Hi Mike! Been following your work since around the time of Going Clear. Thanks for everything you do, you – Leah and the rest. 🙂
Anyway – I wanted to ask you something. I’ve noticed that Scientology here in Sweden has changed name to.. well… “Scientology” – from “Scientologi” which is the “Swedified” version of the same term. They seem to be re-dubbing videos and stuff just for this purpose. Seems to be the the same thing going on France? (“Scientologie” -> Scientology)
Any idea why this could be? Is this some kind of global trend, like a ploy to have practitioners buy LHR stuff all over again, so to not have “Misunderstood words” everywhere..? -.-
I guess it is either to have consistency, to be sure people aren’t wondering if this is some “offshoot” of “authorized” scientology, or because the scientology trademark is stronger because of widespread use and they want to have that trademark protected in all countries though use.
A”Prosperity Seminar” is about prosperity for the CULT ( aka DM), not YOU,you poor still-ins.
IF you ever realize that, you’ll be on the way to becoming “born-again wogs” with true prosperity, not just a quick hit of credit you can ‘donate’ to DM.
Please for up the Regraded Being ante and start using Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, John Travolta and the rest of assorted rag tag bag of scientology whack jobs in this cartoon strip. Do you know how delicious that would be? Just start off with one featuring some back and forth dialogue between Cruise and Miscavige, and throw in the disembodied spirit of LRH chiming in as a ghost from Target 2.
Nope. Public figures and satire mixed are American as apple pie and protected free speech. Besides, Rinder and Remini have been daring CoS and/or COB to sue them. Someone needs to go for it.
Well, OK, that could very well be true, what you’ve pointed out about public figures being lampooned being protected under the 1st Amendment. I’m not a legal person. But then, I personally wouldn’t want Mike Rinder or whoever RB is being harassed, legally, even if the cult couldn’t win. But these are just my feelings and opinions.
I don’t think it would put Regraded Being on dangerous legal ground beyond the cult threatening to sue. There are mountains of precedent asserting and confirming that stars like Cruise and Travolta and Alley are public figures, and using them in a satirical cartoon is — probably more than any other use — a First Amendment protected activity. The First Amendment was added SPECIFICALLY to protect exactly this sort of expression, since the English would arrest (and still DO arrest) people for what they think and what they say — google “Kung Fu Fighting arrest.” The government may try to shut down free speech, like when Obama ejected conservative journalists from pressers, and then tried to get laws created that required journalists to be “licensed,” as long as the Constitution is in effect, if the government can’t do it, a private entity wouldn’t have a chance. Not only would Anonymous descend on the issue, but the American people would — I hope — go so ballistic that the response against the Scilons would be so freakishly swift that it would be like sandblasting a saltine cracker.
Two words: South Park. if they couldn’t win against South Park and its creators, its open season and (wait for it…) FAIR GAME lol
seriously, while I hate to even suggest that fair game be used in any capacity, its overall effect generally gets the person to stop doing what they are doing. Its almost (almost) worth it. Tempting, but no.
Kimo and Kat,
See my answer to SP. I stand corrected about what I stated about a cartoon of a famous person being grounds for libel or slander or whatever.
Absolutely. I want to see a Regraded Being long run feature with Tom Cruise interacting with the typical Scientologists as depicted in the series. That would be absolutely surreal and utterly delicious.
SP Super Agent, if his actions in real life are any indication, he has not, nor will he ever reach Target 2. He’ll find some excuse why he couldn’t, if any find him and care to ask, but it won’t be HIS fault, of course.
Thanks to a secret friend who helped me do secret things, I got to get a bobblehead!
Oh, I’m so happy!
It’s helpful to my battered little soul … this act of rebellion and this contribution to helping others… it’s helpful to be able to be a PART of things!
Hey RIP, glad to hear you’re happy. I hope you have a camera on your phone so you can take pictures of the Bobble Mike anytime you visit someplace that you think we’d all enjoy seeing.
C’MON KAT, I’m sure you have it in you to say what should be said without using (too many) rude words. Still, I appreciate your trying keeping it ‘clean’.
I’ve often thought the same thing. But, in case you didn’t know, Mike says the only reason he bans people is for personal attacks and other serious things (I seem to recall) like threats of death or violence, divulging other peoples’ personal info, and the other standard bannable offenses. Mike makes it pretty clear that aside from that, you can say whatever the fuck you like – including the George Carlin Seven Words you can’t say on TV.
RB, it is appropriate that many of your cartoons feature a couple trying to maintain a relationship while in the cult. Whether staff or public, scientology exerts enormous pressure on any couple; staff can be posted to different cities despite being a married couple, ordered to handle or disconnect from a spouse, RPFed and be forbidden to communicate, slave away on an insane schedule that allows no time to be together, and so on. If they see dollar signs, the cult will pit husband and wife against each other, advise one to disconnect from one another, encourage one to donate huge sums of money without consulting their spouse, and so on. Even if all else is good, a full time student who also works for a living, has next to no time for family. Absolute poison to a sane, happy relationship.
Zola:”Absolute poison to a sane, happy relationship.”
absolutely; ANY aspect of scientology. Even, or ESPECIALLY the “marriage counseling”, which may be the most ridiculous ‘service’ scientology foists on an unsuspecting audience. Tubby sure didn’t understand interpersonal relations, obviously; though he had the “What I say is LAW.” part down pat.
Zola:”Absolute poison to a sane, happy relationship.”
absolutely; ANY aspect of scientology. Even, or ESPECIALLY the “marriage counseling”, which may be the most ridiculous ‘service’ scientology foists on an unsuspecting audience. Tubby sure didn’t understand interpersonal relations, obviously, though he had the “What I say is LAW.” part down pat.
If $cientology were required to adhere to ‘Truth In Advertising’, they wouldn’t exist. The same for ‘Prosperity Seminars’. Put Michael Chan and Gavin Potter out of business.
Like much from Hubbard and Scientology, “be-do-have” has some validity and works to some extent in certain situations, but not as a generalized one-size-fits-all life strategy. For instance, “fake it ’til you make it” infamously works sometimes in Silicon Valley in particular – though it still has to go hand-in-hand with the actual “make it part,” or it results in debacles and frauds like Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.
**Sorry off topic but was just scanning through the day’s shows and at 9:00 pm EST The Travel Channel the Ghost Adventures investigate a “disturbing energy that penetrates a former scientology lab”. Might be interesting? I think the whole show is titled Devil in the City of Angels Los Angeles.
No, they have not been pro LRH have they. I guess I’m sort of surprised that they take on the cult leader but hey, go for it boys. In a good way this might reach out to a very different audience.
