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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:04 AM
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Scientology Kills-Celebrity Scientologist-Kelly Preston
Celebrity Scientologist



Celebrity | Kelly Preston





More Celebrity Scientologists


John Travolta


Kelly Preston on Scientology

The main thing that has really impressed me about Scientology is that there is the most brilliant tech for anything and everything in your life. I've become a more powerful individual with increased abilities. I never even conceived that I could experience these kinds of gains prior to Scientology.

There is a way to handle every part of life with Scientology, and a way to exist that is far beyond any dream that you could ever dream. All of my dreams keep becoming realities and that's very exciting!

Through Scientology, things happen a lot quicker. What used to take weeks or months sometimes happens in days or even minutes!

Life is at my fingertips and with Scientology I've found I can have or be whatever I want.

Kelly Preston
Actress / John Travolta's Wife




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http://www.scientology-kills.org/celebrities/preston.htm
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:06 AM
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1. This is why actors should not be allowed to vote, hold office or reproduce
Sorry if that's a bit harsh, but it's time for some much needed discipline:spank:
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:11 AM
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2. Is that you, Rush?
WTF?
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:27 AM
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27. No, it's me Ed Shultz...a little humor here. This is for Republican
actors only.

:hi:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 06:52 AM
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14. You're kidding, right? (nt)
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:28 AM
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28. Heidi, geez...yes, I'm kidding but I think that actors in geneal
are so far from "the people" that they screw things up when they mouth off.

OMG, did you know Jane Fonda now likes Bush and is a Born Again?

I was just being tastelessly ironic too late at night.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:52 AM
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32. Thank you, autorank.
I didn't mean to seem caustic. I've been a fan of your posts since I joined DU, and I'm so deeply opposed to any form of eugenics that maybe I'm overly sensitive on the topic of limiting anyone's reproductive rights. Thank you for the clarification. :pals:
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 04:13 PM
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34. Whew! I'll watch my sarcasm
I should have used this :sarcasm: . I was provocative rather than ironic. Sorry. I'm a fan of your's too!

:pals:
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:38 PM
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37. No
Jane Fonda doesn't like Bush. She said something like "he's formidable". She's outspoken against the war in Iraq and against Republican policies. She's still a liberal. She's also a christian. She considers herself a liberal, feminist christian. You should read her book.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:29 AM
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29. Not harsh in this case, especially the breeding part n/t
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:51 AM
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31. Are you a fan of eugenics?
I bet when it comes down to brass tacks, you're wouldn't want to start going down that slippery slope, even if it meant fewer narrow minded people.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 12:22 PM
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33. I think you are missing the joking nature of the OP's comments
Edited on Tue May-24-05 12:25 PM by barb162
and mine
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:33 PM
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36. Well, since we're all getting along now, barb162
:pals:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:14 AM
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3. does scientology accentuate...
the already wildly beautiful & successful and rend them even more wildly so by way of professional networking :shrug: cause i get a big ole picture of a 'group meeting' making great sport out of stripping me down the my bone marrow on a routine basis while pocketing my money = not cool.

i don't see where mrs. travolta ever had an issue with 'hooking up'; not to where scientology would be required to do so it seems
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:34 AM
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4. http://www.xenu.net/
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:35 AM
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5. too spooky...
:scared:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 02:45 AM
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6. Hey, it works for her and it doesn't require her to support Bush, so
cool.I'd rather my kid become a scientologist than a fundamentalist.
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 03:48 AM
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7. You better read some things from this web site first.
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 03:57 AM
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8. Web Results 1 - 10 of about 8,170 for jeb bush scientology. (0.03 seconds
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 04:00 AM
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9. That would be the same thing.
That's like saying "I'd rather my kid become an alcoholic than a drunk." One and the same thing. It's a dangerous fanatical cult.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 05:04 AM
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11. Really?
You might want to research that a tad.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 08:12 AM
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16. Pray (or whatever) that it never comes to that.
I'd call them equally vile.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 04:04 AM
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10. Operation Clambake
Scientology has to be stopped, dismantled, destroyed at root. It is extremely dangerous.

http://www.xenu.net/
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 05:34 AM
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12. This is no difference that the tobacco ads of the 40s & 50s


Sorry Reagan was the only one I could find a cigerette ad but all the celebrities back in the 40s & 50s did cigerette ads and our parents/grandparents picked up the habit to be just like their favorite celebs.

Today scientology needs pretty faces like Kelly Preston and Tom Cruise to sell their product so hopefully dumb, average everyday folks like us will be willing to sacrifice their money in order to be like celebrities. To be honest, I think Scientology is about 1000% worse than smoking and that's a serious claim from a very vocal anti-smoker like myself. I've read too many stories (some here from you folks at DU) at how Scientology will wipe you out both mentalily AND financially in order to pull you into their clutches. No "religon" should force you to make more of a financial contribution than what you can financially afford (ie - you want to put $5 in the weekly plate fine, but if that's your only $5 and someone is guilting you into donating it - then we have a problem).

