Let me get this “clear”…You are a “Big Being” if you contribute big money to the IAS and a “Small Being” for contributing little or nothing to the IAS. I’ll have to see the LRH reference on this…
Big Being was just a proto-status invented arbitrarily by LRH. IT DOESNT MEAN SHIT. Definitely not worth $75,000 either. Donating money is good for the rich, the old, and philanthropists, not working middle class families. Stablize that data. Lol.
Let me see if I have this right…You’re a big being if you donate big and a small being if you donate small or not at all. Just to be “clear,” is there an LRH reference on this?
Early in Peter Bonyai’s book Money, Power, Servitude he finds his next posting is in Munich. It’s filled with Euro versions of the people RB describes.
His berth was a 4-story building, one shared kitchen, 5-6 bedsits, and one bathroom per floor. One housemate was a broke middle age man who ran out of money without reaching Clear; he had spent his inheritance and sold his house to buy auditing. He also was former staff, fired for some minor background event, and was reduced to living in one room . Others were in similar impoverished states like an OT 3 woman who had to rent rooms in her huge house because all the money went to CoS, including her husband paying to redo Purif to Clear for the third time. Most of the staff were supported by family and spouses. The Munich trainees were like a huge used car lot of worn out Scientologist has-beens, all made poor by spending on Scientology.
Still, Peter soldiered on, full of Hubbard-think at the time.
Congratulations to Annie and Henry. Getting declared is the best thing that ever happened to them. The abomination of scientology off their backs will be such a beautiful liberation for them.
I never was one to get suckered into donating for every church scheme that came along, although I did drop a lot on services, and just enough to the IAS to bribe my way onto whatever next service I wanted to do.
I developed, at that time, quite a convincing set of facial expressions, for use at the reg desks, such as the “I’m maxed out” pained look, etc.
As far as the church goes, I smile at my ability I had back then to explain away and justify the horrendous contradictions between what I wanted the church to be and the evidence of what it was that lay before my very eyes. I marvel at and admire the courage it took a few years later for me to finally bite the bullet and LOOK, and own up to what I was seeing and experiencing.
This month I commemorate the ten year anniversary of the beginning of my journey out of the church. During the way, I had a LOT of help, mostly from blog writers such as Mike Rinder, the early Marty Rathbun, Jeff Hawkins, and Alanzo, and many others.
It took me about 1-1/2 to 2 years of fairly regular reading and commenting to get to the point where I realized I was no longer a Scientologist. It is true that some on this path take longer, some take shorter. My path took a couple of years.
I consider that I have graduated Scientology. This allows me to keep the positive things I got while involved and move on out into the bigger broader world. I contend that this is one of the healthier ways for an ex-Scn to view their experience in the church.
I lost a few “friends” in my journey out, but also discovered that those who were my true friends did not disconnect. These people are diamond crusted gold to me, and indeed, most have also left the church.
My life is the best it has ever been. My career is at an all time high, with more income than ever, and my personal relationships are rich and rewarding.
Life is so sweet without the Church of Scientology’s attempts at control (read: suppression) over every aspect of my life.
I guess I could say, in my final answer to that question, “Yes, I want others to experience the gains I’ve achieved from leaving Scientology.”
It wasn’t really a single, over-the-top outrage. It was a combination of things:
•the Basics push;
•harsh treatment of my wife for the “crime” of not wanting to go into the org;
•IAS Regges thinking it was perfectly normal to show up at 9:00 pm on a weeknight, expecting not only to be let in the door, but to leave with a 10,000.00 check;
•new “pure donation” fundraising schemes springing up like mushrooms;
•the promotion of OT 7 using special briefings by Clive Rabey, wherein he represented OT7 as an onerous duty you HAD to do, with scant mention of successes and wins (wins are for pussies);
•seeing the erosion of the “purity” of LRH’s tech by those proclaiming KSW was in more than ever;
•recognition that most of the OT 7 and OT 8 people I’d met and particularly OT Committee members were the most boring, conservative, rote-thinking, unimaginative bunch of sad sacks I’d ever met;
•all of the above on top of my personal experiences with LRH where he didn’t seem so damned superhuman. Specifically, wearing prescription glasses and downing one hell of a lot of over-the-counter allergy and pain relief medicine.
