Just to point something out. Puerto Rico does not have a Scientology Org. Scientology has a small presence in a non-descript building with 4-5 parking spaces which could qualify as a mission., not an org. Puerto Rico has problems, but Scientology is not one of them.
PRObs, I see that their location in Puerto Rico is listed as Dianetics Center of Puerto Rico, which as far as I know is a rather old fashioned name for a mission franchise, dating back to when they put a lot of effort into the subterfuge of using Dianetics as a seemingly separate lure into Scientology. I can’t readily find any specific information in the database of Scientology corporate information, though.
Bigger missions and older orgs would even have separate entrances with different signage. A few of the laggards that are really behind the times still do.
Typical, Peacemaker. The last thing scientology needs and wants is to be identified as scientology. It was the same 45 years ago when we snuck into Clearwater as “United churches”, an organization that AFAICT had no legal existence before or after. It’s for certain that few or none of us actually were parishioners in any known church.
Great comic! I got a feeling things are going to get a lot worse for them before they get better. They won’t have to worry about obesity, only food poisoning.
I liked the empty chair between these two. It serves as a reminder of the suicide who “dropped his body”.
What an ugly reaction to someone killing themselves. This miserable cult does not object to the development after they force someone to give up all of their finances and all their holdings and force them to disconnect from their families so they have no reason to live …. and then they kill themselves, this cult accepts that because they have nothing more to give to the cult. They have no further value to the cult.
Compassion and Empathy are just two more valuable human emotions that are completely absent from this cult.
When I arrived in 79 to Flag I was put in the galley washing dishes. They had these big trays of fish that apparently we’re not eaten. They were alive and moving and one solid mass of maggots. I had to was the maggots down the drain.
I was there at the same time and can recall the kitchens being infested with Palmetto Bugs; aka super sized cockroaches. Maybe they had super powers? Only good thing was their immense size didn’t permit them to hide like maggots in the meals being served. PUKE! Galley Crew could never get rid of the damn invasion.
I was the HGC Admin for the AOs at FSO from 81 to 86. An auditor went into session and saw a wired needle motion. Then she saw a Cock-A-Roach crawl across the meter face under the glass. I had to take the meter apart to get the Cock-A-Roach out. It was too big to get out, I figured the only way it got in was through the leads jack when it was small. It must have lived on the insulation on the wires.
Thanks so much for the story. Painted a very vivid picture in my mind and made me laugh a bunch. Yeah, the little critter must have been a real baby when it invaded that meter. Cause palmetto bugs can grow quite large; well at least the ones that invaded the galley’s back then.
81 was the year I left so guess we never met. Know Mike from our earlier days though.
Bill. Once I Dk (I was on Rpf) one night while I was in bed and about to fall asleep, two large spiders fell on my face from the ceiling. I didn’t think there were any at that latitude.
However, the rats that could be encountered in the basement beat everything else.
First time in my life I came across Maggots in meat was about 1980 nearby the CofS Stockholm where lot of Scn´s was eating, although I don´t think the place were owned by any scn. And first time for Roaches was at Flag in 82 and coming in to my room and swinging my towel over the shoulder and then hit a big roach who was over the door and it fell on my body and I just got shocked…And not knowing about having snacks of any kind in the room, which I had,,,I woke up in the middle of the night by a strange sound—it was a gang of roaches having a party with my snacks:-)
Still, I had my biggest win on OT2 sitting in that room with all the roaches, maybe they helped me some in digging that ditch:-)
After the massive Christmas dinner in 79 the crew ate leftover food for a week there was so much. I got violently I’ll with bad stomach cramps. The MLO gave me charcoal tablets which was supposed to help. All it did that I could tell is make my mouth black. One night I could hardly walk and so slept in the reception area of AO3. In the dark thousands of palmetto bugs came out and we’re running over my body while I was trying to sleep. They were running over my face. I flung 3 or 4 off of me.
I remember charcoal tablets being promoted by the MLO. Never took em myself luckily. The MLO, as I recall was a girl who had been personally trained by Hubbard. Can’t recall her name. Is she the same one you saw?.
