I love these comics as much as old school Dilbert! Looks like they hoovered out his account in a well coordinated reacharound. The cult is like inviting a tar baby into your wallet. Too bad there is no way to process his refund.
I agree to the max. I agree so much that I cannot even find any kind of adjective or expression to use in this post to say how much I agree.
Regraded Being is so enormously talented and their (gender neutral pronoun) work is so attractive that I’d love to know of an appropriate suggestion I could make that would help get their work into the public consciousness. But all I can really think to do is to say, “Very well done RB. Your contributions to this site are truly wonderful and appreciated so very much. Perhaps we could have an “RB Appreciation Day”? Or maybe we could give RB some kind of medal like the one that was given to Bozo Cruise? The big problem with that is that RB is the only person I can imagine who is capable of giving that medal an appropriate name and I’m certain that RB would never name a medal to give to RB.
I had 13k on my account and got this email one day from the org that I was paying into for services asking what I’d like to do with the remaining $200 on my account. Wait! What???!! Changed my view on everything
Most religions have their hands out for a donation. Some require it, and a few of those go through your pocket. Some will stick a vaccuum hose in there and suck until they get lint. Scientology sucks until they get blood.
I remember at AOLA the reg was so mad that I wouldn’t buy auditing from him. I had a good job and could have paid for it. But I was on an FPRD coaudit for almost free, and my twin and I were going to town auditing each list and having fun doing it. The reg was blowing a gasket that I wouldn’t stop that and pay him money for auditing. He got nowhere with me. Finally in desperation he regged me by saying, “You’re fucked up. Your case is fucked up and you need auditing right away to fix it.”
Can you imagine someone saying that to you when you feel fine, your life is going fine, your job is fine, your personal relations are fine with others. Yet when he used almost force to impinge that thought on me, like a faithful little sheeple, I rolled over and gave him money. Wish I’d known then what I know now.
If you take the long view, the smarmy little fucker may have had some stupid reason to feel good in the short term. He may have thought that he “won” some kind of contest between the two of you.
But now that he is a senior citizen and has nothing to show for all of his regging and arthritis is setting in and he has that strange lump under his shoulder, he is beginning to realize that his entire life in the cult had only one benefit – and that benefit was for Dwarfenfuhrer. None of it whatsoever was of any benefit to himself.
But because you got out of this rotten demented cult, Cindy you are the true winner. Congratulations to you for having the presence of mind to blow and blow hard like you did! I am proud of you and so many others are as well.
Thank you Skyler. I also am so glad I blew and did it hard and am now living a good life withoiut the stress of constant pressure to give money, without all the conitive dissonance about LRH saying one thing and then later saying the opposite, so which reference is true? And about the cognitive dissonance of seeing brand new Ideal Org buildings that are devoid of people inside.
I haven’t seen it quite as nutty as in the example above, but it’s been close.
But the CO$ is an indoctrination madhouse of altered states of thought — any evil and criminal act can be perpetuated against any Church of Scientology member by reason that the recipient must have done something similar in a past lifetime. If a Scientology member does not take abuse with a big wide smile on his face, then it’s Sec Check time.
Dotey – what a fun game. Imagine if you could say what you really wanted to say and LRH had lists designed to help you if the cult went rogue like it is today?
Here is a real life scenario:
Auditor: I know you don’t want to buy more auditing after spending $430,000 on Going Clear and most of that was for Expanded Dianetics and you have been at it for years with no progress only to spend more money flying out to ASHO and more money on repair lists only to be told you were “over run” and should have never been sold Expanded Dianetics. I totally duplicate your HE&R.
“Big League Sales”? = LFBD.
If the ‘tek’ worked, Les Dane might have sold a hundred copies of that rag. As it was, he sold hundreds to scientology alone.
What a WASTE!
Fleeced In Florence? (Y’all)
Flim-Flammed at Flag?
Burned in Joberg?
Threw money away at AOLA?
Blew a mint at CC Int?
Wasted some bills at screwed up St. Hill?
Davey recognized that most raw meat walking in the door had far better earning capability than he ever had and that many “little” “donations” could add up to a BIG one over a lifetime.He’s never progressed past age 12 when he first got involved, while Daddy was paying all the bills magically.
Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass ( who else would make a comment like this).says
I’ll try this once more after losing my comment.
(Continued) I was hauled into ETHICS after I report saying that anyone not giving the stolen money back was as guilty as the person that stole it. Also, the org was making very little GI at the time and this criminal robber was a hero as he was one of the few people keeping the org afloat by getting money.It turned out that it was the idea of a CMO Messinger to send him out to get more money and my report was basically saying that this Messinger belonged in the RPF along with the robber.
Although the Committee recommended that the robber be sent to the RPF, he was sent back out to steal more money. My the wife Sharron Kimball-Straass-Webber, now COFSSO told me later that the Committee (forgetting that I was on it) should not have sent him to the RPF as he could make ethics change. After he later was RPFED for other thefts, Sharron told me that it was stupid not to RPF him in the beginning as obviously he was a crim.
After year-in and year-out of this shit I took the only possible escape- DEATH.
Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass ( who else would make a comment like this).says
I was the secretary of a Comm-Ev on the person in Mexico City that reges money for the Freewinds by the name of Nacho Motta. He had obtained the credit card numbers of public by devious means and while promising them that he would not charge their card (sold) them services that they knew nothing about. One came to the ship for the Comm-Ev while we were in Mexico. He was a staff member and made very little money and could not pay his credit card bill to the bank. He was told by the bank to tell the policia that he had not made these charges but could not do so as he would have been declared SP by the Church for reporting the crime to the police. (Continued)
Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass ( who else would make a comment like this).says
(Continued) He needed the stolen money back so he could pay the bill. As secretary of the Comm-Ev, I wrote a report to the D/FBO saying that they had received stolen money and should give it back, a no-brainer to me. But the org’s GI had been in the toilet from some time and Nacho , this reg was one of the few people keeping the otg afloat. They wanted to send him back out to steal more money to pay back this flap. (Continued)
Hubbard’s name popped up as the SP on my line during a sec-check. He
couldn’t be handled with sunshine and beautiful weather so I
disconnected from the SP in scientology.
Technically, this shows that he may well have had out-int. That is why he blew. It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that they ripped him off and he was tired of it because that stuff happens all the time and not everyone blows from that.
This is not an exaggeration. It’s part of the Scientology maze. Good one RB. SO members and Org and mission staff are so out of touch with reality. Scientology was suppose to help make the world more sane.
My question to those still in the cult, “ how’s that been working out for you?”
Congratulations Mark. As Mike would say, you found the last straw and you figured out what to do with it.
Every human being can be pushed around somewhat. But we all have a limit and when someone is pushed past their limit, it is Blow time. I just hope that some of the slaves inside the bubble will get to see this and realize that RB is speaking to them.
Well said, Jere. If you question helps even one slave to realize they can get back their freedom, you will have done all of humanity a very serious service. Bravo to you!
I love these comics as much as old school Dilbert! Looks like they hoovered out his account in a well coordinated reacharound. The cult is like inviting a tar baby into your wallet. Too bad there is no way to process his refund.
I agree to the max. I agree so much that I cannot even find any kind of adjective or expression to use in this post to say how much I agree.
Regraded Being is so enormously talented and their (gender neutral pronoun) work is so attractive that I’d love to know of an appropriate suggestion I could make that would help get their work into the public consciousness. But all I can really think to do is to say, “Very well done RB. Your contributions to this site are truly wonderful and appreciated so very much. Perhaps we could have an “RB Appreciation Day”? Or maybe we could give RB some kind of medal like the one that was given to Bozo Cruise? The big problem with that is that RB is the only person I can imagine who is capable of giving that medal an appropriate name and I’m certain that RB would never name a medal to give to RB.
I had 13k on my account and got this email one day from the org that I was paying into for services asking what I’d like to do with the remaining $200 on my account. Wait! What???!! Changed my view on everything
Most religions have their hands out for a donation. Some require it, and a few of those go through your pocket. Some will stick a vaccuum hose in there and suck until they get lint. Scientology sucks until they get blood.
Even toddlers recognize that theft is wrong. Leave it to Hubbard to enshrine that sort of theft as upstat!
