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"After Earth" is M. Night Shyamalan's first movie since "The 6th Sense" to not use his own name as part of the advertising campaign.

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:22 AM PDT

Just watched After Earth. It is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, about Scientology.

Posted: 31 May 2013 08:42 AM PDT

And not "well, it could be interpreted as about Scientology" or "well, its themes are common to all religions, not just Scientology".

This was the Smith family's personal effort to spread the teachings of the Church of Scientology to a mass audience.

This topic will contain spoilers, but I promise you're not missing anything because the actual movie is telegraphed in the trailer and has absolutely no surprises or plot twists.

And I am retreading some previous ground from my last topic in case you didn't read it. I would have added to it, but honestly, there is so much new content that it needs to be completely rewritten.

  • A Crash Course in Dianetics and Scientology -

The Church of Scientology's teachings can be divided into two "levels": Dianetics and Scientology.

The entirety of Dianetics can largely be summed up in its namesake book, which you can usually find a copy of at a used bookstore for about $2. Dianetics teaches that human suffering and negative emotions are caused by engrams, which are mental images recorded on a person's actual cells during a period of physical or emotional pain that they experienced in the past. These engrams are reactivated when you experience something similar to the original traumatic event, and the whole thing is always reactivated all at once. Engrams are also "dumb" and will essentially play back the entire event. So, for example, let's say that once when you were just a little kid, you were in the kitchen holding a glass, you slipped and fell, broke a glass, cut your hand, and your mother came in the kitchen and yelled "you're so thoughtless, you can't do anything right" at you. This becomes an engram because you are experiencing physical and/or emotional pain and it becomes inscribed on your cellular memory. So, as an adult, whenever you enter a kitchen, your hand might start to hurt and/or you might feel like you're thoughtless and unable to do anything right. (Look, I didn't make this up, I don't know.) The buildup of these engrams causes all of our suffering.

But engrams can be removed through a process called auditing, which is basically one person, the auditor, guiding the other person, the aberree, to the memory of the incident that first inscribed the engram and reliving the memory over and over and over again in all different kinds of ways until they no longer associate any bad emotions with the memory. (If you've seen the movie The Master, there are two very important and really excellent scenes where this process occurs, one with just Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix, and another with a large group of people in a classroom-like setting on a cruise ship.) This process is actually considered to be a form of mental time travel, where a person navigates back along their personal timeline to the event. When one has eliminated all engrams, they are said to have reached a state of clear and they supposedly gain increased health, vitality, intelligence, agility, and so forth.

Scientology is not nearly as easily summed up, so I am greatly paraphrasing here. It turns out that beyond engrams are thetans, which is the Scientology term for the soul. You are a thetan, but you are also plagued by body thetans, which are the souls of other people that have been dead for untold millions of years and have attached themselves to living humans in staggering numbers. In a similar process to Dianetics and engrams, Scientology has auditing to remove these body thetans, but they also make use of an E-meter, which is a device that measures galvanic skin current and is used to determine if a person is lying or telling the truth. When you have cleared more and more of these body thetans, you become first a level 1, then a level 2, then a level 3 ofwhat is called an operating thetan, and you supposedly gain superhuman abilities. (The levels go to 8, but Church lore states that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, completed up to 15.)

How did all those body thetans get attached to humans, though? Well, if you've seen South Park, you know how it goes. This is actual Scientology doctrine. I swear I did not make this up. When you reach operating thetan level 3, or OTIII, that is when they tell you this story, which they refer to as the R6 Implant, the Wall of Fire, or Incident II.

75 million years ago, the Galactic Confederacy was ruled by the tyrant Xenu, who was experiencing overpopulation on his seventy-six planets as well as the threat of a coup d'etat. He ordered billions of galactic citizens to be rounded up, with the help of psychologists and psychiatrists, under the pretense that the citizens were being audited for their taxes. When they were rounded up, they were forcibly paralyzed, suspended in a slushy mixture of frozen alcohol and glycol, flown on DC-8 planes with rocket engines on them to Earth (which was then called Teegeeack), where the billions of people were placed around active volcanoes all around the world. Xenu then detonated nuclear bombs in the active volcanoes, killing everyone on the planet. After collecting their souls in giant vacuum zones all around the world, he brainwashed them by making them watch a thirty-six-day-long 3D movie that implanted in them the idea for all of the world's religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. After releasing the billions of souls, they clustered together and eventually found themselves drawn to new host bodies (presumably Teegeeack was repopulated at some point, I'm not entirely sure how that went). After the completion of his holocaust, however, Xenu was overthrown by a group called the Loyal Officers and imprisoned somewhere either in the Pyrenees Mountains or on Mars as punishment for his crimes.

This story is so central to Scientology that every copy of Dianetics has an exploding volcano on the cover.

