Crop circles meet Scientology!

[Big Les]

You couldn't make this (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=49245&in_page_id=34)up. However, somebody must have.

Has anyone heard of this "logo"? Looks like it was made last week to me.

[wahrheit]

Sure enough a Scientologist has already spammed the comments to that article with blah blah and a link to their new website regarding the BBC Panorama video.

[Macoy]

as it's for reincarnated clams, at least we can console ourselves with the knowledge that they die.

[slyjoe]

These trails aren't new. They've been there for years. The article says they were just discovered - maybe by the UK paper, but the locals have known about these for quite some time. I believe CNN just rebroadcast footage from a while back. In the desert, it's actually quite realistic to have something look new but be fairly old - it takes the desert a long time to recover.

[Wolverine]

Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html) (November 27, 2005)

[nimzov]

Police chase makes crop pattern.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=54522&in_page_id=2

nimzo

[-Fran-]

If I had got a dollar for every time I've heard the claim 'can only be seen from the air'... :rolleyes:

[Wolfman]

--snip--
According to former Scientology member, Michael Pattinson, who was interviewed in the report, the circles mark a landing spot for reincarnated Scientologists returning from outer space.
--snip--
I'm not quite sure how to read this...this guy is a former member, but still believes that this is actually a landing spot for reincarnated Scientologists returning from outer space? Or, he is a former member who no longer believes this nonsense, and he is explaining what other Scientologists believe it to be?

The latter seems far more likely to me...since if he actually believed that is what it is, why would he not still be a member? But the way the article is written, it appears that he is stating that this is what he believes it to be.

[arthwollipot]

Police chase makes crop pattern.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=54522&in_page_id=2

nimzo

I am so snurching that photo for my screensaver.

[Tumblehome]

I like the tone of the article... :)

Because there's nothing worse than arriving from deep space, and not knowing where to park.


But man, these people really are off the deep end...


The archiving project, which the church has acknowledged, includes engraving Hubbard's writings on stainless steel tablets and encasing them in titanium capsules. It is overseen by a Scientology corporation called the Church of Spiritual Technology.

--The contents of the vault itself are not secret -- they were shown in 1998 on ABC News's "20/20."

"Buried deep in these New Mexico hills in steel-lined tunnels, said to be able to survive a nuclear blast, is what Scientology considers the future of mankind," ABC's Tom Jarriel said in his report. "Seen here for the first time, thousands of metal records, stored in heat-resistant titanium boxes and playable on a solar-powered turntable, all containing the beliefs of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard."


The beliefs of L. Ron Hubbard? Like, if you want to make a million bucks, start a religion?