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The Best Scientology Fundraising Event Is A Front-Page-Headline Disaster – Paris Edition

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Scientology is busily engaged in one of their favorite pass-times.

Using a tragedy to squeeze money out of people. And you can bet the below example is just one of many pitches being made. The IAS is no doubt having a great week.

As I commented earlier today, the scientology fundraisers motto is: The best type of fundraising event is a front-page-headline tragedy.

Here are a few facts:

  • WTH booklets cost about 10c a piece to print, so the 250,000 copies for Paris is a $25,000 investment. Double it for inefficiency, shipping and handling and call it $50,000.
  • The WTH Foundation sells packets of 12 booklets for $18 – here is the price from their website.CaptureWTH
  • The 250,000 copies will require “donations” of 250,00/2 x 18 = $375,000
  • This will mean the WTH Fdn makes about $300,000 on this little caper
  • The 250,000 copies will require “donations” of 250,00/2 x 18 = $375,000
  • This will mean the WTH Fdn makes about $300,000 on this little caper
  • So, one might ask, why doesn’t the IAS chip in some petty cash and just fund this whole thing? After all, a measly $50,000 (they would not pay full price for the booklets, unlike the sheeple who donate) isn’t even the interest they make on their billion dollars of reserves in two days (At 1% interest they would make $10 million/year or about $200,000 per week).
  • After all, the IAS promotes that everyone’s donations are funding the “4th Dynamic Campaigns” that are “changing the world.”

Now, let’s take a closer look at what this pitch is actually asking for.

 

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The corny Statue of Liberty intro has nothing to do with the price of fish.

She then talks about how the booklets “soothes” and “helps bolster the hearts and minds”  of “these people whose  lives are still in the aftermath of this terrible situation.”

Then she points out how the “common sense” of the WTH is needed, especially “Do Not Murder” and “Do Not Harm A Person Of Goodwill.”

Is this woman mad? She thinks the VICTIMS need to be reminded “not to murder” and “not to harm people of goodwill.” Maybe she should add a precept, “Do Not Get Yourself Shot” — that should help them too.

Does she actually think that preaching to the people of Paris to live good lives is going to solve the problem of terrorism?

Caralyn, here is a clue for you.

The terrorists are not being bred in France.

Why isn’t your booklet distribution being planned for the source of the problem in the Middle East?

Because you know it would be a total failure and people would see these booklet handouts do nothing. They are NOT going to change the minds of mass-murderers. And advice to their victims about eating well and keeping their teeth clean just isn’t in the ballpark, or even zipcode, or in this case, country.

So, it’s easier to just toss off any old pitch. As long as you make it sound like you are “applying LRH tech” to handle a situation, it MUST be the right thing to do.

The sad part is that she will probably collect a lot of money. Most of it will be wasted. Some booklets will be printed. They may even be handed out. And if they don’t end up in the trash can or gutter, they will be addressing entirely the wrong public. But who cares, stats will be up this week, and they are probably hoping for a bigger disaster next week so their stats can be up again peddling WTH to solve the next typhoon to hit the Philippines.

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  1. Or as Spock said, “live long an prosper”. As for passing out booklets in the Middle East, they can always use paper products for various things, ie tp, passing notes, paper airplanes, and map drawing.

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  2. yep wrong target, plus they don’t need the whole booklet, just little fortune cookies with the one stupid precept that applies to the victims:

    “be willing to experience anything”

    silly paris, just accept this brilliant and universal solution, be willing to be bomb victims and you’ll be happy!

    BOOM i can feel the stats rising, they’re all going to jump in tone straight up and vertical when they read that, then rush into the orgs and start a course! better flag train paris staff to prepare for this massive inflow of public!

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  3. “Do not harm a person of goodwill” – what the hell does that actually mean?

    Feel free to harm a person that you judge is NOT of goodwill? Who gets to decide who is of goodwill and who is not of goodwill?

    Isn’t that exactly the rule that the terrorists are following anyway? They judge us to be attacking them and to be against their extreme religious views, so according to the precept it is perfectly acceptable to harm us.

    The reality of course is that Hubbard also wrote policies encouraging people to be attacked (his enemies), so he could hardly outright forbid people being harmed. His definition of “goodwill” was goodwill towards him.

    It reminds me of the nonsense in the “Code of Honor”:

    “Never fear to hurt another in a just cause” – WTF? Sounds like a terrorist code of honor.

    “Never withdraw allegiance once granted” – why the hell not? I’m allowed to change my mind – everyone is!

    “Never desert a group to which you owe your support.” – who decides whether I owe my support? Oh yes, Hubbard does.

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  4. A world at war where fundraisers can profit and COB is free to rise to greater heights
    These are the aims of Seizemoreology
    First announced to a Psych infested world
    These goals are well within the grasp of our chicanery
    And may a new cash flow come upon you and those you “love”
    And we are regging and profiting and will continue to reg and profit from here on out
    Your help should be more acceptable to us
    Our help is not yours to question

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  5. So true that the money for these booklets could be taken from the IAS treasury. Of course, if there were not money to made by fundraising, they would not even bother to print or to distribute the booklets. I would think that even a non-Scientologist Parisian who was unfortunate enough to receive one these booklets would quickly conclude “How is this going to help our friends and our nation to recover?” This effort to extend a helping hand is pretentious.

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  6. Question if you’re a good scientologist who always donates and takes their courses but one day when they ask for more money say no unless they can prove the money is helping, what would be the response you would receive? Would they punish you? I would assume they still want your money so how would you be handled?

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  8. Dave,

    Carefull. CHARLIE HEBDO may do a parody of your WTH Campaign in Paris. It’s been over a decade since you were featured on the cover of the weekly publication. This week you were bumped by their parody of ISIS. However, this week’s cover does have a vague simbulance of you oozing whisky from your pores.

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    • “Oracle, you should know better. Don Larson is an SP, not to be believed, and a dilettante as he plays the cello when he should be getting others to back command intention by supporting COB and the IAS. He used church funds to purchase the cello you see him playing in this video and was let go for malfeasance and out 2D.”

      GI – International Spokesperson for Expansion

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  10. It may be the FP for the $300,000:
    FSM $30,000
    COB $199,000 (For his brilliant idea)
    Printing: $2,500
    Hand distribution: $1.00 for the lot
    Remainder: Classified information

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  11. Slightly off topic…

    10 Acceptable questions in Scientology:

    1. Where is the reg?
    2. Where is the LRH reference for…?
    3. How can I do more for the church?
    4. Can I come in on weekends?
    5. Could I bring my friends in for a lecture?
    6. I’m not staff, but could I give COB a present for his birthday?
    7. How can I help handle critics?
    8. I’d like to help with the updating of Central Files. Who do I see?
    9. Can I do some body routing when I’m not on course or auditing?
    10. How would I go about upping my IAS status?

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      • Hi BlindersOff, I love your posts. Individual, and always spicy. Thank you. As to the updating of CF, I would love to help as I did so many years ago, All the time @ Asho. However now if I get stuck in the files with low light and no air, this time I’m out of there in a nano second. Plus seeing carbons of my old letters would give me a bad case of laughter and fainting combined! Love Always Ann.

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  13. so a religious fundamentalist group wants to stop another religious fundamentalist group. I vote we send the “pope of scientology” to have a sit-down with those ISIS guys… with his fabulous communication skills, what could possibly go wrong? he’ll have them signing their billion year contracts in no time!

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  14. I’d like to suggest that Scientology distributes these booklets to Daesh members in Syria. These are the people who need to be reminded not to kill – not Parisians.

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  15. Miscavige and his minions are nothing but a bunch of heartless, opportunistic THIEVES who would not hesitate to rob their elderly grandmothers of their last penny.

