Some Sunday morning Rah-rah to brighten up your day.
I sometimes wonder how these people keep going. “Enthusing” the same old weary “donators” and trying to paint a good face on everything. And of course, in typical Vulture Culture style. after YEARS of fundraising and false promises about “gettin’ ‘er done” and endless planning as to how they are going to turn this building at the end of a cul de sac in an industrial park, they have now discovered they need MORE MONEY. The millions they have already raised (just look at the endless stream of promo from “iDeal SiliCon Valley” and their adjectival humanitarianuses and the net “donations” from all these people is probably closer to 10 million. But this is not enough. “We must have more marble,” “the reception desk must be solid African zebra wood” etc etc “you never get a second chance to make a first impression” on those Sunday afternoon strollers who will drop in as they tour the warehouse wastelands of silicon valley.
Marliese, I salute you for your steadfast conviction to stay the given course in spite of EVERYTHING to the contrary. It takes a certain type of person to do this in the face of what must be crashing cognitive dissonance — or complete delusion oblivion.
It not only sucks to be Miscavige, it sucks to have anything to do with his toxic Titanic programs.
Wow, haven’t they seen the results? The Ideal Org program doesn’t work? You have Mountain View, Los Gatos and Stevens Creek all in a 10 mile radius of each other give or take. You have San Francisco about 47 miles north. What do they all have in common? Very posh empty buildings. And now you want another one? I guess we are going to Clear planet earth with Beautiful buildings. Heck, who needs auditing anyway. Marliese by the way was the FBO for Stevens Creek Org in 2005. Looks like being part of the Ideal Org anything is the way to go these days.
Taylor, Thank you for your humane considerations.
How we laughed to realise Church Of Spiritual Technology reads COST. And ‘Pirates’? That’s just childish.
Lochness! I love it!!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I’m am not trying to be mean but from a clinical perspective I think the current situation is ripe for a sociological study. Mike, Marty, Tony to name a few are providing a lot of information along with their narrative of the current event’s. This along with the public, staff and Sea-Org who are experiencing the real time events within Scientology. A subculture that has existed for at least a half a century is coming to an end.
I would hope that some university class might find this to be interesting subject matter to document and research. The sociological as well as the psychological real time experiences of those within the bubble now are worthy of further research. The existing culture within the bubble must be experiencing unbearable stress within their current environment.
This will be followed by the inevitable collapse with the resulting trauma one would expect. A real time study and evaluation could quite possibly prove beneficial. Not only to future subjects it might also assist those who will be left behind. There will be those who will be left wounded without any direction when Scientology completes its final death spiral that might benefit from such a study.
Those that have been rigidly conditioned to exist in an extremely controlled environment where every movement they made was directed by another will be left on their own.
Hopefully most will have some type of support structure such as family to turn to for help. I still think that some materials to assist them in putting their lives into some type of context or meaning might help them to reorient into society.
I have never been in yet I have read the average time for some to for lack of a better term become fully awake it could be 5-10 years. Maybe a long term study and support group could accelerate this process.
Now I will come down from my soapbox I meant no harm and I realize these Scientologists are people not lab rats. We are all sentient beings and these were my thoughts’ however misguided to try to help these soon to be lost souls.
Matt & Kathy Feshbach declared bankruptcy in 2011. Easy to find on Google. Just saying…
And didn’t his brother Kurt, die recently? I think I heard he died after getting some auditing or after being one of the few who got run on Super Power first because of their big donos for Super Power. an someone help me out on what the case on Kurt was?
It was his brother Joe, father of Jessica Feshbach/Rodriguez/Davis who died of a heart attack last year.
Dear Marliese, here is how to create OT magic. The contact assist! Instead of disconnecting from the SP’s, do a contact assist with them. Unless, you don’t believe that contact assists work?
In fact, some that have been hiding behind barbed wire fences and cement walls, might consider doing a contact assist with this big old nasty degraded dangerous planet! And, some of those wogs in it.
I don’t know Marliese Lochness personally. I did, however, have a slight concern over her naming of the upcoming event “The Pirates of Purpose”.
Definition of “pirate” (noun): a person who attacks and robs ships at sea
Synonyms: marauder, raider, bandit, plunderer, criminal
But on reading further about the event and what happens there, I now see just how appropriate this metaphor really is.
