cross-posted, via Offbeat News.
How the viral ‘Scientology speedrun’ trend got started and why young people keep doing it.
1 teen arrested during ‘Scientology speedrunning’ event that got its beginnings on social media
I love this trend so much.
I have a different target in mind but I don’t want to get an accessory charge, so don’t try this at a mormon temple dudes. They really are quite boring and all the “interesting” stuff is already on YouTube. Or whatever I’m an internet comment not a cop
Article is shit. It says Scientology is a religion. It’s not. It’s a cult.
Pretty fucked it doesn’t mention any of their crimes or how they’ve been banned by so many countries for these crimes.
Maybe one day someone will get me to understand the difference between religion and cult.
Maybe one day someone will get me to understand the difference between religion and cult.
Cult: a small unpopular religion.
Religion: a large popular cult.
Or, if you prefer:
“the only difference between a religion and a cult is the amount of real estate they own”
-Frank Zappa
Though that kinda falls apart in the Scientologist’s case. They have acquired a lot of real estate since Zappa first made that statement.
Specific structures of exploitation maybe? I’ve been in some cults and in some religions and the cults has structures that the religions did not. That being said, I have seen “religions” that used to have or do have those structures. It’s very hard to define. I like using Steve Hassan’s BITE model but, like with any model it has a specific type of cult it is examining.
It’s why the cult I’m currently working on starting has none of the oppressive structures. I’m an absurdist.
About 100 years.
Religions are mainstream, cults aren’t.
Cults blackmail, torture, and murder.
But religions extort, torment, and kill.
See it’s completely different.
Some cults call themselves religion. There are definitely many religions that have never extored nor tormented nor killed.
Name one
I didn’t make the claim but would Jainism meet your criteria?
Such as?
I was gonna say that most religions do as well, but honestly the overlap is almost concentric circles
If you make the circles the size of their members, yes.
But if you make the circles all the same diameter, then no.
Usually the big ones have a history of some abuse.
Concentric, so the former. Likewise there are non religious cults
All religions are cults. The only difference is how many people practice it and thus gain favor in society.
Some religions exist to help people, not to harm their members for the benefit of the church
I meaaaaaaaannnnnn…
It’s an always and never thing. Those are bad words to use when discussing reality. We can find exceptions where well meaning people gather together and do real good in the name of a god. Likewise we can find unfortunately far too many examples of people coopting the structures that the well meaning people have built to harm their community.
Seems like those people would probably do good anyway regardless
yes so let’s discount them because they use the name of a god to organize, as it coopts a preexisting structure and at one point in history made organizing a hell of a lot easier. like setting up groups on facebook.
it’s kind of like (and yes i get this is a bad analogy but i am a musician so pthbt it is what comes to mind) blaming an atheist organist for playing at a church because the musician doesn’t have a pipe organ at home
Existing to help people is the same marketing spin that Scientology goes with as well.
Participants film themselves “speedrunning” through the building, or aiming to complete a task as fast as possible per the common video game slang. The task is to map out Scientology’s buildings and get as much information as they can about the inner workings of the organization
I wonder if they’ll ever do the same trend with the MAGA cult. Probably not, they still support them.
MAGA are heavily armed with guns and pardons.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to The Associated Press that it responded to multiple incidents last month, which forced Scientology to remove all external door handles on its Hollywood Boulevard properties this week.
Lol
Not to be confused with their internal door handle removal order, which was part of their “you can check out any time you’d like, but you may never leave” policy.
sick guitar solo
Hahahaha the kids are alright
Feels like a generational rite of passage at this point to shit on Scientologists
I’m glad there’s still some light in the world
For real, when I started seeing these scientology speedruns I literally said to myself “I guess the kids are gonna be alright”
I wonder if it’s just Christians calling the kettle black
Gooood gooood
I’m glad they aren’t wasting their time on low hanging fruit while the global order spirals into chaos or anything…
And by your logic, nobody should help out at animal shelters while there is still child slavery and hunger in the world.
Not only the top priority thing needs doing. If someone gets attested for urinating in public, it’s not a good arguement to say “shouldn’t you be out catching murderers?”
