You are aware, of course, that reading this — much less agreeing with it — makes you a member of a CULT. That’s the line taken by the increasingly pathetic Marty Rathbun, who has apparently sold both his logic and his testicles to He Who Will Never Grow Taller. Poor schmuck.
I see. And people who read the WSJ every day, or the LA or NY Times, or people checking in with Breitbart on line constantly or (gasp) Marty’s blog – they’re merely “well read”. Not cult members, surely!
Marty Rathbun, I will always be grateful to you for your original blog. It got me out of the cult. I have not forgotten, nor will I ever. I’ll always be grateful for that. Whatever is going on with you now is beyond my comprehension. I’m hoping that someday, somehow, we’ll get the facts.
The scientology Officers and Reg’s are such vampiric little mosquitoes, constantly buzzing in the ears of those poor saps still in.
As more and more people leave scientology, the stress levels must have rocketed straight up and on to infinity.
I could not imagine living life in that scientology pressure cooker as the heat continually rises and the pressure increases weekly. That is no way to live a life.
Mike – I was totally taken aback and shocked at a recent interview with Janis Gillham Grady – I was listening to it yesterday.
The vid quit running for me and I couldn’t finish it, but it quit just after she was telling a big long story about how DM had actually SAVED scn, and how Pat and Annie Broeker did indeed forge the Loyal Officer issue, and how they wanted staff and money to keep “raising horses” ??????????????????
I would be VERY interested in hearing your views, confirmation, or addition to this area. Janis seems very credible, and I’ve just only recently begun reading her first book.
I’ll be re-listening to this later and hopefully the vid continues and doesn’t lock up again.
No idea about this, sorry. I havent listened and it is too long – I just dont have the time. Tell me where in the interview it is and I will go there and listen to that section.
About at 41:36 she starts talking about that, it goes to about 44:40. I just re-listened and she didn’t say he saved Scn, he saved management from having to deal with Pat and Annie – I had a lot of trouble with the vid the first time through. I listened to the whole thing yesterday.
I like this gal, but as I continued to listen I realized that she isn’t on the same page as I am. I really appreciate how she wants to remain neutral and “just give the facts” and let others form opinions. But later on she goes down some roads that are nutty to me.
It was hard for me to listen to the interviewer as he has views that I consider totally whack-a-doodle and Kool-Aide. But as I’m still working hard to divest my mind from Scn, I’m really backed off of anything metaphysical.
All that is known (by negative deduction) is that no LRH sourced doc or recording has ever been produced to show that the Loyal Officer issue was made or approved by him.
Once again RB you are spot on. The mistake that Carl makes is in panel one where he divulges way too much information. This is typical staff reaction “you are PTS to the middle class”. One must learn to divulge zero about your personal life.
Good one RB.
Setting rabbit traps is now illegal. Seems ironic, I made pocket money as a kid catching rabbits & selling them to the locals who had ’em for dinner etc. Now the powers that be just introduce a slow, painful and horrible viral death to control the pests when their numbers grow – all nice and legal like.
The bread and butter trap of the Scientologist staff member is a similar type of virus. The only way to become immune to it is to WAKE THE FUCK UP! It’s a never ending source of wonder that people fall for that trap, time and time again. One could put it in Star Wars terms and say, “the farce is strong in that one!”
Been many decades since I had rabbit stew – it was good. Oh, how I yearn for the return of the simple life every now and again.
I recently moved out of a $14k fifth wheel. And this is why.
It’s all yours my cute little friends. I mean no harm. I’ve done enough already. Movin on 🙂
Anal probe. Good one Ms. B Haven. I once had a reg hit me up an hour after a session in which I’d given up the withhold of lying to all prior registrars saying I was broke when I actually had hundreds of thousands hidden away. In response to the plea from the reg hitting me up after session I told the same lie but she looked me straight in the eye and said “Come on, I know if you looked hard enough you would find the money”. I was shocked. How would she know and how could she be so certain. But all came clear a few minutes later when I remembered all sessions at flag are video taped. I concluded my withhold had been shared with this reg. Oh, and I do know they are taped. One staff showed me footage once. Happily that was the LAST reg I ever saw. 🙂
Glenn, congratulations on your last reg visit. I believe what you experienced a few minutes after your session is what in the ex-community is called the ‘clear cognition’. As in clear the exits cuz I’m done, outta here, adios, and the door sure as hell isn’t going to hit me in the ass on the way out. I wish it would have happened that quickly for me.
