Kirstie Alley's Scientology Pamphlet & $5 M Donation

Now a promo pamphlet featuring actress Kirstie Alley from last September has surfaced. Two things come to mind right away: one, that cracks seem to be appearing the previously formidable Scientology wall of silence. The second, for now, is Kirstie Alley is a lot nuttier than previously thought.

Alley says in the brochure that getting into the top echelon of Scientology, called Flag, changed her whole viewpoint on people. Yes, people, Like us. Those kinds of people.

Prior to that, she says, "You know, I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked people -- certain people, but the idea of 'mankind' -- it really irritated me! ... Now I have definite affinity for mankind and I'm up taking genuine responsibility for mankind."

Alley, whose career has been mostly a muddle since Cheers went off the air in the 1990s, is described in the piece as a "Solo NOTS Auditor, Diamond Meritorious of the IAS and a founding member of the Super Expansion Project."

What does all that mean?

Well, Solo Nots Auditor is a high level Scientologist who spends several hours a day, according to their glossary, exorcising "body thetans" or aliens who are stuck to their bodies. Diamond Meritorious is more interesting. This means Alley has donated a staggering $5 million to the International Association of Scientology.

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Comments

[grannydee]

who in their right minds would even for a second, believe in something that is so full of hate, and downright lies as the Cult of Scientology? They can't even be bothered to speak the entire words for those that they attack, (SP, suppressive person, etc.)
The leader of that looney bin was a paranoid, card-carrying nut job that attacked anyone and everyone who tried to tell him he was wrong. If the 'tenets' of Scientology are so wonderful, why the fuck don't most of the rest of us know what the hell they're talking about?! Enough with the coded languages, already. Perhaps if you honestly and openly spoke about your religion, and didn't immediately go on the attack, people would be, at the very least, more open to just hearing the message.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

"Alley has donated a staggering $5 million to the International Association of Scientology."

No wonder she became a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig. She needs the dough, more than she needs the donuts.

[SweetJudith]

Give me the love of animals any day of the week.
Their love is real.
Before you know it, they will be telling everyone that Jesus flys around in a Space Ship shooting down aliens.
By the way, Jeb Bush loves these people.
Use your search engine.
Need I say more?

[OhgReaTone]

How can you discern 'nutty.' Does passion for a particular faith describe nuttiness? If so then we have a lot more to worry about than Kirstie Allie.
Ohg
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/01/16/mormon-scientologists-for-jehovah-on-the-7th-day/

[Libsrule]

While most religions are indeed wierd in what set up their beliefs, talking bushes, rising from the dead etc. I don't believe in any organized religion and don't attend church, but if I wanted to I would be forced to pay for the privilige.

I can't think of any that are as fucked up as Scamology.

Spaceships that look like DC-8s brought all these souls from around the universe to Earth and dumped them in Volcanoes?????

Seriously???

As someone else has pointed out go to

http://www.xenu.net/

And have the scales from your eyes fall.

And just who got blackmailed in the IRS to get a "church" that CHARGES money for "services" and uses that profit to buy yachts, ocean liners, make movies(piss poor ones at that)propaganda, TAX EXEMPTION is beyond all normal reason!

BUT as I stated earlier I can attend ANY of those other mainstream religions(except mormonism which is pretty close to Scamology)without paying a dime, without going into debt, without having to write "diconnection" letters to family members because they won't support my Scamology addiction.

The local churches here will let me or anyone attend without paying a goddamned dime and even get religous counseling if that was what I wanted and wouldn't hand me a bill for five, ten or twenty thousand dollars.

The fact that Scamology says getting the money IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE to pay for your "church services" is perfectly acceptable including lying to family members and your bank, and taking out second and third mortgages on your house.

So anyone here defending that crap needs to take their heads out of their asses and look around in the clear day of sunlight and see how you are being taken for all your money for...well...bullshit.

[jubo]

You mean Steven Parkinson is a scientologist as well !? Or was that Parker Stevenson ...

That's too bad, and I thought she acted neurotic ...

[eyecon]

"Solo Nots Auditor is a high level Scientologist who spends several hours a day, according to their glossary, exorcising "body thetans" or aliens who are stuck to their bodies"

HOW IS THIS WOMAN NOT BRITTNEY'S ROOMIE?

Someone spends hours each day, holding empty soup cans connected to an ersatz lie detector, communing with dead alien spirits, as prescribed by an obscure, paranoid, neurotic, drug-addicted, mediocre science fiction writer. Do I have this about right?

[MyThought]

Why did she need Jenny Craig if Scientology is so good at helping you have your own discipline?

Evangelists and Scientologists - any other wingnut groups out there?

[watchingthings]

It seems that Kristie Alley lost more then fat in her Jenny Craig weightloss program.

[scn8008]

I thought we lived in America where people could do as they please? The critics of Scientology seem to think that hearsay is knowledge or fact. Their opinions are thus rendered into the realm of superstition or prejudice.
If the Sea Org is so bad how come thier numbers keep growing? No human endeavor is perfect. There is nothing devised by man that is without faults. And what is wrong about vicously going after critics when those critics continue to lie and state published opinions as facts? Scientology is a religion because it deals directly with the human spirit in ways no other religions have. I could go on and talk about the Scn campaigns for human rights, drug abuse and illiteracy, not to mention their disaster relief work through the Volinteer Ministers -- something the critics of Scn also speak out against, but that could take too much time.

[piotr]

I also am boycotting movies with those nut-cases, maybe with the exception of Pulp Fiction. But it was made quite a few years ago anyway.

Scientology is a vicious racket and people, the general public, should know all the facts about this sinister organization.

[screwedrus]

I find Scientology so despicable that I have quit watching movies with their members as stars. I'm sure it would be impossible to totally boycott them, because you never know who the hell had a hand in a movie or television show and I'm not willing to do that sort of research just to watch a movie or some tv.

But if Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Will Smith or any of those other chumps are in leading roles, you can just count me out.

Scientology is a very dangerous cult. I know we spend a lot of time ridiculing religions on this board, but Scientology takes it to a whole new level. It's all out there on the internet for anyone who really wants to know what these cretins believe.

Actually as silly as it sounds, South Park did a really good job of describing their beliefs. Just look for it on YouTube. It would be funnier if it wasn't real.

[knerd]

Context is all.

In my view, Kristie's "definite affinity for mankind" and her new-found responsibility toward it is a good thing. So I officially pronounce her pronouncements "NON-NUTTY."

The term "cult" is a word that is too often used in what passes for "religious dialogue." It basically says that "our foundational myths for our beliefs are true and yours are nuts."
If Scientology is in fact a religion--and I have no idea whether it is or not--it is a fairly RECENT one.

Unfortunately--like Mormonism--Scientology's short historical distance from the time of its initial birth leaves it wide open to criticism and ridicule from more established schools of thought.

After all, even agnostics and atheists have come to "accept" that Christians believe that snakes talk, a first-century Jew walked on water and came back to life three days after he was capitally punished.

So, outside of Scientology, most of us totally dismiss "exorcising body thetans" as even a valid OPTION of belief--let alone a tenet of a religion.

[londubh]

Hey at least she doesn't drive around looking for traffic accidents. 'cause that's Tom's thang.

[Kirin]

WTF?
Again I ask are there any poor scientologists? All I read about are these rich idiots, a large number of whom are in the movie industry.
I agree truthyguy this money could have been used for so much more.