That's pretty tame. Send in people with a talent like mine. which is being able to intentionally annoy literally anyone. People that know me can confirm that I am known to try and succeed at annoying people if I want to. The reactions are hilarious, trust me.
@@gur262 but anonymous found the truth, and knows it now. But the beast is too big to fight and has compromised the media too. They're all in on it, and little can be done but hope for it all to collapse. Remember pizaagate? They invented the term "fake news" for that. Just like they coined the term "conspiracy theory". Know your history.
My pops's a psychiatrist. I remember asking him about Scientology and Dianetics, and he was aware of them. He jokingly told me "There'll come a day when Tom Cruise will come into one of our offices because his kid needs care. Then we'd say 'Remember what you said about us?'"
@@roybatty9935 I'm guessing you mean that he wouldn't serve Tom Cruise's son any treatment. In that case, he would. Just a bit of a joke. Of course it isn't the kid's fault to be born to Tom Cruise.
If he did say that, it would of been the most hypocritical thing I've heard in awhile. Shit, SP mocks everything... yet he gets miffed when they target HIS belief?
Killswitch Sevenfold That’s what would make such a lie especially appalling, that he wasn’t so dense to have not understood that. Doing the show gave a new generation an appreciation for him, and that statement was alienating (no double entendre intended 😄). Not that “The Church” would’ve taken this approach, but it would’ve endeared people so much more if they just saw his being in on the joke. People really soften to someone who can laugh himself. And a lot of people will rattle off the entire gamut of jokes about their own religions. They’re the ones who will introduce you to the jokes, because they’re firm in their beliefs and unshaken by a little humor.
Yeah dude, that does makes more sense to be honest... however, didn't they have a recording of him or whatnot going off on Trey Parker and Matt Stone? I could of swore I didn't just imagine or misunderstand that.
Killswitch Sevenfold OK, I just found this quote from Isaac Hayes III from Tony Ortega’s site The Underground Bunker: “Isaac Hayes did not quit South Park; someone quit South Park for him. What happened was that in January 2006 my dad had a stroke and lost the ability to speak. He really didn’t have that much comprehension, and he had to relearn to play the piano and a lot of different things. He was in no position to resign under his own knowledge. At the time, everybody around my father was involved in Scientology - his assistants, the core group of people. So someone quit South Park on Isaac Hayes’ behalf. We don’t know who.”
When I was a toddler, my dad had brought my mom, sister, and Me to his office at the time. While my sister was in the other room, I walked into my dad's workplace, where he had the Tom Cruise Kills Oprah Meme up and playing. It scared the everlasting shit out of me and I started crying. Years later, I find it here. I finally get context to that.
Churches don't copyright. Businesses and scam artists do. Any 'church' that does, or demands your money, is a shady extortion racket, or extremist cult
@@Goblinhandler Nah, it's most likely referring the the Munster rebellion. When Christianity was changed and splintered into a bunch of different denominations the town of Munster adopted their own version that devolved to the point where it was basically a harem for the town elders. Younger men were killed or driven out while the elders took many young wives including children. Any dissent was met with torture/execution. Some seriously twisted shit went down. Fanaticism + Isolation + Charismatic leaders. Eventually it got so bad that the German military showed up, surrounded the town, and starved them out. Basically the entire town was massacred down to the last man, woman and child. The leaders of the rebellion were tortured to death and hung in cages for all to see as a warning. So yeah. Germany has some history with religions going rogue and causing serious problems.
For years there was an anonymous masked person standing outside the scientology building in downtown Vancouver...I was impressed every time I walked past the building there was someone there. I wondered if it was the same person or a group taking shifts.
South Park mocked those Scientologists like madlads😂 i wonder if they are still around to this day, theres reference of them in pretty much a lot of places, even games, like Dead Space
Wise Beard Man tldr: You are doing the right thing, but don't turn the monsters into martyrs. WBM actually changed anons methods, this is the man that can make water run uphill!
My great grandpa was preacher. I explained to him what Scientology was asked what he thought about it he said it sounded like the ramblings of a drunk lobotomy patient.
After Isaac Hayes passed, I believe it was his sons that actually came forward and stated* that the church actually sent out that statement about him leaving the show and forced him to stop doing it. They said that Isaac loved Trey and Matt and knew what they were all about so it was irrational for him to react like that.
Julio Ruiz If he allowed a representative to leave the show for him. Then he allowed it to happen. That’s ridiculous. Can someone quit your your job for you. Of course not. And if his health was so bad, how was he able to go on a radio show tour a few weeks after he left the show. And do cameos in movies. Don’t believe everything Wikipedia tells you. I believe that Scientology forced him to quit. They probably threatened to throw him out of the organization. But the bottom line is that he made that decision. He could have realized that a real religion who cares about your well being. Would never threaten to cast you out. He choose a bunch of fruit loop bullshit over his job. And that’s his right. Just make sure you own it for what it is.
Isaac Hayes words about religion were complete BS because South Park made fun of every other form of religion and he never had a problem with it until they made fun of his. I'm glad they gave him that great send off a few episodes later lol.
Exactly, it's like that dumb Indian comedian who has a beef with The Simpsons over Apu. They make fun of every stereotype, religion and ethnicity but when you make fun of one of mine that's not cool man.
@@kellyrobinson6543 He's a comedian and of Indian descent, I said "Dumb Indian Comedian" because I don't care to know his real name. And since I wrote "Dumb Indian COMEDIAN" This means I'm referring to his profession (comedian) as dumb and not his ethnicity (Indian).
@Kelly Robinson,Settle down, referring to someone as Indian isn't racist or wrong if they are Indian. Him being called stupid is because he did/said stupid things, not because of his race.
as an avid 4chan user, i'm still surprised how times have changed try something like that nowadays and most boards would be like: not your personal army
@@suppengroove Nothing has changed, 4chan simply trolls people, they did not do this for any good reasons. For you to incite 4chan into doing something, you need to assure they that there is somebody who's going to be mad.
Remember when the internet used to be outraged by things like silencing, and fair game, and the like? Now we hear about the government and big tech finding ways to do them each day and nobody gives a damn.
It actually kind of surprised me when the church said that the Communist Manifesto was anti-American. I don't think you'd hear that kind of stuff nowadays.
@@Sarah-qx4vz It's true. It's not that people don't want to speak up, it's because in the past people used to be able to openly criticize these kinds of things with no consequences and even gaining social praise from it. Now when people attack those kinds of things they risk losing their job, getting ostracized online by the rapid far left twitter cult and getting doxed, harassed, etc. The irony with far lefties is that they still believe they are "the rebels", the ones that attack the system, meanwhile their ideology is backed by the Democratic Party that holds full power in politics atm and by just about all the richest most powerful businesses including all of big tech. Some rebels they are as social media backs them up by silencing and banning their opposition and every business in America changes their icons to rainbow flags and BLM propaganda. They cry about the system oppressing them as they ally with the same system that is oppressing everyone else, and people get angry as hell because they notice this hypocrisy all the time. But no one wants to risk their livelihood by speaking up, it's not a game anymore, people really lose their jobs by speaking up against this kind of crap.
I always thought South Park did the Scientology episode AFTER the anon protests. Didn’t realize South Park was actually the catalyst for the whole thing
I was a freshman in college when Project Chantology went down. My roommate's friends were /b/tards back then and asked me to go down to the Scientology protest in our city. I was told to cover my face, because their goons were filming everyone in attendance. Good times.
It is remebering this that makes me against laws trying to force Antifa types to not wear masks at protests... Those people are douchebags, but protesting anonymously is important in a democracy.
On the issac hayes case, the creators of south park(trey and Matt) said it best - it was along the lines of 'we made fun of alot of people and different religions on south park but issac never had a problem with it and found it funny, but when we made fun of his religion he suddenly had a huge problem with the show, he's just a hypocrite'
Religion = You can believe in it, even if you are not Part of an Organisation (Church), you are taking Responsibility to a God/Codex, you do not need to spend Money, your Decisions are free. Sect = You have to take Responsibility to (a) living Person(s), you have to spend Money, you have to be Part of an Organisation, your Live/Decisions depends on that Organisation.
The minute someone refers to Anonymous as a unified group - or claims to be part of such a group - they immediately invalidate their own claims. That was the whole point of "anonymous": that it is the faceless legion, and can't be called a group.
Jesus in South Park : shoots people and does drugs Hayes:okay South park: reveals the truth about a certain religion Hayes: you can't joke about religion
It's a part of their belief system to retaliate against criticism, which is the best possible thing you could want from a collective lolcow herd like Scientology.
@@ThePablosin1 Yeah, a ton of people are ignorant to that. If I remember right, he even said if given the chance he would still have quit because of his health but never something that petty/hypocritical.
The whole thing with Isaac Hayes leaving South Park was debunked by his son. Hayes didn't leave the show on his own fruition, it was initiated FOR him from a representative of Scientologist without his say so. Also, at that point, Hayes' health was deteriorating, he had a stroke that preventing him from talking, ultimately getting worse.
