Scientology launches four month TV ad campaign across Melbourne and Sydney
The Church of Scientology is starting a four month TV ad campaign in Sydney and Melbourne this Easter weekend featuring ads created for the Super Bowl and Grammys.
According to the organisation the first ad in the series seeks to make people curious about one of the questions that modern technology has not yet answered, ‘Who am I?’.
It is set to premiere on Easter Sunday in Sydney and Easter Monday in Melbourne on Channel Ten.
The ad features an American voiceover and focuses on technology, and the place of spirituality in helping people define their lives.
“We have increasing inquiries for information about Scientology with growing numbers of people logging on to take our free courses online from all over the world,” said Sei Kato, public affairs director for Scientology in Australia.
“Scientology offers an exact technology with step-by-step procedures a person can use to improve their life right now. It is a scientific approach to spirituality that gets real positive results.”
The second spot, which aired first during the Grammys in the US, gives stats on the amount of volunteers, members and literature the organisation has handed out globally in the past few years.
A third spot on the founder of Scientology, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, will also be aired during the campaign.
As a 4 year Scientologist who’s life has been changed for the better by Scientology, I’m happy to see this!
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You have got to be kidding me? Why is a cult allowed to advertise on TV? Surely these freaks have been proven over and over to be a scam?
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Bill S., nice job pumping us up! Now please see your local registrar, we know you have more unused credit on those cards.
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It’s a cult and destroys lives. That is all.
https://mumbrella.com.au/undercover-adam-focuses-on-the-scientologists-8622
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Join Scientology at your peril. I was a member for 25 years, they don’t stop taking until nothing is left.
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#scientologylyfe #saveme #theyknowmysecrets #resistanceisfutile
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@BillS if your life has been improved by Scientology I shudder to think what it was like before.
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So is channel 10 part if the church of Scientology?
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Are you kidding me? Promoting a bs so called religion for tax purposes? No way. This bs has killed people. Hail xwnu evil overlord. I will be complaining to the media authorities
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How can they have 1.5 million “volunteers” when the latest estimates are there are only about 40 thousand active members of $cientology worldwide? The ASA in Great Britain just shut down a $cientology ad for making similar claims.
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Bill S. Can’t agree more. I’ve been studying Scientology since the early 70’s. If anyone has the opinion that that is rather a long time to be studying one subject, they probably have very little idea just how much data there is.
L.Ron Hubbard was the greatest genius to walk this planet in several millenia.
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It is a complete and utter lie to say this is scientific. There is NOTHING scientific about Scientology. It is also a lie to say that it gets “results” since Scientology salespeople are prohibited from promising “results”.
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It is also a lie that there is no answer to the question “Who am I?” outside of Scientology. Most of the answers you get to that question IN Scientology are not nice either, such as YSCOHB (You suck c–k on Hollywood Blvd) – a charming identity affirming message from the leader of Scientology, David Miscavige to his minions.
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Hubbard lied about everything in his life. He was NEVER a war hero. In fact, he was a war zero as he was demoted while in the Navy. Scientology is a global scam. It wants one thing and one thing only, every single dime you have. Along with your children’s college fund. This cult will bankrupt you then toss you aside.
Scientology is a mind bending, brainwashing, family destroying, financial ruining, public schools infiltrating, criminal enterprise masquerading as a religion.
Hubbard: “Writing for penny a word is alright, but, if a man REALLY wants to make a lot of money, he’d start his own religion.”
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I’ll just leave this here.
http://www.skeptictank.org/gen3/gen01985.htm
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Channel Ten that desperate for cash hey?
When is this tax avoiding scam of an organisation going to be de-registered as a religion?
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“Look. See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see.” L.Ron Hubbard
Scientology gets YOU to look at YOUR LIFE and work things out. That, according to anti-Scientologists is a bad thing.
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Scientology is a scam, a cult, an evil organization. Google scientology to see news reports from all over the world about how evil they are. L Ron Hubbard was a liar and a con man. He lied about his military record, he lied about his academic record. scientology disconnects families and is a cult. Run, don’t just walk away from this evil blood sucking cult!!
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No, John Davis. Just no. Nobody has ANY issue with something that helps you look at your life and works things out to make it better. What people have an issue with is an organisation built on a false foundation and premise claiming ‘religious’ status and all the attendant financial benefits, while actively working to separate people from their cash and their loved ones if they choose not to take the same path.
