Crazy Tom Cruise approves of this fund-raising strategy
Oh, L. Ron Hubbard, whence has your little cult of lucre, craziness and cupidity gone? Scientology, in the wake of several well-publicized disasters, has decided that its best bet is to move out of the coffee-shop magazine racks and strip mall spirituality and into the "mainstream"*. So, what could be more mainstream than building new "Ideal Orgs" (e.g., "churches" for Scientology that they want to put in "every community" and "every neighborhood"). The proof, as they say, is in the pudding, in this video disseminated to the faithful begging for money....
That's a lot of crazy ass white people
A note on the verbiage used in this bizarre-ass pitch: "Com Line" is presumably a communication line; "psychs" aren't psychotics that are coming to get them, it's psychologists and psychiatrists; and "clear" is the neophyte stage of a Scientologist's existence, so named because they've shed any gray matter and you can now look clear through their skulls.
I think, in all of this, perhaps the funniest part is to contrast this desparation with Hubbard's own words, as a Gawker commenter rightly points out:
"When buildings get important to us, for Gods sake, some of you born revolutionists, will you please blow up central headquarters. If someone had put some HE (high explosives) under the Vatican long ago, Catholicism might still be going. Dont get interested in real estate. Dont get interested in the masses of buildings, because thats not important." - L. Ron Hubbard, 31 December 1960 lecture, The Genus of Dianetics and Scientology
Xenu is my homeboy.
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