SIXTEEN TONNES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
That along with the ‘unquenchable thirst for power and money’ to paraphrase Martin Samuels or David Mayo ( I don’t recall for certain which one) who stated one of LRH’s conversational confessions he made.
It seems to corroborate his previously private admissions of ‘all men will be my slaves’ and (less accurately paraphrased from the same ‘LRH admissions’) ‘my science of the mind will control all others’.
RB you hit the core activity. I go from Thursdays’ funnies to join with your art the image of a ‘Bridge closed and abandoned’ alongside a series of Ideal Orgs shown as entrances to open pit and underground gold digging of mines.(minds).
The multi-lane Bridge ends suspended mid-air with Gold dripping-pouring into the Trementino NM underground vaults which are also fed by conveyor belts of gold from the scientology slaves minds(mines) . COB is the current diabolical foreman, replacing El Con, of the entire scene.
Don’t shoot me or throw tomatoe because I ask but I’m trying to understand the mindset of dave, doesn’t he ever think, “Okay, That’s enough money.” (I mean the church is worth several billion! There is nothing He wants for..) “Let’s do good works and fool the public at large into thinking we actually give a shit.”
Getting people to give you money when it is not in their best interest to do so (even if you don’t need it) is a sign of power and dominance over them. That is what Miscavige lives for. He could not spend all the money the church has if he tried. He has everything he wants at his command. If he wants to fly on a private jet to London in the morning and take his personal chef, steward, masseuse, hairdresser, chiropactor and other assorted hangers-on, he can do so. If he wants a new car or motorcyle or suit or shoes or anything he just has to mention it and minions will make it happen.
So, he does not need money. He does need to control and dominate. There is no end to that.
Makes me think of that part of the tone scale film, the depictions of the tone levels below 0, where some guy is grimacing and winding this long, thick metal chain into knots…that’s Miscavige, mentally. Wow.
MR, spot on! That motivation (to dominate) is so alien that it leaves most of us puzzled. It only makes sense to a sociopath. Domination, not greed, is his game.
The point that tickles my fancy is that there’s no way he could ever enjoy the money. It’s a product of his criminality and the fact it’s insatiable must eat away at him like a cancer. He’s a miserable SOB as a human being of that there is no doubt and as crazy as he is, he knows it!
“I wonder if there’s an end to needing all this money?” frets the sweet young idealist. “NO!” screams a chorus of thirsty vampires. Asking, regging, begging, blackmailing, cajoling for money is the End Game of scientology. After that will be secret liquidating of assets, then downsizing then…collapse.
This is presumed of course based on common sense and the apparent lack of stout-heartedness in the ranks to stage a coup.
Can’t scientology just go back to helping people and being fun like in the old days when “clear” and “OT” were still dazzling promises on the horizon? Ah, there’s the rub.
Regraded Being, I really like the way you draw your characters, and I hope you continue cartooning. The message is always relevant too. Thanks for the Friday treats!
“I wonder if there’s an end to needing all this money”. Well, I was in for 25 years and saw no end to it. The goal remained the same, but the purpose changed dramatically.
At least for the first 15 years the hounding was for payment of one’s Bridge.
That’s right, T.J. Somewhere circa 2005 I observed the changeover with emphasis on Bridge going to emphasis on IAS and other “straight donos” including but not limited to Ideal Orgs. There was a big Library Campaign push. Lots of pressure for that.
Money, money, money! When the Ideal Org evolution started — somewhere around 2004 — if a Sea Org member had said “I think it’s going to take at least 15 years for all orgs to become Ideal” how much you want to bet that person would have been sent straight to the RPF to get rid of their evil purposes and counter intentions to COB?
It’s now 12 years later and the strategy is NOT EVEN CLOSE to complete, and it’s still all that the orgs talk about. Give us money so we can go ideal so we can do Scientology. The strategy will probably take at least 30 years to complete, if it’s even possible to complete it at all.
I think the Ideal Org strategy has done more to kill real Scientology than anything Marty or Mike has done. No offense to Marty and Mike of course. DM just specializes in destruction is all.
