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US singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes has died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 65.
Police were called after his wife found him unconscious next to a moving treadmill.
He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Hayes, a flamboyant, deep-voiced performer, won an Oscar for the 1971 hit Theme From Shaft.
Isaac Hayes dies at 65 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7552986.stm)
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I heard it was due to excess sodium intake leading to elevated blood pressure :-/
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A musical giant.
The first thing I ever sampled was the intro to Shaft.
R.I.P. :pint:
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Indeed. I feel bad about my oblique reference to chocolate salty balls now :-(
On a lighter note, good to see you Wilse. Hoos y' doos?
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Surely you are not alluding excess excess consumption of spherical salty chocolate confectionery. :-o
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I was :-(
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I thought to mash up said tune with "shaft", but that would be poor taste...
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Karlos wrote:
I thought to mash up said tune with "shaft", but that would be poor taste...
:roll:
Southpark was never the same without the chef. :-D
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One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
Hail Xenu.
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the_leander wrote:
One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
I see no reason to hate them any more than other religion...
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bloodline wrote:
the_leander wrote:
One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
I see no reason to hate them any more than other religion...
Come ! all ye faithful ............
...........................................Hides!
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bloodline wrote:
the_leander wrote:
One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
I see no reason to hate them any more than other religion...
They're a cult, not a religion.
And part of the reason I hate them so much is the fact that these people, well, people would imply independant thought... these drones hoodwinked me out of thousands, turned me against my family and generally screwed me up for a very very long time.
For me it is not just that they are an insidious, pustulous carbuncle on the face of the earth, but that they conned me into becoming like them for a time.
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the_leander wrote:
bloodline wrote:
the_leander wrote:
One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
I see no reason to hate them any more than other religion...
They're a cult, not a religion.
I find it difficult to distinguish...
And part of the reason I hate them so much is the fact that these people, well, people would imply independant thought... these drones hoodwinked me out of thousands, turned me against my family and generally screwed me up for a very very long time.
Oh wow!!! I didn't know there was history here!!!
For me it is not just that they are an insidious, pustulous carbuncle on the face of the earth, but that they conned me into becoming like them for a time.
But you are all better now :-)
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the_leander wrote:
bloodline wrote:
the_leander wrote:
One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
I see no reason to hate them any more than other religion...
They're a cult, not a religion.
Speaking of which, a man and a woman came door knocking yesterday. I couldn't get rid of them. Two hours of hearing them criticise my diet and extolling the virtue of their bread-conquers-all world view. Bloody Hovis witnesses.... :pissed:
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Karlos wrote:
the_leander wrote:
bloodline wrote:
the_leander wrote:
One Scientologist down, a million or two more to go.
Yes, I really do dispise them that much.
I see no reason to hate them any more than other religion...
They're a cult, not a religion.
Speaking of which, a man and a woman came door knocking yesterday. I couldn't get rid of them. Two hours of hearing them criticise my diet and extolling the virtue of their bread-conquers-all world view. Bloody Hovis witnesses.... :pissed:
Smerk..
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Smerk? My God man, you have been infected with the liver virus. You need to get yourself checked out as soon as possible before the tertiary stage kicks in and you end up in a tracksuit....
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Karlos wrote:
Smerk? My God man, you have been infected with the liver virus. You need to get yourself checked out as soon as possible before the tertiary stage kicks in and you end up in a tracksuit....
Watcha gonna doo abow it?
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I'll force you to get a hair cut and drag you down the job centre for a start :lol:
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Karlos wrote:
I'll force you to get a hair cut and drag you down the job centre for a start :lol:
Hahahaha!!! You sound like my mum!
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bloodline wrote:
Hahahaha!!! You sound like my mum!
Well, there is something I've been meaning to tell you for a long time now, son...
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Remember the day you found the wig and shaving kit in my boudoir?
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Karlos wrote:
Remember the day you found the wig and shaving kit in my boudoir?
Uh huh!
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It is all so clear to me now. I blame myself for the confusion that led you to abuse the laundry basket. I didn't tell you, I thought you'd grow out of it. Little did I realise you'd form a symbiotic bond with it.
Can you forgive me son?
*feck, this is getting right weird...
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Karlos wrote:
It is all so clear to me now. I blame myself for the confusion that led you to abuse the laundry basket. I didn't tell you, I thought you'd grow out of it. Little did I realise you'd form a symbiotic bond with it.
Can you forgive me son?
So what your saying is... "Bloodline, I... am your... Mother"
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bloodline wrote:
So what your saying is... "Bloodline, I... am your... Mother"
Yes.
