WWW Content for COS

> >>Would scientologists really *want* a newsgroup concerning scientology?
>
> >They don't even have a token web server. Why on earth would they
> >bother with a newsgroup?
> >
> >Any moron could bring up a web server. It takes a heck of a lot more
> >effort to keep a discussion going in a newsgroup than it does to keep
> >a web server up and running.
>
> I've been perplexed why they don't have a Web server to promote their
> "religion". It's a one-way distribution and they don't have to handle
> any criticism, at least in the same place as where their information is
> presented. On the other hand, the critics of CoS have several Web pages
> up and running, including the FactNet archives.
>
> They are certainly a perplexing organization.
>
> Jon Noring
Well, Jon - let me ask you this, because I am puzzled that some of you have suggested a Web server for COS:

What would they put on it? <G>

Now, near as I can tell, almost everything important is _claimed_ copyright, and a lot of $$ are charged to get access to it.

I'm sure they would not put up their "personality" and IQ tests, becaue they would not have the hook of talking to the "raw meat". Besides, they are probably copyright themselves.

(Does anybody know if COS uses its own tests, or buys them? It is an interesting conjecture as to whether they buy a few and photocopy them, avoiding payment.)

Certainly a long list of those glowing anonymous endorsements would put people to sleep, if not raise their curiosity about needing anonymous endorsements.

Maybe articles and pictures from FREEDOM? We could read Andrew Milne's inspired words! <G> Maybe get some good pictures (please caption them well) for our records.

And of course, a picture of LRH with a glowing autobiography.

I don't know, I think they'd need a gimmick. Maybe an online game called "Marcabs" or something... See how many volcanoes you can blow up. The DC8 spaceships could have clam guns, that shoot out these clams that explode when their blow out point hits something.

"Keptan, the clams canna take nae more, they're going to blow!"

Dan

No, the problem is that beneath the phoney exterior of COS is a phoney _interior_.

The best they could do would be the online equivalent of a glossy pamphlet. Bor-ing! <G>

I mean, I mean (Arlo Guthrie mode on) can't you just picture it:

" Here we have some of the famous people that have become $cientologi$t$: (with pictures showing them at COS sites, if possible)

Sonny Bono

Tom Cruise

Kirstie Allie "

What ringing endorsements!

--- * NFX v1.3 [000] Always avoid awkward or affected alliteration.