These are all sent by hushmail, I promise.
The first one, from Flag, contains this classic quote: This is still “LRH Birthday Week” through Thursday March 20, so we are still raising funds for the IAS and for Ideal Orgs. Of course, the thing to celebrate LRH’s birthday is to give money for the IAS and Ideal Orgs, neither of which LRH ever heard of or contemplated or wrote about anywhere (of course there IS a policy about Ideal Orgs that we have seen plenty of times and the name has been stolen from it, not the concept).
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014
From: Flag OT Committee <depchair@flagotc.org>
Subject: Message of the Week & 17 March 2014 Meeting MinutesFlag OT Committee Meeting Minutes
17 March 2014Kaye Champagne, Chairman welcomed attendees. Kaye reported that the International OT Committee Convention had been a huge success, and that we had received many comments that it had been the best one ever. There were 330 in attendance from 22 countries, representing 72 different OT Committees. Kaye validated Mary Alice DeWitt, Dir OTC Events for “working tirelessly” on the convention and Mary Alice received a round of applause. Mary Alice in turn validated Marguerite Bowen, OT Operations Officer FSO for being the “queen of all this as she did not leave her computer for three weeks” doing outflow and confirms. Mary Alice also validated Peter Dearaujo and Kathy Karl who she stated helped “day in and day out.”
Marnia Danio, an OT VIII visiting from France was welcomed.
Completions
Colleen May was announced as having completed L-11.Announcements
Kaye announced the following:o This Tuesday (March 18) the speaker at the “Keys to OT” event will be Arte Maren, who came to the front and announced that he would be speaking on the subject of “Time” with LRH data from the 16th ACC. The event will be at the Sandcastle Restaurant at 7:15 PM.
o This is still “LRH Birthday Week” through Thursday March 20, so we are still raising funds for the IAS and for Ideal Orgs.
Special Guest Speaker
Anna Nicola, OT Committee Officer Int spoke, beginning with a great validation of our Flag OTC, saying it is “the best OTC on the planet!” She said that we are at a very important moment in our history, with everything in place to clear the planet, the deciding factor being speed. How fast we do it, she continued, depends upon our postulates, intention, create and push. Anna said that is what she needs from the OTC. She asked that we do our OTA Program and our targets from our org. She also stressed that we must complete the Ideal Orgs, adding that for our area, Atlanta is about done, and we need to focus on Miami, Orlando and Puerto Rico, the first target being Miami. She stated that Miami is the gateway to South America.Anna told us that we are important, and that the Flag OTC sets an example for the entire planet; so, go on course, do your bridge. She said we have a lot of comm lines and friends everywhere, and we should keep our comm lines IN and USE them.
Anna then briefed us about the Ideal Orgs and the progress to date and answered some questions from members. Out of the existing 172 Class V Orgs, 38 are Ideal. For the rest, about 3/4 have already purchased buildings, and the remainder are targeted to be purchased by Maiden Voyage. She said, “We are so close!”
Anna announced that Maiden Voyage will be in June. She said that many things will be announced then, and lots of good news. Anyone who would like to attend Maiden Voyage should speak to Kaye Champagne and let her know as soon as possible, as it is by invitation only.
Anna wrapped up stating the Number One “needed and wanted” things are Ideal Orgs, and Bridge Flow. She said that all of us should be doing the new Golden Age of Tech II services and helping on getting others to do the same.
Mathilde, Public Sec, FSO said that our local field is about 4,000 Scientologists, with about 1,000 having completed their Purification Rundown, and about 1,000 who need to do it. She said that Golden Age of Tech II is all about getting people onto and up the Bridge, and that once a person gets through the Survival Rundown, there is no doubt for that person that they want to move up both sides of the Bridge. Mathilde said that the stats are way up, but that we want everyone in the field to have the wins and gains available. She announced that there is a list of 1,000 names that will be available to us in the FSM area, of people to contact and enlighten to come and do services, inviting us to come and help contact people, adding that we probably know some of them.
Jim Bridgeforth, OTC Chairman’s Org Off added that it is a huge win to team up with FSO staff members and help get someone onto services. He shared a personal win about just mentioning to two others about his wins from having done Super Power and nudging them and this helped them decide to do it too. Jim said that just a little nudge from a fellow OT goes a long way.
Tom Cummins, OTC Deputy Chairman of Production added that when we help the staff, it “adds another dimension” to the cycle. When we share what we got out of it, it gives the guy a peer viewpoint.