I recall many times going to the child care unit and seeing the poor babies (this was in 76-77) lying on the floor with nearly the same experience you had. I think the only time the nannies got rid of the bugs was just before the government inspectors came to check up on things.
State health inspectors for restaurants and other food prep places knew no one could ever totally rid their places of them so they only checked to make sure the facility was making an earnest effort. So even the Hourglass galley was never without the damn bugs. Inspectors just considered it a “Florida thing” it seemed.
I’ve taken charcoal tablets. They help with gas / indigestion. They won’t do anything for food poisoning or diarrhea. Did Hubbard hate Pepto-bismol or something?
Laughing loud. So true. One can’t have his own thoughts not aligned to the seaborg entity. When such question comes from some high rank exec most of the time answering to it is like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets.
Laughing! Beautiful cognition. Sure stop checking the kitchen staff and maybe just set aside more money for food.
I remember that when we were put on rice and beans, time to time, you could also choose if only rice or just beans.
Sometimes the rice was so overcooked and unmade that we could use it for grouting.
The guy examining what was on his eating utensil after talking about Maggots was a nice touch. NO way Sea Org crew would talk so openly about entheta, though …. Somebody might hear them nattering, and that would mean (another) trip to ‘ethics’.
In 79 shortly after I joined the FSO I was in the dining room and got some milk out of the milk machine. They had the kind that has the bag of milk with a hose coming out of it.
The milk was so spoiled it tasted like gasoline. (And I have drank gasoline before so I know what gasoline tastes like).
Instead of complaining I drew a big Skull and Crossbones on my voting sheet and taped it to the machine.
Welcome to the Sea Org.
Just to point something out. Puerto Rico does not have a Scientology Org. Scientology has a small presence in a non-descript building with 4-5 parking spaces which could qualify as a mission., not an org. Puerto Rico has problems, but Scientology is not one of them.
PRObs, I see that their location in Puerto Rico is listed as Dianetics Center of Puerto Rico, which as far as I know is a rather old fashioned name for a mission franchise, dating back to when they put a lot of effort into the subterfuge of using Dianetics as a seemingly separate lure into Scientology. I can’t readily find any specific information in the database of Scientology corporate information, though.
Bigger missions and older orgs would even have separate entrances with different signage. A few of the laggards that are really behind the times still do.
Typical, Peacemaker. The last thing scientology needs and wants is to be identified as scientology. It was the same 45 years ago when we snuck into Clearwater as “United churches”, an organization that AFAICT had no legal existence before or after. It’s for certain that few or none of us actually were parishioners in any known church.
https://youtu.be/Z4ZXRlcoEW8
Great comic! I got a feeling things are going to get a lot worse for them before they get better. They won’t have to worry about obesity, only food poisoning.
I liked the empty chair between these two. It serves as a reminder of the suicide who “dropped his body”.
What an ugly reaction to someone killing themselves. This miserable cult does not object to the development after they force someone to give up all of their finances and all their holdings and force them to disconnect from their families so they have no reason to live …. and then they kill themselves, this cult accepts that because they have nothing more to give to the cult. They have no further value to the cult.
Compassion and Empathy are just two more valuable human emotions that are completely absent from this cult.
Bang on, the perfect explanation of how life is valued in the spiritually bankrupt cherch.
Power = Someone pull the strings and others eat it.
I’ll pull the strings. It’s the least I can do.
When I arrived in 79 to Flag I was put in the galley washing dishes. They had these big trays of fish that apparently we’re not eaten. They were alive and moving and one solid mass of maggots. I had to was the maggots down the drain.
Bill,
I was there at the same time and can recall the kitchens being infested with Palmetto Bugs; aka super sized cockroaches. Maybe they had super powers? Only good thing was their immense size didn’t permit them to hide like maggots in the meals being served. PUKE! Galley Crew could never get rid of the damn invasion.
I was the HGC Admin for the AOs at FSO from 81 to 86. An auditor went into session and saw a wired needle motion. Then she saw a Cock-A-Roach crawl across the meter face under the glass. I had to take the meter apart to get the Cock-A-Roach out. It was too big to get out, I figured the only way it got in was through the leads jack when it was small. It must have lived on the insulation on the wires.
