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INDECISION

The farce continues.

Most of the idiocy has been documented here as they have bounced around between “it’s happening and you had better be there” to “we handled the drought and you had better be there, time to be announced” to “we parted the clouds and you had better be there” to “we have delayed it, but you had still better be there” to “the final time is 3:30 Sunday and you had better be there” to “let’s try it again next weekend.”

Of course, this could all change again in the next hour, once Pam Lancaster awakens from her beauty sleep and postulates some clear sky. Or it could all be a clever plot to keep the “unwashed undesirables” away by confusing them about when the actual great moment is going to be. But they are confusing everyone else in the process though it would match bubblethink where they will cut off their noses in spite of their face to try and outwit “the SP’s on the fringes of the internet.”.

Frankly, this is not a big shock as it would have just been downright embarrassing for Dear Leader to look out upon a few stragglers on L. Ron Hubbard Way, knowing that his exalted appearance was not a greater motivating factor than Angelenos not wanting to drive in the rain (they are not used to it…)

So, this fascinating vignette of bubbledom rolls on. Will we, won’t we? Can we, can’t we? Now or later? 1 o’clock or 3? Rain or shine? It’s funny, he CONSTANTLY harps on people about how suppressive they are for giving him “maybes” (“haven’t you read Scientology 8-80 and how abberative that is you SP?”).  But around Miscavige, NOTHING is ever settled until the absolute last minute. He has no concern for the impact of his decisions on others.  Don’t be surprised if the rain tapers off and on Sunday morning Dear Leader springs out of bed around noon and announces: “I hope those m****f****rs realize the rain is over and that I will be making my appearance today….”

This whole thing has been a microcosm of the mind and methods of Miscavige. 

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014
From: PAC OTC
Subject: Schedule Update for Openings this Weekend

The Grand Opening of the Hollywood Life Improvement Center, scheduled for Monday March 3rd, has been postponed. We will let you know the new date when we get it!

Here’s what we have now for Sunday and Monday:

SUNDAY March 2nd: 3:30pm – Grand Opening of AOLA and ASHO. Come early to eat delicious food. There’s plenty of parking. Spend the day at PAC to celebrate this momentous occasion! At 5:30pm: Future of PAC Event in the new AOLA Atrium, with Mr. Austin Nichols.

MONDAY March 3rd: AOLA Atrium 6:00pm – The Lost Tech of Dissemination with Senior CS WUS Mr. Andres Rodriguez and Michael Chan, OT VIII. This is for EVERY FSM and OTC member. Dinner at 6pm, event starts at 6:30pm. Come early – this will be a very crowded event!

Please reply that you will be at both the Grand Opening and at Monday’s Dissemination Event.

Thanks,
Sue
PAC OTC Co-chair

Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 
From: PAC OTC 
Subject: Openings postponed to March 8

Hi Team,

Due to the bad weather, the AOLA and ASHO Openings have been postponed until Saturday March 8th. Please spread the word to all your comm lines.

Thank you!

Sue & Nick

Comments

  3. Time for someone to redo the objective processes, the blind really are leading the blind.

    Everyone needs to word clear “good control” at this event.

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  5. I’ve been in tons of shows, festivals, events….if it’s outdoors and it’s going to rain the people in charge either cancel it, say “rain or shine, no refunds” or pick another date. But that’s too simple. I don’t know of any other people who would play along with this stupid continual changing of a date and time, moving it around back and forth even by just a few hours. Really really strange.

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  6. This happened before the GAT II and Souper POwerz fiasco – the dates and times were changed many times but through it all – Mike Rinder was still able to apply “helicopter tech”! LOL That was priceless! It suppressed David Miscavige’s speech and the clubbed seals were so dumbed down – they thought it was intentional! Captain Black Heart does not like to be suppressed. I don’t think he can stop it though – it is just the “as-isness” of the whole scam coming to PT!

