Watch this short video here.
Anyone who has ever attended a scientology event featuring David Miscavige will find these short videos eerily familiar. The blind, over-the-top adulation. The fear of being identified as someone who is not enthusiastic enough in their praise for the Dear Leader. In N. Korea this might result in being sent to a prison camp. In scientology it’s a minimum trip to the ethics department for an expensive attitude adjustment program — or as happened to me, assignment to clean the bilges on the Freewinds . That was because an announcement failed to elicit a standing ovation from the crowd, and because I was in the front row of the audience it was my lack of enthusiastically jumping to my feet that caused everyone else to also remain seated…
Scientology is not North Korea and David Miscavige is not Kim Jong Un, ordering people to be murdered. But the similarities in the control of thinking and action within the hermit kingdom and the scientology bubble are striking. There is no room for dissent in either world. There is no challenging the authority of either dictator — not even asking questions. Both are oppressive environments, but if you ask those within them, it is the rest of the world that is uninformed about the magnificence of their circumstances, and the rest of humanity would want to be with them if they only knew the truth…
It’s very sad looking from the outside into these worlds of exuberantly enthusiastic clones, marching in lockstep to the party line.
It’s incredible and beyond a sane comprehension of what goes on in the minds of true assholes. Dictators sit at the top of the pile of the most dangerous creatures on this planet. They don’t deserve the air they breathe.
How in the world could anyone sleep turning people into mindless puppets like that.
I think the diminutive Captain Davy should copy Kim Jong Un’s hair style.
This clapping and cheering reminded me of the 1993 IRS event in the Los Angeles Sports Arena. My take of it might not be real for everybody but it may resonate with some. Needless to mention that I was a 100% follower back then.
The arena was crammed full and due to having arrived a bit late I had to stand somewhere in the back on a balcony. The atmosphere was exciting and I was soon glued to every word that came forth from our fearless leader. It was certainly a fantastic story. And then came that one moment that changed everything for me:
On October first, 1993, at 8:37 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the IRS issued letters recognizing Scientology and every one of its organizations as fully tax exempt!
While the whole of the arena exploded, my universe contracted to a tiny whatsoever. Everything around me was darkness. And no, I was not applauding like mad. I simply did not understand how he could have said that.
You see, I had learned that we wanted acceptances for Scientology, never recognitions. Why? Because recognitions bestow more power to the one who grants that recognition than to the recipient, here Scientology. For me, he had clearly expressed that that lousy IRS government office had more power than Scientology. And that was totally contrary to all that I had studied in Scn.
It was the very first nail into the coffin of Scientology for me, a nail that my pursuing years in the cult were never able to pull out again.
Two hairdooz in search of a thetan.
Yo Dave,
whatzx next on yer Idle Morgue lineup good buddy???
Both are short and are trying to use the big pompadours to make up for their lack of height.
Cindy, often you see them in all their ‘stature’ almost alone within vast empty spaces like squares or stages. But in reality, those are not empty spaces; they serve to contain all their ego. Poor them.
Yes! Ego with no bounds. Exteriorized ego.
Lol!
Without their ego, they are deflated like pierced balloons.
Yes without their ego they are like pierced balloons or used condoms, no use to themselves or anyone.
Wow it’s terrifying how similar they are to eachother.
A very accurate comparison and you can also throw in the religion of modern leftism under the same umbrella.
Fascism from the 1930s to the modern era also fit under that long black leather coat. And Hubbard’s alt-right ideology has always been a strange bedfellow with the sort of Christian rightism that is now admiring of just that sort of totalitarian leaders.
Actually LRH was much more in line with Soviet style/Far Left Fascism. Examples: his imitating Soviets gulags with the RPF; imitating Soviet show trials with Comm Evs; imitating Soviet forced confessions with Sec checks; socialist style “pay” depriving workers of their share for their production for “the good of the group”; Soviet style informing of one’s spouse, family and friends; imitating Soviet PR of always lying about and totally exaggerating achievements …Well, that’s just a start …
Jesus! Wow, are there similarities here! And no, Miscavige doesn’t have people murdered. But I’ve read that Scientologists suggest suicide to cult members whose existence is an inconvenience or embarrassment.
Would just like to share that my most hated thing about Scientology events was having to stand up and shout “Woo woo” and clap continually. Stand up, sit down; stand up, sit down. I was SO bored. Always longing for the damned thing to be over. If I could have dozed thru them I would have been grateful but nooooo instead it was stand up/sit down, etc. etc. etc., …my stomach is clenching a little now, just remembering.
And to be at one of these things on New Years Eve! Oh…my…God!
More than the money, no kidding, more than them not talking to me any more, more than anything, I resent the New Years’ Eve’s I wasted there. Not that I’m a big party person on NY’s Eve – I’m not!
in jeans, in a small restaurant or bar near where I live, or at a small gathering at the home of a friend or having a few close people at my place with champagne and snacks, good music, a great movie – THAT is my idea of New Year’s Eve BLISS!
