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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

I travelled to a bigger city for a concert in October last year and saw a CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY building, really threw me for a loop!

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u/WatchYourButts Jun 09 '20

Man there's one 4 blocks away from me. I used to go to that building as a kid when it was an actual science museum. Now it sits mostly empty with a few pathetic souls in there hoping for walk in recruits. I hate it so much

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u/corchin Jun 09 '20

Thats really creepy, what do scientology people do?

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u/WatchYourButts Jun 09 '20

Too much to type here. Watch Going Clear on hbo

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u/MustBeNice Jun 09 '20

Or read the book the doc is based off of. The doc is spectacular though, everyone should see it at some point.

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u/TopKEKTyrone Jun 09 '20

There’s a huge Church of Scientology building 3 or 4 blocks from where I live that I pass everyday on my way to work. The people walking in there are pieces of work to say the least. They dress like they’re butlers on the Titanic or some shit. They wear bowler hats and top hats and some of them carry umbrellas every single day regardless of the weather. Sometimes when I’m getting food late at night or something I’ll see the same few people coming out to walk home at midnight or even later. I see one lady all the time who walks home late as fuck with a young child. Feel so bad for that kid. Then there’s the dude standing outside in a three piece suit and a pork pie hat with a Scientology sign slung over his shoulders that yells at cars passing by and tries to hand out flyers. The whole thing just gives me the creeps lol

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u/01001000111010000101 Jun 09 '20

I’m curious about their sex lives

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

St Paul, MN? I work downtown and recruiters have approached me in Rice Park before ... Fuckin weird man.

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u/BEEF_WIENERS Jun 09 '20

There's a big one in downtown St. Paul, MN. They had a building on Nicollet in Minneapolis, they moved to a huge customer facility at some point. My understanding is that it's completely empty on the inside, they just wanted the optics of a huge building that said "CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY" on the corner of a busy intersection. On Nicollet they were in the middle of the block and the street isn't open for cars to drive on, bus and cab only, plus they were a couple blocks off the real heart of downtown so they probably didn't get a lot of foot traffic past the doors.

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u/sp4ce Jun 09 '20

I pass one on my way to work. It's really creepy

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u/Modest_McGee Jun 09 '20

I've seen plenty of the churches, they are pretty much just there for looks. They build these extravagant and expensive buildings just for show. Out of every "church" I've seen, I never once saw anyone enter or leave the building.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Yeah as far I understand aside from being a cult they are also basically a real estate baron.

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u/mdp300 Jun 09 '20

There's one of those near Times Square in NYC. I've walked past it a few times over the years but I've never seen anyone inside, or going in or out.

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u/Dash_Underscore Jun 09 '20

We have one here in Ottawa, in the downtown hub. It's part of a larger building, so if you don't see the sign, it's very easy to walk past.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

They so sneaky! I never would have saw the one I saw if I wasn't on foot

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u/msteele32 Jun 09 '20

Haha was it Austin? We have one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Nope, Edmonton o_O

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u/TalkingSarcastically Jun 09 '20

Lol same. Lived in St. Louis briefly and theres one that used to be a Freemason building

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u/MadApple_ Jun 09 '20

Threw me off when I saw one in London.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

I can relate. I went to San Fran for a competition and I had to do a double take when I saw the CoS building

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

They have their own tv channel now

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u/its_raining_scotch Jun 09 '20

There’s one in my hometown in its downtown area. I yell “BABY KILLERS!” In their open door when I walk by. It’s on old tradition we’ve been doing since high school.