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  7. Whatever the reason(s) for constantly changing the dates and times of these re-re-openings (weather, misinforming the exes, last minute renos to be done, or the whims of their so-called leader Pope Miscavigus the Last), it shows one thing – the deepening condition of confusion consuming institutional Scientology. The amount of wasted time and effort of staff and public caused by the delays must be enormous.The signals of weakness and lack of direction being sent out are loud And clear. The Church of Scientology is nothing more than a one person show for the edification of Miscavigus the Last.

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  8. Dear Sue and Nick – thanks for the personalized invite. I’m kinda busy what with all the new movies I’ve got to catch up on and daily blogging. Let me know when you get back on source.

    ML,
    Just departed

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  11. “Mr” Andres Rodriguez Senior C/S WUS delivering the “Lost” Dissemination Tech?
    Why is he still the Senior C/S in spite of the Re-definition of F/N? Padding his Continental stat?
    How in HoleWood does a top tech staff need to deliver such a treasure? as Tom Cruiser is the Universe Dissemination expert, per DM data.
    Pure kung fu tzion

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    • Because the lil cretin says he doesn’t need those “bazzilion of technical experts” doing all that busy work like auditing PCs and training auditors when they could be doing something useful like regging money for another “Cathedral” or more accurately mausoleum.

      Sheeesh

      Dochaknow.

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  12. Mike,

    I’m sure all of us “defrocked apostates on the fringes of the internet” will get blamed for the latest COS screw up because our counter postulates brought about this weather somehow.

    In other words we rained on their lil’ parade.

    Come on Mike you can tell us.

    Was it you up there seeding the clouds over LA causing them to postpone to this “monumental” event and Dave to loose his erection?

    😉

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  13. Dear Mike,
    You must have picture of the Wizard of Oz working the controls in OZ.
    Another would be a Mime getting out of an invisible box.

    There is no cause in the RCS,only the game to get money from the sheep..

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  14. “The Lost Tech of Dissemination …. this will be a very crowded event!” Priceless. The lost people of Scientology would be a much larger gathering – and in any case, since when was dissemination “tech” lost??? Onlines public don’t disseminate because they don’t want their friends to experience what they have experienced. Simple really.

    Anyway good to know the OTs of LA have handled it that the sun came up in the morning and set again at night. Well done!

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  15. Damn, now the phallic stage set that poor SO bastard spent all night building will have to be taken down! And he’ll probably get yelled at for putting it up too early, b/c when Mr. David Miscavige fucks up it’s always somebody else’s fault. And he’ll have to take the heat, otherwise he’ll be “making COB wrong” and we certainly can’t have that.

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  16. Excuse the off-topic comment, Mike, but I am in Nevada today to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday. She is beautiful both inside and out and has always been there for me. Happy Birthday to my mother and three cheers to unconditional love.

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  17. “Bubblethink”!!!

    OMG! BubbleThink = DoubleThink!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

    “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”

    “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”

    – George Orwell

    BubbleThink = Double Plus unGood!

    BubbleThink!

    Alanzo :>

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  18. They also do an OT dinner. Super fast.
    Dinner 6pm – event starts 6:30 pm. Sea Org style dinner. Rice and beans. 5 minutes for eating, 25 minutes toilet visit. Then they have a crowded event. Better they get rid of the gases before event starts.

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  19. To David Miscavige,
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!From Sarah and family

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  22. There’s no way he can make an appearance. The Oscars are on and it will be obvious and embarrassing when 1/10th (or fewer) people show up for his OMG-who-gives-a-shit-that-Miscarriage-is-re-re-re-reopening-a-building ceremony.

    Sorry, there will be a BRIEFING – these pretentious words drive me mad – as well, that no-one is interested in hearing.

    Now that the SoopahPowa building has been opened, there are no more carrots to dangle, IMO. I can’t see DM making another public appearance outdoors. There are too many factors he can’t control, and with fewer and fewer people coming, his narcissist ego will not be able to handle the crushing reality that, basically, no one gives a shit about him. Not even the Scientologists.

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    • Miscavage will protest the lack of interest in his over the top events, a la Norma Desmond, “I’m not small — it’s the pictures that got small.”

