It’s as inevitable as day following night. A pitch for money from scientology following a disaster.
Hand one of these WTH booklets to the next terrorist you meet and calm will prevail.
And of course, we don’t have any money to do this most vital action — we need it from you. NOW.
This “common-sense” booklet is going to “lift spirits” by telling the people to “Flourish and Prosper.” It’s just what they need.
What planet are these people on? They would make Mel Brooks proud.
And as an added thought, I guess they don’t know Belgium has its own flag?
Or that the Dutch flag is horizontal stripes?
This is the French flag on the “Dutch” WTH booklet for Belgium. Way to go guys.
I love WTH booklets! About ten years agonwhen I was still working as a teacher the school got like 300 booklets. We had about 120 kids and 30 staff, but we each had two eyes, so I guess that made sense. One of the other teachers and I carefully cut the pages into thin strips and the kids made fake papier mache puppets from them. It was a source of much happiness for the next several months.
I’m international flight crew. I had friends pulling a 777 in AS THIS WAS HAPPENING.. The last thing Belgians need or want is anything to do with another religious issue. Especially one that is pure science fiction!! Sorry.
“What planet are these people on? The would make Mel Brooks proud.”
My dream is for Mel Brooks to satirize this cult in a movie or a play. No one could do it better. Just thinking about this makes me chuckle.
Springtime for Hubbard, and Miscavige.
Freewinds is sailing once more
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the OT race!
Scamming the membership by charging high prices for The Way to Happiness after every disaster is proof that a degenerate vulture culture pervades the church. The church is all about $ and nothing else. They are a disgrace and a criminal organization.
I just shake my head. These people are utterly deluded and have NO idea of the real situation facing Europe right now. Thinking they’re going to create an iota of difference with their 25,000 WTH booklets – or ANY number of booklets for that matter – is the height of arrogance and stupidity. Cashing in on this terrible tragedy – while utterly predictable – is so debased it’s just not funny. What an insult.
Ugh… Sorry Shelley. It is funny. Very funny.
Because the cherch owns its own printing press, a “Way to Happiness” (TWTH) booklet costs less than 10 cents to produce. But they charge $25 for a small bundle. Anytime there is a world disaster or catastrophe, the cherch scams its members to *BUY* the “Way to Happiness” booklet to distribute to that troubled area.
As a matter of fact a FAT CAT cherch could afford free distribution as a charity action.
But the Way to Happiness is just another money ploy.
I know of a Dentist who was forced to pay for the TWTH distribution to all North American schools. He does not know that it was ever done, but he paid a lot.
By contrast I had 2 Mormon Missionaries show up at my door. Polite, cleanly dressed and scrubbed, they dropped off the Book of Mormon for free.
Now internally no one was *regged* for the Book of Mormon distribution.
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-way-to-happiness-claims-fact-check/
J Witness mags are often found on the folding tables in my nearby self-service laundromat. Somebody is at least paying attention to them.
Way to Happiness, not so much. The paper display box and all the WTHs with it spotted in the same laundromat’s trash can recently, four miles from the Ft. Harrison.
As a Mormon myself, I can see the cherch accusing Mormonism of being out exchange and demanding that the First Presidency and the entire Quorum Of The Twelve(top Mormon leadership) be sent to ethics and every single LDS missionary be put in lower conditions.
As an inactive Mormon that made me LOL.
“All right, you Mormon missionaries! Every single one of you sit down right now and do your O/W write-ups for being so out exchange while we entertain you with our rendition of ‘ We Stand Tall’! “.
Scary scenario, isn’t it?
@karen, not only can the Mormon missionaries leave you a free copy of the Book of Mormon, they would have left you a copy of the bible too if you requested. Or, you can get your own free copy of the bible here:
https://www.mormon.org/free-bible?gclid=CNqPorTi88sCFQ2QaQodYoEMhA&cid=99107262&s_kwcid=AL!3737!3!82655928375!e!!g!!www.mormon.org&ef_id=VwG67QAABO2CQ1Wl:20160404005301:s
Or a free copy of the Book of Mormon here
https://www.mormon.org/free-book-of-mormon?gclid=CLrg9MDi88sCFZWFaQod3oEB-A&cid=99107262&s_kwcid=AL!3737!3!82655928375!e!!g!!www.mormon.org&ef_id=VwG67QAABO2CQ1Wl:20160404005328:s
When requesting, you can opt out of further contact with them or request more contact if desired.