It does seem like more shows are taking on, at least, something with a scientology story line without actually using the scientology name.
Jo said:
“They’ve done two shows about LRH, neither of them has been kind. LOL”
Jo, I’m not sure an honest show about Hubbard COULD be kind. If they do more than scratch the surface of his life and activities, evil stuff oozes out. Only scientology can write kind things about him, entirely ignoring what actually happened, as compared to his ‘take’ on the matters. I don’t think he succeeded in any endeavors other than having lots of ‘baby mommas’, at least 4 of them, the ones he “legitimized” with marriage — just in time for the last one, Mary Sue, who would have started ‘showing’ pretty soon after the ceremony.
Peggy L, Perhaps the “disturbing energy that penetrates the former scientology lab” IS someone being ‘fair gamed’ The title of “Devil in the city of Angels would be appropriate for an ‘Aftermath’ show– or ANY mention of Devil, particularly if ‘Aftermath strays into the foundational principle of scientology — OTO, or Thelema. Crowley considered himself quite the bad boy and Hubbard was, or wanted to be even worse, the anti-Christ, or there times Lucifer, which he interpreted as ‘the bringer of light(illumination or enlightenment) and not so very bad at all.
Well, it seems like it was a re purposing of one of their previous shows but I still hope maybe a few who never heard anything about the cult watched it. It really is one scary business scam.
And another marriage down the tubes thanks to cult behavior/indoctrination.
Our lady is taking the ‘Debbie Cook’ road instead of the ‘Katie Holmes’ road. Open and honest maybe better but, either way, she is headed out the door without money or any assets. Time to call real family/friends and just bail out.
True. Unless they live in a community property state and he has to give her half of everything he’s got, or unless she sues him in court for alimony OR unless SHE’S the one with the business, the money and the assets, in which case, Hubby will very likely trot right out of the cult with her, so the cult will discourage the divorce. Follow the money when it comes to these matters, particularly when the cult is the 3rd party in the marriage.
Cults & “cliques” have their own “INSIDER SPEAK”….words that those who are not members in their “secret society” will not understand. In some cases the insiders will think it is hilarious that we on the outside have no idea what they’re talking about.To be a “member” walking around wearing that “uniform or hat” makes them feel important, as if they are the “big being” on the planet or the universe.
I recall a high school classmate, once a good friend, deeply involved in Hare Krishna…. wearing white “robes” barefoot or sandals & bells, with a partially shaved head thinking he was one of the super supreme beings. He looked down on those of us “on the outside” & jettisoned ALL his family & friends only to become deeply imbedded in Hare Krishna.
Many years later I saw this former classmate….he had no money, no job, no real friends on the outside & the family he had deserted years before no longer wanted contact with him for many reasons. He also had the “insider speak” & it was nearly impossible for him to adjust to life on the outside because he had no idea how to interact with “normal people”.
I gave him my contact info & advised him to go to Social Services for help with housing, food, job referrals etc….but he refused. Can’t help someone who does not want help. Too sad.
I suspect what draws a lot of people to conspiracy theories has similar elements. The idea that they have the inside track on secret knowledge that makes them better than the “sheep” or “WOG” is about the only comfort they have.
It isn’t the idea the conspiracies don’t exist, it’s the idea that a real criminal conspiracy is going to leave bread-crumbs that only they can follow, that makes them look absurd.
I neglect to mention Viewing Dr. Phil show yesterday, he had a guest named Rick Alan Ross who’s written a book entitled
“Cults Inside & Out”…….he spoke of the “leader of the cult becoming a Messiah & being worshipped” & how cults get people to join using the “let’s make a better world”, & how the cult will ingrain in members negative aspects about the world outside & ISOLATING them & instilling FEAR or leaving the cult. I am going to borrow this book from the library.
Thank you Mike Rinder for bringing back the loss of my EDIT ability!
Sadly as sometimes is his way…he allotted only FIVE MINUTES for Mr. Ross to talk about cults isolating people, making them fear contact with the outside world etc. I am going to borrow this from the library & purchase it later on.
Thank you for explaining that Bruce. I would have never had a chance to understand that without your explanation.
Yesterday, there were several references to “hatting” and “hatter”. At first, I thought they were typos. But thanks to Google, I looked up “Scamology hatting”” and found out it was about wearing different hats.
Of course, I didn’t use the word “Scamology”. I had to use the name they give themselves. I refuse to ever use that name anymore because I feel it somehow makes them appear to be something real instead of something phony – which is what they really are.
But I want to tell you the longer I read this blog, the more I begin to understand how this scam makes up a bunch of phony tech as well as rules to enforce that everyone must pretend to believe in this phony bullshit. Then, whenever anyone says anything that demonstrates they know it’s all fake, they are required to hand over thousands of dollars. It’s kind of like the Scamology equivalent of the “swear jar” that some parents use to enforce the “no swearing” jar on their kids.
It begins to dawn on me that this scam has many so-called rules in order to squeeze every single nickel they can out of their dupes. It took me a long time to figure that out since I have never been squeezed like that. It must not take very long to realize the truth when you are the one being squeezed.
Skyler:”Of course, I didn’t use the word “Scamology”. I had to use the name they give themselves. I refuse to ever use that name anymore because I feel it somehow makes them appear to be something real instead of something phony – which is what they really are.”
I agree with you, Skyler except that a phony thing named is still phony. Using the name it uses for itself helps Google connect the name to we who are attempting to expose scientology’s essential falseness. I REFUSE to call the criminal multinational enterprise a church, and I’ve started to refuse capitalizing the name, even when grammatically required. Google indexes and searches without capitalization, so my lack of dignifying the cult with the cap doesn’t get lost completely.
What that reminded me of, is “what’s true, is what’s true for you” – unless it’s not true for Hubbard or Scientology, in which case you need a Severe Reality Adjustment until you Come Into Agreement.
Thanks, RB,
Have been out so long forgot all about the snitching, shakedowns and party lines.
Maybe the last still-ins should just stay so they keep aberrating each other instead of society.
Maybe it’s good to keep the still-ins IN. At least they’re all together in one spot and can be dealt with more easily when the final stage of the implosion occurs. In the meantime, you’re right, they’re only harming themselves.
A short explanation might be necessary for never-ins. Maybe Brian will be inspired to do an essay about this, it is one of the twisted ways Hubbard enforced his will on others.
Hubbard said in many lectures and essays that the proper sequence for an action is Be, then Do, then Have. Like, be a Lawyer, do all kinds of briefs and court appearances, get the cash. Sort of makes sense if you don’t think about it.