I think the upside is that the cult is killing itself. They are doing more damage to themselves than any movie, book or TV series can do. Although I quite enjoy the movies, books and especially Scientology and the Aftermath!!
“But she refuses to be helped.”
Only someone who has been ‘helped’ by the ‘cherch’ can know how loaded that language is.
It’s like the button ‘help’ that LRH said was such a good ‘entry point’ and a universal button with people became this licence to and tool for mass manipulation.
I remember many financial bad decisions while in. It was all about help. You help this guy with a loan. You let me help you buy your next service, you help the cherch with this donation.
Help, help, help. Kinda makes it hard to accept any once you’re out.
This is great stuff RB. Thank you for another striping of false ideas, and releasing of old hurts.
This helps me!!!!
The fact that Dave isn’t up in Ron’s house at Gold Base partying with strippers and blow all the time just shows how crappy of a bazillionaire he is. Dude, go to Vegas, go to the World Series, go do something human.
We have all arrived to the world through a mother a father made it into. Fathers making it more to the left create leftists and fathers making more to the right create rightists. Fathers keeping it straight makes the world straight. If the parents of LRH had made it straight members in $cn had also made it straight.
Yup. An eternity sold for money is a sold ocean for some fish or a sold forest for some trees. The ones giving away the eternity for free gets it back for free.
Getting a discount to move up in status to give the cult money for big empty buildings and to contribute to the Dictator of Scientology’s – Slappy Miscavige’s – slush fund so he can live his luxury lifestyle while the sea org slaves and staff slaves work for free.
Bankruptcy and Divorce are the VFP of Scientology.
I see nothing but divorces each year with the tiny group left in the Morgue I used to attend.
Financial ruin is so common – the Scientologists have win delcaring Bankruptcy and losing everything they own.
I loved this one…. “Annie has become a hinderance to Henry’s spritual well being” – that is rich!
So spot on RB…. that is exactly what it is like in Scientology.
Oh, it be’s happenin’, sugar. That’s how the cult rolls. Enjoy your goldenrod and best wishes on your upcoming divorce.
This tragedy brought to you by the most ethical people on Earth and illustrated brilliantly by our wonderful RB.
You are excused Valerie for being one of the ‘little beings’ who have not yet cognited on the value of debt. It is the American way you know and America’s fastest growing prison of belief supports their members efforts to attain the exalted level of financial desperation.
Again @ Valerie, Newcomer, inspired by what you each posted I give you the IAS Song, from now on to be sung at all cult events by Jeff and Kelly Pomerantz.
Well, we’re movin’ on up
With so much pride
To our Dee-Luxe Cult Status in the Sky
Moo-hoovin’ on up
Been a rough ride
We finally got a piece of Cult Pie.
Kids don’t go off to college
Cash don’t pay any bill
Three times Chapter Eleven
Just to get up this hill
Ain’t got a pot we can piss in
Bankrupt’s where we’s at
As long as we live
We’ll always be broke
There ain’t nuthin’ wrong with that.
Oh, we’re movin’ on up
With so much pride
To our next IAS Status Oh So High
Moo-hoovin’ on up
Been a rough ride
We finally got a piece of Cult Pie.
Yeah, we’re movin’ on up
“What a hard ride
To our next IAS Status” so we sigh,
Still we’re movin’ on up
With so much pride!
Dave’s FINALLY gonna wave and say, “Hi”.
Valerie – Congratulations on BEING SP! It means you are sane.
I am SP too because I was not going to be the effect of “being broke” and in deep debt whilst Scientology got all of my money and put me into deep debt and never shows anyone where the money goes.
I am proud to be SP.
I indicates I have some common sense left in my mind.