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  17. So Scientologists believe that you must pay for any help you receive. It’s the whole thing about exchange. Sorry if I don’t use the proper CoS terms.

    Because of this they want parishioners to pay full retail price for the TWTH booklets.

    But then they give these booklets out for free. So following their own beliefs, the people who are getting the booklets for free are ‘out exchange.’ Do they not see the problem there?

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  18. This is what keeps the fire burning in my heart to help expose the TRUTH about this awful group of low-life human beings.

    Thanks for sharing.

    What percentage does Int Management end up taking of everything?

    Everyone gets a cut.

    There should be a cartoon of how that $300,000 gets divided. It’s been too long for me to remember how FP#1 breaks down.

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  19. I’m waiting for the inevitable follow up…..’there have no more follow up terrorist attacks in France since the distribution of 10,000,000 TWTH books! LRH technology in action!’

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  21. I also remember Bernard and Caralyn Percy as good people.
    But good people who suffer from the willful blindness that KSW encourages; first the censorship, that evolves to self-censorship that is destructive of truth and goodness.
    Group delusion is a powerful force, whether it is found in ISIS, or Scientology.

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    • Group delusion, indeed, Len. I remember it well in Hawai’i while on staff. No one is allowed to stray from the Group delusion. This is NOT a think for yourself cult.

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  23. Exactly my thought Mike, wrong target. This one should be Isis, not he victims.

    But what can we add man, after all wrong target is an SP characteristic.

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  24. The Scientology fundraising screed says we should “returning the flow” to France in return for their gift of the Statue of Liberty. But I think we repaid France when we pulled her chestnuts out of the fire in WWII, and we don’t owe that debt anymore. Now we should help France for purely humanitarian reasons.

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    • Unfortunately, scientologists are “trained” to believe that you can’t help someone just for the sake of being kind, that would be aiding a downstat.

      Which, BTW. is why all their VM causes fall so flat. They are not able, by the dogma of their own religion, to offer aid to someone who is in need. The person has to pay them for the help they need.

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  26. When I first read TWH I thought it was either theetie weetie or Hubbard was describing how low our society had fallen. I went with theetie weetie. I felt Hubbard was calling us a bunch of idiots who can’t remember to brush our teeth. It was obvious to me Hubbard had stolen a lot of those precepts from my parents.

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    • It wasn’t even written by him. He supervised and approved the final document but didn’t actually write it himself. This from a very reliable source. It makes for a great fire-starter either way.

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    • Hubbard was condescending. Some of these precepts could be found in a children’s book. And Potpie, he was calling us a bunch of idiots who can’t remember to brush out teeth. Why just the other day….(looking in the mirror)…OMG!!! I just realized I haven’t brushed my teeth in years! I gotta get a copy of that book to remind me how to live my life….

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    • TWTH is actually not such a bad book.

      Clearly, it is written in a voice that is as if one were talking to a child who would need instruction in such things that most people take as common sense.

      You, and most people, innately understand what is moral behavior and what is not.

      But there actually are people in the world that really are that morally low and need this level of instruction in morals, and there are others who have adopted self-serving ideological or extremist religious moral codes that have messed up their thinking on the subject of what is good and successful behavior to get along in society. (Sound familiar anyone?)

      There is absurd irony that the guy that created one of the biggest mindfuck-ologies in modern times would be the same guy that wrote this basically ok moral guide for simpletons.

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      • Here’s how useful a booklet of shallow aphorisms is for impacting anyone’s morals: The guy whose name is on the cover was one of most morally corrupt people of note in the 20th century. It’s not a good book. Because of the alleged author’s name of the cover, it’s a book of lies. Furthermore, the idea that its distribution has any impact on society is a lie.

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        • Actually I disagree. “Do Not Murder”, although an excruciatingly obvious thing for anyone with even a barely functioning moral compass, is not “a shallow aphorism”.

          I agree with you that the distribution of TWTH in society has very little impact in the general population.

          Your statement that, because of the alleged author’s name (Hubbard) on the cover that “it’s a book of lies” is a fallacy.

          Things that scoundrels say are not necessarily false just because they were uttered by a scoundrel. If Hitler said, “objects fall because of gravity”, that would still be a factual statement.

          There. I said “Hitler” so we should be done with this now.

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      • ” But there actually are people in the world that really are that morally low and need this level of instruction in morals,”

        You mean the good folks in the Cult and the precept “seek to live with the truth”?

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      • The Way To Happiness IS written with the idea in mind that children could be reading it. I never found it condescending.

        I was brought up in a nice suburban town of comfortable middle class parents. Of course I was taught to brush my teeth and keep myself organized and clean and drug free, of course I went to Sunday school, and learned the 10 Commandments, and of course I was taught basic manners. Like many American children most of the precepts of the WTH (not the booklet itself, but the concepts in it) pretty much drilled into me from an early age, as a matter of course. Everyone was taught not to lie, rob, steal, kill, to not sleep around, to be trustworthy, to not do anything illegal, etc., etc. etc. Everyone I grew up with was taught these things.

        The key word here is “taught”.

        When I got older I saw a good deal of the US, I lived outside of the US, including a 3rd world country for a few years, and that’s when I learned that a huge number of children are NOT necessarily taught these concepts by their parents or caretakers.

        I know for a fact that there are plenty of poor, ignorant children – not unintelligent, just ignorant, brought up in unspeakable poverty – who, if they could read WTH, if they could be gotten into a condition where they were well fed, well rested and non-PTP’d about their survival enough, and if they then read and understand WTH, would find it a helpful book. It would be new news to them, reading it, including, yes, brush your teeth.

        Just because WTH isn’t going to work during a tragedy doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its uses, IMO. It really is helpful and useful information, and just because we were steeped in its concepts from babyhood doesn’t mean that we should sneer at what it actually says, because what it says overall makes a lot of sense, IMO, and I frankly don’t see how anyone could go wrong living by what it says.

        And if LRH didn’t write it, I personally do not care. In the long view of one life after another, all that matters is that something either works, or it doesn’t. In my opinion.

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    • Yep, Valerie, you’re right. They are terrorists trying to profit off a terrorist act. What slim balls. Nothing is beneath them. NOTHING…

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  28. Hi BlindersOff, Thank you extremely sick shit indeed! As I read the bit about WTH booklets soothing people and helping them through the latest tragedy, well I am glad David was not in front of me! Disgusting what cos does and says in the name of $. Liars and no soul left and the ones still in must believe they are right and the rest of the world is wrong. Thing do change yet stay the same as pertains to cos. Also damn when in Sea Org Somewhere Over the Rainbow was made my theme song because I was so green in Sea Org and so believed in Ron. Now I hate that song with all it’s implication. Love, Ann.

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  29. Reminds me of the “Donate so Dianetics can be translated and produced in 50 languages”. I talked to someone who worked on the production end of the release. Of course Miscavige showed at an event all 50 languages all laid out. In truth most languages only had 100 copies produced with VERY bad translations. For some of the languages, only the book covers were produced and then put over the pages of some other language. It was just one huge money making con job. What else is new.

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    • “Mat Pesch is an outright liar. The books were all fully translated and distributed to all the countries mentioned and helped millions of people, giving them hope in a sometimes hopeless world that cares little for their well being. Mat was removed from post when he was caught taking church funds to buy a new Porsche. Please visit whoismatpesch.com”

      GI – International Spokesperson for Expansion

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  30. Davie’s plan presupposes that these books will actually be printed and delivered in France. Print just enough for local distribution, forget the rest. Who will know?

