I particularly liked the way you explained why the COS should not be granted tax exempt status. I can’t think of anything you missed. You rightly said that some one with the right stuff will come along and get the job done. It is only a matter of time. It needs to be done.
When you go to social services, social services gives you a list of the local churches to go to get food vouchers.
The CO$ is not on their list of charitable organizations.
The CO$ defiles and perverts the idea of a church.
A couple of yrs ago, I met a nun and we started talking and decided to go for coffee. We talked about personal problems. I then mentioned scientology. She began to boil over on the spot, looked at me as if I had horns and three eyes, and took off. So much for the reputation of the COS.
The bonafide churches are the only real stable data that is holding the world together as well as it is.
Who is the lady who said she was an auditor?
If you know, please send me her name and email address, to: [email protected]
Mike you are an amazingly articulate person and gifted teacher…I’ve listened to you quite a bit and I just finished listening to the Q&A section and learned a lot. Just wanted to clarify one thing when you mentioned that reference you made about “Mormons on a train to a planet of 400k people saved” isn’t a Mormon belief, it is actually a belief of the jehovahs witnesses. Anyway I applaud your courage and your integrity!
Thanks Melissa. It was Heber who told me about the train to Kolob after the Armageddon. I just looked it up and see there are only 144,000 supposed to go to heaven (Kolob is where God resides). Maybe the train part was a bit mixed up and my number was definitely wrong. But he was raised in a polygamist Mormon family, so maybe their beliefs were a bit away from mainstream LDS. Thanks for your kind words, and I appreciate it when people point out inaccuracies as I like to be accurate and if nobody says anything I continue to be ignorant…
Regraded Being strip rings so painfully true, as usual. It seems like each of these strips is inspired by someone in real life, like the girl whose father ran away from her (I forget her name) when she saw him on the sidewalk, and the strip about the child worker (I think based on Jenna Miscavige Hill), they all seem to be telling the stories of real people. Thanks for giving us a look at the situation from another perspective, the Regraded Being strips make me laugh and cry at the same time. Kudos to RB and Mike Rinder. – T.J.
OK here’s my OT Postulate. I postulate that Mike Rinder and Sara Goldberg are gonna do an awesome Q&A after a showing at the Muvico Palm Harbor 10 7pm showing of Going Clear and no amount of David Miscavige’s machinations will be able to stop them.
When it happens, I postulate OSD will buy me a beer to celebrate – oh well, I probably won’t get to drink it cuz he’ll just drink it for me rather than send it the 900 or so miles my direction but, hey, that’s his faulty postulate, not mine.
Gosh, Valerie! You know me so well! Of course I’d buy you that beer! Or, some very fine red wine! Your choice! And if you ever get out to the west coasts, you’re welcome in our home.
And, John? I think Valerie is way past OT one Zillion! She’s in her own dimension! She should start her own religion…..
Hi Thegman77, Like your post.RB makes me feel all emotions each Fri.A very special spirit. Yes getting kids and families out or never having them get in is so relevant and becomes more so with each passing day.? Ann.sorry my spacing went wild!
Hi Thegman77,These computers,it would not space right when I posted yet it came up correctly.There is OTness for all you lurkers out there!Laughter,Ann.
Thank you for speaking tonight Mike for all of those who can’t. And if one, just one, person walks out with the intent to ensure their co-worker or friend becomes more informed- even better.
I’m sure I speak for many when I say that these activities you do continue to keep you in a spotlight that can have uncomfortable, to say the lest, repercussions from certain persons. I hope you know that many value what you do and endure in the name of truth and education. My personal thanks to you and your family.
For all of you going to see ‘Going Clear’ tonight, have a spectacular time! I hope Mark Bunker is there to film the Q & A with Mike and Sarah. Wish I could attend, but, I’m about 3,000 miles away.
I would think Joe would get back in good standing quicker. My level of experience with the churck was pretty limited compared to others that post here but even I can relate to some of the examples above.
I used to live in Durham, NC and would drive to DC (FCDC) on the weekends. I was pressured into doing the purification rundown, I was only 27 and had never done any drugs. Me and another person did the rundown at my gym in Durham. As a member of the IAS I was supposed to get a 5% refund on all completed services. About a week into the rundown I got a call from Steve Lower saying I was only getting half of that amount now. It wasn’t a big deal to me but I did mention something about it to the person who was supposed to be supervising the rundown. I also questioned a couple other things about the how the puruf was being run which didn’t seem right to me.
I didn’t know much about security checks at the time, but the next time I went to FCDC I was interrogated for about two hours. I was asked questions like “Have you ever had a negative thought about LRH?”. ” Do you know another technology that works?”
Hi Doug Sprinkle,Thank you so much for sharing your story.Oh yes those security checks and interrogation checks! They come out to bite you when you least expect it! So young and when first in Sea Org,I never expected some years later to be crushed under the hamster wheel weight of those questions! Always,Ann.
Hi Mike and RB, A great event to- night Mike,always 100% behind the force that you and Sara will generate.And I do not mean Star Wars smile.RB,your Fri strip is so so good.May you continue to expose this cult with your unique astounding talent!Pure Love to All,Ann.
I fear a panel has been omitted from today’s pictorial masterpiece. Doesn’t the last panel have the couple chucking it all and driving off to see “Going Clear” instead?
Without that uplifting last panel it is the saddest travesty of the miserably enslaved that could be imagined. Surely no one could really continue flagellating themselves, after the heartfelt confessions in the first four panels?
