As an OT (Operating Tomato), the dead plant on the desk really disturbs me. What happened to following tenet 1 of the code? That plant is certainly in need!
That ugly preacher has a Tingler wrapped around his spine, and if he doesn’t scream soon, he will die of fright! No kidding! I saw it in the movie The Tingler 61 years ago when I was 8, so my memory of the plot may be a bit off, but I recall that the bad guy dies horribly in the end, the way all bad guys should go. Who-o-o-o! Look out, Lil Davey! The Tingler is coming for you!
Others have highlighted the problematic “never” in “never desert a group you owe your support” but i’d like to point out something else: you PAY for Scientology services. As in, you give them cash money to do a thing and they do it. That means, by definition, that you don’t owe them anything. In fact, if they fail to deliver then they owe you!
No Scientologist owes Scientology anything.
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Another pet peeve of mine is when the characters say “…over 12 knowledge reports….” You’re supposed to use “…over…” or “…more than…” as estimates, like you do when rounding numbers off. For example, McDonald’s use to say “over 6 billion served” as in, “the actual number of people we’ve served is greater than 6 billion but less than 7 billion.” You know, quick thumbnail estimates to give your audience a feel for what the magnitude is. “Over a thousand people attended the demonstration in downtown Clearwater today…” NOT “Over 1,257 people attended the….” If you’ve gotta give an exact number after estimating it, make it clear that the number was accurate but is now incorrect, with the true number being unknown, therefore the estimate. “By 2 pm, 1,257 people had passed through the gate to the demonstration area, at which time the police removed it to let the crowds through.”
In the above examples, they should have said “…over 10 knowledge reports….” By using exact numbers, they sound like idiots who both don’t know the exact number of KRs (but should) and also people who don’t know how to use english language expressions correctly. Nice touch, RB!
I am not trying to minimize what anyone here is going through due to the cult’s disconnection police. It’s just that I know three women whose daughters have basically disconnected from them. That being said I only know them as friends and don’t know the history of why it happened but it seemed once their mother was of no longer use to them financially, or as baby sitters, or the daughter felt she was not being given the princess treatment etc. all of a sudden they were no longer of any value to them. One I am pretty sure their VERY controlling husband is the root of the problem though.
Anyway, I know the emotional impact this had on them. It’s something that never leaves them, the wondering why, and I know all three of them still love their daughter deeply and wish they knew there was some way to fix things. It’s not possible to fix things when the other person won’t even come around or speak to you. One of them still has their grandchildren in touch, but the other two are blocked out of their grandchildren’s life. One of the women would show up at whatever their grandchild was participating in, tried to keep in touch that way, but when they were noticed it didn’t turn out well.
It’s just very cruel. There’s always a sadness surrounding them.
If you apply Scientology’s Code of Honor and basic Scientology Ethics tech and the Data Series, the inevitable outcome is that you will leave organized Scientology – unless you misapply, deny, not-is and betray yourself.
Also, some of the lines in the code are militaristic and more appropriate to a field of battle than a supposed self improvement or self awareness group or movement. Subtle indoctrination.
In 1954 Hubbard might have been “under attack” from several quarters from his point of view and included some “being at war” concepts into his Code. Just my guess.
Richard, at the beginning in 1950-1 Hubbard was writing crazy letters to the FBI claiming that people were sneaking into his apartment in the middle of the night and trying to kill him, and then turning around and offering to help the FBI root out some vast communist conspiracy. He was just a paranoid “mental case” as an FBI agent classified him in early 1951 – aggravated his by doing a lot of stimulants and other drugs producing effects similar to the edginess infamous among heavy “nose candy” (cocaine) users in later era that you may remember.
It is from the Cult leader playbook to create an enemy and an eternal fight.
Eventually, it became The Psychs.
Funny, this enemy on the Whole Track, this generality called The Psychs seemed to be able to regroup lifetime after lifetime, and possesses superhuman powers of destruction and enslavement of humanity.
