Here is an update of the goings-on in Clearwater.
I took a drive through downtown this afternoon. The only thing of note was the number of people with earpieces, walkie-talkies and guns. More Security, OSA, PIs and cops than I have ever seen in one place. It was like a walled off fortress defending against imaginary hordes of attackers. I am sure the citizens of Clearwater were reassured that such a wonderful humanitarian organization had chosen their city to make its presence felt.
But what was going on behind the gates, fences and phalanx of security?
Here is an update report from one of our Special Correspondents:
I already mentioned the great “discovery” about Ser Fac handlings. Some further clarification of the GENIUS of this breakthrough. The Golden Age of Gag Garde IV now INCLUDES the NED Ser Fac Handling on Grade IV. This thereby ensures ser facs are “truly” handled before having the person attest to Grade 4. Apparently LRH overlooked that ser facs were NOT fully handled on Grade 4, and that was preventing them from getting onto NED? (Wonder if GAG III is going to move handling Communication onto Life Repair once He discovers the inability to communicate is preventing people getting onto Grade O?)
And ta da…. As predicted, the Warehouse Mark VIII has now been officially released.
Everyone is expected to buy 2 of these beauties. At $5000 a piece.
This was totally predictable. He had to have a big moneymaker in the Greatest Event In The History Of All Universes.
And for $5000 it never needs silver certing.
What a bargain!
MASSIVE news on the Student Hat. There is a whole NEW glossary for the course so that almost no word will ever need to be looked up in a dictionary! How ironic that while studying a course that tells you to clear ALL definitions and derivation of a word in order to get full conceptual understanding, that you would not actually clear all the definitions and derivation of almost every word on the course. This is Golden Age Study Tech.
Also, more great news on the Student Hat. There was an LRH advice saying all the super-technical words should be edited out of the SHSBC lectures on the Student Hat (DEDEX, 3GAXX, etc) so that the course was not a skipped gradient. Luckily, the editors of the Student Hat tapes never removed anything that SHOULDN’T have been removed, but those lazy motherf***ers did NOT remove a lot of the stuff that LRH said should be removed, so that has all been handled now.
Pro Metering: The new reads recorder was released. It looks like a mini-simulator, but just records and plays back. No one will ever argue about a read again! It plugs into the meter and sits on the table next to the students doing e-meter drills. The student operating the meter wears a headset while doing the drills. You know, like a headset a telemarketer might wear while talking on the phone. So now everyone in the course room looks like a phone salesman. Of course there are new space-agey looking cans, and a new remote tone-arm (looks the same), and all of it is super advanced tech compared to the Quantum, and its all digital and there are supposed to be lasers involved somewhere. (Who doesn’t love lasers)
Sup’s won’t even need to watch students doing e-meter drills. There is a removable SIM card in the recorder, and the students can just give the sup the sim card of them doing the drill, and the sup can listen/watch it on his own meter at his own desk.
There is a new reads simulator as well. Nothing really major. Just looks more space-age, and probably has some more refined internal electronics. But hey, all orgs will have to buy like 5 to 20 of these things, so it’s good money for GOLD. Again, a solution looking for a problem. There was nothing wrong with the old simulators. But this IS a new universe. So we gotta have new toys that look the part.
Academy Levels. The main reason these are shorter with GAG II is because The Basics are now a pre-req for auditor training. So you don’t have to read the basic books on the levels. A new lecture series was “discovered” that is geared just for getting an auditors hat on, and thus make it that much easier for auditors on Level 0 to “get it” and move through the rest of their training faster with more retained competence. (I am just repeating the hype, not agreeing with it….)
Also, now that people will “get” the Student Hat better, that is supposed to really rocket people through their auditor training. Funny how the only thing that is supposed to make students “get” the student hat better is giving them a glossary and removing technical terms. I have NEVER heard complaints about people not “getting” the student hat in the last 15 years. That’s what all the GAT Study Drills were supposed to handle.
There are no SUPER major changes to the Academy Levels.
Also funny that a major point of emphasis on the “new” auditor training line-up is making 100% sure that students don’t waste time studying/drilling things earlier than when they will actually need to know/use that data. Thus TR-4/8 Q-1 is no longer required to pass pro metering. It’s more a Level 3 drill. Flag hasn’t required TR-4/8 Q-1 to pass Metering for like 5 years, but orgs still did. (This is why Flag Metering was “so much faster” than anywhere else). Instead only EM-26 is used to pass metering. This will be true in all orgs now. In spite of this new emphasis… the dating drills are still on Pro Metering. One thing is for certain…there is only ONE reason people take forever on Metering.The Dating Drills. Yet no auditor up to Class V will ever use dating in auditing. Only a Grad 5 SOMETIMES uses it, rarely. It’s also needed for CCRD. Solo auditors NEVER use it. Its so stupid to leave these drills on Pro Metering…yet they are still there. No one will see this as an outpoint.
Of course there are NEW PACKS AND BOOKS FOR EVERYTHING. New Meter Drills books. New Student Hat Packs. New Pro TRs Packs. New Lecture packaging. New Academy Level packs. Just new EVERYTHING. That’s why He’s positioning it as “the whole bridge” Apparently if you tweak a checksheet and make a new course pack cover, it’s a “brand new” course. Of course it also means they have to be BOUGHT. Can’t use anything “old.” Every org, every student. L9ot of cash going to be rolling in.
The only course that has not been changed in any way (as far as content) is Upper Indocs. But of course there is still a new course pack and new lecture packaging for this course as well.
Training costs are going up, but I don’t have the details yet.
Yes, More Facebook Nonsense. Sorry.
And here is what the natives are babbling about on Facebook.
Jojo Zawawi looks and acts like a clown so she is in the perfect place. But perhaps someone can get the Facebook Police to issue her a citation for excessive use of exclamation points and general annoyance.
And while the fun was happening San Diego spent some of their Ideal Org money to hire a plane with a banner (?). What insouciance (?)
But the biggest douche award goes to the Circus Ringmaster of Brownnosing, Gary Wattman, who has just today realized that David Miscavige has finally given him the REAL Scientology — all that stuff he had from L. Ron Hubbard before was just warm up material:
There is some contrary data here about the meter. The one shown above doesn’t quite match the picture at http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?31871-Mike-Mark-VIII-Ultra-E-Meter-%96-9-Years-In-Storage-Patent-Diagrams-%282012%29 .
Nor does the picture match that at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf
The design circuitry has many similarities to my own earlier designs using a 24 bit delta sigma AD converter. I would therefore say that the patent is worthless.