RB, Philosophically you got it right. If “they” had stuck to helping people, and defined help, like, thought about what that means, what the person who is being helped wants, and what the end goal or end products of the whole thing are, then learned how to use the technology that is there to bring that about … so that the person being helped actually is helped as was originally intended, so that they can truthfully say, “Hey, that helped!” … maybe Scientology would still be people coming and going as they please and developing their own abilities and lives with their own hopefully increased awareness, and their own goals.
Maybe just the mood I’m in today, but I couldn’t help noticing the art of cartooning. So few lines on flat colors, and yet the cartoonist conveys a character and moment – and I don’t know what else. I tried doing a cartoon strip once just for fun, and found I couldn’t get a consistent enough drawing of one character to make it transition smoothly from one frame to the next – and used too many lines. I couldn’t even get the size of the head right from one frame to the next. It was just for fun, haha. But then the text or speech of the character also defines – I’m just originating what I imagine goes into it. Someone once said that there are over 300 arts that go into making a motion picture. Clearly there’s more than just one art that goes into cartooning. Your characters come alive somehow, as the saying goes. Gad … I even feel like I’m getting to know some of them! Charming dishwater hair on the OSA grinch.
How funny, I just posted the same thought about the cartoon strip – something about the simplicity, yet human portrayal. Just like you, I feel like I actually know some of the characters. R.B. has been doing this strip for awhile now, surely there must be enough comics to make a book by now? People have a big interest in this subject these days, I think the book would be very successful. How about it R.B.?
Nickname, you’re so right. If they had just stuck to helping people there would be no way anyone or anything could have stopped it. Very sad, actually.
Aqua – You were in for 25 years? Wow. I never would have guessed. Your thought is very free.
There’s something in a being that balks at simple appropriate perspective on his own nature and relative importance. The sense of it gets lost, somehow, in a game.So the communication gets untrue in the sense that most of the “relevant” comm is about the game. E.g. Guys sit around and talk about their boats over the weekends, then go back to work and talk about projects and give orders on how to accomplish goals and valuable final products, and this has to do with the normal activities of successful people within the context of the game of being in a body and all. And it’s all fine and good and all that, until the guy gets to body expiration dates (powerful writer, the guy who did the writing for “Blade Runner”), then the guy runs into the Big Questions.
I’m thinking of the end of the movie, when Harrison Ford’s line is something like, “Why did he, at the last moment, save me?” But earlier in the flick, Daryl Hanna’s line gets me: “And we’re stupid, and we’re going to die.”
I asked a couple of auditors what I thought was a real simple question: “Why do you audit?” I found I had to explain, because I got answers like “Clearing the planet”, and “to help people”. So I tried again: “No, I mean YOU – what do YOU get out of it? What is your Ideal Scene for the whole thing, personally? How do YOU personally benefit?” Too big a question.
What does “to help someone” really mean, in the big picture? If you give someone answers, what do you get, what do you end up with? You get, I think, a freer being with better conduct and thoughts of his own, and you can maybe talk about something more profound than boats and islands and bonuses. In short, better company. There’s more to it than that, but the idea is that you approach even bigger questions, like “What do you plan to do for the rest of eternity?” Which is a funny question, because there is no “the rest of” to eternity. That is, “the rest of” implies a finite quantity, like “the rest of the cake” or “the rest of the day”. “The rest of eternity” is facetious.
I’m just trying to validate your thought and motivations here, because it seems to me that you are one of the people who “gets it” about what we’re doing, really. Scientology is a via, a way to. It’s “freedom TO” and the question is freedom to what? I think we all want brighter and more free-er people, and that’s the “why audit” answer – something like that. Ethics is all about admin scales.
You just gave me an enormous compliment, Nickname. With no false modesty I do not believe that I actually deserve it, but, its very nice to hear, so thank you. Thinking freely was a goal of mine before I got into Scientology. I had a vague concept that it could be possible. I don’t think I’ve achieved it because although I have this concept of what it is, I can’t actually define it. As you asked, “Free from what?, or “freedom TO” be/do/have or not be/not do/not have WHAT? you know? Isuppose the answer to that would be the same as the answer to “Who am I, really?”.
