#Cult of Scientology

[msclaritea]

John McGuinness (politician) - Wikiwand

John James McGuinness (born 15 March 1955) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since the 1997 general election. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach in April 2016. He served as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2011 to 2016 and as a Minister of State from 2007 to 2009.

Personal life

McGuinness was born in Kilkenny and educated in Kilkenny Christian Brothers Secondary School. He holds a Diploma in Business Management. He is married to Margaret Redmond and they have three sons and one daughter. His eldest son Andrew is a Fianna Fáil County Councillor on Kilkenny County Council and served as Mayor from 2014 to 2015.

Political career

He first entered local politics in 1979 when he won a seat on Kilkenny Borough Council and was a subsequent mayor of the city from 1996 to 1997. He was the third generation of his family to serve on this council. From 1991 until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2003, he was also member of Kilkenny County Council, where his father, Michael McGuinness, was the longest-serving councillor (1959–99).

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency at the 1997 general election. He was vice-chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee in the 29th Dáil and a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committees for European Affairs, Enterprise and Small Business, Justice, and Women's Rights in the 28th Dáil.

In July 2007, he was appointed by the government on the nomination of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for Trade and Commerce. He was re-appointed by the government on the nomination of Taoiseach Brian Cowen to the same position on 13 May 2008. On 22 April 2009, as part of cost-cutting measures due to the Irish financial crisis, the Cowen reduced the number of Ministers of State from 20 to 15. McGuinness was among the seven junior ministers who were not reappointed.

McGuinness then revealed a testy relationship with his senior minister Mary Coughlan, and considerable disagreement with policy in the department. On 24 April 2009, he criticised Coughlan and Cowen for their lack of leadership being given to the country. He said: "She's not equipped to deal with the complex issues of dealing with enterprise and business within the department. And neither is the department". McGuinness later rejected suggestions he campaigned to undermine Coughlan, when it was revealed that he had hired external PR advice in an effort to enhance his own profile as a Minister of State within the department.

In 2010, a political memoir that he co-wrote with Naoise Nunn, called The House Always Wins, was published by Gill & Macmillan.

In the 31st Dáil, McGuinness served as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. He was the Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Small Business and Regulatory Framework from April 2011 to March 2016.

He declared that he would vote No in the 2015 referendum to allow same-sex marriage.

In the 32nd Dáil, McGuinness served as Chair of the Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach Committee.

He chairs the Ireland-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Association.

NO, THE FUCK HE ISN'T. Cillian Murphy, Public School boy, married into one of THE most powerful families in Ireland. Given all of the news coming from that country, plus all of the Irish projects being pushed, here in the U.S., it's not a coincidence Murphy is in the running for an Oscar. See, it's not FOR him. It's for the family legacy.

#John James McGuinness #One of the most powerful politicians in Ireland #Cillian Murphy #New York Times #Oscars 2024 #Academy of Motion Pictures #Cult of Scientology #Taiwan and Ireland #Oppenheimer #Fianna Fáil #President Joe Biden

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Cyril Vosper - The Mind Benders - Neville Spearman - 1971

#witches #mind benders #occult #vintage #the mind benders #neville spearman #cyril vosper #1971 #cult of scientology #first ever investigated #ex-scientologist

[shitistolefromyoutube]

#l ron hubbard #l. ron hubbard #jazz #scifi #tom cruise #cult of scientology

[shiftythrifting]

The business card was being used as a book mark. Found in Washington

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #books #thrift surprise #lmao #american association for nude recreation #in the scientologies no less #cult shit

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #best friends animal society #youthpastorryan #cults #charles mason #scientology

[kthulhu42]

It's not who I attributed it to. It's who she attributed it to before her death.

And I'm really not so poor at reading that I miss the derision in your comment. She was severely traumatised and depressed, and found several online spaces that told her she was a unique and special boy and everything would be better if she acknowledged and accepted that fact. You think an online community can't have that affect? You think online communities are incapable of influencing a distressed teen into making choices that are not appropriate for her?

Will these people listen to themselves? If she had been groomed and indoctrinated by anyone else, Christians, Scientologists, the fucking Illuminati, people would go "they used their influence to sway a young woman into making horrible decisions, that's abhorrent behaviour" but because it's Trans communities the idea of them influencing anyone is laughable?