Hi Bruce – “Doesn’t the last panel have the couple chucking it all and driving off to see “Going Clear” instead?” Of course NOT. That’s the travesty, they’re too busy trying to figure out how to get their kids out of the Sea Org and therefore are willing to suffer through all the BS. That last statement said it all, love you RB.
On the money as always RB. Oh, those “OT phenomena” success stories. All part of the hook. Jeff did a great blog posting on these a while back on his Leaving Scientology blog.
Unfortunately for me, I soaked up every singe OT Phenomena Success Stories. Even though it only had initials and no first and last name, that didn’t matter to me. I took it all: Hook, line & sinker.
You seem like such a smart person! Those stories are hilarious and delusional.
I guess if you think you are part of the ‘most ethical group on the planet’ you would not think that these people were lying….but still…..
I was born with an overwhelming stuttering problem. It was so bad, that when I got to Junior High, it was the perfect storm of bad things: I was painfully thin, I had been hit in the mouth, accidentally, with a baseball bat in elementary school so we teeth are all messed up. I had a pigs nose. I was terrible in school sports, Now, I could surf, snow ski and water ski, but, school sports were very difficult for me. And then, there was my stuttering. My mom thought I had gotten over it so I didn’t tell her I hadn’t until right before her death in late ’84. We had a lot of oral presentations in junior high and I couldn’t do it if you put a gun to my head. My teachers wrote me off as a head case and my mom just thought I was a dumb shit kid. I had NO ONE to talk to. Most nights, during my 3 years in junior high, I would pray for death (this is when I thought someone might be listening). I’d wake up and have to do it all over again.
The cult told me that dianetics could cure my stuttering. I believed them. That’s how I got in, Chee Chalker.
“You seem like such a smart person.” Thank you for that, Chee. However, I don’t think I’m the sharpest nife, errrrrrr……ahhhhh….I mean knife in the chandelier. I mean, for the longest time I thought ping pong balls was a Chinese social disease! I just didn’t know! And many people say if I were anymore more stupid, they’d have to water me twice a week….
Just in the last month we’ve become acquainted with six people who have been under the radar and finally could not put up with the abuse any longer. Two of them are OT VIIIs. RB won’t run out of material for his scripts for a long time to come.
Cringeworthy laughter. See a bit of my own past mind-set in these and get embarrassed that I too wore the cloak of a dupe.
We were all duped for the time we were in. But, you’re 6 people getting out is tremendous news, LDW! Hope to hear more that are leaving! You’re posting this just might cause a lurker to re-think everything they’ve been told. Nice post!
Hi LWD, I am very glad you are out and I send love and light to your friends newly freed from the abuse etc.You and me both,not only did I wear that cloak,slept on cloak sheets and wrapped it around me like the false cocoon that it was! Always,Ann.
Well, I for one will certainly be with you in spirit, Mr. Mike Rinder.
Thank you for standing out in the open like this.
The world at large now has the opportunity to discover the nature of Scientology,
without having to rely on the massive and utterly decietful PR front by which this industrial corporation posing as a church strives to introduce itself. One billion know the name Scientology because of the talking head Tom Cruise. Let’s balance the scale, shall we? This film, Going Clear, is a most excellent advance in that endeavor.
Travel safely, my friend, until a billion times two eyes are upon you.
Had to comment, GREAT cartoon this week! Regraded Being, you rock. These always feel so honest and slip in so much sly humor… thanks! Thanks, Mike, for publishing them!
On the money again RB. Very good representation of OT silliness.
Sort of drives the point home of the hopelessness and self entrapment of the dwindling cycle of a scientologist.
Makes me visualise a ‘picturegraph’ of the Tone Scale of a Scientologist.
This is more like the conversation that Scientologist couples wish they could have but can never say to each other due to the raw paranoia caused by Disconnection. I’m seeing this strip with thought bubbles rather than speech ones, and the silence between them shows how the cult can manifest its mistrust into the tightest of relationships. The cult is run by and loaded full of sick fucks.
And, of course, good luck disseminating the truth tonight, both you and Sara, Mike. Let’s hope that we get some new people posting here over the weekend. And, of course the second, we’ll be looking for a report tomorrow on how it went.
Espi, sadly you are correct. Most would fear such disclosure to their spouse as most would turn them into the Scamology Gestapo. Look up the “Joberg sec check:
Have you ever committed any overts on a Scientology organization?
Do you have any overts on LRH?
Have you ever had unkind thoughts about LRH?
Do you have any overts on Mary Sue?
Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about Mary Sue?
Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about Scientologists?
Have you ever betrayed Scientology?
Do you know any secret plans against Scientology?
HAVE YOU EVER SLEPT WITH A MEMBER OF A RACE OF ANOTHER COLOUR?
“The cult is run by and loaded full of sick fucks.” Espi, really, that’s an insult to ‘sick fucks’ everywhere! You’re going to have to come up with a different category.
(fault me but i have a boatload of empathy for every otherwise would-be cognizant individual caught in the mind-manipulating machine of the 20th-21st centuries, actually, whether he be proud to be a believing Scn-gist or nay. I am perfectly comfortable, however, pinning all the psychological ill-health issues on one, solitary sick [____], the leader, letting the dead rest (one founder reluctantly), and may all the others not be condemned.)
*except perhaps on a case-by-case basis to be legally determined,
– as crimes are still crimes,
regardless of what color the banner you happen to parade your actions under.
