This weekend, appropriate for the Halloween season, Captain Miscavige performed a ribbon yanking ceremony on his latest haunted house.
In a nation with just a small handful of active scientologists, he presided over an intimate gathering to officially open this 79,000 sq ft monster. Every scientologist in the country can have their own room in this place.
Even their official website photo only claims 1300 attendees and with wide angle lenses and every other trick they know they still cannot make it look even passingly impressive… And this is with 7 chartered planes worth of people flying in from all over according to the Flag OTC.
But, in confirmation we got an on-the-ground view from one of our readers and they also managed to snap some shots (including the one at the top).
I promised you some photos of AMS opening event.
I got through security all the way to the backyard of the org where the event was being held. Nobody questioned why I was there.
I estimate that there were roughly around 250 people max. 300 would be overly-generous.
I saw a looot of foreigners. I met ED MUN who said that all the German ED’s were there. There were quite a few staff from HBG, mainly doing org board functions, there were French, Norwegian, several staff from other so-called ideal orgs. I talked with a BAS staff who said there were 100 on staff, day and foundation in Amsterdam. I saw an ex-FOLO EU staff in the uniform of AMS Org, obviously the rules about ex-SO not being on staff in Class V orgs is not followed when it comes to making it appear there are staff for these events.
Anyway, so it was a big event for AMS standards but pathetic of course for a superb ideal org…
Maybe 30% were outer-org scientologists.
If there are more than 500 people in attendance I will submit my resignation as an SP. Our person on the ground said 300. I am being kind.
Chairman of the Bored flew to Amsterdam to preside over this?
This followed Miscavige’s yankings in Birmingham and Dublin. They are becoming smaller and smaller. It’s a steady decline since the first ideal orgs in 2004.
Just for fun, here is some of the Shermanspeak drivel Miscavige presented in Amsterdam, apparently trying to sound poetic and whimsical:
Follow the enchanting canals and arched bridges of city center Amsterdam and then wander east into the fast growing, trendy and studious Knowledge Mile and you will hit the fast lane of one of Europe’s creative capitals. The Knowledge Mile represents the advance guard of Amsterdam’s development and a symbol of learning and expansion for this city amidst an exciting renewal.
Indeed, the grand opening of Amsterdam’s new Church of Scientology was an exuberant celebration of knowledge, in both a modern and spiritual sense. So it was, some 1,300 Scientologists and guests gathered on Saturday, October 28, in central Amsterdam, to celebrate the unveiling of a striking new landmark on the area’s central apex—the bustling Wibautstraat.
If that street is bustling, then this org is booming. And the moon is made of orange cheese…
Before that ribbon falls, let’s take a moment to contemplate your place in Dutch history—not to mention mythology. For you are no longer sailing seaward and windward, and you’re no longer skirting headlands homeward. On the contrary, you’re outward bound on a course to eternity itself.
“Outward bound on a course to eternity itself” — not quite up to the porch of infinity level, but he still sounds completely mad to any normal observer.
Thanks for visiting Holland Dave!
NO tax exempt
NO taboos
NO Scientology
Now stay the hell out of my country, you little fraud! Next time, I will bring a basket of rotten eggs….
Those poor people who relinquished their critical faculties and put their trust in a pseudo science created by a flimflammer must by now feel like rodents on a wheel. I hereby christen thee Hamsterdam.
You know by now, all the information about the cult’s practices I get,leads me to believe that perhaps all currently active members are fans of good old-fashioned, hard D***.That’s all there is to it. They’d just rather receive it from a well-dressed,faux-eloquent Imp following a cheeky speech. Whatever floats their boat(or ship?), I guess!
Obviously DM is yanking on something else other than his ribbon……just saying.
I was also physcially present during the opening. Made several photo’s during the event. That annoyed the scientolgist out side on the street. There were something like 20 security persons present (10 scientologist and 10 hired and two dutch police men).
I got the guard so annoyed that I was ordered by the police to indentify me. No problem I have nothing to hide. They insrtucted me to stay 5-10 meters away from the crowd.
Also I notice that scientology has also another tactic to keep non-scietologist away by distracting me with mellow conversation with a Dutch young female sientologist. I have asked if she was not invited to attend the official she did not respond and stayed walking arround on the public walk-way.
What I can say about scientologist attending; a lot were comming from France and Spain (already noted during my drive on the highway towards Amsterdam (yep they were by car from Spain) Others form Ireland and England.
If anyone here is interested in these pictures off the opening at the public .side of the street. Just let me know how to contact you and I will forward them. I already approached Mike through tis website but I got no response yet.
PS, any typo’s / misspelling I don’t have spell check available.
You could maybe publish your pictures on https://whyweprotest.net/
Account not needed, or use a throwaway account
I wonder how many of those people are scientologists? Maybe they were just regular folks who were convinced to sit and listen. We’ll never know because it’s painfully obvious that COS will never tell the truth.
Forget the ghost and globlins, they scary monster is David Miscavige himself
“It was an exuberant celebration of knowledge, in both a modern and spiritual sense”……
Let me rephrase that in reality for you, Mr. Sherman:
“It was an anti-climatic denouncement of stupidity, in both historical truths and reality nonsense”
Question I’ve wanted to ask for a long time: Does Miscaviage actually believe the nonsense that Scientology spouts or is he in it only for the power and money? I look forward to reading the reply(s).
That’s an interesting question, that I think is very hard to tell, and that no one has satisfactory answers – though perhaps, if we’re lucky, Mike, who has some direct insights, might chime in.
Reports are, that Miscavige was originally a real Hubbard loyalist. Perhaps he still is, or perhaps he’s determined that Hubbard really only thought of Scientology as a sort game of money and power, that he himself now plays – and in that could well be correct (Hubbard talked a lot at one point, about that sort of game theory).