The design does look like a considerable advance upon the Quantum and if they used a decent meter movement it might even be as good as most Independent meters.
I would estimate a production cost of $300 to $400 in quantity. I suspect that the earlier warehoused meters are not the same meters but that a new similar version has been created with updated circuitry and ROHS compliance.
I never had a problem auditing anyone or myself and all have achieved the result, But that goes back 41 years and in recent times outside any org. It was basically minus the presence of suppression and false data ! Take that psychos !
Hey sorry I cam late to the party.
But after reading Mike’s blog here I realized the party’s pretty much over over there.
Wowie!!!
Zowie!!!!
Dave rediscovered Grade IV.
Probably the reason he missed it is because it’s the exact Grade he needs.
Oh and the bright idea to run the full NED handling for R3SCA isn’t going to work on a druggie unless you handle the PC’s Drug case with full R3RA which is covered in the NED pack.
Also riddle me this COB man?
How are you going to handle the fact that NED training comes after Class IV?
Enquiring minds wanna know.
Ya gotta love that Hidden Data Line. Supposedly the Ol’man sent a dispatch in ’68 that nobody’s read till now to remove EM 18 from the EM Drills book.
Yeah sure.
I believe that.
Just like I believed the one about the Ol’man never cross checking the galleys of his books and letting some “SP” editor add all those suppressive semi colons outa spite.
Sure, sure.
Yeah and I’m just slavering about all these new rundowns like the Study Green Form….
WTF????
Are you kidding?!
Oh yeah.
And the Mk Ultra meter….
Yeah there’s a new idea that has been around say since the early 60’s. They were going to call it the “Idiot Meter” but like all “great” ideas it got shelved. I guess Ron never thought that some idiot would pick that one up and run with it.
But I guess he underestimated your idiocy over at OTR.
And it seems that you know better than the Ol’man on what should and should not be on a levels check sheet after he took all that time in ’78 to put an end to endless training you’ve now made it the end of the end of endless training by adding a “Basic Course” which goes on forever and making it impossible now for any auditor training on the levels to audit all the actions of the levels without doing a NED course first.
As your adoring idiots say:
Wooooo Hoooo!!!
You’ve not only put an end to training that is unless we go back to the “Old” as in earlier Grade Chart where NED was taught before the levels.
That is prior 1982.
So this new Grade Chart your proposing is looking kinda old.
So what’s next?
The HSDC???
Aside from the fact that the it took you almost two decades to build a building for a rundown that can be delivered in a fricking park!
Nice work.
How much are they paying you to screw up the subject this badly?
Well Dave whatever it is isn’t enough because even if your not busted off post and take that well deserved toboggan ride to hell with all of your “friends”.
You still got to live with yourself.
And maybe that was the real reason for all those tears. After those brain washed masses of yours finished their applause.
Nuff said.
+ 100 Hell yeah, RemoteViewed.
Tears of self realization!!?? From a sociopath!? LMAO
Not likely. His reality doesn’t extend beyond the confines of his thick skull.
I’m also late to the party due to being without internet since Thursday nite. Thank you, Mike, for your hard work and dedication to giving us this data. I don’t know how you do it, but I am so glad that you do.
When you say there is a SIM card in the device, do you not mean an SD card? As a SIM card is for mobile phones to have a number and hold some contacts and SMS’s, whereas an SD Card is for storing information, like audio, videos, files etc. Can anyone give some more info?
Im pretty sure if the meter was produced in 2000 that it is a SIM. SIM was mainstream in 1991, and would have been cheap technology to manufacture. SD cards were first developed in 1999, and at that time were very expensive comparatively. Security wise, the SIM card can be locked to a specific meter with a SN ID whereas I can spoof and ID easily on an SD card.
However, I suspect that at a cap of 32 or 64 kb of data, even in a simple format, there will be severe limitations to this “new meter” due to the age of data technology employed.
Thanks, I didn’t realise that they had been in storage for all that time!! Cheers
There is no mention in the patent of a SIM card nor of an SD card in the patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf . I think this meter is a revised version.
“I think the Scientologists who have these ecstasy moments at these gala overhyped events, is a religious activity.”
I knew a chick once how passed out at a Led Zeppelin concert. Does that count?
I think the Scientologists who have these ecstasy moments at these gala overhyped events, is a religious activity.
I mean this can be critically described, but it seems to be a common religious ecstatic event for these people.
These Facebook comments remind me of watching other religious events like in India when religious followers throw themselves in front of the juggernaut big carriages, during those religious parades!
The members likewise are in ecstasy and very mindless about how great or whatever it is they are saying, really, mentally they are temporarily delusional.
These Scientology events also cause this same human religious behavior, is all, in my opinion. Showy glitzy Hollywood style gala stuff, and other stuff, all contribute to the real life fantasy of it all.
Mike, You might remember in my original article http://www.scientology-cult.com/mark-viii-emeter-revealed.html the point of the new meter was to produce it for 1/10 th the cost of the Quantum (which was around $80 as I recall) and then sell it for UNDER $1000. Miscavige made a huge deal of this, and how grossly overpriced the Quantum was at $4,000. This was a huge flap “when He found out” — of course he knew it the entire time. And as you know he is continually discovering his own “errors” and then torching others for his crimes. Now we see, boy the free money was just too good to give up. And while $4,000 was beyond criminal for the Quantum, for the Mark VIII which is markedly cheaper to produce, he’s going to jack that price to $5K. So predicable. Especially now as he’s got to have something to replace that Super Power building cash.
As for the clubbed seals, it just goes to show how truly fucked up the people are on this planet. They worship sociopaths. Been doing it for thousands of years. Why stop now?
He just can’t help himself, can he? What a mess it’s becoming, The one big outpoint I jumped on is the R3RA on Ser Fac handling. But R3RA is used to run out engrams, correct? Here’s what LRH says about Ser Facs: “A computation generated by the preclear, (not the bank) to make self right and others wrong….” “The PC is doing it. In usual aberration it is the bank doing it.” HCOB 1 Sept 1963. Doing R3RA on computations? Unheard of.
Tom M
Ser facs have been run R3R since NED came out. Ref – NED series 30. Ser facs are held in place by engrams.
First of all Ralph, that HCOB was written in 1988 which makes me suspect right away. Then it is supposed to be done as part of NED, after Grade IV is done. Digging up ser facs and auditing them again after the pc declared that he no longer has ser facs is gross inval and reminds me of NED for OTS ala Flag. Another pile of rot used to invalidate pcs.
R3RA is defined as “Engram Running by Chains”. Ser Facs are not engrams.