I’m not auditor trained although I wanted to be (long story) but as to the reason why people audit, my own take on it is that it is fun to help someone. That’s my own viewpoint. Its fun to make someone happy. To bring a person uptone, with all that implies. As that person’s auditor, its like being that person, looking from that person’s viewpoint even if one doesn’t agree. In fact, especially if one doesn’t agree. Its another world, another life. Its interesting. Again, I’m not an auditor but I’ve had some excellent auditing myself, so I think that if I were auditing someone correctly that the effect should be beneficial to the person from that person’s viewpoint. In other words, there’s someone in front of you, on the cans – what does this person want/not want, need/not need, what does this person want to be/do/have or not be/do/have? I would say its an auditor’s job to assist that person along with his or her own goals. I would consider this interesting, and, well, there’s that word again, but -fun.
Happy to hear that, Aqua. (Surprised, too – I didn’t have any idea you had articulated that goal to yourself.) I ran into problems getting training, too, and it is also a long story. Training is easy, and fun too. Makes me wonder how many others ran into the same problems? I like your answer about “why audit?” (Could write more, but it’s a day-by-day blog.)
This is completely brilliant and so true. Could not have been more spot on with laser accuracy as to the true nature and the sole existence of the bubble these days. At this point those who are still in completely deserve what they get. Why? Because they can’t even see the basic analogy of ordering ice-cream at the Carvel windows where the employee states, “Sorry we are not producing ice-cream (our product) but we do have a parking lot that has a lot of holes in it that needs repaving and we would like you to donate towards its repair!
Yes and the clarity of seeing what these poor souls are buying without seeing gets sharper especially after being part of the personal experience of HowdyCon 2015 🙂
Blackmail protected by the First Amendment. There must be at least one mob boss clenching his jaw in anger over the fact that Hubbard/ Miscavige thought of it first.
I wonder if anyone in the cult has ever seen Monty Python’s “Blackmail” sketch? They’re into “putting the ‘fun’ into ‘fundraiser'”, right? Well, “Blackmail” is exactly that. And since it’s obligatory to link:
Very accurate portrayal of the current state of the Co$. Sociopaths with their “totally pitiless product officer” valence firmly in place. Willing Sycophants who betray every confidence. Naive followers unable to confront the evil cesspool they find themselves swimming in.
All this wrapped up in some pretty buildings that fortunately are NOT sucking in the gullible masses.
Talk about the offer of help being turned upside down into insidious betrayal.
Close your eyes and let your little beasties ponder the scenario, spoken words just don’t cut it at that depth of lunacy hey?. Unless you’ve actually experienced the Cof$ personally, no one else will ever really get it understood as you do anyway and even we who have been there have a very hard time with it. However, communication on such gross behavior does require some experience in the situation. But it’s a bit like trying to comprehend the ‘mindset’ of a terrorist who’d put a bomb on a school bus – there are no words to describe it, only direct and definitive/terminal action will handle it. Scientology has delved into areas of operational think that defy any form of compassion or human understanding of the disastrous effect they cause on people, yet they use the very act of living as bait for the unwary. Scientology is more suited to being referred to as something like a cockroach infestation, it just needs to be eradicated, not compromised with or nicely communicated to – that window was always kept tightly closed despite the fact they call themselves the most ethical group on the planet. They gave the term booby trap a whole new direction to explore. Religion the carrier, freedom the carrot!
The COS has mastered the art of creating nasty, uncaring seniors (unreasonable is a good thing!) demanding extortion with a great sense of certainty. Saving the planet, one bribed and pissed off person at a time. Ugh.
Of course there was a time when the average Scientologist spent a lot more time doing courses that could actually help someone if they really worked. None of us starry eyed idealists signed up knowingly for a group whose only purpose is to extract cash.
But there is always a disconnect between the “shore story” that is told to the potential recruit and the reality of life in the trenches. Hubbard did say: “Make more money. Get other people to make more money.” He did live that principle and he did die with a fortune most only dream of.
