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Wikipedia still has some info (Score:2)
Including one (probably short-lived) link that appears to be a now-deleted blog entry, and then this [modemac.com].
(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientology_references_in_popular_culture [wikipedia.org])
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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Whoa. I actually knew about the investigators, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't aware it was public knowledge and I was afraid a friend of mine would get in trouble for sharing that. The story I heard is that basically they were having PIs follow him and his parents and the constant harrassment scared the heck out of them. From that blog entry, though, it sounds like a bit more may have happened. Of course, this is all conjecture and rumor, so let that disclaimer be out there.
And not just co
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That's organized religion
Not necessarily. Those are hallmarks of a "cult" but not necessarily a religion.
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How do you define 'cult' and 'religion'? Someone (Heinlein, I think?) differentiated a cult as a religion where the majority of members have joined it and a religion as being something where the majority of people are born into it. By this criteria, perhaps Scientology only has to wait?
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And cults, sects and "respectable" religions are indistinguishable from the outside, from whence they all look crazy.
Sorry, I just don't subscribe to that. Unless you have a very low tolerance for crazy or define it in some other way.
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Much better than have no friends at all. : )