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Originally Posted by The Enturbulator
Something I forgot to mention was Mark's "Scientology's Fourth of July" video. I had heard about the church harassing and badgering its critics, but I thought that was bullshit (I guess my way of thinking was that "why would a church do this?"). The behaviors of the Scientologists on that video really opened up my eyes.
Let's not forget that Bob Minton was the guy who purchased the camera for Mark, if I'm not mistaken. Bob is a hero, and the way he handled the Scientologists when he would protest really made me chuckle.
If Bob somehow reads this, I just want to thank you for everything that you have done to expose Scientology. Your hard work is now coming into fruition. Thank you, Bob.
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Before 2006, I thought Scientology was just a rather strange religion, like Christian Science; in fact, I probably would have mixed up the two. I've got no idea how, but I just came across Operation Clambake one day and later XenuTV. To be brief - I read and saw lots, but was still more astonished that people could get away with it all than I was upset. (I don't really do emotion) Months and months later, I looked up by chance the wikipedia entry on Bob Minton. I guess as I'd been watching the videos, I'd imaginatively identified with Bob as the kind of person I aspired to be like, the way you do when you're watching videos. To find out, very suddenly, how Scientology had silenced someone who had been (and still is for me) a model of self-sacrificing idealism, of true 'agape' ... that was it. It stopped being intellectual for me and became emotional, and the kind of emotional that I can't imagine diminishing. I don't know - a kind of silent, cold emotional. In my gut.