If he allowed a representative to leave the show for him. Then he allowed it to happen. That’s ridiculous. Can someone quit your your job for you. Of course not. And if his health was so bad, how was he able to go on a radio show tour a few weeks after he left the show. And do cameos in movies. Don’t believe everything Wikipedia tells you. I believe that Scientology forced him to quit. They probably threatened to throw him out of the organization. But the bottom line is that he made that decision. He could have realized that a real religion who cares about your well being. Would never threaten to cast you out. He choose a bunch of fruit loop bullshit over his job. And that’s his right. Just make sure you own it for what it is.
Tyler Nilson how did you stretch what I said into that. A slave is owned, and controlled. A slave makes no decisions for himself. Isaac Hayes was not one of these people you hear about who are hidden away in some forgotten trailer and forced to do manual labor. He didn’t live on the Scientology grounds. He came and went as he chose.
@@steliokontos8364 Wasnt hayes in a degenerative coma, and unable to speak at the time? Saying that he had a choice is just wrong. Here is the thing about scientology. There brainwashing methods work, and they work very well. You can be 100 percent knowledgeable about the brainwashing and it would still work on you. Watch the "Infiltrating scientology" videos that came out recently. Its by a couple dude bros, but it was very well made. It is what started me on this rabbit hole. The part that freaks me out a bit more is that the main dude gets brainwashed, and cant remember actual events of his life because it got changed from a 10 hour session of what is clearly brainwashing. He had to be told the correct series of events by his friend to actually claim the real memories back, and even then he cant remember the original story as well as he can the changed one. Shit is fucking scary.
Wow...I did a report on the Lisa McPherson case in 10th grade (1999). I DID include the pictures. Needless to say, my teacher told my parents, my parents took me to a psychiatrists, it was a mess. But yes, i got a big talkin' to about doing school reports on touchy subjects. Joke was on them. The psychiatrists I mentioned: She told me that I should be a journalist, and that I should always push the envelope if I think something should be brought to people's attention. Now it makes sence. Psychiatrists hate scientologists right back. Lol.
Trashbin2797 Are you a Scientologist and that’s why you’re mad? Or is it that you believe journalistic integrity is impossible and all journalists are “hack frauds”? Just trying to discern where you got your anger from after reading such a benign and friendly comment on a RUclips video lol.
I was part of the ASyd (Anon-Sydney) Chapter of Chanology about 12 years ago, and to begin with it was full of hope and affirmation. After a year or so of my involvement, it had devolved into shouting in-group memes and screaming them at a building. It had become a victim of it's own initial success as cliques formed and infighting began within its own internal structure. We thought we were internet super-heroes, but most of us were bored kids wanting to belong to something bigger than ourselves. The goal was pure and well intentioned, but the CoS saw us street kids for what we were, and waited us out until we got bored. To this day, I wish that I'd been brave enough to take further steps against the 'Church', but I had a life to build, and couldn't dedicate more of myself to the cause. This is one of my life's bigger regrets.
MelbAnon here! You're absolutely right about how it fell apart. It took a surprisingly long time to collapse, given the history of the movement. I think we were still at it almost a year and a half later, but the numbers weren't there anymore. The infighting shredded it, and growing up took care of the rest. But damn if it wasn't a fun battle while it lasted. I just wish we had been able to acheive more.
I was wondering this for a while and I’m glad I surfed the comments coming back to this tale a couple years later. This is very interesting and explains why not many came up after it. Thanks bro!
I’m imagining a “sermon” where everyone sits in a circle and talks about stuff: “How’s everyone doing?” “Wife left” “That’s rough buddy” Congregation: “That’s rough buddy” “Hey, where’s Tim?” “Don’t know” “Someone mind calling him to see if he’s alright?”
@@Abdega So...Alcoholics Anonymous then "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."
I saw the Oprah interview of the time, but didn't think much of his "erratic" behavior because, frankly, celebrities were always incredibly overly dramatic on Oprah. But looking back on it now I see two people who appear almost equally nuts.
Out of pure curiosity I looked at the autopsy photos of Lisa McPherson just because I thought it would just be something weird to look at that wouldn't be that bad. What I have seen is nothing short of nightmare fuel. I have seen many horrible things but this tops them all by FAR.
Using black faxes to drain printer ink is the antithesis of chaotic good. Oh my god I remember that happening. I was on /b/ at that time and it was incredible. XD
You know, as a Catholic I was never once offended by jabs at my religion done in Family Guy, South Park or any of those shows. I genuinely found those jokes funny. Little story about my own encounter with Scientology here: I work at a grocery store, and we have a bunch of magazines of course. Well the title of one of the news magazines articles we had was "My Life in Scientology Hell". And that was plastered in gold bold on the front cover. A lady comes up to my line and asks to speak to a manager with this stern, and clearly offended voice. I didn't resist her at all. Believe me I thought she was being way too sensitive saying that having Scientology and Hell in the same sentence was some how discriminatory towards here belief (she was a Scientologist). I saw nothing wrong with it, Hell was being used as an adjective to compare being part of Scientology to subjecting oneself to eternal condemnation.
“A lady comes up to my line and asks to speak to a manager with this stern, and clearly offended voice.” Seems you’ve just encountered your everyday Karen, but a Scientologist Karen
Late to this, but same. There are some religious jokes that bother me, but my reaction is usually to just stop watching that episode. If Jesus has a problem with it, He'll deal with it.
A science fiction novel that bombed so hard, he literally could not pay people to take it. So he did what any sensible, abysmal failure of a writer does; try to turn it into a religion.
That's what I heard as well. I can't even remember the exact source but the whole thing with Hayes didn't end with him telling off Trey and Matt but rather him tearfully telling them he HAD to leave yet he didn't WANT to and it broke his heart knowing he had to leave the show in such a manner.
Scientology does have a long history of black listing and destroying members that act out against them. Definitely reasonable to assume he was forced by the Higher Ups.
@@InvAltDM Technically a cult is literally just a synonym for a religion. It means "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object." It originally had no stigma. Now it's often used to refer to small groups of people practice religious beliefs that are regarded as strange or sinister. Which is really just subjective. But technically the major religions aren't small groups, so doesn't really apply to them.
it is a religion, the word cult is for small groups, which is debatable, but nonetheless its a religion based on one mans claim to figuring it all out, in this way it is similar to mormonism or raëlism although the latter two are much less dangerous. i suppose all major religions were small cults at one point.
When scary movie parodied Tom Cruise on Oprah and had him jumping on the couches and snapping her wrists 🤣 I never realized what Tf that was referencing until now 👆👆
Growing up In Scientology and my brother being in the sea org for the first 10 years of my life all I can say is. This is all correct my brother told me and my mother to get out I did and it took my mom getting to OT8 to realize it’s all bs. This group has ruined friendships and never ending tension with family members
Last year I had to do a project on a cult so I did it on Scientology. A girl in my class said that i was wrong because it’s not a cult it’s a religion and that I’m a bigot..... How I laughed .
This was the Area 51 raid we deserved. Actually we probably didn’t deserve it. Old internet had waaaay bigger balls. But it would be great to have a raid at A51
I mean, it's a church. Nothing is inherently dangerous in protesting against a church. Area 51 is a site where they allow soldiers to shoot if they even feel you're thinking of breaking through, so it's understandable why people just kept their distance
Dude, you actually have to go out of your way to get there. At least these churches where in several cities where you can take the bus there and go home after an hour... plus it’s the MILITARY and the desert can suck...
The thing is that it is actually a belief in Scientology that you must do everything you can to retaliate against people that mock the religion. So basically the internet came upon the perfect lolcow cult because it's in its very belief system to not let things blow over and and it keep making itself look worse and worse. It's actually pretty funny when you think about it.
I read an article about Isaac Hayes and South Park where his grandson was interviewed. In it he stated that he believes that the Church of Scientology wrote that letter as Hayes was incapacitated with a stroke. He said that his grandfather was a lot of things but he wasn't a hypocrite. After South Park satirized every other religion without him saying anything he wouldn't have flipped over Scientology.
@@jaysoncornish4779 I dont know how it went down, I just know if I get two sides to a story... I try and find out what really happened, a third side, the truth. Of course I trust no one. Its just odd. And if there was some doubt, I dont think they would have done their "Death of Chef" episode where they made him out to be a pedophile.
@@gbobzburner8687 but the episode was more than though. He was brainwashed by the club and I think he did snap out of his, but it was too late and he died as he fell off the cliff (im not sure bout the latter part.) It was a touching episode in it's own weird little way. I think it was a fitting tribute. The guy did work for southpark for years, a lil pedo joke would make him proud.
@@lotus_dream Eh, I dont know. It is one of the weirdest things I have ever seen, not just the episode but the way everything played out. The little scraps of information I hear dont really complete the picture for me. Dont forget he shit all over himself... for like a straight 2 minutes. Could be because he was full of shit? Who knows, who will ever know?
@Zero Cool not in the same way. Take for example Christianity (just an obvious pick-and im not including those TV evangelicals who say they need a plane to spread the word, just plain old Christianity I'm speaking about) they ask for money yes, in the form of donations but the crucial difference is if you want you can find out all you want about Christianity and not pay a penny, with Scientology your not allowed to "go up a level" and find out the next part of the religion (which is purposely kept secret) until you pay them, and for each level the payment gets larger and larger-thats a big part of why their claims of being a religion is just laughable and also why they desperately don't want to lose that tax exempt status
@Zero Cool oh for sure they all ask for money I just think that Scientology is in a different league altogether. I mean the local church in the village my parents live in here in Scotland is pretty old and in bad need of renovation, it's the Church of Scotland so it's protestant so they can't go to the pope for money that's for sure, so they are asking parishioners for money to help rebuild it. I just want to say here that I'm an Atheist and frankly I think when we are dead then that's it, game over-but i don't see a problem with asking for money from believers, what bothers me is where the money goes, how it's used etc..and that's why I think Scientology is in a very different level of abusing their believers
I seriously considering making my username Wompa Stompa for a while, as well as Beef Curtains. Glad to see someone shares my affinity for semi-obscure N64 cheat code references.
