Only the most hip disaffected early 30’s Scientologists drive late 50’s Morris Minors while chatting about church matters! Or is that a Nash Metropolitan?
This is hysterical! A happy cult couple watching Aftermath together in bed. Better than the old Tonite Show iwth Carson! “…And now, heeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeer’s – Mikey!” Love it!
The fake cv of LRH that is more or less disclosed these days. Wouldn´t it be a good idea to cover this in the show? Thereby the SOURCE of the Cult is shown for what it is?
What, and lose my eternity? I’ll pay whatever amount to secure my place in the pantheon of those fearless humanitarian maximundos who have lit a fire up the collectives asses of the less dedicated to set an example of what it means to be OT. We’re not playing some minor game in Scientology, motherfuckers.
Yes, it appears the higher up the Bridge they are the more mentally fragile they get. Pathetic, really, their inability to confront. Forget being OT – whatever happened to being “able to talk to anyone about anything”, hmm? What’s up with that ability supposedly gained, way back down on the Bridge? I’ve encountered enough OTs who couldn’t talk about anything except la di da theetie weetie crap. It never inspired me to spend all that money to “go free”, if that’s what I’d turn into.
Alcoboy, you’re being funny, but no kidding, that WAS the concept, if not the action. You nailed it, actually!
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE to laugh and be happy. I’m no sob sister. But – well, its hard to explain, but there was always this very – what’s the word – ok, I’ll say it this way – a kind of DETERMINED cheerfulness emanating from these OTs when they talked to me. It started to get on my nerves and I didn’t know why. Later, towards the end, the answer dawned on me: their cheerfulness didn’t bring me uptone because it was fake! It was an act.
They were OTs, I wasn’t, so, I suppose they felt dutybound to project themselves as cheerful to someone much lower on the Bridge.
In the beginning I bought it. After a while it got on my nerves and I self-inval’ed for being quietly irritated.
Only in the end, with a little discreet digging, was I able to discern that the uptoneness was largely a facade. I started paying closer attention and observed that in unguarded moments they looked decidedly moody, or depressed, and even angry!
They DID have common problems – financial, marital, relationship, health. Some of them had major health problems which mystified me as to how they could be so far up the Bridge and actually still get SICK!
( Look, I had huge MUs about what being an OT really meant.)
I had this concept that being OT HANDLED these kinds of pedestrian problems, i.e., money, relationships, physical health so that the OTs were freed up to put their attention on HELPING others, etc.
But, these OTs were NOt handled on these things, and just as pinned to their first and second dynamics as I was! How could this be?
Apparently, their lives sucked just as much if not more than mine did. That was my cognition 🙂
There’s no getting away from it. Some of the thoughts and situations I was once embroiled in were seriously cringe-worthy. Looks like I wasn’t the Only One.
Back in the day when I was a card carrying Scientologist, another member who had a copy of Hubbard’s latest bulletin Jokers and Degraders parodied it by saying Jerkers and Degrooders. Not funny at the time, but in retrospect I have to smile. It’s hard to imagine a Scientologist being a professional comedian, isn’t it?
MJ, I was at flag back in ’81. I was doing some comedy that had to do with the e-meter.
Two Hawaiians, one th auditor the other the PC.
“Ok, bra. Hey! You not smoke any pacalolo, right?”
PC: I smoked last night, brudder
Eh, I’ll let you slide. Ok, you get good sleep?
PC Yeah. About 3 hours.
That’s good enough. Ok, bra, dis is the sesseon….Whoa! Bra! You rock slam, bra. (Turns e-meter around to show him the RS). See bra? You rock slam! Hey bra, you not thinking about me are you.
I did that skit for 15 minutes. The public laughed their asses off. However, the SO people were staring daggers at me. I love joking & degrading! It’s in my blood…
RB, that’s too funny! Trying to deal with all those human emotions and desires, while in the church of Moneyology. Glad to see the little red thingy is alive and well.