Mathilde gave a big acknowledgement to the OTC for the success of the International OT Committee Convention, saying there were 330 in attendance, from 99 orgs, and this was a “Highest Ever” statistic. She thanked the OT Committee for all our work.
Kaye added that she has been attending the OTC Conventions since they started, and agrees that this one was the best. She said that she realized that we (the Flag OTC) are the leaders, the “big org” and what we do with our own Ideal Org Alliance is what others will do with their own continental alliances. She said that our first target is Atlanta, which is nearly done. Next is Miami, and Kaye said she would like to gather together anyone who had any experience with Miami Org to help. She said we need to have some events, some themes, and anyone wanting to help can meet with her after the meeting. There will be and event crew of volunteers to help with ticket sales, MC, decorations, and more.
Adjournment
Kaye read an LRH quote from “Ron’s Journal 31” then adjourned the meeting, and led a round of applause for LRH.Minutes by Carol Gulasa, Meeting Secretary
Edited and Approved by Susan Moore, Deputy Chairman
A few other notes on Flag.
The insane “reasons” they come up with for things is remarkable. Flag OTC Committee is supposed to raise money for other ideal orgs — why? Because that is what is going to “clear the planet” of course. But I thought it was getting 10,000 onto Solo NOTs? But then, why Miami first? Because that is the “gateway to South America” of course. Well, even if it is, so what? There are supposed to be some ORGS in South America — at least in Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina — though nothing in the 900 pound gorilla of S. America, Brazil (just wait for the World Cup to start and you will see “fundraising” to give out WTH in Brazil — not to open an org).
Guys, listen to me. Miami is supposed to clear THEIR city, not the people in transit at Miami International waiting for their connecting flights to South America.
But is it really any surprise when their Dear Leader tells them they are “clearing China” because they have ONE org in Taiwan — “the gateway to the Far East”? Pure idiocy.
And another doozie: Out of the existing 172 Class V Orgs, 38 are Ideal. For the rest, about 3/4 have already purchased buildings, and the remainder are targeted to be purchased by Maiden Voyage. She said, “We are so close!”
This highest priority, how we are going to clear the planet, genius international COB strategy has now been going for more than 10 years. So far, less than 20% of the orgs are done? So, we are looking at another 40 years — but “we are so close”. Does anyone actually LISTEN to what they are saying? Or do they just hear “we are close” and shrug and go “all’s well.” And about 3/4 have purchased buildings and STILL they cannot complete the renovations on any of them? Obviously this is a high priority for everyone else other than the person that controls the money. Because if this truly WAS the strategy for clearing the planet, then all these orgs would be DONE. He has the money.
But the big “nip-slip” in this one is the statement that the local Scientology field is 4000. Now of course this is WAY over-estimated. Only 1000 have done the mandatory Purif. But take that number at face value. Someone needs to tell Karin Pouw (David Miscavige in drag) because s/he keeps telling the media there are 10,000 or 12,000 Scientologists in the local area, or 10% of Clearwater’s population (that alone would be 10,000 not counting anyone anywhere else in Pinellas, Hillsborough or Pasco Counties). Even giving them 2,000 staff, its still HALF of what they say to the media.
OTHER AREAS
Just for some additional amusement, here are a couple of other OTC reports the hushmail stork dropped down the chimney.
The mighty Valley. Next org in line to be “ideal” (yes, they HAVE their building). Surely they are getting some bleed off benefit from having Pasadena Ideal Org and LA Model Ideal Org just down the freeway and Orange County and Inglewood (someone should drive by and see if that place is still even open…) in the same metropolitan area, but it doesn’t appear to be the case. These stats reflect a true idle morgue: # of Books Sold – Down from 3 to 2 (and the “bookathon” is ongoing), # of Pre-OTs onto their next step – Even at 0 # of Clears onto their next step – Even at 0. Not much more need be said.
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014
From: Valley Org <valley@scientology.net>
Subject: Valley OTC Minutes, March 11, 2014MINUTES
VALLEY ORG OT COMMITTEE MEETING
March 11, 2014
ATTENDEES Kathy Welch, Kathie Heard, Mary Lee Krackow, Mary Elizabeth Glosup, Karen Brown, Debbie Suplee, Charlene Thorburn, David Wilson, Kathy Di Galbo, Bob Welch, Ralph Temps, Jill Halverson, Patty Riemer, Ben Ghiora, Bo Ellison
Kathy Welch & Kathie Heard opened the meeting.