An extension of this is one of the High Crimes in Scientology – having to have before you can do. It is a crime, and you can be severely punished, to say something like “We need to get some paint before we can paint this wall.”
This is not the Hubbard way. In Hubbard-world, you “take on a beingness” (assume an identity), do something no matter how frivolous or irrelevant, then get something going at which point the “havingness” (or stuff) will just fall from the sky.
Sort of like the expression “fake it ’til you make it.”
A Scientology painter has to revel in his beingness of painteringness, like the famous picture of Big Shot Film Director Hubbard dressed up as a cyan cowboy riding his camera dolly. Put on some painter clothes, make sure your name tag is on the Organizing Board as a “Painter”, tell everybody stories about what a great painter you are.
Maybe take some courses. Read up on everything Hubbard ever said about painting. And accept that as sacred gospel on the subject, never to be questioned or challenged.
Then grab some old paint that is lying around and throw it at the wall. Eventually someone will take pity on you and give you some brushes and real paint, then you can actually do some painting and maybe even get paid. Classic standard Scientology Be-Do-Have.
You wonder why the Thursday Funnies are so full of awkward inanities, typos and unintended hilarity. It is exactly because of this principle of having to be before you can do. Utter incompetence is celebrated and encouraged. The title is more important than the job. Somebody is assigned to do a promotional mailing and does this Be-Do-Have trick like any good Scientologist and of course it turns out badly. It’s inevitable.
In the third panel of todays Regraded Being the soon-to-be ex-Scientologist says “Whatever happened to Be-Do-Have?” Of course she is right, by Hubbard’s ideas they should get the organizations going before they think about fancy quarters for them. It will be a bit down the road before she realizes that “Be-Do-Have” is in itself a hypnotic control mechanism.
Bruce, respectfully, while I agree that extreme applications of “Be-Do-Have”, as illustrated by your example of having to paint a wall and not having any paint and taking on the “beingness” of a painter and hoping that someone will come along and give you some paint are ridiculous, time-wasting and downright suppressive, at the same time, I cannot agree that “Be-Do-Have”, applied sensibly , is a “hypnotic control mechanism”.
Nowhere have I read anything by Hubbard stating that a person can’t “have” the tools or products or skills necessary to do a job or a task. I don’t know where you’re getting that from but its an extreme application of the principle and possibly some sort of Sea Org arbitrary, I don’t know.
Here’s an example of the point I’m making:
I want a clean bathroom, OK. I know how to clean a bathroom, so that’s no problem. In the cabinet under the sink are bathroom cleaning products, so no problem there. But the bathroom doesn’t get cleaned today – why? Well, I have all kinds of reasons. I’m too tired. I had an early appointment today. I don’t feel like it. I’m too busy…etc., etc. In brief, I’m not willing to BE a bathroom cleaner today, or, in Scientology lingo, I’m not willing to “assume the beingness” of a bathroom cleaner today.
On the other hand, I HATE a dirty bathroom, a dirty bathroom depresses me, so I KNOW that tomorrow morning, I WILL clean it. But its not me knowing how , or me having the supplies, that’s going to get the bathroom clean. Its ME willing to “BE” a bathroom cleaner and THEN knowing how (which includes, obviously, knowing how to use the right products to do it ) and THEN doing it. And then I HAVE a clean bathroom. Be-Do-Have.
Now, if ‘m just willing to BE a bathroom cleaner yet have no cleaning product, no sponge or mop, no paper towels or a rag, etc., what am I going to do? Scrub the tub with my fingernails? Wipe down the bathroom floor with my hair?
You see my point here. Common sense has to factor into Be-Do-Have. And of course I gave you an extreme example but then, your example was extreme too, as re the painting with no paint, waiting for someone to come along and give you some, etc. Common sense. Extreme applications of Be-Do-Have can’t work, but that doesn’t mean that Have-Do-Be works! Have-Do-Be will always fail. Its just a matter of time before applications in extremis of “having to have before you can do, and doing before you can be” snuffs the life out of a person or an organization.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you don’t mind my debating this point.
Aqua, Tubby DID enforce Be-do-have in that suppressive way; Many stories abound that the crews couldn’t get essential supplies approved through normal channels. If you didn’t have a brush, it was up to you to go out and buy one with your nonexistent pay. Personally, as a boater, I find painting with a brush counter-productive and sloppy, producing an unacceptable result. The standard for awhile is called “roll and tip”: lay the paint down with a roller, then drag the tip of a brush through to level it out. If you do it properly, it’ll pass the ‘three-foot rule’: your not being slapped in the face with imperfections if you’re standing more than 3 feet away. Cruising boaters are necessarily a stingy group, but they at least have SOME standards and recognize the need for having somewhat-proper tools to get jobs done properly. Give me a spray gun and I can lay down a glass-smooth paint job; I’ve done it professionally. I can also do roll-and-tip if necessary. Hubbard didn’t seem to want to realize that physical-universe objects can’t do anything but obey the physical universe’s rules. For instance there’s the harbor cruise he took with friends & family in ‘Maggy’ where he left the dock with a nearly-empty fuel tank, eschewed the use of her sails, then ran out of fuel and had to pour the boat’s lanterns oil into the tank to get the motor to run long enough to nearly get them back to the dock. Then, He takes his then-wife on a jaunt to Alaska, trashing Maggy’s engine in only 300 miles. Marine engines are TOUGH, designed to run for thousands of miles without a hiccup. What he did to destroy that one, I can only conjecture, though it had to involve believing the physical-universe engine didn’t need any maintenance or proper fuel. Nor does it seem he used those sails much. In a similar-sized boat, we’ve put more than 10 times the distance on our small engine, and it keeps ticking over smoothly, as long as I remember to fill the tank once in a while — About mid-June most seasons. I don’t think I could INTENTIONALLY trash a motor in only 300 miles, the equivalent of the first month of car ownership. He certainly didn’t HAVE that engine long. I’m fairly certain that Tubby didn’t believe in changing the oil and just ‘assumed’ that the fuel he picked up along the way was perfect and didn’t need filtering or inspection for water and impurities. (either of which will mess up a motor’s systems quickly.) Also, I suspect that his throttle had only one position: full speed ahead.
“Aqua, Tubby DID support BE-do-have in that suppressive way; Many stories abound that the crews couldn’t get essential supplies
approved through normal channels.”
Whoa! Ok, then, I now see exactly where Bruce is coming from.