And Miscarriage to continue it.
Ah, Out-Int. The mission-critical, must-be-handled-now, emergency case situation. All mumbo-jumbo. I remember the difficulty in explaining it to PCs.
I remember at AOLA the reg was so mad that I wouldn’t buy auditing from him. I had a good job and could have paid for it. But I was on an FPRD coaudit for almost free, and my twin and I were going to town auditing each list and having fun doing it. The reg was blowing a gasket that I wouldn’t stop that and pay him money for auditing. He got nowhere with me. Finally in desperation he regged me by saying, “You’re fucked up. Your case is fucked up and you need auditing right away to fix it.”
Can you imagine someone saying that to you when you feel fine, your life is going fine, your job is fine, your personal relations are fine with others. Yet when he used almost force to impinge that thought on me, like a faithful little sheeple, I rolled over and gave him money. Wish I’d known then what I know now.
Cindy, do not feel bad.
If you take the long view, the smarmy little fucker may have had some stupid reason to feel good in the short term. He may have thought that he “won” some kind of contest between the two of you.
But now that he is a senior citizen and has nothing to show for all of his regging and arthritis is setting in and he has that strange lump under his shoulder, he is beginning to realize that his entire life in the cult had only one benefit – and that benefit was for Dwarfenfuhrer. None of it whatsoever was of any benefit to himself.
But because you got out of this rotten demented cult, Cindy you are the true winner. Congratulations to you for having the presence of mind to blow and blow hard like you did! I am proud of you and so many others are as well.
Thank you Skyler. I also am so glad I blew and did it hard and am now living a good life withoiut the stress of constant pressure to give money, without all the conitive dissonance about LRH saying one thing and then later saying the opposite, so which reference is true? And about the cognitive dissonance of seeing brand new Ideal Org buildings that are devoid of people inside.
I love happy endings!
I haven’t seen it quite as nutty as in the example above, but it’s been close.
But the CO$ is an indoctrination madhouse of altered states of thought — any evil and criminal act can be perpetuated against any Church of Scientology member by reason that the recipient must have done something similar in a past lifetime. If a Scientology member does not take abuse with a big wide smile on his face, then it’s Sec Check time.
I wonder how many customers they lose every Thursday at 2pm, when the accounts for prepaid services are raided for unauthorized expenditures.
Int handling buttons:
Ripped Off?
Screwed Over?
Up The Butt?
Do It Again?
Credit Card?
Only At Flag?
Another Intensive?
Thursday At 2:00?
Dotey – what a fun game. Imagine if you could say what you really wanted to say and LRH had lists designed to help you if the cult went rogue like it is today?
Here is a real life scenario:
Auditor: I know you don’t want to buy more auditing after spending $430,000 on Going Clear and most of that was for Expanded Dianetics and you have been at it for years with no progress only to spend more money flying out to ASHO and more money on repair lists only to be told you were “over run” and should have never been sold Expanded Dianetics. I totally duplicate your HE&R.
Let me assess a list!
On the subject of Scientology ….
Scammed?
Ripped Off?
Hornswoggled?
Duped?
Bamboozled?
Gouging?
Soaking?
Flim Flammed?
Hoaxed?
Thimblerigged?
Fraud?
Con Job?
Overcharged?
Soaked?
Tricked?
Schemed?
Snake Oil Sales Job?
Big League Sales?
Stung?
Swindled?
Racket?
Fake?
Sham?
Ponzi Scheme?
“Big League Sales”? = LFBD.
If the ‘tek’ worked, Les Dane might have sold a hundred copies of that rag. As it was, he sold hundreds to scientology alone.
What a WASTE!
ALL of them.
Just listing them would take an Intensive or ten.
Hey Sour,
That’s awesome!!!
I like the name as well.
You could also have:
Fleeced In Florence? (Y’all)
Flim-Flammed at Flag?
Burned in Joberg?
Threw money away at AOLA?
Blew a mint at CC Int?
Wasted some bills at screwed up St. Hill?
The problem is Miscavige thinks everyone that walks in the door is a multi millionaire with enough $ throw around willynilly.