Tom
Tom – PCs do not attest to having no ser facs on grade 4. Anyone who thinks that grade 4 handles all a person’s ser facs has not studied even grad 5 properly. Furthermore the procedure was released originally in HCOB 6 September 1978 issue 3 when LRH was definitely on the lines.
I thought the reason one needed two meters was because of sending them in for grey every year. If they don’t need to be sent in for certification anymore, what is the justification for requiring they purchase 2?
I need my everyday, but I don’t keep a spare around just in case it breaks…
Grey somehow =silver cert. Sorry.
The reason you keep a spare is if the meter explodes, starts RSing (short-circuits) or runs out of charge (dead battery) during session. Don’t want to interrupt the session, do we?
I’ve had it happen once in thousands of WDAHs. And that was an HGC meter (who knows where that had been, or if it had been dropped by some incompetent).
Major thank you’s to Mike and Special Correspondent for this info.
Interesting tidbits about emeter drills 22 & 25. I remember doing them at Flag in 1988 on the internship. At that time, you could recheck things. For example if you indicated that the date was 200 billiion years ago and the needle got tighter or dirty, you could verify the date. You could I’m going to check that, was that a correct date, false date. If it read as false. You could indicate it was false and continue with the drill.
When the GAT came out in 1996, you could no longer do that. If you indicated that it was 200 billion years ago and it wasn’t the date the coach had written on his piece of paper, he would say FLUNK and you had to continue doing the drill getting the correct date down to seconds like, 250,159,232,152 years, 11 months 29 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes and 5 seconds. Then, you had to restart the drill with a new date and get it right to the seconds with no mistakes.
Done that way, it is an EXTREMELY BRUTAL DRILL.
So, in 1998, when I was on the Solo Nots GAT Certainty Course, I saw many a solo auditor extremely upset trying to do this. Some were definitely reduced to tears.
Enter “THE READER.”
The supervisors discovered that a certain few people were extremely easy to do the drill on. Not sure why, but it was an amazing phenomenon. We called them READERS. They always read on the right question and read easily.
They finally gave me a coach that literally had a stuck needle except when you asked him the correct date. Then it would read well.
With this coach, it went from the hardest emeter drill possible, to a piece of cake. Literally like shooting fish in a barrel.
So, I would then observe auditor after auditor passing the drill with this guy. Then there were a few of them. When the supervisor saw you sweated enough with your twin, he would bring in a READER and you were done in 10 minutes. You might have felt a little guilty about it, but not for long.
Then, in 2000 I started the Flag Only Metering Course. It was a new metering course that was pretty intense. There were a slew of Sea Org members training to be Class IX auditors. They were all dying on Emeter drill 25. I’m talking 80+ hours a week, spending more than a month working on that drill.
The supervisors were aware of READERS but they didn’t want the SO guys to have them. They wanted them to actually get the drill the way Miscavige had changed it.
Even in that course room, I would then see the supervisors resort to READERS when the student became totally desperate.
So, they give me this gal, that was supposedly a reader, but in my opinion she would cheat.
The real READERS had poker faces. But, this gal would really make an effort to have the meter read at the right time. It was embarrassing for me because I was happy to use a READER to get through the drill, but not a CHEATER. With her, you didn’t even have to look at the meter, you could just watch her face.
So, I said something to her about it. To no surprise, she was very offended. She told me that she had gotten more than 25 people through the drill on the Solo Nots Course, with the RTC standing right behind her.
Anyway, I know it’s a long story, but the bottom line – if someone tells you they had no problem getting through the drill, there’s a very good chance they had a READER.
Actually, we called them “sessionable”. “Reader” was the concept, but we referred to them as “sessionable” PCs. You might go so far as to say “responsive”. But with that hidden data line, it was pretty scary.
Some supes were stating “I was a good coach”, even though I’d only have to coach when someone was terrible with TRs, and I usually got pulled off of those and a different coach assigned (so I could get someone who had TRs through the drill).
I was a “sessionable” PC. I did the poker face, and I could get nearly anyone who could call a read correctly through the drill, first pass. Even on 2 hours of sleep. I remember sleepless nights getting people through their video passes on metering, too – usually the only error was miscalling a fall a long fall, or not calling an LFBD FN, or can squeeze error. I ALWAYS metabbed. Zero food, terrible diet, I used to joke that with a coffee and skittles I could metab anywhere (which wasn’t really a joke).
This also went for internship video passes; I was the “passing PC” for five interns during the GAT. The interns, however, referred to me as a “cadillac” PC. Once they started passing me off to another auditor, though. I “quit being sessionable” so that I would get through a frigging program with one auditor.
Sheldon I can definitely confirm this activity going on exactly as described back in 1998 on SNCC. You would do the dating drill exactly the same way on one or more coaches with no reads, then 5 minutes later do it exactly the same on the ‘reader’ but you suddenly got reads galore! Since I knew I could always get proper real reads from my own experience of auditing on OT7, I gladly passed the drills with one of these ‘readers’.
“Since I knew I could always get proper real reads from my own experience of auditing on…”
I’m sorry, what, exactly, are you “reading”? What is it, how is it quantified, and against what baselines do you compare it?
Now if you would like to tell me the meter goes up and down, I’m sure it does. But why don’t you tell me what, and how, it is reading?
I can confirm what Sheldon is saying. It was that way when I did the course too. But we called it “bringing in the ringer” instead of reader. It was “ringer.”
Okay. I just threw up in my mouth.
Glad to see you are out, Bonnie. We once were friendly, you gave me a great muffin cookbook back in the 90’s that I still use today.
COB is just awesome, once again he has due to his hard work for 20 years has saved Scn once again!
Btw, Edwin Dearborn is the Exec Dir of Orange County who has since left staff after they went “ideal”. Regrettably I audited Edwin on his NOTS.
I appreciate and admire your special correspondants. I barely make it through one event, let alone several in a row. I also admire your courage, Mike, to wade through the sickening FB drivel. I have no idea how you can stand it.
Well, I look forward to the SP event. And most of all, to the morning after.
Wow – we obviously jumped ship way too soon! Had we been a tad more patient, we’d now be on the cusp of finally being introduced to Scientology. How silly do we feel now?!!
I am soooooooooo enlightened!
🙂
You are amazing. Thanks from me on the hill of Acton. Please spend a bit of time with Christy, Jack and the new one today.
I want a CR with evidence. I’m waiting on the telex.
Cece
Mike, many thanks to you and your Special Correspondents for covering the weekend’s folderol.
I just heard that intensive prices have been lowered.