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    • MTH — you mustn’t dismiss the entire ‘Hair” factor as a motive for the change in dates. The man has enough chemical additives to keep his Coif in place, that the interaction between them and an excessive amount of rain water might actually be dangerous. He’s only thinking of the well-bring of those sitting with thirty feet of his Do. Spontaneous Combustion, at a filmed Ideal Org opening, is just not on.

      Odd

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  24. I think I finally understand the exclamation marks in the Church’s Punctuation Hat.

    On the surface it means enthusiasm and energy. But at the level of deeper truth, people are using it to mean “F-You!” and “Not!”

    For example, “We will let you know the new date when we get it!” actually reads as “We will let you know the new date when we get it – F-You!”

    And “this will be a very crowded event!” actually means “this will be a very crowded event – Not!”

    The more exclamation marks, the more strident the tone. “We’ll get you the new date!!!!!” means “F-off you bloody bastards, you’ll know when we know!”

    And “we are straight up and vertical and we may even clear the continent by the time these events are held!!!!!!!!!!!” means “no way, no how, in any deranged imagination of the most out-of-touch-with-reality person is this even in the range of slim to null chance of happening.”

    I worry about this covert use of exclamation marks, though. Once Miscavige realizes that the ! is symbol for a raised middle finger pointed at him, he may RPF the whole Church.

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    • One of my best friends also wanted to be an archeologist. Studied various -ologies at university and realised he was dedicating his life to going through ancient human garbage with a small paint brush and spoon (sounds like an RFP job). He lasted one year. Imagine trying to make sense of a Hemet landfill site with bits of broken e-meters, loads of edited out film bits and old editions of the basics that refused to rot in the desert soil?

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  26. And now the sun can shine on the blessed. What an utter cluster of mind blowing epic proportion. You couldnt make this stuff up. I don’t think this isnt on purpose. Davey boy is losing his mind and its no longer confined to the Int Base. Perhaps he’s scared.

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  27. And another point…if the REAL Pope were scheduled to rededicate the most important church in the Catholic World, would he decide the day before that he is calling it off because it is raining? Nope – he would be out there, getting his vestments wet, doing his thing under an umbrella if necessary. And I’ll tell you why:

    1. He has too much respect for his parishioners to inconvenience them in that way. And rain or shine or blizzard – hundreds of thousands would pitch up to see him!
    2. He actually does more than prance around cutting ribbons to re-open empty churches, so he wouldn’t be available “next week”.

    As amusing as the Laurel and Hardyness of Co$ is to us, it does clearly show the utter contempt with which miscavige views all scientologists. Don’t kid yourselves.

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    • You’re 100% right. The Pope may not be aware of Scn, but he does care about people, and so do Catholics (in general, of course – Catholic humor is pretty good, too).

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      • True Carcha,

        The following joke was told to me by a Catholic:

        Young girl leaving Catholic being interviewed by one of the sisters:

        “Well my dear child.

        “What have you decided you’d want to do once you leave school?”

        Young girl:

        “A prostitute.”

        The sister faints dead away and has to be revived by smelling salts.

        After recovering somewhat she says. “I don’t believe I heard you correctly my dear.

        “What did you say?”

        “I said I decided I wanted to be a prostitute.”

        Sister gives a sigh of relieve….

        “Thank the Lord.”

        “For a minute there I thought you said you wanted to be a Protestant.”

        Ta Da….:)

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      • remoteviewd – Hadn’t heard that one! Very applicable to the Co$! Some Jewish jokes are funny, too. Don’t know if Muslims have any. Haven’t heard many Scn jokes – Q: “How many auditors does it take to audit Miscavige?” A: “A baker’s dozen. One to work the e-meter, two to hold him down, and ten to be greater than the PC’s bank.” (For the still-ins the answer would be a bit different, after mulling it over for a while, one would reply with perfect TRs, “COB doesn’t need auditing”.)

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      • Like the one about Miscavige.

        So appropriate.