Video taped sessions? You bet. Confidential Confession folders? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight… True story here. I had just purchased the latest whiss-bang Mark Super Whatever e-meter in the late 80s. It had a phone jack built into it. Although I never saw the use of the phone jack implemented, many of us academy students were ohh-ing and ahh-ing about how cool it was to have a phone jack installed in an e-meter. We were delirious with coming up with various scenarios. Breech of confidentiality was not one of the scenarios we thought of. I had even read Orwell’s 1984 but was so stoned on the Kool-Aid nothing equated to the situation I was in at the time. 1984 was for those OTHER folks out there who didn’t know as much as I did.
Knowing isn’t all it is cracked up to be. To quote Shunryu Suzuiki, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.” Personally, I find myself more foolproof trying to maintain a beginners mind rather than being a know-it-all expert.
Just for the record, the connector that looks like a phone jack is for the Remote TA, Jon Horwich’s contribution to meter design. (Jon was once married to Diana Hubbard and is the father of Roanne. In the 80s he was Ron’s Audio Visual).
There is also a tiny 9 pin connector on the MK VII (later updated and called “Quantum”). Though it is a miniature version of the classic 9 pin D style connector popularly used in computers for serial connections, it is an analog connection. It allows a reads recorder to be attached. You can extract the needle motions or take over the meter and make the needle show needle reactions using this connector.
In the MK VIII they use a real serial connection for this purpose.
These connections allow meters to be monitored and recorded. An example is the famous “Look-Listen” system at the Flag Land Base. They networked cameras, microphones and the meters. This makes it possible to listen in on any session at any time, and see the meter reactions as well. Probably they also have this in the Ideal Orgs.
In the early days of this system recordings were done on VCR tapes, but now they can record on hard drives. In theory the recordings would be destroyed after a time but nothing says that especially juicy ones don’t get passed around or archived.
I wonder what the Justice Department would say about therapists that record and share sensitive information revealed by clients. Maybe a violation of HIPAA laws – but Scientology is a religion so it is all OK somehow.
For those of you on this site that are still interested in understanding a bit more about the human condition you might want to check out Darren Brown.
“Mentalist Derren Brown engineers an audacious social experiment demonstrating how manipulation can lead an ordinary person to commit an appalling act.”
To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Thursdays at two.
Listen, Newcomer, I DO check my stats on Thursday at two and they are ALWAYS straight up and vertical! Why? Because I say so, that’s why! So come for me! I dare you! All that will happen is that your sorry ass will wind up in my glorious RPF for the rest of your life!
No Dave, You don’t. You are a lying son of a miscavige and You are so full of Daveshit that You cannot tell vertical from horizontal much less the Are Pee Eff from Your life in general.
Wrapping it up Dave …………… eat shit and move on to Target Too! Your days are numbered dick breath!
To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: that last comment.
(hic)
Hokay, Newcomer (hic), thash it (hic)! Furget tha shtinking ( hic) rpf! I’m gunna (hic) come down there
(hic) an’ rip you (hic) all new ashhole (hic)! Right after (hic) I finish (hic) thish bottle uff shcotch!
1. Ingrained Us vs Them mentality, even between different sections of the organization.
2. Focus on short term goals, instead of the success of members, especially the public they are supposed to serve.
The above results in the institution wide contempt and manipulation of everyone seen as ‘below’ them. Generally people that are not completely oblivious catch on to being treated this way fairly quickly.
With Miscavige pouring money into the orgs to keep the illusion of growth alive and the actual shrinking of the membership, I think we are seeing the last gasps of the corpse as Miscavige pumps money in to simulate life.
Superb comment, Kyle. You are right on every point. Miscavige pouring back his own money – that’s the cult’s life support.. Nothing is working anymore. The body is in CCU, artifically fed and res-pirated with tubes and catheters removing its waste products. The body is doing nothing on its own. There is no natural life. Its death is merely being prolonged but that death won’t be long now. I can’t say what it will be but something is going to occur and the truth is going to be exposed.
