Scientology rips off Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 18:
You're not how much money you've got in the bank.
You're not your job.
You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.
You're not your name.
You're not your problems.
You're not your age.
You are not your hopes.
You will not be saved.
We're all gonna die someday.
Church of Scientology advertisement, "You":
"You are not your name.
Youre not your job.
Youre not the clothes you wear or the neighborhood you live in.
Youre not your fears your failures or your past.
You are hope.
You are imagination.
You are the power to change to create and to grow.
You are a spirit that will never die.
And no matter how beaten down,
you will rise again."
Interesting how COS changes "You're not your hopes" to "You are hope" and "You will not be saved. We're all gonna die one day" to "You are a spirit that will never die. And no matter how beaten down, you will rise again.
I suppose you can almost excuse plagiarism if the messages are similar but holy fuck - how could the two messages be more opposite?
It is brutally obvious when you watch the commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvku53FL3T8&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=A433...
Good authors who once knew more clever words,
Now only use four letter words,
Writing prose.
Anything Goes.
-Cole Porter
The church of Scientology is like the retarded brother of religions that we want to keep in the attic, but somehow it still always manages to get out and smear it's own shit all over the living room walls.
I just hope that Chuck and his people are aware of this. I would be spitting fire if something like the COS ripped me off. There's no way he's one of "them". In a lecture, he said that he did "est" training and, as far as I know, that makes Chuck a SP (suppressive person) with respect to Scientology.
Good authors who once knew more clever words,
Now only use four letter words,
Writing prose.
Anything Goes.
-Cole Porter
Didn't Chuck attend the Landmark Forum, which is basically a cheap copy of Scientology without all the added science fiction?
lol, without the airborne neanderthals and hydrogen bomb filled volcanoes.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD TOM CRUISE DO?!
Haha, ya. But evidently the landmark forum made an impactt on his life and the sisilarities between it and Scientology are unquestionable.
Airborne neanderthals.
I am a grate spellerist.
YOU SASSIN' ME, BOY?
edit: This is my:
And I intended to make a profound post, but I FORGOT ABOUT IT.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
Me no sass, me laugh in agreement. (As I fly away)
CoS does something unoriginal? That's unpossible.
"Tuffy, you're a Dalek, but only because you're only being kept alive by metal, science and hatred." - ScubaSteve1729