Apparently at least some of the old diehards around Miscavige, actually believe that Hubbard is going to reincarnate and reappear, setting things right and calling to account those who haven’t properly followed his directives.
From reading various ex-Int staff accounts, he seems totally on board with Hubbard’s belief system, but not so much with regards to the tech and its efficacy. Karen Pressley quotes him in her book when she first observed him cooing about the “money-for-nothing” cash cow that is the IAS. Says it all really. He’s a leader of a “religious” business and doesn’t even care about his actual product.
?????This Miscavige character is a freakin LUNATIC on steroids. ??????
To everyone who has commented today…Happy Halloween.! !
BOO! ?
Every scientologist with a wisp of common sense, in or out, who ever gave a penny to scientology must cringe as they watch this ideal org craziness.
Those still in must seize leadership away from a guy who’d think this embarrassing spectacle might help the congregants in any way. Where is the bravery in this organization?
The brave defected.
“If there are more than 500 people in attendance I will submit my resignation as an SP.”
Dear God, imagine what will happen if this scenario actually materializes. We’ll see Mike Rinder posting YouTube videos which he’ll present as having been made by some filmmaker who approached him (the identity of said filmmaker will strangely never be revealed). The videos will feature Rinder bashing every other critic while defending Miscavige. The new material will likewise appear on CoS hate websites, along with several emails which were sent in confidence. A few true believers will continue to insist that this is totally NOT evidence of collusion with the CoS, and that Rinder is merely trying to tell us the “other side of the story” which has been suppressed by Tony Ortega/Leah Remini/Karen de La Carriere/the illuminati. The only consolation will be that unlike other works in the same genre, Rinder’s videos will be mostly clean of highfalutin words.
“Outward bound on a course to eternity itself”.
Thank you, Dan, Dave and Cult.
Now!
Everybody! Altogether, 1…2…3…”Grrrrrrrrroan”..
I can’t heeeeeeeear you!
Sgt. Carter is that really you?
Goll…ooolly!
GRRRROOOAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There! How’s that?
THAT’S A PASS! Would you like to write a Success Story?
Dave, accompanied by his minders, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch…….
Infinitely delusional galactic Xenu’s”body-thetans” secret-exorcists-snipe-hunters overturning the universe’s almost-infinitely-long dwindling spiral.
He’s not being expansive enough for my tastes.
As heard in Amsterdam…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
Lol..
@Chee Chalker
The chairs were about 25 deep so that would bring the total to 375, now isn’t that an impressive crowd!
Btw, at the previous AMS org location they had an awfully hard time paying their rent which was about 20.000EU a month. I have no idea how much the overhead in that mausoleum on the Wibautstraat is but it must be quite something. Or how about annual real estate tax? Then again it can’t be more than 20.000 a month so maybe they are having an easier time now… They will probably end up closing parts of the building off so they won’t have to heat or cool it. That’s what they do in other ideal orgs e.g. Berlin, Malmo, Madrid to name a few.
So two eye witnesses say there were 300 to 375 people there, of that probably at least half was staff in civvies who were flown in along with public on the 7 (SEVEN!) airplanes that they flew in with people to fill the audience. So what does the church do? They lie and say that $1,300 people were there. Ha! Maybe the Kool Aid drinkers will believe that, but anyone with eyes can see that it is far less than your inflated numbers. I don’t know what wide angle lenses do to make it look like there are more people there, but it sounds par for the course for the church to use tricks and smoke and mirrors to make it look like a full crowd. A huge 79,000 sq foot building that will serve very few members is crazy. They should just rent out rooms so as to pay the light and heating bills.
“Every scientologist in the country can have their own room in this place.”
– Mike Rinder
“Last I heard, there were perhaps 60 active Scientologists in the Netherlands. So a 79,000 square foot building yields 1,300 square feet per member. That’s a fairly nice-sized apartment for one person…”
– John P. Capitalist
I’m just wondering where Miscavige has learned his management strategy and public relations. Is there any historical precedent for an organization to waste this much money on expensive unused buildings when the money could be so much better spent — even just in terms of PR value — in other ways? If CoS had spent a fraction of the money it cost to build and maintain that building on something like feeding the homeless, or even reducing rates for its supposed services, it might look a little better to the public.
I just always come to this point regarding “narcissistic tendencies”: how can people obsessed with how they look to others have so little awareness of how they actually do look to others? Do they really think that adding “massively wasteful” to “abusive,” “exploitative,” “dishonest” and “fraudulent” will do something to alleviate the ongoing PR disaster of this organization?
Cat W, excellent comment, especially this:
“I just always come to this point regarding “narcissistic tendencies”: how can people obsessed with how they look to others have so little awareness of how they actually do look to others? Do they really think that adding “massively wasteful” to “abusive,” “exploitative,” “dishonest” and “fraudulent” will do something to alleviate the ongoing PR disaster of this organization?”
“Is there any historical precedent for an organization to waste this much money on expensive unused buildings when the money could be so much better spent – even just in terms of PR value – in other ways?”
Cat, I honestly don’t think there is a historical precedent for this. It is, I believe, an original and highly workable scam. So, some kudos to COB for his plan to CHA (cover his ass).
That said, I don’t give Miscavige much credit. Rather, the scam’s workability is 90% due to the stupidity of its willfully blind victims. Any other group would have seen thru it immediately, and, in that Scientology appears to be shrinking rather rapidly, it can be deduced that individual members are recovering their eyesight and leaving.
You’re being reasonable, Cat…. *smirk*
Their misuse of ill-gotten funds is a travesty to humankind.