*bursts out in tears*
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Karlos wrote:
bloodline wrote:
So what your saying is... "Bloodline, I... am your... Mother"
Yes.
*bursts out in tears*
Obvious Star Wars reference wasted... :cry:
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Karlos wrote:
bloodline wrote:
So what your saying is... "Bloodline, I... am your... Mother"
Yes.
*bursts out in tears*
:lol:
It's all coming out now isn't it?
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GadgetMaster wrote:
:lol:
It's all coming out now isn't it?
It's been trapped inside for so long now :boohoo:
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bloodline wrote:
Karlos wrote:
bloodline wrote:
So what your saying is... "Bloodline, I... am your... Mother"
Yes.
*bursts out in tears*
Obvious Star Wars reference wasted... :cry:
Nope. I felt the need to retain my integrity by not taking the cliche route ;-)
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the_leander wrote:
Scientology a cult, not a religion.
And part of the reason I hate them so much is the fact that these people, well, people would imply independant thought... these drones hoodwinked me out of thousands, turned me against my family and generally screwed me up for a very very long time.
For me it is not just that they are an insidious, pustulous carbuncle on the face of the earth, but that they conned me into becoming like them for a time.
A piece of Blue sky (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/)
What sucked you in and how far did you go before you became disillusioned?
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metalman wrote:
A piece of Blue sky (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/)
What sucked you in and how far did you go before you became disillusioned?
I'd just come out of the navy. I was severely depressed and well, looking for help, these people stopped me on the street and told me they had the answers, I tried out their "Auditing" and felt better, so I went with it.
Over the following months I was doing various courses and paying out big time for their litterature. Eventually this culminated in them offering me a "job" (I use this loosely as a job suggests payment), which I accepted greatfully. I moved out of the family home at their insistance and started to take on more courses and begin my new employment as an SSO - staff section officer. I was to become responsible to training and maintaining standards of excellence within the staff. I was being payed maybe £2 for 56 hours a week, I was told this would increase as my productivity increased, but being new to the job and really being out of my depth that never happened, so I was basically running on what I'd come out of the navy with.
This went on for about 4 months, I was then told I would be going to St Hill in East Greenwich, to recieve training in an effort to boost my productivity and generally help with getting bums on seats. So I went and did several courses, at this point I was offered a chance to join the Sea Org, which is basically the hardcore version of Scientology, it was sold to me on the basis that my time with the navy would serve me well and that it was very similar both in principle and practice, only this time I would, in their words be "helping to raise the conciousness of humanity" and other such balls. I was burning through money at this point like it was going out of fashion, indeed, I was at the stage where my savings were all but exhausted. But I continued with the training.
Then my Grandfather died, he'd had cancer and had been going downhill fast. The thing that snapped me out of it was their reaction to the incident, rather then simpathy as one might expect, they tried to turn it into an oportunity to sell auditing to the rest of the family, indeed quite a bit of pressure was placed on me to do just that. Their other reaction was to ask me, flat out if my family had lied about his death in order to take me away from my studies - something that really sent alarm bells ringing.
So I returned from East Greenwich to Plymouth. The local Org's response was more of the same, but truthfully at this point it was hitting a wall, what had been implied and flat out stated at St Hill had pretty much ended it for me, so I signed off, after debriefing (which included questions such as "what are your crimes") I left the Org and never stepped foot in it again. Some weeks later a couple of the people I had worked with came to me with a bill for £50 for outstanding costs for courses, to their credit they did at least look embarressed to have handed it to me.
But that was it, I was out, I spent the next 2 years unpicking the damage they had done to me mentally and reasserting my own thoughts. Sometimes I still get that pang to go back, but, I realise there is still programming there that I simply never will be able to remove.
I'm told I've been unnoficially declared "SP" or suppressive person, what this means is, is that they are now unable to talk to me and further, if you read their laws, now required to attack, destroy or discredit me under their "fair game" policy, which has since been renamed to other things but the intent is the same. In fact, by even saying this in a public forum I have just painted a large target on my back.
Going to them was my first great mistake, one of many.
My savings at the time of leaving the Navy were £3500. I had 28p in the bank when I left them. Oh and a bunch of books...
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the_leander wrote:
Going to them was my first great mistake, one of many.
My savings at the time of leaving the Navy were £3500. I had 28p in the bank when I left them. Oh and a bunch of books...
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." --Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
wikiLeaks: $cientology (http://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Scientology)
Thought Control and $cientology (http://www.xenu.net/archive/infopack/7.htm)
Who is Anonymous (http://x.sea.org.googlepages.com/whatisanonymous)
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I know of Operation clambake and of Anonymous. I support them both wholeheartedly.
The sooner this Pyramid scam gets shut down the better.