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So an 'avant garde' artist doesn't want to be labeled a $cientologist? Hiding your light under a bushel Gottfried? Sorry, that is a Christian song. What song is most appropriate for a $cientologist?? Windspliter and Thank You for Listening are just too bad to use for anything. Saturday Night Live's Neurontology skit fits that bill.

Anyone outside of the 'cleb' bubble would be under heavy 'ethics' trouble for not publicly kissing the Masters ring. But then, $cieno clebs don't have to obey any rules. Rules are for plebeians.

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know Gottfried Helnwein through two of his children. My son Collin was briefly connected to Mercedes and Ali and their friend art photographer Alex Praeger. They are all scientologists. At the time all up and coming hot celebrity artists. Mercedes is a painter and Ali is a musician and film composer and Alex a photographer. All treated as celebrities by Celebrity Centre.

One thing that sticks out to me is the mysterious death of Bryten Goss a young artist, son of Rose and Ed Goss prominent Scientology OT VIIIs. Bryten was a rising star studying under Gottfried in Ireland when he contracted pneumonia and died. The circumstances of why he died so rapidly were never revealed.

The connection to Gottfried was never explored.

Gottfried is treated as a Celebrity by Scientology and his art is not understood by most scientologists or staff.

IMO he is a somewhat skillful representational artist derivative of the truly famous artist Francis Bacon. He shocked the art world in the 80s-90’s with paintings of his children in various poses covered in blood. My spouse who is a fine artist with numerous museum and gallery credits considers Gottfried distasteful for using his children as subjects to create kiddie porn violence.

I find Helnwein typical of the elite attitude of scientologists who have achieved some acknowledgment of their work. The message in his paintings in my mind represents the true result of Scientology; exploitation of children and violence toward scientology whistleblowers.

There are few accomplished artists in Scientology. Why is that?

Scientology kills creativity with its brainwashing and repressive rules. Art does not thrive under that cloud unless it’s like the art of Gottfried Helnwein.

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I believe you are absolutely correct about it killing creativity.

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Here we are, in the 21st century. Hubbard is long dead. McSavage is a tiny, violent, pickled, animated cadaver. And this 75 year-old man with dyed hair and finger bling, a wealthy "artist" and possessor of

"the technology that is senior to life", can't even be arsed to publicly claim his full "OT" stature and disseminate the greatest thing created since the discovery of fire to his fellow "thetans" in Florida, Ireland, and Austria. His love of Trump is a "tone 40" confirmation of his homo novus superiority and top-of-the-tone-scale brilliance.

Scientology: The Cult of Intergallactic Wankers and Walking, Talking Cartoon Characters!

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I find this example very interesting, as an exponent of what is surely the most common, that is, the maximum discretion of membership, which perhaps, among other things, keeps any connection of the organization with some of the activities

and the influence and effect of this,

beyond suspicion of the famous, always specials in favor of the interests of the organization, I think.

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Thanks to all for sharing this with us.

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The article says Arthur Hubbard was on the RPF at Happy Valley in the 1980s and 1990s.

More reason to end Scientology. No one deserves the RPF. If someone wants to do the Hubbard quackery past lives pseudo-therapy digging up their ancient evil purposes, they can just look up the commands on the internet and sort this out themselves. It's all bogus all the Hubbard past lives transgressions and evil purposes. Waste of time.

The RPF had been "evaluated" apparantly numerous times by the 1990s and was considered a failure all past RPFs. That's what Bruce Bromley of Senior C/S Int Office once briefed us Int RPFers of all the failed past RPFs, none were successful. More proof Hubbard's quackery is not the ticket to humanity's spiritual freedom if you ask me.

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