Yes, these are fundamental organizational errors for sure. For 1,000’s of years building buildings was a way to attract people. Religion, banks, governments have all used this tactic. But big Scientology buildings look even more empty on the inside for the faithful auditors and students that go there every day. So, in the long run this does not work either…. even the poor bastards on the inside see the implosion.
If architecture were the key to spiritual cognition and religious conversion we’d all be Catholics. Spectacular cathedrals, with priceless statuary and art, stained glass – miracles of design in every way, a feast for the eye everywhere you look. And we’re supposed to be impressed with Miscavige’s pissant “Build’em and they’ll come” Ideal Orgs? Please! To 10X their memberhship, maybe Pope Francis should disseminate ecclesiastical Fly Throughs of the Sistine Chapel?
To: MostEthicalPimp
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: calling me ‘ Deutsche’
For your information, I am not a damn German! I am a badass Polack from Philly who has become the almighty Exalted Ruler of Teegeeack as well as the entire MEST Universe! You’re the one who’s probably a damn kraut!
🙂 Yes, please keep in mind, Alcoboy, that the “ML” or “Much love” complimentary close to any written communication is VERY important in Scientology, especially after having imparted extremely bad news, or any type of threatening comm.
Good call. It’s a paraphrase from Ecclesiastes (Latin Vulgate), as an example of religion claiming that material things and earthly pursuits are nothing, and the heaven to come is everything. I was struck by today’s vignette as a fine example of this calling.
I first became familiar with the concept in studying art. Vanitas is a genre of Dutch painting from around 400 years ago, characterized by still lifes representing earthly things such as furnishings, fabrics, books, flowers, globes and musical instruments, and also a skull, representing death. This is a reminder that all that other stuff is transitory, and life after death is eternal. The most famous example is “The Ambassadors,” by Holbein the Younger, in 1533. if you’re in London, you must visit the National Gallery and see this painting. The skull is in the foreground, but in an extremely skewed perspective, so that you have to look from the bottom right corner of the painting to see it come into focus.
The oldest con in the world. “Forget about this life. Don’t worry about being poor or overworked or underpaid. Give us ALL your money/time/effort NOW because God loves you and your blessed reward will be with Him in heaven and life everlasting.” Or some variation of the above. Its a great way to make slaves because it works. Legions of people have fallen for this concept, and still do.
The essence of the Scientology trap that I fell into in a few pictures, well done. It took me seventeen years and a lot of money to see that Hubbard was a bird brain.
Nano- (symbol n) is a unit prefix meaning “one billionth”. Used primarily with the metric system, this prefix denotes a factor of 10−9 or 0.000000001. It is frequently encountered in science and electronics for prefixing units of time and length
DM reminds me of a sort of lizard. Definitely something in the reptile family. Couple that with his face with that artificially plummy voice and that leaves only a certain prominent political person who makes my flesh creep equally as much.
I don’t think Dave is a vertibrate Aqua. If he was he’d have a spine instead of all that slimy goo he calls a mest body.
Yo Dave,
That explains Your 4′-13″ stature good buddy. That’s all the higher shit can be stacked without falling on itself. Speakin’ of falling on yerself, you don’t really have that far to go. Just sayin Dave.
BTW, hows yer SuMP lookin these days. Big announcement comin up? You and Tommy gonna grin the place up?
Nothing ever changes. Nothing CAN, which is a reason the cult is withering on the vine after being exposed to far too bright light. It is FORBIDDEN to change, to adapt, or to even consider other options than what has demonstrably been failing for decades.
For general info “Scientology: a Student’s Descent” is replaying on Investigation Discovery on Sunday March 11, at Noon. Every once in awhile, when “Scientology TV threatens to actualize, I search for Scientology, and that’s what came up this morning on FIOS in the Philly area. Davey boy’s racket doesn’t stand a chance in his hometown market. (Not that I believe he actually wants the cult to flourish and prosper; As long as the RCS remains as tiny as hisself, the Law and IRS won’t have any interest in his scrawney backside, so he’s safe to continue disappearing Shelly and boning Lou. IF that’s what he’s doing. As screwed up as he’s been, installing a separate bed from the one he presumably shared with Shelly at one time, and hIs preoccupation with SCOHB and TC, I SUSPECT that he’s not got a strong urge toward normal, everyday ( or rather every-night) sex.Instead, he gets most of his jollies by screwing others over.