Mary Lee Krackow recited the purpose of the OT Central Committee.
STATS
Division 1 – Karen Brown
Active Members – Up from 49 to 54Division 2 – Mary Elizabeth Glosup
Gross Income – Down from $51,150 to $700Division 3 – Diane Temps
Ralph Temps passed the hat around for OTC promo, food, etc.Division 4 – Kathy Welch for Tamara Dahill
# of Volunteer Hours – Up from 219.25 to 234.25
# of all GAT2 starts – Up from 3 to 10
# of Events & Briefings Held – Down from 3 to 1
# of Books Sold – Down from 3 to 2
# of Pre-OTs onto their next step – Even at 0
# of Clears onto their next step – Even at 0Division 5 – Mary Ann O’Donnell
# of Route to Knowledge starts – Up from 1 to 2Division 6 – Charlene Thorburn
Meeting Attendance – Up from 20 to 21Please bring your friends to the OTC meeting. Think – who do I know? Who can I bring?
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jennifer Jacobson announced the Bookathon is still going until Thursday. The FSM Workshop takes place right after the OTC meeting.
Kathy Morrill announced The United Nations has declared an International “Day of Happiness” – worldwide on March 20th. See details at www.dayofhappiness.com
Of course we will hand out WTH booklets on that day and please report stats (booklets handed out) to Kathy Morrill, DSA Valley. Target is 1 million booklets internationally. Kathy took orders for WTH booklets and sold them to OTC members.
OTC members all watched the new film: The Staff of Scientology Organizations.
Reminder: Jennifer Jacobson announced the IAS Patron Ball at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday March 23rd. Cocktails at 5:00pm, Event starts at 6:00pm. Join us for top talent entertainment, concert dancing and the latest IAS news from around the world!
Reminder: Carroll Loweree announced the “Love It Forward” program: promoting random acts of kindness! She briefed us on the program and recent activities.
Reminder: Tashanya also announced the LRH Birthday event March 22 at the Shrine! There is a big party out front at 4:00pm with a tribute concert.
Kathie Heard read an LRH quote from 7 Nov 1959. The meeting was ended.
Wonder if EUS is faring any better? Nothing really to report other than how magnificently they are doing on their fundraising (so why does Flag have to do it?) and Atlanta is going to be the “next” EUS Ideal Org. New Haven and Battle Creek have had a building now for nearly 10 YEARS. Dear Leader hisself has announced Harlem Ideal Org twice and shown CGI fly-throughs to the ooh and aahs of the clubbed seals. What happened to those?
And more of the amazing stats — half of the entire cont total is from NY and the rest a grand total of 34. And that is HIGHEST EVER…. I guess the “Ideal Orgs” in DC, Nashville and Buffalo aren’t doing too much….
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014
From: John Stout OT Ambassador <ota@johnstout.com>
Subject: EAST US OT COMMITTEE EXPANSION NEWS 2014: Week-ending 13 March 2014Week-Ending: 13 March 2014
East US OT Committees and LRH Birthday Success 2014
Dear East US OT Ambassadors and OT Committee Members:
I realize it took a few more days to get this Expansion News out to you, but it was well worth the wait, as East US smoked!
First of all, East US had 100% of our OT Committees participate in last weekend International OT Committee Convention! This convention was the best yet, with standing room only in the Fort Harrison ballroom!
Atlanta again dominated East US Ideal Org Fundraising and is #1 in the world! For those of you who attended the convention at Flag, you heard Atlanta OT Ambassador I/C and New Civilization Builder Joel Benk tell us all about how they are making it happen week after week. Atlanta will be the next East US Ideal Org!
East US Service Starts totaled 64 — highest of year! New York OTC accounted for a whopping 30 of those starts! Detroit had 9 and the rest were nicely spread amongst the rest of our OTCs.
As you can imagine, we had a good week of East US IAS support, and CC Nashville led the way!
The number of East US Active OTC Members was UP slightly, with 257 total.
With the LRH Birthday Event showing in our local orgs this weekend, there is plenty for us to do to pre-reg for our remaining Ideal Orgs and also getting starts on Golden Age of Tech Phase II training for making an army of auditors!
ML John Stout
OT Ambassador East US I/C
The hushmail strategy doesn’t seem to be working out too well…
For those inside:
Verse 1
I’m dreaming dreams,
I’m scheming schemes,
I’m building castles high.
They’re born anew,
Their days are few,
Just like a sweet butterfly.
And as the daylight is dawning,
They come again in the morning.
