Scientology Ads wtf???

[Benotti69]

there is a scientology ad on here. wtf! That is a big no no to have those lunatics advertising on here. Its a google ad but i imagine they can block certain advertising and i hope this one gets blocked in future!

 

[gregod]

i agree completely. i posted a screenshot in the about the website forum.

 

[washedup]

I was going to complain too... but then I clicked on an ad, and it turns out they make a lot of sense. I am going in for a palm reading on Thursday.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

I have passed this complaint along.

Susan

 

[Anonymous]

you can from your google admin panel stop certain types of adverts from appearing.

Just had a look through the categories. not entirely sure which category the scientology ad comes under.

 

[dbrmuz]

I was going to complain too... but then I clicked on an ad, and it turns out they make a lot of sense. I am going in for a palm reading on Thursday.

Only if the Thetans agree.

 

[Damiano Machiavelli]

The scientologists heard about all the people who still believe in Lance and figured that this would be a good place to fish for suckers.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

That may be true. It's an odd world.

I too find the ad bothersome. In several countries Scientology is viewed as being a cult. They also have a dark side exposed by Paul Haggis who was a member for years, but when he got to know the higher ups he found them to be harshly homophobic (Haggis is straight, married), and that they had physically harmed several members, and were guilty of serious, indefensible human and civil-rights violations. The "church" of Scientology also has a history of suing people who criticize them. They sued CAN (the Cult Awareness Network) and when CAN filed bankruptcy, Scientology purchased their branding rights. So now, when you look up CAN, while it may look like the true CAN site, it's actually owned and run by Scientology.

If you really wish to understand Scientology, look up cult expert Rick Ross. He has written extensively about them, and other cults and strange groups. The New Yorker also went into good detail on Haggis exposure of them as well.

 

[rhubroma]

That may be true. It's an odd world.

I too find the ad bothersome. In several countries Scientology is viewed as being a cult. They also have a dark side exposed by Paul Haggis who was a member for years, but when he got to know the higher ups he found them to be harshly homophobic (Haggis is straight, married), and that they had physically harmed several members, and were guilty of serious, indefensible human and civil-rights violations. The "church" of Scientology also has a history of suing people who criticize them. They sued CAN (the Cult Awareness Network) and when CAN filed bankruptcy, Scientology purchased their branding rights. So now, when you look up CAN, while it may look like the true CAN site, it's actually owned and run by Scientology.

If you really wish to understand Scientology, look up cult expert Rick Ross. He has written extensively about them, and other cults and strange groups. The New Yorker also went into good detail on Haggis exposure of them as well.

This is what happens when people have no cultural intelligence. Mass consumerism has also produced this.

 

[Barrus]

This is what happens when people have no cultural intelligence. Mass consumerism has also produced this.

Do you say that people are wrong to even consider whether scientology might be a cult? And that people can only consider it in this way when they have no cultural intelligence?

If this is the case I find that highly offensive to states such as Germany and France, two states that, if I remember correctly, do view it as a cult

 

[rhubroma]

Do you say that people are wrong to even consider whether scientology might be a cult? And that people can only consider it in this way when they have no cultural intelligence?

If this is the case I find that highly offensive to states such as Germany and France, two states that, if I remember correctly, do view it as a cult

Nothing of the sort. More than a cult, which it undoubtedly is in the english sense of the term, Scientology is a form of New Age Freemasonry (with all the corporate and science fiction imagery so congenial to our age) perfectly suited to the capitalist agenda.

The progress of sects of this kind among the populace is disturbing, for which any voluntary circumscribed vision and scraps of wisdom ineptly borrowed from our philosophers, combined with the fierce intransigence of the sectarian, suffices to convince those still eager to be yolked to dogma and to believe in forms of life and thoughts which are not their own, to find merit in captious arguments and childish interpretations as varied as nature itself.

That there are also monetary rewards for those who bind themselves to precepts so strict as to engender immediate constraint and hypocrisy through the glorification of virtues befitting slaves at the expense of more virile and more intellectual qualities, can only be due to some insolent pride which makes them value themselves above others and a narrow vapid innocence.

These performances are no more are than decorations upon a void. I wonder if such increasing vacuity has been due to the lowering of intelligence or to cultural decline; whatever the cause, mediocrity of mind has been matched in this case by shocking selfishness and dishonesty.

 

[brianf7]

You have control of the mouse you dont have to click on it but you do because you are curiouse.

By clicking on it you open a new can of worms a multitude of sins.

 

[Dalakhani]

there is a scientology ad on here. wtf!

The question is, how did it get there?

Google display advertisers can target ads in 4 main ways:

(1) By choosing which domains or urls the ads show on.

(2) By choosing phrases and letting google show the ads on any pages that fit those themes.