According to the Bunker this morning scamatology tv is imminent. It will be at the ideal orgs only. Nothing like getting home from hard day’s work and having to ready again to go out, drive a while, and watch bad tv while being hit up for money.
Endless possibilities here….just THINK about it……THE COB sends out a mandate that forces members to actually watch the “show”…..and then….wham ban thank you ma’am……
HYPNOSIS through your own home TV Screen……i.e “You WILL donate more money”…
Whatever it is (I noticed, they avoid giving it a name – perhaps starting to distance themselves from the idea that it will really be the promise full-blown “Scientology TV”) it will be shown in the orgs – but I’ve seen nothing to indicate that it will be only in the orgs. Members were lead to expect it would reach “billions,” and while I expect that, typically, Scientology will deliver less than promised, I think they will have do something impressive-seeming like streaming video content from a new SuMP website. It’s going to be very interesting to see how this develops.
What ex hasn’t heard that EXACT sales pitch? And more than once. Just alternate the gloom & doom with a little love bombing and there you go. Bring in other staff as necessary for the pile on and you have what Carl describes as “…why do I always feel like I’ve just been x-rayed and searched after talking with Staff?” After a while it’s more like “why do I always feel like I’m always getting the requisite anal probe like when being abducted by aliens?”
Add into the equation unEthical Officers (preferrably aged 15 to 18) to question the behavior of adults in their pursuit of eternity from the front porch of your local cherch and you have a complete mindfuck resulting in a publics willingness to ‘Pay for Relief’!
Fear of the imposition of ethics conditions or worse ……….. fear of being declared if you don’t go along with the ‘officers’ evaluation of your scene generates a lot of cash for dear old Dave.
Public in that condition usually are so tight that it is difficult for the aliens to get the probe into the proper orifice!
I left (early 80s) and did not get the $$$$$$ pitch. What I did get was the ‘join the SEA ORG’ pitch. They never accepted my requirement that I go out for pizza on Friday night and Sundays for a bike ride up the coast. Just a silly diddeltant.
The front porch to infinity must have one helluva vestibule…
You are aware, of course, that reading this — much less agreeing with it — makes you a member of a CULT. That’s the line taken by the increasingly pathetic Marty Rathbun, who has apparently sold both his logic and his testicles to He Who Will Never Grow Taller. Poor schmuck.
I see. And people who read the WSJ every day, or the LA or NY Times, or people checking in with Breitbart on line constantly or (gasp) Marty’s blog – they’re merely “well read”. Not cult members, surely!
Marty Rathbun, I will always be grateful to you for your original blog. It got me out of the cult. I have not forgotten, nor will I ever. I’ll always be grateful for that. Whatever is going on with you now is beyond my comprehension. I’m hoping that someday, somehow, we’ll get the facts.
Wow!
People’s Temple ain’t got nothin’ on these guys!
Jim Jones would be a pussy compared to this bunch!
Great one RB…. I think you are spot on….their public is pressured to pay constantly. Gruesome for all involved.
The scientology Officers and Reg’s are such vampiric little mosquitoes, constantly buzzing in the ears of those poor saps still in.
As more and more people leave scientology, the stress levels must have rocketed straight up and on to infinity.
I could not imagine living life in that scientology pressure cooker as the heat continually rises and the pressure increases weekly. That is no way to live a life.
Off topic:
Mike – I was totally taken aback and shocked at a recent interview with Janis Gillham Grady – I was listening to it yesterday.
The vid quit running for me and I couldn’t finish it, but it quit just after she was telling a big long story about how DM had actually SAVED scn, and how Pat and Annie Broeker did indeed forge the Loyal Officer issue, and how they wanted staff and money to keep “raising horses” ??????????????????
I would be VERY interested in hearing your views, confirmation, or addition to this area. Janis seems very credible, and I’ve just only recently begun reading her first book.
I’ll be re-listening to this later and hopefully the vid continues and doesn’t lock up again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3qno_Of6g
I was staff during this era and I have a copy of the loyal officer issue and the cancellation of it. The stories I’d heard were nothing like this…..