I looked up the pictures of Lisa McPherson, and you weren’t kidding when you said they were a far cry from the woman you showed. I can’t imagine what her last few days were like. It’s egregious that they get away with these things.
She was probably put in the hole and left there to starve until they had to send her to a hospital. Can't wait for this cult to burn up in a couple of years when all the boomers die off and they can't pay for the institution.
Brent Kelley I’ve read a fair few books on Scientology her treatment and last couple of weeks were horrific Inside Scientology by Janet reitman really good
Really? You'd think being asked about aliens would be their bread and butter. Like asking the Catholic Church about the blood of Christ existing in wafers.
@@Chipiliro613 this comment has made me have a sudden urge to walk into a catholic church with my own package of wafers and ask if they have a test to see if these include any christ blood as I have reverse vampirism and any traces of blood would instantly kill me.
Steven Killeen they don’t know about aliens. The people in the churches aren’t high enough in the church to have read the documents that talk about aliens. They just think you are being a d$ck. They don’t believe anything you say and are not allowed to discuss the alien thing with outsiders if they do know. They believe it will kill you. Only a small percentage have read those documents and rarely would anyone in the churches storefronts had the time or money to be one of those few.
I remember when Hayes left South Park. I thought it was hilarious how he was a-okay with the show shitting on other religions, but don't you dare touch his.
@@48888David Actually, he had been recently written out of the show because he had a stroke that left him unable to speak at the time. The "church" issued the statement to the press saying Hayes had resigned, and the press just ate it up. No one spoke to Isaac directly because he literally couldn’t speak.
@@Capnsensible80 Dude. That's even worse. I was 14 when this came out and so I just believed the first thing I heard. I didn't even think to look further into it. Poor guy.
@@jordanprice9285 it died. In the days of old. Like so many sites did of their time. At least in the sense it's irrelevant now. Im sure whang has a video up about it specifically. I'd be surprised if he didn't.
Wow. When I was a kid I was warned that 4chan was a den of the worst of the worst kinds of people, and to never visit it or else I would be scarred for life, never to be whole again. Nowadays this shit is almost cute and wholesome, especially compared to the _much worse_ stuff people in my parents' generation get up to on Facebook. The same people, mind, who warned me against 4chan in the first place.
I mean I’d call 4chan a microcosm of humanity. Sometimes it’s capable of beautiful things by banding together for a common good. Sometimes it’s just banding together out of sheer spite or sheer ‘heehoo chaos reigns’. Sometimes it’s making up stories. Sometimes it’s just weird porn. I mean I think often it’s weird porn.
Ahh, Scientology... Something Awful's war on Scientology (those threads were legendary) was how I came to become heavily involved with SA in the first place.
Talking Streisand Effect, I became aware after the "church" managed to get John Sweeny to go full beast mode. The guy is usually incredible calm and professional on the TV and when the context free clip of him exploding got leaked by the "church" i had to take a look at the full doc that aired a few days later.
I looked at the post mortem photos of McPherson... it was heartbreaking to see such a beautiful woman filled with opportunity, killed by the idiots of belief...
I remember being involved in the protest on Feb 10th in Dallas, Texas. Lisa McPhearson's family is from Dallas as well and they came out to the protest to thank us for bringing more awareness of the church's abuses to the public. It was a really powerful moment for us there and helped galvanize us for what would actually probably be one of our more successful protests later down the line that year.
Leah Remini’s docuseries ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ is as riveting as it is hard to watch at times. Its a series that’s needed- Scientology’s atrocities straight from a former member of the church. She knows what she’s talking about.
Absolutely true....I live in Seminole, Florida and my daughter attends school in Clearwater. Every morning on the way to school, we pass "Thomas" built buses that carry Scientologists from shitty apartments off Drew St & Keene Rd, and they bus these people from there to downtown Clearwater. You'd see empty buses heading for these apartments from downtown and when they head towards downtown, they are packed with wierdos dressed with black vests and long-sleeved white shirts. I see this shit every day and I'm always like, "WTF are they doing with their lives?!" I see the same thing in the evening in reverse. The buses are packed heading from downtown and the buses are empty heading towards downtown. I cannot believe people still fall for this nonsense "religion."
I live here too. I regularly ride a bicycle to the Fort Harrison Hotel, where, like you said, bus loads of Scientologists get dropped off, all wearing the same black and white hotel valet uniforms. Except for security who always wear suit/tie and have an earpiece. Clearwater is a very strange place. The police department is literally right next to the Scientology building, too, and a lot of locals think the PD is corrupted by Scientology money. I wouldn't be surprised.
crazy to find someone in the comments who lives here! i hope one day all these people are able to walk away from what they got themselves into and live a normal life without scientology running, and ruining, them completely.
Unfortunately that award has been claimed by another, more lulzy dood that does 4chan historical lessons. His YT channel is called: Internet Historian. 10/10 would recommend! It's way over 9000 subs by now.
That’s most likely Meant to invoke something similar to “Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! ”
Great video, and THANK YOU for captioning it as well! Like many fellow Veterans, my hearing is FUBAR from my time enlisted, and its VERY refreshing to see RUclips folks making it ALOT easier for us with that simple decision. Thanks again, and Keep On Truckin'!
Everything that was shown in that episode of South Park precisely sums up what Scientologists believe. South Park managed to explain all of there insane core beliefs in the most simplest way giving the audience the best visual representation.
I took a test online in either the late 90s or early 2000s from the Scientology website and ended up getting a 300 dollar bill in the mail. I was a little kid so I laughed and never paid it.
I remember getting baked in highschool with my computer friends and they were spamming emails and black faxes to the local scientology chapter. Had no idea what was going on but it was pretty funny.
A pretty important part that you missed about their tax exempt status is that it WAS removed back in the 60s by the IRS, but the church sent thousands of legal threats to the IRS, even having members move to other states just to sue them from there, because the IRS legally had to respond. Eventually, the IRS reinstated their tax exempt status, and all the suits were dropped in the 90s
Southpark spent a decade clowning Christianity and Islam but Isaac Hayes claimed religious intolerance when the satire applied to him. That tells you all you need to know about religion right there.
Isaac Hayes is just a hypocrite. Don't lump every religious person in that group with him. I'm a Christian and I am a fan of South Park. I don't care for a few episodes, but I respect the creators and don't bitch about them.
The church of scientology strongarms its members into presenting themselves in particular ways through active blackmail and other threats. It's easy to call him a hypocrite or other things while not knowing the circumstances behind the statement.
"We love you chef" Perhaps the only words uttered by a South Park character in which Trey was clearly being genuine. "He got his brains scrambled by that fruity little club"
I was around when all this stuff was going on and while I kept track of what was happening I never had any intention of showing up to anything in real life, I was just mildly interested in what was happening and curious about the outcome. A few months later when I'd kinda lost interest I saw an ad in the paper when I was looking for jobs asking to hire someone to "play bagpipes badly for 4hrs for a protest" and they were offering $80 to do it. My dad happened to have bagpipes, I had no idea how to play bagpipes at all but I could make them emit a terrible sound which was kinda what the ad was calling for so I called the number and was told where and when to show up. I didn't put together in my head it was the Scientology protest, I honestly didn't care what it was for I was just interested in the $80. When I got there and saw the Guy Fawkes masks it all clicked, and I had second thoughts about participating but decided I wanted the $80 more than I didn't want to participate in the protest. A guy ended up walking out of the Church building while we were out front and he started taking pictures of my face as one of the few people who wasn't wearing any type of mask - I just ignored him which seemed to make him angry. He got closer to me and took more pictures and said "If you don't stop playing those bagpipes I'll make sure you regret it for the rest of your life" or something along those lines. That really pissed me off, that this man would try and threaten and intimidate me like that while taking my picture. I told him I don't respond well to threats and that he would do best to go back in the church and leave me the fuck alone before I lost my temper. He laughed and went back inside. I was angry enough that I played bagpipes there another 5 times over the next 5 months of protests for free, protests I never had any intention of attending, that I almost walked away from despite being offered money to participate. After that interaction with that man I read more and more about Scientology and it just clicked in my head how they operated and how incredibly fucked up the way they tried to control people was. I started to understand how these people got trapped in a religion that I initially thought they must all be dumbasses for joining. I started to see that if they had got me at the right time of my life, and got me to invest enough money in it that I could be a Scientologist myself. Instead of feeling like their members should be ridiculed like I had in the past, I instead felt sorry for them. I reserved my hatred for those in power at the church, and those who did shady things on behalf of the church (ridiculous lawsuits and legal threats, dealing with "suppressive persons" via threats and intimidation etc) rather than the vast majority of members who basically have no idea that stuff even goes on.