Chorus
I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high,
Nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams,
They fade and die.
Fortune’s always hiding,
I’ve looked everywhere,
I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
Verse 2
When shadows creep,
When I’m asleep,
To lands of hope I stray.
Then at daybreak,
When I awake,
My bluebird flutters away.
Happiness new seemed so near me,
Happiness come forth and heal me.
Chorus
I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
They fly so high,
Nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams,
They fade and die.
Fortune’s always hiding,
I’ve looked everywhere,
I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
“She said that Golden Age of Tech II is all about getting people onto and up the Bridge, and that once a person gets through the Survival Rundown, there is no doubt for that person that they want to move up both sides of the Bridge.”
IIRC those who are OT 8 have been put back on Survival rundown. How do they then move up the bridge?
The Bridge to Nowhere
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0973785/
I keep seeing stats of the orgs that do Not meet rudimentary requirements to even open a Mission. Perhaps DM tossed these in the pyre with all the rest? I don’t have any issues anymore to quote, but most of these orgs would be shut down for lack of required numbers of tech/admin staff, lack of minimum number of products and completion and above all, lack of …wait, what’s the word? Oh yeah, viability.
Per policy, these orgs don’t exist. In fact, with the few still standing giving it everything they’ve got, they’re still not even anywhere near non-existence. These are not orgs. They are call centers and flea market breakfast clubs. And for god’s sake, Miami gateway to South America? Someone send them a map and a clue. I supposed this is best evidence they need to “find out where you are”. I would then have to squirrel that formula and add “and then get the hell out as fast as you can”.
Clearing the Planet? 330 OT Committee Members showed up for the Convention divided by 7 Billion people – 3,000 Scientologists still active = Total Failure, Being Nothing and Below Body Death!
If passing out The Way to Happiness Booklets cleared Columbia of Criminality – why don’t they just pass those out and be done with it because Scientology claims that by the mere act of passing those booklets out – they reduce crime rates. LOL
Thanks for the information Mike and kudos to the Mole! 🙂
I did a detailed analysis of how TWTH distribution did NOT change the murder rate in Ciudad Juarez, even though the “church” was claiming otherwise, in my post at http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=13339
I also did a post about the inefficacy of TWTH distribution by comparing it to the leaflet-dropping campaign in Vietnam in my post at http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=13265
East US Service Starts totaled 64 — highest of year! New York OTC accounted for a whopping 30 of those starts! Detroit had 9 and the rest were nicely spread amongst the rest of our OTCs.
I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth mentioning again. When I volunteered as a public reg at the Orange County Org in the mid 80’s we averaged 40 – 50 first service starts a week. Things have sure gone down hill.
At the NY Org in the late 60s, we often got 30-40 starts in a single day and evening. It was an amazing time.
I was in downtown Ocala last night. At around 6:00pm there were LOTS of people walking around the main square, eating in restaurants, etc. A young man came up to me and wanted to give me a piece of promo about his church. I assumed he was from the Ocala Mission which was maybe 100 feet away. Turns out here was not a Scientologist and was from a conventional Christian church. I walked over the the Ocala Mission to see if they had body-routers and it was CLOSED!
“Reminder: Carroll Loweree announced the “Love It Forward” program: promoting random acts of kindness!”
How about letting people “still in” reconnect with their families who are disconnected from all their friends and family…random enough for you, Carroll?
Well, I spoke to a fellow Scientologist late last year. The local field has maybe 200 people in the city, 400 in a region populated by over 2 million. I doubt the field is 100% active. I tried to get this person, who was sneering at and deriding the ‘downtone wogs’, to see that Scientology had done nothing to contribute to this city of 600,000+. The church had not put the city there, it was other people (wogs) who were putting the city there every day. Many other people.
I got a look of unreality.
I don’t think they actually grasp just how big the world around them is. It must be the Koolaid. Maybe it shrinks your vision until you think you are the world.
One of these fine days I wouldn’t be surprised to see a new “Int Eval” done – After “extensive research” and finding a ton of “lost” LRH tech and policy Miscavige will announce the “Golden Age of Orgs”; the renovations were all wrong, done by SPs and squirrels and all need to be un-done so the Orgs can be “as in LRH’s day” – (friendly, with actual people communicating with the public and so on). This “priceless tech” was buried by useless DBs and transcriptionists who have been booted off the lines. Thank heavens for DM – all that needs to happen is each Org needs to raise $X million for the un-doing of renos to return the Orgs to native state. (Cue 10 minute standing ovation).