No idea about this, sorry. I havent listened and it is too long – I just dont have the time. Tell me where in the interview it is and I will go there and listen to that section.
About at 41:36 she starts talking about that, it goes to about 44:40. I just re-listened and she didn’t say he saved Scn, he saved management from having to deal with Pat and Annie – I had a lot of trouble with the vid the first time through. I listened to the whole thing yesterday.
I like this gal, but as I continued to listen I realized that she isn’t on the same page as I am. I really appreciate how she wants to remain neutral and “just give the facts” and let others form opinions. But later on she goes down some roads that are nutty to me.
It was hard for me to listen to the interviewer as he has views that I consider totally whack-a-doodle and Kool-Aide. But as I’m still working hard to divest my mind from Scn, I’m really backed off of anything metaphysical.
Thanks for lookin at this for me.
All that is known (by negative deduction) is that no LRH sourced doc or recording has ever been produced to show that the Loyal Officer issue was made or approved by him.
yeah, some “hat turnover” eh?
The 2 year rule applies.
He needs to be ordered back to pick up his hat. haha!
Great one FB. Been there done that. Whose 1.1?
Staff have to be to survive the repressive criminal activities they participate in every day.
Once again RB you are spot on. The mistake that Carl makes is in panel one where he divulges way too much information. This is typical staff reaction “you are PTS to the middle class”. One must learn to divulge zero about your personal life.
Or just tell the regges to fuck off and you’ll start your OT levels when you feel ready.
No, wait. That’ll just get you routed to Ethics.
Now I’m all worried that the poor guy will be regged out his opportunity to buy a house
Not if he uses his self-determinism and tells the staff member to shove it up his ass then walks out the door.
I would like your comment but my star button has been perpetually loading for months
Ah, don’t sweat it.
So is mine. I’m using Chrome on an iPad Pro 12.9”
Good one RB.
Setting rabbit traps is now illegal. Seems ironic, I made pocket money as a kid catching rabbits & selling them to the locals who had ’em for dinner etc. Now the powers that be just introduce a slow, painful and horrible viral death to control the pests when their numbers grow – all nice and legal like.
The bread and butter trap of the Scientologist staff member is a similar type of virus. The only way to become immune to it is to WAKE THE FUCK UP! It’s a never ending source of wonder that people fall for that trap, time and time again. One could put it in Star Wars terms and say, “the farce is strong in that one!”
Been many decades since I had rabbit stew – it was good. Oh, how I yearn for the return of the simple life every now and again.
Those poisons and viruses used for rabbit/hare culls also effect the entire eco system around them.
Other creatures feed on those poisoned ones. It’s subtle – but the poison is spread.
I recently moved out of a $14k fifth wheel. And this is why.
It’s all yours my cute little friends. I mean no harm. I’ve done enough already. Movin on 🙂
That’s funny, Ms. B! LOL
Thanks RB,
Good one.
“X-rayed and searched…” He left out the simultaneous proctologist examination…
And, boy, that’s not fun…at all! Been there done that.
With Miscavige?
How the fuck did YOU know! Shit! That was suppose to be our secret! The dwarf isn’t going to like this!
To: Old Surfer Dude
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: revealing confidential data
You are so right, OSD! I don’t like it! For your infraction I order you to report to the RPF immediately for further
rehabilitation!
ML
Dave.
(Head hanging down). Alright….alright. RPF, here I come.
No, OSD! Don’t do it!
They won’t be satisfied until they get your last penny and then kick you to the curb to beg for coins to survive.
Yes, the true Scio stat.
Yep! That’s Scientology.
Anal probe. Good one Ms. B Haven. I once had a reg hit me up an hour after a session in which I’d given up the withhold of lying to all prior registrars saying I was broke when I actually had hundreds of thousands hidden away. In response to the plea from the reg hitting me up after session I told the same lie but she looked me straight in the eye and said “Come on, I know if you looked hard enough you would find the money”. I was shocked. How would she know and how could she be so certain. But all came clear a few minutes later when I remembered all sessions at flag are video taped. I concluded my withhold had been shared with this reg. Oh, and I do know they are taped. One staff showed me footage once. Happily that was the LAST reg I ever saw. 🙂
Glenn, congratulations on your last reg visit. I believe what you experienced a few minutes after your session is what in the ex-community is called the ‘clear cognition’. As in clear the exits cuz I’m done, outta here, adios, and the door sure as hell isn’t going to hit me in the ass on the way out. I wish it would have happened that quickly for me.
