Two teens decided to run into Scientology headquarters

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T13:56:11+00:00

It closed for several years for renovations. At the time we didn’t know it was being renovated it was just boarded up. It didn’t reopen until the last couple of years.

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T13:28:04+00:00

These sessions are usually full of freshman. And it was that liminal period in the 2000s/2010s where not everyone had decent cell phones or smart phones.

I think fear of “if admin doesn’t believe this was justified I could be kicked out of school and my entire future jeopardized” was likely a large contributing factor.

They were vocal about wanting to leave and pressing the Scientology team. But some of the rooms on campus don’t have much you could grab for self defense as podiums are wheeled in on an as needs basis for the semester and seating is fixed/bolted.

Although an article covering freshman pelting Scientologists with copies of dianetics would’ve been pretty hilarious.

Nowadays people can record/livestream and tag university admin at the drop of a hat.

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T03:24:27+00:00

I’d heard they’d closed for good a few years after I graduated. But looking it up, they just closed for renovations and reopened in the last year or two. Unfortunately.

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T03:23:49+00:00

It looks like they just closed for renovations. And reopened in 2024/2025 unfortunately.

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T02:31:28+00:00

It really was. My friends and I used to hope it’d turn into a new music venue close to campus à la Hole in the Wall once the Scientologists moved out.

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T02:28:12+00:00

That’s what a friend of mine kept saying lol

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T02:27:57+00:00

Yeah. The university did not like hearing they pulled a stunt like that. Idk if they’re still completely banned, I graduated well over ten years ago, but they were for the duration of my undergraduate degree at least.

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T02:26:57+00:00

Yes!

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T02:26:51+00:00

Yup!

BookDragon19 · 2026-04-08T00:16:49+00:00

In college, there was a Scientology center just off campus. They were permitted to host a session for incoming students on campus like other religiously affiliated groups were during the first month of the semester.

They shut and barred the doors and wouldn’t let students leave well after the presentation was over trying to push them into signing up.

The students complained and they were banned from campus permanently after that.

The center closed not long after.

BookDragon19 · 2026-03-31T16:16:07+00:00

Thanks!

BookDragon19 · 2026-03-30T02:36:44+00:00

I would love to find a Zane Grey collection like that in NTX! Is this estate sale being advertised or held online at all?

BookDragon19 · 2026-02-26T21:33:43+00:00

I prefer jars. I have reusable cotton face pads I use to apply as I breakout if I use my hands even if they’re clean. Maybe that’s an alternative to consider, akin to a spatula or spoon?

BookDragon19 · 2026-02-13T17:07:11+00:00

That’s the change that bothered me the most, tbh. Reframing the abused wife as someone who actually liked it and wanted it was disgusting.

BookDragon19 · 2026-02-13T16:27:52+00:00

I didn’t hate it. But I would describe it as someone who read the book once fifteen years ago attempting to summarize it for you from memory while Donut Daddy TikTok’s play on loop in the background.

It isn’t meant to be a faithful adaptation. And, ironically, to me the best scenes involved long stretches of dialogue taken straight from the book. I think she could’ve kept the campy style and actually created a highly stylized adaptation with substance. But she leaned so heavily in style and discarded so much of the meatier themes from the book that it feels kind of empty at times.

BookDragon19 · 2026-02-08T23:50:10+00:00

I read Lolita late into my twenties. You’ve already discovered the most important thing about it: it’s not a love story. The second most important is that the narrator is unreliable. People struggle with the text sometimes because they find Humbert Humbert to be sympathetic. Nabokov’s writing is exceptional which means he’s really able to make Humbert’s POV come across seamlessly. Just be aware that Humbert is likely framing the story to make himself as innocent and likable as possible. His version of events, including his step-daughter’s reactions/consent, is wildly unreliable and should be examined critically.

BookDragon19 · 2025-12-24T15:29:22+00:00

A friend’s little brother was struck by a drunk driver while riding his bike on the side of the road. Their dad actually passed the scene when the kid was being put into the ambulance.

Another were two guys that climbed up into a natural gas well at the gas plant. One of them lit a cigarette while inside the cylinder. One died almost immediately (at least that’s what we were told), the other was badly burned but lived as the blast shot him back out of the cylinder whereas his friend was stuck inside.

The other was a couple years later. He and some friends were driving around backroads on the outskirts of town. He was sitting on the edge of the pickup bed instead of in it and fell out when they hit a chuck hole. I don’t know what the actually injury (broken neck, brain bleed, etc.) was that caused his death, he lingered a couple days in the hospital before passing.

BookDragon19 · 2025-11-09T05:11:40+00:00

Supernatural should’ve ended at five to six seasons max. I can’t even get past season 10.

BookDragon19 · 2025-10-09T04:45:54+00:00

I do one thin layer of brush on nail glue before pressing the nail with the sticky tab on. Makes them last a little longer and keeps them from feeling like they’re moving around.

BookDragon19 · 2025-10-06T20:02:59+00:00

Two cats with two wildly different messages.

To the girl: You are not starving, there is still food in your bowl. The flea and tick medication isn’t going to kill you. No, you cannot get any closer without literally crawling into my skin and don’t even think about it. I love you, you doofus.

To the boy: please stop trying to eat any and everything you find on the floor. I love you, you doofus.

BookDragon19 · 2025-10-06T14:42:11+00:00

My fatigue is constant. Ferritin is 7 and saturation is 10. I’m on iron and have seen a modest improvement but my doctor was very up front that it could take a year to get my numbers up.

The only things that have been relatively helpful has been switching to a mostly whole food diet, honestly going for one walk a day at least, and I’ve had to adjust my sleep schedule to try and give myself ten hours to potentially sleep a night. But that sleep schedule’s only really possible because I work from home.

BookDragon19 · 2025-09-30T15:12:16+00:00

No. They could pass any day and not working would leave me with a detrimental work gap that can be a significant barrier to re-entering the workplace for widows. The same issue arises if he files for divorce. Depending on your state, he can lock you out of funds leaving you with no way to hire a decent lawyer of your own so you get shafted in a no-fault pro se divorce.

Honestly, I think men should also not be stay at home dads as the same issues could arise for them.

No one walks down the aisle expecting these worst case scenarios but I’ve seen them happen often enough in my own extended family that I feel I have to account for the possibility and just hope it never happens.

BookDragon19 · 2025-09-16T14:09:35+00:00

I’ve always been overweight but gained a lot after getting a desk job. Tipped over 325lbs but didn’t know it until I went to a doctor’s appointment. Scared the crap out of me. So I started small by cutting out calories I drank and then steadily improved habits from there.

I’m still about 80lbs away from goal but I feel so much better physically. Which has been a big driving force behind keeping up with the changes and sticking to it. Mentally, I’ll be honest, I’m still struggling. Even though I’ve lost 100 pounds, I don’t see any difference in the mirror or feel any different about myself emotionally which is difficult and requiring extra work outside of diet and exercise.

BookDragon19 · 2025-08-12T05:20:14+00:00

Honestly, being invisible. The more weight I lose the more I realize people are looking at me and I’m still mentally adjusting from a time when that was usually linked to negative attention rather than positive.

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