NO other ‘religion’ charges you to learn about it. No other self help premise demands secrecy and separation from non-believers for fear of contamination.
Scientology is the most self-absorbed group on the planet. People looking for more direction in their lives and understanding of the meaning of their existence (often extremely intelligent individuals) are fodder for their multi-level marketing scam.
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Another so called ‘religion’ destroying lives. Mind you, the ad industry is only second to the investment banking sector so the most negative impact on society. Pots calling kettle black?
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“No other religion charges you…” Where do you think Hillsong and other large Pentecostal churches get the dosh from? And the Catholic church is not especially poor, nor the C of E. It’s charging by stealth.
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This is how L.Ron Hubbard describes the subject:
Scientology: “an applied religious philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge, which through the application of its technology, can bring about desirable changes in the condition of life.”
Scientology is a PHILOSOPHY. It deals with spiritual matters and so, in that sense is RELIGIOUS. It is APPLIED, which is to say that it’s something you actually USE, like a car or a computer, not something you have endless and pointless discussions about.
I repeat, Scientology gets YOU to look at YOUR LIFE and work things out.
“What you observe is what you observe. Look at things and life and others directly, not through any cloud of prejudice, curtain of fear or the interpretation of another.” L.Ron Hubbard
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Can we eliminate Landmark while we are at it?
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@John Davis – $cientology is a scam and a cult. Its a classic bait & switch group. L Ron Hubbard was a con man. You and your fellow slaves in that cult refuse to acknowledge the truth, that you’ve all been taken for a huge ride!!
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Scientology is wonderful. and so is my husband… Can I come out now?
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How easy it is for us to point at each other and criticize one another’s shortcomings, flaws, and wrong doings. How easy it is for us to point at each other and blame one another for our hurts and disappointments.
While we are blaming and criticizing others, we are forgetting one important fact: when we point the finger at someone, three of them are pointed right back at us. They point back at us to remind us that regardless of who or what we may feel is responsible for our current state and situation, ultimately, the responsibility is ours. We have three times more control than the one we point our finger to. We also have three times more responsibility than the one we point our finger at.
They also point back at us to remind us, the imperfections we point out in others are also in us. When we are pointing at another’s shortcoming’s and flaws, we are only defining ourselves as intolerant and judgmental. Those three fingers pointed back at us reminds us to self-reflect and recognize, and accept our imperfections and shortcomings instead of pointing them out in another.
When we point our finger at the world, we give up control of where and what we are. This shifts responsibilities for our actions and reactions to others, when in fact, it is ours. We are responsible for our actions, as well as our consequences. We can either be slaves to the belief the world is to blame or we can recognize we are powerful beings in this world, capable of creating love and positive change.
As Mahatma Gandhi once encouraged, “BE THE CHANGE.” This does not begin by pointing the finger, it begins by paying attention to the three pointed back at ourselves.
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I had to pretend I was dead before they would leave me alone. Not impressed with Scient@#$$%^. Ended up finding my own way and helping the planet along the way.
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John Davis, you appear to be pointing a finger at other commenters… Quick, get out the soup cans!
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Easy to spot the shills in here. Check out this Reddit thread from just this week to see how Scientology reacts when people disagree wth its wacky ideas:
https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4cgjl8/til_that_in_1995_the_church_of_scientology/d1i9fnh?context=3
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There is a lot of racism directed towards Scientology here in the comments section. Scientology-phobia should not be tolerated!!
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Chris,
Totally agree.
If the site were properly monitored, most of the comments would be deleted. Apart from being completely off topic – the subject is a TV ad – there’s just too much venom and hate. Many of the comments are ludicrous. If Scientology really were anything like that, it simply wouldn’t exist.
It would be great to have a discussion, but discussion is impossible with all this noise!
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I’m not coming out of the closet.
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Bravo John Davis.
I too have been studying Scientology for several years now and am enjoying the best years of my life.
Who are the rest of you to be pointing fingers at people that are making a positive change in the world? I suggest you all have a good hard look at yourselves and question what are you doing with your lives.
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Hi William,
Thanks. Hubbard’s really is ground breaking and extremely useful.
It’s sad that whenever the word Scientology gets mentioned, there is this barrage of hate and venom from people who obviously have never studied the subject. I suspect that it’s a small group of haters who use different monikers to make it look like they are many.
Ignore them. They’ll go away. Scientology won’t.
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“I suspect that it’s a small group of haters who use different monikers to make it look like they are many.”
THE IRONY!
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