Video taped sessions? You bet. Confidential Confession folders? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight… True story here. I had just purchased the latest whiss-bang Mark Super Whatever e-meter in the late 80s. It had a phone jack built into it. Although I never saw the use of the phone jack implemented, many of us academy students were ohh-ing and ahh-ing about how cool it was to have a phone jack installed in an e-meter. We were delirious with coming up with various scenarios. Breech of confidentiality was not one of the scenarios we thought of. I had even read Orwell’s 1984 but was so stoned on the Kool-Aid nothing equated to the situation I was in at the time. 1984 was for those OTHER folks out there who didn’t know as much as I did.
Knowing isn’t all it is cracked up to be. To quote Shunryu Suzuiki, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.” Personally, I find myself more foolproof trying to maintain a beginners mind rather than being a know-it-all expert.
Just for the record, the connector that looks like a phone jack is for the Remote TA, Jon Horwich’s contribution to meter design. (Jon was once married to Diana Hubbard and is the father of Roanne. In the 80s he was Ron’s Audio Visual).
There is also a tiny 9 pin connector on the MK VII (later updated and called “Quantum”). Though it is a miniature version of the classic 9 pin D style connector popularly used in computers for serial connections, it is an analog connection. It allows a reads recorder to be attached. You can extract the needle motions or take over the meter and make the needle show needle reactions using this connector.
In the MK VIII they use a real serial connection for this purpose.
These connections allow meters to be monitored and recorded. An example is the famous “Look-Listen” system at the Flag Land Base. They networked cameras, microphones and the meters. This makes it possible to listen in on any session at any time, and see the meter reactions as well. Probably they also have this in the Ideal Orgs.
In the early days of this system recordings were done on VCR tapes, but now they can record on hard drives. In theory the recordings would be destroyed after a time but nothing says that especially juicy ones don’t get passed around or archived.
I wonder what the Justice Department would say about therapists that record and share sensitive information revealed by clients. Maybe a violation of HIPAA laws – but Scientology is a religion so it is all OK somehow.
What stories. Thank you so much 🙂
Wow. That guy was being both Good Cop AND Bad Cop.
It’s what a good $cientologist does.
For those of you on this site that are still interested in understanding a bit more about the human condition you might want to check out Darren Brown.
“Mentalist Derren Brown engineers an audacious social experiment demonstrating how manipulation can lead an ordinary person to commit an appalling act.”
He has produced a Netflix documentary found here:
https://www.netflix.com/title/80220000
It’s what $cientology does and Darren is interested in exposing both our vulnerability and our predisposition to ‘go along with the crowd’.
Yo Dave,
We’re comin for ya. Check yer Thursday at too stats good buddy.
To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Thursdays at two.
Listen, Newcomer, I DO check my stats on Thursday at two and they are ALWAYS straight up and vertical! Why? Because I say so, that’s why! So come for me! I dare you! All that will happen is that your sorry ass will wind up in my glorious RPF for the rest of your life!
ML
Dave.
No Dave, You don’t. You are a lying son of a miscavige and You are so full of Daveshit that You cannot tell vertical from horizontal much less the Are Pee Eff from Your life in general.
Wrapping it up Dave …………… eat shit and move on to Target Too! Your days are numbered dick breath!
To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: that last comment.
(hic)
Hokay, Newcomer (hic), thash it (hic)! Furget tha shtinking ( hic) rpf! I’m gunna (hic) come down there
(hic) an’ rip you (hic) all new ashhole (hic)! Right after (hic) I finish (hic) thish bottle uff shcotch!
M (hic)L
Dave.
Amazeballs! Awesome! I love how exact you have the jargon. Paints a picture of an organisation that is so deeply dysfunctional. Great work RB!
As an organization Scientology wont last.
1. Ingrained Us vs Them mentality, even between different sections of the organization.
2. Focus on short term goals, instead of the success of members, especially the public they are supposed to serve.
The above results in the institution wide contempt and manipulation of everyone seen as ‘below’ them. Generally people that are not completely oblivious catch on to being treated this way fairly quickly.