StreakyBaconMan there is one "mistake" in your thought... Yes, you can "feel sorry" for The members. But many of them have been involved in criminal incidents... Also ask yourself, How can someone, who was a sci Member for his whole life, WHO never visited a public School, or university, Show never worked outside of The organization, WHO earned like 5-10 Dollars a week for over 50 Hours of labour... How can someone like this get out of The organization and be able To find a House To Rent and WHO buys a car...? Something doesnt make Sense To me.
@@meinname5788 I specifically said that I reserved my hatred towards those in power and those that did shady things on behalf of the church. Most members don't believe that anything shady goes on, and they don't personally do anything wrong - they just have the mistaken belief that those who run the church are honest and don't lie to them about these things. Those are he people I feel sorry for.
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Whang! Oh hi Mark!
You mentioned ED in this vid. A vid on the GirlVinyl days of ED, and her successors, might be... enlightening. :D
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Whang you're what youtube creators should be. Keep on keeping on
One thing to consider is that in Germany the Church of Scientology is classified as a dangerous cult.
Michael Vella nice to see the German government aren’t completely retarded
Well that’s exactly what it is
Raider 2747 no shit
Raider 2747 i’m saying it’s obvious that he was referencing nazism oof
Good on Germany. Hopefully, Merkelreich will ban them, eventually.
"Endless black faxes were sent to drain their printer ink."
That's just evil.
*And* Glorious
Beautiful
On the contrary, it's definitely Chaotic Good.
That's the shadow the hedgehog of sonic equivalent move right there
That's pretty tame. Send in people with a talent like mine. which is being able to intentionally annoy literally anyone. People that know me can confirm that I am known to try and succeed at annoying people if I want to.
The reactions are hilarious, trust me.
Remember when people took anonymous seriously
They all got infiltrated and forced to work for the government
No
@@gur262
Anonymous didnt do shit homie
Yeah, me neither
@@gur262 but anonymous found the truth, and knows it now. But the beast is too big to fight and has compromised the media too. They're all in on it, and little can be done but hope for it all to collapse. Remember pizaagate? They invented the term "fake news" for that. Just like they coined the term "conspiracy theory". Know your history.
My pops's a psychiatrist. I remember asking him about Scientology and Dianetics, and he was aware of them. He jokingly told me "There'll come a day when Tom Cruise will come into one of our offices because his kid needs care. Then we'd say 'Remember what you said about us?'"
@@roybatty9935 How so?
@@roybatty9935 I'm guessing you mean that he wouldn't serve Tom Cruise's son any treatment.
In that case, he would. Just a bit of a joke.
Of course it isn't the kid's fault to be born to Tom Cruise.
@@roybatty9935 he's joking with his family and making a point to his grandchild... Chill
@@roybatty9935 sounds like you should do some research on what the words ‘objectively’ and ‘unethical’ mean lol
@@roybatty9935 you don't seem to understand humor do you.
Issac hayes: i cant participate in a show that mocks religion
Also issac hayes: participated in a show that mocked other religions.
I don’t believe he really said that. His family said he was in a coma when he supposedly said that. He was already on his way out (of the show).
If he did say that, it would of been the most hypocritical thing I've heard in awhile. Shit, SP mocks everything... yet he gets miffed when they target HIS belief?
Killswitch Sevenfold That’s what would make such a lie especially appalling, that he wasn’t so dense to have not understood that. Doing the show gave a new generation an appreciation for him, and that statement was alienating (no double entendre intended 😄).
Not that “The Church” would’ve taken this approach, but it would’ve endeared people so much more if they just saw his being in on the joke. People really soften to someone who can laugh himself. And a lot of people will rattle off the entire gamut of jokes about their own religions. They’re the ones who will introduce you to the jokes, because they’re firm in their beliefs and unshaken by a little humor.
Yeah dude, that does makes more sense to be honest... however, didn't they have a recording of him or whatnot going off on Trey Parker and Matt Stone? I could of swore I didn't just imagine or misunderstand that.
Killswitch Sevenfold OK, I just found this quote from Isaac Hayes III from Tony Ortega’s site The Underground Bunker: “Isaac Hayes did not quit South Park; someone quit South Park for him. What happened was that in January 2006 my dad had a stroke and lost the ability to speak. He really didn’t have that much comprehension, and he had to relearn to play the piano and a lot of different things. He was in no position to resign under his own knowledge. At the time, everybody around my father was involved in Scientology - his assistants, the core group of people. So someone quit South Park on Isaac Hayes’ behalf. We don’t know who.”
When I was a toddler, my dad had brought my mom, sister, and Me to his office at the time. While my sister was in the other room, I walked into my dad's workplace, where he had the Tom Cruise Kills Oprah Meme up and playing. It scared the everlasting shit out of me and I started crying. Years later, I find it here. I finally get context to that.
Haha funny
Pretty epic ngl
crazy how life works
It came full circle.
@Big boy Swank Donald Trump, is that you?
Churches don't copyright. Businesses and scam artists do.
Any 'church' that does, or demands your money, is a shady extortion racket, or extremist cult
*cough*Jehovah's Witnesses*cough*
you mean like every religion ever conceived?
Stefan Forrer just saying the kjv (king James version) of the Bible is not copyrighted. You can start printing your own kjv version and sell it.
@@jeff9989 i thought it should be rather clear that i was referring to the demanding money, shady extortion racket and extremist cult thing....
@@stefanforrer2573 churches take donations
Tom Cruise wasn't on Oprah.
He was on cocaine...its a hell of a drug.
I don't think so
Banned in Germany . official reason "we saw this is in the past". Says everything !
Was it the fault of a short angry man with a silly mustache
Insert/pol/ joke
@@Goblinhandler naw just a short fat dude with fucked up teeth. (L.Ron Hubbard)
Unfortunately they are not banned, but under surveilance. I live near their headquarters in Berlin.
@@Goblinhandler Nah, it's most likely referring the the Munster rebellion.
When Christianity was changed and splintered into a bunch of different denominations the town of Munster adopted their own version that devolved to the point where it was basically a harem for the town elders. Younger men were killed or driven out while the elders took many young wives including children. Any dissent was met with torture/execution. Some seriously twisted shit went down. Fanaticism + Isolation + Charismatic leaders.
Eventually it got so bad that the German military showed up, surrounded the town, and starved them out. Basically the entire town was massacred down to the last man, woman and child. The leaders of the rebellion were tortured to death and hung in cages for all to see as a warning.
So yeah. Germany has some history with religions going rogue and causing serious problems.
For years there was an anonymous masked person standing outside the scientology building in downtown Vancouver...I was impressed every time I walked past the building there was someone there. I wondered if it was the same person or a group taking shifts.
South Park mocked those Scientologists like madlads😂 i wonder if they are still around to this day, theres reference of them in pretty much a lot of places, even games, like Dead Space
Erium 😂 Lololol vary aoriginnal an funy 😂
Pajeet: *0PEN* 👙
They have infiltrated Canada?
Life Skills In 3 Minutes ...
*scientology knowingly acts like a cult*
*scientology gets attacked for being a cult*
Scientology:
:O
Shit meme fuck you
normieoutsider y so mad
@@Borals cuz u a libtard
@@angryguy5532 Found the Scientologist.
@@angryguy5532 wassup internet virgin!
today i learned that 4chan raided scientology and carameldansed outside of their building in guy fawks masks.
what a beautiful time to be alive.
I was alive when it happened and it was pretty cool seeing that movement happening. We're almost likely to never see that kind of thing again.
Yea lmao I was 5 and I vaguely remember seeing it on the news
Yup.
I was 15 when it happened and what a beautiful thing to witness. stuff like that just doesn't happen anymore
@@lGipsyDanger well the stuff with GameStop stock happened not too long ago so I wouldn't lose hope yet
Wise Beard Man is the purest form. Even when fighting for the downfall of Scientology, he still remains to give humanity to the protest.
He's also recently been elected as a councilman in Clearwater Florida. So he's still a thorn in Scientology's side.
Based beard man getting /b/ and Scientology in check
Wise Beard Man is the mediator; he refines the power Anonymous
"Endless black faxes were sent to drain their printer ink." 😂
Chaotic evil.
That's the greatest lolol
Alexandra It only takes like 3
FAXES
Does that alone date this?
Well, that stuff is insanely expansive. More worth than gold and one of the most expensive liquids in the world.
Wise Beard Man tldr:
You are doing the right thing, but don't turn the monsters into martyrs.
WBM actually changed anons methods, this is the man that can make water run uphill!
That's impressive, and very welcome
Vollification they say beards are a sign of wisdom.
@Great Beyond edgy kid lol
We need more people like Wise Beard Man in this world these days.
@Great Beyond I was an edgy teen once too
My great grandpa was preacher. I explained to him what Scientology was asked what he thought about it he said it sounded like the ramblings of a drunk lobotomy patient.
pot calling the kettle black lol
He sounds like a smart man.
He was the same, what a hypocrite.
fantasy fandoms hate each other.
Forget storming Area 51, let's storm The Church of Scientology
Milesium-487 millions of people would magically cease to exist
H
lets raid scientology...they can't extort all of us
raid the scientolgy hq, they can't dehydrate and starve all of us.
