Church of Scientolol

So the Church of Tom Cruise wants my company to make some concept art for them...what should I say?

do it and think of a way to sneak a goatse in the art

point it out on reddit once complete

profit

Draw really bad pictures of Xenu flipping them off.

  On 4/25/2011 at 3:54 AM, Adjective said:

do it and think of a way to sneak a goatse in the art

point it out on reddit once complete

profit

considering how notoriously litigious they are, do not do this.

do not refuse any work unless you have more money than you need.

XENU

FLIPPING

THEM

OFF.

Money is money.

Find out though whether they are a good client in terms of both getting paid, and secondly not being too demanding, ie: always coming back with finished work wanting pointless changes, and then using that as an excuse not to pay you. From what i've seen of the company, hrm i mean religion. This may be an issue.

low-level scilons have no idea about the whole xenu thing, or at least they aren't supposed to. elron claimed finding out about OT3 before you're supposed to can give you ball cancer or something. so, if you meet them in person, bring it up. there's a good chance you might actually get to see someone running away from you with their hands over their ears going LALALALALALALA

hide goatse in it of course.

absolutely do it unless you somehow can be sued if you openly talk shit about it once it's done. If it's that way it's a loose loose, if you don't have to sign an NDA or anything it's a 100% win win

so nobody would refuse on ethical grounds? Interesting...

Edit: and by the way, I would be very surprised if they don't ask for an NDA...

i mean i only see it as an ethical problem if you get paid to do it and you're not allowed to talk about how ridiculous it was

  On 4/25/2011 at 5:59 AM, Awepittance said:

loose loose

  On 4/25/2011 at 6:17 AM, Awepittance said:

i mean i only see it as an ethical problem if you get paid to do it and you're not allowed to talk about how ridiculous it was

So it doesn't bother you that they've directly or indirectly caused human deaths? I'm not singling you out, it's just I expected more of that line of thinking from the forum that gets outraged over pig slaughter in Korea. It's a genuine dilemma for me. As others have said, money is green and don't turn down a job if can't afford to. On the other hand, you're helping out a criminal cult.

I think I'm gonna find out more about the job, anyway...

Nah, dude, I think Scientology is fucking stupid and would tell them to shove their legs in their ass or something. You're allowed to do what you want though.

Who cares, business is business.

Morons are morons.

People will join/not join regardless of what you do.

Why are you posting in bold?

Don't do it

They have a tendency to give very little or no money to people who work for them (and/or lure them into "auditing" and seminars)

Plus, they might keep bugging you. Your adress might be added to a database and it will never be removed.

But it's up to you, i guess

Really don't do it if you don't feel good about it, if it's against your moral/ethical principles

Here is an interesting BBC documentary from 2006/2007 where John Sweeney investigates and confronts the Scientology HQ. There's even a point where they piss him of so much that he snaps and starts screaming:

This is a new doc from 2010, where John Sweeney interviews former high ranking Scientologists (including someone that he confronted in 2006)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDGikPmEyw

Just to show how shady the cult is

Well obviously they've seen this thread and now you're fucked.

How have they caused human deaths?

the followers are not allowed to use medication or something

  On 4/25/2011 at 12:38 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

the followers are not allowed to use medication or something

That was restricted to 'psychofarmaceuticals', right? If there is one point to be made for scientology it is their opposition to medicalizing psychological treatment, imo.

dont give those fucknerds any attention other than ridicule.

  On 4/25/2011 at 12:35 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

How have they caused human deaths?

Think that might be what is referred to.