 
Umbound
Member
Username: Umbound
Post Number: 126
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 11:47 pm: |    |
Does anyone know whats going on with that, is there progress? I am not a scientologist or anything and no offense to anybody on here that is. but is there even enough here in the region to attend? |
Dtowncitylover
Member
Username: Dtowncitylover
Post Number: 96
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 11:59 pm: | |
Wasn't there one in Southfield? I never knew they were going to open shop in Detroit. Where would be their HQ? |
Matt
Member
Username: Matt
Post Number: 1262
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 12:27 am: | |
Raymond James building. |
Dannyv
Member
Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 183
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 12:32 am: | |
The Scientologists have a building on the northeast corner of Middlebelt/12 Mile Road, on Middlebelt just north of the gas station. |
Markopolo
Member
Username: Markopolo
Post Number: 24
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:06 am: | |
The Scientologists use to have a downtown Detroit facility in the 1970s and early 1980s. They were located on the west side of Griswold between Lafayette and Fort. |
Umbound
Member
Username: Umbound
Post Number: 127
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 10:29 am: | |
I think they purchased a building a year ago on the corner of Jefferson and Griswold i think. i remember seeing the article on the front page of the free press. I think now it would be pretty neat to have another religious institution downtown, rather than in the 70's, with all the development now, just adds more people. |
Strathcona
Member
Username: Strathcona
Post Number: 10
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 10:33 am: | |
Yes--as Matt already pointed out, the Raymond James Building. |
Olddetroiter
Member
Username: Olddetroiter
Post Number: 153
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 10:43 am: | |
I think they used to have one in Royal Oak a couple blocks east of downtown. They're not there anymore though. |
Sturge
Member
Username: Sturge
Post Number: 248
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 10:59 am: | |
I haven't noticed any activity at the Raymond James Building. Not sure whats going on. |
Fmstack
Member
Username: Fmstack
Post Number: 61
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
Any other city and I'd be glad to see the Scientologists exiled to the far suburbs (as they were when they lost their lease on a downtown place in the city I used to live in). Here in Detroit, though, I'd be glad to see them set up shop downtown -- the city needs more weird activity, most of the locals don't have enough money for Scientology to try to scam them, and it'd be great to have more of the folks they _do_ want to scam coming downtown. Hell, maybe some local scammers could pick up some cash off of them while they were in town to give money to the Scienos. |
Jjaba
Member
Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6450
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 11:59 am: | |
Fmstack, are you saying Scientology is the onliest scam in the name of religion?
jjaba. |
Umbound
Member
Username: Umbound
Post Number: 128
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:04 pm: | |
I didnt know it was the Raymond James Building my bad. |
Rustic
Member
Username: Rustic
Post Number: 3241
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:09 pm: | |
religious adaptive reuse ... a Detroit tradition ... |
Irish_mafia
Member
Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 1278
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:13 pm: | |
So, say I have a vision of Aliens next week and decide to start a religion based on that, and then decide the Most Holy Temple of Stilton Cheese Orb will be located on the very spot of my home, and the Aliens in my head told me that as holder of the great key, I must maintain my residence in the great tabernacle....Can I stop paying taxes? |
Sean_of_detroit
Member
Username: Sean_of_detroit
Post Number: 266
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:54 pm: | |
Yes, if enough people believe you.
Wow, the Raymond James Building. That is a very prominent (and probably expensive) location. Good to see them downtown I guess.
All the talk I do about judging others, I won't comment on these folks (plus I've heard to many horror stories about what happens to people who criticize them). |
Lefty2
Member
Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1368
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 7:39 pm: | |
they got it 4 a cool 3.25 mil. It is probably an investment. They have so much money they have to put it somewhere. BTW, it is a cult business not a religion. |
Gumby
Member
Username: Gumby
Post Number: 1741
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 9:27 pm: | |
quote:BTW, it is a cult business not a religion.
Easy with the name calling. There was a time when Christianity was considered a cult. While I may not believe what they believe it is hard to argue with their right to exist. |
Gumby
Member
Username: Gumby
Post Number: 1742
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 9:29 pm: | |
Plus knowing the church of Scientology they will probably sue you and get this site shut down just because they were mentioned. |
Gistok
Member
Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6915
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 9:54 pm: | |
Hmmm.... wonder if that's what happened to that "other" website... or maybe Steve Yzerman saw his name and Avatar on that site and sued to get it shut down... don't know really... |
Mike
Member
Username: Mike
Post Number: 1385
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 11:58 pm: | |
the limited info that i read about scientology seems kinda strange and far fetched, but the again, the stories that belong to monotheisim are just as far fetched.
i welcome them to downtown. |