If you realize you are mocking up your reactive mind but can stop it (the secretive Clear Cog)
you have lost all common sense and will be operating on Scientologist circuits.
A=A=A
Broke = winning = Spiritually Free = No Mest to deal with = Good = spiritual = ethical = moral = I am proud to be a Scientologist – look at all of those Idle Morgues around the Globe just ready for our epic expansion!
Divorced = Getting rid of anyone who is in the way of my spiritual growth = the loved ones in my life are SP’s on the whole track …. they are low toned and SP for not wanting me to go into deep debt = financial ruin is such a “win” = it is all so very theta = I am proud to be a Scientologist!
OH man, my stomach aches remembering those days. Money, money, money and more money…pressuring the public for more more more. Ugh. But RB nailed it again.
” …..but people don’t get declared because they don’t want to donate money!”
Perhaps, but when one spouse does and the other does not, that is when they go to work using the ‘divide and conquer’ basics of life principle which $cientology has the only tech on the planet to handle ….. of course. The spouse having reservations is the ‘little being’ and the one with the kool aide flask of debt is the BIG BEING!
Phase two is to get the big being to do ‘THE RIGHT THING’ and make the dono but not reveal it to the spouse (little being) in order to keep the peace. This is of course considered ‘ETHICAL BEHAVIOR’ because you would be helping the little being from becoming ‘enturbulated’ ……… as they say in CULT vernacular ………….. while at the same time helping to salvage all mankind in this sector of the universe.
Then ………. when little being finds out ………. the declare is written on all of the horrible things the little being said and did about the actions of the big being cult devotee (and everyone else connected to the corrupt organization.)
In my case, their was plenty of juicy info and even more in the form of mouthy tirades as I grew increasingly incredulous that the obvious unethical behavior was being defended. Finally, it became obvious that I was playing into their hand (if you don’t know who the sucker is at the table …. it is you) and I resigned myself that I would not break the strangle hold on the cults prison of belief and I left.
That is when I discovered the real Oh Tea Ate ………….. Truth Revealed.
Yo Dave,
Smile good buddy, you still have a few folks at Your kool aide stand to torture and mistreat. BTW, how were those stats yesterday? Did ya have to falsify anything? Of course not Dave, I KNOW you of all the crapass big beings would never stoop to such levels.
DAVE: Damn it Lou, why is that motherfucking Newcomer still posting on Rinder’s blog? And for that matter, why is the blog still operational? I told you to tell the lawyers to tell the PIs to pay those hackers to shut him down. Come to think of it, why is Google still displaying all those squirrel Scientology sites on their search results? Once a again, I’ve got to do everything myself. Do you even know how hard I work?
LOU: Yes sir.
DAVE: You’re useless. Just pour me a Scotch and give me a full body massage with benefits.
No bout a doubt it Dave, that asshole Newcomer has got to be stopped. And Lou should be able to handle yer body massage in fairly short order Dave (no pun intended of course) since that is a fairly small job.
Now lets discuss the size of yer beingness Dave! What is Lou gonna say about dat?
“OMG, where is yer little bastard thingy Dave?”
Better yet Dave, give yerself yer own fucking massage! And pour yerself a scotch if ya can find it (not the scotch Dave!)
To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: above comments
Yes, by all means you need to be stopped! You and all the other SPs on this blog! Especially that Alcoboy who had the audacity to post that ‘OOH AAHH OOH AAHH ‘ garbage in a past comment! The size of my ‘beingness’ is none of anybody’s business!
You have been warned!
ML
Dave.
To: David Miscavige COB RTC
From: Alcoboy
Re: Ooh Aahh, Ooh Aahh.
Oh, Daveyyyyyyyyyy!
How are things with you and Ana?
Most ethical being in the universe? What a laugh!
Ooh Aahh! Ooh Aahh!
“Moving up in status” and “becoming a humanitarian” reminds me of A Christmas Story – where Ralphie becomes a member of Little Orphan Annie’s Secret Circle, and is then entitled to all the honors and benefits occurring thereto.