The principle of the “useful idiot” applies here. A pretty good explanation here: http://factmyth.com/what-is-a-useful-idiot/ Note that it is not only Communists who employ “useful idiots” or useful innocents”. They popularized the term but the concept has existed as long as their have been people who wanted to exploit other people.
Imagine it – the volcano explodes and destroys the village every so often. Nobody knows when it will happen again, even today with modern science there is still great uncertainty. A few thousand years ago in my hypothetical village it is safe to say that no one knows. But say one of the villagers has a great idea: he will say he knows the “heart of the volcano” and can protect the village. This shyster knows he is lying. But he can get all kinds of goodies by lying and the chances are pretty good that the volcano will not erupt anytime soon. Even if it does erupt and he survives to face the wrath of the bilked villagers, he can always say they didn’t do it right. Or he can “discover” the “errors” of his old ways and still go on bilking the villagers in new ways.
The shyster knows he is lying. But he never tells. It is in his interest to get followers and helpers. So he gets people who believe him to spread his lies. Only a true sociopath can follow this path. If you have any regard for the feelings and hopes of your fellow man, you cannot be the point man on this type of scheme. But of course you can also lie to yourself once the scam really gets going. Random successes and confirmation bias (the ground shook but I appeased the Heart of the Volcano!) reinforce the scam and draw more followers in.
These followers are “useful innocents”. In their minds they are doing the incredibly important work to appease the Heart of the Volcano and prevent utter destruction of their village. They fervently pray or shake special rattles or engage in special rituals as prescribed by the shyster. In their hearts they know that they are doing the right thing. In their hearts it is working. The village has been safe for 10 years! Stats are straight up and vertical! The last three virgins that were sacrificed went willingly and without a tear! New ideal huts are popping up everywhere!
But it is all really a scam designed to enrich exactly one person. And it works. Over and over throughout history shysters have dreamed up schemes and useful innocents have sacrificed themselves to enrich the shysters. I am not saying that all religion is a scam, there are lots of non-religious scams that use the same pattern. I am not saying that all leaders are liars, though the recent election campaigns in the US seem to make a pretty good case for that idea. I am saying that some sociopaths specialize in duping useful innocents. Some go on being dupes long after the sociopath is gone.
Those of us who fell for the dream need to wake up. There is no easy one-size-fits-all one-shot solution. There is no easy peasy lemon squeezy glorious past to return to. There is only now and the decisions you make every day, to help others or ignore their pain, to work honestly or try to rip someone off. One decision, one day, one person in front of you. We were lied to, but we need not perpetuate the lie.
RB you did it again! Not only a detailed peek at OSA and their daily whippings,Opps I meant briefings,and my they are expert at arm twisting with one hand and grabbing your wallet with the other.You also gave some peeks at the darker side.Using PC folder stuff to get people to donate $ is right up the cult’s ally.In fact doing that maneuver to tag a person as being anR/Ser and worse was used in my day.The best part were the two SOers starting to cognite on the money racket.That one little spark can become a raging flame of escape.❤️❤️?
I am very grateful to David Miscavige, because he made my path in Scientology so horrific that I had to leave.
If Scientology had been friendly and affordable, I would possibly still be a Scientologist.
Maybe I would be happy, but unable to really reach advanced spiritual levels.
As I am now following the Buddhist path, I see more clearly that Scientology is basically embedding several gross errors that are actually preventing the attainment of true spiritual freedom and higher spiritual abilities.
I’m grateful that I’m Scottish. Being a cheap bastard all my life has served me well. My auditor, Dave Petitt, wanted me to attest to Clear. I never did. What I did do is Clear out of the org…immediately.
I’m grateful I’ve finally managed to combine a lost list of fuck ups I gotten myself involved in into some sort of workable system. A little bit of this, a little of that, build a couple of “fuck off” fences where needed, issue some bruises when necessary and knowing when to shut the fuck up or run like like crap the other way have all combined into a sense of well being and accomplishment.