I hereby apologize to Ms. Lochness– and the entire Lochness family– for my initial skepticism.
To a bountiful booty, and spare not the women and children!
That is really funny! Be funnier if it wasn’t so true.
“…and that is because we are getting done…” A cry for help? The wording on that means that they are “getting done,” yes. “Done” as in getting raped in the ass by a dwarf.
What’s also interesting is the mental problems expressed by the random capitalization of random words, that is a well known behavioral trait of someone under tremendous mental stress and an expression of mental problems.
And of course the Ideal orgs will never get done completely. Ever. All of the added expense, increased taxes, utility bills, etc. So “all” the new people who do sign up for service will be hit too… HARD. I can hear it now….
“Don’t you want to contribute like all the other Scientologists before you who put this building here? This is YOUR org now. And on and on, until all is ash.
I give you John Lennon:
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Perfect, MJ: “We’re all trying to change the world.”
Marliese has a sister (Elmien) here in CLO Africa – doing guess what???? Ideal Morgue Fundraising – and boy did I end up on the wrong side of her a few times. My final end of ANY semblance of respect for her was when I heard she was running around spreading malicious rumours about the 18 “apostates” BEFORE the declares had even been announced. And then she came to our office and wrote on a piece of paper the names of the damned with a warning to my Office Manager not to do any further business with these people…………….. She used to be the CFD but once the Gulag stepped ashore I believe she was demoted – dunno to what, but apparently still fundraising …… the apple never falls far from the tree.
Silicon Valley say’s bring it Marliese. I still keep my protest signs in the trunk.
I’ll pass on the seminar with Matt Feshbach. I heard him speak at a Flag Tour event in LA about two years ago in downtown LA.
Michelle Stafford was the first speaker and she warmed the room up. She even admitted that she had been to “lots of psychiatrists” prior to coming into Scientology. I think her main win on OT7 was being able to decide to have a kid. Wow. I think I made that decision when I was about 12. Michelle was funny and entertaining though and engaged the audience. She was fun to watch and listen to, for what it’s worth.
Matt Feshbach followed and literally sucked the life out of the room. The audience became very still and stooped over in their seats. His speaking style was dull. All he talked about was himself and all his perfect accomplishments in life, of course all due to Scientology . He has done The Bridge just so well with everything perfectly falling into place as it should be. He has the perfect wife and kids, who are in the SO in “high positions” and married as well with their spouses in “high positions” too. He went on about how much money he made in life and how successful he is. He listed off his multiple “statuses.” How he was the first and only public to be given Super Power. It went on and on. This guy is his own cheer leading squad and is really good at it too. Apparently Matt Feshbach is a golden boy who never faced a challenge or disappointment in his whole life. Just perfect.
The audience didn’t seem to respond too well to him and of the four speakers, he got the least applause. Lackluster would be the word. The energy never returned to the room to what it was when Michelle finished. Even though Michael Chan tried very hard to get it back.
Driving home my husband was sort of introverted and told me he didn’t feel so good “after that guy spoke” but couldn’t spot why. I told him what I observed in the audience and told him that Matt Feshbach is completely self absorbed and toots his own horn to anyone who will listen. By standing up there and going on about his “perfect” life and self, it basically invalidates the listener. It was NOT inspiring. It was a “look at me – aren’t I great” 25 minutes of self promotion.
This was my only encounter with Matt Feshbach. I’ve never met him or had any personal dealings with him. Perhaps he’s different; this is only what I experienced hearing him speak and I wouldn’t want to hear it again.
Also, Matt Feshbach put down people who have some education and went to college. He said he didn’t do that (go to college) to go drink beer. He made money instead.
Interesting how he made his big money too.
Yeah Pepper, I’m gonna have to pass on Matt. I think I’d rather get a root canal.
Matt who?
Didn’t he file for bankruptcy in 2011?
@ MJ
:o) ‘d rather get a root canal…Gee ! My morning coffees are getting better and better…..
Good story, Pepper, thanks. Yes, you’re quite right, the listener will always feel invalidated because that is the whole ethos of the CoS: you’re not good enough now, and even if you did everything on the bridge, held every certificate and achieved every status – you still wouldn’t be good enough.