The line between Dianetics and Scientology, by the way, is very blurry. They're both part of the teachings of the Church of Scientology, however, and they fit into a very clear progression called the Bridge to Total Freedom.

  • The Smith Family and the New Village Leadership Academy -

Will Smith, his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, and their children Willow and Jaden are Scientologists. They have never publicly admitted to it, but Will Smith has said:

I just think a lot of the ideas in Scientology are brilliant and revolutionary and non-religious [... ] ninety-eight percent of the principles in Scientology are identical to the principles of the Bible [...] I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is 'thetan' that the definition becomes any different.

This is a dead giveaway because a common tactic by the Church of Scientology and its members is to claim that the church body is religiously diverse. (You will remember the infamous training video where the "Scientology minister" tells the narrator that people of all faiths are welcome in Scientology.) They do this to seem more reasonable and accepting, and to make it feel like Scientology is more of a life philosophy to win more converts (even though they use their claimed status as a religion for tax-exemption).

But that's not the strongest evidence, which is Will and Jada's ownership and support of the New Village Leadership Academy, a private elementary school in Calabasas, California.

Will and Jada opened the school in 2008 and it is funded almost entirely by private donations by the Smith family ($1.2 million in 2010 alone). Before they enrolled their own children in the school, they were homeschooled, and in 2004, the Smith family made a $20,000 donation to an organization called the Hollywood Education and Literacy Program, licensed by a nonprofit called Applied Scholastics, which is, in turn, a Scientology front organization focused on educational outreach.

Moreover, the school's leadership consists almost entirely of active Scientologists. In addition, a former school administrator was pressured to leave because she did not agree with the school's extensive use of Study Technology, which is an education method created by LRH. The NVLA's use of Study Tech is basically the nail in the coffin as far as the Smith family's association with Scientology.

Why? Because only Scientologists use Study Tech.

It is similar to other methods like the Montessori method because anyone can purchase and use Study Tech, but the only people that bother to use it are Scientologists because it doesn't actually work. Study Tech focuses on LRH as the ultimate authority on learning and, in turn, students slowly get indoctrinated to Dianetics/Scientology.

I cannot stress this enough. LRH himself said:

Study Tech is our primary bridge to Society.

It is essentially "auditing for kids" (and we'll get to auditing a little later) in its three principles: the use of physical objects or models sculpted out of clay, the endless repetition of lessons and recitations, and a focus on defining unfamiliar words. Each of these processes is literally repeated over and over again with a particular lesson, without alteration, until the student "learns" it. I've heard it's absolutely excruciating to actually go through, and a lot of professional educators say it has little to no value in the classroom.

But to Scientologists, it's the only way to learn, because LRH invented it, and LRH is always right.

  • After Earth: Act One -

The movie opens with the explosion scene from the trailer. It then flashes back to a very brief summary of Earth's history to the movie's timeframe: for unspecified and vague reasons addressed only in a montage of billowing smokestacks and burning cities, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by humans. Giant ships that hold hundreds of thousands of people are launched to take humanity to its new home, and the planet Nova Prime is chosen as their destination. An elite military unit called the Ranger Corps is tasked with organizing and overseeing the exodus and settlement of a planet called Nova Prime.

Now, let's stop right there.

One of the most common themes in Dianetics/Scientology is that there is an imminent and impending global catastrophe. LRH said:

The use or neglect of this material (Scientology) may well determine the use or neglect of the atomic bomb by Man.... In the same period in history, two of the most sweeping forces Man has known have come to fruition: a knowledge of himself and others with Scientology, and a means of destroying himself and all others by atomic fission. Which force wins depends in a large measure on your use of Scientology.

The mission of Scientology is not conquest -- it is civilization. It is a war upon stupidity, the stupidity which leads us to the Last War of All.

(Continued.)

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Watching Bad Boys 2 and recognized Michael Shannon... He's come a long way.

Posted: 31 May 2013 06:27 AM PDT

Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage, and Milla Jovovich in talks for The Expendables 3!

Posted: 31 May 2013 08:02 AM PDT

Mandarin sign in the first Iron Man(2008) movie. I wonder what would have Jon Favreu done with Iron Man 3.

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:47 AM PDT

50 movie endings you never got to see

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:10 AM PDT

Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars. How the iconic logo behind the Star Wars series came to be.

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:34 AM PDT

If you could be any character in any movie, who would you be? Why?

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:38 AM PDT

Picture it. You wake up in the morning, just like every morning and head to the bathroom. When you look in the mirror, surprise surprise, your no longer you! You are now living in a movie as a movie character! Who would you be and why? Would you change that movie's outcome?

  • I'm normally a lurker, this is my first thread. If it's misplaced, I apologize in advance :3
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Machete Kills Lady Gaga Character Poster

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:59 AM PDT

Lady Gaga is La Chameleon in the latest character poster for Machete Kills. The pop singer-turned-actress keeps her unique style intact as this femme fatale wraps her body in a dead winter wolf, with Robert Rodriguez courting controversy at every turn. Though, nothing will prove to be as shocking as the casting of direct-to-video mainstay Cuba Gooding Jr. on the big screen for the first time since the early 2000s. They said it would never happen, but we hear his character poster might be next!