Does this mean there are only 152 Org buildings in the world? With more than 8,000,000 followers that gives 52,632 scientologists connected to each org. WOW! That´s impressive! Then how come only a few thousand turned up for the BIG birthday event in LA?
Does anyone know how many Org buildings there were when DM took over in the eighties? I´m just wondering how many NEW Orgs have actually been formed since he took over.
The new orgs that I am aware of are:
St Petersburg
Moscow
Taiwan
Inglewood
Athens
Budapest
Florence
Buenos Aires
The ones that have closed or “been absorbed” are
CC London
CC Dallas
CC Las Vegas
Eppendorf
Copenhagen Org
St Etienne
not sure if CC Frankfurt still exists.
Hardly the most massive period of expansion under the reign of Voldemort.
This is a very valid question. How many orgs were established between 1954 and 1986 (~32 years) and how many were established between 1986 and 2014 (~28 years)?
Anyone? Anyone?
See the list I just posted.
Virtually all orgs in the US were established pre-80’s. Same for Australia, South Africa, UK.
The big increase in orgs from those that had been created in the 60’s came primarily when Guillaume was CO FOLO EU and there were “birthday game points” for opening new orgs. I am sure Alex will remember this period well. I guess it was between 75 and 79? The number of orgs in Europe doubled in this time — though most of them have continued to be small and failing — all orgs outside Paris in France, a lot of orgs in Italy, Swiss ones etc. In the US, Jens Bogvad in EUS pushed the same way to compete with Guillaume and that resulted in Cincinnati, Columbus, Ann Arbor, Atlanta etc. There were also a bunch in Mexico and Latin America.
Since the 80’s, only the 5 or 6 that I named. Moscow, St Petersburg, Athens and Taiwan were made to happen by Guillaume against the wishes of Miscavige. He did them covertly and got a lot of heat for it as he was accused by Miscavige of “stat pushing” and “opening shit-hole orgs” that would just be problems and fail like “all the others he had opened when he stat pushed new orgs as CO EU.”
These days, “new orgs” are “new buildings” and the clubbed seals have bought it hook, line and sinker.
Still amazing is that there is no org in Brazil — a giant economy and emerging power. No org in India — even though there have been a ton of videos Miscavige has shown at events about India and about 190% of their internet hits come from India (cynical comment — obviously they are paying click farms to try and increase their traffic). No org in Indonesia with its enormous population — and again, many videos showing widespread acceptance of “LRH tech”. Still the same old org in Tokyo and nothing anywhere else in Japan though their population is greater than the UK and generally have high income. No orgs in numerous US states including huge swaths of the midwest and south. No org in Thailand though plenty of videos of “massive acceptance” of LRH tech in Thailand….
Methinks something is rotten in the state of Davemark.
Thanks for that. Must be such a joy, working for Miscavige. He sure knows when to use praise, what a guy.
So basically, under DM’s reign a new org has opened on average every 3.5 years, and another has closed every 4-4.6 years. (I didn’t know Frankfurt even had a CC – are their celebrities investment bankers?)
They give money to celebrities so that makes them one too.
So they procured a bunch of WTH booklets and sold them to the otc members? I see a bunch of those in garages and basements. And such official sounding titles….”deputy chairman of production”….so important! The only purpose of these groups is to force public to grind for mo money, mo money, mo money. The whole thing is a facade, a fake reality, trying to appear to be doing something they are not doing. It’s like a fake girlfriend to impress your friends, or a fake job so people don’t know you’re living off your pot harvest. It’s fake, phony and such a waste of time.
HJ,
You are right. It is now all on a level of pretend to BE, DO and HAVE. Either it’s a lower harmonic of the
real thing (more likely) or a parallel universe of sorts.
Greta
“Anna wrapped up stating the Number One “needed and wanted” things are Ideal Orgs, and Bridge Flow.”
Now that’s strange–are they REALLY saying Bridge now instead of Basics and bazillions of lectures? Could it be that the fringes of the Internet have brought up that outpoint enough times to embarrass the RC$ into putting some attention on having people go up whatever semblance of Bridge they have now?
I admit I couldn’t read it all–those meeting notes got unbearable. Just a bunch of regurgitated PR BS that I objected to. I skimmed after a while. But I didn’t see a heck of a lot of emphasis on the Basics.