When people get pissed off with me now, I know I’m on the right track in there somewhere. Such is what old age does when a broken down body with a lifetime of experience and misadventures gets combined, all the while floating on a sea of alcohol.
Bring it on!
Dear RB,
You have been Channeling Sheila Chaleff except it’s two fists clenched
not just one. Don’t forget jumping up and down and screaming that makes
pictures of LRH go cross eyed and fall off the wall.
RB nailed it again. To keep my sons from disconnecting from us, my wife and I were extorted into having sec-checks to the tune of $30,000, a few years back. This was after not holding those stupid cans in over 35 years. What a scam they have going. They have 2 caring parents who would do almost anything to keep their son and they exploit that to the extreme.
I wonder how much of their auditing stats and GI are derived from extortion based sec checks.
Just when I think I’ve heard it all. Those sons of bitches. $30,000?! Makes me sick to my stomach that they extorted money from you to keep in touch with your sons. Absolutely unconscionable.
I managed to keep one of my sons. He refused to disconnect from us. The other moved with no forwarding address, changed his phone number/email address, blocked us from FB/Instagram and we haven’t heard anything from him in about 1.5 years. This last communication was a 10 page KR about us.
We’ll keep on fighting though. I personally feel I wont see him again, ever, unless the church is brought down but my wife is more positive.
Of course, our money is needed!
How else you can have the lavishest, bestest and epicest, altough modestest surrounding for the cob to perform his tiniest will?
This has to be very gratifying for those ready to confront the supreme test…
At this very moment there are teams of SO members combing through “sacrosanct” folders of “enemies” of the church looking for damning evidence to be used against them in covert operations.
While in the “bubble” I like I’m sure many others thought that this would not happen in a million years.
But then again, when the future of every man, woman and child are at stake there are NO measures taken that are not justified in order to save the planet.
Too many tracks to cover guys….too many lies Dave….they’re coming out and there is nothing you can do about it.
Maybe a billion dollars can save Dave from imprisonment. We’ll see. But there is no doubt that the end of this debacle is coming to an end. And none too soon.
Hilarious. Andres Rodriguez the senior cs aola was replaced because he was not creepy enough. This has now been corrected. Hilarious besides COB and me.
Thanks RB.
RB your plots are Chuck Lorre level.
What a clusterfuck of a cult scientology has become that RB can do his work and never becomes boring or runs out of funny plots. Is it just me or are they becoming funnier?
Did Andrew Roderiguez, Sr CS AOLA get put in the Hole at Int on the RPF? I remember an LRH reference regarding doing conditions and he says that you can’t buy your way out of the condition and that doing work and amends that requires doingness is better than buying your way out. He also says that Outflow is holier than Inflow, and he means doingness outflow and not just open the checkbook outflow. David M and the RTC changed that. Now if you were to point out the LRH about how you shouldn’t try to buy your way out of a condition and should actually do the amends or doingness, you’d be labeled CI or worse and at least would be glared at by the MAA.
I just had a little personal insight into how WOGS view scn. I don’t talk to people much about scn any more, but chatting to some dude this morning it turned out we knew someone in common who is a scientologist. I gave my disclaimer that I’m a lapsed scientologist, and he proceeded with what I know is the usual list of objections to scn: although the person concerned was ‘intelligent’ my companion was irritated because this female scientologist was trying to “make me into a scn” and tying to “analyse me” and the biggest complaint which from my experience is lodged against most scientologists whether active or lapsed is she was excessively garrulous. That;s a charge I’ve certainly heard lodged against LRH. Scientologists just won’t shut up and think they know everything – a characteristic I think we share with most ignorant people! All I could really do was commiserate and ask him if he wanted to go into the org for an ARCX session!
dr Mac….are you telling me Scientologists DON’T know everything! I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya! I’m not sure I’ll be able to get over this. Maybe I should go surfing….
Bruce, excellent post. Thanks.
SIXTEEN TONNES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
That along with the ‘unquenchable thirst for power and money’ to paraphrase Martin Samuels or David Mayo ( I don’t recall for certain which one) who stated one of LRH’s conversational confessions he made.
