Word: scientologists
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...back then, Beck looked cocky and stupid, wearing his cowboy boots and holding a ghetto blaster. There was a sense that we were supposed to be worried for him. He wasn’t in on the conspiracy. Now he’s an established artist, and a Scientologist. He’s on the inside of something, he’s got faith...
...side of a disturbing organization. Lowrey’s human-interest journalism approach, focusing on an individual’s experience with Scientology, ignores the darker sides of the organization: its pseudo-scientific approach to medicine that has led to inadequate health care for the children raised in some Scientologist families; the criminal charges brought against senior officers of the organization’s leadership, including the founder’s wife, for harassing Internal Revenue Service officers while trying to obtain status as a non-profit organization; the hierarchical structure that only allows members to learn greater...
...walk up a staircase, past major construction to renovate the building. As we wind upstairs, Jeff tells us about himself. He had weathered a troubled adolescence. Then, 10 years ago, he became a Scientologist. The religion worked magic for him; he is now happy, employed, married, and substance-free. To demonstrate, he gesticulates and frequently smiles. Somehow, I find this endearing. Fleeing is getting less and less appealing...
...film ends, and Jeff returns into the screening room. I mention the doomsday rhetoric and he laughs it off. He invites me and Allen to return to the church. Looking at me, he describes how his IQ has gone up since becoming a Scientologist (a claim I heard repeated by several other adherents). He smiles...
...freshman year, Jimmy filled his room in Weld with friends and acquaintances. He gave a PowerPoint presentation on Scientology and offered to explain the religion to anyone curious or interested. Jimmy thinks he’s Harvard’s only Scientologist. But he can’t say enough about...