Anonymous - As Expected
Feb. 11th, 2008 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianHundreds of Anonymous types protest in front of not one, but two Church of Scientology centres in London. This happened all over the world yesterday.
Day-am, but I love the internet.
Okay, there was a time some thirteen/fourteen years ago when I quite literally did not see the point. The internet has evolved so much since then. Oh, sure, it's got more than its fair share of the stupid, and I still don't quite get the appeal of this LOLcats stuff (though I'll admit it's a giggle when people aren't treating it like the epitome of all wit), but at the end of the day, when it can do something like this? Internet memes FTW, as they say.
I've seen Scientologist-baiting before, but this is better. Active, organised peaceful protest, cleverly done, for a decent purpose. And they so obviously had fun doing it, even while they were making a valid point. The only real 'fear tactic', if you want to call it that, involved in this particular bit of meme was the fact that ... well, imagine you're a Scientologist. Here's several hundred people in V masks camped outside your door, speaking in a language that you don't quite understand but think you should, and pelting you with Rick Astley songs for no apparent reason. This is how protest should be. "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em."
Much, much love to Anonymous. That ... that was awesome.
In other news ... the mystery of Daz's all-out creepy comes closer to being revealed. See, recently, he came out of absolutely nowhere and said, "I heard about your idea for Astrid using her new steam-powered prosthesis as a focus - I never would have thought of that!" Needless to say, as I hadn't journaled it on JN, hadn't moodposted it yet and had told maybe one or two people, I was ... in absolute awe of the Terrible Mind-Reading Powers of the Mage ST.
Then I realised ... I'd LJed it.
Recent check shows that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yshala has friended me. She and Daz talk a fair bit. Suddenly, things make sense.
...Actually, I'm now obscurely disappointed. Mystery solved, sure, but ... having a psychic ST is awesome. Oh well. I'll have to settle for psychotic, as do we all. *g*
Day-am, but I love the internet.
Okay, there was a time some thirteen/fourteen years ago when I quite literally did not see the point. The internet has evolved so much since then. Oh, sure, it's got more than its fair share of the stupid, and I still don't quite get the appeal of this LOLcats stuff (though I'll admit it's a giggle when people aren't treating it like the epitome of all wit), but at the end of the day, when it can do something like this? Internet memes FTW, as they say.
I've seen Scientologist-baiting before, but this is better. Active, organised peaceful protest, cleverly done, for a decent purpose. And they so obviously had fun doing it, even while they were making a valid point. The only real 'fear tactic', if you want to call it that, involved in this particular bit of meme was the fact that ... well, imagine you're a Scientologist. Here's several hundred people in V masks camped outside your door, speaking in a language that you don't quite understand but think you should, and pelting you with Rick Astley songs for no apparent reason. This is how protest should be. "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em."
Much, much love to Anonymous. That ... that was awesome.
In other news ... the mystery of Daz's all-out creepy comes closer to being revealed. See, recently, he came out of absolutely nowhere and said, "I heard about your idea for Astrid using her new steam-powered prosthesis as a focus - I never would have thought of that!" Needless to say, as I hadn't journaled it on JN, hadn't moodposted it yet and had told maybe one or two people, I was ... in absolute awe of the Terrible Mind-Reading Powers of the Mage ST.
Then I realised ... I'd LJed it.
Recent check shows that
yshala has friended me. She and Daz talk a fair bit. Suddenly, things make sense....Actually, I'm now obscurely disappointed. Mystery solved, sure, but ... having a psychic ST is awesome. Oh well. I'll have to settle for psychotic, as do we all. *g*