In other words, when he gave that far out example of being ordered to paint something, and not being given any paint to paint it with, and having to scrounge up some kind of paint somewhere or else be punished for “having to have before he could do” – with that example, he was not exaggerating… all that much?
Orders like these were, or are – what’s the word – CUSTOMARY in the SO?
Well, if orders like these are the NORM in the Sea Org, then, that’s just…nuts. Nuts!
Not to mention a waste of time. And energy. And a crushing of someone’s spirit, of the person’s wanting to “do”, to contribute to the group, to get a product being thwarted, deliberately, even maliciously and so unnecessarily thwarted. And the resulting losses and failed purpose and ARC breaks due to not completing the jobs. Wow. This is beyond suppressive. I don’t even have the words.
Bruce, wherever you are, I get it now. I understand. Holy Shit! “Be-Do-Have”… just hearing these words would be enough to…I’m sorry! I didn’t know.
I suggest the current Mockingbird’s Nest compilation of Jon Atack posts to the Bunker, and another one called “Hidden Abuse in Scientology” from Wed. Mar. 13 this year. To me, these two articles use good source material (including Source material) to explain so much about what Hubbard was doing, and why, and why it has confused and entrapped people for decades.
I’m jumping in here because “be do have” is exactly the kind of confusion technique Hubbard used in order to insert another small brick into the control structure he was making his subjects undergo constantly. Atack explains it better than I ever could, so if anyone is interested please read the current Mockingbird’s Nest, and the older one from 3-13-19, and perhaps continue on to a companion article from 2-18-19.
I may not agree with all that is at Mockingbird’s Nest, but there is plenty of food for thought, and one can hardly go wrong reading Jon Atack anytime.
Aqua, point taken. I am sure there is some validity to just about all of Hubbard’s ideas if not taken to extremes. After all, he stole them fair and square.
But in the Sea Org, especially at the Int Base, this idea was taken far beyond the extremes regularly. Dave Miscavige’s special version goes something like this: “I am a senior Messenger. So according to the Flag Orders, talking to me is just like talking to Ron himself. And Ron can order anything. The only acceptable answer is “SIR, YES SIR!” and immediate compliance. Any other response is BACKFLASH (an unnecessary response to an order). No backflash tolerated. You do it now, doesn’t matter if it is stupid cruel insane or destructive. DO IT NOW NOW NOW!”
Example – “PAINT THAT WALL!” “Well, sir, the paint is arriving in ten minutes and we are priming right now.” “YOU DARE TO COME BACK AT ME WITH THAT COUNTER-INTENTIONED *!#!!! (well seasoned with unprintables) PIE FACE BACKFLASH! START!”
A wise Sea Org member will acknowledge loudly and go on priming, guessing that Dave won’t know the difference.
Or you can try the classic misdirection technique: “SIR YES SIR! As soon as that !#!#! MF#!#! in Estates gets up here with the paint. I ordered it two hours ago. Tell you what, I am going down to the Garage right now and get it myself!” Then run as long as you are in his field of view. As soon as you are out of his sight a leisurely trip to the bathroom and a smoke are in order. Chances are while the paint issue is roiling around he will get distracted by something else and life will go on. But if not you have someone to blame so it’s all good.
At the Int Base we used to say “We have been doing so much with so little for so long that now we can do anything with nothing at all!”
Too bad all we were doing was busy-work, redoes of the redoes of the redoes because it had to be done so fast that there was no time to do it right. Short cuts make long delays, as Tolkien observed in the Lord of the Rings. And absolutely nothing good ever happens at 3 AM.
And even if we did it perfectly, nothing we did was in a good cause or helpful to humanity. Should have stood in bed.
Bruce, thank you for answering me. I understand now. I didn’t before. I’m still processing this – well, “insanity” seems too banal a term for what has been described. I sent a word out to you in my response to jere above, in response to his post in which he clued me in on the extreme applications and enforcements of Be-Do-Have in the Sea Org. His post opened my eyes. Now what you’ve shared opens them even more. Thank you for understanding me, and where I was coming from. Now I understand you. I really have no words for what I’m feeling as regards this cruelty, this mental cruelty with regard to orders having been perpetrated on well meaning, sane, helpful people. This man DM is so very, very sick. So very ar gone as a being…its…I don’t know, I don’t have the words. Its hard for me to even imagine it. To deliberately, purposefully, continually, set up your own people for losses, failures, upsets – to set things up so that they have to become excellent, smooth liars so as appear to comply to an order without being able to actually do it…I’m so sorry, Bruce. Its just beyond the beyond. I’m so sorry!
Well Bruce, even though your comments make perfect sense in the real world, I’m sure some fool will come along and insist that you are a bag of walking, talking ‘MUs’ because you have dared to contest Hubbard’s sacred mutterings. Of course, said fool won’t be able to actually point out your ‘MUs’ but will blather on anyway.
Bruce, you don’t need an essay. In so many words, Hubbard said that, in the beginning , we were big beings. In order to HAVE, it was necessary to BE and DO. After a very long time, we became little beings primarily by not taking responsibility for our actions. So, in a degraded society, the process is backwards, HAVE, DO, BE. This is the operating basis for people and governments today which is to buy on credit (HAVE) a shitload of stuff using credit without any thought about paying off the debt, namely, what do I need to DO to be make enough money to pay off my loans and what person would I have to BE who would have sufficient marketable skills to make sense. A parent will ask his son what he wants to BE when he grows up. He doesn’t have a clue. Ask him what he would like to HAVE and you can’t shut him up. At that point, he may come up with good answers on what he might have to DO.
Hi Mike! Been following your work since around the time of Going Clear. Thanks for everything you do, you – Leah and the rest. 🙂
Anyway – I wanted to ask you something. I’ve noticed that Scientology here in Sweden has changed name to.. well… “Scientology” – from “Scientologi” which is the “Swedified” version of the same term. They seem to be re-dubbing videos and stuff just for this purpose. Seems to be the the same thing going on France? (“Scientologie” -> Scientology)
Any idea why this could be? Is this some kind of global trend, like a ploy to have practitioners buy LHR stuff all over again, so to not have “Misunderstood words” everywhere..? -.-
All the best
Vincent
I guess it is either to have consistency, to be sure people aren’t wondering if this is some “offshoot” of “authorized” scientology, or because the scientology trademark is stronger because of widespread use and they want to have that trademark protected in all countries though use.
A”Prosperity Seminar” is about prosperity for the CULT ( aka DM), not YOU,you poor still-ins.
IF you ever realize that, you’ll be on the way to becoming “born-again wogs” with true prosperity, not just a quick hit of credit you can ‘donate’ to DM.
