Hollywood Scien Building under siege.....

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[Zertel]

Defectors, including the actor Leah Remini, have accused the church of fostering a culture of abuse. In 2023, Remini sued the church and its leader, David Miscavige, for harassment, defamation, surveillance and other unlawful behavior resulting in “psychological torture”.

She recently weighed in on the “speed running” trend, calling it “unhelpful”.

“If someone is brainwashed for years into believing the outside world is filled with dangerous lunatics who wish to impede Scientology, a group of people running through a Scientology building is only going to confirm that belief and lead them to dedicate themselves even more to the cause they believe in,” she wrote on X.

“Please focus on exposing the dangers of Scientology, not making a spectacle out of it.”

The above is her statement made on X and quoted in the Guardian article. People do all kinds of weird shit just to get attention.

AI Overview

The phrase "15 minutes of fame," referring to fleeting celebrity, is widely credited to artist Andy Warhol, who allegedly wrote "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" in a 1968 exhibition brochure. It highlights the temporary nature of media attention, though its origins may actually stem from earlier similar phrases or other artists.
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• Origin: The quote is most commonly linked to a 1968 Moderna Museet exhibition catalogue in Stockholm, Sweden, for a Warhol retrospective.
• Alternative Origins: Some sources suggest the concept might have been coined by curator Pontus Hultén, or that a similar phrase was used earlier by artist Larry Rivers.
• Earlier Usage: The concept of a short period of fame has19th-century roots, such as the French phrase "quart-d'heure de célébrité" (fifteen minutes of fame) used in 1879.
• Meaning: The phrase serves as an idiom for a brief, intense burst of public attention rather than a literal 15-minute timeframe.
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Warhol's prediction anticipated the rise of modern media, reality television, and social media, where, according to a Reddit post, individuals can quickly gain and lose public attention.
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[Zertel]

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The guy who took the effort to assemble 20 little people to run through a scn cherch REALLY wanted to get his 15 minutes which I'm sure he did. He can cross that off his bucket list. lol

 

[Type4_PTS]

Here's what ChatGPT had to say.


The essence of what Hubbard taught:

• Hubbard repeatedly emphasized that any publicity, even negative, increases awareness and reach.
• In Scientology policy letters and lectures on marketing and public relations, he framed criticism or controversy as something that can still advance visibility and influence if handled strategically.
• SP's attack when you are winning. It is proof of success or expansion.

A commonly cited related idea from his writings is that:

The only thing worse than bad publicity is no publicity at all.

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[Lee #28]

 

[Lee #28]

Here is a SpeedRun.....in Dallas. But did run......

Looks like this guy wanted to join the trend....

Interesting that it appears that none of these speedrunners are ex-scien..... Just are interested in the mystery of the Scien story.... And for Kicks and Clicks of course.... Notoriety....

These videos that I've been seeing.....most buildings are very empty. I guess that Hollywood Test Center is pretty much shut down now.....which is a good thing.

Has anybody done a speedrun at the HGB or AOLA?

Vid pic is clickbait.....nothing like that happened. But I'm sure that picture is going to alarm Scien Execs....

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

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[Karakorum]

I think I have enough street cred in the ex-scn community to be able to say that the Emperor is engaging in acts of indecent exposure.
... hopefully without being called an OSA agent.

Anyway, here's my take on it:

Pros:

• Brings attention to scientology. A few of those thousands of viewers of speedrun videos might then google scientology and find out it is an abusive cult.
• It disrupts scientology recruitment and body-routing... at least what little of it remains.
• It might end up with scientology prosecuting some of the speedrunners, thus wasting OSA and legal resourcs on chasing random Tik-Tok teenagers instead of more important targets.

Cons:

• A speedrun vid (unlike a video of a street protest for example) is extrmely uninformative for the viewing public. One will learn absolutely nothing about scientology and its abuses from watching a speedrun vid. One wll need to google "scientology" separately.
• I'm not seeing these speedrunners follow it up with any sort of information campaign, unlike say Anonymous years back. They seem to be doing it only for the chaos, clicks and views. The speedrunners themselves don't seem to care much about abuse in scientology, or the fact that the staff are victims themnselves.
• I think the above is doign a disservice to protesters and critics. Pretty soon the general public when they will hear: "I'm protesting scientology", they will respond: "Oh you are one of these losers who is harassing scientologists and barging into their property for TikTok views?"
• Unlike street protests, these speedruns are actual illegal acivity. Breaking and entering, trespassing and possibly actual battery (if they collide with or push away a security guard etc). This is gonna make it easy for OSA to legally target them. Yeah it will waste OSA resources (see the pros point I made above), but it might lead to several felony convictions, further biasing cops and judges against anyone involved in scientology protests.
• The general public (those that watch the vids at least) tend to find it funny if anything. It is making people treat scientology less seriously, which again lands us in the tabloid view of "weird group that makes celebrities believe in aliens". This is not gonna motivate anyone to push their elected representatives and legislators to remove the tax exemption... or take any other serious action. Probably it will do the opposite: Cement the public view of scientology as funny, kooky and harmless.
• Lastly we need to remember the view "from the inside". I remember when I was body-routing and a guy assaulted me on the street and hit me on the head from behind. That made me a MORE dedicated cult member. Hubbard, through his tapes, lectures and PLs, has been telling these staff memmbers that the world is filled with insane people trying to cause chaos. The kids making these speedruns will just confirm what Hubbard said from the staff point of view. It will make them dig in and strengthen the siege mentality they already have. Then that siege mentality will spread onto scientology public, which is what Davey wants.

So all in all: This stuff generates views and exposure based off scientology, without pushing for any real action against the CoS. Tempest in a teacup and a waste of time imho.

 

[I M Dex]

I think ultimately, for the most part, this silliness will be publicly taken as simply that, silliness, another goofy social media-inspired fad, and it will tend to lump Scientology into the connotation with it of "weird" and "silly". Of course, where it is being done physically aggressively against the inhabitants, that's out of control and unsupportable, but as to the running through, in and out, essential poking fun at and puncturing the cult's assumed air of gravitas, these kids are being Groucho Marx to the cult's Margaret Dumont:

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

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[Zertel]

A speedrun vid (unlike a video of a street protest for example) is extrmely uninformative for the viewing public.

A "speedrun" would be looked at by many people as people "running wild" regardless of the motivation. Where do they go next?

 

[Dankmeme]

The only sensible Scientology speedrun would be one where you start on the inside, and head outwards... never to return.

 

[Karakorum]

The only sensible Scientology speedrun would be one where you start on the inside, and head outwards... never to return.

That's a great take on it.

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

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