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  31. If the booklet has any value at all it is probably with children. It stands as a rare instance in which Hubbard expressed ideas in a grammatically and logically sound way. Children can use it to gain practice with their reading skills. Besides, it doesn’t to my knowledge contain anything objectionable. Otherwise it’s an obvious advertisement for scientology and a rather offensive one too. It speaks condescendingly to the adult reader who doesn’t need to be told things that fall deeply within the parameters of common fucking sense. Passing these gems out by the thousands only further exacerbates peoples’ contempt for scientology especially in the context of tragic events.

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    • “If the booklet has any value at all it is probably with children. It stands as a rare instance in which Hubbard expressed ideas in a grammatically and logically sound way.”

      TC : I feel the same way ; The WTH is an excellent tool for children.I use it with my own daughter to clear good v/s wrong issues with her as I find it non-religious enough , and more inclined towards common sense than to rigid morality. It is almost impossible to live a life of suffering and losses if one follow those precepts. I am a student of philosophy (self-taught) and have studied a lot of philosophic systems , and I got to admit that this little booklet has the summarized wisdom of ancient wise men.

      The booklet works better as a preventive and educational tool that works rather slowly over period of months or years instead of a tool to handle immediate disasters and upsets. The only tool for that is lots of compassion , emotional support , you know , just being there. In harsh times like these what people want is to be listened to , being showed affection and empathy , and just being there offering our shoulder to cry upon while we just remain there QUIET , please.

      “Children can use it to gain practice with their reading skills. Besides, it doesn’t to my knowledge contain anything objectionable.”

      TC : Nothing objectionable at all , but a lot of good survival points.

      ” Otherwise it’s an obvious advertisement for scientology and a rather offensive one too.”

      TC : Not only offensive , but such a stupid move that lack any knowledge of correct Public relations , and shows as well an individuation from real life.

      “It speaks condescendingly to the adult reader who doesn’t need to be told things that fall deeply within the parameters of common fucking sense.”

      TC : You’ll be surprised , dear Roger , how many adults forgets these “common” sense precepts , and live a life of constant violations to this code , suffering all kinds of mental and emotional disorders (not mental illnesses).

      “Passing these gems out by the thousands only further exacerbates peoples’ contempt for scientology especially in the context of tragic events.”

      TC : It just shows it to be a cult , actually , as only a cult can pull out something like that. In difficult times like these , people respond better to the general notion of prayers , which at least gives some hope of a better tomorrow , a sense of compassion and empathy , and a sense of spirituality.

      I am really bored with all this stuff already. I no longer find any purpose in dealing with these issues regarding Scientology’s value or lack thereof , the fight against DM and the CofS , and the usefulness or lack thereof of Scientology as a subject used by Indies.

      While reading the many comments at this blog -which violently attacks ANYTHING having to do with Scn and LRH REGARDLESS of the actual validity of the subject matter- , and other blogs such as MS2 – that thinks now that I am a OSA operative trying to do Lana in- (right Kfrancis ?) , I can’t avoid losing interest in all this. This is all a very crazy scene indeed , from both extremes ; a totally pointless fight. I am never interested in fights , but only in rehabilitation and understanding.

      So , any good friends that I have made here , please , feel free and totally welcome to communicate with me at any time about anything , even to just say hello.My comm lines are open to anybody here REGARDLESS of your beliefs or whether you support or not Scn and LRH. I have no prerequisites for friendship besides asking of my friends to try to have a kind and helping attitude toward your fellow beings ; that’s all. But even if you don’t , I won’t ever reject you , but attempt instead to show you ways that might improve your life.

      I hope that each one of you ; Antis , Indies , Never-ins , Scientologists , Exes , find your true path to enlightenment , that you can heal any pain associated with your involvement with Scn and move on in your life , and that each one of you can fully embrace for yourselves AND others , the fundamental truths of the Human Rights. See you around.

      With love ,
      Peter Torres
      thetaclear68@yahoo.com

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      • Thanks Peter. I agree with a great deal of what you have written here. I too think the WTH is something that is NOT at all harmful. Just because L. Ron Hubbard wrote it, doesn’t automatically make it bad. I think it tends to point in the direction that Hubbard may well have been crazy and had messianic delusions, but at the same time he actually believed that what he was doing was helping people. This is not the mad ranting of the Pain and Sex HCOB. It is quite mild, sober and gentle. He didn’t write it for self-aggrandizement it seems, otherwise he would have had his name on it.

        I agree that much of the commentary here and at other sites is not going to change the world. I wish I had time to properly moderate things and really read them and respond or edit. I don’t. But I do think there is value in people expressing their views and those being generally available.

        I try to keep this blog as a source of factual information about the true reality of scientology as a balance for the steady stream, of lies they put forth.

        But I also increasingly think that this is no longer such a vital function to be performed for the media, though it may well still be important for people “on the fence.”

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        • When a “religion” advocates the use of “fair game”, destroying families with their disconnection policy, enforced abortion at INT level, the cult leader resorting to beating up his staff and subjecting them to horrible conditions of the hole and RPF etc., I cannot support anything it does or it’s supposed technology. It needs to be destroyed.

          Thetaclear, I think you should research the stories of the families the church has destroyed due to their disconnection policy. Anyone with a heart or care for human rights should feel disgust towards the C of S. I have read many of these stories on line and often they can bring one nearly to tears.

          You stated above that you hope “that you can heal any pain associated with your involvement with Scn and move on in your life..”
          That is hard to do when you just had your son disconnect from you and 1/2 of ones family also not communicating with you. How does one “heal” when they are still being kicked in nuts?

          I’m not even going to discuss the tech. I wont even mention the state LRH was in when he passed. To each his own as far as what they want to believe. It isn’t for me and as mentioned above, I cannot condone any religion that partakes in such horrible actions that this cult does and I’m amazed that anyone else does.

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          • Clearlypissedoff, where do you get the idea that anyone here is condoning the abuses you have just named?

            No one is condoning ANY of this.

            What Peter said about the healing of pain associated with Co$ involvement, and moving on with life has NOTHING to do with CONDONING what the cult did!

            You asked, “How does one ‘heal’ when they are still being kicked in the nuts?”

            That’s a very good question, and one that almost everyone here is attempting to answer for themselves as regards his or her involvement with Co$.

            I can only speak for myself, and how I have healed but before I do I’m disclosing to you that Co$ did NOT hurt me the way it hurt you and many others like you in that I did not lose loved ones to disconnection and fair game, nor was I threatened or hurt financially as a result of this cult’s vicious policies as have many of the participants of this blog.

            I left because i had disagreements about policy not being carried out as it was written. .Sounds kind of bland, but it was enough, for me. What was being done was so disparate from what was written that should be done, and it bothered me, and made me distrustful, which made me get on the Internet…need I say more?

            So, “healing”, from Co$? Not much of an issue for me.

            I have had the experience of being deliberately, treacherously, maliciously hurt in my life which resulted in tragedy and loss of loved one. You’ll have to take my word that what was done to me was severely shocking and damaging to me and fatal to someone else. The pain lasted a long time and for many years afterward I was grief stricken and angry and bitter. A good portion of my young adult years was spent dealing with this.

            Yet I did heal once I could look at what happened very clearly, once I could recognize my own part in it, once I was able to stop blaming and hating others and most of all myself. None of this had anything to do with condoning what was done. What was done was not, is not, and will never be “OK”. But, at some point, I decided that I wanted to be happy again. I decided that I could be, that it was possible. And I moved on.

            Easier said than done. Believe me, I get it, Seriously, I do. Don’t be angry with me, please. You’re in pain, and I’m sorry if this stuff I’ve written sounds like I;ve been preaching to you. That wasn’t the intention. My only (very long winded) point is that although it may seem unreal now, there is still life in you, probably plenty of it, and, as Yogi Bera put it, “Nothing is over until its over”.