And I don’t think one can get away with saying “I was brainwashed when I killed that girl.”
The Charles Manson ladies are still in prison, for example.
That car key story is one I’ve heard (and witnessed) a couple of times. The same with “making” a parking a space appear in a busy shopping mall – etc and blah. Sheesh. Delusions of grandeur. This thing about keeping one’s head low while the kids are still in runs close to the bone – there are MANY public hanging on for dear life because of their kids or family stuck in the Matrix – why??? I just don’t get it – they don’t see/speak to or spend time with them anyway – they are NOT a family dynamic – who are they fooling? I have a friend who hasn’t seen his son in YEARS and yet he won’t rock the boat (but reads all the blogs and is as disaffected as the next person) for fear of losing his “relationship” with his son who is 1000’s of kms away in a different continent and they haven’t spent a minute in each other’s company in more than a decade. The mind boggles. The KA is strong with some.
“The same with “making” a parking a space appear in a busy shopping mall ”
A long time a go an “OT” mentioned doing this. I asked him right back, “Where did you put the car that you displaced from the parking space?” Boy, you’ve never seen a more pained look. He blew out of the room faster than a cat on fire.
A really smart fake OT would have shot back…..I wasn’t postulating the other car moving, I was just postulating an empty space. The guy you mentioned was a novice fake OT. The professional fake OT’s are very cunning and diabolical. The rookie fake OT’s are easy to spot as you did above.
I make a comment that agrees with yours and yet Johnny you still need to make me wrong. You seem to be a bit touchy today Johnny boy. And thank you for your covert winking smiley face. It says so much about you.
Hey John and Potpie! I KNEW you were going to post the posts you posted! So there! Man, you talk about Super Powers! I’m even going to get up and get another cup of coffee! How’s that for being powerful!
Old Surfer Dudesays
I take a couple of spoon fulls of formulaic daily. It helps my comedic mind function better.
Potpie, it’s just a joke. Nothing more. Now regarding the “take a chill pill or smoke a joint or something,” I’m leaning towards the joint with a nice bottle of Merlot. I have a huge deck in my backyard with wind chimes and waterfalls. A joint and great red wine on my deck is paradise!
And, Potpie, you’re welcome in my home if you ever get out to southern Calif! Now, how’s that for hospitality?
Potpiesays
It was a joke? Sorry it is not easy to keep up with your exhaustive pool of knowledge. I surely will brush up on formulaic delivery….between innings of the baseball game I’m watching.
Mark Marcosays
Is that a ball-joint? Help me out, OSD, or I know… a tongue and groove.
Always admired a good tongue and groove joint.
Hope to see that deck one day. I live on the beach too up here in Northern Pacific sticks, we got all kinds of joints up here, too.
Hi Mark Marco,Now y’all have got me going,with OSD’s marvelous back deck with waterfalls and wind chimes I’m a sucker for those plus Merlo vino-heaven.Speaking of joints when we lived in Tallahassee Fla in a really funky subdivision where people built their own houses we did not but I went to an old juke joint in the middle of the woods.It was from the 40s and was like a concrete bunker.They had a little stage and some BBQ and yes the joints were smoking there! Laughter.Walter ushered me out pretty quickly when he realized the place was not very hospitable to us being there and some patrons were packing heat.But not before I had my first bite of sweet potato pie.Always Forever,Ann.
Old Surfer Dudesays
No, Mark. It’s the other kind of ‘joint.’ Haaaaaaaaaaa! There’s nothing like medical pot……
Hi Jose Chung, I do not pretend to understand geostationary orbit,is that like what a space station would be doing? Orbiting but returning to the same spot?You know I was terrible in science too,but nonetheless I liked your post a lot.I guess that is why I got into Scientology.The science of knowing that you know.Today that statement is not profound but idiotic to me.Always,Ann.
A geostationary space craft stays in one place over Earth
in low or high Space orbit. As the Earth rotates
these travel very precisely at the same rate.
Most are small like a breadbox, solar powered,in networks.
When Arthur Clarke conceived of the communications satellite he thought of a manned space station where the crew was constantly rebuilding and replacing vacuum tubes.
One could say the attendees of current events at the CO$ is a collection of the Gullible and the Spineless or both in one. After I finally got my classification as a “serious SP” from the CO$, I am finding spinelessness is a broader feature than one would think.
Many know the CO$ is bullocks, but they do not dare to speak up or follow their own path.
Those guys I wish they discover the joy of being oneself living a life in freedom.
I thoroughly enjoy this every Friday regraded being.
Is the bit about someone running their car into a tree in order to get out of a fundraising event and having to pay $100,000 to get back in good graces based on an actual event?
Hi Doug,
Lets say Bill and Joe commit the same ‘crime’ against the church and are sent to ethics where each must now work their way up the lower conditions. A crime can be anything from having evil thoughts against COB to proving to the church haw some of their actions go against their own policy. And yes, making a deliberate decision not to donate to any of the church’s various humanitarian activities can be considered a crime once it has been determined that your thoughts and actions are counter-intentioned to planerary clearing and the survival of mankind.
When Bill and Joe get to the part of making amends in order to get back in good standing, Bill gets some new people into the church. He also hands out a few WTH booklets and maybe donates a lot of his time helping out at his local org plus a dozen other actions to help the image to Scientology in his area. Joe decides to give a generous donation to the IAS and/or his Ideal Org.
Who do you think will get back in good standing with the church quicker?