Aha–I just answered my own question….they go down the Bridge these days…so…in effect no one is progressing anyway. Sigh…..I get it now…. [eye-rolling emoticon here]
“Bridge Flow” is downhill, not uphill, these days. In fact, you can get more people moving down the Bridge practically overnight if you’re just willing to wait for Davey “Neutron Bomb” Miscavige’s next monumental announcement.
The love it forward program……….awwwwwwwwwww! That is so cute! Heavily charged whole track incidents will just dissolve all by themselves with all the luuuuuuuuuuv. No need for well trained auditors, who are SO annoying when they get all that certainty & confidence & start talking & being disobedient. We’ll just skip all that unpleasantness.
Right on Hallie Jane! Puppy dogs and adorable kitties, that’s the solution. None of that messy, icky Case Shit that everyone seems to have – yuck? Let’s focus our Love Beams on all the people out there who believe they have spent all their money already – help them locate those itty bitty stashes hidden in pillow cases and under Betty Lou’s My Little Pony Kingdom.
Gawd! load the gun and put them out of their misery! What! Who! How did we degrade down to stupid cliches, moon beams and sunshine radiating out of our collective arses. We were all about auditing, training and elevating intelligence and ability.
Today, the benchmarks are hovering just below – See Spot Run and I’m a Little Teapot, watch me explode into a thousand pieces.
Intelligence – Ability – Enlightenment, nothing more than copy written on the side of herbal tea cartons.
I grieve for the loss of wonderment that I used to see in everyone around me. Replaced now, by the fixed stares of the perpetually out-of-valence crowd, who see only what they’re told is there.
Odd
Oh, hush mail is working quite nicely. Shhhhhhh. See, we’ll just whisper. T h e y a r e w e e l i t t l e n u m b e r s. B u t I t ‘ s a s e c r e t.
😉
Hey — that one stat went up from 1 to 2. That’s a 100% increase!!!!!!!!!! Straight up and vertical. That production will clear Earth about the time the dying red giant sun boils off the last oceans.
And what the heck — “love it forward” project? Never heard of that one written in green, red, or any other color. Better get the Squirrel Busters on it!
I like how all the OT’s are re-doing the purif and now the Objectives. This leads me to my next question….Will he make them re-do their grades next?? Seems logical if you think like the cob.
Makes perfect sense, Tony. Anything to keep them busy and distracted from no OT 9&10. I say Grades next, throw in some ” lost ” FPRD lists, Happiness R/D, and then maybe regurgitate the good old ” you have to be a Class 6 auditor to audit 9&10″ line. This should keep the faithful flock busy for many years while Cob enjoys his lavish lifestyle.
Wow they had one whole completion out of what?
Over 300 “OTs”.
Phenomenal is not the word I’d use but I’ll use it anyway for the sake of sarcasm.
“Guys, listen to me. Miami is supposed to clear THEIR city, not the people in transit at Miami International waiting for their connecting flights to South America.”
Got a much-needed laugh, there, Mike. Thank you for your humor. I don’t think I could confront the delusional OTC members’ inanities without it.
I’d also like to say that, as impatient as their collective cluelessness makes me, as button-pressing to me as their fatuously happy comm is, I still think it is quite important to confront it, so the Rinder wit and sarcasm are the spoonfuls of sugar that make the medicine go down 🙂 Hats off to you for YOUR confront, Mike.
I mean, Jesus Christ, are they REALLY that stupid? Is this POSSIBLE?
Obnosis drill: Am I seeing what I’m seeing?
Mike – great post. Love that these emails find their way to you.
I met Joel Benk at a whale’s house in CW about 2 years ago. He was telling me how he goes to Atlanta and other cities promoting ideal orgs. His piece of the action is 10%. He was also telling me about the luxury condo he just purchased for cash in CW downtown – The Watersedge. Beautiful condos.
Another interesting omitted: there were great emails about the high gloss science/religion TV commercial being played during the super bowl, other playoff games and I think the grammies. Big brags about the hits on the website. But, NO DATA about tons of new people now on course. Still no data about that.
My guess is 95%+ of GAG Phase 2 students are not new.
Also, loved Anna’s line about Miami being the gateway to South America. What does that have to do with anything? Miami Org used to be so huge. My guess it is now virtually a ghost town. While I was still in, a major OTC member from Miami was complaining to me how she and her husband were hosed down for 150K for the Miami org. They were definitely heavily pressured for the “donation.”
Anna’s letter made it clear that the heat is on for “alliance” donos. Now is this game where everyone wins or am I crazy?