Second place for fucked up cults would have to be Kabbalah.
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 07:44 AM
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15. Actually I've studied Kabbalah on my own, but I wouldn't pay for some
Edited on Tue May-24-05 07:55 AM by norml
stupid piece of magic string to put around my wrist, or find some guys who dress alike, and follow them around. I enjoy studying lots of divinitory systems. Studying Kabbalah is just a small part of my studies of things like tarot, astrology, I ching, ect. I'd call it the study of the unified whole, and the interconnectivity of all things.
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 06:41 AM
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13. Read "Bare Faced Messiah"
by Russell Miller - "The true Story of L. Ron Hubbard"
A tale of manipulation, corruption, lying and abuse, of the man who "invented a religion" to get rich. And he did. And who gave him the money? - the poor sods who were dumb enough to fall for this garbage.
And of course, it's not a religion, it's a cult.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 08:26 AM
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17. And Hubbard's son really tore him down in his biography, too
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:42 PM
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39. I think it's a cult,too,
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 08:35 AM
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18. She is entitled to her beliefs without being mocked
:shrug: I know it's unpopular, but she has a right to believe whatever she wants.
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DoveTurnedHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 08:45 AM
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19. Some Beliefs Merit Mockery
I do not buy the "every opinion is equal" concept at all.

DTH
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:44 AM
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22. Hear Hear
:applause:
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:45 AM
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23. Are you "sick of moral relativism" too?
:eyes:
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DoveTurnedHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 10:17 AM
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25. In Certain Cases, Yes
But do you want to have a real discussion about this, or will your eyes roll out of your head first? ;-)

DTH
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 07:08 PM
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35. Scientology should be criticized
I try not to mock actual believers, because I feel that they are victims of an insidious cult. But the organization itself is absolutely deserving of all the mocking it could possibly receive. And, she isn't the average person that's been sucked in and bled dry. She is fabulously wealthy, and the "Church" wants to keep it that way. They treat their celebrities differently, so they can gush about how wonderful the church is, and attract more poor souls to victimize.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:40 PM
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38. But we also have the right to mock her beliefs
she's an over-paid, stupid dupe with an E-meter
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 08:48 AM
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20. I am not one to down other people's religion or beliefs,
so I will just say that Kelly Preston and John Travolta are a cute couple and I will leave it at that.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:38 AM
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21. It sure made "Battle Field Earth" sink faster!
But of course the thing scientology has done is make money.

Founder L Ron Hubbard is quoted as saying, "The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion."
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:58 AM
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24. John Wilkes Booth was also a Scientologist. And a girl.
Betcha didn't know that, didja?

And some say that Jesus was a skilled Dianetic auditor who independently discovered the R6 Whole Track GPM Implantation Rundown right after he invented Hacky Sack.

And Ron Hubbard himself was that cigarette-smoking man on the grassy knoll in Dallas on 11/22/63. (He preferred to puff on Kools while assasinating heads of state.)

Y'know, I've been quite critical of L. Ron And His Org over the years, but the current crop of anti-Scientology stories seriously rival the mischegoss about Xenu and Teegeeack.

For instance, one of the Antis believe that the E-Meter is a device for the slow electrocution of preclears because it sends about 1/2 volt of electrical energy through the body (which is what the meter actually measures). Another one has written a book that claims Bill Clinton was a covert Scientology operative.

If Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Ericka Christensen, Kirstie Alley and Beck want to clear their engrams, let them clear them to their hearts' contents. Criticism of Scientology should be limited to reality, even if Ron's Applied Religious Technology® often isn't.

--p!
A-R-C, dudes
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loudestchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:23 AM
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26. Bwwaahhahahhah!!!
Scientologese, almost as much fun as newspeak!
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 11:33 AM
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30. The Onion: Scientology Losing Ground to New Fictionology
Excerpt:
Fictionology's central belief, that any imaginary construct can be incorporated into the church's ever-growing set of official doctrines, continues to gain popularity. Believers in Santa Claus, his elves, or the Tooth Fairy are permitted—even encouraged—to view them as deities. Even corporate mascots like the Kool-Aid Man are valid objects of Fictionological worship.

"My personal savior is Batman," said Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Greg Jurgenson. "My wife chooses to follow the teachings of the Gilmore Girls. Of course, we are still beginners. Some advanced-level Fictionologists have total knowledge of every lifetime they have ever lived for the last 80 trillion years."

"Sure, it's total bullshit," Jurgenson added. "But that's Fictionology. Praise Batman!"

Full article here. Gotta love The Onion. :)
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richmwill Donating Member (972 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 09:42 PM
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40. Umm... No Thanks
No thanks, Kelly. Glad that's working out for you, but it sounds a bit too cult-ish for me.
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