Weirder stuff would be found in their basements than anything Area 51 could ever dream of
4 Chan: We're gonna take down this awful church
Also 4 Chan: We're gonna be doing the 2008 equivalent of a fortnite dance in front of the church.
I guess that would be the Soulja Boy dance
@@TheDibbs u a scientologist?
@@karolbomba6704 no he's just talking about 4chan's userbase
Sometimes 4chan is a force of nature, sometimes a bunch of bumbling fumbling buffoons
@@slavmcblin4698 The strength of stupidity is something to admire.
>picking a fight with 4chan
It's like they want to lose, I swear.
This
Young Royalty
4chan isn’t a site to fuck with.
exactly my tought
The thing is 4chan is usually a bunch of dumb fucks if you get them mad enough you’re fucked
@Smitty WerbenJagerManJensen 4chan is autistic too,diffirence is 4chan is weaponized autism.
"getting their tax exempt status, that'll hurt them" that should be the main goal honestly.
I think that happened in recent years.
After Isaac Hayes passed, I believe it was his sons that actually came forward and stated* that the church actually sent out that statement about him leaving the show and forced him to stop doing it. They said that Isaac loved Trey and Matt and knew what they were all about so it was irrational for him to react like that.
Julio Ruiz If he allowed a representative to leave the show for him. Then he allowed it to happen. That’s ridiculous. Can someone quit your your job for you. Of course not. And if his health was so bad, how was he able to go on a radio show tour a few weeks after he left the show. And do cameos in movies. Don’t believe everything Wikipedia tells you. I believe that Scientology forced him to quit. They probably threatened to throw him out of the organization. But the bottom line is that he made that decision. He could have realized that a real religion who cares about your well being. Would never threaten to cast you out. He choose a bunch of fruit loop bullshit over his job. And that’s his right. Just make sure you own it for what it is.
@@steliokontos8364 You commented the exact same thing to some else already, just chill dude
The Last Gamer it’s just so much easier to copy and paste then to rewrite that whole reply. Either way I stand behind it and defend it.
@@steliokontos8364 dude was basically held at gunpoint, doesn't matter anymore tho, he ded
@@steliokontos8364 I think you should do some more research into Sciencetolgly and how they can basically force you to stay into their church.
Isaac Hayes words about religion were complete BS because South Park made fun of every other form of religion and he never had a problem with it until they made fun of his. I'm glad they gave him that great send off a few episodes later lol.
Exactly, it's like that dumb Indian comedian who has a beef with The Simpsons over Apu. They make fun of every stereotype, religion and ethnicity but when you make fun of one of mine that's not cool man.
RIP Isaac Hayes
RIP Scientology
RIP that dumb Indian
@@kellyrobinson6543 He's a comedian and of Indian descent, I said "Dumb Indian Comedian" because I don't care to know his real name. And since I wrote "Dumb Indian COMEDIAN" This means I'm referring to his profession (comedian) as dumb and not his ethnicity (Indian).
@Kelly Robinson,Settle down, referring to someone as Indian isn't racist or wrong if they are Indian. Him being called stupid is because he did/said stupid things, not because of his race.
What kind of church has copyright? Last time I check only a business (cult) does that.
I copyright every comment I make ©
The Devil's Advocate I copyright every comment I make
You own it, therefore you hav the rights to it.
exactly what i thought. imagine if the cross and the word 'christianity' was copyrighted! everyone would rightfully flip shit.
IKR it's like trying to own the word "Christianity" or the cross symbol..
Can't believe I'd ever be rooting for 4chan, goes to show how horrifying Scientology is.
This was before 4chan became a politcal cesspool
@@somethingsomething9008
It always was one but now you disagree with their politics.
as an avid 4chan user, i'm still surprised how times have changed
try something like that nowadays and most boards would be like: not your personal army
@@suppengroove
Nothing has changed, 4chan simply trolls people, they did not do this for any good reasons.
For you to incite 4chan into doing something, you need to assure they that there is somebody who's going to be mad.
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051it genuinely wasn’t 2016 tourist
you look like the anonymous mask
Probably intentional.
W for Whangdetta
@Southern Slushie Chan that's not a goatee. Google image bud
Branwell I applaud you, sir
Thats not the 1st time he's heard that
Mark actually seems like a really nice guy. Glad 4chan took his advice.
SEE Wise Beard man is our savior destroyer of the ignorant
@@Goblinhandler praise wise beard man
@@ninelivesstealer I was in middle school too once, it gets better, trust me :)
@@ninelivesstealer Really kiddo, it gets better, hope things improve for you soon. :)
GEEDIS
Remember when the internet used to be outraged by things like silencing, and fair game, and the like?
Now we hear about the government and big tech finding ways to do them each day and nobody gives a damn.
It actually kind of surprised me when the church said that the Communist Manifesto was anti-American. I don't think you'd hear that kind of stuff nowadays.
People care, it’s just that we’re all silenced when we speak out.
@@Sarah-qx4vz It's true. It's not that people don't want to speak up, it's because in the past people used to be able to openly criticize these kinds of things with no consequences and even gaining social praise from it. Now when people attack those kinds of things they risk losing their job, getting ostracized online by the rapid far left twitter cult and getting doxed, harassed, etc.
The irony with far lefties is that they still believe they are "the rebels", the ones that attack the system, meanwhile their ideology is backed by the Democratic Party that holds full power in politics atm and by just about all the richest most powerful businesses including all of big tech. Some rebels they are as social media backs them up by silencing and banning their opposition and every business in America changes their icons to rainbow flags and BLM propaganda.
They cry about the system oppressing them as they ally with the same system that is oppressing everyone else, and people get angry as hell because they notice this hypocrisy all the time. But no one wants to risk their livelihood by speaking up, it's not a game anymore, people really lose their jobs by speaking up against this kind of crap.
Anime pic above me is mad he can't spam slurs on Twitter.
@@bat6353 leftwad normie above me is mad that someone out there isn't egowelded to The Inner Party
I always thought South Park did the Scientology episode AFTER the anon protests. Didn’t realize South Park was actually the catalyst for the whole thing
I was a freshman in college when Project Chantology went down. My roommate's friends were /b/tards back then and asked me to go down to the Scientology protest in our city. I was told to cover my face, because their goons were filming everyone in attendance. Good times.
It is remebering this that makes me against laws trying to force Antifa types to not wear masks at protests... Those people are douchebags, but protesting anonymously is important in a democracy.
memespace No, it’s not. A coward hides his face, an American doesn’t.
Brooks Brandenburg LMFAO
@@brooksbrandenburg3925 and a idoit you are
@@inthefade The problem with antifa is that they're extremely violent though...
On the issac hayes case, the creators of south park(trey and Matt) said it best - it was along the lines of 'we made fun of alot of people and different religions on south park but issac never had a problem with it and found it funny, but when we made fun of his religion he suddenly had a huge problem with the show, he's just a hypocrite'
Saber Pendragon allegedly the church forced him to leave the show
Religion = You can believe in it, even if you are not Part of an Organisation (Church), you are taking Responsibility to a God/Codex, you do not need to spend Money, your Decisions are free.
Sect = You have to take Responsibility to (a) living Person(s), you have to spend Money, you have to be Part of an Organisation, your Live/Decisions depends on that Organisation.
@@Azuris190 You forgot to mention organized sexual abuse and the cover up of such are also qualifiers for sect or cult status .
Yep that's exactly how it was.
OOF
The minute someone refers to Anonymous as a unified group - or claims to be part of such a group - they immediately invalidate their own claims. That was the whole point of "anonymous": that it is the faceless legion, and can't be called a group.
Jesus in South Park : shoots people and does drugs
Hayes:okay
South park: reveals the truth about a certain religion
Hayes: you can't joke about religion
It's a part of their belief system to retaliate against criticism, which is the best possible thing you could want from a collective lolcow herd like Scientology.
Actually Isaac Hayes didn't quit because of that, a representative quit for him while he was recovering from a stroke
I read that in his voice...
It’s ok when it’s other people’s religion.
@@ThePablosin1 Yeah, a ton of people are ignorant to that.
If I remember right, he even said if given the chance he would still have quit because of his health but never something that petty/hypocritical.
The whole thing with Isaac Hayes leaving South Park was debunked by his son.
Hayes didn't leave the show on his own fruition, it was initiated FOR him from a representative of Scientologist without his say so. Also, at that point, Hayes' health was deteriorating, he had a stroke that preventing him from talking, ultimately getting worse.
If he allowed a representative to leave the show for him. Then he allowed it to happen. That’s ridiculous. Can someone quit your your job for you. Of course not. And if his health was so bad, how was he able to go on a radio show tour a few weeks after he left the show. And do cameos in movies. Don’t believe everything Wikipedia tells you. I believe that Scientology forced him to quit. They probably threatened to throw him out of the organization. But the bottom line is that he made that decision. He could have realized that a real religion who cares about your well being. Would never threaten to cast you out. He choose a bunch of fruit loop bullshit over his job. And that’s his right. Just make sure you own it for what it is.
@@steliokontos8364 with that logic you're saying someone is a slave because they choose to be a slave
Tyler Nilson how did you stretch what I said into that. A slave is owned, and controlled. A slave makes no decisions for himself. Isaac Hayes was not one of these people you hear about who are hidden away in some forgotten trailer and forced to do manual labor. He didn’t live on the Scientology grounds. He came and went as he chose.
