Infinite Jest Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Did anyone see anything like that last year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5co77ie Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Oh God! I feel like I've literally stuck a fiver in their bank accounts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nah, the cold war wasbn't one side with just words while the other kept taking the nuclear option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed209 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I'm not quite sure in what universe 'coming from the same town as a scientologist' makes you one, or what definition of 'evidence' you are using, but it smells as unscientific as the COS itself! Here to be proved wrong though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed209 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 There's a few people getting a bit defensive on here. I smell scientologists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoebox Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Hehe! Not quite, but I admit, I had to be helped up onto the saddle. Shoebox, is that you in the passenger seat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fareham Grecian Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Oh ffs. Where did I say that being registered in east grinsted automatically made them scientologists? Nope didn't think so. I was merely pointing out a fact and making up a connection. It is not evidence, not concrete evidence, or even very good evidence, In fact I admit its fairly shite evidence, but nonetheless - its still not evidence of anything whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed209 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) Amended for factuals... Where do you live? Has there ever been a murder committed there? Is that evidence that you are a murderer? Ridonculous. You're lowering yourself to their level. Edited February 2, 2012 by Ed209 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed209 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Oh shame ... "End of the Road Festival" was writing something on this thread, but looks as though they decided against it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fareham Grecian Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 p.s. that was a shite analogy, and i still think that classes as circumstantial evidence, but hey, lets not fall out over this otherwise the scientologists win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
End of the Road Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 EOTR and Scientology There have been suggestions on forums that End of the Road Festival may have some connection to the Church of Scientology. This arose after the efestivals founder was sent an anonymous letter. It’s quite likely that the same person sent similar letters to the music and general press. Two of the directors are scientologists. The remaining directors and management are not. End of the Road has no connection with the Church of Scientology, financial or otherwise. None. In any case, philosophical inclinations are personal and have nothing to do with a music festival. Anyone who has been to an End of the Road Festival will already know that. For the record, EOTR did make big losses in the first two years. They were all financed by the owners and those friends who could be persuaded to lend us money. The festival is now in good financial shape, the loans are repaid and the profit made in 2011 is being invested in a new festival. The anonymous correspondent ought to get out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinite Jest Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) Well said, I agree 100% with this "In any case, philosophical inclinations are personal and have nothing to do with a music festival". Great to hear that the loans have been repaid and the finances are in good shape, too. (Now, is it June yet? ) Edited February 1, 2012 by Infinite Jest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed209 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I for one can completely believe that the Church of Scientology has absolutely no involvement whatsoever in a festival run by scientologists and whose office is located within a mile of the UK scientology headquarters. Secret, behind curtain, operations really isn't their thing at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sipperana Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I remain very, very concerned. I understand the Scientology Church has a program under which subliminal messages are transmitted via a series of antennae, which can be disguised to look like something as ordinary as rotary washing lines; little energy is required to produce a signal, and apparently sufficient power can be generated by something as mundane as pedalling. Did anyone see anything like that last year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sipperana Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 If, as I understand from very reliable sources it will be, at the next act announcement it is confirmed that Simon & Garfunkel, Joe Simon, Carly Simon, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound and Simone Felice will be playing, with We Are Scientologists as Sunday night headliners, that'll be the clincher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinite Jest Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) I for one can completely believe that the Church of Scientology has absolutely no involvement whatsoever in a festival run by scientologists and whose office is located within a mile of the UK scientology headquarters. Secret, behind curtain, operations really isn't their thing at all. Edited February 1, 2012 by Infinite Jest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddon Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) So EotR has been set up, run at initially heavy losses, and sustained for however many years it has run, all to get some dodgy mates to play a crap set?! It seems a very long winded way of getting a couple of hundred pounds to me! Edited February 1, 2012 by Jeddon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed209 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Why do you care? I've never seen you post in this forum until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElGanzo Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Hmmmm, I'm an atheist and fairly anti-religion but I've lost a lot of respect for Anonymous over this. Excellent statement from End of the Road, but it's hugely disrespectful towards the directors of the festival to essentially force them to come out and declare their religion in this way. If they wished to keep their religion private and separate from the festival they should have been allowed to do so. If they were Church of England or Catholic would they have been expected to come out with such a statement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geofelgie Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 If they were Church of England or Catholic would they have been expected to come out with such a statement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinite Jest Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 Because cults like scientology really piss me off... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riverlodge Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 right, so its okay for me to keep my earlybird ticket - or haven't i kept up properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fareham Grecian Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 right, so its okay for me to keep my earlybird ticket - or haven't i kept up properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartilage Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 I love End of the Road; I pretty much despise Scientology. This affair doesn't make me change my views of the festival one bit. It'd be hard to find an organisation that wasn't owned or organised by people who followed a religion or philosophy that I didn't view as a shameful scam, since most religions are exactly that. I don't wholly agree with the point that "philosophical inclinations are personal and have nothing to do with a music festival", however - but can't state clearly why without overtly invoking Godwin's Law. I think it's important to say that the festival has always been quite open about having made losses in its first two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fareham Grecian Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 I love End of the Road; I pretty much despise Scientology. This affair doesn't make me change my views of the festival one bit. It'd be hard to find an organisation that wasn't owned or organised by people who followed a religion or philosophy that I didn't view as a shameful scam, since most religions are exactly that. I don't wholly agree with the point that "philosophical inclinations are personal and have nothing to do with a music festival", however - but can't state clearly why without overtly invoking Godwin's Law. I think it's important to say that the festival has always been quite open about having made losses in its first two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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