Will Saturday the 23rd be the date for all the orgs? Because THAT would be an extra-interesting time to see how full the parking lots are, or even get an approximate headcount per location…
Best thing i have done……….. ever ever ever ever ever eveeeeeerrrrrrrr ??
Go out….and never come back!!
I’m a real winner.
I guess some people will never wake up.
A few years ago when I was on Solo Nots and after having been on it for several years, I was told (after I bought eight intensives) that I wasn’t Clear. I did 5 intensives of sec checking first then they made me redo NED and I did the NED ser fac handlings during the three intensives , then reattested to Clear. So that refresher cast me about 60K. And I really didn’t feel much different. Sort of liked being raped a bit. Anyways, I guess they were starting this new idea about NED ser fac handlings way back then.
I find that the cult operates a lot like the US government. Very slow and stupid. And then when they do act they get more things wrong.
I have to admit that I like the idea of cutting some of that unnecessary stuff out of the training and courses. All that photography shit was pretty unnecessary if you ask me.
The sad thing is that they never find the right why. And I guess that is because the idiot running the show is the main reason things are bad and they won’t change for sure unless he goes bye bye. They might not even change if he leaves, but there will be a chance.
Some people don’t wake up, this is true.
But based on some drinking conversations last night, there are a lot more than are fed up with it all.
I mean, a LOT.
The emails and FB comments I’ve read here are making my head spin. What’s with the excessive exclamation point at end of each sentence? Gag. These people are no longer drinking the Kool-Aid but are either snorting it or shooting it up.
Don’t want to sound like an old fuddy duddy but aaah, miss the old days. My first e-meter simple, small, wooden and I think only cost me $75.00. Always loved all e-meter drills, date locate, etc. For me it’s always been about simple good comm cycle, knowing your e-meter and commands, PC ruds in and you’re on your way.
Sheeple wake up, old timers wake up – DM is the anti-Christ, evil incarnate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike – keep it coming
It’s religious ecstasy. These group events are Scientology’s version of those religious followers who go into ecstatic delusional trances and such, like during those Indian religious parades where the followers tramp along next to the big juggernaut carriages.
One thing that I’m keenly interested in is IF DM left in the supposed FIRST step of Super Power – the Justice Rundown.
“Justice has been such a disturbance on the whole track, the first thing is to clear up all of the thetan’s injustices.” I remember reading something about this in a promo piece.
I would be willing to make a pool and take bets as to whether that is going to be in there anymore or if it’s been squirreled. Because we all know, if people start running out injustice, who the first midget is going to be to come up on the correction list.
No, not Hitler…but close.
It was called the Ethics Repair List. I saw the original in 1978 at Flag and still have a copy 🙂
Joseph Goebbels? The resemblance is uncanny.
Mike rinder… Why do you make fun of Public? I dislike your 1.1 tone… Dont forget you where in a much worser place not so long ago… Actualy working for the SP DM… Dont mock scientologists… Mock the “church”
“COB has just introduced us to Scientology.” Why don’t we just put up an effigy of LRH and burn him like Guy Fawkes. DM could do the total hat pass. “LRH is no longer here, it’s MY, um, OUR Scientology now!!!!!!!!!!!!!” (No, that was no coincidence that I chose Guy Fawkes).
The truly novel idea that would cause a major shift in scientology would be to do something that hasn’t been done in many orgs, and certainly not at Flag for years and years.
Here it is: Quit allowing executive C/Sing of cases and C/S, program and audit the PC in front of you for his/her own gain. Auditing is for the PC, not for the org.
Just one point on that. We’ve been doing the NED serv fac handling step for over six years when it is appropriate for the PC.
The utterly suppressive generality of “Apparently LRH overlooked that ser facs were NOT fully handled on Grade 4, and that was preventing them from getting onto NED?” It’s typical miscavige glibness. It’s executive C/Sing, not looking at the PC in front of you and saying “does he need it” or “does he need it now.”
You are exactly correct on EM 22 and 25. Anita and I wrote a novel on that with all the source references and we got comm ev’d and almost declared for writing the KR. Lisa Hamilton will remember that cycle.
Anyway, I’m very happy. Many more tech guys will silently or loudly blow a cork on this bullshit and come out to play where the sun is shining and auditors aren’t declared for calling an F/N correctly.
Thanks for all the updates Mike. And thanks to your correspondents.
Gary Wattman saying ” … COB has just introduced us to Scientology!!” – and all the others that agreed with him! – Has LRH been so far removed that this can even cross their minds, but actually believe it? Even though I feel like I have seen it all, it still shocks me, …..it is jaw dropping.
Good point MAK. It surely does cross their minds and no doubt it is the factor that drove a lot to the indie field (knowing better than LRH). I don’t think Gary W knows the significance of what he just said.
Ho-hum. Well, as the person who did the bulk of the workout for what comprised the Old GAT, here are a few comments about Son of GAT that seem like pure crapola: 1) The big bug with the old Student Hat was that Where’s Shelly made me put the entire checksheet in chrono order, which of course meant that the Study Tapes came before the HCOBs excerpted from the lectures which contained the essence of Study Tech. In other words, it was complete nonsense to do it this way. 2) If memory serves, LRH already wrote bulletins on using NED to handle Ser Facs but it was on NED, not Grade IV. 3) Pro Metering remains the most unnecessary course ever invented. Its existence is falsely predicated on an LRH advice that Solo Auditors be made to do the meter drills five times through because they had to be “meter sharpies.” So, DM in his A=A brilliance in stopping things makes it a prerequisite to Academy training. LRH never said a goddam thing about a Pro Metering Course for Academy trainees. He looked at Academy checksheets in 1968 and in 1978 and said nothing about pro metering for student auditors. What’s more the Dating Drills (22 and 25) have been the ruin of training progress. They are totally unneeded by a student training to ask repetitive processes on ARC SW. The entire course should have been aborted at conception. 4)The Academy Levels themselves were never a slow on training. The slows were the bass-ackwards Student Hat, the RTC Rep additives to the Pro TRs course video pass line and the unnecessary metering course. If the student somehow survived that Wall of Arbitraries, the Academy Levels literally flew by.
Son of GAT has clearly not fallen far from the tree, which is a crying shame. It is the same old shit adjusted for inflation. I am underwhelmed as I am sure that anyone faced with paying for this shit again will be. I wonder if the implementation programs are similar to the GAT ones which invalidated every auditor everywhere. Finally, 5 grand for a meter that cost $40 to build is chutzpah equal to anything JP Morgan Chase or Goldman Sachs has ever pulled. As I predicted a few days ago, I think the lack of response is going to be palpable, especially He is unloading his other shotgun tomorrow with Super Power. I’ll have more to say about that also as Ialso compiled the first complete version of Super Power.