#terfblr #radical feminism #radblr #Cult #scientology #religion #feminism #They love bombed her and then made her an outcast #How can nobody see how culty this is?

[freaven]

Glad someone said it, that's why I simply can't ship it.

#yellowjackets #lottie matthews #lottienat #natalie scatorccio #juliette lewis supported Depp #she's an antivaxxer #she's part of the scientology cult

[antiradqueerguy]

Okay not as radqueer, but can you stop with fults (fake cults)

Like you are romanticizing a traumatic experience of being in a cult,

Just because you put fake in the name does not stop it from possibly becoming harmful and dangerous, cults are not something silly,

if you want to have a group chat go have a fucking group chat, But do not call it a cult. Someone is going to get hurt in these fake cults i can almost guarantee it .

#anti #anti radqueer #anti fult #stop it with fucking fults #if you wanna go get trapped in a cult go fucking join scientology fucking asshole #its free on the website #you even get a free dvd

[spurgie-cousin]

scientology is such a good example of how being rich doesn't mean you're smart, like i think it's so important to remember how many wildly rich idiots there are out there.

someone really looked these people in the eyes, told them an elementary school level sci fi story, and they were like sounds good, here is my entire life and millions of dollars forever!!!

it's one thing if they were born into it but John Travolta? Idiot. Tom Cruise?? Such a moron that he found a way to weaponize that stupidity

#and no I'm not saying all people who join a cult are idiots bc it could truly happen to any of us #but these people have all the money and resources in the world and it just can be very hard to sympathize sometimes ya know #also my aunts cult which is arguably stupider yet attracting more and more celebs lately it's just like........are you serious #which if you're new here and wondering what I'm talking about look up Ramtha School of Enlightenment #and tell me that's not objectively the stupidest thing you have maybe ever heard #cults #scientology

[msclaritea]

When the New York Post declared this year's Best Actor race 'Lackluster' they weren't kidding. We basically have the Gay Mafia, competing against itself, and while they practically run both actors, it's obvious the Satanic cult of Scientology and its many, many Israeli members want to honor a monster, Oppenheimer, because of his Solar Cult stance about a one world government. That is what people don't get.

As usual, they can't help but casually promote their other members by use of snarky memes. Oh, come on. Don't tell me no one guessed about Cate Blanchett. Don't forget the rule in Hollywood. They don't like straight actors to play gay roles. But the reverse is just fine.

I'd rather see Paul Giamatti or Zac Efron get the award. I KNOW Giamatti is a strong actor, often overlooked and unproblematic as hell. I like him even more, now, since finding out, today that Sideways remains one of his favorite projects, as is mine. I still watch that movie, every two years, just so I can lmao, again.

Zac Efron has actually endured and survived physical abuse in the film industry. The fact that he is still going is truly more courageous than either of the top queens, currently scratching each other's eyes out over Oscar gold.

#Bradley Cooper #Cillian Murphy #Rami Malek #Cate Blanchett #Tom Cruise #Cult of Scientology #Oppenheimer was a Satanist #Bernstein #Paul Giamatti #Holdovers #Zac Efron #Iron Claw #The Hollywood Gay is turns my fucking stomach #Shades of Johann Von Winkelman from mid 1700s #“I'm pretty. why won't the world worship the beauty of men the way they do women?” #FUCKING NARCISSISM

[0urbladesaresharp]

I feel like we don't talk enough about the fact that the creators of The Handmaid's Tale chose Elizabeth Moss as the main character. A woman who is a part of a cult with a DOCUMENTED AND PROVEN HISTORY of child abuse, sexual assault and rape, assault and battery, negligence, manslaughter, elder abuse, physical and mental torture, INFILTRATING THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, money laundering, tax evasion, tampering with evidence, stalking and harassment, and so much fucking more.

Like, they did that. They cast a woman who is already in a brainwashing cult to star as a woman held captive in a cult of personality and dictatorship.

I know people talk about it and did while the show was actively running, but I feel like Elizabeth Moss really got away with making money off of a television show depicting the same type of abuses as the "religion" she is willingly a part of.