With Miscavige pouring money into the orgs to keep the illusion of growth alive and the actual shrinking of the membership, I think we are seeing the last gasps of the corpse as Miscavige pumps money in to simulate life.
Superb comment, Kyle. You are right on every point. Miscavige pouring back his own money – that’s the cult’s life support.. Nothing is working anymore. The body is in CCU, artifically fed and res-pirated with tubes and catheters removing its waste products. The body is doing nothing on its own. There is no natural life. Its death is merely being prolonged but that death won’t be long now. I can’t say what it will be but something is going to occur and the truth is going to be exposed.
Yes, these are fundamental organizational errors for sure. For 1,000’s of years building buildings was a way to attract people. Religion, banks, governments have all used this tactic. But big Scientology buildings look even more empty on the inside for the faithful auditors and students that go there every day. So, in the long run this does not work either…. even the poor bastards on the inside see the implosion.
If architecture were the key to spiritual cognition and religious conversion we’d all be Catholics. Spectacular cathedrals, with priceless statuary and art, stained glass – miracles of design in every way, a feast for the eye everywhere you look. And we’re supposed to be impressed with Miscavige’s pissant “Build’em and they’ll come” Ideal Orgs? Please! To 10X their memberhship, maybe Pope Francis should disseminate ecclesiastical Fly Throughs of the Sistine Chapel?
The only thing stopping Carl from going up the bridge is command intention from one Deutsche Miscavige.
To: MostEthicalPimp
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: calling me ‘ Deutsche’
For your information, I am not a damn German! I am a badass Polack from Philly who has become the almighty Exalted Ruler of Teegeeack as well as the entire MEST Universe! You’re the one who’s probably a damn kraut!
Oops! Sorry! I forgot!
ML
Dave.
🙂 Yes, please keep in mind, Alcoboy, that the “ML” or “Much love” complimentary close to any written communication is VERY important in Scientology, especially after having imparted extremely bad news, or any type of threatening comm.
ML,
Aqua.
You mean like the above memo from the Dwarfenfuhrer?
Yes, Alco 🙂
Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas
Well I never! Such language, and in front of the kids too!
I came, I saw & I conquered? I took a shot.
Not a bad guess but that’s veni,vidi,vici
This is vanity, vanity all is vanity.
Good call. It’s a paraphrase from Ecclesiastes (Latin Vulgate), as an example of religion claiming that material things and earthly pursuits are nothing, and the heaven to come is everything. I was struck by today’s vignette as a fine example of this calling.
I first became familiar with the concept in studying art. Vanitas is a genre of Dutch painting from around 400 years ago, characterized by still lifes representing earthly things such as furnishings, fabrics, books, flowers, globes and musical instruments, and also a skull, representing death. This is a reminder that all that other stuff is transitory, and life after death is eternal. The most famous example is “The Ambassadors,” by Holbein the Younger, in 1533. if you’re in London, you must visit the National Gallery and see this painting. The skull is in the foreground, but in an extremely skewed perspective, so that you have to look from the bottom right corner of the painting to see it come into focus.
The oldest con in the world. “Forget about this life. Don’t worry about being poor or overworked or underpaid. Give us ALL your money/time/effort NOW because God loves you and your blessed reward will be with Him in heaven and life everlasting.” Or some variation of the above. Its a great way to make slaves because it works. Legions of people have fallen for this concept, and still do.
That’s my girl, straight to the point!
“Yes, I would be very happy to give you directions on how to find the bathroom……..”
The essence of the Scientology trap that I fell into in a few pictures, well done. It took me seventeen years and a lot of money to see that Hubbard was a bird brain.
Ditto that George. Things are much better these days.
BTW, If El Con was a bird brain, what does that make Davey Poo?
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To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: calling me Davey Poo
Davey poo? What absolute arrogance! Nobody calls me Davey Poo and gets away with it! Not even God!
Oh, wait. That’s me.
ML
Dave
That’s an insult to all birds.
Gives pecking order a bad name it does.
Which begs the question all $cientologists are asking these days:
Do birds shit?
I thought it was, Do Fish Shit.