…and the “Prosperity Gospel” is about prosperity for the pastor. “You wouldn’t want Jesus to walk, would you? That’s why i need a Gulfstream II!”
If anyone comes up to you to tell you they can make you rich, you can bet the one they want to make rich is themselves – by using YOU.
Please for up the Regraded Being ante and start using Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, John Travolta and the rest of assorted rag tag bag of scientology whack jobs in this cartoon strip. Do you know how delicious that would be? Just start off with one featuring some back and forth dialogue between Cruise and Miscavige, and throw in the disembodied spirit of LRH chiming in as a ghost from Target 2.
SPSA, that would be funny for us, but very dangerous legal ground for Mike Rinder and whoever Regraded Being is.
Nope. Public figures and satire mixed are American as apple pie and protected free speech. Besides, Rinder and Remini have been daring CoS and/or COB to sue them. Someone needs to go for it.
Well, OK, that could very well be true, what you’ve pointed out about public figures being lampooned being protected under the 1st Amendment. I’m not a legal person. But then, I personally wouldn’t want Mike Rinder or whoever RB is being harassed, legally, even if the cult couldn’t win. But these are just my feelings and opinions.
I don’t think it would put Regraded Being on dangerous legal ground beyond the cult threatening to sue. There are mountains of precedent asserting and confirming that stars like Cruise and Travolta and Alley are public figures, and using them in a satirical cartoon is — probably more than any other use — a First Amendment protected activity. The First Amendment was added SPECIFICALLY to protect exactly this sort of expression, since the English would arrest (and still DO arrest) people for what they think and what they say — google “Kung Fu Fighting arrest.” The government may try to shut down free speech, like when Obama ejected conservative journalists from pressers, and then tried to get laws created that required journalists to be “licensed,” as long as the Constitution is in effect, if the government can’t do it, a private entity wouldn’t have a chance. Not only would Anonymous descend on the issue, but the American people would — I hope — go so ballistic that the response against the Scilons would be so freakishly swift that it would be like sandblasting a saltine cracker.
Two words: South Park. if they couldn’t win against South Park and its creators, its open season and (wait for it…) FAIR GAME lol
seriously, while I hate to even suggest that fair game be used in any capacity, its overall effect generally gets the person to stop doing what they are doing. Its almost (almost) worth it. Tempting, but no.
Kat
Kimo and Kat,
See my answer to SP. I stand corrected about what I stated about a cartoon of a famous person being grounds for libel or slander or whatever.
Absolutely. I want to see a Regraded Being long run feature with Tom Cruise interacting with the typical Scientologists as depicted in the series. That would be absolutely surreal and utterly delicious.
“LRH chiming in as a ghost from Target 2.”
SP Super Agent, if his actions in real life are any indication, he has not, nor will he ever reach Target 2. He’ll find some excuse why he couldn’t, if any find him and care to ask, but it won’t be HIS fault, of course.
SP Super Agent,
Their lives are already comic strips, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to do!
Kat
off topic:
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I got my bobblehead today!!!!!!!
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Thanks to a secret friend who helped me do secret things, I got to get a bobblehead!
Oh, I’m so happy!
It’s helpful to my battered little soul … this act of rebellion and this contribution to helping others… it’s helpful to be able to be a PART of things!
Oh, joy!
It’s a nice likeness. I shall treasure it.
🙂
🙂
🙂
Rip,
Keep on living! and imagine the day you can proudly display bobble-rinder to the world!
Kat
CONGRATS Rip! Aren’t the little things in life just GRAND?
Hey RIP, glad to hear you’re happy. I hope you have a camera on your phone so you can take pictures of the Bobble Mike anytime you visit someplace that you think we’d all enjoy seeing.
? oh happy dancing feet!
This whole crazy cult is insane. Just sayin!
Kat: “This whole crazy cult is insane. Just sayin!”
no need to tone it down for us — Tell us how you REALLY feel. It’ll take a load off of your shoulders.
Jere,
As I’m a lady (sort of), I refuse to use the language necessary to tell you what I really think. it would get me banned from the blog!
Kat
C’MON KAT, I’m sure you have it in you to say what should be said without using (too many) rude words. Still, I appreciate your trying keeping it ‘clean’.
I’ve often thought the same thing. But, in case you didn’t know, Mike says the only reason he bans people is for personal attacks and other serious things (I seem to recall) like threats of death or violence, divulging other peoples’ personal info, and the other standard bannable offenses. Mike makes it pretty clear that aside from that, you can say whatever the fuck you like – including the George Carlin Seven Words you can’t say on TV.
RB, it is appropriate that many of your cartoons feature a couple trying to maintain a relationship while in the cult. Whether staff or public, scientology exerts enormous pressure on any couple; staff can be posted to different cities despite being a married couple, ordered to handle or disconnect from a spouse, RPFed and be forbidden to communicate, slave away on an insane schedule that allows no time to be together, and so on. If they see dollar signs, the cult will pit husband and wife against each other, advise one to disconnect from one another, encourage one to donate huge sums of money without consulting their spouse, and so on. Even if all else is good, a full time student who also works for a living, has next to no time for family. Absolute poison to a sane, happy relationship.
Zola:”Absolute poison to a sane, happy relationship.”
absolutely; ANY aspect of scientology. Even, or ESPECIALLY the “marriage counseling”, which may be the most ridiculous ‘service’ scientology foists on an unsuspecting audience. Tubby sure didn’t understand interpersonal relations, obviously; though he had the “What I say is LAW.” part down pat.
Zola:”Absolute poison to a sane, happy relationship.”
absolutely; ANY aspect of scientology. Even, or ESPECIALLY the “marriage counseling”, which may be the most ridiculous ‘service’ scientology foists on an unsuspecting audience. Tubby sure didn’t understand interpersonal relations, obviously, though he had the “What I say is LAW.” part down pat.
If $cientology were required to adhere to ‘Truth In Advertising’, they wouldn’t exist. The same for ‘Prosperity Seminars’. Put Michael Chan and Gavin Potter out of business.
RB swings for the fences and hits another homer.
Zee Moo”RB swings for the fences and hits another homer.”
BINGO!
Bruce, great explanation.
Like much from Hubbard and Scientology, “be-do-have” has some validity and works to some extent in certain situations, but not as a generalized one-size-fits-all life strategy. For instance, “fake it ’til you make it” infamously works sometimes in Silicon Valley in particular – though it still has to go hand-in-hand with the actual “make it part,” or it results in debacles and frauds like Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.
