critical mass out there who all see it
the same way. Be interesting to see if it keeps kicking up, and how the
scientologists will adapt; maybe they'll just pretend it isn't happening.
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tussock
I'm like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gunna get. >> Stay informed about: /. 4e D&D QnA |
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