In other words, these guys are WAYYY more “OT” than those supposed OTs at the top of the scientology bridge.
“Never withdraw allegiance” —Even when THEY weren’t what they purported to be, and that they never intended to be, couldn’t be.
Yup, there’s a bomb or two “hidden” in that code.
I got fed up with it when I saw they never intended to help comrades in need. That *I* was one of the ones in need really drove home their ineptitude & uncaring, etc. It also was the basis of my ability to see scn for what it WASN’T.
My son thinks he’s keeping in his Code of Honor by disconnecting from me and the rest of his family. Once all things revolve around scientology, once the church of scientology becomes the “greatest good,” that’s the way it is; I think this is a perfect demonstration of a cult mindset. Scientology likes to pontificate about the above Code or about “The Greatest Good for the Greater Number” and many other concepts that seem good in the beginning but all good concepts in the philosophy change (for the worse) once one gets it in their minds that the church of scientology is the center of it all. Say goodbye to yourself and your own power of choice and free will.
Mary, one day he will realize how wrong he was and be filled with shame, self blame, grief and frantic regret for having hurt you. I know you don’t want him to suffer like this because you understand him and love him. You just want him back. To press the reset button and go on, with him totally forgiven and understood. You’ve forgiven him already and knowing that will ease his suffering somewhat. But what will be rough for him will be getting to the point where he can honestly forgive himself. Forgive himself for ignoring what in his heart of hearts he knows is true because its right in front of his face. Everything you’ve told him that he sees but doesn’t want to see, because God forbid that he admits Mom was right. He’s going to have to grow up. When it comes right down to it, we are each individuals and as such responsible for our own choices. Sure, you put him in the cult from infancy, but he’s got eyes and ears and a brain. At some point we all have to own our choices and stop blaming our parents. It will be rough for him; hopefully he can get thru it. You won’t be able to do it for him; he’ll have to do it for himself. Its doable. Others have done it and come out OK. He’ll be back, Mary. Not in good shape, but he’ll be back. He hasn’t forgotten you. He’s just in denial, that’s all. (Groan) “Mom told me. She was right! But I can’t let her know! There’s no way I can admit this!”
well stated—-
Aquamarine —- Mary —- this is not a one shot experience —- we ALL have case and programming and hypnotism to face —– they don’t just dissipate with a few Scientology or a billion Scientology sessions —– for some it’s re-stim key out, re-stim there – get help key out, re-stim again and again and again. My whole heart is with all whom have responded to this post!!!!!
RB, you’ve got the lingo so down. Each line is infused with both truth and subtle humor. The dead plants in her office – funny!
But then there’s the actual message. I related strongly. I had the same experience.
Policy be damned! To hell with LRH POLICY You’re speaking against Command Intention! We don’t need you around here!
Its sad, actually, the way they’re cutting their own throats. But I’m glad we have a way to laugh about it.
Im’a seeing a pattern here…. Scientologist “A” creates a lie to make Scientology look good. Scientologist “B” calls out the lie, gets KR’s, comm-eved, and declared. Scientologist “C” knew “B” and queries the declare, gets KRs, comm-eved, and declared. etc
Since the cult is held together by lies it is omly a question of time before they complete the purge and no one is left (to be right!).
One thing is for certain in scientology. Just because you have been elected to throw someone under the bus today doesn’t mean that you are immune from being thrown under the bus tomorrow.
A friend who worked in the GO told me he once received an order from Mary Sue to “find the plant who is destroying the FSO stats”. He had the Info Bu run a ‘plant check’. It involved their pulling in and searching through many, many PC folders. As I recall no plant was ever found. But WTF. The tech is supposed to always work!!!
What do you do when you discover that the person, group or activity to which you granted allegiance was not actually what it/they represented themselves to be? What if you found that it/they were lying or concealing the truth? What if you found that the concealment was built into the thing itself, for the purposes of entrapment?
