Yes, come to Flag and you will still be forced to quarantine. But it’s sort of free — and in the scientology world, that is a really big deal. They never give ANYTHING away for free. The catch here is that you have to buy their food. Because, of course, if you are quarantined you can’t go out of the building. And you can’t order food from outside to be delivered. So, you can get one of their $20 room service burgers…
Can you believe they are still requiring everyone to quarantine? The US doesn’t even require a negative test to fly into the country any more. Just another indication of the paranoia. Of course, Miscavige lives at Flag now, so his personal wellbeing is the priority. Heaven forbid some schlep brought COVID to Dear Leader when arriving to do the Purif… But is there actually any benefit to making someone “quarantine” for 3 days? The guidelines right now are 5 days from no symptoms after testing positive.
And are they really so unaware they don’t get how inappropriate it is to talk about “this brief breath” in an announcement about COVID quarantine?
And finally, the phone number for the reg is 1-800-POSTULATE???
This announcement is on the back of the latest promo piece from the Ft Harrison — full of exciting food offers and options (“Jelly filled donut day”), movies (Kevin James’ Home Team — they don’t know his views on scientology?), “backyard camping” for the kids, karaoke etc etc. Sounds like a summer camp.
But most odd is the cover of this piece:
What’s with the dolphins? Scientology picked a fight with Clearwater’s iconic Winter the dolphin and the Aquarium which is the leading marine life rescue facility on the West coast of Florida. They should steer clear of dolphin imagery (and nobody has seen waves like this in Cleawater) I think those two people might need some more Dianetics, so they can improve their eyesight… And the oranges in the ocean? What’s the deal with that?
“Can you believe they are still requiring everyone to quarantine? The US doesn’t even require a negative test to fly into the country any more. “
The US is still firmly closed to unjabbed foreigners.
I see some ppl below have noticed the same thing I did…that someone at Scientology headquarters poached the WatchTower artists! This is so reminiscent of the WatchTower and Awake! Mags. The pastel colors, the washed and dreamy look, skies that may rain down hell or heaven depending upon the agenda in that months mag. I often thought that the WatchTower employed psychologists or psychs to influence the imagery and agenda of their magazines.
Of course in typical Scientology fashion (very different from the art on the WatchTower which frequently displays ‘Armageddon’ and the world afterward) we have no idea what the hell is going on in this picture!
Instead of that pretty little dolphin would someone who knows how please shoop in that shark from Jaws?
“And are they really so unaware they don’t get how inappropriate it is to talk about ‘this brief breath’ in an announcement about COVID quarantine?”.
LOL!
Mike, you are a constant joy to me.
Your snark – nobody does it better – nobody.
Why do they need to protect David Miscavige? I thought OT8s don’t get sick. He’s at the top, he should be invincible. Don’t tell me Scientology is all made up!?
For as much as they say they want people to come to Flag, they are still making it incredibly difficult for anyone who wants to start the bridge. I have a friend who is trying to do his Purif there, but they’ve done two “screening” interviews with him and want to do a third.
The local org keeps telling him that even though Purif is closed, he can do it at Flag. But apparently not unless he does some sort of $5,000 auditing package first to repair his life.
Strange organization. You’d think they’d want to make it easy for the very few who want to dive in for whatever reason. Maybe they’re trying to make Flag profitable by being the only place to do Purif besides the boat that goes nowhere? Doesn’t make any sense to me…
This nonsensical crap comes from the people that claim to have the only tech of life right? Scientology takes stupid to new heights on a consistent basis – they are really good at that!
So Miscavige lives at Flag now… that’s interesting. So what about all that real estate & infrastructure in California? Just a speculative property investment waiting for the next cult to come along or are they not allowed to speak of it any more?
As a Disney artist who animated BOTH Dolphin Tale movies I have to say …. that is a weirdly pointless painting!
FYI I added the prosthetic tail of Winter the dolphin to a “stunt dolphin” who performed jumps winter was physically incapable of doing. Requiescat in pace WInter!
Yes, I agree, STAY AWAY FROM CW DOLPHIN IMAGERY COS!
“1-800-POSTULATE”
Haha, reminds me at the number “1-800-I WANT HELP” from the funny story Marc Headley tells in his book “Blown for Good” about the Int staff member with the name Pure Power Coleman. It reads like a sketch, but it was for real.
It was also written in an article at Tony Ortega’s “The Underground Bunker”: https://tonyortega.org/2018/05/11/scientologys-bizarre-international-base-and-its-near-prison-life-a-marc-headley-classic/
Excerpt [The doctor asked]: “You don’t have any ID, no driver’s license, you don’t know where you live, but your phone number is 1-800-I WANT HELP and your name is Pure Power Coleman?”
“Yeah,” Power answered matter-of-factly. …
3 days might not be unreasonable given members’ ages and vaccination status — mostly older and unvaccinated. Scientology facilities almost need to be following the guidance for nursing homes and immunocompromised people.