Naw, wrong angle you two – Do fish fuck in whisky? Or, are birds members of the mile high club?
Let’s spice it up a little hey?
Oooooohhhhh! That is so out-tech!
Cool!
DM reminds me of a sort of lizard. Definitely something in the reptile family. Couple that with his face with that artificially plummy voice and that leaves only a certain prominent political person who makes my flesh creep equally as much.
I don’t think Dave is a vertibrate Aqua. If he was he’d have a spine instead of all that slimy goo he calls a mest body.
Yo Dave,
That explains Your 4′-13″ stature good buddy. That’s all the higher shit can be stacked without falling on itself. Speakin’ of falling on yerself, you don’t really have that far to go. Just sayin Dave.
BTW, hows yer SuMP lookin these days. Big announcement comin up? You and Tommy gonna grin the place up?
Nothing ever changes. Nothing CAN, which is a reason the cult is withering on the vine after being exposed to far too bright light. It is FORBIDDEN to change, to adapt, or to even consider other options than what has demonstrably been failing for decades.
For general info “Scientology: a Student’s Descent” is replaying on Investigation Discovery on Sunday March 11, at Noon. Every once in awhile, when “Scientology TV threatens to actualize, I search for Scientology, and that’s what came up this morning on FIOS in the Philly area. Davey boy’s racket doesn’t stand a chance in his hometown market. (Not that I believe he actually wants the cult to flourish and prosper; As long as the RCS remains as tiny as hisself, the Law and IRS won’t have any interest in his scrawney backside, so he’s safe to continue disappearing Shelly and boning Lou. IF that’s what he’s doing. As screwed up as he’s been, installing a separate bed from the one he presumably shared with Shelly at one time, and hIs preoccupation with SCOHB and TC, I SUSPECT that he’s not got a strong urge toward normal, everyday ( or rather every-night) sex.Instead, he gets most of his jollies by screwing others over.
!SNARK!
According to the Bunker this morning scamatology tv is imminent. It will be at the ideal orgs only. Nothing like getting home from hard day’s work and having to ready again to go out, drive a while, and watch bad tv while being hit up for money.
Endless possibilities here….just THINK about it……THE COB sends out a mandate that forces members to actually watch the “show”…..and then….wham ban thank you ma’am……
HYPNOSIS through your own home TV Screen……i.e “You WILL donate more money”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8
Whatever it is (I noticed, they avoid giving it a name – perhaps starting to distance themselves from the idea that it will really be the promise full-blown “Scientology TV”) it will be shown in the orgs – but I’ve seen nothing to indicate that it will be only in the orgs. Members were lead to expect it would reach “billions,” and while I expect that, typically, Scientology will deliver less than promised, I think they will have do something impressive-seeming like streaming video content from a new SuMP website. It’s going to be very interesting to see how this develops.
What ex hasn’t heard that EXACT sales pitch? And more than once. Just alternate the gloom & doom with a little love bombing and there you go. Bring in other staff as necessary for the pile on and you have what Carl describes as “…why do I always feel like I’ve just been x-rayed and searched after talking with Staff?” After a while it’s more like “why do I always feel like I’m always getting the requisite anal probe like when being abducted by aliens?”
Add into the equation unEthical Officers (preferrably aged 15 to 18) to question the behavior of adults in their pursuit of eternity from the front porch of your local cherch and you have a complete mindfuck resulting in a publics willingness to ‘Pay for Relief’!
Fear of the imposition of ethics conditions or worse ……….. fear of being declared if you don’t go along with the ‘officers’ evaluation of your scene generates a lot of cash for dear old Dave.
Public in that condition usually are so tight that it is difficult for the aliens to get the probe into the proper orifice!
Yo Dave,
How is Your orifice today good buddy?
Calm, calm. Stay the course. The end is near. Its going to happen. If we seize the beauty of each day and moment, it will happen faster.
But…but, I WANT IT NOW!!!
Ms B,
I left (early 80s) and did not get the $$$$$$ pitch. What I did get was the ‘join the SEA ORG’ pitch. They never accepted my requirement that I go out for pizza on Friday night and Sundays for a bike ride up the coast. Just a silly diddeltant.
Other fish to fry!
For shame, Jim, ya DB, you 🙂
PS: Well done!