And it’s one of those things that only actually applies to Scientology hierarchically. If you had an allegiance to say psychiatry – not to mention family – those not only can be withdrawn, but may be expected to be. But try to withdraw an allegiance to Scientology, and they’ll hold people’s feet to the fire as if it were an absolute principle.
Ultimately Hubbard’s “ethics” are just situational and end-justifies-the-means, always viewed and interpreted in favor of Scientology and those of higher standing in its hierarchy. “Allegiance” or “responsibility” are really just mechanisms of blame and control, and only flow one way, down the chain of authority and command.
Interestingly, this code is just a bit more idealistic, liberal and freewheeling, coming from Hubbard’s early days and when Scientology was small, before he apparently realized he had to go a completely strong-arm, totalitarian route to make a larger organization work, and write his statements of supposed principle more tightly and cynically, as reflected in KSW in the next decade. Thus it’s not surprising that it seems a bit more based in ideals of what Scientology could be – and serves as a contrast to how the organization is now run.
You hit the nail on the head. Anyone on a post with the responsibility of “maintaining” ethics in the field, such as an MAA or EO, would never worry to have to apply ANY code AGAINST the choich. I know this for a fact, as that is the way that I thought. I freely admit this now, and can see where I went astray. They can’t, the ones that are still in now, eve after all the contraction, all the broken promises. I am also in agreement, that in 50’s the writing seemed “loftier”, ideally. It leads you to the conclusion that he may have been himself lured deeper into the darkness than he already was. Or just an evil accidental genius.
Many have and are planning it I’m sure.
The PL about forbiding group petition and of course speaking about leaving is suppressive.
So it’s little by little for now.
They weren’t scientologists in the beginning but maybe they got onboard and they’re not publicly mentioning it like most of the scn celebrities. Maybe they’re UTR.
nice touches: the dead house plants and the upside-down cross.
As an OT (Operating Tomato), the dead plant on the desk really disturbs me. What happened to following tenet 1 of the code? That plant is certainly in need!
That Priest in the final panel looks a bit ghoulish. He’s what you would expect Emperor Palpatine’s auditor to look like.
That ugly preacher has a Tingler wrapped around his spine, and if he doesn’t scream soon, he will die of fright! No kidding! I saw it in the movie The Tingler 61 years ago when I was 8, so my memory of the plot may be a bit off, but I recall that the bad guy dies horribly in the end, the way all bad guys should go. Who-o-o-o! Look out, Lil Davey! The Tingler is coming for you!
Ammo Alley, for DM, it’d be “The tinkler”. He wouldn’t FEEL the Tingler through the alcohol haze.
Oops! That last should have been to Ammo Alamo. Sorry for the misdup.
Others have highlighted the problematic “never” in “never desert a group you owe your support” but i’d like to point out something else: you PAY for Scientology services. As in, you give them cash money to do a thing and they do it. That means, by definition, that you don’t owe them anything. In fact, if they fail to deliver then they owe you!
No Scientologist owes Scientology anything.
.
Another pet peeve of mine is when the characters say “…over 12 knowledge reports….” You’re supposed to use “…over…” or “…more than…” as estimates, like you do when rounding numbers off. For example, McDonald’s use to say “over 6 billion served” as in, “the actual number of people we’ve served is greater than 6 billion but less than 7 billion.” You know, quick thumbnail estimates to give your audience a feel for what the magnitude is. “Over a thousand people attended the demonstration in downtown Clearwater today…” NOT “Over 1,257 people attended the….” If you’ve gotta give an exact number after estimating it, make it clear that the number was accurate but is now incorrect, with the true number being unknown, therefore the estimate. “By 2 pm, 1,257 people had passed through the gate to the demonstration area, at which time the police removed it to let the crowds through.”