You would be surprised at the variety of situations people will create in order to avoid having to go to a fundraiser.
RB, you’re my hero! This latest one really touched me. I hope, as the decline accelerates, more and more people will realize they’ve been had.
When I was on staff in Hawai’i, one of the staff members and I were talking. At one point he said, “As if I could be had.” I never forgot that line. He was absolutely sure scientology was the real thing and beside, he “couldn’t be had.” Not sure what ever happen to Mike DeCosin. Hell, I have no idea what happen to all the staff members at the mission. BTW, that mission is long gone. I guess it’s part of the trend……..
I do recall being regged for several $000’s after I said I’d go to an IAS “briefing” then not turning up. You could get away with telling the endless call in people that you were going just to get rid of them as long as it was at one of the bigger centres, if it was a local event you had to come up with a plausible excuse.
In the last couple of years I was in I just refused to go to most events, funny thing is there was nothing they could do to me, I think they realized that by that point I didn’t care any more.
Great cartoon this week, you wonder why they are still involved with the cult all the way up to the last paragraph, how many real people does this apply to I wonder?
So wish we could be there tonight, hopefully Bunker will be able to get it on video for the rest of us! Can’t wait to see you both bring down the house!
“Until we figure out a way to get our kids out of the Sea Org…”
As you read this week’s RB, you wonder why these people put up with it. Then you get to that line, and suddenly what was funny becomes sad and a desperate. The biggest mistake most Scientologists ever make is letting those vultures anywhere near their kids. It’s the regret that keeps on rebounding.
That’s the saddest thing about this entire situation! Having your kids in the SO when you’re not in line with the cult. Those poor SO kids! They have no idea what they’ve gotten themselves into.
If I had just one day of GreenPeace oceanside experience, I would frogman my way into the galley at about 3:00 am on the Apollo/Freewinds and attempt a kidnapping of the first boy or SO girl that says ok lets go!
Bet you a fat dollar I would have no trouble finding a taker and, boy, would I have a story to tell the grandkids (which I don’t have, never married).
Sorry OSD, if you were talking about one of your own, I sure do feel for all you guys, really.
Sucks.
Hi Mark! First, thanks for your very kind words. Second, I was out of the cult when I got married so no family members were involved. But there are so many others who are dealing with disconnection right now. A very sad situation indeed….
You know what it reminds me of? The first time I read Catch-22. You’ll laugh and laugh at all the absurd things happening in the story, and then you get to Chapter 39, The Eternal City, and all of a sudden it’s not funny anymore, and you wonder, in shock, what you’ve been laughing about.
I think all and every single one of them… have at least the fleeting thought of freedom,
as in “freedom from Scientology”,
only then to have it promptly crushed by the forceful hammer of policy,
or,
to have the thought exposed as a “crime” by the watchful eye of an e-Meter,
before even realizing that that one thought of breaking free was one thought that had escaped the mind-manipulation game that is, entirely, the game of Scientology, serious as it is.
Hi Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter, Thank you for this post.I agree with you. The only way I got up the courage and strength to blow,was work out a plan of escape well before the fact,close my eyes and jump off that cliff that was my security The Sea Org Cliff.Jump into the unknown and flee! It is terribly had to do but oh the sunshine when I finally saw the whole ruse that had been laid on me! Always,Ann.
I’m pretty sure that the staff and public at my local organization have been whittled down to the hard core who truly believe the scn lies, its going to take something really big to wake these people up. One excuse I hear time and time again – “I don’t need to look at the stories on the internet as I can see how much good GAG 2 is doing.”
Yep! Gag II is REALLY knocking ’em dead! Hitting it out of the park! Going where no thetan has gone before! Gag II is filling up all the Idle Morgues with hundreds of new people flooding in each week all because they heard of Going Clear. Yep, dat’s da ticket…
Sure in hell wish I could be there tonight, Mike. But I’ve at least got RB to fill my day. I like that more and more of his posts deal with those looking to get out with families intact.
Mike,
In the Q&A:
I particularly liked the way you explained why the COS should not be granted tax exempt status. I can’t think of anything you missed. You rightly said that some one with the right stuff will come along and get the job done. It is only a matter of time. It needs to be done.
When you go to social services, social services gives you a list of the local churches to go to get food vouchers.
The CO$ is not on their list of charitable organizations.
The CO$ defiles and perverts the idea of a church.
A couple of yrs ago, I met a nun and we started talking and decided to go for coffee. We talked about personal problems. I then mentioned scientology. She began to boil over on the spot, looked at me as if I had horns and three eyes, and took off. So much for the reputation of the COS.
The bonafide churches are the only real stable data that is holding the world together as well as it is.
Who is the lady who said she was an auditor?
If you know, please send me her name and email address, to: [email protected]
Dio
It is Gayle Smith, mother of Aaron Smith-Levin. Her story has been told on Tony Ortega’s blog…
Mike you are an amazingly articulate person and gifted teacher…I’ve listened to you quite a bit and I just finished listening to the Q&A section and learned a lot. Just wanted to clarify one thing when you mentioned that reference you made about “Mormons on a train to a planet of 400k people saved” isn’t a Mormon belief, it is actually a belief of the jehovahs witnesses. Anyway I applaud your courage and your integrity!