#and i dont want to hear a goddamn word about 'oh but it was her parents who got her into it' #she isnt a child and she has access to all the evidence she needs #she is more free than like 99% of all other scientologists and her silence is a defense of the cult #scientology #the handmaid's tale #tht #thmt #elizabeth moss

[moghedien]

I'm actually very curious about this now.

probably not a lot of people on here know this but I'm like low key a scientology watcher. generally i'm very on and off with how closely I keep up with them, but I'm for sure the most knowledgable person about scientology that I know personally. which I say to illustrate that I know how badly scientology is doing currently from like a retention and recruiting standpoint

and I also know that the only somewhat notable scientology org in my area is in Baton Rouge, but even that I sort of assumed wasn't really doing great since I've caught them having to obscure the fact that they're scientology in some of their more recent ads. and in general scientology outside of Clearwater or LA is crumbling

but I was in a Barnes and Noble in Baton Rouge yesterday (the one in Citiplace if anyone is curious) and there were at least six scientologists there with Dianetics tables and e meters and everything offering "free stress tests."

the main things I'm surprised about is 1) that Barnes and Noble let them do that and 2) that they could wrangle enough local scientologists to do that in the first place. I'm suddenly very curious about the exact number of scientologists in the BR area

#I have no idea if they were sea org or not #I'd kinda assume not but I suppose its possible since I'm surprised they were there at all #they did offer me a free stress test #because I was probably the only person in that place unconcerned with walking past them when they were very obviously blocking the walkway #and like I really wanted to do it #but like at the end of the day I don't want to contribute their numbers in any way #and I don't want to talk advantage of cultists for my own amusement knowing that I know more about their cult then they do #because like they're the actual vicitms of scientology at the end of the day #so I just politely told them no thank you

[netscapenavigator-official]

Since Scientology is apparently anti-right to repair, do you think we could finally get the radical, evangelic right on our side if we phrased it like, “Standing up for right to repair is standing up against devil worshiping cults!”

#rambles #cults #devil worship #scientology #right to repair

[iamstuckinthevoid]

Just got stopped by scientology lol

Me and my dad were out to go to the art shop in town because we needed stuff, and we walked past scientology. It was super busy and they looked like they were handing out stuff, so we walked past. After we'd been to the art shop and gotten the stuff we needed, we walked past again go home, and they stopped us to ask an extremely important question.

"Who would with out of Godzilla or KingKong?"

We obviously answered Godzilla because he's got something to be fighting for (a son) and is generally stronger.

And while this was a slightly interesting conversation, don't fucking go there seeking out conversations like this, it's a fucking cult. Don't go in for the free personality test.

#keys speaks #keys speaks of irl #cult tw #tw cult #tw cult mention #cw cult mention #cw cult #godzilla vs kong #cult #fuck scientology

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"It’s insane, it’s just insane,” Valerie Haney kept saying as she emerged from her first day undergoing the Church of Scientology’s top-secret “religious arbitration” process. Haney’s outfit that day—a tight black minidress and thigh-high leather boots complementing her long, curly hair and spiky sharp fingernails—was as different as possible from the drab Sea Org uniforms she had been forced to wear for decades.

Her two attorneys, Guy D’Andrea and Graham Berry, were ready with their notepads, and all eyes were on Haney, who was set up in front of a portable backdrop in a hotel room at the Commerce Casino, just a mile away from Scientology’s massive printing plant warehouse southeast of Los Angeles—where she had just spent the past several hours reliving the most traumatic events of her life. “How did you feel going in there?” D’Andrea asked after a privately hired court stenographer had put Haney under oath.

“Scared,” she replied. “I was shaking.” Seven years after escaping from Scientology in the trunk of a car and taking her fight against the church all the way to the Supreme Court, Haney had been forced to go crawling back to the place she had never wanted to set foot in again. Valerie Haney was born to parents who had already signed Scientology’s billion-year “Sea Org” contracts by the time she arrived in 1979.

In a new 54-page sworn declaration, Haney explains why spending the first 33 years of her life in Scientology—raised by the church rather than by her parents—helps to explain how she got where she is today.

#Secret Adventure Club #Church of Scientology #brain washing #deprogramming #Scientology #grifters #religious cults #cults

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'll make you go to a scientologist conference

#do they have conferences? #i don't know i just know theyre a cult #tw scientology #tw cult mention