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Scientologists now have a branch on Tottenham Court Road!

Joelle

Posted by Joelle about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 32 responses

I was walking along Tottenham Court Road yesterday after work when a friend and I were accosted by a Scientology… Freak. They have been setting up tables in streets for the last couple of years, selling their ‘bible’ to passers by. They have clearly been so successful, that they now have a branch dedicated to this peculiar money grabbing cult. They ask passers by ‘Are you stressed? Are you?? Come and have a stress test.’ They proceed to drag you to a seat, put two metal rods in your hands, which are connected to some kind of dial. The Scientology sales person immediately tells you to think about something and the dial hits super stressed straight away. Every time. They then attempt to flog you a book about Dianetics and repeat some really obvious ways to become less stressed. The branch is plastered in quotes from the founder L. Ron Hubbard (a science fiction writer), which to be quite frank, a three year old could pick to pieces. The moral grounding of this “religion” is weak in many ways. But on top of that they believe that there is an alien ruler of the universe called Xenu who rules the universe, sorry, “Galactic Confederacy” and 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living….

Oh, you get my point. It is the biggest pile of bullshit you have ever heard. I’m sure you are all aware of this Scientology, Schmientology. They con members out of large sums of money and take extreme measures on members who try to leave the cult. Should they really be allowed to rip people off so blatantly? And on our fine London streets at that. Can they really call themselves a religion??

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32 responses

unknown

No and No

There, I think I answered all the above questions pretty effectively, I’ll take my kudos now thank you.

Rosco

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

Beagleskinpremium

Aww, I was going to say that…

I did catch the end of the BBC thing the other night where there was lots of screaming in the face of a Scientology guru. Which was nice.

Posted about 1 year ago by Beagleskin

flippypremium

That’s been there for years, I thought – they’ve just opened a new headquarters somewhere in East London.

Posted about 1 year ago by flippy

BraveNewMaldenpremium online

They’ve been on TCR for well over thirty years. They used to ask ‘Come in for a personality test?’ to which I would reply ‘I haven’t got one’ and that seemed to shut them up.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

unknown

sorry Beagybum, have a kudo apology

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

logomomo

nope but they do. the church of scientology on TCR has been there for yonks though – how funny they chose where they did

did you see the episode of SouthPark where they killed Chef off after he was hypnotised into scientologist – the most brutal but hillarious death scene i’ve ever seen

Posted about 1 year ago by logomomo

Simone

It’s been there ages. They also have a Celebrity Centre on Westbourne Avenue, and a hugemongous new hq on Queen Victoria Street.

Posted about 1 year ago by Simone

jamespo

Also, Noah says it looks like rain.

Posted about 1 year ago by jamespo

Beagleskinpremium

Roscetino, have one back for the name. :)

Logomoma, I think I spent most of that episode of South Park like this: :o

Posted about 1 year ago by Beagleskin

logomomo

it was faitly harsh beags – i think SP has got more outrageous of late – if that’s possible

anyway, BOO to scientology and all other scams posing as religion…

Posted about 1 year ago by logomomo

AssumingVakant

According to the documentary that was on the other night, they also have a habit of tracking down anyone who dares criticise their “religion” and harrassing them or digging up dirt which they publicise in the dissenter’s local community. Watch your back, Joelle!

Posted about 1 year ago by AssumingVakant

AdrianCooper

or they’ll just force you to appear in Battlefield Earth 2…

Posted about 1 year ago by AdrianCooper

willsterpremium

Bless the Scientologists and their wacko religion. Allowing them a little table and a few dodgy dials on a street corner is what makes Britain great. And the red faced reporter spitting in the Scientologist’s face on Panorama was nearly as good as the South Park episode. love and all your wages, Tom Cruise

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

Knid

Once I was accosted by the recruiters in Brighton. Hungover, I decided to play along with him. I kept saying “yes, I do feel low, and I do feel like something is clouding my thought processes, and I’ve often wondered if there’s anything I can do about it – I don’t really trust conventional medicine and therapy, is there anything that you guys can do to help out” etc etc etc. Once I had him completely slavering over the prospect of a surefire “sale” and about to drag me in for a “test”, I said “oh yes I’ve heard a bit about your machines – you can tell how clear I am… is it true if I do your course and reach a state of full Clear I get to fuck Tom Cruise?”

He went purple, went to take a swing at me, and had to be dragged off by a colleague.

Posted about 1 year ago by Knid

unknown

joining maybe a good way to meet mad people :)

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

spaniel

“they believe that there is an alien ruler of the universe called Xenu who rules the universe” No weirder than believing in a ruler of the universe called “God” if you ask me…

Posted about 1 year ago by spaniel

shony

but god was made up when people didn’t have any scientifici knowledge about how the earth formed and how creatures were created etc etc, it was their way of explaining all of that. now we have all this scientific knowledge there is no excuse for making something like that up!!

Posted about 1 year ago by shony

spaniel

Shony, agreed. I wasn’t defending them.

Posted about 1 year ago by spaniel

fberriman

Shony – that’s true – but if your argument is that scientology is a bit nutty because it was made up in a day and age when we should possibly know better – why do people still follow any religion or deity?

Eh.. if people want to believe in aliens and souls or whatever else makes them happy, it doesn’t faze me. It’s only an issue when it becomes the subject of conflict.

I’m rather precious about always opening my bags of crisps upside down. I’m convinced if I open them the right way up bad things will befall me. I should know better though.

Posted about 1 year ago by fberriman

comrademonline

Yes they’ve been there for years (makes sense, lots of bored and/or stressed shoppers). Yes, crazy. Yes 4.4 million people saw Panorama last week. Yes there have been fire alarms going off all week at Panorama HQ which management have labelled ‘suspicious’ in a Cutty Sarkish way and everyone’s wondering whether it’s the Scientologists or Sweeney blowing off more hot air. Yes yes yes.

Posted about 1 year ago by comradem