That totally explains the "Super Adventure Club" episode.
Do people ever think anymore?
@@steliokontos8364 Wasnt hayes in a degenerative coma, and unable to speak at the time? Saying that he had a choice is just wrong.
Here is the thing about scientology. There brainwashing methods work, and they work very well. You can be 100 percent knowledgeable about the brainwashing and it would still work on you. Watch the "Infiltrating scientology" videos that came out recently. Its by a couple dude bros, but it was very well made. It is what started me on this rabbit hole. The part that freaks me out a bit more is that the main dude gets brainwashed, and cant remember actual events of his life because it got changed from a 10 hour session of what is clearly brainwashing. He had to be told the correct series of events by his friend to actually claim the real memories back, and even then he cant remember the original story as well as he can the changed one.
Shit is fucking scary.
Wow...I did a report on the Lisa McPherson case in 10th grade (1999). I DID include the pictures. Needless to say, my teacher told my parents, my parents took me to a psychiatrists, it was a mess. But yes, i got a big talkin' to about doing school reports on touchy subjects. Joke was on them. The psychiatrists I mentioned: She told me that I should be a journalist, and that I should always push the envelope if I think something should be brought to people's attention. Now it makes sence. Psychiatrists hate scientologists right back. Lol.
Glad your psychologist was a decent person.
I'm not trying to be "that guy" but it's Sense*
Nice story though, but I don't like psychiatrists either
So you're a hack fraud journalist now??
Trashbin2797 Are you a Scientologist and that’s why you’re mad? Or is it that you believe journalistic integrity is impossible and all journalists are “hack frauds”? Just trying to discern where you got your anger from after reading such a benign and friendly comment on a RUclips video lol.
Sam I am wow you're stupid, it's clearly a joke. More fancy words and i could have post this to r/iamverysmart and get 10 karma.
I was part of the ASyd (Anon-Sydney) Chapter of Chanology about 12 years ago, and to begin with it was full of hope and affirmation.
After a year or so of my involvement, it had devolved into shouting in-group memes and screaming them at a building.
It had become a victim of it's own initial success as cliques formed and infighting began within its own internal structure.
We thought we were internet super-heroes, but most of us were bored kids wanting to belong to something bigger than ourselves.
The goal was pure and well intentioned, but the CoS saw us street kids for what we were, and waited us out until we got bored.
To this day, I wish that I'd been brave enough to take further steps against the 'Church', but I had a life to build, and couldn't dedicate more of myself to the cause.
This is one of my life's bigger regrets.
MelbAnon here! You're absolutely right about how it fell apart. It took a surprisingly long time to collapse, given the history of the movement. I think we were still at it almost a year and a half later, but the numbers weren't there anymore. The infighting shredded it, and growing up took care of the rest.
But damn if it wasn't a fun battle while it lasted. I just wish we had been able to acheive more.
I was wondering this for a while and I’m glad I surfed the comments coming back to this tale a couple years later. This is very interesting and explains why not many came up after it. Thanks bro!
Scientology: *Sends out copyright notices*
The entire internet: So you have chosen death?
Why the question mark? The internet wouldn't hesitate
@@masicbemester holy shit, this shit is true lol
They SHALL NOT PASS!
777 likes, nice
and yet they're still indoctrinating and ruining lives. these people have names and addresses.
If they are tax exempt so is my Church of sadness. You just show up every Sunday and exist.
I’m imagining a “sermon” where everyone sits in a circle and talks about stuff:
“How’s everyone doing?”
“Wife left”
“That’s rough buddy”
Congregation: “That’s rough buddy”
“Hey, where’s Tim?”
“Don’t know”
“Someone mind calling him to see if he’s alright?”
That sounds like a more pleasant time than any church of scientology, not gonna lie. At least that kind of church is gonna be real with you.
@@Abdega So...Alcoholics Anonymous then
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."
What u know about Kansas city
Bud that's called Quakerism.
I saw the Oprah interview of the time, but didn't think much of his "erratic" behavior because, frankly, celebrities were always incredibly overly dramatic on Oprah.
But looking back on it now I see two people who appear almost equally nuts.
Same.
Found the scientologist
Out of pure curiosity I looked at the autopsy photos of Lisa McPherson just because I thought it would just be something weird to look at that wouldn't be that bad. What I have seen is nothing short of nightmare fuel. I have seen many horrible things but this tops them all by FAR.
Cast member of South Park: "i cant take this bigotry and mockery"
...
Do you even realize what show youve been on??
Well it was said in his name. Before dying he made contradictory statements for leaving such as not getting paid enough.
@@nopeyepp apparently the church made that statement for him and forced him to stop doing stuff for the show
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan He chose to be involved in the cult.
He suffered a stroke and could barely speak scuentolgy spoke on his behalf
No one was arguing against that?
I searched up “Lisa Mc Fierson Scientology” My entire body froze. Don’t search it up if you have a sensitive stomach.
just came back from looking at them. not even anything gruesome 😂
@Ghetto Chicken Just because it doesn't upset you doesn't mean it won't upset someone else.
Would people show up for the protest, or would they just sit at home?
:MEGALOVANIA starts playing:
Also life will change from persona 5
You know the best part?
Im pretty sure Megalovania existed in that time of the internet
@@logancox3308 it did but I was for a fan game Toby created
It's 4chan, they don't go outside.
the gaming doggo PERSONAAAA
Using black faxes to drain printer ink is the antithesis of chaotic good.
Oh my god I remember that happening. I was on /b/ at that time and it was incredible. XD
So…Lawful Evil? Chaotic Evil?
@@GabyGeorge1996Nah that's chaotic good. They were breaking the law for a good cause.
@@GabyGeorge1996 yeah they don't know what antithesis means lol
You know, as a Catholic I was never once offended by jabs at my religion done in Family Guy, South Park or any of those shows.
I genuinely found those jokes funny.
Little story about my own encounter with Scientology here:
I work at a grocery store, and we have a bunch of magazines of course.
Well the title of one of the news magazines articles we had was "My Life in Scientology Hell".
And that was plastered in gold bold on the front cover.
A lady comes up to my line and asks to speak to a manager with this stern, and clearly offended voice.
I didn't resist her at all.
Believe me I thought she was being way too sensitive saying that having Scientology and Hell in the same sentence was some how discriminatory towards here belief (she was a Scientologist).
I saw nothing wrong with it, Hell was being used as an adjective to compare being part of Scientology to subjecting oneself to eternal condemnation.
“A lady comes up to my line and asks to speak to a manager with this stern, and clearly offended voice.”
Seems you’ve just encountered your everyday Karen, but a Scientologist Karen
Also Catholic and agree.
@@sebster555 I was about to say the exact same thing 😂 I think every group has it's own version of Karen.
@22- José F. Navas V. LMAO that's a hilarious (and pretty accurate) analogy. 😂😂
Late to this, but same. There are some religious jokes that bother me, but my reaction is usually to just stop watching that episode. If Jesus has a problem with it, He'll deal with it.
I love how Scientology was pretty much founded on a Science Fiction book
A science fiction novel that bombed so hard, he literally could not pay people to take it. So he did what any sensible, abysmal failure of a writer does; try to turn it into a religion.
It was founded by a failed Sci-Fi writer (and a complete nutjob) who wanted to get rich easily. Go figure.
Yep
According to Hayes's son, he was forced by the cult to quit the show.
Well, shit. Now I feel bad.
Not shocking.
Obviously.
That's what I heard as well. I can't even remember the exact source but the whole thing with Hayes didn't end with him telling off Trey and Matt but rather him tearfully telling them he HAD to leave yet he didn't WANT to and it broke his heart knowing he had to leave the show in such a manner.
Scientology does have a long history of black listing and destroying members that act out against them. Definitely reasonable to assume he was forced by the Higher Ups.
As someone who was at one of those Anonymous protests in my area... seeing this event get covered makes my day.
In short, it’s a cult.
Just like every other religion
David McCooey I would disagree but hey it’s the internet.
@@InvAltDM Technically a cult is literally just a synonym for a religion. It means "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object." It originally had no stigma.
Now it's often used to refer to small groups of people practice religious beliefs that are regarded as strange or sinister. Which is really just subjective. But technically the major religions aren't small groups, so doesn't really apply to them.
Cult sometimes force you to do somethings where religions are free to and choose
it is a religion, the word cult is for small groups, which is debatable, but nonetheless its a religion based on one mans claim to figuring it all out, in this way it is similar to mormonism or raëlism although the latter two are much less dangerous. i suppose all major religions were small cults at one point.
"Pizzas were sent"
Damn shit got real SUPER fast.....
When scary movie parodied Tom Cruise on Oprah and had him jumping on the couches and snapping her wrists 🤣 I never realized what Tf that was referencing until now 👆👆
Also superhero movie
"I CAN FLY"
This just in. Tom Cruse is dead!
How? Were you living under a rock at the time? Lol
Same here
Growing up In Scientology and my brother being in the sea org for the first 10 years of my life all I can say is. This is all correct my brother told me and my mother to get out I did and it took my mom getting to OT8 to realize it’s all bs. This group has ruined friendships and never ending tension with family members
Last year I had to do a project on a cult so I did it on Scientology. A girl in my class said that i was wrong because it’s not a cult it’s a religion and that I’m a bigot.....