It seems to corroborate his previously private admissions of ‘all men will be my slaves’ and (less accurately paraphrased from the same ‘LRH admissions’) ‘my science of the mind will control all others’.
RB you hit the core activity. I go from Thursdays’ funnies to join with your art the image of a ‘Bridge closed and abandoned’ alongside a series of Ideal Orgs shown as entrances to open pit and underground gold digging of mines.(minds).
The multi-lane Bridge ends suspended mid-air with Gold dripping-pouring into the Trementino NM underground vaults which are also fed by conveyor belts of gold from the scientology slaves minds(mines) . COB is the current diabolical foreman, replacing El Con, of the entire scene.
Imagine a big smoking hole in the ground where the local headquarters used to be and the enforcers hanging from the lampposts?
How else does one deal with a tyrant?
Once again, RB, sadly spot on.
Don’t shoot me or throw tomatoe because I ask but I’m trying to understand the mindset of dave, doesn’t he ever think, “Okay, That’s enough money.” (I mean the church is worth several billion! There is nothing He wants for..) “Let’s do good works and fool the public at large into thinking we actually give a shit.”
What is dave’s end game? Anybody Anybody?
This game has to do with dominating people.
Getting people to give you money when it is not in their best interest to do so (even if you don’t need it) is a sign of power and dominance over them. That is what Miscavige lives for. He could not spend all the money the church has if he tried. He has everything he wants at his command. If he wants to fly on a private jet to London in the morning and take his personal chef, steward, masseuse, hairdresser, chiropactor and other assorted hangers-on, he can do so. If he wants a new car or motorcyle or suit or shoes or anything he just has to mention it and minions will make it happen.
So, he does not need money. He does need to control and dominate. There is no end to that.
Mike, its frightening, in a way. Almost non-confrontable. Its hard to understand someone whose true pleasure moments from…this.
Makes me think of that part of the tone scale film, the depictions of the tone levels below 0, where some guy is grimacing and winding this long, thick metal chain into knots…that’s Miscavige, mentally. Wow.
MR, spot on! That motivation (to dominate) is so alien that it leaves most of us puzzled. It only makes sense to a sociopath. Domination, not greed, is his game.
The point that tickles my fancy is that there’s no way he could ever enjoy the money. It’s a product of his criminality and the fact it’s insatiable must eat away at him like a cancer. He’s a miserable SOB as a human being of that there is no doubt and as crazy as he is, he knows it!
“I wonder if there’s an end to needing all this money?” frets the sweet young idealist. “NO!” screams a chorus of thirsty vampires. Asking, regging, begging, blackmailing, cajoling for money is the End Game of scientology. After that will be secret liquidating of assets, then downsizing then…collapse.
This is presumed of course based on common sense and the apparent lack of stout-heartedness in the ranks to stage a coup.
Can’t scientology just go back to helping people and being fun like in the old days when “clear” and “OT” were still dazzling promises on the horizon? Ah, there’s the rub.
Regraded Being, I really like the way you draw your characters, and I hope you continue cartooning. The message is always relevant too. Thanks for the Friday treats!
“I wonder if there’s an end to needing all this money”. Well, I was in for 25 years and saw no end to it. The goal remained the same, but the purpose changed dramatically.
At least for the first 15 years the hounding was for payment of one’s Bridge.
So let me guess. Now the constant push is to give money to the IAS and moving up in “status”, donating to build Ideal Orgs?
That’s right, T.J. Somewhere circa 2005 I observed the changeover with emphasis on Bridge going to emphasis on IAS and other “straight donos” including but not limited to Ideal Orgs. There was a big Library Campaign push. Lots of pressure for that.
I had to relay this message from KittyKatSpanker that he loves you no matter what.
Money, money, money! When the Ideal Org evolution started — somewhere around 2004 — if a Sea Org member had said “I think it’s going to take at least 15 years for all orgs to become Ideal” how much you want to bet that person would have been sent straight to the RPF to get rid of their evil purposes and counter intentions to COB?
