Poll: Are you Anonymous?

[TheButteryGoodness]

what do you think about Anonymous? Do you think they are rightious in the crusade to stop sciontology? or do you think there internet trolls with a large collection of sick jokes and weird manga porn?
(P.S.sorry if a similar thread already exists, i didn't check).

 

[Jobz]

I have no idea who they are. And for future reference, ALWAYS check if there is a similar thread.

Search button for the win.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Yeah... what the hell is Anonymous?

 

[kbag08]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

Still have no idea...

 

[Amnestic]

Slightly more humourous than other protesters. With all the stories about what scientology does to you if you try to leave/don't join up after they've talked to you, I'm inclined to believe that the protest is justified too.

However, doing it in such a way...well, I'm not really sure that the method is the best ever. Anyone know how that case France has against scientology for fraud is going?

And to people asking: It's basically a group of internet dwellers who got together, run around in V for Vendetta masks and Rickroll or Freshprince roll or any other roll, on scientology for kicks and giggles.

 

[zen5887]

Hate hate hate

That sums my feeling up pretty nice

 

[Tattaglia]

Anonymous is a group protesting the Church of Scientology. Look it up on YouTube, there's heaps of videos. Personally, I think Scientology is a whole lot of bullshit, but I don't mind it because it doesn't hurt anyone.

Anonymous has no business in deciding religion for anyone except themselves.

 

[Aries_Split]

Scientology murders people. Look up Sarah Mcphearson.

Scientology is an enemy of the United States. Look up Operation Snow White.

Then go bomb Scientology.

 

[Amnestic]

but I don't mind it because it doesn't hurt anyone.

unfortunately, that may not be the case. I've heard numerous stories (anecdotal and unconfirmable I admit, but nevertheless...) about how they harass members if they try to leave or if you don't join up after showing initial interest. Shouting outside your home, repeatedly calling both your home and work. One person I talked to said that they were forced to change their phone number no less than three times, which is fairly ridiculous.

They're up for fraud in France as well, Linky [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/09/france.religion]. Fraudsters=Harmless? Perhaps not...

 

[Alex_P]

Personally, I think Scientology is a whole lot of bullshit, but I don't mind it because it doesn't hurt anyone.

Even if you think Scientology is a harmless belief system, the Church of Scientology definitely hurts people.

-- Alex

 

[TheKnifeJuggler]

I think they do it for teh lulz.

Some of their anti Scientology stuff is pretty cool (like one thing actually, see link below), but they can get to be obnoxious.

Case and point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZFow_9vsg

 

[Tattaglia]

Scientology murders people. Look up Sarah Mcphearson.

Scientology is an enemy of the United States. Look up Operation Snow White.

Then go bomb Scientology.

Fundamentalists hurt people, not ordinary followers. That's like saying Islam is evil because some followers are terrorists. The majority of any morally sound religion never kill, hurt, or discriminate against anyone. And I'm sure Scientology helps people, even if its just the Scientology followers themselves.

Anonymous still doesn't have any right to take religion away from anyone.

-EDIT-
I'm discovering more and more bad things about the Church of Scientology. Hmm, my outlook could be changed... damn you Escapist forums!

 

[aswiftlytiltingreality]

They need to learn how to pick and choose their battles.

 

[Aries_Split]

Tatt, you obviously know nothing of Scientology. The whole of the religion is based off the works of a fundamentalist. Look it up. The fundamentalists convert non fundamentalists into the fundamentalists so the non fundamentalists blur the line between fundamentalist and non fundamentalists and before you know it we will live in a world where since everyone is a fundamentalist non fundamentalist and fundamentalists will be one in the same.

This was written before the edit, nevermind.

 

[Tattaglia]

Tatt, you obviously know nothing of Scientology. The whole of the religion is based off the works of a fundamentalist. Look it up. The fundamentalists convert non fundamentalists into the fundamentalists so the non fundamentalists blur the line between fundamentalist and non fundamentalists and before you know it we will live in a world where since everyone is a fundamentalist non fundamentalist and fundamentalists will be one in the same.

This was written before the edit, nevermind.

Heh, that world would suck.

 

[internutt]

The protests against Scientology are a very small part of what anonymous is. Anonymous find just about anything funny. A lot of the internet memes originated on 4chan. Caturday, the rickroll, I'm charging my laser, just to name a few.

They raid anyone they think will produce comedy ranging from Myspace to Habbo Hotel, Second Life and fairly recently the Church of Scientology. 4Chan used to be a place where intelligent people pretended to be stupid. Now the opposite is true.

 

[varulfic]

what do you think about Anonymous? Do you think they are rightious in the crusade to stop sciontology? or do you think there internet trolls with a large collection of sick jokes and weird manga porn?
(P.S.sorry if a similar thread already exists, i didn't check).

I don't know much about them as I only skimmed through the wiki article, but as they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And scientology is definitely an enemy of mine.

 

[PurpleRain]

I hate 4chan and the people on it (generalisation). But they do fight for justice yadda yadda yadda, so I'll just vote 'some of the stuff they do is pretty cool, but alot is just stupid'. But really, little grammer wouldn't hurt, would it?

 

[TheKnifeJuggler]

I hate 4chan and the people on it (generalisation). But they do fight for justice yadda yadda yadda, so I'll just vote 'some of the stuff they do is pretty cool, but alot is just stupid'. But really, little grammer wouldn't hurt, would it?

Not if it's little grammer. I think a little grammar wouldn't hurt anyone either.

 

[Alex_P]

Anonymous still doesn't have any right to take religion away from anyone.

Anti-CoS Scientologists (look up "Free Zone" in the Scientology articles on Wikipedia) would argue that the Church of Scientology itself takes religion away from people by charging followers for access to religious ideas and trying to use copyright law to prevent others from disseminating the information more equitably.

-- Alex