Other nights are great to get dressed up, not this night. But that’s just me – to each his own, right?
That said, below zero on my list of New Year’s Eve things to do was to be watching an interminable video (all dressed up, heels, etc, it was so ridiculous to have to dress up for that) and then watching people wolfing down pasty piles of baked ziti or some other cheap carbs…you know what? Let me stop, I’m getting somewhat depressed and vaguely angry just writing about it and I don’t want to bring anyone down.
Aqua, since I was in the SO, sometimes certain events we were forced to watch them two or three times. What fascinated me was that they seemed to have neither head nor tail, because if I tried to remember the sequence or what they had said after the event, very little came to mind. The most extraordinary thing is that this happened to others as well. So, I came to think either it was two hours or more of hot air, or it was intentionally done for some reason. Eventually, I concluded it was just expanded hot air.
Nothing truer. However, it makes me wonder, if DM had more power and controlled a nation where he himself is the law, how would he really behave? Just look at what he said about his father Ron Miscavige when he seemed to be having a heart attack, or the thousands of abortions that are “suggested” and allowed in scn, and who knows what else.
Soon scnists will be required to have a photo of DM hanging in their homes to dust continuously, with Ethics conducting sudden inspections to check if it’s clean.
A photo of LRH, surely?
I meant a DM photo. Like they do in North Corea. And yes the one of hubbard as well. Scn at this point has turned into a sect of the cult it was before
I had a Scientologist friend from the Czech Republic who attended one of these events.
He told me confidentially that this style would turn off anyone from his own country, who would decide that Scientology is made up of Communists.
This nonsense is an innovation of Miscavige, and often the standing up and cheering is on the most banal utterances.
I absolutely despised this even back in the day, and usually did not bother to stand up at all.
No one sent me to Ethics, but maybe this has gotten worse in the two decades since I was around.
Absolutely ghastly!
But it started long before Miscavige tenure, I was introduced to it by the man I would marry, in Paris France . He took me to an event at the only org , they called it a “party “ back then in 1976 .
There was some talking but I don’t remember what was said , all my red flags went on when I saw a huge picture of LRH , a blow out as big as a wall , then they all jumped to their feet for the applause in front of that picture . It was screaming “cult “ to me even though I was too young to understand the danger .
Right then and there I knew to keep one foot out and I did . That foot out allowed me to leave eventually .
All I can say is that in Hubbard’s time there was nothing that made me feel like this.
There were no International Events.
There were local events which usually ended with a fairly muted Hip-Hip-Hooray for Hubbard. People stood up for this sometimes, but remained seated (and quiet) throughout the rest.
There were those who considered Hubbard to be infallible, but I was never one of those and neither were many of the others at my org (even staff members.)
I think one of Miscavige’s talents is to take something that was sub-optimal in the first place and make it much worse.
Wow! Just Wow. Excellent!
Cultic trauma. It’s real.
(I explain to everyone I admit having been a lifelong Sea Orger, the Xenu taboo word, and the body-thetans — invisible souls implanted by Xenu with the R6 implants, requiring the five exorcism steps where Scientology uses the Emeter gizmo to supposedly “detect” these invisible souls, and the Emeter gizmo supposedly reveals when these invisible souls are exorcised/freed.)
Scientology needs spoon feeding their soul beliefs and practices, to the public, so the public understands what the “spiritual” practices of Scientology are. Scientology is supposed to be soul memories alleviation (case alleviation). And upper levels OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the exorcism/soul-freeing steps Scientology ought to tell the public these are their practices. The upper exorcism/soul-freeing is supposed to elminate leakage of the soul memories of the invisible souls from leaking over to us and causing us debilitating results.
Scientology is pseudo-therapy and exorcism/soul freeing, supposedly.
Someone needs to do a really good label explaining Scientology’s soul beliefs/practices. Scientology and Hubbard failed at that, so it’s ironically up to the outside world to find out what Scientology does as far as their soul beliefs and practices, and define Scientology to the outside world, because Scientology and Hubbard believe it is taboo to even talk about Xenu, body-thetans (the invisible souls), and the exorcism/soul-freeing steps of upper Scientology which are the OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 steps.
Scientology is essentially a past lives PTSD pseudo-therapy, and it’s an exorcism/soul-freeing of invisible souls which Scientologists are taught infest everyone, and those invisible souls have their own past lives PTSD “implant” memories which they leak onto everyone to whom these invisible souls infest, thus the exorcism/soul-freeing steps of upper Scientology supposedly remove these invisible souls and alleviate and eliminate any past lives PTSD leakage from those souls onto a person.
Scientology is a double whammy bad memories alleviation practice. Supposedly.
Yes, a complete circular mindf—k.
I’d have been disappointed had you not worked in Body Thetans. Thank you for doing it so early in the post.