Except Ralph at least got a decoder ring, all these Humanitarians are getting is a mountain of debt and a round of applause from the clapping seals at the next Pirate Dinner ™
love the :
Pirate Dinner ™
Scieoland would probably trademark that phrase, if only to sue should any other organization attempt to use their favorite fund raiser theme.
However, any respectable fund raising event would see immediately how insipid a pirate themed fund raiser would be.
As the finances of the mOrgs spiral into the dust, this will be happening, if it is not already happening. Financial ‘shenanigans’ are a hallmark of $cientology.
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And Miscavige is talking backwards
Usurping Hubbard’s tek
Remember what the dormouse said
Keep your head, keep your head
Spot On RB! Vampire cult will suck the life out of anyone stupid enough to allow it. Knew a member who’d been financially raped so horribly they lost the house, job, retirement savings and wound up destitute and living in a car. So much wrong with it all it would fill a book.
Let me get this “clear”…You are a “Big Being” if you contribute big money to the IAS and a “Small Being” for contributing little or nothing to the IAS. I’ll have to see the LRH reference on this…
Big Being was just a proto-status invented arbitrarily by LRH. IT DOESNT MEAN SHIT. Definitely not worth $75,000 either. Donating money is good for the rich, the old, and philanthropists, not working middle class families. Stablize that data. Lol.
“Keep your head, keep your head”
I thought I heard Grace say, “Feed your your head”
But I was stoned at the time so I really don’t remember.
Poetic license.
Let me see if I have this right…You’re a big being if you donate big and a small being if you donate small or not at all. Just to be “clear,” is there an LRH reference on this?
Early in Peter Bonyai’s book Money, Power, Servitude he finds his next posting is in Munich. It’s filled with Euro versions of the people RB describes.
His berth was a 4-story building, one shared kitchen, 5-6 bedsits, and one bathroom per floor. One housemate was a broke middle age man who ran out of money without reaching Clear; he had spent his inheritance and sold his house to buy auditing. He also was former staff, fired for some minor background event, and was reduced to living in one room . Others were in similar impoverished states like an OT 3 woman who had to rent rooms in her huge house because all the money went to CoS, including her husband paying to redo Purif to Clear for the third time. Most of the staff were supported by family and spouses. The Munich trainees were like a huge used car lot of worn out Scientologist has-beens, all made poor by spending on Scientology.
Still, Peter soldiered on, full of Hubbard-think at the time.
Congratulations to Annie and Henry. Getting declared is the best thing that ever happened to them. The abomination of scientology off their backs will be such a beautiful liberation for them.
I never was one to get suckered into donating for every church scheme that came along, although I did drop a lot on services, and just enough to the IAS to bribe my way onto whatever next service I wanted to do.
I developed, at that time, quite a convincing set of facial expressions, for use at the reg desks, such as the “I’m maxed out” pained look, etc.
As far as the church goes, I smile at my ability I had back then to explain away and justify the horrendous contradictions between what I wanted the church to be and the evidence of what it was that lay before my very eyes. I marvel at and admire the courage it took a few years later for me to finally bite the bullet and LOOK, and own up to what I was seeing and experiencing.
This month I commemorate the ten year anniversary of the beginning of my journey out of the church. During the way, I had a LOT of help, mostly from blog writers such as Mike Rinder, the early Marty Rathbun, Jeff Hawkins, and Alanzo, and many others.
It took me about 1-1/2 to 2 years of fairly regular reading and commenting to get to the point where I realized I was no longer a Scientologist. It is true that some on this path take longer, some take shorter. My path took a couple of years.
I consider that I have graduated Scientology. This allows me to keep the positive things I got while involved and move on out into the bigger broader world. I contend that this is one of the healthier ways for an ex-Scn to view their experience in the church.
I lost a few “friends” in my journey out, but also discovered that those who were my true friends did not disconnect. These people are diamond crusted gold to me, and indeed, most have also left the church.
My life is the best it has ever been. My career is at an all time high, with more income than ever, and my personal relationships are rich and rewarding.
