Personal Efficiency, only €45!

Galvasean

I've noticed Scientology posters popping up on DART trains in Dublin. Apparently they are floating around Stephen's Green too.
The posters are basically this:


Sorry for the small image as I cannot find a larger one. Basically it says if you attend their course for €45 they'll help you keep your job.. somehow.
Is Scientology on the rise in Dublin (or Ireland in general)? I know they've a HQ on middle Abbey St. (located near the methadone clinic interestingly enough). I haven't seen them make a big push here since they had that big yellow lorry parked outside Stephen's Green shopping center years ago offering free stress tests (the flier by contrast cost €10 to buy).

An undercover agent spotted big posters at train stations too:

Oh well, one good thing to come from it is that the poster contains a link to send spam to:
dublin@scientology.net

Dades

"Religion Taking Advantage of People in Hard Times Shocker"

AhSureTisGrand

Another shocking revelation: it's faster if you walk up the escalators

strobe

Galvasean wrote: »

Oh well, one good thing to come from it is that the poster contains a link to send spam to:
dublin@scientology.net

Goatse'd, amongst other things.

Galvasean

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

Another shocking revelation: it's faster if you walk up the escalators

An escalator can never truly break, only become a stairs.

Penn

Galvasean wrote: »

An escalator can never truly break, only become a stairs.

Sorry for the convenience.

Dave!

LongCatSilver

There's a thread about this on the Irish Anonymous boards: http://anonireland.phpbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=505

PeterIanStaker

strobe wrote: »

Goatse'd, amongst other things.

haha good one!

panda100

That has to be the worlds worst 'undercover' agent ever. Two minutes of him wandering around a dart station saying he will find a poster and then finding nothing!

Though theres a massive Scientology poster in a prime position in Heuston station.

Coriolanus

Yer wan looks a little off. Wierd hair colour for her skin tone or something.
If it wasn't for that, I'd be all over it.

seamus

Nevore wrote: »

Yer wan looks a little off. Wierd hair colour for her skin tone or something.
If it wasn't for that, I'd be all over it.

That's her natural hair colour. Everyone knows that the "traditional" hair colours are unnatural - a result of very low operating thetan levels distorting one's outward appearance.
This is why people dye their hair - it's the tortured inner soul subconsciously trying to return to its natural state of projecting inner peace and calm.
Your hair turns grey as you get older to signify the dying life of your soul and it's loss of virbrancy and energy.

Only through personality testing, sorry I mean personal efficiency courses, can you hope to restore your hair colour to it's natural colour, lost a long, long time ago by your ancestors.

She's cute, but I wouldn't touch her because she's a scientologist.

Beruthiel

seamus wrote: »

Only through personality testing, sorry I mean personal efficiency courses, can you hope to restore your hair colour to it's natural colour, lost a long, long time ago by your ancestors.

Jeez, if I'd known they could magically restore my natural hair colour, I'd have joined aaaages ago!

CerebralCortex

Beruthiel wrote: »

Jeez, if I'd known they could magically restore my natural hair colour, I'd have joined aaaages ago!

Oh you're looking for science not scientology, easily confused.

Galvasean

seamus wrote: »

She's cute, but I wouldn't touch her because she's a scientologist.

Are you saying you don't like my prom date?

Dades

Galvasean wrote: »

Are you saying you don't like my prom date?

You look purty in your black dress. :pac:

sensibleken

seamus wrote: »

She's cute, but I wouldn't touch her because she's a scientologist.

The amount of cute girls who have sacrificed their cuteness for scientology needs to be stopped. We have already lost juliette lewis and your one from that '70s show

Dades

sensibleken wrote: »

We have already lost juliette lewis and your one from that '70s show

Oh no, which one? :pac:

sensibleken

Dades wrote: »

Oh no, which one? :pac:

the red head one

Dades

sensibleken wrote: »

the red head one

Suspected as much.

Could have been worse, though. Could have been Meg Griffin!

Galvasean

We also lost yer wan from King of Queens.

Bloody Scientologists, coming over here taking our film stars and our women!

Galvasean

Dades wrote: »

Could have been worse, though. Could have been Meg Griffin!

You wouldn't let that happen would you? i mean, you practically own her and all her subsidiary rights!

Byron85

Somewhat related, but the following is on tomorrow:

http://www.mindbodyspirit.ie/pages/cork.htm

I'll be heading along to do some trolling for educational purposes. Will also be tweeting for the fun of it. If anyone wants my twitter let me know here.

Well according to that site they are going under their front group "Citizen's Commission of Human rights."

Try to see if they've any of the leaflets were they accuse psychiatry of causing the holocaust.

Dave!

Byron85 wrote: »

Somewhat related, but the following is on tomorrow:

http://www.mindbodyspirit.ie/pages/cork.htm

I'll be heading along to do some trolling for educational purposes. Will also be tweeting for the fun of it. If anyone wants my twitter let me know here.

Go on then

Only registered on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, always looking for people to follow

Byron85

Dave! wrote: »

Go on then

Only registered on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, always looking for people to follow

http://twitter.com/#!/Bryan_Wall

I've learned to confine my ranting to Twitter. It's great!

Byron85

For anyone interested, I uploaded some pictures of the various pieces of literature I picked up at the festival on Saturday. You can view the links on my twitter page.

http://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/scientology-adverts-under-investigation-writes-gabrielle-monaghan/

LongCatSilver

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0319/1224292581794.html

‘WHEN JOB SECURITY turns into insecurity,” ran a recent ad on the Dart, in Dublin, “attend a course in Scientology.” The accompanying photographs feature men and women looking stressed or dejected. The course advertised was in “personal efficiency”, cost €45 and promised to “increase ability, competence and lasting security at work”.

When the posters appeared, complaints and defamatory graffiti materialised swiftly. The back-and-forth arguments about Scientology are constant: one side claims they are exposing the truth; the other dismisses the detractors as liars engaging in discriminatory behaviour.

Since forming, in 1953, Scientology has presented itself as an applied religious philosophy that can bring prosperity, enhanced intelligence and spiritual freedom. The church’s founder, the late science-fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, taught that people are immortal beings who have forgotten their true nature.

Through a method of regressive therapy known as auditing, practitioners aim to “clear” themselves of traumatic memories known as “engrams”, which are carried over from past lives and cause insecurities, irrational fears and psychosomatic illnesses.

Scientology’s critics, however, see it as a money-making enterprise that exploits the vulnerable with cult-like practices.

Coriolanus

Yeah, there was a pretty big article in the Weekend Review. Front page of the supplement and good two thirdss of the second page.