It’s now 12 years later and the strategy is NOT EVEN CLOSE to complete, and it’s still all that the orgs talk about. Give us money so we can go ideal so we can do Scientology. The strategy will probably take at least 30 years to complete, if it’s even possible to complete it at all.
I think the Ideal Org strategy has done more to kill real Scientology than anything Marty or Mike has done. No offense to Marty and Mike of course. DM just specializes in destruction is all.
RB, Philosophically you got it right. If “they” had stuck to helping people, and defined help, like, thought about what that means, what the person who is being helped wants, and what the end goal or end products of the whole thing are, then learned how to use the technology that is there to bring that about … so that the person being helped actually is helped as was originally intended, so that they can truthfully say, “Hey, that helped!” … maybe Scientology would still be people coming and going as they please and developing their own abilities and lives with their own hopefully increased awareness, and their own goals.
Maybe just the mood I’m in today, but I couldn’t help noticing the art of cartooning. So few lines on flat colors, and yet the cartoonist conveys a character and moment – and I don’t know what else. I tried doing a cartoon strip once just for fun, and found I couldn’t get a consistent enough drawing of one character to make it transition smoothly from one frame to the next – and used too many lines. I couldn’t even get the size of the head right from one frame to the next. It was just for fun, haha. But then the text or speech of the character also defines – I’m just originating what I imagine goes into it. Someone once said that there are over 300 arts that go into making a motion picture. Clearly there’s more than just one art that goes into cartooning. Your characters come alive somehow, as the saying goes. Gad … I even feel like I’m getting to know some of them! Charming dishwater hair on the OSA grinch.
How funny, I just posted the same thought about the cartoon strip – something about the simplicity, yet human portrayal. Just like you, I feel like I actually know some of the characters. R.B. has been doing this strip for awhile now, surely there must be enough comics to make a book by now? People have a big interest in this subject these days, I think the book would be very successful. How about it R.B.?
Nickname, you’re so right. If they had just stuck to helping people there would be no way anyone or anything could have stopped it. Very sad, actually.
Aqua – You were in for 25 years? Wow. I never would have guessed. Your thought is very free.
There’s something in a being that balks at simple appropriate perspective on his own nature and relative importance. The sense of it gets lost, somehow, in a game.So the communication gets untrue in the sense that most of the “relevant” comm is about the game. E.g. Guys sit around and talk about their boats over the weekends, then go back to work and talk about projects and give orders on how to accomplish goals and valuable final products, and this has to do with the normal activities of successful people within the context of the game of being in a body and all. And it’s all fine and good and all that, until the guy gets to body expiration dates (powerful writer, the guy who did the writing for “Blade Runner”), then the guy runs into the Big Questions.
I’m thinking of the end of the movie, when Harrison Ford’s line is something like, “Why did he, at the last moment, save me?” But earlier in the flick, Daryl Hanna’s line gets me: “And we’re stupid, and we’re going to die.”
I asked a couple of auditors what I thought was a real simple question: “Why do you audit?” I found I had to explain, because I got answers like “Clearing the planet”, and “to help people”. So I tried again: “No, I mean YOU – what do YOU get out of it? What is your Ideal Scene for the whole thing, personally? How do YOU personally benefit?” Too big a question.
What does “to help someone” really mean, in the big picture? If you give someone answers, what do you get, what do you end up with? You get, I think, a freer being with better conduct and thoughts of his own, and you can maybe talk about something more profound than boats and islands and bonuses. In short, better company. There’s more to it than that, but the idea is that you approach even bigger questions, like “What do you plan to do for the rest of eternity?” Which is a funny question, because there is no “the rest of” to eternity. That is, “the rest of” implies a finite quantity, like “the rest of the cake” or “the rest of the day”. “The rest of eternity” is facetious.
I’m just trying to validate your thought and motivations here, because it seems to me that you are one of the people who “gets it” about what we’re doing, really. Scientology is a via, a way to. It’s “freedom TO” and the question is freedom to what? I think we all want brighter and more free-er people, and that’s the “why audit” answer – something like that. Ethics is all about admin scales.