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            • Hi Aquamarine, You are a shining star and I will always love you. With cos each of us may not agree on all our points of view and that is as it should be. Yet all of us here, that I know of, we made it out with all our spirit and in my case, most of my sanity! As I posted before we are links in a chain forged in fire and we do have the power. And on 11/23 I will do my cancer test with a big smile, you are a big part of that change. Love Always, Ann.

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            • Aquamarine,

              My post was directed at ThetaClear. I took offence to some of his comments. He stated…”I am really bored with all this stuff already. I no longer find any purpose in dealing with these issues regarding Scientology’s value or lack thereof , the fight against DM and the CofS , and the usefulness or lack thereof of Scientology as a subject used by Indies..”

              “I no longer find any purpose in…the fight against DM and the C of S…” My comments was an attempt to make him see a purpose. Right or wrong, I see the C of S as Black or white/good or bad. Yes, I’m a bit of a hard-ass – perhaps from my “wonderful” SO training.

              My father (god bless his soul) spent every cent he had since 1953 until his death buying services. Dragged his children (myself included) out of school to join the Apollo to the end result of a lunatic offloading all of us (actually, thanks DM for doing that). And now after all of this, I’ve lost relationships with many family members. LRH and DM can produce TWTH and tell people to brush their teeth and not murder anyone and think they are changing the world. They should include in this booklet – don’t play dirty tricks on people, don’t destroy families etc. The hypocrisy of this booklet coming from this criminal cult alone is shocking.

              I’m sorry for your loss as I am anyone’s loss and I’m glad you have healed. You sound like a very kind person and I’m not at all angry at you.

              I only post on this site if I want to respond to someone at all hinting that to fight the cult is boring (Thetaclear) or a waste of time or if someone posts that they want to get out of cult or get someone else out of it. Mike does a good enough job without my comments.

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              • Hi clearlypissedoff, Thank you for your post. What happened to you and yours resonated greatly for me. My feeling did I love Ron and his family with a total burning desire to be in the Sea Org forever? Yes I did. Then why did I blow? Because I found out the hard way, white hats do turn black and sometimes never turn back. This was part of Ron’s World too, and from what I gather here David’s as well.I understand as much as I can from your post how all that happened affected you. Same thing for me. The echoes are lessening but I still have nightmares of my last months in Sea Org. Not fun. Love, Ann.

        • Dear Theta Clear, Thank you for the beautiful post. I definitely would like to talk with you in the future. I have found your comments very insightful. Scientology is not as black and white as the ins, indies or never ins would have one think.

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          • ThetaClear, thank you for that beautiful post. It is so important that we maintain the ability to make distinctions between what is helpful and what is harmful, not only in Scientology but in everything and everyone. Easier said than done, I know, for anyone who is suffering due to the harm it has wrought. Nothing is all bad or all good. No one is all good or all bad. Absolutes do not exist, which is why we need to be recognize and weed out the good from the bad, and vice versa.

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      • Peter, the booklet came out with much fanfare at the height of my scientology brainwash. I was very disappointed when I read it. It was devoid of insight, inspiration, wit or any kind of pizzaz.
        It was like drinking tepid tap water. I do not for a fleeting moment think that book fills a need not more than adequately met by watching reruns of The Andy Griffith Show.

        Hubbard’s little foray into the world of “morals for the average man” is a FLUNK! It clearly shows a man out of his element on two counts: 1. the average man, 2. morals. Peter, I dare say if you decided to execute a similar project it would be filled with all sorts of delightful pleasures and would be a thought-provoking epistle.

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        • Roger, fear not. There’ll be a new Way To Happiness with the release of GAT 3. I’ll give you a couple gems of what’s in the pipeline. First, there was a major alter-is in the title as it really should be The Wages of Happiness. Secondly, in addition to Brush Your Teeth, there’s also the omitted companion datum of Don’t Forget To Floss. The original transcriber had a major dental aberration and was trying to run his case (false teeth) on the world. Needless to say, he’s in The Hole. That’s all for now – hope this helps.

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          • LOL! Thank you Blinders, in other words, it shall be “as Ron intended”.
            I hope the Golden Age Edition admonishes us to say, “please” and “thank-you” and to regularly check our posture. I of course don’t need to be reminded of those things but as usual, my concerns are for those INFERIOR to myself as I’m trying to improve this world. 🙂

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    • Maybe in 1st world countries it can be read by children (but I hear the literacy rate in USA is not too great either).

      Trust me, that book is WAY above the literacy level of many University students in this country (South Africa and probably 99% of Africa that is). Most of the people I have seen sit in front of those public PSA’s literally start doping off after the 2nd precept. I’ve seen streets and fares/public events literally strewn with these booklets – and piles of them dumped in garbage cans after eager-beaver SCN embark on zany gung-ho-stat-push distribution frenzies.

      David Lurie (Charmaine Dekiewits brother) is back here in South Africa bragging about a container-load of WTH having just arrived which is “going to change the face of Africa”. Yeah – with more landfill, that is. Not too long ago there was a HUGE PR flap when 1000’s of WTH booklets where found in dumpsters behind police stations. My message to Mr. Lurie? Been there, done that, mate. Go home.

      As for Paris – what a bloody insult. Like oil over troubled waters?? Please – more like flames to the fuel. .

      That book was NOT written for who it was intended. Good idea perhaps, but WAY WAY WAY over the heads of it’s intended audience.

      I mean FFS – what average terrorist/gangster or criminal is (a) going to understand the word goodwill, or (b) show it to those he’s robbing/dealing/killing – from which his livelihood is derived??

      Yeah – I’m all for SCN sending a gift in reciprocation – why not take all the WTH booklets left and make a papier-mâché statue of Mt. Rushmore for their Parisian friends or something??

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    • They don’t translate it “La voie au bonheur” (the way to happiness) but “Le chemin du bonheur” (the road *from* happiness). It’s good to know their grammatical and semantic skills are as good in French as in English.

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      • I knew it! I knew is was the “Road FROM Happiness!” I just knew it! With their grammar, the French will know it too!

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  33. This plan to distribute books is indicative of the insanity of the entire group. Anyone not totally brainwashed by scn can see this. What an insult to the courageous and strong people of France. Scilons are trapped in their bubble. I am surprised they allowed themselves to read the news about the attacks. Just ” so much entheta.”

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  34. http://www.screencast.com/t/GOWKXFX9Jh (past work is at TWTH, present is a singer.
    https://www.facebook.com/caralyn.percy (when the Church see this, it will be updated.)
    https://www.facebook.com/bernard.percy.3?fref=ts
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDo8EaEYE0 (In this video, Caralyn is front and center, her daughter is to her right.)

    Caralyn has been singing at Scn graduations and ABLE events for years and years. Her crowd pleaser was always “Somewhere, Over the Rainbow”. Husband Bernard has been an Applied Scholastics spokesperson since their beginning.

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  35. 99.999% sure that Caralyn is old time Applied Scholastics International spokesperson Bernard Percy’s spouse. He’s been a spokesperson for them since the early 70’s.

    https://www.facebook.com/caralyn.percy

    https://www.facebook.com/bernard.percy.3?fref=ts

    Interesting to note that, at the moment I am posting this at least, working at Applied Scholastics International is listed as Caralyn’s work in the past. That now she is a professional freelance musician: http://www.screencast.com/t/MNo1f6j9yxa

    I am pretty sure that one of their daughters is an exec at the C of S in Harlem. I, and a few other regulars here at “Mike’s Org”, were friends of her in the RPF. At the moment I cannot remember her name. In this video, Caralyn is front and center, her daughter is to her right (our left). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDo8EaEYE0

    Caralyn has for years been a welcome guest at PAC, NY, and probably Flag graduations. I imagine that she has often sang at ABLE events. Her crowd pleaser was always “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.