In the above examples, they should have said “…over 10 knowledge reports….” By using exact numbers, they sound like idiots who both don’t know the exact number of KRs (but should) and also people who don’t know how to use english language expressions correctly. Nice touch, RB!
Exactly so, James Rosso.
They chafed when I told them “I paid for service. End of story.”
“We sell pearls for pennies already”
Staff attitude, “you’re lucky we’re here at all”, set by the lunatic who created the trap.
James Rosso correctly said:”No Scientologist owes Scientology anything.”
No truer words have been “spoken”, James.
I am not trying to minimize what anyone here is going through due to the cult’s disconnection police. It’s just that I know three women whose daughters have basically disconnected from them. That being said I only know them as friends and don’t know the history of why it happened but it seemed once their mother was of no longer use to them financially, or as baby sitters, or the daughter felt she was not being given the princess treatment etc. all of a sudden they were no longer of any value to them. One I am pretty sure their VERY controlling husband is the root of the problem though.
Anyway, I know the emotional impact this had on them. It’s something that never leaves them, the wondering why, and I know all three of them still love their daughter deeply and wish they knew there was some way to fix things. It’s not possible to fix things when the other person won’t even come around or speak to you. One of them still has their grandchildren in touch, but the other two are blocked out of their grandchildren’s life. One of the women would show up at whatever their grandchild was participating in, tried to keep in touch that way, but when they were noticed it didn’t turn out well.
It’s just very cruel. There’s always a sadness surrounding them.
Why have just 10 Commandments when you can have 15 in a Code of Honor or 21 “moral” precepts. Trust Hubbard to bloat things.
If you apply Scientology’s Code of Honor and basic Scientology Ethics tech and the Data Series, the inevitable outcome is that you will leave organized Scientology – unless you misapply, deny, not-is and betray yourself.
Hubbard‘s code of honor is a good example of how he would plant land mines in things such as this.
Buried in the points of the code of honor that sound good or reasonable, are a couple deliberate self-serving bombs:
“Never withdraw allegiance once granted.”
“Never desert a group to which you owe your support.”
There goes Hubbard with his extreme statements using words like “never“.
As many commenters pointed out, what if the allegiance you granted turns out to be misplaced? Nope, it says NEVER.
And the loaded language in the second statement, “desert” and “you owe”. That’s self-serving Hubbard manipulation to keep people in line and on board.
“We cured your fear of cats and now you’re leaving?” Blah blah.
“Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.”
Wow. That all depends on who is defining “just cause” now doesn’t it? That leads to all kinds of nasty Fair gaming and lying and what have you.
Also, some of the lines in the code are militaristic and more appropriate to a field of battle than a supposed self improvement or self awareness group or movement. Subtle indoctrination.
In 1954 Hubbard might have been “under attack” from several quarters from his point of view and included some “being at war” concepts into his Code. Just my guess.
Richard, at the beginning in 1950-1 Hubbard was writing crazy letters to the FBI claiming that people were sneaking into his apartment in the middle of the night and trying to kill him, and then turning around and offering to help the FBI root out some vast communist conspiracy. He was just a paranoid “mental case” as an FBI agent classified him in early 1951 – aggravated his by doing a lot of stimulants and other drugs producing effects similar to the edginess infamous among heavy “nose candy” (cocaine) users in later era that you may remember.
See, for instance: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/nov/14/l-ron-hubbard-fbi-informant/
It is from the Cult leader playbook to create an enemy and an eternal fight.
Eventually, it became The Psychs.
Funny, this enemy on the Whole Track, this generality called The Psychs seemed to be able to regroup lifetime after lifetime, and possesses superhuman powers of destruction and enslavement of humanity.
In other words, these guys are WAYYY more “OT” than those supposed OTs at the top of the scientology bridge.
Doesn’t matter it’s all made up anyway.
“Never withdraw allegiance” —Even when THEY weren’t what they purported to be, and that they never intended to be, couldn’t be.
Yup, there’s a bomb or two “hidden” in that code.