Thanks Melissa. It was Heber who told me about the train to Kolob after the Armageddon. I just looked it up and see there are only 144,000 supposed to go to heaven (Kolob is where God resides). Maybe the train part was a bit mixed up and my number was definitely wrong. But he was raised in a polygamist Mormon family, so maybe their beliefs were a bit away from mainstream LDS. Thanks for your kind words, and I appreciate it when people point out inaccuracies as I like to be accurate and if nobody says anything I continue to be ignorant…
Hi Mike,Yes I had now remembered that Heber was raised in a Mormon family.I still miss Yvonne,she was golden.Ann.
Regraded Being strip rings so painfully true, as usual. It seems like each of these strips is inspired by someone in real life, like the girl whose father ran away from her (I forget her name) when she saw him on the sidewalk, and the strip about the child worker (I think based on Jenna Miscavige Hill), they all seem to be telling the stories of real people. Thanks for giving us a look at the situation from another perspective, the Regraded Being strips make me laugh and cry at the same time. Kudos to RB and Mike Rinder. – T.J.
Very sorry to not make it to Palm Harbor this evening. Look forward to hearing about it.
From six time zones away, have a great time tonight, everybody. Look forward to seeing the Q&A is someone videos it.
OK here’s my OT Postulate. I postulate that Mike Rinder and Sara Goldberg are gonna do an awesome Q&A after a showing at the Muvico Palm Harbor 10 7pm showing of Going Clear and no amount of David Miscavige’s machinations will be able to stop them.
When it happens, I postulate OSD will buy me a beer to celebrate – oh well, I probably won’t get to drink it cuz he’ll just drink it for me rather than send it the 900 or so miles my direction but, hey, that’s his faulty postulate, not mine.
OMG Val, you must be like, OT one zillion!!! 🙂
Gosh, Valerie! You know me so well! Of course I’d buy you that beer! Or, some very fine red wine! Your choice! And if you ever get out to the west coasts, you’re welcome in our home.
And, John? I think Valerie is way past OT one Zillion! She’s in her own dimension! She should start her own religion…..
Hi Thegman77, Like your post.RB makes me feel all emotions each Fri.A very special spirit. Yes getting kids and families out or never having them get in is so relevant and becomes more so with each passing day.? Ann.sorry my spacing went wild!
Hi Thegman77,These computers,it would not space right when I posted yet it came up correctly.There is OTness for all you lurkers out there!Laughter,Ann.
Thank you for speaking tonight Mike for all of those who can’t. And if one, just one, person walks out with the intent to ensure their co-worker or friend becomes more informed- even better.
I’m sure I speak for many when I say that these activities you do continue to keep you in a spotlight that can have uncomfortable, to say the lest, repercussions from certain persons. I hope you know that many value what you do and endure in the name of truth and education. My personal thanks to you and your family.
For all of you going to see ‘Going Clear’ tonight, have a spectacular time! I hope Mark Bunker is there to film the Q & A with Mike and Sarah. Wish I could attend, but, I’m about 3,000 miles away.
Also, keep an eye out for cultist.
I would think Joe would get back in good standing quicker. My level of experience with the churck was pretty limited compared to others that post here but even I can relate to some of the examples above.
I used to live in Durham, NC and would drive to DC (FCDC) on the weekends. I was pressured into doing the purification rundown, I was only 27 and had never done any drugs. Me and another person did the rundown at my gym in Durham. As a member of the IAS I was supposed to get a 5% refund on all completed services. About a week into the rundown I got a call from Steve Lower saying I was only getting half of that amount now. It wasn’t a big deal to me but I did mention something about it to the person who was supposed to be supervising the rundown. I also questioned a couple other things about the how the puruf was being run which didn’t seem right to me.
I didn’t know much about security checks at the time, but the next time I went to FCDC I was interrogated for about two hours. I was asked questions like “Have you ever had a negative thought about LRH?”. ” Do you know another technology that works?”
Thanks for the reply Regraded Being
Hi Doug Sprinkle,Thank you so much for sharing your story.Oh yes those security checks and interrogation checks! They come out to bite you when you least expect it! So young and when first in Sea Org,I never expected some years later to be crushed under the hamster wheel weight of those questions! Always,Ann.
Nice to meet you Ann.
Hi Mike and RB, A great event to- night Mike,always 100% behind the force that you and Sara will generate.And I do not mean Star Wars smile.RB,your Fri strip is so so good.May you continue to expose this cult with your unique astounding talent!Pure Love to All,Ann.
Mr. Being,
I fear a panel has been omitted from today’s pictorial masterpiece. Doesn’t the last panel have the couple chucking it all and driving off to see “Going Clear” instead?
Without that uplifting last panel it is the saddest travesty of the miserably enslaved that could be imagined. Surely no one could really continue flagellating themselves, after the heartfelt confessions in the first four panels?
Say it isn’t so!
With all due respect and admiration,
Bruce
Hi Bruce – “Doesn’t the last panel have the couple chucking it all and driving off to see “Going Clear” instead?” Of course NOT. That’s the travesty, they’re too busy trying to figure out how to get their kids out of the Sea Org and therefore are willing to suffer through all the BS. That last statement said it all, love you RB.
My silent prayer for poor souls like that is they be carried away by a freak wind.
One and All have a GREAT time at the movies
“Going Clear” tonight.
Yeah, baby! Going Clear everywhere!
Best wishes for tonight, Mike.
Thanks RB, for another good one.
On the money as always RB. Oh, those “OT phenomena” success stories. All part of the hook. Jeff did a great blog posting on these a while back on his Leaving Scientology blog.