    Caralyn, Bernard, their daughter; I was always happy to see them for many reasons. Just good people, doing their best for the effort. They’ve averted their eyes away from anything wrong with the church and justified it that they just don’t even see these things, is my guess.

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  38. It is outright revolting, sickening, …I have no words to express my indignation. I was at the concert hall where one of the shootings took place, but in June. Last Winter. My wife and I went to one of the restaurants where people where shot in the terrace. A friend’s cousin died in this tragedy, I heard the voice of a friend of one of my students, a twenty year old girl who was shot twice in the back and is now recovering from her wounds. This is very close to us here, we heard the sirens, the shootings and the explosions here. So, the cult of greed jumps on the occasion of a human tragedy, to make money on stupid, useless booklets, made on slave labour so that it can keep harassing critics and paying fancy corrupt lawyers to tactically defend the undefendable in court.
    There is one spot that describes this on the tone scale: it is 1.1 they say they help but in fact they don’t,
    Who is taking on Isis: Anonymous! They took Twiter accounts down, hacked their computers, exposed their bank accounts. With the billions of dollars it has, the cult of greed could, if it were a church, provide drinkable water, medical aid, education and shelter to the people in the Middle East. Then, something positive and of goodwill would have been achieved.
    With love from Paris.

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  39. Sick, very sick. I used to think I understood the mindset of your average loyal scio fanatic. What is the nature of this new breed of true believer? Naive? Clueless? I wonder, but I’m beginning to think that the scio of today requires a new look. Who can get into their twisted heads these days? Whatever the answer, I’m not sure if I would want to even try.

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    • Murray, you forgot ‘fundamentalist.’ Just like radical Islam and hundreds of other radical groups. They are fundamentalists. They are literallist.

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  40. WTH booklets in return for the Statue of Liberty. Talk about crappy exchange! A real slap in the face. Graceless. Grotesque.

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  41. If it was about help, the booklets would be sold at 20 cents each to distribute as many as possible.
    I asked similar questions whenever they asked me to buy something. The answer was: “The prices are so high, because we need to finance our expansion. Don’t you want to support our expansion? ”
    The catch is that if you answer “no” you will definitely receive a knowledge report, which means a lot of trouble.

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  42. Another PRIMO suggestion … and this one will REALLY handle things. Just get ISIS to twin with the nation of islam on the srd! And I’m not even asking for an fsm commish … wait … on second thought …

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    • Scientology creates so much waste! What about the environment? It should be illegal to just indiscriminately distribute these stupid pamphlets. They could just pay for a few big billboards, TV ads and big newspaper ads if they REALLY wanted to promote WTH precepts. We know they don’t, though- that silly promo is such a transparent opportunity for them to promote their cult. Shame on them and their shameless exploitation and disregard for the environment by overproducing garbage and creating litter and garbage. Man, I can’t wait till they get their tax exemption taken away and DM goes to jail.

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      • I agree that Scientology has a lack of regard for the environment. But critics cherry pick on this. Open any trash can in america and you are much more likely to find Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, fast food containers and plastic water bottles.

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  43. Dave, how’s this idea? As a new “fourth dynamic pre -req” to be on lines, all Scientologists now have to commit to an automatic monthly credit card charge of $180 to fund 100 TWTH booklets to “calm the world.” Hey, it’s chump change (truly) . *no charge for the idea Dave. Happy to do my part in making Scientologists pay up.

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  44. Oh, to have a customer base like the Scientologists! Must be sweet, baby. 15,000 completely gullible chumps with credit cards ready to be maxed out at all times. (Though one would think that folks with severe mental disabilities would not be issued more cards)

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  45. Mike Mike Mike…….c’mon man. YOU know better than that.

    David Miscavige in his infinite wisdom shows us that ANY Scientology tech, including the Way To Happiness does not work unless you pay FULL RETAIL for it. He’s got our backs Mike! And he’s committed to making sure that maximum effectiveness in terms of case gain from the tech occurs. Thats right, the sound of the cash register means one thing….that things are getting better! Improving conditions on this planet by the artful and diligent use of RETAIL TECH takes guts, courage and electrical power. (Cash registers don’t run on eternal batteries)

    “Retail is the process of selling consumer goods and/or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.”

    Yes yes we’ve all heard the allegations. That David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology have BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO what?? WHY should the Church of Scientology GIVE ANYTHING AWAY FOR FREE?

    Free tech = free fall. It’s KSW man. Get with it and stop being a reasonable panty-waste dilettante.

    Billionaire David Miscavige is the perfect candidate to tackle ISIS. If anyone can detect an attention whore it’s David Let Him Die Miscavige. Miscavige knows ISIS is simply trying to get attention and is dramatizing this by killing lots and lots of people. Silly ISIS.

    DAVID MISCAVIGE IS GOING TO HANDLE ISIS AND HE IS GOING TO HELP PARIS RECOVER. But he needs our money. Because otherwise the tech would be sabotaged and ineffective.

    He “saved” Scientology tech from being lost forever. We all know that. With the “go ahead” from the Commodore he instituted the monthly 5% price increase (umm…I mean “donations” ) starting in the late 70’s and Scientologists have experienced stratospheric case gain in direct proportion to the rising cost of service ever since. Its the same reason he dreamed up the “six month refresher” for people on OT7. Those poor idiots auditing away on solo nots would take forever unless David Miscavige charged them twice or three times as much. You want to know how awesome David Miscavige is? Look at his bank account. THAT is how much he cares about YOU.

    I can’t believe I even have to point this out. Dollars to the church = case gain for you or case gain for those PTS people in Paris who have overts on ISIS. Sheeeesh.

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    • SP Declare: Tim Berners-Lee

      High Crime: Inventing the World Wide Web creating an avalanche of entheta causing seniors and executives serious overwork, resulting in dev-t and threatening the expansion of the Scientology religion.

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      • Absolutely, Blinders! Those poor, poor staff and SO members. Whatever will they do? How can they combat ‘Going Clear,’ ‘Troublemake’, ‘My Scientology Movie,’ and all the other books out and those coming out! They’re probably working 20 hour days now just to keep abreast. Poor, poor staff and SO…

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    • You’re right! In fact, the people of Paris should be charged for each WTH booklet they get. Otherwise, it’s out-exchange. Free service free fall.

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  46. I like the Way To Happiness booklet. I think its a useful tool and a good thing for people who are well fed, well rested, who are ready, willing and able to read it.

    Now the above would NOT include people who have sustained severe shock and loss. Such people cannot and should not be expected to READ something.

    I have some reality on what severe and sudden loss is. Now, if, back in the day, someone had approached me and offered me help by way of a booklet to read, I would have silently taken the booklet and nodded agreement until the person walked away, then dropped it on the ground and moved on.

    I was and have always been a reader. I love to read more than just about anything, and I may have been handled pearls of ancient and valuable wisdom that would change my entire life and the lives of everyone I knew for the better, but READ a booklet, in THAT state of mind? No, I don’t think so.

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  47. According to Sci orthodoxy, the victims pulled it in. They were connected to SPs. This WTH campaign is out source, clearly. People die, remember? Lisa died. The people in Paris died.

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    • OTD, you just enlightened me! Holy shit! There MUST have been hundreds if not thousands of major SP running around Paris that night! And just walking past the Parisians must have enturbulated them beyond their limit. So…that’s it! That’s what happened! Really, the bombers can’t be blamed at all. These SPs pull it in so it’s not their fault…

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    • Dave: What FUCKING dwindling spiral, you CICS! We’ve expanded more in the last week than we have in the last trillion years! That SP film, Going Clear, is only helping us expand! Everyone saw that it was a hatch job done on a religion and they’re pissed off about that! There’s over 15 million scientologists around the world! And, 4.4 million new people join each year! Our Ideal Orgs and packed to the rafters! We own more real estate than the Vatican! I’m the leader of Earth now!

