Updates from Derren Brown and the Enigma Crew

Nick says:

It’s genuinely no like me to be a grammar Nazi, (this is the first time I’ve ever done this tbh) but “refuted” means “proved untrue”, so it’s use above renders this story pointless.

Sorry and all that, I’ll get back in my box now…

Erin says:

I don’t know very much about Scientology so I wished this video would have went into why they did these things, what reason do they have to keep children locked indoors, away from their parents?

Which might help explain why people choose to live like that? I don’t know, I’m left feeling a bit ignorant now

Tom says:

This video makes me sick =/

Emma B says:

@Erin: They do it because L Ron Hubbard wrote that children are essentially born as ‘little adults’, and should, according to him, be able to cope with it, even if society (the ‘wog’ world) said they shouldn’t be made to. Essentially, they do things because L Ron wrote them. They call it the ‘tech’, and it’s rotten throughout, really. The ramblings of a man who wanted to make money through his own religion (and was indeed quotes as saying so), decending slowly into paranoid schizophrenia. They follow it to the letter.

Rob says:

His books were always the worst kind of drivel, and i say that as a sci fi aficionado. The worst film ever made –
‘Battlefield Earth’ – was based on his book. The depravity of his behaviour over the years has sickened me. These ‘revelations’ are no surprise. In nearly every case of men playing saviour and gathering disciples they have used the power they accumulate to abuse the little ones in their ‘care’. I say men because that is almost always the case.
I say that as a man talking about men – we have a lot to answer for. All some men seem to need are privacy, power and opportunity to abuse those around them. Not all men are abusers, but a significant proportion seem to take the opportunity if given. We should all be careful with our precious offspring.

Neil says:

Scientology, and in particular, its spokesman Tommy ‘every time I open my mouth the foot goes straight into the poor’ Davis will extol the virtues of the cult, and Tom Cruise / John Travolta / Kirstie Alley may be polishing this useless turd with their celebrity, but underneath it all Scientology is all about getting your money. There’s no spiritual enlightenment, and any cult that tries to convince you that you’re an alien called a Thetan does away with its own credibility immediately. Scientology claims to be about helping people – Lisa McPherson, if she were here, would definitely disagree.