**Sorry off topic but was just scanning through the day’s shows and at 9:00 pm EST The Travel Channel the Ghost Adventures investigate a “disturbing energy that penetrates a former scientology lab”. Might be interesting? I think the whole show is titled Devil in the City of Angels Los Angeles.
They must not be afraid of being fair gamed 🙂
They’ve done two shows about LRH, neither of them has been kind. LOL
No, they have not been pro LRH have they. I guess I’m sort of surprised that they take on the cult leader but hey, go for it boys. In a good way this might reach out to a very different audience.
It does seem like more shows are taking on, at least, something with a scientology story line without actually using the scientology name.
Jo said:
“They’ve done two shows about LRH, neither of them has been kind. LOL”
Jo, I’m not sure an honest show about Hubbard COULD be kind. If they do more than scratch the surface of his life and activities, evil stuff oozes out. Only scientology can write kind things about him, entirely ignoring what actually happened, as compared to his ‘take’ on the matters. I don’t think he succeeded in any endeavors other than having lots of ‘baby mommas’, at least 4 of them, the ones he “legitimized” with marriage — just in time for the last one, Mary Sue, who would have started ‘showing’ pretty soon after the ceremony.
Peggy L, Perhaps the “disturbing energy that penetrates the former scientology lab” IS someone being ‘fair gamed’ The title of “Devil in the city of Angels would be appropriate for an ‘Aftermath’ show– or ANY mention of Devil, particularly if ‘Aftermath strays into the foundational principle of scientology — OTO, or Thelema. Crowley considered himself quite the bad boy and Hubbard was, or wanted to be even worse, the anti-Christ, or there times Lucifer, which he interpreted as ‘the bringer of light(illumination or enlightenment) and not so very bad at all.
Peggy L,
I’ll be recording it, if only to figure out what a scientology “lab” might be.
Well, it seems like it was a re purposing of one of their previous shows but I still hope maybe a few who never heard anything about the cult watched it. It really is one scary business scam.
BE: A Scientologist.
DO: Whatever Ron says as interpreted by Dave.
HAVE: Mounting debt or servitude for a billion years.
And another marriage down the tubes thanks to cult behavior/indoctrination.
Our lady is taking the ‘Debbie Cook’ road instead of the ‘Katie Holmes’ road. Open and honest maybe better but, either way, she is headed out the door without money or any assets. Time to call real family/friends and just bail out.
True. Unless they live in a community property state and he has to give her half of everything he’s got, or unless she sues him in court for alimony OR unless SHE’S the one with the business, the money and the assets, in which case, Hubby will very likely trot right out of the cult with her, so the cult will discourage the divorce. Follow the money when it comes to these matters, particularly when the cult is the 3rd party in the marriage.
Cults & “cliques” have their own “INSIDER SPEAK”….words that those who are not members in their “secret society” will not understand. In some cases the insiders will think it is hilarious that we on the outside have no idea what they’re talking about.To be a “member” walking around wearing that “uniform or hat” makes them feel important, as if they are the “big being” on the planet or the universe.
I recall a high school classmate, once a good friend, deeply involved in Hare Krishna…. wearing white “robes” barefoot or sandals & bells, with a partially shaved head thinking he was one of the super supreme beings. He looked down on those of us “on the outside” & jettisoned ALL his family & friends only to become deeply imbedded in Hare Krishna.
Many years later I saw this former classmate….he had no money, no job, no real friends on the outside & the family he had deserted years before no longer wanted contact with him for many reasons. He also had the “insider speak” & it was nearly impossible for him to adjust to life on the outside because he had no idea how to interact with “normal people”.
I gave him my contact info & advised him to go to Social Services for help with housing, food, job referrals etc….but he refused. Can’t help someone who does not want help. Too sad.
I suspect what draws a lot of people to conspiracy theories has similar elements. The idea that they have the inside track on secret knowledge that makes them better than the “sheep” or “WOG” is about the only comfort they have.
It isn’t the idea the conspiracies don’t exist, it’s the idea that a real criminal conspiracy is going to leave bread-crumbs that only they can follow, that makes them look absurd.
I neglect to mention Viewing Dr. Phil show yesterday, he had a guest named Rick Alan Ross who’s written a book entitled
“Cults Inside & Out”…….he spoke of the “leader of the cult becoming a Messiah & being worshipped” & how cults get people to join using the “let’s make a better world”, & how the cult will ingrain in members negative aspects about the world outside & ISOLATING them & instilling FEAR or leaving the cult. I am going to borrow this book from the library.
Thank you Mike Rinder for bringing back the loss of my EDIT ability!
Sadly as sometimes is his way…he allotted only FIVE MINUTES for Mr. Ross to talk about cults isolating people, making them fear contact with the outside world etc. I am going to borrow this from the library & purchase it later on.
Thank you for explaining that Bruce. I would have never had a chance to understand that without your explanation.
Yesterday, there were several references to “hatting” and “hatter”. At first, I thought they were typos. But thanks to Google, I looked up “Scamology hatting”” and found out it was about wearing different hats.
Of course, I didn’t use the word “Scamology”. I had to use the name they give themselves. I refuse to ever use that name anymore because I feel it somehow makes them appear to be something real instead of something phony – which is what they really are.
But I want to tell you the longer I read this blog, the more I begin to understand how this scam makes up a bunch of phony tech as well as rules to enforce that everyone must pretend to believe in this phony bullshit. Then, whenever anyone says anything that demonstrates they know it’s all fake, they are required to hand over thousands of dollars. It’s kind of like the Scamology equivalent of the “swear jar” that some parents use to enforce the “no swearing” jar on their kids.
It begins to dawn on me that this scam has many so-called rules in order to squeeze every single nickel they can out of their dupes. It took me a long time to figure that out since I have never been squeezed like that. It must not take very long to realize the truth when you are the one being squeezed.
Skyler:”Of course, I didn’t use the word “Scamology”. I had to use the name they give themselves. I refuse to ever use that name anymore because I feel it somehow makes them appear to be something real instead of something phony – which is what they really are.”
I agree with you, Skyler except that a phony thing named is still phony. Using the name it uses for itself helps Google connect the name to we who are attempting to expose scientology’s essential falseness. I REFUSE to call the criminal multinational enterprise a church, and I’ve started to refuse capitalizing the name, even when grammatically required. Google indexes and searches without capitalization, so my lack of dignifying the cult with the cap doesn’t get lost completely.
It’s such a trivial thing, but it makes me smile…
“I’m starting to get tired of having to agree with things that I can’t observe for myself.”
Bingo. This is what got me out of the cult.
Another bullseye. Thanks, RB.