I don’t remember ever looking it up but my understanding was you are “stuck in a maybe” when you have not come to a conclusion about something where you have too little information or some kind of doubt about possible alternatives.
Yes indeed, Elron devised an almost endless number of “thought stoppers” like that one! Those who get “stuck in a maybe” very quickly begin “listing” to themselves out of session and just end up fucking up their cases, so no “self-auditing” (which is really just a cult term for critical thinking) is allowed.
$cn’s “prison of belief” is built by the inmates themselves and every one of these thought-stopping, mind control mechanisms that cultists internalize become the bars of their own self-imprisonment.
How does one *slap, slap* wake up from the Kool-aid coma and become free from the prison of one’s own beliefs? Simply by understanding that, in reality, ultimate spiritual freedom can never be gained by following a path which prohibits you from reading whatever you like, talking to whomever you like about whatever you please and, above all, thinking your own thoughts.
Dear future ex-cult member, please get out now, because it’s only going to get worse for those who are still in as the cult enters its End Times!
Handbook for Preclears. “The human mind’s basic purpose in operation is the posing and resolving of problems itobserves as related to survival along any of the dynamics. A problem is resolved when it is answered YES or NO.
“A problem such as SHOULD I GO ? must be answered YES or NO if the mind is to file it as a conclusion. If it continues as MAYBE, the problem stays in the computer and influences the next solutions.
“Did you ever know a person who had a lot of trouble reaching decisions ? Recall a specific time ? Well, somewhere in that person’s past was a problem which was not answered YES or NO but only maybe.
“A very “serious” sort of a problem comes up with WAS IT MY FAULT ? When that one lands on MAYBE the computer tends to jam. (The answer by the way is that nothing is anybody’s fault.)
“Problems do not solve for two reasons: The first is lack of data; the second is an earlier
unsolved problem on the same subject.”
Control of sexual life is another hallmark of a nasty cult. Control of thinking is another mark. The Hurricane Leah has become Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer.
Brother, I’ve been waiting for that for quite awhile. I live in Huntington Beach. I hosted a get together for indies and those who have left the cult many years ago. We had a great time! I’m just 2.5 miles from the Pacific.
You are the ideal host to help celebrate the end of the ideal orgs.
Aquamarinesays
And we will all be the Ideal Guests. I will bring the Ideal Marshmallows and my own Ideal Chocolate Chip Macadamian Nut Cookies for dessert. (They’d better be Ideal as this is the only dessert in my culinary repetoire.)
Chocolate Chip Macadamian Nut Cookies just made my heart skip a beat. Aqua, you MUST attend the celebration at my place when everything goes south for the cult. And bring tons of your cookies!
Old Surfer Dudesays
Spike, my family is from Hawai’i. I’ve lived there off and on for decades. My family left San Francisco in 1890. They landed on the Big Island and settled in Hilo. But, in 1894, because it was so rural, they packed up and sailed over to Oahu and settled in Honolulu. Some of the best days of my life were in the islandsa…
Old Surfer Dude, thanks for that. I worked in H Beach for a year (1980). Your party sounds like it was a hit. Too bad I’m so far away …
jimsays
Giddy? Giddy?? OMG there are two Scientologists who are now lost to the church. Giddy puts them outside the emotional universe the followers are locked into.
You know, joke apart, I’ve been watching a lot of videos from the Media where the subject of Scientology is being reported, usually while interviewing some journalist. And it is amazing how those reporters and journalists have learned to speak “Scientologese”, and how they ACTUALLY understand Scn, its policies and technical aspects. The good point of this is that some actual Critical Thinking is being applied to the subject by the public at large, which make the public discussion more productive.
@teleny – my first (sarcastic) thought was “very bored – get a life” but hey, it may be that you are just soooooper creative and the rest of us just need to still catch up to your way of thinking. Now I’m going to have to try it myself 😉
Thanks RB,
Getting more spot-on and funny by the month.
RB:The icing to whatever cake happened that week.
