PieFed.WorldHundreds of youths descend on Vancouver's Scientology building as part of speedrunning trend
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How the viral ‘Scientology speedrun’ trend got started and why young people keep doing it.
1 teen arrested during ‘Scientology speedrunning’ event that got its beginnings on social media
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Hahahaha the kids are alright
Feels like a generational rite of passage at this point to shit on Scientologists
I’m glad there’s still some light in the world
For real, when I started seeing these scientology speedruns I literally said to myself “I guess the kids are gonna be alright”
Everyone knows bullshit when they see it. People choose to follow obviously stupid bullshit, like the scientologist cult.
Why? Cultists LIE! They push bullshit to take over your life, finances, and everything.
scientologist cultists are required to sign a billion year work contract. No, really.
I wonder if it’s just Christians calling the kettle black
Gooood gooood
Lol
Not to be confused with their internal door handle removal order, which was part of their “you can check out any time you’d like, but you may never leave” policy.
sick guitar solo
Article is shit. It says Scientology is a religion. It’s not. It’s a cult.
Pretty fucked it doesn’t mention any of their crimes or how they’ve been banned by so many countries for these crimes.
All religions are cults. The only difference is how many people practice it and thus gain favor in society.
Some religions exist to help people, not to harm their members for the benefit of the church
I meaaaaaaaannnnnn……..
It’s an always and never thing. Those are bad words to use when discussing reality. We can find exceptions where well meaning people gather together and do real good in the name of a god. Likewise we can find unfortunately far too many examples of people coopting the structures that the well meaning people have built to harm their community.
Seems like those people would probably do good anyway regardless
yes so let’s discount them because they use the name of a god to organize, as it coopts a preexisting structure and at one point in history made organizing a hell of a lot easier. like setting up groups on facebook.
it’s kind of like (and yes i get this is a bad analogy but i am a musician so pthbt it is what comes to mind) blaming an atheist organist for playing at a church because the musician doesn’t have a pipe organ at home
Existing to help people is the same marketing spin that Scientology goes with as well.
Maybe one day someone will get me to understand the difference between religion and cult.
Religions are mainstream, cults aren’t.
You see, in a cult there’s a guy at the top who knows it’s all bullshit. In a religion that guy died ages ago and scholars aren’t sure if he existed to begin with.
Cult: a small unpopular religion.
Religion: a large popular cult.
Or, if you prefer:
Though that kinda falls apart in the Scientologist’s case. They have acquired a lot of real estate since Zappa first made that statement.
Iirc Frank clarified this as how many locations the cult has, not actual land ownership totals
Not surprised that he would update it as things changed.
Specific structures of exploitation maybe? I’ve been in some cults and in some religions and the cults has structures that the religions did not. That being said, I have seen “religions” that used to have or do have those structures. It’s very hard to define. I like using Steve Hassan’s BITE model but, like with any model it has a specific type of cult it is examining.
It’s why the cult I’m currently working on starting has none of the oppressive structures. I’m an absurdist.
About 100 years.
It’s only a difference of being recognized by some form of ruling authority
Cults blackmail, torture, and murder.
But religions extort, torment, and kill.
See it’s completely different.
Some cults call themselves religion. There are definitely many religions that have never extored nor tormented nor killed.
Such as?
Name one
I didn’t make the claim but would Jainism meet your criteria?
Every religion on on day 0 was just a new cult that someone started
I was gonna say that most religions do as well, but honestly the overlap is almost concentric circles
If you make the circles the size of their members, yes.
But if you make the circles all the same diameter, then no.
Usually the big ones have a history of some abuse.
Concentric, so the former. Likewise there are non religious cults
I love this trend so much.
I never thought i would see ‘literal speedrunning’ that isnt just track & field.
Ain’t it awesome lmao
the only tiktok trend I support
I wonder if they’ll ever do the same trend with the MAGA cult. Probably not, they still support them.
MAGA are heavily armed with guns and pardons.
I have a different target in mind but I don’t want to get an accessory charge, so don’t try this at a mormon temple dudes. They really are quite boring and all the “interesting” stuff is already on YouTube. Or whatever I’m an internet comment not a cop
I’m glad they aren’t wasting their time on low hanging fruit while the global order spirals into chaos or anything…
Yeah those god damn lazy Canadian teens, why aren’t they stopping fascism in America, or ending the war in Ukraine. All these lazy damn kids are doing these days is… Checks notes … Taking direct and effective action against the world’s largest cult, know for being extremely litigious and violent to detractors.
By the time I was there age I was already…. Playing baseball
Can we speed run Trump’s bedroom while he’s vulnerably asleep?
The SS is armed and will be rewarded for shooting you, but if you really want to I can’t stop you.
thought that was catholicism?
It is, but most people are stil squeamish about admitting that it’s a cult.
Tom Cruise, seen here packing fudge.
ow the edge
Where age?
There. Age.
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
Yep, exactly
And what the fuck are you doing, asshole? Sitting here on Lemmy with your thumb up your dick?
Dude I knew I forgot something today thanks
<strong>note to self fish thumb out of dick hole</strong>
What? No actually my time is very valuable, I promise.
I can see that I touched a nerve though. You’re welcome.
Every single person who ever said “my time is very valuable” as if it’s somehow not as valuable as someone else’s time, is an asshole. Every. Single. One.
Hmm?
Sorry I couldn’t hear you over the sound of how much more important my time is than yours
Anyway, my point was that scientologists are low hanging fruit, they should be protesting the politicians who are selling their future, that’s all I meant.
I’m glad you feel so passionately about it though. Real “American millennials in 2007” energy
So, only the most important thing can ever be done? Including by random unorganized teens?
I mean, ideally, yes, people should probably try to live their lives in a way that maximizes the importance of their actions, especially when they’re actions that challenge authority.
But hey, I mean laughing at clowns is funny too, it just isn’t as impressive as, you know, actually opposing real authority figures
Someone who’s time is so important that they spend all day replying to people’s posts on Lemmy.
LOL
I don’t think you can credibly accuse someone of having a touched nerve while you’re sitting here on a backwater social media site pissing and moaning about how some teenagers in Vancouver are annoying you by doing something good.
Why not?
And by your logic, nobody should help out at animal shelters while there is still child slavery and hunger in the world.
Not only the top priority thing needs doing. If someone gets attested for urinating in public, it’s not a good arguement to say “shouldn’t you be out catching murderers?”