Dan, Could you provide some background on the history of BTB’s? It would be good to know why and when they were cancelled and on whose orders? I don’t remember seeing an official issue. They just seem to have disappeared from checksheets and reference packs in the early 80’s.
I can say this: Based on the real response (not verbalized to any but the trusted), you can expect a ton of people in the indy field very soon, or those that just silently vanish and are done with it. The ” omg this is amazing” crowd is actually pretty small.
My opinions, for whatever they are worth:
1) The removal of certain technical terms from the Student Hat is fine, I guess, but no big breakthrough. The Study Tapes are still going require that a LOT of words be cleared for most people. If the essence of the Study Tapes hasn’t been utterly destroyed by removing parts of them, there are still going to be a lot of photography terms and some navigation terms. And LRH absolutely did hold down his vocabulary on these lectures. I don’t see that this new change is that big of a deal.
2) Did COB show the audience a reference by LRH stating that NED Ser Fac handling was supposed to be done on Grade IV? If not, then don’t go around saying how “on source” COB is, or how “on source” the GAT II is. The ones who agree with this “breakthrough” are ASSUMING that COB “found” an LRH reference in yet ANOTHER one of LRH’s old attics, where he stored them and COB personally traced them down with his superlative investigatory skills. I wonder how many attics LRH actually had that he forgot to tell anyone about, and how many have yet to be discovered.
3) Maybe Pro Metering is unnecessary but there does need to be something where the student walks away from it with a workably high degree of certainty that he can see what the different reads look like and what is an instant read and what isn’t. But the dating drills are the biggest waste of time, and man do they waste a lot of time. When certain people hold the cans for that drill, there is about as much chance of the student passing that drill with that person, as there is for David Miscavige to admit that he ever made a mistake about anything. A student does need to know how to do metered dating on Level III for rehab tech, so it’s not really the case that he doesn’t need to learn it before Grad V. But if he could just drill the procedure with a coach just like any other mocked-up drill, he could learn the procedure and become proficient without the traumatic experiences of EMs 22 & 25, which have probably done more technically to destroy people’s interest in training in Scientology than anything else. Removal of those drills might be something to get excited about but that is not what happened.
The e-meter device that records the meter reactions along with the voice sound is a good idea, but with the current state of the church, I think it will not be used properly, and many people will never really learn instant reads but will become dependent on this mechanical device to tell them whether they got it right, and will remain dependent on it without ever attaining the ability to just have the skill permanently for themselves. I predict that people will become more and more stuck on the use of this thing and will spend more time watching Instant Replay Metering and arguing about it, etc, than they already have been with videos. There’s nothing wrong with the device in itself, I think it could be useful, I just don’t think it will be used in an intelligent way by most.
4) All in all, based on the data I have so far about what has been newly released, I think you would have to have already decided that this new release HAS TO BE a big WOW WOW WOW for the sake of your own survival, before having even seen it, in order to be all rave about it after having seen it. It’s just not that big of a deal.
The LAST think they want is anyone to make it through training. Just pay for it, please, and continue to be totally dependent on and unquestioning about every move the very charismatic, most-ethical being, who never has any of is his own wins to share, Tom-Cruise-loving, COB.
Dan,
Thanks for all your input on this. Nice to have someone who knows the behind the scenes data and can pass it along. Otherwise we just see the mirage that is being created.
First of all, my understanding was they were supposed to have been some grey-type color, so maybe these shells are easily swappable. Dirt-cheap to manufacture too. Serial port is easily adapted to internal USB by merely making the shell a little wider on one side. Might explain the different colored shell. Nonetheless, this all still seems ancient tech to me.
Reads could be transmitted WIFI to any Course Sup on this planet. No probs with transfer rates. Walking up to the sup with your SIM card?
I’m surprised these meters don’t have auto-resets which I consider a god-sent for solo auditing. No pedal either so one hand cont. to get tied up at the Tone Arm. I wouldn’t use one of these meters if they gave it me for free.
Geez Mike, I can’t believe your ability to stomach this crap and even write about it, such long articles describing all this absurdity. You are a better man than I! (I’m just a cat.) But seriously, I tried to read through everything to give you your due respect and attention, and I couldn’t do it without getting too disgusted again. My general comment is that the reads BS and the headphones….all just a bunch of added fru-fru to replace proper TRs and THEN meter reading ability. They will need all this stuff (and more–here comes GAT III) until they figure out that true simple communication is what drives the auditing machine. Which ain’t gonna happen. Plus all the other alterations on top of the other alterations….So there will be a GAT III! LOL….probably to sort out what was worng with all the original Super Power tech. Oy…….
But I do truly thank you for keeping us all in the loop as we count down the hours and minutes to RCS destruction. It does do my heart good to see more and more people leaving and commenting, and yours and others’ promotion of the insanities still going on for anyone using that bad ol’ internet to finally see for themselves.
Everyone of these clowns on Facebook are doing really well with their newly assigned ass hat status.
Hard to feel much pity for them when they are just so gushing for that little twerp.
I feel such sadness that Clearwater folded faster than Superman on washday.
It’s all about the $$$$$. The cult will pay if not follow the rules. You want to know what drives the bus ……………. follow the money.
Davey will likely be heading South (more South) after this last cash extraction for GAG II, Super Pooper and unloading the meters in the warehouse. If there are 10,000 staff and public then meter sales alone will net him 100 million, assuming they still have the cash to buy.
But as the screws tighten on His desperation (spelled deposition) He will need to go into hiding so as to protect the Tech and prepare OT IX and X for the sheeple. He does not have the hardware to stand for the depositions (translated into no balls). Run Davey, run!
It will be a sad day to witness the cultites who depend on orders to function in a daze without their Fuhrer. There will be no public, no pay, no staff, no direction and adrift.
The Titanic has left the dock, His ecclesiastical leadership may not be on board!
Coop don’t give Der Leader any ideas. He may take you up on your ideas and indeed try to go into hiding. Let’s try to coax him instead onto the witness stand by telling him that the teleprompter will be there and we’ll fill the courtroom with adoring sheeple who will give him tons of admiration and clapping and shouting. He’s ready for his closeup, Mr, DeMille.
