I'm with you Matt. My main beef with Scientology is that salvation should not cost a quarter to a half a million dollars.
I do hold their cosmology in contempt, but no moreso than any other cosmology I hold in contempt.
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
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Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 4:28:49 pm PDT #4997 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Steph L. - Jun 30, 2005 4:43:20 pm PDT #4998 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Blasphemer! Xenu the Space Clam died for your sins!!
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 5:08:44 pm PDT #4999 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm more partial to cosmologies with a little more seasoning. A 2000 year old tale of thetans works better for me.
Kalshane - Jun 30, 2005 5:24:58 pm PDT #5000 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Speaking of Tom Cruise, someone had this as part of their signature on a message board. Made me go WTF and laugh at the same time.
Jessica - Jun 30, 2005 5:28:21 pm PDT #5001 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Xenu the Space Clam died for your sins!!
Pfft. Xenu died for no one! Xenu exploded several million other beings for your sins!
Lee - Jun 30, 2005 5:35:37 pm PDT #5002 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Now I want to be Xenu.
Can I change my user name again?
Jessica - Jun 30, 2005 5:39:24 pm PDT #5003 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Only if you can prove that you're really a 75 million year-old space clam.
Really, the most amusing part of the whole Xenu story is that L. Ron's wife at the time he was writing it was named Mary Sue.
It's just so...appropriate.
Lee - Jun 30, 2005 5:41:52 pm PDT #5004 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jess, Jess, Jess...
You do not ask Xenu to prove it is Xenu. You believe Xenu when it says it is Xenu. You have faith in the words of Xenu.
What? It worked for Jesus.
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 5:43:03 pm PDT #5005 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Speaking of Tom Cruise, someone had this as part of their signature on a message board.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! He's killing Oprah with purple Force energy.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2005 5:45:59 pm PDT #5006 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just saw Abre Los Ojos. And...I don't understand why this is supposed to be OMG SO BRILLIANT and Vanilla Sky is supposed to be OMG SUCH CRAP. I loved Vanilla Sky; we ended up discussing it for hours. But seeing the original, I don't see how it's so radically different. The plot is pretty much identical, and I don't see how this one is any more fucked up and/or ambiguous. It's been a few years since I've seen Vanilla Sky, so maybe I'm missing what made that so Hollywood and unsubtle and ew.
People keep saying the ending of Abre Los Ojos is so much better, but I actually think it's less ambiguous. Here, you have an unfamiliar female voice saying "Tranquelo, tranquelo. Abre los ojos." In Vanilla Sky, it's a voice that sounds like Sofia's saying, simply, "Open your eyes." In the former, it's very clear he chose to wake up in the future, but in the latter, it's still ambiguous, which is one of the things that kept our discussion going.
Of course, this could always be one of those Which One You Saw First things.