And every OSA-bot reading this will know at once that this is true.
Thank you Poet – that was exactly my feeling and has been for a very long time. Never good enough. Even when you hand over your kids, husbands and wives, and all your money over to them on a silver platter.
Allow me to say that I did have some regret over that post. I have told myself that I would stick to the actions/behaviors of the RCS and leave people’s names out of it. I broke my rule yesterday. I did some thinking about it and realized that for me, I still have a lot of anger over my time in and am still on the road to evolving out. I have more work to do.
BTW Mike,
Love the following line:
“Marliese, I salute you for your steadfast conviction to stay the given course in spite of EVERYTHING to the contrary. It takes a certain type of person to do this in the face of what must be crashing cognitive dissonance — or complete delusion oblivion.”
That pretty much sums up the Church of the Service Facsimile these days.
Truly amazing. Now you don’t even have to go up the bridge to be OT. The whole focus is status and money and buildings. I can only express my feelings in songs.
We’re following the leader (wherever he may go): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8SqPm0o3s
And Another Pleasant Valley Sunday (here in status symbol land): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjaDe5a3Qo
With my rewrite of the lyrics for the latter:
Your local OT group down the street
Is trying hard to learn to get along
To serenade the COB
Just came out to mow his lawn
Another Silicon Valley Sunday
Big debts risin’ everywhere
Rows of orgs that are all the same
And no one seems to care
See Marliese she’s so proud today
Because her donations are in bloom
And Miscavige he’s so serene
With a videocam in each auditing room
Another Silicon Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Staff complain about how hard life is
And the OTs just don’t understand
Creature comfort goals they only numb my soul
And make it hard for me to see
My thoughts all seem to stray to places far away
I need a change of scenery
Ta ta ta
Another Silicon Valley Sunday
Declares a flyin’ everywhere
Another Silcon Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Another Silicon Valley Sunday
It’s just a status symbol land
Another Silicon Valley Sunday
Good one FOTF2012. Current church parishioners are more and more resembling this:
The Stepford Wives
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0073747/
Yes, very much like The Stepford Wives (and The Truman Show is another good resemblance often cited). And Hubbard’s a lot like the wizard in the Wizard of Oz, come to think of it.
“Ideal Org Pirates”
Maybe that’s a Freudian Slip or an effort at truth in advertising.
I’ve always thought since the coup took over they should have flown the Skull and Cross Bones instead of the S and Double Triangle.
It was too easy for me to picture Stormy Normy Stark Raving Starky with a cutlass, parrot on his shoulder and a patch over his eye.
That’s how I pictured him, too. I bet Ron chuckled to himself from time to time.
Yeah I remember going to a briefing at ASI and there was Cap’n Morgan as Mike calls him telling us about the Tech Preservation Project and me expecting him to say:
“Eye me hardy.”
Then break into a chorus of some bawdy Pub ditty of some kind.
Or:
“Two can keep a secret if one of ’em is dead.
“Ya buncha filthy land lubbers.
“Eye.”
Something like Tourette’s syndrome.
Gotta admit I liked Cap’n Bill better.
Less scary.
More fun 😉
Can’t decide which one was more a nut case.
The guy who believed that we’d been infiltrated by aliens or the guy that believed throwing someone in a putrid cesspool on the Int Base was a way of enforcing ethics.
Could never figure out why Ron made him the Executor of his Estate.
He definitely was a broken straw in my opinion.
But at least not bent, folded and mutilated like Davey (should be in a locker).
“Resolute determination” = MiscavigeSpeak code for “keep your head down”
and remove your backbone.
For an appropriate response, I quote tennis great John McEnroe: “You cannot be serious!”
Dave, Once you are in prison and a forensic audit has been completed on your cult, your real estate portfolio will be devided into several catagories. All of it will be snapped up at fire sale prices. The rif-raff properties will be resold for cash. The non-ideal orgs will be rebranded as White Elephant Self Storage, Inc. The ideal orgs will be re-branded as Vatican Self Storage, Inc. Then the trophy properties will each be repruposed according to taylorized programming; to optomize thier use and value, beyond anything you ever imagined.
For you, a cell has been selected just down the corridor from Bernie Madoff. You might be able to grant interviews in order to pay for some cigs.