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  49. The money to float twth comes from Flag public
    and on down the pillaging services not yet delivered
    on the Freewind’s.
    Disasters equals more money for David Miscavige
    he get his lions share at all levels. If you have back off
    your counter intention to the COB and thereafter
    an SP.

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    • Ironically, I think your comment is true. The ISIS moral code, such as it is, is pretty fucked up.

      If every one of those jihaddists followed TWTH instead of their extremist religious doctrine, they and the world would be a much better place.

      Ah, but how do you put that bell on the cat…

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      • I agree and want to advance it a step further by saying that, not only ISIS, but if all people and all organizations including the Church of Scientology followed TWTH, the world would be a much better place.

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  51. Wow, what took them so long, after all it is Tuesday. I can only imagine the terrified citizens of Paris grabbing a cafe & WTF booklet & enjoying the evening. Thanks Co$

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      • ….and don’t forget to purchase your copy of the Rape of Happiness! In this phenomenal booklet, you’ll understand why YOU ARE so fucked up. Get it. Read it. Apply it! And then go home and be depressed…..

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    • One time when I was in Paris, I sat outside at Les Deux Magots with a glass of house red, a fresh pack of Gauloises, and a copy of Sartre. Compared to that, tap water, an e-cig, and The Way To Slappiness just won’t cut it.

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      • Espi, I was in Paris in the late 80s. I do speak a little French, but not much. So I boned up on my French out of respect. I was still treated poorly. When I got down to Tour and the wine region, all of the waiters recognized me as a surfer and wanted to talk about southern Calif. They were great!

        Back in Paris, I went to a New Year’s Eve dinner. Once again, I was the outcast. I had tried so very hard to rehab my French, but, it just wasn’t good enough. I was getting flak from those around me and I snapped. I stood up and everyone quieted down. I looked around the room and said, “It’s just a damn shame we didn’t give this country to the Germans as a consolation prize for fighting a good war!” I knew they could understand me so I left quickly.

        Since this was a long time ago, let me say, Vive La France! We are all French at this point.

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  52. Wow delusions of grandeur. Does she really believe that crap or just has so much pressure from above to raise the money that she has to convince herself? My God! You’d create more change handing out water with WTH precepts on it, or Snickers bars, than a dumb booklet.

    I can see some smug asswipe in a business suit walking through the crowd of bloodied and terrified people loudly proclaiming with Tone 40, “Scientology can help” as he hands out another booklet that someone will discard 10 minutes later.

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    • And later on scientology in describing the disaster scene and the incredible positive impact they had…..the way they describe it to their public is like, “Yeah, when everyone saw the yellow shirts and knew we had arrived, they breathed a big sigh of relief.” Really makes you want to scream.

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  54. I was sitting in Toronto airport on Friday evening waiting for a flight back to Chicago watching the CBC’s coverage from Paris, and in between the shock, I actually wondered to myself, “How long will it take the cult to vulture its way into this tragedy?” I felt bad that I thought this, but seven and a half years of fighting these moral-free shit-stain bastards has created this kind of cognition as a reflex reaction every time something bad happens in the world.

    However, I have no morals or conscience, so I’ll echo a criticism: Hey, Way To Slappiness Foundation, where’s the booklets for Beirut? They fell victim to suicide bombings from ISIS on Friday as well. Or are they not worth it because they’re not Paris and there’s no PR value to be had? Let’s face it, Scientology, distributing The Way To Slappiness is not going to get the French judicial heat off of your sad asses. With all the cops on the streets of Paris right now, let’s hope your booklet distributors get their kiesters hauled to the Bastille for promulgation of fraud. L. Fraud, that is.

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  55. Scientology’s help in a disaster like Paris or 9/11 is totally despicable and they should be barred from getting involved in any disaster.

    VMs doing free service Touch Assists is only to get new cash paying customers. “Free” is a big lie, as NOTHING is free in Scientology (free service = free fall). It’s just uncaring profiteering for raw meat. No humanitarian help intended.

    Or, pilfering money from their own members with over-priced WTH booklets. These booklets are nothing more than common sense ideas used as promotional literature trying to counter the truth that Scientology is a destructive cult in our society.

    Caralyn and Mr. Tom “because you know you’re the only one who can really help” Cruise should be sent home with a severe spanking from ANY disaster.

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  58. OPEN LETTER

    hey everybody
    i had this idea ages ago (about 5min) to do an open letter, then got hit with this graphic,
    the newsroom. flash, im talking

    i guess i come off as strong headed, occaisionally
    maybe, i dunno, gets too subjective for my taste to think about
    as time flies
    Well, yes, balls out i’m telling the truth, right?
    Zero percent of my audience thinks i’m trying to fake my story here,
    to describe the motives of this madman.

    However,
    when i may ever be stupid enough to say something that sounds like a prescription,
    me telling you the remedy (?) or as something you must do!!! um, question mark.
    Call me on it.
    If it should ever get silent here with irrevelant poundings, I’ll jump in,
    try to say something
    …
    that fits somewhere comfortably inside the boundaries or relative importance,
    have you at least laughing at the endeavor should i hopeless fail.
    For example,
    um, cripes… thinking
    NO!
    o yeah, my point:
    I am not going to, ever, think for you. Getting lazy, letting some other entity OR BELIEF think for me is just not going to happen, a madman i would be to impose my policy on you.
    We are talking about the trap now and there just is not in existence the appropriate joke for that. Such a thing. How could such treachery appear on all the world’s television sets looking like a color glossy Scientology Commercial? At ALL?
    There is a law that say you cannot advertise a drug without a disclaimer broadcast within.
    I must reveal to the court that Scientology is a drug, just exactly like the pharmaceutical kind, as the brain dishes out chemicals AS IT IS MANIPULATED.
    God help me because that is as horrible as it sounds.
    THIS JUST OUT, I’m here. And it’s only because of you.
    my name is Mark A. Newell

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    • Dot points Mark. Dot points. There is a lot of rambling there that makes no sense. I think you are trying to make good points but less of the rambling and more of the getting out of what you want to say. Dot points in your case may be helpful.

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      • You are quite right. I will spare you my excuses.
        Say, does that “scn is a drug therefore should be regulated” thesis hold up in anybody else’s mind?

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          • thanks, dude, but the other dude is right and i was getting a bit self-absorbed. amazingly on-target assessment on mr ed’s part, plus note the atypical typo-s on mine. well, that’s what happens when you mix my meds with beer, a no-no. Let me tell you that particular warning-label is not joking around. (operative word: atypical, as in my behavior)
            Refreshing, to a brain like mine, to see a guy make a quick call like that. Edward, correctomundo, nip that little sprout in the bud, ahh. All good all good. And there is no beer in the house now, also good,
            because me gots to write…mark out.

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              • Aw man. I know I don’t say it enough, but thanks.

                Very cool comment, btw, when you said We are all French today…You are one ‘ellofa Surfer Dude. If my car ever gets done (rebuilding engine) I really want to drive to LA and do something crazy like pound down a beer at sunset, on the beach, same day we go nuts in front of that big blue building. Is that possible? Screw the building, let’s just have fun.

          • ps feels great, yes, and gets the right message out, which also feels great. Dead if not gasping for air little fake church. I feel like a new Lady Ga Ga song, doin something like: liberation, liberation in the fall…yea hey newcomer!

