Allegories Gone Wild – More Xenubites In The News, And Some Good News Sprinkled In With Some Rogue Clambake
14 June 2009 by KA
We all Wiki to some extent, do we not? (Personally, my favorite is Answers.com – it provides far more multiple cross-references to different sources than the wiki version, and besides, it provides some pretty nifty tools to add to your browser and right-click menu.) Now it can’t be considered a primary source, mostly due to the fact that anyone can go in and edit sections. (Hey, I’ve done it myself on occasion, mostly to correct egregious errors, like an old Wiki page for the Negative Proof fallacy that claimed that believers and atheists shared the burden of proof.) The honor system principle is much like the concept of communism – they’d both work well if people understood the concept of sharing.
So the latest news is that the Xenubites have officially been excommunicated from the Wiki site. I (of course) don’t agree with the author’s article for the most part – Scientology is a vicious viral meme, and should be treated with iron fists, no velvet gloves allowed. There’s rumors that they’ll try to start their own Wiki (think Conservapedia, only a lot crazier with the martyr complex), but we’ll see.
Norway is considering prosecuting Scientology for fraud. Another smart nation, France, is also following suit (pun intended)
And (no surprise here) Axiom 10 productions is actually policing the wimps at YouTube, demanding that any videos unfairly persecuting providing incriminating evidence against their religion cult be removed.
And in other news (not necessarily good), there are now schisms in the cult, and there are actually splinter sects known as Free Zones (and the folks that belong to these are called…you guessed it, Free Zoners). So now I’m guessing it won’t be long before there’ll be a ‘No True Scientologist’™ fallacy making the rounds.
On a different note, there is now a Freethought Pedia – definitely worth a look see.
Till the next post, then.
14 June 2009, on 3:03 am
Thanks for the Freethought Pedia link.
14 June 2009, on 2:27 pm
We should form a cult centered around football and call ourselves the End Zoners.
Of course we could also call ourselves that but form a cult around anal sex… you know, whatever.
14 June 2009, on 2:57 pm
The article implies these “individuals” were passing themselves off as representatives of The Church of Scientology. So if that’s the official church position, are they taking legal action against their rogue members or expelling them? If not, I think that would imply they were acting with church approval and therefore wide open to prosecution. Hopefully the Norwegian government throws all their asses in jail.
14 June 2009, on 5:39 pm
AUM:
Pretty funny – can’t stand football, so send me a postcard on how it all came out.
Captain Al:
Yeah, & if it wasn’t a religious organization? The lawyers’ be out in numbers. Deep pockets, all that.
15 June 2009, on 1:06 pm
I’ve always wanted to start a cult based on peanut butter but I’m afraid of conflict between the creamy and chunky sects.
15 June 2009, on 7:09 pm
BB:
As opposed to the sects that favor peanut butter in their chocolate, or those that prefer chocolate in their peanut butter.
15 June 2009, on 11:18 pm
The King has anointed PB&B. Vive le roi!
16 June 2009, on 1:26 am
Peanut butter & butter? I just gained 10 pounds thinking about that.
16 June 2009, on 7:25 am
You’re not a real religion until you’ve had your first schism.
16 June 2009, on 5:56 pm
Excellent post and the pic made me laugh out loud (and lol) for quite a while. Thank you for this.
17 June 2009, on 6:20 am
As a peanut allergy suffer, I must protest at Brooklyn Boy’s suggestion.
17 June 2009, on 11:16 am
KA, PB&B is peanut butter and BANANA. I would have thought the clue, ” the King”, would have been enough; fact or urban legend, he is reported to have loved them. Maybe his star in the descendent. Is he no longer a cultural reference point?
That said, butter or banana — it’s a toss-up, calorically-speaking…
17 June 2009, on 7:45 pm
Naomi – I don’t believe that Elvis was the ‘King’.
(Ducking thrown stones, running away quickly)
17 June 2009, on 10:56 pm
KA, I agree with you. No stones in my hands. In fact, he had just exploded on to the music scene while I was in middle school. My girlfriend loved him so much, she made me sick. It disgusts me that, out of desperation and dearth of choices, I chose to “love” his opposite: Pat Boone. eeyu.
Can I throw stones at myself? Or just carve that part of my brain out?