Feeding the homeless? That will never happen in this cherch, as that would be seen as “out exchange”. Plus we all know that homeless people are viewed as DB’s, and Scamology would never part with money to support THOSE people, because of course, they pulled it in themselves.
As much as I love to hate him, I have to grudgingly admit that Dan Sherman has a unique skill lol. His phrasing is like a Jackson Pollack painting of purple prose. When I step back, there is a vague, nearly intangible yet somehow discernible order to it, not unlike multi-car pileup on the 405. I must look.
Reminds me of a small Private Corporate Event. Which it is, of course. ’nuff said.
‘All hail the building, all hail the building!”
Can’t see any other reason to attend.
I truly wonder if the people who fronted all that money for that big chunk of real estate are actually in the crowd? I doubt it very much. If they were, I sure hope they brought their own velvet lined air sickness bags.
All hail the building! The C of S has become a “church” that worships MEST. Buildings are material things called MEST which is the opposite of spiritual things. So now instead of being a spiritual endeavor, it is a MEST loving activity.
MEST is case gain! MEST is case gain! All hail MEST. Buildings are sacred!
That photo of the new Amsterdam Ideal Org brought to mind another “Ideal Org” of sorts:
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This is late and brutal Romanian dictator Nicolai Caucescu’s immense and immensely tacky “Palace of the People,” built with slave labor of another variety. He and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad after a quick kangaroo-court trial in the Romanian revolution. Not exactly a fair trial by our standards, but the verdict was not undeserved, to put it mildly. Now this architectural monstrosity has become a Bucharest tourist attraction!
I think I’ve made my point.
A very good friend of mine, Garry Scarff, just passed away. He was at my ex-Scientologists / Indie party at our home years ago. I would give him bear hugs. He referred to them as Burns Hugs. (My last name). We had planned to get together at some point, but, I stopped hearing from him. He had a heart of gold and I’m going to miss him. He was the life of the party! Rest In Peace, my friend.
Sorry to hear about that & sorry for your loss OSD. It’s a real heartache to lose friends, RIP Garry.
It is. He was a good soul.
So sorry for your loss OSD.
Thanks, Tempster.
Good friends are hard to come by, you were both Blessed to have befriended each other. Remember the good times you shared with a smile & a laugh….every once in a while you WILL feel a hug cause he will always be near you….best friends do that. Rest in Peace Garry
Hugs, OSD!
Thanks, Teen. I can sure use some.
OSD – So sorry for your loss! As a never-in & only recently (2012) actively on the blogs, sites & trying to get the word out, I’d heard his name a lot! Read the post Tony did on him yesterday and thought it did a great job of explaining all he walked through. I know some people had some mixed things to say and I hope you ignored all of that! Sounds like a guy who came out & told truths when he got to the place where he was ready (as so many others have) and was super candid & open about the past, all while trying to help get info out there to help!
That you counted him as such a close friend says even more about his integrity because you’re about as real as it gets! RIP Garry and OSD, I hope you feel his friendship & bear hugs as you remember him in each moment! Glad to hear he had you as a friend because he sounded like a really good guy trying to do the right thing! ((Hugs))
Thanks so very much, jeny. I appreciate your kind words.
I suppose if you visit a downtown “shop” first, this might look like a lot more people…
Talk about “one toke over the line”!
One toke over the line? Pass it over, my friend.
Wow! Do you remember that that song was made way back in 1978 by Little Feat (Waiting for Columbus album)? Only seems like yesterday I was doing the practical for it. Never finished that checksheet btw, never saw the point man…
I Yawnalot – always enjoy your comments, but now that you’re quoting Little Feat, you’ve officially gone top notch in my book! Grew up listening to them as they were always my dad’s favorite and though I thought (then – my taste improved as I became a “grown up” though still working on the grown up part) they were “Dad music” as I became a drummer, listening to Richie Hayward (RIP) on the drums was nothing less than inspiring … still to this day… Jeff Porcero (Toto) & Ginger Baker (like I’d insult you by including band name here… ;P) were incredible to hear and watch but Richie was PURE MAGIC and took everything LF did to another level!!!
So yeah… um… I like them too & know what you meant up there! Lol
Let It Roll is probably my all time favorite driving song. Amazing…
OH Yeah, I hear you, tku, I like your taste too. I’ve come full circle on a lot of stuff of my youth (my sister played classical piano). Even Dylan, whom I didn’t like very much with his raspy voice at the time is without doubt a genius. There’s comes a time when you just gotta like what you like. I’m back into the guitar after nearly a 40 year layover after a failed learning attempt and of all the songs that gets me motivated every time is Steve Stills, “Love the one you’re with.” Originally off the album simply named “Steve Stills,” with the little toy giraffe in the snow on the cover. Tuning the guitar a long down to C was tricky and felt unnatural but when you get the strumming right, the speed just blurs the arm. Every person of any age in the room start singing along even if they don’t know the words, or tapping their feet when you get the rhythm right.
Music, what a great language!
Oh, another song comes to mind from the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, (that’s another story), but one of the lyrics says, “if you want to get to heaven… you got to raise a bit of hell?” Sort of aligns with the Scientology experience in a weird sort of motivation of its own.
Cheers, and love the one you’re with…
Brewer & Shipley
Using digital counting (on my fingers), there seems to be roughly 200-225 people in the photo. Wouldn’t they want to get the most in the phot possible and take the picture from the back of the crowd?
1300? My Aunt Fanny!