Machete Kills Lady Gaga Character Poster

Machete Kills comes to theaters September 13th, 2013 and stars Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Amber Heard, Demián Bichir, Sofía Vergara, Charlie Sheen. The film is directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey finally agree on something: Leaving 'American Idol'

Posted: 31 May 2013 11:02 AM PDT

Minaj posted Thursday on Twitter that it was "time to focus on the music," just a few hours after Carey announced she wasn't coming back to the Fox talent competition so that she could focus on her upcoming tour.

Katie Couric Shares Details Of A Past Date With Jeff Probst, Getting Asked Out By Michael Jackson

Posted: 31 May 2013 11:01 AM PDT

Katie Couric
Newswoman Katie Couric has opened up her little black book, revealing an unlikely bunch of stars she's gone on dates with or been asked out by in a recent interview with radio shock jock Howard Ste...

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Topless Protestors Ambush Heidi Klum On 'Germany's Next Top Model'

Posted: 31 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Heidi Klum
Two topless women stormed the stage during the Thursday finale of Heidi Klum's reality TV show "Germany's Next Top Model." Two females with scrawled messages across their chests confronted the sup...

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Bike sharing comes to Aspen

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:56 AM PDT

Next week, Aspen becomes the first mountain town on the continent to launch a self-service bike-sharing program, the 27th such program in the United States.

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Pacific Rim Banner

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:46 AM PDT

Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and Idris Elba have assembled in front of their Jaeger army for the latest banner from director Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim. Check it out as the man behind Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth sets out to paint his latest masterpiece using robots and monsters as his medium of choice.

Pacific Rim Banner

Pacific Rim comes to theaters July 12th, 2013 and stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Diego Klattenhoff, Burn Gorman, Robert Kazinsky. The film is directed by Guillermo del Toro.

COSPLAY Hotties: Featuring Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Red Hood &Supergirl

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:44 AM PDT

Harley Quinn Cosplayer: Lyndsey E'laine Photographers: Isidro Urena Photography, Michael Shum & Samkyo ........................................................................ Final Fantasy - Tifa Lockhart Cosplayer: Tracy Collins * Photographer: Isidro Urena Photography ........................................................................ Mortal Kombat - Dark Katana Cosplayer: Alicia Ahyon Kim * Photographer: Michael Shum ........................................................................ Black Widow & Harley Quinn Cosplayer: * Photographers: Isidro Urena Photography & Michael Shum ........................................................................ Bane, Red Hood & Poison Ivy Cosplayer: Photographers: Isidro Urena Photography & Michael Shum ........................................................................ Red Hood Cosplayer: Jeanne Killjoy * Photographer: M9 ........................................................................ Supergirl Cosplayer: Liz Katz * Photographer: Sam Macaroni via www.scgofficial.com / www.facebook.com/SCGUK ........................................................................

The original fusion food: Sicilian

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:43 AM PDT

Don't confuse the culinary traditions of Sicily with those associated with the rich red sauces of 'Italian food.' A new cookbook from the editors of Phaidon Press reveals Arab and Greek influences found on the sun-soaked Mediterranean island at the tip of Italy's boot.

Man of Steel 'Twice the Man' TV Spot

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Kal-El proves to be twice the man that General Zod is in the latest action-filled look at Man of Steel. Watch the tenth TV spot for director Zack Snyder's DC Comics adventure, which finds an alien orphan proving himself to the human race as earth faces off against its greatest foe. Experience all the excitement in IMAX 3D June 14.

Man Of Steel - TV Spot 10

Man of Steel comes to theaters June 14th, 2013 and stars Russell Crowe, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Meloni. The film is directed by Zack Snyder.

Beyonce Wins Booty Battle With Fashion Giant

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Beyonce Wins Booty Battle With Fashion Giant
The #1 rule with Beyonce is don't mess with her booty!

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'Prisoners' trailer: Hugh Jackman seeks revenge in tense kidnapping drama (video)

Posted: 31 May 2013 11:11 AM PDT

When the police fail to find a Boston man's kidnapped daughter, he takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping the prime suspect. The upcoming crime thriller features an all-star cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo.

CAPTAIN AMERICA 2: New Winter Soldier Set Photos From Cleveland

Posted: 31 May 2013 10:24 AM PDT

The Winter Soldier is back on the streets of Cleveland for the filming of Captain America 2. He is causing a mess on Superior Ave. in a scene with a flipped vehicle. Check out the set photos below and stay tuned as The Daily SuperHero is your on location source for Captain America: The Winter Soldier in Cleveland. Follow @Daily_SuperHero !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');
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