John Travolta and his ancient galactic friends celebrate Scientology's holiest day of year - 2016-03-13

Today is the holiest day of the Scientology year, when the party-happy organization celebrates March 13, 1911, the date L. Ron Hubbard emerged into the known world to begin a life more adventurous than the lives of a dozen other men. He deigned to spend a little over 74 years in his Nebraska-sourced meat body before jettisoning it voluntarily on January 24, 1986. It was just one of countless lifetimes that the Great Thetan would spend in his eternity game. Can you handle the truth of your quadrillion years of existence? Dare any being contemplate the true nature of existence except for Ron?
Last night, the annual Birthday Event was held in Clearwater, Florida, and for several days Scientologists like John Travolta have been arriving, as this photo from a couple of days ago attests. On Sundays, Rod Keller gives us his weekly Scientology Social Media Review, and he has another fine collection for us again. Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He's well known for his indispensable "ARS Week in Review," which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily source for Scientology news. More recently, Rod has made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things Scientologists post to social media, and this is what he found for us this week…
We'll start with just a few photos that capture the scene last night in Clearwater...
- 1982
- 1986
- 1992
- 2013
- 2015
- 2016
- 9/11
- Alexander Ofori-Muhammad
- Alt.religion.scientology
- Arthur Lefler
- Battlefield Earth
- Bernard Fialkoff
- Birthday Event
- Carl Everett
- Chick Corea
- Chile
- Clearwater
- Cristian Vargas
- Critic
- David Miscavige
- Dianetics
- Dila Tezemir
- Emily Jones
- Flag Land Base
- Florence Gumy
- Florida
- Fort Harrison
- Foundation for a Drug-Free World
- Frank Frazetta
- Galaxy Press
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- Gracia Bennish
- Hollywood
- Hubbard Communications Office
- Humfrey Hunter
- Ideal Org
- Ismail Karakas
- Jamie Lynn Macchia
- Jety Sekiya
- John Goodwin
- John Travolta
- Knowledge Reports
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Largo
- Lawrence Wright
- London
- Lourdes Bahr
- Mark Bunker
- Miss New York
- Narconon
- Narconon Turkey
- Nation of Islam
- Nebraska
- New York
- News article
- OrgBoat
- Phil Jones
- Pinellas County
- Police
- Puerto Rico
- Quicky
- Random House
- Review
- Rob Meister
- Rod Keller
- Salt Lake City
- Scientology celebrity
- Selenay Hoca
- Silvertail Books
- Social Media Review
- Sunday Times
- Switzerland
- The Way to Happiness
- Tokyo
- Tony Ortega
- Transworld
- UK
- Underground Bunker
- Willie Jones
- Youth for Human Rights International
- Zurich