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The Master - Official Trailer (2012) [HD] - YouTube
This should've been called what it is. This is not about some fictional cult it's obviously Scientology and Hoffman likes exactly like L. Rod Hubbard. |
Looks interesting. Around 1978, I talked to a charming black man at the University of Nevada, Reno who was hanging around the Humanities/German/French building. I just came from a Philosophy class and the man started talking to me about what I was studying, my interests, etc.
He mentioned that he lived with a group of people very interested in Philosophy and it was only a few blocks away. Being rather gullible at 19 or so, I went to the group's small apartment.
One of the men there was outlining some kind of massive philosophical system that I immediately started pointing out holes in. Remember, I was 19.
The man doing the presentation started crying because of my criticisms which seemed very strange given that we were just outside the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno. A stone's throw from the Art Buildings. It is very uncommon for someone studying Philosophy to start crying when their ideas are questioned.
Anyway, I left the meeting and got the card of the group. It said Unification Church.
It turned out that the charming black man was Jerome Childress who ran the Unification Church in Northern Nevada. This was a recruiting meeting for the Moonies.
The calls to my parents started coming after I went back a second time to see more given I was very interested in religion. They kept on insisting I go on a weekend retreat. They also introduced me to a very attractive young woman and made it clear I might be able to get to know her better if I went on the weekend retreat.
I kept on refusing. The calls to my parents became more insistent telling them that they were polluting my values, etc. They did this as a matter of course even though I had been to two hour or so long meetings.
That's all. I had to pick up the phone though when the Unification Church was trying to talk to my parents and threaten to call the police on them for harassment. After he then came on the phone, Jerome Childress then banned me from coming to any meetings saying I was not Unification Church material or something like this.