What that reminded me of, is “what’s true, is what’s true for you” – unless it’s not true for Hubbard or Scientology, in which case you need a Severe Reality Adjustment until you Come Into Agreement.
This isn’t a game? Heh. You’d better check with your guru — He seemed to think that game-playing is the most important of all endeavors.
Thanks, RB,
Have been out so long forgot all about the snitching, shakedowns and party lines.
Maybe the last still-ins should just stay so they keep aberrating each other instead of society.
Xenu’s Son,
Maybe it’s good to keep the still-ins IN. At least they’re all together in one spot and can be dealt with more easily when the final stage of the implosion occurs. In the meantime, you’re right, they’re only harming themselves.
Atta Girl!!! Dump that chump.
People don’t bet on horses making it to the slaughter house.
A short explanation might be necessary for never-ins. Maybe Brian will be inspired to do an essay about this, it is one of the twisted ways Hubbard enforced his will on others.
Hubbard said in many lectures and essays that the proper sequence for an action is Be, then Do, then Have. Like, be a Lawyer, do all kinds of briefs and court appearances, get the cash. Sort of makes sense if you don’t think about it.
An extension of this is one of the High Crimes in Scientology – having to have before you can do. It is a crime, and you can be severely punished, to say something like “We need to get some paint before we can paint this wall.”
This is not the Hubbard way. In Hubbard-world, you “take on a beingness” (assume an identity), do something no matter how frivolous or irrelevant, then get something going at which point the “havingness” (or stuff) will just fall from the sky.
Sort of like the expression “fake it ’til you make it.”
A Scientology painter has to revel in his beingness of painteringness, like the famous picture of Big Shot Film Director Hubbard dressed up as a cyan cowboy riding his camera dolly. Put on some painter clothes, make sure your name tag is on the Organizing Board as a “Painter”, tell everybody stories about what a great painter you are.
Maybe take some courses. Read up on everything Hubbard ever said about painting. And accept that as sacred gospel on the subject, never to be questioned or challenged.
Then grab some old paint that is lying around and throw it at the wall. Eventually someone will take pity on you and give you some brushes and real paint, then you can actually do some painting and maybe even get paid. Classic standard Scientology Be-Do-Have.
You wonder why the Thursday Funnies are so full of awkward inanities, typos and unintended hilarity. It is exactly because of this principle of having to be before you can do. Utter incompetence is celebrated and encouraged. The title is more important than the job. Somebody is assigned to do a promotional mailing and does this Be-Do-Have trick like any good Scientologist and of course it turns out badly. It’s inevitable.
In the third panel of todays Regraded Being the soon-to-be ex-Scientologist says “Whatever happened to Be-Do-Have?” Of course she is right, by Hubbard’s ideas they should get the organizations going before they think about fancy quarters for them. It will be a bit down the road before she realizes that “Be-Do-Have” is in itself a hypnotic control mechanism.
Bruce, respectfully, while I agree that extreme applications of “Be-Do-Have”, as illustrated by your example of having to paint a wall and not having any paint and taking on the “beingness” of a painter and hoping that someone will come along and give you some paint are ridiculous, time-wasting and downright suppressive, at the same time, I cannot agree that “Be-Do-Have”, applied sensibly , is a “hypnotic control mechanism”.
Nowhere have I read anything by Hubbard stating that a person can’t “have” the tools or products or skills necessary to do a job or a task. I don’t know where you’re getting that from but its an extreme application of the principle and possibly some sort of Sea Org arbitrary, I don’t know.
Here’s an example of the point I’m making:
I want a clean bathroom, OK. I know how to clean a bathroom, so that’s no problem. In the cabinet under the sink are bathroom cleaning products, so no problem there. But the bathroom doesn’t get cleaned today – why? Well, I have all kinds of reasons. I’m too tired. I had an early appointment today. I don’t feel like it. I’m too busy…etc., etc. In brief, I’m not willing to BE a bathroom cleaner today, or, in Scientology lingo, I’m not willing to “assume the beingness” of a bathroom cleaner today.
On the other hand, I HATE a dirty bathroom, a dirty bathroom depresses me, so I KNOW that tomorrow morning, I WILL clean it. But its not me knowing how , or me having the supplies, that’s going to get the bathroom clean. Its ME willing to “BE” a bathroom cleaner and THEN knowing how (which includes, obviously, knowing how to use the right products to do it ) and THEN doing it. And then I HAVE a clean bathroom. Be-Do-Have.
Now, if ‘m just willing to BE a bathroom cleaner yet have no cleaning product, no sponge or mop, no paper towels or a rag, etc., what am I going to do? Scrub the tub with my fingernails? Wipe down the bathroom floor with my hair?
You see my point here. Common sense has to factor into Be-Do-Have. And of course I gave you an extreme example but then, your example was extreme too, as re the painting with no paint, waiting for someone to come along and give you some, etc. Common sense. Extreme applications of Be-Do-Have can’t work, but that doesn’t mean that Have-Do-Be works! Have-Do-Be will always fail. Its just a matter of time before applications in extremis of “having to have before you can do, and doing before you can be” snuffs the life out of a person or an organization.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you don’t mind my debating this point.
Aqua, Tubby DID enforce Be-do-have in that suppressive way; Many stories abound that the crews couldn’t get essential supplies approved through normal channels. If you didn’t have a brush, it was up to you to go out and buy one with your nonexistent pay. Personally, as a boater, I find painting with a brush counter-productive and sloppy, producing an unacceptable result. The standard for awhile is called “roll and tip”: lay the paint down with a roller, then drag the tip of a brush through to level it out. If you do it properly, it’ll pass the ‘three-foot rule’: your not being slapped in the face with imperfections if you’re standing more than 3 feet away. Cruising boaters are necessarily a stingy group, but they at least have SOME standards and recognize the need for having somewhat-proper tools to get jobs done properly. Give me a spray gun and I can lay down a glass-smooth paint job; I’ve done it professionally. I can also do roll-and-tip if necessary. Hubbard didn’t seem to want to realize that physical-universe objects can’t do anything but obey the physical universe’s rules. For instance there’s the harbor cruise he took with friends & family in ‘Maggy’ where he left the dock with a nearly-empty fuel tank, eschewed the use of her sails, then ran out of fuel and had to pour the boat’s lanterns oil into the tank to get the motor to run long enough to nearly get them back to the dock. Then, He takes his then-wife on a jaunt to Alaska, trashing Maggy’s engine in only 300 miles. Marine engines are TOUGH, designed to run for thousands of miles without a hiccup. What he did to destroy that one, I can only conjecture, though it had to involve believing the physical-universe engine didn’t need any maintenance or proper fuel. Nor does it seem he used those sails much. In a similar-sized boat, we’ve put more than 10 times the distance on our small engine, and it keeps ticking over smoothly, as long as I remember to fill the tank once in a while — About mid-June most seasons. I don’t think I could INTENTIONALLY trash a motor in only 300 miles, the equivalent of the first month of car ownership. He certainly didn’t HAVE that engine long. I’m fairly certain that Tubby didn’t believe in changing the oil and just ‘assumed’ that the fuel he picked up along the way was perfect and didn’t need filtering or inspection for water and impurities. (either of which will mess up a motor’s systems quickly.) Also, I suspect that his throttle had only one position: full speed ahead.