+1
Obviously others are “enthused” by lots of multiple exclamation points!!!
Here’s my “How to create OT Magic” seminar – free and without obligation:
1. Leave the cult
2. Read Mike’s blog, Marty’s blog from the start, and Steve Hall’s site in full – with associated references.
3. Lead a happy cult-free life. Magic!
So true Martin. It really is that simple. These are the exact steps I took. I have effectively decompressed and gotten over $cientology.There is an abundance of magic, freedom and happiness outside of the cult.
Plus you get OT IX and X in the process (by default) and end up with TOTAL FREEDOM! What a deal.
Gonna have to pass Cooper, I’ve got to work on my new book ‘I was a deluded Dave Slave’.
Well put Martin, that’s pretty much how I did it. I started digging around in part because Flag was being so cagey about what they were doing with the lower grades. Found Marty’s blog and read it pretty much from beginning to PT. I’d also like to add that possiblyhelpfuladvice.com was very helpful as well.
Me too. I looked at Freedom Mag online and saw all the dark and creepy info they published on Marty, which caused me to find Marty’s blog, and then I found Steve Hall’s site, then Marty’s, etc. And the rest is history: freedom, relief, understanding, winning. Magic.
That idiotic and hate-filled magazine was one of the best things they did to wake up members and invite them to look for themselves.
“Here’s my “How to create OT Magic” seminar”
Just say NO.
Mike – I think you hit on what OT9 & 10 are. Crashing cognitive dissonance is OT9 and then you reach Complete Delusion Oblivion on OT10. Yes, these states are most definitely tasted throughout the lower levels, no argument there. But they become TRULY STABLE when you do these OT levels on the new Ideal Freewinds2 Motor Vessel (only $50,000 for this package AND only ONE elig folks!). Well, that’s all the GOOD news, I do have to report (only public who knows this is Michael Chan, he has secretly attested to CDO, OT 10 a few months ago) that there is a THREE months check on these babies, folks. Well …. they’re higher levels!
HCOB now means Hubbard Chairman of The Board.
How about HCOB means “Hubbard Chairman of the Bored.”
Also “Hubbard Chairman of the Broke”
Mountain View Ideal Org has been money grubbing
for years. Marliese Lochner should publish how much in commissions she has made
pushing this dope.Then see how much the sucker fish give
OT Magic, what desperation.Free advice on OT Magic.
Write down a financial budget, Write down every penny you spend on anything
Spend less than you make, get rid of credit cards. Do not spend on a lavish life style
beyond your means. Plan your future realistically. Operate on a cash basis, avoid debt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btZOiLpaU9g&list=PL0557EA5BD2F593C9
Oops. I linked the wrong video. There was one called “money” I meant to do.
Give us all your money, then borrow more money and give it to us. Cant afford your Bridge now? Well, we’ve got a seminar for that. Gotcha- the seminar is really a fundraiser. Now give us more money.
Instead of, “give me that hand” now it is “give me that wallet.”
@CIndy
:oD !!!
When flat, switch to ‘Give me that first born.’
Mike,
Over time, it is impossible to prevent these truths from getting through to Marliese and the people she is trying to get donations from. Truth permeates like water through a sponge. It might take time and be diluted on the other side of the sponge, but with every drop you add, the sponge gets wetter and wetter until everyone knows the truth….. 2014 is the year Scientology gets totally soaked.
A laugh a minute in the whacky world of Scientology under the Asthmatic Dwarf’s tiny boot.
Its just like the Dwarfs approach to the bridge,
Just one more session and it will be ok and the next and the next but it never is better as the person was badly C/S’ed from day one and it goes on and on.
How dare these clinkers of a soul use the word OT and then hand over more cash?
Have they never actually heard an LRH tape on how to boom an Org?
They surely must have bought the entire set of tapes at least three times by now :)))))))))))))))))
I only recall LRH stating that you use the Tech and follow the policy letters to boom and Org and he did this many times.
How is that today you cannot actually do anything for anyone unless its from inside the doors of an “Ideal Org”.
I think we are all wrong as it seems this is really not going to stop and its going on like this until the dwarf finally coughs and hacks his final death rattle.
Besides this IAS scum registrar brigade pocket 10% for each scam. They will allow the dwarf to keep going as long as they get their cut.