Bill,
Thanks so much for the story. Painted a very vivid picture in my mind and made me laugh a bunch. Yeah, the little critter must have been a real baby when it invaded that meter. Cause palmetto bugs can grow quite large; well at least the ones that invaded the galley’s back then.
81 was the year I left so guess we never met. Know Mike from our earlier days though.
I was HGC Admin in 81 but I started as a Tech Page and Board IC in 79 so we could have met.
Bill. Once I Dk (I was on Rpf) one night while I was in bed and about to fall asleep, two large spiders fell on my face from the ceiling. I didn’t think there were any at that latitude.
However, the rats that could be encountered in the basement beat everything else.
That reminded me of the large foot long rat that ran through the galley while I was washing dishes.
Bill. The one I saw was probably a ‘ratus norvegicus’. Who knows what it was eating. It was an X-Rat.
Hope her TRs were good.
It’s humid in CW probably making them worse.
What a bunch of stories:-)
ROFL…:-)
First time in my life I came across Maggots in meat was about 1980 nearby the CofS Stockholm where lot of Scn´s was eating, although I don´t think the place were owned by any scn. And first time for Roaches was at Flag in 82 and coming in to my room and swinging my towel over the shoulder and then hit a big roach who was over the door and it fell on my body and I just got shocked…And not knowing about having snacks of any kind in the room, which I had,,,I woke up in the middle of the night by a strange sound—it was a gang of roaches having a party with my snacks:-)
Still, I had my biggest win on OT2 sitting in that room with all the roaches, maybe they helped me some in digging that ditch:-)
After the massive Christmas dinner in 79 the crew ate leftover food for a week there was so much. I got violently I’ll with bad stomach cramps. The MLO gave me charcoal tablets which was supposed to help. All it did that I could tell is make my mouth black. One night I could hardly walk and so slept in the reception area of AO3. In the dark thousands of palmetto bugs came out and we’re running over my body while I was trying to sleep. They were running over my face. I flung 3 or 4 off of me.
I remember charcoal tablets being promoted by the MLO. Never took em myself luckily. The MLO, as I recall was a girl who had been personally trained by Hubbard. Can’t recall her name. Is she the same one you saw?.
I recall many times going to the child care unit and seeing the poor babies (this was in 76-77) lying on the floor with nearly the same experience you had. I think the only time the nannies got rid of the bugs was just before the government inspectors came to check up on things.
State health inspectors for restaurants and other food prep places knew no one could ever totally rid their places of them so they only checked to make sure the facility was making an earnest effort. So even the Hourglass galley was never without the damn bugs. Inspectors just considered it a “Florida thing” it seemed.
I’ve taken charcoal tablets. They help with gas / indigestion. They won’t do anything for food poisoning or diarrhea. Did Hubbard hate Pepto-bismol or something?
Reminder: Never eat cream of wheat while reading RB again ! 😉
Great cognition there.
“What do you think?” – the four most dangerous words in Scientology.
Laughing loud. So true. One can’t have his own thoughts not aligned to the seaborg entity. When such question comes from some high rank exec most of the time answering to it is like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets.
“I’m not auditing you” is at least a close second.
Maggots in your gruel. Just your karma guys.
Wake up, walk out and all will be better soon.
Can say this based on my own personal experience.
Laughing! Beautiful cognition. Sure stop checking the kitchen staff and maybe just set aside more money for food.
I remember that when we were put on rice and beans, time to time, you could also choose if only rice or just beans.
Sometimes the rice was so overcooked and unmade that we could use it for grouting.
The guy examining what was on his eating utensil after talking about Maggots was a nice touch. NO way Sea Org crew would talk so openly about entheta, though …. Somebody might hear them nattering, and that would mean (another) trip to ‘ethics’.
In 79 shortly after I joined the FSO I was in the dining room and got some milk out of the milk machine. They had the kind that has the bag of milk with a hose coming out of it.
The milk was so spoiled it tasted like gasoline. (And I have drank gasoline before so I know what gasoline tastes like).
Instead of complaining I drew a big Skull and Crossbones on my voting sheet and taped it to the machine.
Welcome to the Sea Org.