I got fed up with it when I saw they never intended to help comrades in need. That *I* was one of the ones in need really drove home their ineptitude & uncaring, etc. It also was the basis of my ability to see scn for what it WASN’T.
And finally, there was only one left.
My son thinks he’s keeping in his Code of Honor by disconnecting from me and the rest of his family. Once all things revolve around scientology, once the church of scientology becomes the “greatest good,” that’s the way it is; I think this is a perfect demonstration of a cult mindset. Scientology likes to pontificate about the above Code or about “The Greatest Good for the Greater Number” and many other concepts that seem good in the beginning but all good concepts in the philosophy change (for the worse) once one gets it in their minds that the church of scientology is the center of it all. Say goodbye to yourself and your own power of choice and free will.
Mary, one day he will realize how wrong he was and be filled with shame, self blame, grief and frantic regret for having hurt you. I know you don’t want him to suffer like this because you understand him and love him. You just want him back. To press the reset button and go on, with him totally forgiven and understood. You’ve forgiven him already and knowing that will ease his suffering somewhat. But what will be rough for him will be getting to the point where he can honestly forgive himself. Forgive himself for ignoring what in his heart of hearts he knows is true because its right in front of his face. Everything you’ve told him that he sees but doesn’t want to see, because God forbid that he admits Mom was right. He’s going to have to grow up. When it comes right down to it, we are each individuals and as such responsible for our own choices. Sure, you put him in the cult from infancy, but he’s got eyes and ears and a brain. At some point we all have to own our choices and stop blaming our parents. It will be rough for him; hopefully he can get thru it. You won’t be able to do it for him; he’ll have to do it for himself. Its doable. Others have done it and come out OK. He’ll be back, Mary. Not in good shape, but he’ll be back. He hasn’t forgotten you. He’s just in denial, that’s all. (Groan) “Mom told me. She was right! But I can’t let her know! There’s no way I can admit this!”
well stated—-
Aquamarine —- Mary —- this is not a one shot experience —- we ALL have case and programming and hypnotism to face —– they don’t just dissipate with a few Scientology or a billion Scientology sessions —– for some it’s re-stim key out, re-stim there – get help key out, re-stim again and again and again. My whole heart is with all whom have responded to this post!!!!!
Mark, LOL
RB, you’ve got the lingo so down. Each line is infused with both truth and subtle humor. The dead plants in her office – funny!
But then there’s the actual message. I related strongly. I had the same experience.
Policy be damned! To hell with LRH POLICY You’re speaking against Command Intention! We don’t need you around here!
Its sad, actually, the way they’re cutting their own throats. But I’m glad we have a way to laugh about it.
Tune in to next week’s episode of ” The Wonderful World of Miscavigeology.”
Great expose RB.
Im’a seeing a pattern here…. Scientologist “A” creates a lie to make Scientology look good. Scientologist “B” calls out the lie, gets KR’s, comm-eved, and declared. Scientologist “C” knew “B” and queries the declare, gets KRs, comm-eved, and declared. etc
Since the cult is held together by lies it is omly a question of time before they complete the purge and no one is left (to be right!).
One thing is for certain in scientology. Just because you have been elected to throw someone under the bus today doesn’t mean that you are immune from being thrown under the bus tomorrow.
Never fail to declare someone suppressive if it helps to protect the lies Scientology uses to control its followers and make money for its leader.
That’s number 16, right?
That’s hilarious 🙂
Insane , apparently Trevor didn’t go for it though.
Disconnection, forced abortions, stalking, BTs and clusters; everything you could possibly want from a religion.
Hey! Don’t knock Body Thetans! My BT’s are quite friendly. They sometimes make fun of me, but, most of the time they just want to be alone.
You need to route onto OTIII and do the wall of fire! Remember, Scientology has the answer for everything!
How do I sign up?
Hey, I’m not knocking them; they seem pretty able. Look what they did to Hubbard.