If DMSMH (or any other book) really brought people into scientology, wouldn’t it make sense to have free copies being distributed? Instead, they charge members for TWTH. SMDH
It might have changed, but when I was on my mission we had a bunch of DVDs and VHS tapes and the BoM in various languages to give away. If members wanted to buy those videos, the VHS ones were like a dollar each at the Distribution Center, and members bought them by the dozen to gift away.
If they are going to work their magic in Brussels, they had better make an Arabic-language version.
Maybe Anonymous should print up job lots of The Way To Happiness booklets and start distributing them outside all the Ideal Orgs? Reading the booklet might cause a mass exodus from the church.
The people on the Bridge go up and down.
up and down.
up and down.
The people on the Bridge go up and down,
all through the tech!
And, everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went,
And everywhere that Mary went a reg was sure to go…
With their incredible OT powers they should have distributed this BEFORE the attack, so that it wouldn’t have happened. When are they going to start being pro-active to prevent these things from happening?
I think they’re just being lazy OTs. How come they can’t make it “rain” WTH booklets? That should be simple enough for them. But, nooooooooooooooooo. That’s just to tough for those weenies……
Seriously!!
I would hope that most public have noticed that the COS doesn’t actually DO anything to achieve peace and tolerance. What may be more subtle is how the church has deteriorated into an old fashioned travelling medicine show with their WTH pamphlet serving as their miracle elixir.
For a moment, try to conceive of any other religion on the planet attempting to make money off The Ten Commandments, or pretending that just because someone is given a list of them, it will fix their life.
TWTH is the Ten Commandments in simplistic form. Even the Ten Commandments vary, depending on whether you read Exodus or Deuteronomy and what version of the bible you are reading. The first 3 commandments are the most interesting as they all ensure that you honor God, well I guess you could say the 4th one is in the same vein, as it tells you to honor the sabbath. Then there are six more that tell you other commonsense living rules.
The Thing that gets me about TWTH is the “wiggle room” given to members.
They are not told to tell the truth, they are told to seek to live with the truth.
Another one that floors me is Do Not Harm a person of good will, giving unspoken permission to fair game anyone scientology does not consider a person of good will.
And then the one no scientologist in good standing would dare to obey, but they use against orpthers all the time “Respect the Religious Beliefs of Others.”
Call me silly, but I am of the opinion that people who don’t live by the basic moral precepts most of the good people take for granted will not change because they read a list of those precepts.
As with Pavlov’s dogs, an instant trained response. No thinking required. Get it done before anyone can perceive a delay, thus no negative report and/or punishment.
This, as with Pavlov’s dogs, is a trained and instant response. Taking the time to get details correct might mean being reported for failure to act quickly. No thinking required.
The 1st time I read this booklet I thought it was pretty lame and condescending to the general public.
As a PR tool, it is an utter failure. When you Google it NO ONE, outside of Scn, quotes it or refers to it in a positive way.
But, as a fund raising tool for clubbed seals, it still works. “Stupid is as stupid does”, now that precept gets quoted a lot!
But it so CSMFG vital…to have these books !!
Of course it is! If these extraordinary booklets are not handed out, the residence of Brussels will all fall into deep, deep depression. And that means the psychs will win!
Absolutely SICK.
The terrorists were stalking nuclear workers
to kidnap and steal radioactive material .
Right!
And yet, any terrorist still hanging around the area can now have a cognition of magnitude after being handed a WTH pamphlet by some well meaning ninny koolaid drinker:
“Here, now. Take some time out and read this little booklet. You’ve been rather naughty, you know! This will help”
It is The Golden Age of semi-literate Sea Org kids.Boosted with hapless Eastern Europeans with locked up passports.
The 18 year inquiry into the Church in Belgium, (as a result of customer complaints, and an ARCXen field) for fraud, extortion, running a criminal enterprise and violating the right to privacy, was tossed out of court early March, as Church attorneys convinced the justice system there, they were only being targeting because they were Scientologists.
Putting a wrong item and a wrong indication on the people’s of Belgium.
I’m sure that lifted the people’s spirits, being declared bigots and Nazi’s.
Less than two weeks later, the bombs happened. Now the Church moves in to profit off the misery.
Excellent observation!
It will be an interesting day, the day an attorney for a defendent brings Hubbard scripture into a court of law, to make a point. “The only thing you can be upbraided for by students or pcs is “no results.” Trouble spots occur only where there are “no results.” Attacks from governments or monopolies occur only where there are “no results” or “bad results.”
Why is it in Dutch? In Belgium the people speak French and Flemish. Silly idiots. I can’t wait till they do one in Brazilian, oh,wait, they did that.
