i'd like to start a religion. that's where the money is.

so, there's a really interesting article in Rolling Stone this month on Scientology.

"The history of Scientology
asserts that 75 million years ago, an evil galactic warlord named Xenu controlled seventy-six planets in this corner of the galaxy, each of which was severely overpopulated. To solve this problem, Xenu rounded up 13.5 trillion beings and then flew them to Earth, where they were dumped into volcanoes around the globe and vaporized with bombs. This scattered their radioactive souls, or thetans, until they were caught in electronic traps set up around the atmosphere and "implanted" with a number of false ideas -- including the concepts of God, Christ and organized religion."

hehe. false ideas...the concept of organized religion...oh the irony.

did you know L Ron used to write old sci-fi pulp fiction back in the day? come on now, i know you're shocked.

(i couldn't make this shit up if i tried. it's just so wonderful.)