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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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