Life is so sweet without the Church of Scientology’s attempts at control (read: suppression) over every aspect of my life.
I guess I could say, in my final answer to that question, “Yes, I want others to experience the gains I’ve achieved from leaving Scientology.”
Congrats on your 10yr out of Scientology Anniversary If you don’t mind my asking what was the incident that finally made you LOOK?
It wasn’t really a single, over-the-top outrage. It was a combination of things:
•the Basics push;
•harsh treatment of my wife for the “crime” of not wanting to go into the org;
•IAS Regges thinking it was perfectly normal to show up at 9:00 pm on a weeknight, expecting not only to be let in the door, but to leave with a 10,000.00 check;
•new “pure donation” fundraising schemes springing up like mushrooms;
•the promotion of OT 7 using special briefings by Clive Rabey, wherein he represented OT7 as an onerous duty you HAD to do, with scant mention of successes and wins (wins are for pussies);
•seeing the erosion of the “purity” of LRH’s tech by those proclaiming KSW was in more than ever;
•recognition that most of the OT 7 and OT 8 people I’d met and particularly OT Committee members were the most boring, conservative, rote-thinking, unimaginative bunch of sad sacks I’d ever met;
•all of the above on top of my personal experiences with LRH where he didn’t seem so damned superhuman. Specifically, wearing prescription glasses and downing one hell of a lot of over-the-counter allergy and pain relief medicine.
I could go on…
I relived my life through your reasons for leaving, John Doe. Well said! Congrats on 10 years awake.
Congratulations on being out John! Very happy for you. Just reading your reasons was so stressful and painful.
I think the upside is that the cult is killing itself. They are doing more damage to themselves than any movie, book or TV series can do. Although I quite enjoy the movies, books and especially Scientology and the Aftermath!!
Thanks RB for this weeks cartoon.
Only in Scamontology can you buy false statuses on sale.
“But she refuses to be helped.”
Only someone who has been ‘helped’ by the ‘cherch’ can know how loaded that language is.
It’s like the button ‘help’ that LRH said was such a good ‘entry point’ and a universal button with people became this licence to and tool for mass manipulation.
I remember many financial bad decisions while in. It was all about help. You help this guy with a loan. You let me help you buy your next service, you help the cherch with this donation.
Help, help, help. Kinda makes it hard to accept any once you’re out.
This is great stuff RB. Thank you for another striping of false ideas, and releasing of old hurts.
This helps me!!!!
The fact that Dave isn’t up in Ron’s house at Gold Base partying with strippers and blow all the time just shows how crappy of a bazillionaire he is. Dude, go to Vegas, go to the World Series, go do something human.
We have all arrived to the world through a mother a father made it into. Fathers making it more to the left create leftists and fathers making more to the right create rightists. Fathers keeping it straight makes the world straight. If the parents of LRH had made it straight members in $cn had also made it straight.
That explains the Genetic Entity AND the Bank to a tee!
Yup. An eternity sold for money is a sold ocean for some fish or a sold forest for some trees. The ones giving away the eternity for free gets it back for free.
LOL – OMG! or should I say OMX! (Oh My Xenu)
That is hysterical RB!
Getting a discount to move up in status to give the cult money for big empty buildings and to contribute to the Dictator of Scientology’s – Slappy Miscavige’s – slush fund so he can live his luxury lifestyle while the sea org slaves and staff slaves work for free.
Bankruptcy and Divorce are the VFP of Scientology.
I see nothing but divorces each year with the tiny group left in the Morgue I used to attend.
Financial ruin is so common – the Scientologists have win delcaring Bankruptcy and losing everything they own.
I loved this one…. “Annie has become a hinderance to Henry’s spritual well being” – that is rich!
So spot on RB…. that is exactly what it is like in Scientology.
Oh, it be’s happenin’, sugar. That’s how the cult rolls. Enjoy your goldenrod and best wishes on your upcoming divorce.