Yeah those god damn lazy Canadian teens, why aren’t they stopping fascism in America, or ending the war in Ukraine. All these lazy damn kids are doing these days is… Checks notes … Taking direct and effective action against the world’s largest cult, know for being extremely litigious and violent to detractors.
By the time I was there age I was already… Playing baseball
largest cult
thought that was catholicism?
It is, but most people are stil squeamish about admitting that it’s a cult.
Tom Cruise, seen here packing fudge.
ow the edge
Can we speed run Trump’s bedroom while he’s vulnerably asleep?
By the time I was there age
Where age?
There. Age.
Yep, exactly
And what the fuck are you doing, asshole? Sitting here on Lemmy with your thumb up your dick?
Dude I knew I forgot something today thanks
*note to self fish thumb out of dick hole*
What? No actually my time is very valuable, I promise.
I can see that I touched a nerve though. You’re welcome.
Every single person who ever said “my time is very valuable” as if it’s somehow not as valuable as someone else’s time, is an asshole. Every. Single. One.
Hmm?
Sorry I couldn’t hear you over the sound of how much more important my time is than yours
Anyway, my point was that scientologists are low hanging fruit, they should be protesting the politicians who are selling their future, that’s all I meant.
I’m glad you feel so passionately about it though. Real “American millennials in 2007” energy
Someone who’s time is so important that they spend all day replying to people’s posts on Lemmy.
LOL
So, only the most important thing can ever be done? Including by random unorganized teens?
I mean, ideally, yes, people should probably try to live their lives in a way that maximizes the importance of their actions, especially when they’re actions that challenge authority.
But hey, I mean laughing at clowns is funny too, it just isn’t as impressive as, you know, actually opposing real authority figures
people should probably try to live their lives in a way that maximizes the importance of their actions
You joined Lemmy five hours ago and have 17 comments, a plurality of which are whining about a few hundred teenagers in Canada.
People including like 14 year old dweebs should be considering the geopolitical and sociopolitical weight of each of their actions and only doing what action maximizes the glory of the human species forever into eternity. Right? I mean this is basically you. Like I get yeah it’s be great if we all just righteously righteouses our way down to city hall and tomorrow we all woke up on Mr Rodgers street and waved howdy neighbour and nobody heard of debt, hallelujah!!!
Like, this is nonsense. This is Wilder than the wildest Looney leftie gobbledygook, by a margin of infinity. You’re a goofball who’s just wasting people’s time and that’s probably the point. And if so then good day sir, you win I lose.
I don’t think you can credibly accuse someone of having a touched nerve while you’re sitting here on a backwater social media site pissing and moaning about how some teenagers in Vancouver are annoying you by doing something good.
Why not?
What? No actually my time is very valuable, I promise.
Okay, then what are you doing with that valuable time? Spill it.
Well, today, I’m actually in the process of packing my shit so I can move into this house that I just bought.
And that’s about all the time I have for you
Being baited into spending time replying to social media posts questioning the value of your time… you sure showed them, buddy.
Dude fuck off that’s what the Internet is.
I’m also doing like 5 other things
Think what you want, I already know I’m living a better life than you are 💖
I’m just being honest with you, but you sound like an insufferable cunt. Go touch grass.
Well, today, I’m actually in the process of packing my shit so I can move into this house that I just bought.
Okay, and how is that helping with the whole “global order spiraling into chaos” thing?
So how’s your personal life going?
Do you usually spend this much time harassing random assholes on the internet, or was there a particular aspect to my offhanded comments that particularly triggered you?
Honestly, I’m all ears
You lose your job? Your boss mean to you? Not a lot of attention from the ladies?
Like what made you such an angry little man, I wonder…
or was there a particular aspect to my offhanded comments that particularly triggered you?
Why yes, there was.
The part where you criticized some random teens for going after ‘low hanging fruit’ when apparently they’re supposed to be tackling global problems instead. Especially the hypocritical part of that, because you’re also doing nothing about those global problems.
Hypocrites annoy me. And I don’t usually spend so much time harassing them, but I do enjoy harassing a hypocrite when I see one so blatant.
I’m glad they are
n’twastingtheirtime onlow hanging fruit while the global order spirals intochaosor anything…