It is so interesting to a never-in that they report their stats in what seems to be an honest and humble fashion, i.e.:
Division 2 – Mary Elizabeth Glosup
Gross Income – Down from $51,150 to $700
Division 3 – Diane Temps
Ralph Temps passed the hat around for OTC promo, food, etc.
…and then at the corporate level they just seem to try and ‘snow’ the world, oblivious to the realities of living in the Information Age!
OP: “These are all sent by hushmail, I promise.” 🙂
This video looks like the Co$’s people wearing the Hushmail Hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuu3tgJlNk
I was at the Police Station making a report about what the “Church” of Scientology did at my house last night. A lady waiting was horrified by my story.
I said, “Cults do things like this, Scientology, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, if you leave or criticize them.”
She exclaimed, “I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, and they would NEVER do anything like that.”
It was hard not to fall on the floor laughing, but I had keep to together to finish my business with the officer.
So sad to hear Mary Alice DeWitt is still on the KA, such a nice person she is or was (long time Austin staff and field). So messed up .
Is she any relation to Damien DeWitt? If so, he’s out. I see him posting on Ortega’s blog occasionally.
172 Class V orgs? How do they come up with that number? I thought it was more like 150.
And why haven’t there been any Super Power success stories coming out? Have no public completed yet? I thought it was supposed to put “world Clearing within reach of the future” or whatever.
They are counting Day and Foundation as 2 (there are about 20 orgs that are Day and Fdn) and probably also including SO Orgs. There is no number provided by any of these people that is accurate. Ever.
Except the zeros.
Miscavamatics!
Nice — may steal that one from you… 🙂
I counted very carefully on the CofS website. They list 139 Orgs, which includes all Advanced Orgs, Flag and the Ship. (They also list two test centers, pushing the website total to 141, but only 139 are actually separate organizations).
I would LOVE to hear from someone who has an old edition of What Is Scientology and can say how many orgs are listed in that book.
I also counted very carefully and there are indeed exactly 38 “ideal” orgs listed on the Scientology website. If you count the FSO and the ship as done, then that comes to 40 ideal orgs completed out of a total of 139.
The first of these “completed” was Tampa org, opened 29 Nov 2003, a bit over 10 years ago. So we are looking at 4 Ideal orgs every year. With about 100 left to go, we are looking at another 25 years of over-the-top fundraising to get all existing orgs take to “Ideal” status- meaning they have a new building.
The really bad news is that after 10 years of hard banging regging, the field is bled dry and fundraising is now moving very slowly compared to the earlier years. The other really bad news is that once a Scientology organization has purchased it’s new building, they are only half way there. Renovations are always the same again as building purchase price and sometimes millions more.
The really, really, really bad news is that these supposedly “new” and supposedly “ideal” organizations are completely deserted, empty morgues and they are going belly up like dynamited fish. Miscavige proclaimed that the “why” for orgs not expanding was that they needed big new buildings. The reality is that this is a complete lie and the new buildings are completely worthless in terms of getting new folks into the sheeple fold.
My observation is that morale is worst in cities where the “ideal” org has been completed, opened with fanfare and then left to die.
Saddest of all is the over-the-top “fees” that get paid to CSI as part of this farce. In the form of “Int Landlord Office” huge amounts of money get paid to CSI for “space planning” and “interior decoration” so that CSI is kept flush with cash. It has been 10 years with a river of cash flowing through CSI.
This is important because CSI has to pay for the over-the-top event costs to fly DM back and forth around the world by private boeing 747 etc.
Anyhow, fact is that this whole “ideal” org farce is the biggest, most in-your-face proof that DM is NOT motivated by a desire to expand the Scientology religion but rather a desire to expand it’s bank accounts and asset ledgets. At very best it proves he is an incompetent ass-hat who is so incompetent he puts the whole religion in danger of snuffing out. Or being less generous is that the guy is motivated by evil purps so strong they make his whole body R/S, and yes a bunch of people have seen it, and no, its not pretty.
‘Bout time we Davie did a Data Series Eval Review on his wrong whys. Oh, sorry, that calls for a need of HUMILITY, and that’s in short supply!
In short, it takes them an average of 90 hours to sell a book.
🙂
90 hours to sell a book?
That’s just less than 100 per year.
In the old days it would have more than 100 per week of a “bookathon”
Straight down and vertical contraction!
In the old days it would have been more than 100 per week without having to resort to an artificialized event called a “bookathon”.