Mike, this is one of your most perfect posts ever! When is the book coming out?
Only the most hip disaffected early 30’s Scientologists drive late 50’s Morris Minors while chatting about church matters! Or is that a Nash Metropolitan?
I used to drive around.putting out OCA’s in my 57 Metropolitan.
Great one RB, I hope there is a part two next week.
Walked into the org one fine day
Sucked into the bubble of Dave
Hoped Scientology
Would help me go free
But all I became was a slave
Never regret yesterday, leave the church today and make a better tomorrow.
This is hysterical! A happy cult couple watching Aftermath together in bed. Better than the old Tonite Show iwth Carson! “…And now, heeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeer’s – Mikey!” Love it!
That punch line really made me laugh out loud! They both seem 2/3 of the way out. 🙂 Another very very well done, RB!
The fake cv of LRH that is more or less disclosed these days. Wouldn´t it be a good idea to cover this in the show? Thereby the SOURCE of the Cult is shown for what it is?
“Stuck in a maybe”… Ha ha ha ha ha.
The scientology lingo is so funny.
I love these Regraded Being episodes. So fun!
They really expose the exhausting mental gymnastics one must perform to remain a member in “good standing”.
For all you poor folks still “in” scientology, don’t you want a break from that burden?
What, and lose my eternity? I’ll pay whatever amount to secure my place in the pantheon of those fearless humanitarian maximundos who have lit a fire up the collectives asses of the less dedicated to set an example of what it means to be OT. We’re not playing some minor game in Scientology, motherfuckers.
Nice wording, Music.
Thanks Terra.
Uh oh….. My wife reads this blog…. Hope I’m not cut off for that comment…. Ha ha ha
Eh=Eh, you’re in trouble now!
Hey Mike, now your a porn star? Nice…but I think Leah would float my boat better…. Lol
CoS = Church of Snowflakes. Mere words can destroy mighty Oat Tees.
Mere words indeed, can crush OTs.
CoS = Church of Snowflakes?
Anonymous once declared war on snow which was fun
https://whyweprotest.net/threads/anonymous-declares-war-on-snow.66420/
Yes, it appears the higher up the Bridge they are the more mentally fragile they get. Pathetic, really, their inability to confront. Forget being OT – whatever happened to being “able to talk to anyone about anything”, hmm? What’s up with that ability supposedly gained, way back down on the Bridge? I’ve encountered enough OTs who couldn’t talk about anything except la di da theetie weetie crap. It never inspired me to spend all that money to “go free”, if that’s what I’d turn into.
So the greatest OT ability is to dance around while singing:
HEY, LA DE LA! HEY, LA DE, WE STAND TALL!
Weird.
Alcoboy, you’re being funny, but no kidding, that WAS the concept, if not the action. You nailed it, actually!
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE to laugh and be happy. I’m no sob sister. But – well, its hard to explain, but there was always this very – what’s the word – ok, I’ll say it this way – a kind of DETERMINED cheerfulness emanating from these OTs when they talked to me. It started to get on my nerves and I didn’t know why. Later, towards the end, the answer dawned on me: their cheerfulness didn’t bring me uptone because it was fake! It was an act.
They were OTs, I wasn’t, so, I suppose they felt dutybound to project themselves as cheerful to someone much lower on the Bridge.
In the beginning I bought it. After a while it got on my nerves and I self-inval’ed for being quietly irritated.
Only in the end, with a little discreet digging, was I able to discern that the uptoneness was largely a facade. I started paying closer attention and observed that in unguarded moments they looked decidedly moody, or depressed, and even angry!
They DID have common problems – financial, marital, relationship, health. Some of them had major health problems which mystified me as to how they could be so far up the Bridge and actually still get SICK!
( Look, I had huge MUs about what being an OT really meant.)
I had this concept that being OT HANDLED these kinds of pedestrian problems, i.e., money, relationships, physical health so that the OTs were freed up to put their attention on HELPING others, etc.