(3) By advertising to people who have previously visited their own site - i.e. in this case, scientology.com or whatever their site is.

(4) By choosing topics of interest. In which case Google will show ads to people who have shown interest in those topics. (By visiting sites that are related to those topics.)

In the case of #3 and #4, there's usually no thematic connection between the site you're on right now and the ads you see.

It would seem unlikely that cycling news would be seen as a good fit to scientology. So I'd pretty much rule out #1.

It could be some overlap in content. Do you guys remember what thread it was you saw the ads in?

Given you don't seem to like Scientology (and who can blame you?), it's probably not #3.

So it may be that you two visit the sort of sites (in the broad brushstroke of what constitutes a topic - e.g. alternative beliefs) that they think makes you a good prospect for their "religion".

Steve

 

[gregod]

it's baaa-aaack

 

[Hairy Wheels]

Nothing of the sort. More than a cult, which it undoubtedly is in the english sense of the term, Scientology is a form of New Age Freemasonry (with all the corporate and science fiction imagery so congenial to our age) perfectly suited to the capitalist agenda.

The progress of sects of this kind among the populace is disturbing, for which any voluntary circumscribed vision and scraps of wisdom ineptly borrowed from our philosophers, combined with the fierce intransigence of the sectarian, suffices to convince those still eager to be yolked to dogma and to believe in forms of life and thoughts which are not their own, to find merit in captious arguments and childish interpretations as varied as nature itself.

That there are also monetary rewards for those who bind themselves to precepts so strict as to engender immediate constraint and hypocrisy through the glorification of virtues befitting slaves at the expense of more virile and more intellectual qualities, can only be due to some insolent pride which makes them value themselves above others and a narrow vapid innocence.

These performances are no more are than decorations upon a void. I wonder if such increasing vacuity has been due to the lowering of intelligence or to cultural decline; whatever the cause, mediocrity of mind has been matched in this case by shocking selfishness and dishonesty.

In your efforts to write intelligently, you wrote horribly. Let's do some revision, particularly your last paragraph which translates to "people are, uhm, dumber now and stuff".

Try again shall we?

 

[gregod]

fixed it.

 

[rhubroma]

In your efforts to write intelligently, you wrote horribly. Let's do some revision, particularly your last paragraph which translates to "people are, uhm, dumber now and stuff".

Try again shall we?

It's not at all a bad method, I think, to reread the writers who impressed us when we first read them, as we then discover that they're either far greater than we thought, far more significant, or else not worth talking about. In this way we avoid having to carry around an enormous literary ballast in our minds all the time, a ballast that ultimately makes us sick, morally sick.

As far as scientology goes, the stupidity of such a sect wasn't even worth my initial efforts at analysis. Try again? I've said what I've thought. And, yes, people are dumber now. Any doubts I had had on this matter, your post have eliminated.

 

[knewcleardaze]

Anyone else re-size the window to exclude all the ads?

 

[Frank71]

Whether we like it or not, Scientology is regarded as a religion in a number of countries such as the USA and Australia (exceptions include Germany, the UK and France).
Can CN perhaps give us an indication as to their advertising policy in respect of religious ads?

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

This matter has been reported and is being looked into.

Susan

 

[rickshaw]

some help

I found this chart, I think on this forum, and found it very usefull placing Scientology in the pantheon of world religions.

 

[Frank71]

I found this chart, I think on this forum, and found it very usefull placing Scientology in the pantheon of world religions.

Now I'm glad I'm not rich and insane.

 

[cromagnon]

there is a scientology ad on here. wtf! That is a big no no to have those lunatics advertising on here. Its a google ad but i imagine they can block certain advertising and i hope this one gets blocked in future!

Blasphemy! Burn the witch!

For was it not said in The Holy Retardicum, Chapter 3, Verse 1;

"Turn towards the light of Scientology before the rabid raccoons of doom descent from out the 9 headed serpernts' nether regions to scratch on chalkboards until everyone's teeth explode killing them instantly"

*nods wisely*

p.s. "Scientology" is already in the dictionary, LMFAO it's good to have elite backing (is Lance one yet?)

 

[Dr. Maserati]

I was going to complain too... but then I clicked on an ad, and it turns out they make a lot of sense. I am going in for a palm reading on Thursday.

Dammit (or Goddamit?!) I want the Scientology ad it sounds great, I have an ad for this:

"17,245 healthy babies delivered to date"- does anyone know if they Fedex them or use USPS and do they take returns?

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Looks like you need to be making more babies Doc.

Speaking of those wonky Scientologists, did y'all know that according L. Ron, "Xenu" brought billions of his people to Earth in a DC-8-about 75 million years ago; then stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs?

Way more interesting beginning than sitting under an apple tree wearing a fig leaf, don't you think?