It’s funny, ironic actually, that DM is getting caught up in what he professes to be “truth.”
He really has no idea… How many people are under the radar. Even people on course. Or staff. I know of one staff member right now that is “under the radar” but is waiting a little bit for their contract to end, to leave silently.
Or the people who are in, who question the sanity of DM or the direction of the church to other people.
He should be very worried…things are moving fast. People are leaving in droves. And he can’t hide what he’s doing, no matter how hard he tries.
One afternoon David Miscavige was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the road-side eating grass.
Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out to investigate.
He asked one man, “Why are you eating grass?”
“We don’t have any money for food,” the poor man replied. “We have to eat grass.”
“Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I’ll feed you,” David said.
“But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree.”
“Bring them along,” David replied.
Turning to the other poor man he stated, “You may come with us, also.”
The second man, in a pitiful voice, then said, “But sir, I also have a wife and six children with me!”
“Bring them all as well,” David answered.
They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine.
Once under way, one of the poor fellows turned to David and said, “Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you”.
David replied, “Glad to do it. You’ll really love the Int Base. The grass is almost a foot high.”
Some new grazed zealots.
Excellent D.M. joke, OOP’s It really happened !
Which shows that the only thing Dave mows down are people.
I am not sure that DM and Co get just how compromised their ranks are. I know two people who are in and talking and I have never seen the inside of an Org. the thing they agree on is that this is all COBs mess. I know that we only see a small part of the leaks on the web. If I were OSA I would be very worried about dox I understand that might have been leaked in regards to some lies that were told in the Rathbun case. DM’s fears of being buggered would surely would come true and OSA would get a new hole to sleep.
OK, lets have some fun with some outpoints, even if you have noted some of them.
172 Orgs. – 34 Idle, sorry, Ideal- 134 left to go.
Are you kidding? Monumental unprecedented expansion? Tsh, tsh…no, no.
4,000 locals in Clearwater. 1,000 done the Purif, need to call another 1,000. And, what about the other 2,000? Oops, been Declared I guess.
99 Org staff attended the International Convention, but I thought they had 172 Orgs, didn’t they?
That means 73 Orgs didn’t send anybody to this fabulous, magnanimous convention? Right, those orgs likely have 2 or 3 starving staff, couldn’t afford the trip.
Unbelievable disaster baby.
“…Karin Pouw (David Miscavige in drag)” – lol. David K-Pouw Miscavige or Karin Miscavige Pouw – the Church spokescluster.
Valley Org. 0.0. Such massive expansion.
The “church” is dead. It’s still walking, but it’s dead.
“The Walking Dead Orgs”
Dead Orgs Walking.
“Mathilde, Public Sec, FSO said that our local field is about 4,000 Scientologists,”
If that times 178 ClassV orgs gives 712,000 worldwide (if every org had that size field which they don’t) still not the millions they claim.
It’s all B.S.
I have to be brief – one word – GAG! Having been intimately part of this crap, for years, all I can do is roll my eyes because it’s the same old shit! GAG again. The self-importance these OTC members put on themselves is utter crap. But then again, they’re heaped ridiculous praise just to ‘attempt’ to motivate them. Same old names, same old PR, nothing changes except I hope they are now preaching to a smaller choir.
YUK (I wasn’t that brief 🙂 )
Bruce Goldman
Right, Bruce. These are the same old names, the same old people who have been around for 30-40 years. There’s no new meat, no fresh faces, no new, younger OTs stepping up to take the reins and push on into the future.
If it doesn’t meet its end with DM getting busted the circus of scientology will simply die out with its members.
There’s no expansion. Just lies upon lies.
Ghost town.
Tombstone.
I find the abject frauds Scientology is committing in their fraudulent emails to be vastly amusing. Seriously, people believe these crooks? Really? The idea that there are some how 4,000 Scientology customers in *any* city is amusing given that the crime syndicate has at most some 20,000 customers world wide. What, they’re going to claim that literally 20% of their customers live in that one city? Absolute insanity.
I can’t wait until Federal officers kick in doors and order these crime bosses and ringleaders to the ground.
You said: “I can’t wait until Federal officers kick in doors and order these crime bosses and ringleaders to the ground.”
— Why would they ?
They have the Church exactly where they want it – laying on the ground gasping for air with a tyrant’s foot on its throat…
A picture is worth a thousand words. I was thinking that people from different countries should submit a photo of the current state of their ideal morgue and there should be a gallery for anyone to go and see just how “busy” they are with the current “booming expansion.”