“Aqua, Tubby DID support BE-do-have in that suppressive way; Many stories abound that the crews couldn’t get essential supplies
approved through normal channels.”
Whoa! Ok, then, I now see exactly where Bruce is coming from.
In other words, when he gave that far out example of being ordered to paint something, and not being given any paint to paint it with, and having to scrounge up some kind of paint somewhere or else be punished for “having to have before he could do” – with that example, he was not exaggerating… all that much?
Orders like these were, or are – what’s the word – CUSTOMARY in the SO?
Well, if orders like these are the NORM in the Sea Org, then, that’s just…nuts. Nuts!
Not to mention a waste of time. And energy. And a crushing of someone’s spirit, of the person’s wanting to “do”, to contribute to the group, to get a product being thwarted, deliberately, even maliciously and so unnecessarily thwarted. And the resulting losses and failed purpose and ARC breaks due to not completing the jobs. Wow. This is beyond suppressive. I don’t even have the words.
Bruce, wherever you are, I get it now. I understand. Holy Shit! “Be-Do-Have”… just hearing these words would be enough to…I’m sorry! I didn’t know.
I suggest the current Mockingbird’s Nest compilation of Jon Atack posts to the Bunker, and another one called “Hidden Abuse in Scientology” from Wed. Mar. 13 this year. To me, these two articles use good source material (including Source material) to explain so much about what Hubbard was doing, and why, and why it has confused and entrapped people for decades.
I’m jumping in here because “be do have” is exactly the kind of confusion technique Hubbard used in order to insert another small brick into the control structure he was making his subjects undergo constantly. Atack explains it better than I ever could, so if anyone is interested please read the current Mockingbird’s Nest, and the older one from 3-13-19, and perhaps continue on to a companion article from 2-18-19.
I may not agree with all that is at Mockingbird’s Nest, but there is plenty of food for thought, and one can hardly go wrong reading Jon Atack anytime.
http://mbnest.blogspot.com
Aqua, point taken. I am sure there is some validity to just about all of Hubbard’s ideas if not taken to extremes. After all, he stole them fair and square.
But in the Sea Org, especially at the Int Base, this idea was taken far beyond the extremes regularly. Dave Miscavige’s special version goes something like this: “I am a senior Messenger. So according to the Flag Orders, talking to me is just like talking to Ron himself. And Ron can order anything. The only acceptable answer is “SIR, YES SIR!” and immediate compliance. Any other response is BACKFLASH (an unnecessary response to an order). No backflash tolerated. You do it now, doesn’t matter if it is stupid cruel insane or destructive. DO IT NOW NOW NOW!”
Example – “PAINT THAT WALL!” “Well, sir, the paint is arriving in ten minutes and we are priming right now.” “YOU DARE TO COME BACK AT ME WITH THAT COUNTER-INTENTIONED *!#!!! (well seasoned with unprintables) PIE FACE BACKFLASH! START!”
A wise Sea Org member will acknowledge loudly and go on priming, guessing that Dave won’t know the difference.
Or you can try the classic misdirection technique: “SIR YES SIR! As soon as that !#!#! MF#!#! in Estates gets up here with the paint. I ordered it two hours ago. Tell you what, I am going down to the Garage right now and get it myself!” Then run as long as you are in his field of view. As soon as you are out of his sight a leisurely trip to the bathroom and a smoke are in order. Chances are while the paint issue is roiling around he will get distracted by something else and life will go on. But if not you have someone to blame so it’s all good.
At the Int Base we used to say “We have been doing so much with so little for so long that now we can do anything with nothing at all!”
Too bad all we were doing was busy-work, redoes of the redoes of the redoes because it had to be done so fast that there was no time to do it right. Short cuts make long delays, as Tolkien observed in the Lord of the Rings. And absolutely nothing good ever happens at 3 AM.
And even if we did it perfectly, nothing we did was in a good cause or helpful to humanity. Should have stood in bed.
Bruce, thank you for answering me. I understand now. I didn’t before. I’m still processing this – well, “insanity” seems too banal a term for what has been described. I sent a word out to you in my response to jere above, in response to his post in which he clued me in on the extreme applications and enforcements of Be-Do-Have in the Sea Org. His post opened my eyes. Now what you’ve shared opens them even more. Thank you for understanding me, and where I was coming from. Now I understand you. I really have no words for what I’m feeling as regards this cruelty, this mental cruelty with regard to orders having been perpetrated on well meaning, sane, helpful people. This man DM is so very, very sick. So very ar gone as a being…its…I don’t know, I don’t have the words. Its hard for me to even imagine it. To deliberately, purposefully, continually, set up your own people for losses, failures, upsets – to set things up so that they have to become excellent, smooth liars so as appear to comply to an order without being able to actually do it…I’m so sorry, Bruce. Its just beyond the beyond. I’m so sorry!
Well Bruce, even though your comments make perfect sense in the real world, I’m sure some fool will come along and insist that you are a bag of walking, talking ‘MUs’ because you have dared to contest Hubbard’s sacred mutterings. Of course, said fool won’t be able to actually point out your ‘MUs’ but will blather on anyway.
Bruce, you don’t need an essay. In so many words, Hubbard said that, in the beginning , we were big beings. In order to HAVE, it was necessary to BE and DO. After a very long time, we became little beings primarily by not taking responsibility for our actions. So, in a degraded society, the process is backwards, HAVE, DO, BE. This is the operating basis for people and governments today which is to buy on credit (HAVE) a shitload of stuff using credit without any thought about paying off the debt, namely, what do I need to DO to be make enough money to pay off my loans and what person would I have to BE who would have sufficient marketable skills to make sense. A parent will ask his son what he wants to BE when he grows up. He doesn’t have a clue. Ask him what he would like to HAVE and you can’t shut him up. At that point, he may come up with good answers on what he might have to DO.