I spent a week in Amsterdam in April and an empty CoS building was located on the same street as my hotel. It was completely empty and dark the entire time I was there. It was in a pretty old and historic part of town so the real estate couldn’t have been cheap. It is such a waste of $$. I can’t believe people actually continue contributing to these asset purchases that only benefit one individual DM. Incidentally my son is in the entertainment business and his mailbox is flooded every day with CoS stuff…anything from Celebrity Center invitations to casting notices from a “Marie Byrum”. I had him watch Aftermath and a couple of other CoS shows on Netflix so he wasn’t duped into buying the snake oil. It really pisses me off that they got his email address from one of the casting agencies. Obviously someone is sharing or lifting that information to use for the cults, errr I mean “church’s” benefit.
Pretty soon these “yankings” will have to be done in studio with everything, including the building, being CGI. Scamology aka the Matrix.
You can do anything with computers these days.
At least it will give a fast forward or delete option, one can only hope.
Hackers will be licking their chops too… Digital stuff is a whole career in itself, an infinity of illusion awaits for the minds of easily deluded. Scientology has & is painting itself in a corner. Time for Davey to consider his options on a new address before a smaller, a lot smaller one is enforced upon him.
Love to see RICO imposed upon the Cof$ with its assets & bank accounts frozen as the investigation is called. No funds available for Davey to hire fancy lawyers – that’s my dream for the holiday season.
Last I heard, there were perhaps 60 active Scientologists in the Netherlands. So a 79,000 square foot building yields 1,300 square feet per member. That’s a fairly nice-sized apartment for one person, which leads to an idea:
To prevent the shrinking number of remaining members from blowing, transform all those mammoth Idle Morgues into apartment buildings and rent space to public at below-market rates. Then they can donate the savings versus their current rent/mortgage to Scientology plus the profit they made on the house that they sold prior to moving in. And if they get declared, they immediately get evicted, their stuff thrown out into the street. If disconnection isn’t enough reason to keep people in Scientology, then the threat of becoming homeless ought to be…
60 or soscientologists stil left sounds about right.
Scientology is not even controversial anymore in the Netherlands.It is just dead.
Only 2 newssites even mentioned it.
Here is the Google translate of one AT5(very small local newssite)
The Church of Scientology is not pleased with AT5’s announcement last Friday. Neighborhood residents said they felt intimidated, but according to a spokesman, it is “super-driven”.
The followers of the church founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard opened their new accommodation at the Wibaut Street a day later. Also international church leader David Miscavage was involved.
AT5 was not welcome despite repeated requests. A message on the site where neighborhood residents say to be intimidated by the coming of the church shot the Scientologists in the wrong throat. Do not Sit ‘As you undoubtedly saw, AT5 posted a super-overwhelmed piece on the website prior to our opening, for that reason we do not see it coming for you Monday,’ a Scientology Church spokeswoman sent.
A neighborhood resident referred to an earlier broadcast of the Rambam television program, which shows how an 11-year-old boy leads a psychological session. The many security officers also shoot in the wrong throat area. “It’s a mystery with men in the black around the building.”
Scientology itself denies negative message about the church. The images of the opening sent the spokesman Sunday to AT5. “Should you write a better piece about us, we can always see if we can do an interview and tour.”
“also shoot in the wrong throat area”
? Is that a Dutch idiom?
Means a chicken bone went into the wrong pipe.
Now that’s not nice to call someone a Dutch Idiot. Why, that’s just downright…..huh? Really? Idiom? Never mind.
Only other article in the entire dutch press(a local amsterdam newspaper:BY: THE PAROOL 28 OCTOBER 2017, 16:00
On Saturday afternoon an opening party of the Dutch branch was held at the back of the property. Among other things, there was a stage and seats were set. Also large cloths are hanged so that residents can not watch the ceremony.
Due to the event, the entrance to the subway station which is close to the door is closed for two hours. According to the CFP, this was done at the request of the organization. Also temporary residents could not be in the parking garage. Scientology promised to pay the parking costs that they had to pay.
The license application shows that the organization has about one thousand visitors. There were several security officers in front of the door to guide the party. Many curious bystanders made pictures of the Saturday revealed logo on the building.
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The sect bought in 2013 for more than five million euros the five-story complex in the Wibautstraat. That amount was paid cash and was met with donations. In recent years, the building has been transformed into “ideal org,” as Scientology members call their church buildings.
Scientology has been on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal for decades. The new building on the Wibautstraat is many times bigger, but ultimately costs less. The sect paid in the inner city tough rent costs, which it did not know regularly.
How many members Scientology has in Amsterdam and the Netherlands is not known. Although the church documents this well, they do not want to give openness. Worldwide it says it has about ten million followers.
Two years ago, a reporter of the Rambam television program infiltrated with Dutch Scientology. This showed, among other things, that the sect lets children conduct psychological sessions on adults..
John P., I’ve pointed out before and you may be aware, that it seems fairly typical that the amount of space in an “ideal” org per active member is around 600 to 700 square feet, and maybe in some cases closer to 1,000, which is in the ballpark of the average amount of living space per person in the US.
The Irish and the Dutch seem to be getting an even more generous allocation per active member – and in countries where the average living space is probably even smaller yet. Particularly given that the Ireland org was apparently paid for entirely out of international funds without even the pretense of a local fundraising campaign, I wonder if the members of long-struggling orgs in places like Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Battle Creek, and Montreal (not to mention Toronto), who still don’t have their own “ideal” orgs after a decade or so of fundraising efforts, aren’t a bit jealous if not even put out?
“If there are more than 500 people in attendance I will submit my resignation as an SP”. -Great line and great coverage of this overinflated, unsuccessful grand opening by the COS in Amsterdam.
I wish the money they spent on the building went to staff members instead! But what am I thinking? After all, that would require the COS doing something decent for other human beings, a subject this Church knows nothing about. Thank you Mike. As always, your blog is brilliant.