So more than 2 years later they’re maybe only starting to become a bit more reasonable.
PeaceMaker written “3 days …….given members’ ages …..
— mostly older……need to be following the guidance for nursing homes”.
Feel sorry for them,still looking for something from nothingness.
“heaven forbid”? Tst tsk, Mike – don’t you know that’s an implant?
Ah yes, stuck in a room at the Sand Castle for days and days. Wonder how many registrars come a knocking because you can’t escape.
Registrars who, surprise surprise, don’t consider it breaking quarantine to go from room to room interacting with their captive audience.
Yep, no surprise whatsoever. We all know they believe the almighty dollar is the only thing THAT IS IMPORTANT. Meat bodies are worthless since “we’ll all come back” anyway.
I think the cover artwork is weird and repulsive. Not the image one would expect on a Flag magazine that usually tries to position itself with high technology, professionalism, friendly, etc. What is it now? Sit in quarantine and relive the acid trips one had in the 60’s.
The image has such a cheesy JW’s Watchtower pic vibe.
Laughter! It does, doesn’t it?
Love the Fort Harrison sand castle!
Oh man this was PERFECT
I know someone who went to Flag in early 2022, when they were still running a two week quarantine for arrivals and multiple negative tests. He made it through the quarantine, and a few days after he was released and began his services — he got COVID. So he got it on the Base. Dear Leader better hermetically seal himself off and stay in hiding.
Oh My God! I can only imagine the effing tech he had “applied to him after that.” Comm Eved, PTS Rundown and Course, OW write up or even more fun, a tailor-made Sec Check? I can only imagine how horrible it was for him after that. At the “Happiest Place on Earth.”
Off topic,
I saw an old friend that is on staff at the local org. He was of course still wearing a mask and gloves. He was giving his interpretation of current world events through his scn perspective. Every once in awhile he would quote an IAS reg, and occasionally quote fearless leader as well.
What is becoming more apparent is that he is not quite right, and becomes non-sequitur at times, and definitely will out-talk anyone if give the chance. Of course, the world is full of such people. But for many, if things get too bad, there is psychology or psychiatry to help sort things out. That is not true in scn.
Since being out now for almost four years, I have taken a bit of laissez faire attitude towards the eventual demise of the corporate cherch. I saw Claire Headley’s twitter post regarding TC. I realized for me, it is too easy to dismiss the evil habits of scientology and those that support or help in it’s survival.
The child in the drawing with parishioners and dolphins. The idea is a child is recruitable, and if not recruitable yet, can be influenced to make them more recruitable in the future.
Yes. Don’t waste your covid breath on the even more toxic church of scientology.
Based on their graphic design Flag has regressed to the 70’s. That would mean the main people they attract there are in their late sixty’s and seventies. I’d love to see their weekly gross income now. I imagine it is a fraction of what it was in 2002. Twenty years of exposing their lies and human rights abuses has taken its toll. And how are they going to reverse the trend? Not going to happen.
BK, Flag probably continues to do well by poaching more and more of the local orgs’ business – now even the Purif and Survival Rundown thanks to the excuse of the pandemic. Gross income from auditing and services across all of the CoS is surely way down, though of course counterbalanced significantly by the increase in cash flow from donations for “ideal” orgs, the IAS, etc.
hahahahahahahaha I honestly cant with this one, I really don’t know where to begin
but 1 note I have, this imagery is really reminding me of the propaganda images used by the FLDS movement promoting zion……………
A three day quarantine is so useless. As Mike stated i the article, at least 5 days if you are serious about it. But why when people are able to travel and go about their business now without this? I think the why is to make more money on food. The empty rooms are free for the church. So best to give away the room than have more empty rooms forever. But if you let them stay for free in the room, you get them for having to buy three squares a day from the hotel and from no other. No pizza delivery from an outside place there.
Even back in the 2000’s and 2010’s all the staff would frown at you if you bought a meal outside the hotels. And the accomos registrar, a Russian woman, actually saw me on the street coming out of a local restaurant and she accosted me and told me off for not spending my money in the hotels as this is how they make their money. I said I was here on a shoe string and had to save money where I could. She thought she could bully me into doing what she wanted. It didn’t work on me.
It’s also not far off from some of the Jehovah’s Witness magazine art of the 70s and 80s.
My guess is someone up top decided a new image was needed, and told one of the rookies who seemed to have spare time to put together a picture with certain elements. Florida as citrus state (the oranges), the Sand Castle as a literal sandcastle, Flag, a Bridge. Maybe they were given a few tourist brochures for ideas to appeal to people to come visit. They got what they ‘paid’ for, given they paid a pittance.
And very similar to them in methods of operations. Scientology has disconection Jahovas have shunning , both disallow free thought and examining opinions that are contradictory to their own and both undoubtedly believe they have superior knowledge compared to outsiders. They require deep devotion and time and unfortunately very controlling.