How I laughed .
And everyone clapped.
Vudi not at all! She just said whatever and we went about our day.
@@vudi2103 they stood up before clapping I may add
@@sneakysnake7695 They stood up and proclaimed, "Oh Captain, my Captain!" before clapping actually.
@@edwardevans5759 and the joke died
This was the Area 51 raid we deserved. Actually we probably didn’t deserve it. Old internet had waaaay bigger balls. But it would be great to have a raid at A51
Hey we should make a cult with an annual pilgrimage to Area 51.
@@spazmaticaa7989 I am 100% on board
Shut up redditor
I mean, it's a church. Nothing is inherently dangerous in protesting against a church. Area 51 is a site where they allow soldiers to shoot if they even feel you're thinking of breaking through, so it's understandable why people just kept their distance
Dude, you actually have to go out of your way to get there. At least these churches where in several cities where you can take the bus there and go home after an hour... plus it’s the MILITARY and the desert can suck...
I like Wise Beard Man. He seems like a great family man.
His face is beard, y'know..
He's like internet Jesus
Dude mark bunker is a fuckin G!!!
Guile be like
GO HOME AND BE A WISE BEARD MAN!
Lunar but Jesus Christ has a full on RUclips channel
A clear unspoken rule of the internet was shown here:
"If you tell the internet to stop and forget, the internet will come back with even more power."
The thing is that it is actually a belief in Scientology that you must do everything you can to retaliate against people that mock the religion.
So basically the internet came upon the perfect lolcow cult because it's in its very belief system to not let things blow over and and it keep making itself look worse and worse. It's actually pretty funny when you think about it.
So like a less violent ISIS
So an infinite “poke bear, bear goes ‘roar’” loop.
Like half of religions have this clause.
I read an article about Isaac Hayes and South Park where his grandson was interviewed. In it he stated that he believes that the Church of Scientology wrote that letter as Hayes was incapacitated with a stroke. He said that his grandfather was a lot of things but he wasn't a hypocrite. After South Park satirized every other religion without him saying anything he wouldn't have flipped over Scientology.
Yeah, I saw that too. But how would Matt and Trey jump the gun with just a letter? They must have known something else.
@@gbobzburner8687 That is a good question.
@@jaysoncornish4779 I dont know how it went down, I just know if I get two sides to a story... I try and find out what really happened, a third side, the truth. Of course I trust no one. Its just odd. And if there was some doubt, I dont think they would have done their "Death of Chef" episode where they made him out to be a pedophile.
@@gbobzburner8687 but the episode was more than though. He was brainwashed by the club and I think he did snap out of his, but it was too late and he died as he fell off the cliff (im not sure bout the latter part.) It was a touching episode in it's own weird little way. I think it was a fitting tribute. The guy did work for southpark for years, a lil pedo joke would make him proud.
@@lotus_dream Eh, I dont know. It is one of the weirdest things I have ever seen, not just the episode but the way everything played out. The little scraps of information I hear dont really complete the picture for me. Dont forget he shit all over himself... for like a straight 2 minutes. Could be because he was full of shit? Who knows, who will ever know?
Scientology: Give us your money
@Zero Cool not in the same way. Take for example Christianity (just an obvious pick-and im not including those TV evangelicals who say they need a plane to spread the word, just plain old Christianity I'm speaking about) they ask for money yes, in the form of donations but the crucial difference is if you want you can find out all you want about Christianity and not pay a penny, with Scientology your not allowed to "go up a level" and find out the next part of the religion (which is purposely kept secret) until you pay them, and for each level the payment gets larger and larger-thats a big part of why their claims of being a religion is just laughable and also why they desperately don't want to lose that tax exempt status
@Zero Cool oh for sure they all ask for money I just think that Scientology is in a different league altogether. I mean the local church in the village my parents live in here in Scotland is pretty old and in bad need of renovation, it's the Church of Scotland so it's protestant so they can't go to the pope for money that's for sure, so they are asking parishioners for money to help rebuild it. I just want to say here that I'm an Atheist and frankly I think when we are dead then that's it, game over-but i don't see a problem with asking for money from believers, what bothers me is where the money goes, how it's used etc..and that's why I think Scientology is in a very different level of abusing their believers
Zero Cool At least the other religions give money to the sick and poor. This one MAKES people sick and poor!
FJN201 give us your money or the baby gets it.
Tom Cruise : K lol
I....I didn't know one could be bit by cockroaches. My life has now been changed forever.
I swear the whole time Oprah was like “I am not ok with this”
We are anomalous.
We are a region.
Forgive and forget.
Expecto Patronum.
wee ur anonimoos
wee is legun
forgetti spaggeti
expecto patronum
We are borg
I seriously considering making my username Wompa Stompa for a while, as well as Beef Curtains. Glad to see someone shares my affinity for semi-obscure N64 cheat code references.
Hotel? Trivago
we are jobros
yo angelo
oi josuke
I looked up the pictures of Lisa McPherson, and you weren’t kidding when you said they were a far cry from the woman you showed. I can’t imagine what her last few days were like. It’s egregious that they get away with these things.
Right?! I looked them up right after he mentioned it and was really stunned by the available photos.
Some seriously fucked up shit. I don't mean that in a flippant manner. It really is.
She was probably put in the hole and left there to starve until they had to send her to a hospital. Can't wait for this cult to burn up in a couple of years when all the boomers die off and they can't pay for the institution.
I’m too scared to look it up.
Brent Kelley I’ve read a fair few books on Scientology her treatment and last couple of weeks were horrific
Inside Scientology by Janet reitman really good
I love how 4chan has a part in all of the best and worst moments of internet!
Lol. Theres a scientology Church in my city.
I went in there once and asked about aliens.
They don't like that very much.
Really? You'd think being asked about aliens would be their bread and butter.
Like asking the Catholic Church about the blood of Christ existing in wafers.
@@Chipiliro613 this comment has made me have a sudden urge to walk into a catholic church with my own package of wafers and ask if they have a test to see if these include any christ blood as I have reverse vampirism and any traces of blood would instantly kill me.
@@Chipiliro613 Catholics will actually talk about it though, it's not a secret hidden behind tens of thousands of dollars in pay walls.
Steven Killeen they don’t know about aliens. The people in the churches aren’t high enough in the church to have read the documents that talk about aliens. They just think you are being a d$ck. They don’t believe anything you say and are not allowed to discuss the alien thing with outsiders if they do know. They believe it will kill you. Only a small percentage have read those documents and rarely would anyone in the churches storefronts had the time or money to be one of those few.
I remember when Hayes left South Park. I thought it was hilarious how he was a-okay with the show shitting on other religions, but don't you dare touch his.
Alicia his son said the church made him leave
@@48888David Actually, he had been recently written out of the show because he had a stroke that left him unable to speak at the time. The "church" issued the statement to the press saying Hayes had resigned, and the press just ate it up. No one spoke to Isaac directly because he literally couldn’t speak.
@@48888David I just saw that in another comment. It made me feel bad for him.
@@Capnsensible80 Dude. That's even worse. I was 14 when this came out and so I just believed the first thing I heard. I didn't even think to look further into it. Poor guy.
black people are famous for this logic when it comes to everything else too. Why are you surprised
I miss YTMND.
Same
Hey guys, love both your channels
What happened to it?
@@jordanprice9285 it died. In the days of old. Like so many sites did of their time. At least in the sense it's irrelevant now. Im sure whang has a video up about it specifically. I'd be surprised if he didn't.
@@thatcooperfellow I just browsed for a quicken minutes and couldn't find it, what's the title?
I went to two protests for this, met some people im still friends with today.
Aww, that's so wholesome
That episode of South Park was classic TV. It was nominated for an Emmy!
i was worried about 4chan not showing up to protest Scientology and was expecting them to flake...
that was until i heard megalovainia play.
"Would project chanoligy be as big as it was hyped up to be?" Megalovania plays for epic reveal
*_John travolta wants to know your location_*
Wow. When I was a kid I was warned that 4chan was a den of the worst of the worst kinds of people, and to never visit it or else I would be scarred for life, never to be whole again. Nowadays this shit is almost cute and wholesome, especially compared to the _much worse_ stuff people in my parents' generation get up to on Facebook. The same people, mind, who warned me against 4chan in the first place.
I mean I’d call 4chan a microcosm of humanity. Sometimes it’s capable of beautiful things by banding together for a common good. Sometimes it’s just banding together out of sheer spite or sheer ‘heehoo chaos reigns’. Sometimes it’s making up stories. Sometimes it’s just weird porn. I mean I think often it’s weird porn.
Ahh, Scientology... Something Awful's war on Scientology (those threads were legendary) was how I came to become heavily involved with SA in the first place.
I never got heavily into the SA forums, so a lot of that flew under my radar.
@@JustinWhangYt you are cool whang!!
Oi Izzy
I only got to know about it through South Park, I believe. Maybe I've heard before, but didn't pay much attention...
Sup Izzy
Just a note. After doing some research, Issac Hayes didn't make that statement, it was made for him.
R.I.P. Chief.....His chocolate salty balls will be remembered for ever.
Bill Gates glad they got the big niggas out here keeping the little niggas in check
*chef*chef*chef chef chef chef chef chef chef chef chef
Dank Net God bless him!