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  59. Useless booklets, going to the wrong places reminds me of a good, useful book coming soon, namely Ron Miscavige’s book “Let Him Die” coming from St. Martins press. A great follow-up to Leah Remini’s bestseller. Go to the website us.macmillan.com to sign up for emails of new releases. Emails to publicity@stmartins.com about “this important, relevant, anxiously awaited, probably bestselling” book might encourage them to ignore the usual threats from the Co$. And of course, spread the good word.
    And when the Feebies (FBI) start nosing around “see, we told you so, read this book!” They need to ask the $300 thousand question, “WHERE’S SHELLY?” When that question gets answered, the Dwarfe will fall.

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  60. VM: Here take this.

    Parisian citizen (PC): What is it?

    VM: The Way To Happiness.

    PC: You expect me to be happy?

    VM: Well, er, no.

    PC: So why are you giving this to me?

    VM: To help you in these trying times.

    PC: Do you have any idea what occurred here?

    VM: A 4th dynamic emergency.

    PC: What language are you speaking?

    VM: Look lady, I’m trying to help.

    PC: You know how you can help?

    VM: (suddenly encouraged) What!?

    PC: Get the fuck out of my sight.

    VM: (mutters under his breath) COB was right – only the SPs attack us!

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  61. ISIS Leader upon receiving a copy of the Way to Happiness:

    “Gee…..now I understand….Thanks Church of Scientology! We won’t be bothering anyone anymore and sorry about all that.”

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  62. My 2nd thought after hearing/reading about these horrific events of loss of life, safety and all that comes with it was…how long till the yellow vultures swoop? I knew it was coming, but foolishly hoping it wouldn’t.

    Thank heavens for the Red Cross and other organizations like them that will bring Paris impacting aid.

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  63. The Way to Happiness booklet soothes? Why not give a copy to David Miscavige and calm that cowboy down? DO NOT HARM PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL. Tell O.S.A. to knock off the domestic terrorism!!! Squirrel Busters were a domestic terrorist group!! David Miscavige has a restraining order on him in Texas for domestic terrorism!! DUH!!! Pull off the abortion vans!! Get those humans out of the hole!!!! Stop the beatings and imprisonment!!!! Knpock off the domestic terrorism in YOUR OWN LITTLE COUNTRY!!!

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  68. Vultures.
    The sad part is that they’ll get some well meaning person to give up their money believing that they’re actually doing something to help. These little books will magically bring sanity to the area where they are being distributed. The only thing missing in this picture is a battalion of Volunteer Ministers to set things right in Paris.

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    • And you could photoshop the volunteers into (onto?) a picture of Paris that already exists, eliminating those pesky travel expenses. .

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    • Hi Regraded Being, Vultures are so much meaner than the Asho Lion that got out of dodge before the SHSBC was eliminated. I can see your post of VMs in Paris and I get cold. I am actually glad I did not have to put on a yellow jersey. Back in the long ago days of SO @ Asho F, we got tee shirts from a paying public who had done SHSBC, and wanted to thank us. Asho Day too. They were navy blue with a side view of the Asho Lion and underneath it said SHSBC Asho Day & Fdn. That was all and I wish I had blown with mine classy the graphics were so much better then. Or perhaps my age is showing. Love, Ann.

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      • Hi Ann. I think you and I got mixed up with the wrong people pretty much around the same time. Too bad we didn’t have the internet around back then to give us a heads up as to what this church is really about. Around that time Reader’s Digest had published a negative story about the church and we were taught to just get our TRs in and say, “What??? Oh, you read that article? Wow, the guy who wrote that got it all wrong. He must have been on drugs or something. I laughed my head off when I read it. They really don’t know anything about scientology.” It worked.
        People didn’t have a way to get more data easily so if you spoke with enough authority you could squash negative publicity. I think COB believes that technique still works.
        It’s laughingly sad that those inside the church believe that their scientology.org website serves to actually get people to see the truth about the church and reject all other negative publicity they’ve read or heard about elsewhere. Scientology is a seduction of the mind that works only if it is the main stimulus the person is being exposed to. People today rely on the internet for information and usually research things they become curious about. Scientology becomes quickly demystified and unattractive for anyone thinking about joining that group after a few Google jumps.
        So, having our age show can be a good thing. When someone asks us about the church of scientology, we can say, ” What???? Oh, scientology? Been there, done that. It’s a scam.” If you say it with enough authority it will squash any ‘positive’ publicity the church has exposed them to.

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        • Totally agree, RB! If only I’d had the internet when I was in. Would have saved me years. Instead I had to come to the realization about the total BS on my own. So glad to have escaped when I did!

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        • Hi Regraded Being, How good to sit with my coffee early and read your post! I am very sure that we ran into the wrong ” people ” at the same time. They mixed us good! Yes, I did remember The Readers Digest Article, and I laughed just as you back then. Thought anything not Ron was written by SPs. Hey Ron look at us now, SPs and loud and proud to be golden-rodded! If only the Internet had been available how our stories might have turned out. But I am so happy we both made it back up and out of the black hole that is cos. All we went through has made us stronger, tougher, and braver. Bless you RB, I can be proud of aging too. I am still here. May I ask one favor of you? Please send me light and positive vibes on 11/23. That is my six month check to find out if the invasive breast cancer has come back. If it has not, I will raise my glass of Zin to you with a special place in my heart. Love Always, Ann.PS, if it does come back, I will still do the same for you. Toast all you and Mike and the whole gang do each day to keep shining that Light on David and his Cult.

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          • I’m with you Ann, with hope and love. I expect to one day sit across from you and clink a glass in celebration.

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            • Don’t forget, RB, we can also celebrate at my home at the beach. I’ve already hosted one SP party in my backyard.

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              • Hey Dude. I have every intention of attending (or crashing, if need be) your End of COS party. That is one Epic Event I definitely do not want to miss. I’ll even donate some brew if you can assure me some sort of status upgrade that is worthy of bragging about.
                I know… How about some fancy sounding title if you ever get around to starting your religion? I’ve actually been toying around with some artwork that you might use for that idea.

              • Well, I am the leader of, Church of the Spinning Tube. It’s a surf related religion. And that brew you speak of? Very, very welcomed! Now, about your status. Let me think….ahhhhhh……mmmmmmm…..errrrrrrr…..I GOT IT!
                We will call you, The Big Kahuna Maximus. You’ll be awarded an Ideal surfboard along with a young, blonde beach babe. You’ll have access to any surf spot you want. And finally…you get your own 1950s Woody. Now, RB, I hope you know the requirements of this status. You must always be carefree, be of service to others, always pay for the beer, always have a smile on your face and be my friend until we head out to Target 2.

                Not sure I’m asking too much here….

              • Asking too much? Are you kidding???? Some day I’ll tell you about this other religion I used to belong to. Those guys were like, Gimme, gimme, gimme and when you run out, gimme some more.
                The whole deal sounds cool except for the bleached blond thing. My 2D and I can’t quite figure what we’re going to do with a young bleached blond around the house. Let’s put that part on hold till I talk with my kids. Maybe one of them might have some use for her.

              • As for the party, I’m bringing the podium with the pompadour wig on top! OSD is master of ceremonies and RB will be guest of honor. Who volunteers to pass out statuses?

                Blinders gets to carve the woody and we’ll auction it off to raise money for the beer, wine and favors.

                Damit, I’m ready for this party to get underway OSD……. what’s keepin der fuhrer from hari kari anyway?

              • I’m as anxious as you, Coop. Maybe more so. But, having everyone at my place will be the ultimate beach party! And I agree with RB being the guest of honor. No one can write like him! As far as the Dwarfen Fuhrer, his time is coming…

              • Hey Dude. I re-read your post and realized you were offering a young blond beach babe, not a bleached blond babe. It does sound a lot better but unless she’s really good at yard work or my son is interested we can’t keep her. I’m still excited about everything else and am looking at getting some brightly colored shirts embroidered with The Big Kahuna Maximus over the pocket.