Of course there is data left from LRH lectures, bulletins, books used wrongly as and with false data to make less of and to destroy others.I have a former friend who is still in the org for 41 years now and he talks to me. Tonight he got me so mad spewing out non stable datum wrong indications that he had to apologize to me. I told him I read and listened to and know all the data, but I didn’t tell him I did all the OT levels out here in the freezone he might have jumped out of the 18 floor where he lives ! But then he said that was a good conversation we had, I must have gotten some actual basic truth across to him by thought and power of tone 400 !
Lol …
How do average people come up with this kind of money after years and years of being squeezed for money? $10k for two meters per person?! Houses will be refinanced Monday morning and retirement and college funds emptied out….
That’s easy… a kidney $40,000, a healthy lung $25,000,
Folks gotta dig deep and sacrifice for the greater good these days.
Wow, so that is GAG II? Even disregarding the squirreliness of it all, this is most overhyped bit of fluff yet, or the oiliest snake oil. And the pubic drooling of the faithful is truly disturbing to me. It must be truly disturbing to anyone who was a member when LRH was alive.
.” It must be truly disturbing to anyone who was a member when LRH was alive.”
I know what you mean, Sad. When you compare this to L Ron’s selfless actions, like letting his wife, Mary Sue take the fall for Operation Snow White, and after she did a year in stoney lonesome, refusing to speak to her again. Yup, I can see why Church Members today can see a decline.
Where did this funny idea that talking bad about MisCara somehow makes L Ron Hubbard any smarter, more honest, or less repulsive generally than he is? It don’t. Miscavenge could be a serial-port killer and L Ron’s deeds would still be in a crass by themselves.
Mary Sue was someone who would have TOLD LRH that she was taking the fall.
Mike, the dating drill is used occasionally on solo OT 3 and 7 and on date locate. Mimsey
Yes Mimsey, you are correct. I think the Special Correspondent’s point is still valid. If the “handling” for the training line up is not to do things that are not necessary, then the Dating Drill isn’t needed until Gad V or Solo Course.
Yup, done them myself. Last resort.
Oh my God those new/old e-meters are so wow!!!!! I hear to design them COB was good enough to lend the services of his personal plastic surgeon as well as the team of artistes that fashion his stage backdrops in the best quality expanded polystyrene money can buy. Like WOW!!!!
I want to get me a couple of these red e-babies to mount behind the backseat of my old powder blue Ford Edsel where the speakers for the 8 track used to be (before they were stolen). They are sooooo Edsel and will fit right in – clashing color schemes, ugly as hell, way too expensive and over-hyped by the biggest hucksters in the trade. Maybe I can become the first mobile ideal morgue!!!!! Wow!!! Can’t wait…. unfortunately my credit is all maxxed out. Maybe I’ll hold off for the January sales when the latest round of SCIlevees realise they’ve been had and I can get them cheap on Ebay.
They do really look horrid don’t they? Like some alien technology made to look organic and alive?
I’m not trying to slag on them for the sake of it but good lord those things look like something out of a bad sci-fi movie (not that Scientology has ever been associated with something like that 😉
Hey 411 – Horrid indeed! Alien technology made to look organic and alive?
No Buddy they are genuine collectors’ leftovers from the Maroon-ed Age Of Tech. IV. That’s why they are selling at five times the original selling price which was a 9x markup on what they cost to produce, even including the rice and beans deluxe meals for the Gold slave assembly line. Well… OK, maybe they are not all genuine – COB just took delivery on a contract for Chinese knockoffs that weree even cheaper to make. You can spot these from the label that says “Warning: Not use for medical diagnosis – Made in Manchuria”.
Wouldn’t a brite red e-meter distract a PC from his case? I wouldn’t like it.
Oh c’mon Po, you can do it…just get your third mortgage! 😉
That meter looks like a clone of the 2001 Ford Taurus station wagon!
Oh, my God. Do NOT get me started on Jojo (Albert) Al-Zawawi (her real name).
She is the OSA bot of all OSA bots. She’s in no way secretive about it. She wears it like a badge of honor for the status. She was on the ship with Ron and Ron validated her for being such an incredible auditor when she was 14 and I believe she’s stuck in that win. Now she’s “LRH’s staunchest supporter” to the extreme and to the point of not looking at anything else but “supporting the org.”
If you have anyone on your friends list who is questionable or declared (or going to be declared), she is all over your shit. If you don’t take them off immediately.
I hate to bring her weight into it, but she reminds me of Jabba the Hut – in her looks and her attitude. Like she’s the queen of Sheba, passing judgement.
I have heard so many people complain about her to me. She kicks people out of Scientology “rooms” on Facebook on a whim for no real reason. Of course, this is a wrong indication and invalidation, basically saying that the person isn’t a Scientologist and that that person isn’t wanted – all on her whim.
You guys know how I am. I have empathy for a lot of people in this situation. But this woman…she is evil.
Indie8 — JoJo is definitely a NoNo. After 42+ years of living among Scientologist of all shapes and sizes, I have adopted a few stable data regarding them. One being:
Doubt – is an interesting catalyst for strange behavior. I have watched an individual in doubt about their 2D, suddenly begin pointing out all their foibles in public. Creating the reason why a divorce is the only solution.
I have observed staff and staunch Scientologist start targeting others in the field as being soft, off-purpose, and out-of-touch with what it really takes to survive in the SCN world. This almost always took place right before they blew staff or sent letters to friends stating that they were leaving SCN. They publicly disintegrated as they really “never had” case gain, and SCN just wasn’t for them and how they were fooled.
I am certain JoJo has serious doubts about her own wins; about the case phenomena that bothers her most – and just won’t fucking go away no matter what auditing she gets. This rabid, attack-dog mentality hides a weak-minded, frightened and fear-bound person, who must lower everyone else’s status, so that the little they managed to achieve, did not become over-shadowed by the others. To my way of thinking, those that clapped the longest and the loudest, held the most fear and were hoping, really hoping, that the wind created by their hands would somehow propel them to higher ground. It’s really pitiful but you’re right Indie8 – very evil indeed.
Those are fascinating points, Odd Thomas. Sincerely.
Yes, before I decided that that was it for me, I was talking to people, saying that they should really try to handle it inside the church, etc. I was hoping against hope that somehow someone would find the right tumbler sequence to open the lock and bring it back to how it was.
But when I heard that there were no longer any Mgt. execs in place to handle anyone’s KRs and that the WDC was no longer – and then reading Debbie Cook’s letter and finding out about the violence, that was the tumbler to open the other door – of leaving.
I think you’re right. Like the last minute energy and life people can show before they die, this might be the way “tone 40” Scientologists blow out their flame before going out.
Well, if Jojo comes out, she’s gonna have a long walk to get into good graces around here. She has sabotaged many people in her current, arrogant state.