Davey recognized that most raw meat walking in the door had far better earning capability than he ever had and that many “little” “donations” could add up to a BIG one over a lifetime.He’s never progressed past age 12 when he first got involved, while Daddy was paying all the bills magically.
I’ll try this once more after losing my comment.
(Continued) I was hauled into ETHICS after I report saying that anyone not giving the stolen money back was as guilty as the person that stole it. Also, the org was making very little GI at the time and this criminal robber was a hero as he was one of the few people keeping the org afloat by getting money.It turned out that it was the idea of a CMO Messinger to send him out to get more money and my report was basically saying that this Messinger belonged in the RPF along with the robber.
Although the Committee recommended that the robber be sent to the RPF, he was sent back out to steal more money. My the wife Sharron Kimball-Straass-Webber, now COFSSO told me later that the Committee (forgetting that I was on it) should not have sent him to the RPF as he could make ethics change. After he later was RPFED for other thefts, Sharron told me that it was stupid not to RPF him in the beginning as obviously he was a crim.
After year-in and year-out of this shit I took the only possible escape- DEATH.
I was the secretary of a Comm-Ev on the person in Mexico City that reges money for the Freewinds by the name of Nacho Motta. He had obtained the credit card numbers of public by devious means and while promising them that he would not charge their card (sold) them services that they knew nothing about. One came to the ship for the Comm-Ev while we were in Mexico. He was a staff member and made very little money and could not pay his credit card bill to the bank. He was told by the bank to tell the policia that he had not made these charges but could not do so as he would have been declared SP by the Church for reporting the crime to the police. (Continued)
(Continued) He needed the stolen money back so he could pay the bill. As secretary of the Comm-Ev, I wrote a report to the D/FBO saying that they had received stolen money and should give it back, a no-brainer to me. But the org’s GI had been in the toilet from some time and Nacho , this reg was one of the few people keeping the otg afloat. They wanted to send him back out to steal more money to pay back this flap. (Continued)
‘He Blew.’ Yea, baby! No one needs Scientology!!! NOBODY!!!
Now there’s a happy ending! Thanks RB
My pleasure!
A sec-check gained my “no case gain”.
Hubbard’s name popped up as the SP on my line during a sec-check. He
couldn’t be handled with sunshine and beautiful weather so I
disconnected from the SP in scientology.
Sec-checks gain ”no case gains” cases.
Roger observed:
“Sec-checks gain ”no case gains” cases.
ESPECIALLY when the right WHO is found, indicated or not. scn IS and always has been a suppressive organization, an extension of its creator.
And its current leader extends its crimes; almost exponentially. Straight up and vertical!
Discoinnected to scientology peples mind expand.
Technically, this shows that he may well have had out-int. That is why he blew. It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that they ripped him off and he was tired of it because that stuff happens all the time and not everyone blows from that.
I love a story with a good ending.
Thanks RB
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.religion.scientology/sec$20check|sort:date/alt.religion.scientology/QpcVJP7XViY/PSPI0jwf5m0J
Mark is always seen as a ‘mark’ in the scam sense. I bet that very scenario happens often in the $cienoverse.
Zee observed:
“Mark is always seen as a ‘mark’ in the scam sense. I bet that very scenario happens often in the $cienoverse.”
Zee Moo, that IS the “$cienoverse”.
Anything, absolutely ANYthing to get more M-O-N-E-Y by Thursday @2pm.
This is not an exaggeration. It’s part of the Scientology maze. Good one RB. SO members and Org and mission staff are so out of touch with reality. Scientology was suppose to help make the world more sane.
My question to those still in the cult, “ how’s that been working out for you?”
Congratulations Mark. As Mike would say, you found the last straw and you figured out what to do with it.
Every human being can be pushed around somewhat. But we all have a limit and when someone is pushed past their limit, it is Blow time. I just hope that some of the slaves inside the bubble will get to see this and realize that RB is speaking to them.
Blow! People. Blow!
If you want to live this lifetime, BLOW! You’ll thank yourselves later….
Truthfully, are you really enjoying LIFE while shacked to that /organization/?
Well said, Jere. If you question helps even one slave to realize they can get back their freedom, you will have done all of humanity a very serious service. Bravo to you!
Nice ending!