Should Hip Forums Have a Scientology Forum?

Should Hip Forums Have a Scientology Forum?

Several people have asked why we don't have one.

We have a number of reasons. What are yours?

 

LOL! You shoulda been here when Fedup American was in full swing. He kept the Christian forum as lively as this one. He would bait them constantly.

We got lots of fundamentalists in here telling us hippies would rot in hell, etc.

It was quite entertaining for a long time.

But he finally got too nasty and turned on us, so he had to go along with hundreds of anti-christian threads he'd started.

 

Not that much extra workload. Actually since our last upgrade modding is much more of a breeze. We can ban & delete all a users posts in one stroke. We have around 30 supermods who roam the forums, plus many of our members report shit very quickly.

I doubt that mentioning the HipForums would add any cred to Scientology or help their recruiting efforts.

I mentioned this once before, and I'll bring it up again...

I am willing to act as a mediator between the CoS and anyone else. I have a special diplomat hat I wear for that. Seriously, I can be somewhat impartial and fair should the desire be there to actually try to talk this shit out.

That would be one reason for the Scientology forum. To mediate the issues between you.

I've written Alex and offered to help and even suggest ways that Scientology can change their methods to address the concerns you have.

I know it's probably just wishful thinking to think that a Church can change it's ways, but look at the Catholic Church these days. It's in crisis.

There is much to be gleaned from the lawsuits against the Catholic church & other denominations.

Child abuse lawsuits like those against the Catholic Church, or even that recent one against those polygamist Mormons must give the CoS pause and make them fear a similar strategy.

The time for more transparency and a change in protocols is now for CoS. To delay further will put them even more at odds with the prevailing mindset against child abuse, cults, secrecy, questionable methods and contracts, etc.

I think they can still save their Church if they have the balls to make a few changes. Otherwise a few good class-actions suits could bring them down faster than the WTC.

 

Well you might need to deal with them directly over certain issues, including legal ones.

Think about this...

The greatest failing of the Bush Administration was it's refusal to negotiate with anyone labeled "the enemy". All that does is create a war that never ends. And makes those who refuse to negotiate look like complete failfags.

Ultimately there must be negotiation, even if destruction is the net result.

Oh, and the Bush Admin didn't actually fail by not negotiating. That was their mission, to keep the war alive, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF WAR, because their friends are making so much $$$ from it!

So if some of you only want to fight scientology for the sake of fighting, then I sure hope you're profiting from it, cause otherwise it's a lost cause.

 

Thus far the votes are for putting a forum in the Cult section, which is the way I'm leaning too. Apparently enough Anonymous can see a good reason to do this.

I'd still like to see the CoS somehow support this forum (HF) if that is going to be the case.

As I said b4 it's better PR for them to show they support free speech in some way, than to just let us bash them without letting them get their say.

I know there will only be a few authorized Scis posting, but as some have said, others might come out of the woodwork. And I've already said to Alex one precondition would be to allow ALL Scientologists to access this site to post there. Otherwise it's just a pure PR channel that I'm sure you guys would troll endlessly.