Unfortunately for me, I soaked up every singe OT Phenomena Success Stories. Even though it only had initials and no first and last name, that didn’t matter to me. I took it all: Hook, line & sinker.
OSD.. I have one question…. WHY???? And HOW?????
You seem like such a smart person! Those stories are hilarious and delusional.
I guess if you think you are part of the ‘most ethical group on the planet’ you would not think that these people were lying….but still…..
I was born with an overwhelming stuttering problem. It was so bad, that when I got to Junior High, it was the perfect storm of bad things: I was painfully thin, I had been hit in the mouth, accidentally, with a baseball bat in elementary school so we teeth are all messed up. I had a pigs nose. I was terrible in school sports, Now, I could surf, snow ski and water ski, but, school sports were very difficult for me. And then, there was my stuttering. My mom thought I had gotten over it so I didn’t tell her I hadn’t until right before her death in late ’84. We had a lot of oral presentations in junior high and I couldn’t do it if you put a gun to my head. My teachers wrote me off as a head case and my mom just thought I was a dumb shit kid. I had NO ONE to talk to. Most nights, during my 3 years in junior high, I would pray for death (this is when I thought someone might be listening). I’d wake up and have to do it all over again.
The cult told me that dianetics could cure my stuttering. I believed them. That’s how I got in, Chee Chalker.
“You seem like such a smart person.” Thank you for that, Chee. However, I don’t think I’m the sharpest nife, errrrrrr……ahhhhh….I mean knife in the chandelier. I mean, for the longest time I thought ping pong balls was a Chinese social disease! I just didn’t know! And many people say if I were anymore more stupid, they’d have to water me twice a week….
Just in the last month we’ve become acquainted with six people who have been under the radar and finally could not put up with the abuse any longer. Two of them are OT VIIIs. RB won’t run out of material for his scripts for a long time to come.
Cringeworthy laughter. See a bit of my own past mind-set in these and get embarrassed that I too wore the cloak of a dupe.
We were all duped for the time we were in. But, you’re 6 people getting out is tremendous news, LDW! Hope to hear more that are leaving! You’re posting this just might cause a lurker to re-think everything they’ve been told. Nice post!
Hi LWD, I am very glad you are out and I send love and light to your friends newly freed from the abuse etc.You and me both,not only did I wear that cloak,slept on cloak sheets and wrapped it around me like the false cocoon that it was! Always,Ann.
Well, I for one will certainly be with you in spirit, Mr. Mike Rinder.
Thank you for standing out in the open like this.
The world at large now has the opportunity to discover the nature of Scientology,
without having to rely on the massive and utterly decietful PR front by which this industrial corporation posing as a church strives to introduce itself. One billion know the name Scientology because of the talking head Tom Cruise. Let’s balance the scale, shall we? This film, Going Clear, is a most excellent advance in that endeavor.
Travel safely, my friend, until a billion times two eyes are upon you.
Hi Mark Marco,Me too,a lovely post! Dreaming of that Moon,Ann.
Had to comment, GREAT cartoon this week! Regraded Being, you rock. These always feel so honest and slip in so much sly humor… thanks! Thanks, Mike, for publishing them!
On the money again RB. Very good representation of OT silliness.
Sort of drives the point home of the hopelessness and self entrapment of the dwindling cycle of a scientologist.
Makes me visualise a ‘picturegraph’ of the Tone Scale of a Scientologist.
This is more like the conversation that Scientologist couples wish they could have but can never say to each other due to the raw paranoia caused by Disconnection. I’m seeing this strip with thought bubbles rather than speech ones, and the silence between them shows how the cult can manifest its mistrust into the tightest of relationships. The cult is run by and loaded full of sick fucks.
And, of course, good luck disseminating the truth tonight, both you and Sara, Mike. Let’s hope that we get some new people posting here over the weekend. And, of course the second, we’ll be looking for a report tomorrow on how it went.
Espi, sadly you are correct. Most would fear such disclosure to their spouse as most would turn them into the Scamology Gestapo. Look up the “Joberg sec check:
Have you ever committed any overts on a Scientology organization?
Do you have any overts on LRH?
Have you ever had unkind thoughts about LRH?
Do you have any overts on Mary Sue?
Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about Mary Sue?
Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about Scientologists?
Have you ever betrayed Scientology?
Do you know any secret plans against Scientology?
HAVE YOU EVER SLEPT WITH A MEMBER OF A RACE OF ANOTHER COLOUR?
etc.
Hi John Locke,Omg that damn joberg sec check! Had it up to here with that back in the Sea Org Day!Always,Ann.
Do you have any money in your wallet?
“The cult is run by and loaded full of sick fucks.” Espi, really, that’s an insult to ‘sick fucks’ everywhere! You’re going to have to come up with a different category.
um… agreed (?)
(fault me but i have a boatload of empathy for every otherwise would-be cognizant individual caught in the mind-manipulating machine of the 20th-21st centuries, actually, whether he be proud to be a believing Scn-gist or nay. I am perfectly comfortable, however, pinning all the psychological ill-health issues on one, solitary sick [____], the leader, letting the dead rest (one founder reluctantly), and may all the others not be condemned.)
*except perhaps on a case-by-case basis to be legally determined,
– as crimes are still crimes,
regardless of what color the banner you happen to parade your actions under.
And I don’t think one can get away with saying “I was brainwashed when I killed that girl.”
The Charles Manson ladies are still in prison, for example.