              • I’d like the gold encrusted, ruby bejeweled Surfatorious Humongo Bodacious Trophy for surviving the GAG tidal wave.

    • As bubble dwellers are not allowed to look
      at the news media they are not in the loop
      of what happened in Paris so they will donate.
      Poor guys who will have to distribute the
      booklets if that will ever happen. Bet you
      the majority will sit in a warehouse and rot
      like many other LRH books.

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  69. It’s beyond comprehension how they get away with this sh*t.

    Hello IRS…Hello FBI….Hello Congress….Is there anybody there??????

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    • The justice department doesn’t usually announce what they are investigating but I have to believe either the FBI and/or the IRS has current investigations open on the church of Scientology with all the information out there. I wish the IRS would demand to see their books. Hopefully one day soon we will turn on the tv, learn of a raid, and see DM in handcuffs

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  70. I cannot imagine how I would react if I just lost my loved ones to a terrorist attack and someone handed me this book. Also does the scientology public really believe this well help in Paris. Maybe money for medical care or for orphans would be useful but not a book. I bet no matter the result the midget will call this a great win and expanding scientology and saving the planet as he puts people who didn’t sell enough into a hole

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    • Jeff, just because they raise the money to get the books there doesn’t mean anyone actually sends them there. Let’s hope that’s the case this time. The last thing they need right now is litter at the site.

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      • Of course it doesn’t mean anyone actually send them there! This is ONLY about getting donations that will go for who knows what? It’s just so brazen!

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  71. I’m guessing they won’t be sending anyone to an ISIS stronghold to pass out these useless booklets.

    Oh well, as long as some cash goes into your lifestyle account, right Dave? We all know that a Piss-Poor-Pope can’t function in his “ecclesiastical duties” without the finest luxuries that fleeced money can buy.

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      • I definitely wouldn’t be in a panicked rush to get a rescue team to the Yellow Vultures.

        I know you don’t do mushy Espi but you’ll just have to put up with it for a moment: I miss you.

        Ok, I’m done. 😀

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        • Hi NOLAGirl, Well I am blue about The Saints and LSU, but there is always next year! I am an optimistic fan will always root for both teams. Also I realized that I missed Espiando too. Do not tell him because he’ll say I am too mushy and a dreamer. Which is true! ? Ann.

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          • Oh Ann, our NFL season is officially garbage. Nothing we can do but be hopeful that this is the catalyst to them getting their s**t together. As a hopeful fan, I share your faith. Until then, Geaux Tulane. LOL

            Espi will probably tell us both to get a grip. Still ❤ him though. 🙂

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  72. This is disgusting beyond belief. And the worst part the $300k profit they make on this booklets will be financed by a huge chunk of US taxpayer money. Where are the republicans against too much and wasted government spending spending when you really need them?

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    • Yeah, what a freaking shame this is .
      But they are sinking themselves deeper , if they really distribute , in France , they will be laughed at , yet again. The French have a wicked sense of humor.

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    • Because David Miscavige was personally involved in getting Lisa “pushed through” to Clear, then mangled the managment of her post-breakdown handling, also directly attributed to his influence (which killed her)… Only then to witness the abominable treatment of the Lisa McPherson Trust imposed by the church, again led by very same DM, again in the effort to make the ugly church look good and everyone else look bad… oh boy. I better stop. Forgive me. I got myself worked up.
      Now a real disaster happens and hundreds of families are dealing with loss and Dave is back again to do what? Ask for donations, while your hearts are raw, donate to us and we will take the money and maybe TALK about… talking about how great we are.
      Stop.
      Someone called it right. Church of Scientology: Merchant of Chaos.

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  74. The Church of Scientology = Disaster Capitalism at its Worst.

    Scientology VM’s walk over the backs of the dead to get photo ops and raise money. Within hours of the Virginia Tech mass shooting in 2007, the VM’s had already set up a yellow tent on the campus.

    The bodies of the dead weren’t even cold and hadn’t even been moved as the campus was a crime scene under intense investigation. But the VM’s were there like vultures taking PR photos. The VM’s were already asking for money.

    Whenever mass murder, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, or celebrity deaths occur, the VM’s shove their greedy hands out and ask for money. Never mind that they have no relationship whatsoever to the tragedy or disaster, their craven greed compels them to fundraise, to ask for money in exchange for nothing.

    If David Miscavige feels he is being spat upon by the world, it is only because he is a contemptible, violent, and uneducated cretin who leads an vile, ruthless, and astonishingly greedy cult. Miscavige dropped out of school in the 9th grade and clawed his way to power in the Cult of Scientology through a series of brutal machinations. And yet this ignorant brute wants respect as a Humanitarian because he represents the Volunteer Ministers?

    No one is fooled by your grandiose and venal posturing David Miscavige.

    Western Civilization has contempt for the Church of Scientology. The Cult’s obscene fundraising on the backs of the dead is yet another reason to heap yet more scorn and contempt upon this lunatic ambulance chasing Cult of Greed.

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      • Thank You J. Honorable Swift.
        Truth has a fine glow in your words, very good writing. I had to say that because I’m sure the uninitiated would read that and think you are perhaps embellishing…but, no. I say you are calling it straight up and lucidly.
        (and i’ve never witnessed a better use of the word lunatic.)

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    • Scientology – the precise science of exploiting, for profit, human vulnerabilities and tragedies, whilst hiding behind a “religious cloak”.

      When I was in – I picked up on the fact that the Organization does absolutely NOTHING for anyone – ever, but capitalizes quite profitably on your self – inflicted, self – earned wins!

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      • Thanks Idle Morgue. That speaks for me as well,
        The church is out for itself, first and last.
        Thanks, because i get a little turned inside-out…
        Just like Tom Cruise really only speaks or remains silent according to his own interests, which half the time is what the church tells him.
        And don’t even get me started on The Demon.
        Buzzard eats dead bodies, honest to god. (see? i need to go…)

        SCIENTOLOGY: The science of getting you to buy things you don’t need.

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    • A natural disaster ravaged my home state a few years ago resulting in multiple deaths and a week later I was part of the official mental health team sent in to assist. There was a very careful system put in place to vet people wanting to enter the area and you had to go through three separate roadblocks showing your official badges to get access. I was in the first official team to go in the morning the area was opened to non emergency personnel. When we got there we were told that yellow tshirt scientologists had been discovered in the area and that they’d been promptly ordered out. They got in by deliberately avoiding the official roadblocks. The disaster galvanised everyone in the state to help out, but everyone else helped by following government directions not to go to the site.

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    • Nice comment JSwift! I’d say it’s time for the yellow tent and shirts to set up camp on El Con Blubbard Way.

      That is the site of the most unnatural disaster that has occurred in the last 50 years. Stay tuned as the events of the day unfold …………..

      Yo Dave,
      Have you finished compiling Oat Tea Niner and Tenor for the remaining Ates? How many are still left to pillage good buddy?

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  75. $300 thousand dollars in profit is all the Ferengi in the clampire require, for this week. Being the head of the WTH Foundation is a perk that DM bestows on his most faithful minion. The minion gets to make some real money and CO$ gets its rake off.

    Remember the Ferengi First Rule of Acquisition, ‘Once you have their money, never give it back’. This is the stated mantra of the CO$.

    Once the next earthquake/hurricane/fire/flood/terrorist attack happens, the cycle starts again.

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    • “Every Ferengi business transaction is governed by 285 rules of acquisition to ensure a fair and honest deal for all parties concerned… well most of them anyway.”

      There’s a (Ferengi) rule for every conceivable situation… There is also a note about The Unwritten Rule: “When no appropriate rule applies… make one up.” So, rule 286: just grab the money and give it to corn on the COB so he does not piss on your head.

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