Wikipedia entry for Flemish–“Linguistically and formally, ‘Flemish’ is not and does not refer to a current language or dialect but refers to the region, culture and people of (West) Belgium or Flanders. Flemish people speak (Belgian) Dutch in Flanders, the Flemish part of Belgium. ‘Belgian Dutch’ is slightly different from Dutch spoken in The Netherlands, mainly in pronunciation, lexicon and expressions.”
According to this article, a Flemish person can read books from the Netherlands as easily as Americans can read books from Britain.
the people of brussels and belgium speak dutch , french and german depending what districts they live in.
Flemish and Dutch are the same language. Only in Belgium they call it Flemish and in Holland Dutch.
Question: How far would any of these programs get if they didn’t offer a commission to the salesman?
Question: How many of the go-getters would go somewhere else if they didn’t get paid to play?
Know what would REALLY impress me and show that these guys were way serious?
CALL TO ARMS ALERT!
Now that planetary clearing is rapidly progressing worldwide, we cannot and MUST not let an Earth ethics scene derail us with a cleared planet just around the corner. Thus COB is calling for an immediate 300 volunteers to pass out one MILLION TWTH booklets in ISIS occupied Syria, as well as in Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine and Iraq.
Furthermore, as a reward for their upstat production in expanding Scientology to the point it is today, the following people have been appointed by COB as mission leaders to personally go to these countries and lead their juniors on the streets passing out TWTH:
Kaye Champagne – ISIS occupied Syria
Arte Maren – Yemen
Quinn Toffer – Sudan
Michael Roberts – Ukraine
Sharron Weber – Iraq
Louis Swartz – Dementia wards in all Miami area hospitals
And by the way, the people in all of these countries will just go completely VVGIs when they learn that they just need to flourish and prosper. It’s really quite do-able in all those places, a cinch really. OK, bombs going off at the market sometimes and machine guns here and there. So what? We all have our challenges no matter where we are, right? I’m in Naples, Italy and I couldn’t get some dang cold fruit juice today, which I really REALLY wanted! (it would have helped me flourish) Where the HECK are the convenience stores here? Europe!!! You won’t have trouble finding a 7-11 with cold grape juice in Thailand, I can tell you that! But I’m gonna keep calm, keep my happiness precepts in and get some more pizza (it was invented here in Naples, you know), and things should work out fine. (the things I have to put up with!)
DM – rolling tour of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gee: If I were an international negotiator for peace anywhere in the world I would urgently bring in the experts on flourishing and prospering, COS with their epic F’n P tech is a proven formula.
Look at all the straight up and vertical erections evidenced by the Floury 2D (dan and daveyboy) Blathertech and based squarely on the Prospertech well demonstrated by even the lowest of the low members of the Clearwater church being able to afford a luxury weekend holiday in Atlanta with no expense spared.
Mike…..Dave and Tom are SAVING THE PLANET!
Don’t you get it??? They don’t have time for details……the entire world depends on Ethan Hunt and what’s his face, that tiny cult leader, to help save the world from…..what was it again….aliens? No, that can’t be right….
“Same as it ever was” – Talking Heads
Laughter!
“Same as it ever was” – Talking Heads
“As same ever, it was”………Yoda
Maybe the wrong opening of the anatomy?
Nattering Sphincters perhaps?
OMG! I thought I was the only one who knew about the punk band, ‘Nattering Sphincters.’ I’m a big fan, but, their last show really stunk up the place….
Most childs think childish .. not all ..
Another “Money that Goes Nowhere” campaign from none other than the Church of Scientology. In this life, the most valuable one on the time track to me thus far, there is one thing I have learned from this life forward: “NEVER TRUST ANY CHURCH of SCIENTOLOGY ANYWHERE EVER”. Considering that the knowledge LRH left Mankind in 1986 has never been available before anywhere ever in this universe, this is always another attempt by members of this church that follows the last one, to keep the information concealed from people while getting as money out of them as possible. 🙂
And in addition drug use has RISEN in the last 20 years, not declined, in spite of the group intention of the Flag SOLO NOT’s auditors. AND…drug dealers are now listed among the world’s most influential wealthiest people. AND there is currently a synthetic heroin epidemic BOOMING in Staten Island, New York and neighboring communities. Why? Because people like the “ANTI-DRUG Abuse Church of Scientology” with their “Way to Happiness” under their belts are busy chasing Mike RInder and his family around doctor’s office parking lots or telling Mark Rathbun nobody cares about him in public at L.A. airport. The Scientology saga, the church improves it every day. 🙂
You really don’t expect people so tone deaf to pay attention to such details?
Uneducated morons.
Now, Mike. That’s an insult to all morons everywhere…