But, these OTs were NOt handled on these things, and just as pinned to their first and second dynamics as I was! How could this be?
Apparently, their lives sucked just as much if not more than mine did. That was my cognition 🙂
Thanks RB. You make me giddy. 😉
Well…if you’re giddy, I guess I’ll be giddy too.
There’s no getting away from it. Some of the thoughts and situations I was once embroiled in were seriously cringe-worthy. Looks like I wasn’t the Only One.
I would like to be the next RB about this couple, when they were REALLY put in present time by watching Aftermatch. 😛
-c
Oops 😛
Back in the day when I was a card carrying Scientologist, another member who had a copy of Hubbard’s latest bulletin Jokers and Degraders parodied it by saying Jerkers and Degrooders. Not funny at the time, but in retrospect I have to smile. It’s hard to imagine a Scientologist being a professional comedian, isn’t it?
MJ, I was at flag back in ’81. I was doing some comedy that had to do with the e-meter.
Two Hawaiians, one th auditor the other the PC.
“Ok, bra. Hey! You not smoke any pacalolo, right?”
PC: I smoked last night, brudder
Eh, I’ll let you slide. Ok, you get good sleep?
PC Yeah. About 3 hours.
That’s good enough. Ok, bra, dis is the sesseon….Whoa! Bra! You rock slam, bra. (Turns e-meter around to show him the RS). See bra? You rock slam! Hey bra, you not thinking about me are you.
I did that skit for 15 minutes. The public laughed their asses off. However, the SO people were staring daggers at me. I love joking & degrading! It’s in my blood…
You proved my point. Louis CK and others of his ilk would never make it in the Church of Seriousness.
The Church of Seriousness is to be avoided at all costs! I suggest the Church of What’s Happening Now! Nothing serious about it.
In the background, the radio plays Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling:”
A feeling, woohoo, that tonight’s gonna be a good night
That tonight’s gonna be a good night
That tonight’s gonna be a good, good night….?
Yeah, better drive faster! And watch that giddy left hand! Giddy up!
Giddy outa here! (Italian accent)
RB, that’s too funny! Trying to deal with all those human emotions and desires, while in the church of Moneyology. Glad to see the little red thingy is alive and well.
Another take on Scientology And The Aftermath is that after you’ve done the math, you realize the Church’s figures just don’t add up.
These folks are on dangerous ground and just about to join the ranks of the ASC (wink, wink).
“Stuck in a maybe.” That’s a new one on me. Could someone explain to this puzzled Never-in?
I don’t remember ever looking it up but my understanding was you are “stuck in a maybe” when you have not come to a conclusion about something where you have too little information or some kind of doubt about possible alternatives.
Yes indeed, Elron devised an almost endless number of “thought stoppers” like that one! Those who get “stuck in a maybe” very quickly begin “listing” to themselves out of session and just end up fucking up their cases, so no “self-auditing” (which is really just a cult term for critical thinking) is allowed.
$cn’s “prison of belief” is built by the inmates themselves and every one of these thought-stopping, mind control mechanisms that cultists internalize become the bars of their own self-imprisonment.
How does one *slap, slap* wake up from the Kool-aid coma and become free from the prison of one’s own beliefs? Simply by understanding that, in reality, ultimate spiritual freedom can never be gained by following a path which prohibits you from reading whatever you like, talking to whomever you like about whatever you please and, above all, thinking your own thoughts.
Dear future ex-cult member, please get out now, because it’s only going to get worse for those who are still in as the cult enters its End Times!
Amen, brother.
Thanks IP!
Handbook for Preclears. “The human mind’s basic purpose in operation is the posing and resolving of problems itobserves as related to survival along any of the dynamics. A problem is resolved when it is answered YES or NO.
“A problem such as SHOULD I GO ? must be answered YES or NO if the mind is to file it as a conclusion. If it continues as MAYBE, the problem stays in the computer and influences the next solutions.