This tragedy brought to you by the most ethical people on Earth and illustrated brilliantly by our wonderful RB.
I must be an SP because I have a hard time figuring out how refusing to go bankrupt is a “hindrance to my spiritual freedom”.
I’ll take that.
You are excused Valerie for being one of the ‘little beings’ who have not yet cognited on the value of debt. It is the American way you know and America’s fastest growing prison of belief supports their members efforts to attain the exalted level of financial desperation.
And I shall remain uncognited until death.
LOL @ Valerie and Newcomer!
Again @ Valerie, Newcomer, inspired by what you each posted I give you the IAS Song, from now on to be sung at all cult events by Jeff and Kelly Pomerantz.
Well, we’re movin’ on up
With so much pride
To our Dee-Luxe Cult Status in the Sky
Moo-hoovin’ on up
Been a rough ride
We finally got a piece of Cult Pie.
Kids don’t go off to college
Cash don’t pay any bill
Three times Chapter Eleven
Just to get up this hill
Ain’t got a pot we can piss in
Bankrupt’s where we’s at
As long as we live
We’ll always be broke
There ain’t nuthin’ wrong with that.
Oh, we’re movin’ on up
With so much pride
To our next IAS Status Oh So High
Moo-hoovin’ on up
Been a rough ride
We finally got a piece of Cult Pie.
Love it Aqua! ☺
Thanks, Ann 🙂
Changing it a little:
Yeah, we’re movin’ on up
“What a hard ride
To our next IAS Status” so we sigh,
Still we’re movin’ on up
With so much pride!
Dave’s FINALLY gonna wave and say, “Hi”.
Valerie – Congratulations on BEING SP! It means you are sane.
I am SP too because I was not going to be the effect of “being broke” and in deep debt whilst Scientology got all of my money and put me into deep debt and never shows anyone where the money goes.
I am proud to be SP.
I indicates I have some common sense left in my mind.
If you realize you are mocking up your reactive mind but can stop it (the secretive Clear Cog)
you have lost all common sense and will be operating on Scientologist circuits.
A=A=A
Broke = winning = Spiritually Free = No Mest to deal with = Good = spiritual = ethical = moral = I am proud to be a Scientologist – look at all of those Idle Morgues around the Globe just ready for our epic expansion!
Divorced = Getting rid of anyone who is in the way of my spiritual growth = the loved ones in my life are SP’s on the whole track …. they are low toned and SP for not wanting me to go into deep debt = financial ruin is such a “win” = it is all so very theta = I am proud to be a Scientologist!
OH man, my stomach aches remembering those days. Money, money, money and more money…pressuring the public for more more more. Ugh. But RB nailed it again.
My stomach hurts imagining it rosemarie! ?
Bingo RB!
” …..but people don’t get declared because they don’t want to donate money!”
Perhaps, but when one spouse does and the other does not, that is when they go to work using the ‘divide and conquer’ basics of life principle which $cientology has the only tech on the planet to handle ….. of course. The spouse having reservations is the ‘little being’ and the one with the kool aide flask of debt is the BIG BEING!
Phase two is to get the big being to do ‘THE RIGHT THING’ and make the dono but not reveal it to the spouse (little being) in order to keep the peace. This is of course considered ‘ETHICAL BEHAVIOR’ because you would be helping the little being from becoming ‘enturbulated’ ……… as they say in CULT vernacular ………….. while at the same time helping to salvage all mankind in this sector of the universe.
Then ………. when little being finds out ………. the declare is written on all of the horrible things the little being said and did about the actions of the big being cult devotee (and everyone else connected to the corrupt organization.)
In my case, their was plenty of juicy info and even more in the form of mouthy tirades as I grew increasingly incredulous that the obvious unethical behavior was being defended. Finally, it became obvious that I was playing into their hand (if you don’t know who the sucker is at the table …. it is you) and I resigned myself that I would not break the strangle hold on the cults prison of belief and I left.
That is when I discovered the real Oh Tea Ate ………….. Truth Revealed.