Chef
Rip chief it was it
Talking Streisand Effect, I became aware after the "church" managed to get John Sweeny to go full beast mode.
The guy is usually incredible calm and professional on the TV and when the context free clip of him exploding got leaked by the "church" i had to take a look at the full doc that aired a few days later.
The internet is often referred to as Scientology's Vietnam. It utterly destroyed their business model.
I looked at the post mortem photos of McPherson... it was heartbreaking to see such a beautiful woman filled with opportunity, killed by the idiots of belief...
I remember being involved in the protest on Feb 10th in Dallas, Texas. Lisa McPhearson's family is from Dallas as well and they came out to the protest to thank us for bringing more awareness of the church's abuses to the public. It was a really powerful moment for us there and helped galvanize us for what would actually probably be one of our more successful protests later down the line that year.
Leah Remini’s docuseries ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ is as riveting as it is hard to watch at times. Its a series that’s needed- Scientology’s atrocities straight from a former member of the church. She knows what she’s talking about.
19:16 caramelldansen on your enemies has to be the single greatest power move to ever grace this earth
Before default dancing, we had this:
Absolutely true....I live in Seminole, Florida and my daughter attends school in Clearwater. Every morning on the way to school, we pass "Thomas" built buses that carry Scientologists from shitty apartments off Drew St & Keene Rd, and they bus these people from there to downtown Clearwater. You'd see empty buses heading for these apartments from downtown and when they head towards downtown, they are packed with wierdos dressed with black vests and long-sleeved white shirts. I see this shit every day and I'm always like, "WTF are they doing with their lives?!" I see the same thing in the evening in reverse. The buses are packed heading from downtown and the buses are empty heading towards downtown. I cannot believe people still fall for this nonsense "religion."
I live here too. I regularly ride a bicycle to the Fort Harrison Hotel, where, like you said, bus loads of Scientologists get dropped off, all wearing the same black and white hotel valet uniforms. Except for security who always wear suit/tie and have an earpiece. Clearwater is a very strange place. The police department is literally right next to the Scientology building, too, and a lot of locals think the PD is corrupted by Scientology money. I wouldn't be surprised.
crazy to find someone in the comments who lives here!
i hope one day all these people are able to walk away from what they got themselves into and live a normal life without scientology running, and ruining, them completely.
Isaac Hayes is fine with making fun of Islam, Bhuddism, Christianity and others, but the moment they go for Scientology he is outraged.
When Internet Historian becomes an actual qualification you can get, I really hope you get an honorary PhD for your contribution to the field XD
Unfortunately that award has been claimed by another, more lulzy dood that does 4chan historical lessons. His YT channel is called: Internet Historian. 10/10 would recommend! It's way over 9000 subs by now.
@@ijustpostedth1s724 over 9000 subs? Unless you are referring to the meme but he has over 2 million
@@Hitoshuratdn 2 million is way over 9000
@@Hitoshuratdn i mean. He is still technically correct
"Be very wary of the tenth of february.
Anonymous invites you to join us in an act of solidarity."
Highkey bars.
That’s most likely Meant to invoke something similar to
“Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot! ”
@@Abdega is that from the revolutionary War?
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say no.
@@Chris-lq6xu I'm a shitty American for not knowing this
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say nah you're good. It was a british thing.
Great video, and THANK YOU for captioning it as well! Like many fellow Veterans, my hearing is FUBAR from my time enlisted, and its VERY refreshing to see RUclips folks making it ALOT easier for us with that simple decision. Thanks again, and Keep On Truckin'!
Been here since below 1k subs, Proud to see you blow up. You def deserve it. keep up the great content my man.
Same.
@Roscoe Patterson damn,that was brutal son...got em,got em good...
I agree
Roscoe Patterson hah troll fail
I became a sub closer to 10k. Fantastic content.
19:04 "CHURCH OF THE ANONYMOUS" lmao I can't believe this
why are u my country,???? this is giving me chills
THERE IS NO GOD BUT WE ARE LEGION AND VERY REAL...STILL LYAO? BET WE CAN MAKE THE LAUGHTER STOP...WANNA BET?
Not church,world of anonymous
@@americancameramanmedia1309 take a Xanax
I swear news casters are the funniest people in the world
18:54
that is the most appropriate use of that song I've ever seen
and what is the songs name?
never mind it's megalovania
How about Buzz Buzz’s Prophecy (Earthbound) at 12:50?!?
Everything that was shown in that episode of South Park precisely sums up what Scientologists believe. South Park managed to explain all of there insane core beliefs in the most simplest way giving the audience the best visual representation.
I love that
TL;DR at 10:49
"We're taking scientology down,join of gtfo"
I took a test online in either the late 90s or early 2000s from the Scientology website and ended up getting a 300 dollar bill in the mail. I was a little kid so I laughed and never paid it.
Oh South Park we can always count on you
I remember getting baked in highschool with my computer friends and they were spamming emails and black faxes to the local scientology chapter. Had no idea what was going on but it was pretty funny.
A pretty important part that you missed about their tax exempt status is that it WAS removed back in the 60s by the IRS, but the church sent thousands of legal threats to the IRS, even having members move to other states just to sue them from there, because the IRS legally had to respond. Eventually, the IRS reinstated their tax exempt status, and all the suits were dropped in the 90s
This is what actual frivolous lawsuits are. Yet these assholes won.
Southpark spent a decade clowning Christianity and Islam but Isaac Hayes claimed religious intolerance when the satire applied to him. That tells you all you need to know about religion right there.
Isaac Hayes is just a hypocrite. Don't lump every religious person in that group with him. I'm a Christian and I am a fan of South Park. I don't care for a few episodes, but I respect the creators and don't bitch about them.
He grandson believed the church wrote that when hayes was suffering from a stroke.
The church of scientology strongarms its members into presenting themselves in particular ways through active blackmail and other threats. It's easy to call him a hypocrite or other things while not knowing the circumstances behind the statement.
"We love you chef"
Perhaps the only words uttered by a South Park character in which Trey was clearly being genuine.
"He got his brains scrambled by that fruity little club"
@@thatcooperfellow its incredibly sad. poor guy indeed. Matt and Trey were speaking through their characters
Yo dude this is legit history. Thanks for telling it so perfectly.
Killing tax exempt status will hurt the most...
The true head of scientology: Brian Peppers.
BRIAN NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I was around when all this stuff was going on and while I kept track of what was happening I never had any intention of showing up to anything in real life, I was just mildly interested in what was happening and curious about the outcome. A few months later when I'd kinda lost interest I saw an ad in the paper when I was looking for jobs asking to hire someone to "play bagpipes badly for 4hrs for a protest" and they were offering $80 to do it. My dad happened to have bagpipes, I had no idea how to play bagpipes at all but I could make them emit a terrible sound which was kinda what the ad was calling for so I called the number and was told where and when to show up. I didn't put together in my head it was the Scientology protest, I honestly didn't care what it was for I was just interested in the $80.
When I got there and saw the Guy Fawkes masks it all clicked, and I had second thoughts about participating but decided I wanted the $80 more than I didn't want to participate in the protest. A guy ended up walking out of the Church building while we were out front and he started taking pictures of my face as one of the few people who wasn't wearing any type of mask - I just ignored him which seemed to make him angry. He got closer to me and took more pictures and said "If you don't stop playing those bagpipes I'll make sure you regret it for the rest of your life" or something along those lines. That really pissed me off, that this man would try and threaten and intimidate me like that while taking my picture. I told him I don't respond well to threats and that he would do best to go back in the church and leave me the fuck alone before I lost my temper. He laughed and went back inside. I was angry enough that I played bagpipes there another 5 times over the next 5 months of protests for free, protests I never had any intention of attending, that I almost walked away from despite being offered money to participate.
After that interaction with that man I read more and more about Scientology and it just clicked in my head how they operated and how incredibly fucked up the way they tried to control people was. I started to understand how these people got trapped in a religion that I initially thought they must all be dumbasses for joining. I started to see that if they had got me at the right time of my life, and got me to invest enough money in it that I could be a Scientologist myself. Instead of feeling like their members should be ridiculed like I had in the past, I instead felt sorry for them. I reserved my hatred for those in power at the church, and those who did shady things on behalf of the church (ridiculous lawsuits and legal threats, dealing with "suppressive persons" via threats and intimidation etc) rather than the vast majority of members who basically have no idea that stuff even goes on.
StreakyBaconMan there is one "mistake" in your thought... Yes, you can "feel sorry" for The members. But many of them have been involved in criminal incidents... Also ask yourself, How can someone, who was a sci Member for his whole life, WHO never visited a public School, or university, Show never worked outside of The organization, WHO earned like 5-10 Dollars a week for over 50 Hours of labour... How can someone like this get out of The organization and be able To find a House To Rent and WHO buys a car...? Something doesnt make Sense To me.
@@meinname5788 I specifically said that I reserved my hatred towards those in power and those that did shady things on behalf of the church. Most members don't believe that anything shady goes on, and they don't personally do anything wrong - they just have the mistaken belief that those who run the church are honest and don't lie to them about these things. Those are he people I feel sorry for.
This story was so awesome to read. Thank you for sharing.
I remember hearing about anonymous as a youngin and thinking they were an odd sort of hero