McCabbageis the king of hyperbole. Each subsequent speech gets dumber and dumber.
If he counted 1,300 at the event when there were really 300, perhaps he was counting their invisible body thetans too. Just a thought.
I keep telling people, over & over again…you MUST count the body thetans! You’d be surprised at how pissed off they get if they’re not counted.
Right, OSD. So pissed off they may unionize. Then where will we be?
We’d be up the creek without a paddle.
The United Cluster of Teamsters?
Still sounds like a Heavy Metal Band to me:
Xenu & The Body Thetans….
Yep! That’s what you call a bunch of Teamsters, a cluster.
Association of Body Thetans International… Federation of American Space Cooties, Cincinnati Branch…
🙂
Count the body thetans? So that’s how Scientology inflates those ‘straight up and vertical ‘ stats!
You betcha.
You didn’t know?
In the interests of accuracy, something’s not adding up here. Seven chartered planes to bring in 300 people?? When French, German, et al. Euro-sheep could have gotten there by train? Were there sheep inside that monstrous building watching this via telescreen?
How many can fit in a DC8? Maybe the 1,000 people unaccounted for in pictures DM thought were coming actually got kicked out over a volcano.
This will look good at one of their flash bang events how many countries there is a ah hem church in.
Mike, you can’t resign and we can’t fire you. SP for Life.
Mary, aren’t we all SPs for life?
OSD,
In that you are under suspicion for having committed a number of extremely social and helpful acts, your Application for Lifetime Suppressive Person Membership is still under review. No sheep in wolf’s clothing can be allowed io slip through.
(Forgive me for picking on you all the time, OSD. Its just that you are such a good straight man 🙂 )
Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! This is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me! I’m now a Lifetime Suppressive Person! WOO HOO! We need to celebrate! Choose your food, choose your drink and choose your smoke. I’ve got it all! Let me know if I need to give a speech!
OSD, I’m afraid you have an MU. Your application for Lifetime Suppressive Person-ness has NOT yet been approved.
It is still under review by the Bored.
The Bored has seen applicants with far worse crimes than yours, which is why they are the Bored.
Rumor has it that you’ve committed far more than a few helpful and caring acts in your lifetime which may serve to disqualify you as a Lifetime SP, I’m afraid.
But all is not lost. May I suggest something?
Immediately go out and do something very shitty to somebody. Now, it may go against your grain, but do it anyway. Force yourself.
Try to do something really shitty and antisocial AT LEAST once a week, THEN, work your way up to twice a week, etc., until you’re doing something really nasty to another person – or better yet, a group – at least once a day. (Stay out of jail while practicing this ,btw.)
Discipline yourself. It can be tough at first being an utter bastard all the time. It won’t feel “natural”. But stay with it, and it will get easier, I promise you.
The Decision-Makers at Lifetime Suppression Headquarters have extremely high standards for qualification in Lifetime SP Membership.
Its an elite group. They’re not going to accept into their midst just some ordinary creep. But don’t be discouraged.
You can do it, OSD. Intention is cause. Tone 40 it. The time is now.
Sincerely, your friend,
Aqua
Lifetime SP Member Meritorius
I love being a Lifetime SP Member. But, I don’t deserve the Meritorius.
Apply Keeping SPs working
DO others before they do you.
Granitt
Oh Lord….PLEASE do NOT make it look like one of those CHEESY medals that look like a chocolate tin foil wrapped coin hanging on a brightly colored ribbon…….YIKES…..
On SECOND thought…the REALLY SHITTY thing TO DO would be to get someone to manufacture one of the replicas of the “freedom medal”….with a large S.P. clearly viewable….
BTW Aqua….as you know dear friend…I am a “never in”….but can I register too??
Balletlady,
Registration for Lifetime Suppressive Person Membership is not closed to those who have never been in Scientology.
That said be forewarned that if, during your lifetime, you have, from time to time, engaged in acts of kindness toward others – if, randomly or deliberately you have helped or nurtured people, or even just made them feel better about themselves or life for a while, PLEASE DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME.
Everything decent you’ve EVER done will be closely reviewed and chalked up as a mark against you.
Believe me, over a an entire lifetime, its amazing how much good most people do!
In the decades that comprise the usual life, a HUGE amount of social personality, helpful acts can and do get racked up!
This is why Membership is so exclusive.. (And btw, OSD has been turned down. Turned down FLAT, I’m sad to say. He’s just too nice. Don’t tell him yet, though. I want to let him down easy.)
It is the Bored’s sworn duty to keep basically good, inherently decent people OUT.
Besides, the Registration Fee is non-refundable.
How many lives are we talking about here?
This lifetime only, Yawn. Whaddya think, you’re gonna automatically retain your elite Suppressive Person Lifetime status once you drop your current bod and pick up another one? No way!
Why, you could pull a fast one and come back as the 21st century’s answer to Mother Theresa or some other serious Person Of Good Will.
Just think how that would affect the group, having a Social Personality in their midst, contaminating them, via some kind of utterly looney automatic renewal policy! Its out-exchange! Besides, we can’t risk it.
After all, SPs are only 2.5 percent of the population. The likelihood that you’ll return next lifetime as a Social Personality is way too high.
Your SP status must be continually EARNED, each lifetime. Sorry to be so blunt, Yawn, but we’re going to turn that wandering PTS gaze of yours into a fixed, dedicated SP glare, win or die in the attempt. We’d rather have you dead than incapable.
And if all of this is too much for you to confront you can always join up with ISIS or Al Quaeda or some other bunch of namby-pamby, panty-waist SP dilettantes.
