nuclear whipping boy
[misc]
posted by tom / November 28, 2005 / 
Scientology's secret texts are being stored in a New Mexico bunker designed to withstand a nuclear holocaust.
This actually sort of makes me like them more. There's nothing innately evil about this project (other than how the money was raised to fund it, of course). And the idea of trying to construct something that will outlive humanity has a certain romance for me.
Nevertheless, I hope hordes of anti-cultists, ironists and burnt-out hippies descend on Trementina, NM and turn it into a fucking zoo. I want to see Xenu bobbleheads, goddammit.
UPDATE: Via boingboing, check out this image of the earthen constructs that mark the site.
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This actually sort of makes me like them more.
You're not worried that their texts are the only thing that will survive, or be found by our descendents, who will shake their heads, look sadly at one another and say, "I'm so ashamed"?
And what if all their texts are italicized? What then, Tom?
Then, upon reading the texts, I guess our descendants would think that we really, really meant them. I agree: that would be slightly worse.
Weren't the dead sea scrolls italicized? ...and hey, they didn't need no stinkin' titanium tubes, man.
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