Comments on: Percepticologicalism

By: beajerry

beajerry — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:26:17 +0000

After every scientologist pays for Super Power, what will they offer next? Super Deluxe Gold?

By: Mr. Bill

Mr. Bill — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:10:56 +0000

Look up the Fritz Leiber short srory “Poor Superman”
(aka “Appointment in Tomorrow”) for a good (if chilling) send up of certain cult…(in various collections, google it fer gawdsakes).

By: perianwyr

perianwyr — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:15:50 +0000

But no one has said at what rank you get to cast Super Perception on others. I mean, it’s all well and good if it’s caster-only, but man, if it’s double the caster rank for AOE-single/other, that could be, like, an extra year of leveling.

Also, what’s the spell point cost?

By: Jon H

Jon H — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:08:32 +0000

” I was thinking, perhaps Scientology just needs to recruit Uma Thurman. This may not make it as venerable as Christianity, but who needs venerability when there’s sex appeal?”

Unlikely, her dad’s a leading scholar of Tibetan Buddhism.

Though I hear Scientology once had the chance to bag Uma when she was a 16 year old model, but failed to do so.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:03:28 +0000

No thanks, Scientists. I’ve barely got time for the perceptics I was born with – in fact, I’d be willing to part with a few of ‘em, cheap. Perception is vastly overrated :-)

By: bi

bi — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:33:59 +0000

#11, #20, #25: I was thinking, perhaps Scientology just needs to recruit Uma Thurman. This may not make it as venerable as Christianity, but who needs venerability when there's sex appeal?

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:02:39 +0000

Barry Freed> Pshaw. Me? I’ve got 73 of those things.

We’ve finally found him! Security! Notify Kier Gray immediately, and get the air cars ready. Tell him we’ve tracked down Jommy Cross. I knew he’d slip up someday.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:34:39 +0000

venerable and Keanu Reeves do not belong in the same sentence

Well, the man did meet Genghis Khan.

By: Fred Jones

Fred Jones — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:38:41 +0000

“Scientology is only one Constantine away from being as venerable as Christianity.”

Or instead we can have a potent fusing of the two under current leadership.

By: anand sarwate

anand sarwate — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:39:12 +0000

I think we had a tank in the back yard for our perseptics. A pen would, y’know, smell too bad.

By: ajay

ajay — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:29:01 +0000

He would not discuss the specific machines and drills that former Scientologists said are used to enhance perceptions.

Interesting use of context. You see, I know perfectly well that “drills” here means “repetitive practice”, as in “drill sergeant”, but in the context of that sentence I immediately thought of another sort of drill or machine used to enhance perceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

By: glenn

glenn — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:18:13 +0000

I found some used perceptics on Ebay….

(it all just seems so surreal. a myth turned into a fantasy twisted into a farce.)

By: Mike Russo

Mike Russo — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:18:19 +0000

I believe Keanu's already spoken for.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:58:08 +0000

Unfortunately for Scientology (and Constantine), venerable and Keanu Reeves do not belong in the same sentence.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:19:59 +0000

Perhaps that would have been better as:

Constantine? They only need to recruit Keanu Reeves then.