I’ll just have to stay alive forever then.
You better!
Yawn, check out Vampires.com. Become one of the UnDead and you’re a shoo-in.
The third photo down, taken from the back of the chairs, really shows the true numbers. Yeah, 300 is on the generous side. Profuse kudos to “one of our readers” on the ground. You CAN’T resign, O.O.O.R; we need you! We can’t clear the planet of scientology without you! Well, we can, but it’ll be more fun if you’re on board.
Moving right along…I’d have needed a barf bag for sure to listen to any of Dan Sherman’s sanctimonious and dishonest drivel and delivered by Mr. scientology. Honestly, Mr. Sherman, how do you look yourself in the mirror after penning such pathetic pap? Or have you removed all the mirrors from your house? Perhaps you’ve made friends with xanax and ambien?
Finally, I hope all the teleprompters, speakers and mics were functioning properly. I wouldn’t want any to get “in Dutch” for screwing up (sorry, couldn’t resist).
The Sherminator does ok checking the mirrors only because those wicked-cool mullets obscure the view! He’s so busy focusing on business-in-the-front-party-in-the-back, he can’t take the time to focus on that overblown conscience thing those antisocial SP’s are always going on about!
Inspiring!
Scientology judgement for today:
One of the most disempowering aspects of Scientology is the assignment of personal growth to Hubbard’s bridge.
In retrospect I see how the responsibility of my personal growth was given away to making money to do the bridge.
On the path I am on now, the responsibility for my personal growth is done by my own efforts, my own self inquiry, my own self discipline, my own insights and my own self confidence.
By externalizing the responsibility of my personal growth to an outside agency — auditing, I actually made less of the power of my own self initiative: my power.
Personal transformation is hard work. It does not come from remembering pain as the sole process to self awareness.
It comes from:
Being truly ethical
Contemplating
Self reflection
Self discipline
Constructive self criticism
Therapy
Meditation
Hard work
Copping to my shit
L Ron Hubbard convinced me that my own power of intitiative for self transformation was riddled with traps, implants and engrams. And that I was too ensnared by unseen forces for me to go it alone: a total disempowering philosophy.
Hubbard’s bridge is destructive to self power.
He convinced us that he, Ron, did all the work for us. That all we had to do was amass money and buy the bridge.
It has taken me decades to uncover in myself, the harm that Hubbard did to me.
I’m working on a new essay. It’s slow coming but it’s being formed.
I’m grateful to these blogs for the opportunity to revisit and dissolve the deep rooted falsehoods that happens when the teacher is a Malignant Narcissist.
I’m hoping Aftermath does the best unpacking of Hubbard to date.
Mankind’s best friend turned out to be its enemy anti social personality.
Brilliant post, Brian. Much to contemplate here; thank you.
Brian,
Fantastic observations and factors that indeed lead to self enlightenment.
Hubbard did get me on the path, and handed me useful tools. But, I reached a point that I realized that simply walking in Hubbard’s shoes were not my shoes. Some old timers and some followers think that reading everything Ron said and wrote will somehow, someday, bring them into enlightenment. (If not the first time though the materials, then maybe the tenth, or twentyeth, or…) They have, as you put it: “Accepted the idea that he, Ron, did all the work for us. That all we had to do was amass money and buy the bridge.” The truth is: “Hubbard’s bridge is destructive to self power.”
The pitfalls and traps Ron so often spoke of are now on display for all to see in the current Sea Org Church of total solidity.
Brian your journey of self help and personal transformation is fine and I don’t doubt that you or anyone could make some headway using the list you’ve offered.
However I wouldn’t be so quick to show traps, implants and engrams the door.
I wouldn’t dismiss BT’s and Clusters ( as you have earlier ) from the playing field either.
One of the following statements is likely closer to the truth than the other. They both can’t be true.
1. There are no BT’s, Clusters or Traps.
2. There are BT’s, Clusters and Traps.
I am finding in my current auditing that the second statement is true. I’m findings beings that exit in what can best be described as a 4th dimensional existence. They do seek to have an influence but most are reluctant participants in what they are doing. They are also very happy to be addressed and freed as they are themselves trapped and were assigned a false purpose or a job. They are relatively easy to free and happy to get their own lives back. There is great relief for them and me as well.
LRH didn’t convince me about this but he did invite me to have a look at it and find out for myself. Believe me, there was no one more surprised than me once I got into this hidden realm. It’s fairly easy to communicate with these beings if you don’t disparage them as space cooties, fleas, space aliens etc… They are people and beings just like you and I but are deeply caught up in long ago disasters which they’re desperate to free themselves from.
I’m sure the jaded naysayers will have a ball with this and say, “prove it!”. It’s tough to prove a 4th dimensional communication lines and traps and I don’t have a desire to even try.
Jaded Naysayer here. Mixed feelings. 1) You poor deluded person. Good luck in your life anyway. 2) Have at it with your 4th dimensional beings in the hidden realm that you were invited to look at by Hubs with his scientific acuity. Good luck in your life anyway.
Thank you for your viewpoint, K Francis.
KFrancis says:
“I am finding in my current auditing that the second statement is true. I’m findings beings that exit in what can best be described as a 4th dimensional existence.”
OK I can deal with this as I read it the first and second time. I *thought it said* 4th delusional existence.” Worked much better for me.
Hey, if it works for you, it works for you or if make you feel good – great. It’s when criticism takes precedence over personal pursuits one knows to be true for you it gets real messy in the head. Hubbard at least asked a lot of questions and pointed towards lots of places & ideas imo. He was a charlatan though and set a number of minefields, no matter what he claims. His policy for a start really sucks!