I think the the olny solution is for all the event attendees to join Greepeace, at least they willl try to save the “Whales” LOL. LOL
LOLOLOLOLOLOL !!!!
Thanks for the Sunday morning laughs, Mike.
“Pirates of Purpose”, “OT Magic” and so many other slangs used, as you said, in an attempt to enthused the tired, exhausted and close to bankruptcy parishioners.
If they keep at it is up to them, they can’t see beyond their noses and had lost track of the millions already collected. Then another wait for the ‘permits’ to be gotten and the story goes on.
A few more millions for Black Heart, and an extreme realization of the betrayal is what those who keep at it will have to confront in a not too long near future.
Gawd, just reading her puff piece really makes me see how far off purpose this whole ideal org scam is. Auditing and training are like some distant mirage in the desert; the more one moves up in status, the farther the goal (real case gain) dissolves Into nothing. I know LRH said words to the effect that any game is better than no game, but c’mon! Having to have before one can do is the ultimate in incompetence. Good luck getting all those tech savvy geeks in Silicon Valley into the org for services Marliese.
And in the end the sheeple get to follow the Ponzi King himself into the Halls of Hell. Go get em Matt …..you show em how it’s done. How about a little pot sweetener dono of your own to juice the event ….a mill or so would show Chairmen of the Bored that you mean business. And Matt, do you need to redo Supa Powar as part of the GAG II Redo? Or maybe only Purif and Objectives?
“You ain’t in the church true unless you’ve done all your redo’s.” Davile Miscavige aka Slappy
+1, MJ. Nice post!
Thanks Surfer. Every day, more ridiculouser and more ridiculouser.
Imagine for moment what it must be like to be Miscavige. First of all you are short.
You have personal, intimate knowledge that your programs are failing on a global scale. GAG II is a failure. The Ideal Org program is a failure. The real internal stats show the failure, regardless of the deliberate falsehoods you spout several times a year at event. Sea Org staff are blowing at an accelerating pace and many of those folks are angry at you personally for the abuse you have heaped on them for years. They are not afraid of you. The are willing to speak out as well as sue you for justice.
You cannot leave the scam you run because if you did you would no longer have huge sums of money to pay lawyers to fight the court room battles that will engulf the rest of your life no matter what, either inside or outside the church. The threat of a long prison term is very real. You know your own crimes. You know the crimes you have ordered others to commit on your behalf. And those folks know you know. How long before one of them makes headway with the FBI and brings you down for good?
It does suck to be Miscavige. And you will always be short.
Dave, didn’t your mother learn you nothin’?
Curly from The Three Stooges…..
Fly Fly on the wall
Ain’t you got no clothes at all
Ain;t you got no shimmy shammy
Ain’t ya even got a mammy
Brrrrr Fly….Ain’t ya cold
One could substitute Davy
for fly….but yet they still be
the same.
Yeah Potpie, Dave’s a real hoot. Wonder what’s gonna happen with his BFF when all the shit goes down.
I like it! 🙂
And with all the above mentioned, at every event when you are boasting about all the unprecedented blah-blah-blah and the humanitarian blah-blah-blah, you are wondering if anybody in the crowd has found out about you …
That really sucks.
TMYK,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! I very much appreciate the fact that you get it. This is the most conceptual comprehensive response to what is going on, the mindset and inner workings of one David Miscavige.
You get it, and I love that. Thank you for doing what you do!
— Jackson
@themoreyouknow
excellent comment!
Yet another pitiful example of the indiscriminate use of DM brand total mind control.
Marliese, we feel for you… hoping your awakening…. is not too far off now!
Ha ha ha ha. To be OT means …… giving more money to the CoS (who have freaking TONS of it and MILLIONS they’ve wasted persecuting Marty, Mike and other critics over the years). Oh, by the way folks, you DO know that the Stevens Creek/San Jose Org is ALSO in Silicon Valley, right? And no doubt many people who work in the tech industry live a little more south and are closer to the Los Gatos Org than they are to Mountain View. Hey …. but marketing is marketing, right? Have a good time at the “How to be OT Fundraisers” folks – MAKE THAT TARGET! TAKE A WIN ON IT! (before your credit card bill arrives anyway).