        Anyhoo….

        Here’s a couple told to me by Rich Cohen when he was the Tech Sec at AOLA (so’as I don’t come off as anti-Semitic or something)

        They’re sorta are hybrid Jewish – Scientologist joke:

        A Jewish Valence Process (preferably run by PC’s mother)

        “Look at you.”

        “Look at your brother”

        Run alternately repetitively until flat

        A Jewish Havingness Process:

        “Look around the room and find something you can sell.”

        A bunch of us HGC auditors who had too much time on our hands (our scheduled PCs were at exam or getting a D of P) once composed what we called a “Weight Watchers Sec Check” but I won’t go into the details but just say you had to be there 😉

        Used to know a bunch of purely Scientology jokes like:

        What do you call a whale that red tags at the examiner?

        A failed porpoise.

        Or this other one:

        Ron dies and goes to heaven and is met at the gate by Saint Peter who asks him “You’re L Ron Hubbard right?”

        Ron says “That’s me.”

        “You wrote that book Dianetics?”

        “Yeah.”

        “God wants to see you.”

        “Really?”

        “Come with me.”

        Ron follows him to this big anteroom full of clouds and there is this bearded guy sitting on a throne and Saint Peter announces to him.

        “L Ron Hubbard author of Dianetics.”

        At which point God gets off his throne and approaches and says.

        “I’ve been waiting so long to meet you.

        “See I got this pain in my back…..

        Then there’s the other one where this psychiatrist is getting auditing and feels much better then looks at the meter and asks. “How do you get such good results on such low voltage?”

        Another one that you can exchange Scientologist, for psychiatrist or psychologist or psychoanalyst for:

        How many (any of the above) does it take to change a light bulb.

        One but the light bulb has to really want to change.

        Or the one about the PC who went Clear on two perceptics

        Pain and Unconciouness.

        Then there’s the one where the SO Missionare comes crashing into the org and the first person he sees he says. “Hey you what was your post?”

        Etc.

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      • “As amusing as the Laurel and Hardyness of Co$ is to us, it does clearly show the utter contempt with which miscavige views all scientologists. Don’t kid yourselves.” bears repeating

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      • Remoteviewed – those are all good for a good laugh! The best Scientology jokes I’ve heard, no question.

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  29. “SUNDAY March 2nd: 3:30pm – Grand Opening of AOLA and ASHO. Come early to eat delicious food. There’s plenty of parking.” No kidding, last time I looked the parking lot was mostly empty.

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      • Tell me about it MJ.

        I remember this poor guy I was on my Briefing Course invalidation course (code named “Certainty”) with who used to drive his old beater up from San Diego so he could partake in that useless exercise called the “Golden Age of Tech” who was told by security he could no longer park his car in the Pac parking lot because it wasn’t “upstat” enough.

        Sheeesh

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        • GAT 3 drill:

          Q: you’re driving a late model car to the org parking lot and a security guard says you can’t use the lot because your car gives a bad image for the church. What do you do?

          A: agree thoroughly with the guard and promise to get a newer model after you make your next IAS donation.

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      • You mean that they prefer a downstat looking car is better to be parked on the street in front of the org? (as opposed to hidden in a parking lot)

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        • No parking on LRH Way. Other orgs will have a paid parking lot three blocks away to handle the undesirable vehicles. All money will be used to fund furniture acquisitions for Ideal Orgs. Any more questions?

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    • You’ve gone and leaked the top secret reason for building a building in the parking lot so it won’t look empty.

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  31. Probably they didn’t get permission from Hollywood to close the roads and might not get that permission for next week either ‘cos they are too damned slow! Damn, that permit office is efficient! The world waits for no man, let alone DM. Sorry, when was that event/those events again???? Hope it still rains on your parade!

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    • We know how insane this back and forth on times and dates is for Scientologists. Just think of the poor city permit people who are no doubt having to deal with changed date/time after changed date/time. They are probably about ready to ring the Church’s neck — “Make up your mind, dammit!”