Let those who are without sin cast the first stone and all but, sheesh.
I’d like to chime with my in agreement about “…the last minute energy and life people can show before they die…” theory. My take is that these sheeple are trying to convince themselves more than anything or anyone else. I think they think that if they just say it loudly enough, with enough superlatives and exclamation marks and often enough, that maybe, just maybe, it might be true. Sad.
I remember Jojo – she was rather skinny when I knew her. I remember on the Apollo she was the PC examiner for a while. I went along to her after session and she had put her meter on to charge. The deck plates were metal so there was 220 volts across the PC if their shoes were a bit moist. I picked and the cans and kabam. She said whoops and unplugged the charger then said “Thank you very much your needle is floating”.
Wow, so “Ms Perfect, aka Jo JO Zawawi” was grossly out tech as the examiner. Doesn’t surprise me. She is the Facebook Police who goes on everyone’s FB to tell them to disconnect from so and so, even after she never read or saw any goldenrod on them and just took some verbal character assassination from the church on that person as gospel.
Ah. Thank you for that. I thought I was the only one who thought JoJo was a whack job. In my case, my distaste for her originated not from her Facebook antics (the bitch can’t see my friends list anyway, and she’s certainly no friend of mine), but her gawd-awful blatherings (“art”) and her own self-importance about it. As an artist, I find bad art and a big head an unpleasant combination. Of course, I find her need to police others reprehensible, but even long before that I didn’t like her.
It’s one thing to make bad art, but quite another to make bad art and think you’re hot shit with a cherry on top. And by bad art, I don’t mean something I don’t like – I don’t care for Bartok’s music but I think it’s goddamned good art. Bad art is not children at a recital who haven’t quite got their instruments learned yet or who write halting poetry in their journals.
No, bad art says nothing. It steals attention from those who experience it and offers nothing in return. That’s fucking JoJo.
Gus
Spot on obnosis. 😉
Man, that sucks. I really dug the Student Hat. The GAT drills were garbage, but the course and tapes were good. I also never heard of anyone complaining about “too technical” words. I just recall everyone listening to the lectures and doing the course laughing and getting “keyed out”. But hey, I guess now it will be ‘multiplied by infinity’ better.
Thanks for all the info Mike and thanks to your inside correspondent.
From the info that I have seen on the net about the about the Ultra Viii:
“Make it cost 1/10 of the current Quantum Mark Super VII to produce.” It’s nice to see that Davey passed along the savings to his victims… I mean ias members.
Wonder if it still has the old-style serial port or did he make a command decision to change them all to usb ports which are in use on almost every electronic device out there.
Wow, it can record reads in the session to a sim card. I wonder if it can also record voice audio and meter reads simultaneously and be played back immediately after the session like the computer/meter system that I now use. Oh, I can also pull up on the computer screen next to the meter display whatever command sheet or correction list that I need.
For $5K I can buy 4 new laptops and two theta meters and still have some change left over.
I guess one good thing about this is the glut of marks Vii’s that will be on e-bay soon.
I doubt if there will be a glut of Mk 7’s on ebay. The KA drinkers will probably be told to turn their old meters in rather than let them fall into the hands of squirrels. The CofS meters are very poor in response compared to Independent meters anyway. I wouldn’t wish a CofS meter on anyone for auditing.
The 1987 Checksheet also includes the HCOB 6 Sep 1978 ISSUE III, ROUTINE THREE SC-A, FULL SERVICE FACSIMILE HANDLING UPDATED WITH NEW ERA DIANETICS as well.
Further, it calls for drilling as follows: “The procedure for handling a service facsimile. Note: This is not to include the handling of service facsimiles by New Era Dianetics.”
So, still has to be done by a NED auditor. (It’s NED tech, can’t be run by a Cl IV)
The solution is very simple. If the pc has any reservations or doubts whether he’s completed IV, then he should be C/Sed for R3SC-A … it pretty much says so in the HCOB. It’s a C/Sing/auditing action issued nearly 40 years, not some lost tech BS.
It’s so great to have people there, in the ground, to get these reports so quickly.
Highlights:
(Who doesn’t love lasers) LOL…I laughed out loud.
Edwin Dearborn, “Spot on obnosis”. Omg. That’s a big flunk. Remember, Edwin, opinion is not observation. Some of these brains are getting very mushy.
Question:
I haven’t heard yet, in any report, an estimate of how many people are there. Did he get his 10,000?
I meant “on” the ground!
This is even worse than I thought. Looks like training will continue at the slow-snail pace as it has for the last 17 years. Just some re-arrangements, a new meter, an existing NED action added to Grade 4, some BTBs restored … updated drilling devices … this hardly calls for an event. It’s like the normal state of the usual improvements released gradually over time saved up and then suddenly released all at once. Selling a mirage, a corkpop. A new universe? Give me a break, sh*t comes any thicker than this.
Sticking with the 80’s and early 90’s course checksheets will do just fine, robotic GAT drills not needed anywho, the ones LRH originally prescribed are just fine as they are.
To be fair, the new universes come with Super Power and Running Around a Pole. GAG II was only going to change all of Scientology — both sides of the Bridge to Total Impoverishment.
I can definitely see a whole new vista of universes opening up as a result of the Study Green Form, False Data Stripping, HC Lists, The Learning Drill and “one the job” drilling and pulling on your Nikes and hitting the track.
Truly, this has got to be the most overhyped bs ever.
“Planetary Clearing is now happening.” “It’s a whole new world.” “Prepare to blast off.” etc etc etc
This is like getting a $99 Earl Scheib paintjob for your 75 Pinto, putting in a new 8 track stereo and offering it for sale as the “newest advance in the art of driving, a vehicle that sets the standards and is creating a new tomorrow in the automotive industry.” Anyone in the real world hearing this would be certain you were at least a couple of sandwiches short of a full picnic. Your clueless sycophants would call you an innovative genius for fear of being run over if they didn’t.
Batshit crazy is what this weekend is.
Hi Mike.
I was pretty much just commenting of the auditing/training line-up which GAG II mostly consists of as just presented in reference to GAT I or what standard tech actually is. It’s truly disappointing, but on the other hand validates the existing courses we already have out here in the FZ/Indies, I appreciate them even more … lol.
Lists/References are all part of the Grad V Auditor’s Course, been around for ages, nothing new.
Seems if an Indie C/S exists someplace who can be contacted by e-mail, then you & your pals can do the “Cause Resurgence Rundown” at your local city park. Can’t see myself funding a floor of a building just for that … lol.