That car key story is one I’ve heard (and witnessed) a couple of times. The same with “making” a parking a space appear in a busy shopping mall – etc and blah. Sheesh. Delusions of grandeur. This thing about keeping one’s head low while the kids are still in runs close to the bone – there are MANY public hanging on for dear life because of their kids or family stuck in the Matrix – why??? I just don’t get it – they don’t see/speak to or spend time with them anyway – they are NOT a family dynamic – who are they fooling? I have a friend who hasn’t seen his son in YEARS and yet he won’t rock the boat (but reads all the blogs and is as disaffected as the next person) for fear of losing his “relationship” with his son who is 1000’s of kms away in a different continent and they haven’t spent a minute in each other’s company in more than a decade. The mind boggles. The KA is strong with some.
“The same with “making” a parking a space appear in a busy shopping mall ”
A long time a go an “OT” mentioned doing this. I asked him right back, “Where did you put the car that you displaced from the parking space?” Boy, you’ve never seen a more pained look. He blew out of the room faster than a cat on fire.
A really smart fake OT would have shot back…..I wasn’t postulating the other car moving, I was just postulating an empty space. The guy you mentioned was a novice fake OT. The professional fake OT’s are very cunning and diabolical. The rookie fake OT’s are easy to spot as you did above.
“A really smart fake OT would have”
A contradiction in terms if ever there was one… 😉
I make a comment that agrees with yours and yet Johnny you still need to make me wrong. You seem to be a bit touchy today Johnny boy. And thank you for your covert winking smiley face. It says so much about you.
It was a JOKE Potpie. If you are unaware of that formulaic delivery, read more and also learn what emoticons are.
Go take a chill pill or smoke a joint or something.
Hey John and Potpie! I KNEW you were going to post the posts you posted! So there! Man, you talk about Super Powers! I’m even going to get up and get another cup of coffee! How’s that for being powerful!
I take a couple of spoon fulls of formulaic daily. It helps my comedic mind function better.
Potpie, it’s just a joke. Nothing more. Now regarding the “take a chill pill or smoke a joint or something,” I’m leaning towards the joint with a nice bottle of Merlot. I have a huge deck in my backyard with wind chimes and waterfalls. A joint and great red wine on my deck is paradise!
And, Potpie, you’re welcome in my home if you ever get out to southern Calif! Now, how’s that for hospitality?
It was a joke? Sorry it is not easy to keep up with your exhaustive pool of knowledge. I surely will brush up on formulaic delivery….between innings of the baseball game I’m watching.
Is that a ball-joint? Help me out, OSD, or I know… a tongue and groove.
Always admired a good tongue and groove joint.
Hope to see that deck one day. I live on the beach too up here in Northern Pacific sticks, we got all kinds of joints up here, too.
Hi Mark Marco,Now y’all have got me going,with OSD’s marvelous back deck with waterfalls and wind chimes I’m a sucker for those plus Merlo vino-heaven.Speaking of joints when we lived in Tallahassee Fla in a really funky subdivision where people built their own houses we did not but I went to an old juke joint in the middle of the woods.It was from the 40s and was like a concrete bunker.They had a little stage and some BBQ and yes the joints were smoking there! Laughter.Walter ushered me out pretty quickly when he realized the place was not very hospitable to us being there and some patrons were packing heat.But not before I had my first bite of sweet potato pie.Always Forever,Ann.
No, Mark. It’s the other kind of ‘joint.’ Haaaaaaaaaaa! There’s nothing like medical pot……
Aint we all a bunch of oxymorons.
And to this day I keep thinking that oxymoron is a stupid steer…
HimOSD, Now that is hysterical! XO Ann.
It’s actually a short guy on scotch and asthma meds!
LMAO!!!! Coop, you always come up with something! Still laughing!
AHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!! That’s a really good one!! Love it!! 😀
Easy, I levitate them into geostationary orbit till I’m done shopping.
🙂
That is so bitchin’! Wish I could do that!
I did it by accident by hitting semicolon then right parenthesis,
(as you would do to text a smiley face on your phone) and got:
🙂
Hi Jose Chung, I do not pretend to understand geostationary orbit,is that like what a space station would be doing? Orbiting but returning to the same spot?You know I was terrible in science too,but nonetheless I liked your post a lot.I guess that is why I got into Scientology.The science of knowing that you know.Today that statement is not profound but idiotic to me.Always,Ann.
A geostationary space craft stays in one place over Earth
in low or high Space orbit. As the Earth rotates
these travel very precisely at the same rate.
Most are small like a breadbox, solar powered,in networks.
Hi Jose Chung,Thank you.Very interesting and I had no idea they were that small and solar powered too.Learn things here all the time!Love,Ann.
When Arthur Clarke conceived of the communications satellite he thought of a manned space station where the crew was constantly rebuilding and replacing vacuum tubes.
Better than cleaning the bilges…
Hi Leslie Bates, Much better than cleaning those bilges! Thank you,Love,Ann.
One could say the attendees of current events at the CO$ is a collection of the Gullible and the Spineless or both in one. After I finally got my classification as a “serious SP” from the CO$, I am finding spinelessness is a broader feature than one would think.
Many know the CO$ is bullocks, but they do not dare to speak up or follow their own path.
Those guys I wish they discover the joy of being oneself living a life in freedom.
I thoroughly enjoy this every Friday regraded being.
Is the bit about someone running their car into a tree in order to get out of a fundraising event and having to pay $100,000 to get back in good graces based on an actual event?