It’s just me personally but space cootie tech is a flop in my book and I have amassed too much evidence for me to ever consider it anything other than a piece of mind fuck. But so is a lot of stuff and not all of it Scientology either. There are many cults and ghoulish things to occupy you in life if you don’t look or be bother where you tread.
If one was to fantasize with what Hubbard alluded to you go though and tangle with different universes and the beings that inhabit them, make them up etc. Hubbard claimed his tech standard – yeah, for what universe? He mentioned the aesthetic universe, the magic universe and others, we don’t venture into the 8th Dynamic with Scientology remember but the MEST universe is what he claimed is the common denominator of beings fucking around with each other that use communication modified by affinity and reality that is recognised by MEST senses (the Factors), that takes in the emeter’s needle too according to Hubbard. But there’s no top of the tone scale remember, maybe there isn’t a bottom either, maybe there’s a sideways or none at all if you close your theta eyes?
How do you know when enough is enough and you have to go forward on your own? To me a Scientologist hasn’t a clue – they crave orders and direction, if it ain’t written by Hubbard they KNOW they are fucked – that’s really, really stupid! Even if auditing did work, the Cof$ would pull you back every time. Self determinism, mmmm maybe that’s bs too, only you can answer what if it is or not is.
Bullshit comes in many flavours! Choose your flavour.
Glen and Windermama, I’m good with you considering me deluded, no problem. But when you see the Catholic Church (and other religions and practices) engaging in exorcism, what do you think?
It’s seems clear to me that the CC must be acknowledging that a being is present and having an influence though it goes unseen during an exorcism.
I’m not at all comfortable with the comparison but I’m sure you get my point.
Exorcism and OT 3 theory and applications are not the same thing. Certainly they both acknowledge the existence of a soul separate from a body.
But that’s where the similarities end.
In this end of Scientology credibility phase we are in, it’s interesting to me that Scientologists are using other practices to justify Hubbard’s practices.
This never happened in the past. We Scientologists looked down on other practices and never considered them a worthy examnple to support Scientology.
It’s only in this last phase of Scientology influence and the revelations of Scientology secrets that end times Scientologists are using other practices to justify Hubbard’s imagination.
My view is not at the same time a denial of spiritual realities. The spiritual life is my life.
But my knowledge of Spirit has led me to directly perceive L Ron Hubbard’s delusional selfish mental state.
Ron was not a spiritual person. Ron was a selfish person. Maybe he could be called a person interested in the occult. But he was not a student of the Spirit.
Spiritual people are humble and wise. Or at least that is a value they pursue
My only response KFrancis is be careful who or what you allow into your space.
Ron was the pied piper of BTs. He created the process. He went mad seeking freedom by contacting “4th dimensional beings”.
If the founder did not find freedom auditing BTs what makes you think you can?
Brian I would disagree that LRH did not find freedom auditing BT’s.
I’m sure you’re referring to the often mentioned story that Sarge tells of LRH’s disappoint with not handling all of this part of the case. My attitude is that any percentage of this case that is handled adds up to a big success. If LRH left with only 75% of his BT’s handled then I would say to him, “congratulations that you were able to handle any at all.”
You don’t have to get them all taken care of before the positive effects and relief begin to accrue to you.
Ok, we agree to disagree. I have given a lot of thought to BTs. I also ran OT3. So my view comes from my experience as well. No doubt something is happening on OT3.
K Francis did you read my essay on OT3?
BTW, I honor the fact that you are expressing your views knowing you will be judged. I truly respect that!
And you are being civil.
I respect that even more! Thank you KFrancis.
What the fuck was that?????
KFrancis…I’m thinking that there may be a another theory to the “hidden realm and communicating with BT’s caught up in long-ago disasters.”
Perhaps a disassociation of one’s own personal struggle and reluctance to accept the reality of one’s own subconscious memories of personal life experiences. Human beings have a tendency to avoid and suppress life experiences that have not served them well, as research suggests.
Yes, very Psycho-analytical and Freudian but another theory nonetheless. I’m a mental health therapist (eek!!) who specializes is trauma, so sue me. Lol…
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I hope you have or are willing to explore the alternate theories in the field of memory and subconscious. i have.
Teen I don’t know you or necessarily agree with you, but I have to say, I dig your vibe …nice . ??? LOL
Hi KFrances,
You might look into Chakra Healing to get additional aspects on what-it-is-bugging-you. They call the communication lines, CORDS, that lead to past lives, relatives, societies, incidents, etc; and work on using your personal perceptics to open the issues up and inspect them. I have only dabbled in it but it has been useful and fun.
Brian, I like your popular post here so I wanted to share my view. It’s about a Paradigm, right? A way of thinking. Scientologists I knew were mostly normal and good people, but they put their hope into a bad cause. It’s only when one goes up the bridge that they find aberration. It’s due to the Paradigm Shift that happens to indoctrinated Scientologists. You hit the nail on the head I think in discussing Hubbards terminology of characterizing aspects of flaws as implants, engrams, etc. in the route to self-discovery. The one thing that Scientology gets right is that spiritual growth is important, and I think this might be an EP towards Clear (which I never achieved ‘in’, yet I still ‘saw the light’ outside of scn). Yet you are also gaining the ‘Scientology baggage’ when you use the bridge for spiritual growth.
Here’s an example which illustrates the contrast of the Paradigm Shift.
Body Thetans (scn) = A Witch’s Curse (paganism) = A Demonic Possession (catholicism) = Archons (gnosticism) = Brain Chemical Imbalance (science materialism).
They are all describing the same phenomena. Each paradigm gives a different label.
Many lens, one Core.