Yo Dave,
Smile good buddy, you still have a few folks at Your kool aide stand to torture and mistreat. BTW, how were those stats yesterday? Did ya have to falsify anything? Of course not Dave, I KNOW you of all the crapass big beings would never stoop to such levels.
DAVE: Damn it Lou, why is that motherfucking Newcomer still posting on Rinder’s blog? And for that matter, why is the blog still operational? I told you to tell the lawyers to tell the PIs to pay those hackers to shut him down. Come to think of it, why is Google still displaying all those squirrel Scientology sites on their search results? Once a again, I’ve got to do everything myself. Do you even know how hard I work?
LOU: Yes sir.
DAVE: You’re useless. Just pour me a Scotch and give me a full body massage with benefits.
?
No bout a doubt it Dave, that asshole Newcomer has got to be stopped. And Lou should be able to handle yer body massage in fairly short order Dave (no pun intended of course) since that is a fairly small job.
Now lets discuss the size of yer beingness Dave! What is Lou gonna say about dat?
“OMG, where is yer little bastard thingy Dave?”
Better yet Dave, give yerself yer own fucking massage! And pour yerself a scotch if ya can find it (not the scotch Dave!)
To: Newcomer
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: above comments
Yes, by all means you need to be stopped! You and all the other SPs on this blog! Especially that Alcoboy who had the audacity to post that ‘OOH AAHH OOH AAHH ‘ garbage in a past comment! The size of my ‘beingness’ is none of anybody’s business!
You have been warned!
ML
Dave.
To: David Miscavige COB RTC
From: Alcoboy
Re: Ooh Aahh, Ooh Aahh.
Oh, Daveyyyyyyyyyy!
How are things with you and Ana?
Most ethical being in the universe? What a laugh!
Ooh Aahh! Ooh Aahh!
No Love At All
Alcoboy.
Just came back to re-Friday’s posts. Very cool that you had the guts to do what you did, Newcomer. Just saying.
The more declares the better as people can leave that inhumane cult and avoid further damage to family and finances…and themselves, of course.
Yes indeed. The declare may solve the temporary problem, but then you have one less member. Every time. One or two less. Stats anyone?
This is like cutting off your foot to stop an itch. Yes, the itch is gone, but you’re not coming back intact.
By the way, RB – I miss Tom Cruise Guy! I hope we get to hear from him again on a future episode! Truly hilarious!
Tom Cruise Guy blew! Maybe RB will do an episode on how he’s doing and all the entheta he is finding out to be the truth.
Me too — we need to know what happened next!
(Yes, I may be irrationally invested in what happens to Tom Cruise Guy, it’s fine)
“Moving up in status” and “becoming a humanitarian” reminds me of A Christmas Story – where Ralphie becomes a member of Little Orphan Annie’s Secret Circle, and is then entitled to all the honors and benefits occurring thereto.
Except Ralph at least got a decoder ring, all these Humanitarians are getting is a mountain of debt and a round of applause from the clapping seals at the next Pirate Dinner ™
love the :
Pirate Dinner ™
Scieoland would probably trademark that phrase, if only to sue should any other organization attempt to use their favorite fund raiser theme.
However, any respectable fund raising event would see immediately how insipid a pirate themed fund raiser would be.
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I saw some of the TV series Chicago last night. Are Jason Beghe and Mark Rathbun still best friends?
As the finances of the mOrgs spiral into the dust, this will be happening, if it is not already happening. Financial ‘shenanigans’ are a hallmark of $cientology.
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And Miscavige is talking backwards
Usurping Hubbard’s tek
Remember what the dormouse said
Keep your head, keep your head
Dear Alice, it’s time to blow.
Spot On RB! Vampire cult will suck the life out of anyone stupid enough to allow it. Knew a member who’d been financially raped so horribly they lost the house, job, retirement savings and wound up destitute and living in a car. So much wrong with it all it would fill a book.
The CoS is nothing but a giant juicer and its members plump little fruits to be squeezed until nothing remains but the pulp!