Hi Doug,
Lets say Bill and Joe commit the same ‘crime’ against the church and are sent to ethics where each must now work their way up the lower conditions. A crime can be anything from having evil thoughts against COB to proving to the church haw some of their actions go against their own policy. And yes, making a deliberate decision not to donate to any of the church’s various humanitarian activities can be considered a crime once it has been determined that your thoughts and actions are counter-intentioned to planerary clearing and the survival of mankind.
When Bill and Joe get to the part of making amends in order to get back in good standing, Bill gets some new people into the church. He also hands out a few WTH booklets and maybe donates a lot of his time helping out at his local org plus a dozen other actions to help the image to Scientology in his area. Joe decides to give a generous donation to the IAS and/or his Ideal Org.
Who do you think will get back in good standing with the church quicker?
You would be surprised at the variety of situations people will create in order to avoid having to go to a fundraiser.
RB, you’re my hero! This latest one really touched me. I hope, as the decline accelerates, more and more people will realize they’ve been had.
When I was on staff in Hawai’i, one of the staff members and I were talking. At one point he said, “As if I could be had.” I never forgot that line. He was absolutely sure scientology was the real thing and beside, he “couldn’t be had.” Not sure what ever happen to Mike DeCosin. Hell, I have no idea what happen to all the staff members at the mission. BTW, that mission is long gone. I guess it’s part of the trend……..
Hallelujah.
and all the girls sing hallelujah…
I’m singing right along with them, Mark!
I do recall being regged for several $000’s after I said I’d go to an IAS “briefing” then not turning up. You could get away with telling the endless call in people that you were going just to get rid of them as long as it was at one of the bigger centres, if it was a local event you had to come up with a plausible excuse.
In the last couple of years I was in I just refused to go to most events, funny thing is there was nothing they could do to me, I think they realized that by that point I didn’t care any more.
Wow, the 3rd panel tells the sordid tale all too accurately.
RB rocks!!
And that’s the very sad part, John. Kids in the slave camps.
Great cartoon this week, you wonder why they are still involved with the cult all the way up to the last paragraph, how many real people does this apply to I wonder?
So wish we could be there tonight, hopefully Bunker will be able to get it on video for the rest of us! Can’t wait to see you both bring down the house!
“Until we figure out a way to get our kids out of the Sea Org…”
As you read this week’s RB, you wonder why these people put up with it. Then you get to that line, and suddenly what was funny becomes sad and a desperate. The biggest mistake most Scientologists ever make is letting those vultures anywhere near their kids. It’s the regret that keeps on rebounding.
That’s the saddest thing about this entire situation! Having your kids in the SO when you’re not in line with the cult. Those poor SO kids! They have no idea what they’ve gotten themselves into.
If I had just one day of GreenPeace oceanside experience, I would frogman my way into the galley at about 3:00 am on the Apollo/Freewinds and attempt a kidnapping of the first boy or SO girl that says ok lets go!
Bet you a fat dollar I would have no trouble finding a taker and, boy, would I have a story to tell the grandkids (which I don’t have, never married).
Sorry OSD, if you were talking about one of your own, I sure do feel for all you guys, really.
Sucks.
Hi Mark! First, thanks for your very kind words. Second, I was out of the cult when I got married so no family members were involved. But there are so many others who are dealing with disconnection right now. A very sad situation indeed….
I thought the same. Then I became so disturbed.
You know what it reminds me of? The first time I read Catch-22. You’ll laugh and laugh at all the absurd things happening in the story, and then you get to Chapter 39, The Eternal City, and all of a sudden it’s not funny anymore, and you wonder, in shock, what you’ve been laughing about.
I’m going to use MY OT powers to be there Mike!
Roger, can I hitch a ride with your OT Powers to go to see Mike and Sarah too?
It’s so sad. I wonder how many people are flying under the radar, wanting to escape, but not seeing how to do it.
I think all and every single one of them… have at least the fleeting thought of freedom,
as in “freedom from Scientology”,
only then to have it promptly crushed by the forceful hammer of policy,
or,
to have the thought exposed as a “crime” by the watchful eye of an e-Meter,
before even realizing that that one thought of breaking free was one thought that had escaped the mind-manipulation game that is, entirely, the game of Scientology, serious as it is.
Hi Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter, Thank you for this post.I agree with you. The only way I got up the courage and strength to blow,was work out a plan of escape well before the fact,close my eyes and jump off that cliff that was my security The Sea Org Cliff.Jump into the unknown and flee! It is terribly had to do but oh the sunshine when I finally saw the whole ruse that had been laid on me! Always,Ann.
Hi Wayne Borean, Sorry I meant hard to do,Ann.
I’m pretty sure that the staff and public at my local organization have been whittled down to the hard core who truly believe the scn lies, its going to take something really big to wake these people up. One excuse I hear time and time again – “I don’t need to look at the stories on the internet as I can see how much good GAG 2 is doing.”
Yep! Gag II is REALLY knocking ’em dead! Hitting it out of the park! Going where no thetan has gone before! Gag II is filling up all the Idle Morgues with hundreds of new people flooding in each week all because they heard of Going Clear. Yep, dat’s da ticket…
Sorry, I am on the other side of the pond.
you are? mail me at martymart47 at gmail.com
I’m on the other side of a pond, simplethetan. Oh…wait…you meant the Atlantic, didn’t you? My bad…
Sure in hell wish I could be there tonight, Mike. But I’ve at least got RB to fill my day. I like that more and more of his posts deal with those looking to get out with families intact.