Congratulations to you and your successful journey to take your personal power back, Brian. Personal accountability (copping to my shit) is an important factor to individual growth and personal awareness….and building self-value. I’m glad I saw that on your list, too. However, I imagine this discernment is difficult, initially, for some ex-cult since the cult abused this notion and taught you “everything bad that happens to you is your fault” (pulling it in), when this is untrue.
Anywhoo….great post, as usual…
Funny how tone deaf they are.
“On a course to eternity” – to normal folks that means en route to death. Like the Eagles song “James Dean:”
(James Dean the 50s actor died in an accident driving a Porche 550 Spyder automobile)
Or the saying “your eternal reward”, meaning going to heaven – after dying of course. Or you may receive the other eternal reward. In any case, the eternal part happens after death, for most traditional religions in the west.
But to a Scientologist, eternity is a goal that can be accomplished in one lifetime. Stop and consider the logic of that statement.
Just like Hubbard, “causatively leaving his body” to pursue spiritual goals that cannot be obtained in a body. Oops, shouldn’t have said that out loud, Dave doesn’t remember saying it at the Palladium after Hubbard “dropped his body” and it does not appear in any Scientology scripture. Too bad it is still on YouTube.
The truth is, Hubbard died of natural causes and has stubbornly failed to return. Don’t tell them about this, to them the truth is just bigoted attack propaganda.
But in fact they truly do pursue the goal of emulating Hubbard in all his ways, so eventually all will have to “causatively leave their bodies” as he supposedly did. Which makes Scientology literally a suicide cult, if you follow the logic to its most logical end.
Fortunately logic and Scientology are not good buddies. The truth is they don’t even know what Hubbard planned for OT IX and X, if he really had a coherent plan. So the higher levels, leading up to the suicide level, are purest vapor-ware. They are wafting ephemerally in the fevered imaginations of true Hubbard believers but in reality they are just as believable as unicorn farts.
I think he opened all three buildings in a row so he could more efficiently carry/fly around his entourage of 300 staff, groupies and photographers with wide angled lenses. In English speaking countries around the world (in Holland, most people under 50 speak English) he can’t get more than a handful of Scientologists to admit they are Scientologists and come to an event. However, if Miscavige invited Scientologists with ruined lives and allowed them to carry rotten tomatoes to the event…. Now, THAT would be a real crowd with no need for airplanes or wide angle lenses! They would just need a movie camera to record Miscavige being chased down the street by an angry mob of locals and X Scientologists. In another age, he would be tared and feathered and carried out of town on a pole.
Yes, it’s like Scientology’s surveillance tech has come home to roost and motivate on them. It would take a pretty thick skinned type of nut case to attend one of those events. The eyes of the world are watching them via some pretty determined individuals (if not law agencies as well, gathering intelligence) wishing to take down the Cof$ and expose every card holding member of it. Not a good time to be proud to be a Scientologist, A&E is sure taking care of that.
Remember the TV game show Jeopardy? Answer – A financially destitute and introverted person who believes they will live forever if they do this.
Question – What is a Scientologist?
That org is going to look like the hotel in The Shining…..in fact, we may even see COB driving through the halls on his Big Wheel.
The ‘crowd’ appears to be 15 people across and 15 rows deep. 300-500 is EXTREMELY geneorous.
This is a huge building….so WHY is everyone sitting outside in the cold? What, the COS didn’t want to turn on the heat so everyone would be comfortable. No offer of hot coffee, tea, or cocoa to warm these poor suckers who seem to be wearing heavy jackets to keep warm.
This looks like it could be an apartment building for the local Senior Citizen population, or a family housing unit, certainly NOT a “cherch”…just because a few signs are hung up outside….
” .so WHY is everyone sitting outside in the cold?”
Because Dave wants his followers to watch him do the ribbon yank. He must have the photo op for the BIG International Association of Assholes convention to prove the unbridled expansion of His Cult.
Yo Dave,
Do you think You will be able to fill the Flog auditorium or are You going for the big time and try to fill Ruth Eckerd Hall?
“Come play with us; forever!”
Great quote – sums up Sea mOrgue and scamatology perfectly.
I reside in Clearwater and would like to know if there is a listing of the businesses (especially in the downtown area) that are owned by Scientologists? I only know of a handful and I have told my neighbors to avoid them…which we all do……but I would like to find out more. Thank you for all the great information!
Hi Nancy – there is a directory of scientology businesses called Who/What/WHere? but I have not seen one for a while. Perhaps some reader has access to a copy and could share it.
Here is the online site (has a 2015 version): http://whowhatwheredirectory.com/
Thanks very much, I’ll look into it. They sure have destroyed downtown Clearwater!
“Come play with us forever, and ever and ever and ever.”
Those twins really freaked me out.
Redrum Redrum Redrum……that icy maze was spooky, especially “Jack” chasing after the kid carrying an ax.
Chee chalked, I just lol,d, thinking of a big wheel! Thanks so much for implanting that image!
Thank goodness, more and more people are now aware of the ‘cult’ due to what you and Leah are doing, Mike. Keep up the great job of bringing down this cult. I cannot call it a church because of how the members are treated. I hope in a couple of years that the CoS is revoked of its tax-free status. Keep going after them!
But, you can call it a cult! Which is exactly what it is. A vile, toxic, militant, family destroying cult.
There’s also a negative side.
And twice on Thursday @ 2pm. There’s last week to answer for and there’s next week to start lying about.
I just inherited $5 mil.
Now you can be a real Scientologist and buy a building all of your very own and keep it empty on purpose.
LOL!
Not seen was the after-party, where David (dressed up as a Munchkin) and his entourage gleefully checked out the naughty red-light district. Just getting to know their new neighbors and showing respect for local customs.