Maybe stupid event-worshippers deserve what their bathing in.
I haven’t said so, but thanks a ton for all work you put into making these news available to us. Most entertaining.
“$99 Earl Scheib paintjob for your 75 Pinto”
Dear Lord, I’ve just gone fully exterior. I am 3 feet behind my head. Hair! I’ve got hair! It’s a whole old universe.
Thanks, Mike. You are my new disco king.
News Flash! The event in LA won’t be next Saturday and Sunday, it will be ALL DAY SATURDAY next week November 23rd.
Ooops. I guess we weren’t supposed to know that over here.
How are any of these MINOR changes going to make Scientology take off like a Rocket!!?????? I’m withholding further comment……
I love the Kool Aid visual.
It’s stuptifying. Thank you for being there and reporting this whole thing. And for giving us the insight. When will these clowns on the inside realize that they are buying the same thing over and over again… just watered down so it won’t work so that it gets re-packaged again and again and sold to them again and again. Are their lives so boring that this is what thrills them?
Again… stuptifying is the word for the evening!
Thank you, Mike. You are a hero.
Edwin Dearborn, “Spot on obnosis”.
Yikes! {:-|
LOVE the Kool Aid shoop!
While is true that the Founder, in his own way, introduced the subjects of Dianetics and Scientology, the facts prove that it took COB RTC David Miscavige to troubleshoot, repair, salvage, refine and purify the materials of Dianetics and Scientology into their highest, final, and eternal expression in GAT II.
Whereupon we in RTC have declared Mr. Miscavige to be Source II.
It therefore logically follows from this declaration that Source II materials now comprise the exclusive and standard materials of Dianetics and Scientology.
For this reason, the flawed Source I materials in the CST vaults were melted down last week. We are now raising money to put the Source II materials into the vaults for preservation against a madman pressing a button, a natural catastrophe, etc.
On a related matter, all of the old e-meters will be seized by the RTC Meter Police as being non-sanctioned. These old e-meters will be ground into powder and then incinerated along with all other Source I materials and ephemera.
It is as if none of that old stuff never even really existed!
Gary Wattman is a second generation scientologist — he’s at least 60 so he’s pretty well toasted KA. His mother if she’s not alive is turning over in her grave.
He is a seriously delusional piece of work.
Christine
Thank you so much for providing this update! Over on the Bunker some people are sharing pictures some party members posted on instagram last night! Tsk Tsk! They must not have gotten the ‘no social media memo’! Can’t wait to see if Tommy Boy, Travolta, Alley, Elfman, and the celeb gang are there tomorrow because it’s the biggest thing in the planet EVER!!!!!!!!
The sheep have been aroused for weeks in anticipation of a big wad and all they get is a dysfunctional dribble form the self promoted gangleader with a notorious reputation for coming up wayyy too short.
It’s probably been said; I just opened my level IV pack, circa 1990, and there it is, last HCOB in the pack, HCOB 6 Sep 1978 ISSUE III, ROUTINE THREE SC-A, FULL SERVICE FACSIMILE HANDLING UPDATED WITH NEW ERA DIANETICS.
How can anyone fall for this bullshit!?!?!?!?!??
Bruce
Exactly!! Scam artist. I’m amazed people are still swallowing this crap!
Exactly!!! When I read that I thought WHAT????!!!!!!!! I guess the sad truth is that the auditors and CSes are willing to look the other way, pretend, hide, avoid, neglect instead of FLEE AND ATTACK!!! Very disappointed in that group especially.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned yet that, for this first time that I am aware of, HGC auditing rates have actually gone down. That’s pretty crazy. I wonder what prompted that.
Running out of rich people.
Wow! A new Student Hat glossary and Study Tapes with all the long words and Scilon-speak removed. Brilliant!
Wait…Was that an earthquake or the whole planet shifting towards salvage?
Is he unloading anything else? Tech Vols? OEC? SHSBC?
Looks like my original calculations of what this monstrous pile of doodie would end up costing might have been a bit low. Did I say 25-30K?
See, now if I had had the new Study Tech ‘in’, I might not have goofed on the math….
,,,and, Kudos Mike, for making through and/or past the phalanx without being spotted and Squirrel Busted!
What were you driving, an armor-Plated Hummer with heavy tint, or a convertible?
What about the Frakking dictionary?
We don’t need no stinking glossaries, but the dictionary is a must!
So everything about the Mark VIII E-meter on Steve Hall’s blog (http://www.scientology-cult.com/mark-viii-emeter-revealed.html) was accurate 3 years ago, EXCEPT Dave seems to have changed his mind about one thing:
4) Set the retail price under $1,000.
Oops.
Does anyone know what happened with the serial connectors…?
Good question. My guess is that “COB” directed that they be updated to more modern parallel ports.
Yeah… And in 20 years he’ll introduce USB ports… Stick around long enough you might see a Bluetooth meter…
Two additional observations about the “new” e-meter:
1. The articles on the net about the Mark VIIIs (with this exact design, so you know they are accurate) say that 20,000 of them were produced – all silver color. This one is… red and looks like the cheap Russian knock-offs. So are these the same meters repackaged in new cases?
2. Noticed the empty spot on the front, under the dial? Isn’t that the place of the MISSING Mark Ultra VIII badge? It seems like it fell out… the design photos on the net show a Mark VIII badge in that curiously empty spot… http://s102.photobucket.com/user/itsaline/media/mark-viii-ultra.jpg.html
BTW, if anyone has seen one first hand, I would be very interested what happened with the SERIAL connectors…
Wow, COB just introduced Scientology. So now they all have to start over again. WTF have they been doing for the last 60 years?
Piloting… Keep up.
lol
Soon all LRH materials will be banned. 🙂
Is it rude to say I want to puke?
God no. These people are the gushing enablers of their own enslavement.
No, I so want to puke, also!
Miscavige can’t train and audit so he keeps trying to solve his problem in others and take all their dough. It’s such a laughable scam. I wish I was still in so I could leave all over again!
“These people are the gushing enablers of their own enslavement”
Very well said, Sindy. They are very much doing this to themselves. What’s the bet that when these zealots finally see the truth they will become extreme anti Scientology zealots that ridicule it all to hell and will tell you that they never got anything good out of it the twenty or more years they were in?
An extremist is an extremist in or out.
But the refreshing part of seeing these is noting how small the “Like” numbers are. Proof positive that this is the world’s fastest shrinking religion.
OH! I’m so glad you mentioned the “like” numbers!! I noticed that too. 2 likes. 4 likes. Hell, I get more likes than that on cute, fuzzy little kittie photos.