“Did you ever know a person who had a lot of trouble reaching decisions ? Recall a specific time ? Well, somewhere in that person’s past was a problem which was not answered YES or NO but only maybe.
“A very “serious” sort of a problem comes up with WAS IT MY FAULT ? When that one lands on MAYBE the computer tends to jam. (The answer by the way is that nothing is anybody’s fault.)
“Problems do not solve for two reasons: The first is lack of data; the second is an earlier
unsolved problem on the same subject.”
Dan, other than the fun of exposing Hubbard’s B.S., was there a point to this post?
When you can’t decide to be/do/have something or not be/do/have something because “pro” equate to eh reasons “con”.
Control of sexual life is another hallmark of a nasty cult. Control of thinking is another mark. The Hurricane Leah has become Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer.
We of the Church believe:
That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights, as PR dictates.
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance, as long as our gross income is not adversely affected.
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives, as long as they follow the closely taped path of Scientology.
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity, knowing that LRH’s viewpoint is the only sane one.
That all men (David Miscavige) has an inalienable right to his own defense.
That’s all folks!
Addendum: And that no agency less than Ron has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
I’ll go with “covertly” for $200, MJ.
You win OSD. Your mission, should you accept it, is to host a party at your place upon the revocation of Scientology’s tax exempt status.
Brother, I’ve been waiting for that for quite awhile. I live in Huntington Beach. I hosted a get together for indies and those who have left the cult many years ago. We had a great time! I’m just 2.5 miles from the Pacific.
You are the ideal host to help celebrate the end of the ideal orgs.
And we will all be the Ideal Guests. I will bring the Ideal Marshmallows and my own Ideal Chocolate Chip Macadamian Nut Cookies for dessert. (They’d better be Ideal as this is the only dessert in my culinary repetoire.)
OSD, you’re closer than Hawaii.
Chocolate Chip Macadamian Nut Cookies just made my heart skip a beat. Aqua, you MUST attend the celebration at my place when everything goes south for the cult. And bring tons of your cookies!
Spike, my family is from Hawai’i. I’ve lived there off and on for decades. My family left San Francisco in 1890. They landed on the Big Island and settled in Hilo. But, in 1894, because it was so rural, they packed up and sailed over to Oahu and settled in Honolulu. Some of the best days of my life were in the islandsa…
Old Surfer Dude, thanks for that. I worked in H Beach for a year (1980). Your party sounds like it was a hit. Too bad I’m so far away …
Giddy? Giddy?? OMG there are two Scientologists who are now lost to the church. Giddy puts them outside the emotional universe the followers are locked into.
RB delivers!
LOL!!!! Regraded being is so funny!!
You know, joke apart, I’ve been watching a lot of videos from the Media where the subject of Scientology is being reported, usually while interviewing some journalist. And it is amazing how those reporters and journalists have learned to speak “Scientologese”, and how they ACTUALLY understand Scn, its policies and technical aspects. The good point of this is that some actual Critical Thinking is being applied to the subject by the public at large, which make the public discussion more productive.
But…but…have they even read “Dianetics?” They can’t possibly have heard ANYthing about the church, ever, that was accurate, that is..
I’m a never-in and I’m fond of reading some of the OT material as poetry.
What does that make me?
Some one smart enough to never get involved with this cult!
Well done, teleny! You’re one smart motor scooter.
@teleny – my first (sarcastic) thought was “very bored – get a life” but hey, it may be that you are just soooooper creative and the rest of us just need to still catch up to your way of thinking. Now I’m going to have to try it myself 😉
There once was a roolah named Xenu
Who had a solution for me and you
He transported thetans
Cuz deep down he did hate ’em
Turned Teegeeack into a zoo
(Massive applause!). Excellent!
My entities thank you.
My BTs can beat up your BTs!
Maybe out PT, but in 2D eep! hahah (bad never in humor)
5 days left, can’t wait. Give ’em hell, Mike & Leah!!
Love u guys