      But then again, being a tax-exempt “church” with no concerns about public dollars, why would the Church care about the time and expense of exhausting public offices and staff?

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  32. Davey, you CI cocksucking motherfucker! You call yourself a Big Being and you can’t handle “cloudy with a chance of Rinder?” YSYSYSYSYSYSYS!!!!!!

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  33. “Due to the bad weather, the AOLA and ASHO Openings have been postponed until Saturday March 8th. Please spread the word to all your comm lines.”

    What – no exclamation marks???? Where has the enthusiasm gone????? And what about bulk emails????? Can we do bulk emails?????

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  35. BTW, wassup with the new honorific “Mr.” used judiciously above. Why do some (Austin and Rodriguez) get it, but others (Chan) don’t? Is this a new ethics gradient?

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  36. The weather might be unpredictable, but one thing is not. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together could have told the mini-Pope that he wouldn’t get cooperation from the powers-that-be in Hollywood for anything scheduled at the same time as the Academy Awards, and that includes set-up and take-down days. Oh, I forgot. You’re not allowed to tell the mini-Pope what he doesn’t want to hear, unless you are a CICS.

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  37. Mike, once again, your prediction of canceling/changing the whole event has come true. It seems too easy.

    And, “The Lost Tech of Dissemination”…that is funny.
    It is not a lost tech. The truth is that no one wants to disseminate to their friends or family and bring them into this insane organization.

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    • Advertize it as “The Lost Tech of dealing With Reality” and perhaps there might be interest.

      Wait a minute, the Kool-Aide stand says that “COMMAND INTENTION IS THE ONLY REALITY”. HE will announce that shortly ……… no Shorty will announce it shortly ……. now when is that exactly? He will announce IT soon. Be prepared to attend and listen! Dang ……I’m a bit confused here …… what should I do? Maybe borrow some money from a friend and get some sec checking …… now let’s see here, what friends have room on their cards……..no wait, what friends do I have? I wonder what a friend is…………….shit, I’ve got to attend that event and get some more Sec Checking fast! Dang, when did he say the event started? No wait, what day was it? Damnit ……this being a cult member is not for the feint of heart!!!

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      • Actually I doubt it. He can’t confront MEST. I just remember him driving around in his Lexus (the big one in 1991ish?) while everyone else dealt with it. This time he’ll be no where near it. But he will come back to rip off faces, RPF or “hole” people etc., the only thing he’s good at.

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    • Do we still get a bus ride? What time? (I actually feel sorry making fun of some of the poor suckers, obviously too demoralized to bother about the time. but really … each and every one could walk out today. Right now. And join up with Scientologists. Instead, they stay and support what?)

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      • John McEnroe was one of my go-to sports entertainment guys. And Jimmy Connors. Something has happened, culture-wide, I think – the Personality has been taken out of it as (probably) PR consultants dictate “acceptable political correctness”. The color is fading. One guy on TV summed it up “You just can’t have any yucks anymore.” Today if you hang out with a few friends on a street corner to smoke a Lucky Strike, comb your hair, show off your biceps, and whistle at girls … you get:
        – sexual harassment lawsuits
        – loitering without a license
        – searched for drugs and weapons
        – must show racial and ethnic diversity in your club
        – people think you must be “butch-gay” or something weird
        – contributing to the delinquency of minors
        – anything anyone can dream up to punish you for anti-roboticism

        Actually, it’s not quite that bad, but the reception Scientology has gotten since LRH exited, is nothing short of disgusting and demoralizing. A complete system of philosophy and practice to bring color back to life, and it ends up being ground into the sidewalk by some parody of The Terminator – and people actually agree to it. Then you get the spit-outs of the meat-grinder (which was not Scientology to begin with) proclaiming it “isn’t what it was cracked up to be.”

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  42. I remember a phrase – when in doubt, communicate.

    But Black Heart and Inc. – the more they communicate, the more confusion they spread, the more in doubt you are.

    Or wonder if they went from Treason down to Confusion; sure though they are dramatizing it.

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