Ah……ain’t karma wonderful! She can dish it out but can’t take it.
The dying/dead plants in her office are a great tell.
She should get a “plant check”.
I checked my plants and, sure enough they were dead.
A friend who worked in the GO told me he once received an order from Mary Sue to “find the plant who is destroying the FSO stats”. He had the Info Bu run a ‘plant check’. It involved their pulling in and searching through many, many PC folders. As I recall no plant was ever found. But WTF. The tech is supposed to always work!!!
Of course there was no plant – it is systemic.
Mark, LOL
Nice touch those plants on the table.
The dead ones? Yeah, it is a nice touch.
Just another plant murderer. The disposabilityness of the MMA is all too true. Everyone but the Grand High Poo-bah is disposable.
2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.
What do you do when you discover that the person, group or activity to which you granted allegiance was not actually what it/they represented themselves to be? What if you found that it/they were lying or concealing the truth? What if you found that the concealment was built into the thing itself, for the purposes of entrapment?
Yeah Dotey OT , this code looks really good but in the context of Scientology it is a nice trap , really nice.
On my way out I asked the same question. Never got an answer of course.
And it’s one of those things that only actually applies to Scientology hierarchically. If you had an allegiance to say psychiatry – not to mention family – those not only can be withdrawn, but may be expected to be. But try to withdraw an allegiance to Scientology, and they’ll hold people’s feet to the fire as if it were an absolute principle.
Ultimately Hubbard’s “ethics” are just situational and end-justifies-the-means, always viewed and interpreted in favor of Scientology and those of higher standing in its hierarchy. “Allegiance” or “responsibility” are really just mechanisms of blame and control, and only flow one way, down the chain of authority and command.
Interestingly, this code is just a bit more idealistic, liberal and freewheeling, coming from Hubbard’s early days and when Scientology was small, before he apparently realized he had to go a completely strong-arm, totalitarian route to make a larger organization work, and write his statements of supposed principle more tightly and cynically, as reflected in KSW in the next decade. Thus it’s not surprising that it seems a bit more based in ideals of what Scientology could be – and serves as a contrast to how the organization is now run.
You hit the nail on the head. Anyone on a post with the responsibility of “maintaining” ethics in the field, such as an MAA or EO, would never worry to have to apply ANY code AGAINST the choich. I know this for a fact, as that is the way that I thought. I freely admit this now, and can see where I went astray. They can’t, the ones that are still in now, eve after all the contraction, all the broken promises. I am also in agreement, that in 50’s the writing seemed “loftier”, ideally. It leads you to the conclusion that he may have been himself lured deeper into the darkness than he already was. Or just an evil accidental genius.
what would happen if everyone who were told to disconnect from family members just walked away?
Many have and are planning it I’m sure.
The PL about forbiding group petition and of course speaking about leaving is suppressive.
So it’s little by little for now.
I just spent an hour finding this for you:
An excellent interview with Paul Burkhart about the state of affairs of our diminishing cult:
“All of the people in management know that the Ideal Orgs are empty. It’s the public Scientologists who don’t know it.”
https://tonyortega.org/2016/02/13/scientologys-space-man-as-of-2013-active-scientologists-fewer-than-20000-worldwide/
Maybe it’s already happened 💞🤞😂
Does anyone remember Daffy Duck’s blathering before saying, ‘that’s all, folks’? Well, it applies to this!
Clarification: ‘Blather’ refers to the Code of Honor – Not to RB specifically
Another clarification: It was Porky Pig was said that, not Daffy Duck.
Doesn’t matter much. Neither one of them was ever a Scientologist.
Correction: It was Porky Pig who said that (not”was said that”).
Porky joined the Sea Org but routed out, because he got tired of being relegated to pig’s berthing.
They weren’t scientologists in the beginning but maybe they got onboard and they’re not publicly mentioning it like most of the scn celebrities. Maybe they’re UTR.