Scientology on Panorama

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16/05/2007, 11:04 AM
pete

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Originally Posted by TheBoss

Is that a religion against a religion?

I think its more they reject existing religions.

Now that I think of it I don't think any religion has been spared the wrath of South Park which is the way it should be.
16/05/2007, 11:06 AM
GavinZac

Scientology is like a real life Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster cult, and should be used as such as an example of the idiocy of faith.
16/05/2007, 12:01 PM
kingdom hoop

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Originally Posted by GavinZac

Scientology is like a real life Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster cult, and should be used as such as an example of the idiocy of faith.

Idiocy of faith or people though? :(

I think by attacking faith you must be attacking mankind...
16/05/2007, 12:14 PM
geysir

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Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

Surprised no one has posted this up here:

Is that a BBC journalist losing his rag? Looks like he could do with a personality test.

Was that scene part of the Panorama doc?
16/05/2007, 12:34 PM
BohsPartisan

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Originally Posted by geysir

Is that a BBC journalist losing his rag? Looks like he could do with a personality test.

Was that scene part of the Panorama doc?

Yeah that was the BBC guy. Don't think that was actually on the programme though, not sure.
16/05/2007, 12:42 PM
geysir

Okay, I have checked out the BBC website
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/sear...=all&edition=i
and there's a good bit of stuff there on this.
So far as I have seen, the Scientology guy has won all the rounds, ending with a ko punch in the outburst, followed by more humiliation for Sweeney in the post programme interview where he digs himself deeper trying to get out of the hole.
Pompous pr�ck.
16/05/2007, 1:12 PM
Jerry The Saint

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Originally Posted by geysir

Okay, I have checked out the BBC website
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/sear...=all&edition=i
and there's a good bit of stuff there on this.
So far as I have seen, the Scientology guy has won all the rounds, ending with a ko punch in the outburst, followed by more humiliation for Sweeney in the post programme interview where he digs himself deeper trying to get out of the hole.
Pompous pr�ck.

Panorama sent a guy to Jamaica to investigate the Bob Woolmer case. Conclusion: He might have been murdered, probably something to do with cricket...:rolleyes:
16/05/2007, 1:14 PM
Dodge

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Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

Panorama sent a guy to Jamaica to investigate the Bob Woolmer case. Conclusion: He might have been murdered, probably something to do with cricket...:rolleyes:

Was he not already there though? Agree the "special" was terrible. No information at all
16/05/2007, 1:17 PM
jebus

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Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

Yeah that was the BBC guy. Don't think that was actually on the programme though, not sure.

No they showed it alright, pretty much had to given that the scientologists were recording it too
16/05/2007, 1:43 PM
pete

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Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

Yeah that was the BBC guy. Don't think that was actually on the programme though, not sure.

Watched the show on the BBC website & it definitely was included in the show.
16/05/2007, 1:54 PM
paul_oshea

saw the whole show all of it that has been mentoined on this thread was on it.
16/05/2007, 3:34 PM
geysir

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

saw the whole show all of it that has been mentoined on this thread was on it.

The cheek of them, did they say thanks anywhere?
16/05/2007, 4:05 PM
paul_oshea

no they didnt geysir. ya i know what you mean, some people what?!?! :D
16/05/2007, 4:30 PM
finlma

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

the boss i think filmna is a little confused, i think he meant to say he is agnositic, although he did say something created us, but not sure so maybe he is aetheist or maybe he just doesnt know himself ;) - perhaps a little confused. :)

I'm far from a sit on the fence agnostic. Atheist through and through. I see each and every religion or cult as being equally ridiculous. Christianity is every bit as laughable in my eyes as Scientology.

It was poor reporting - the guy should lose his job for the outburst. If any of us shouted like that in our job we would be fired.
16/05/2007, 7:34 PM
GavinZac

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

Idiocy of faith or people though? :(

I think by attacking faith you must be attacking mankind...

True. But then, what people are taught as children is very difficult to get them to deny later - admitting you and the people who raised you were wrong isnt easy -and at the risk of automatically losing any burgeoning debate, the rise of fascism was greatly aided by germans not wishing to believe they were wrong about world war 1.
16/05/2007, 7:58 PM
reder

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Originally Posted by Dodge

I didn't know that place on Abbey Street that was askng me did I want to do a "personality test" all the time was a scientology place...

They switched to a stress test a year or 2 ago. Well thats what they offered me. After watching that Panorama clip its the scientologist that needs de-stressing.
17/05/2007, 12:28 PM
Wolfie

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Originally Posted by finlma

I'm far from a sit on the fence agnostic. Atheist through and through. I see each and every religion or cult as being equally ridiculous. Christianity is every bit as laughable in my eyes as Scientology.

It was poor reporting - the guy should lose his job for the outburst. If any of us shouted like that in our job we would be fired.

I suppose all you can say in the Reporters defence is that he may have lost the plot, but he kept his sanity, as he said himself.

I can remember journalist Liam Fay, while at Hotpress, wrote an article on the amount of Cults located in Dublin. This was back in the early 90's and even then there were loads of them.

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