You just gave me an enormous compliment, Nickname. With no false modesty I do not believe that I actually deserve it, but, its very nice to hear, so thank you. Thinking freely was a goal of mine before I got into Scientology. I had a vague concept that it could be possible. I don’t think I’ve achieved it because although I have this concept of what it is, I can’t actually define it. As you asked, “Free from what?, or “freedom TO” be/do/have or not be/not do/not have WHAT? you know? Isuppose the answer to that would be the same as the answer to “Who am I, really?”.
I’m not auditor trained although I wanted to be (long story) but as to the reason why people audit, my own take on it is that it is fun to help someone. That’s my own viewpoint. Its fun to make someone happy. To bring a person uptone, with all that implies. As that person’s auditor, its like being that person, looking from that person’s viewpoint even if one doesn’t agree. In fact, especially if one doesn’t agree. Its another world, another life. Its interesting. Again, I’m not an auditor but I’ve had some excellent auditing myself, so I think that if I were auditing someone correctly that the effect should be beneficial to the person from that person’s viewpoint. In other words, there’s someone in front of you, on the cans – what does this person want/not want, need/not need, what does this person want to be/do/have or not be/do/have? I would say its an auditor’s job to assist that person along with his or her own goals. I would consider this interesting, and, well, there’s that word again, but -fun.
Happy to hear that, Aqua. (Surprised, too – I didn’t have any idea you had articulated that goal to yourself.) I ran into problems getting training, too, and it is also a long story. Training is easy, and fun too. Makes me wonder how many others ran into the same problems? I like your answer about “why audit?” (Could write more, but it’s a day-by-day blog.)
This is completely brilliant and so true. Could not have been more spot on with laser accuracy as to the true nature and the sole existence of the bubble these days. At this point those who are still in completely deserve what they get. Why? Because they can’t even see the basic analogy of ordering ice-cream at the Carvel windows where the employee states, “Sorry we are not producing ice-cream (our product) but we do have a parking lot that has a lot of holes in it that needs repaving and we would like you to donate towards its repair!
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Superb comment, Flying High.
Yes and the clarity of seeing what these poor souls are buying without seeing gets sharper especially after being part of the personal experience of HowdyCon 2015 🙂
Blackmail protected by the First Amendment. There must be at least one mob boss clenching his jaw in anger over the fact that Hubbard/ Miscavige thought of it first.
I wonder if anyone in the cult has ever seen Monty Python’s “Blackmail” sketch? They’re into “putting the ‘fun’ into ‘fundraiser'”, right? Well, “Blackmail” is exactly that. And since it’s obligatory to link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khXJqedYRpw
Yep. It really and truly is that bad.
Very accurate portrayal of the current state of the Co$. Sociopaths with their “totally pitiless product officer” valence firmly in place. Willing Sycophants who betray every confidence. Naive followers unable to confront the evil cesspool they find themselves swimming in.
All this wrapped up in some pretty buildings that fortunately are NOT sucking in the gullible masses.
Talk about the offer of help being turned upside down into insidious betrayal.
Church of the Sociopaths…come in for a free brainwashing!
Did you just use the word “free” in a sentence about Scientology? Get outta here!
I just don’t know what to say.
When your dealing with over-the-top insanity, there’s not much you can say…
Close your eyes and let your little beasties ponder the scenario, spoken words just don’t cut it at that depth of lunacy hey?. Unless you’ve actually experienced the Cof$ personally, no one else will ever really get it understood as you do anyway and even we who have been there have a very hard time with it. However, communication on such gross behavior does require some experience in the situation. But it’s a bit like trying to comprehend the ‘mindset’ of a terrorist who’d put a bomb on a school bus – there are no words to describe it, only direct and definitive/terminal action will handle it. Scientology has delved into areas of operational think that defy any form of compassion or human understanding of the disastrous effect they cause on people, yet they use the very act of living as bait for the unwary. Scientology is more suited to being referred to as something like a cockroach infestation, it just needs to be eradicated, not compromised with or nicely communicated to – that window was always kept tightly closed despite the fact they call themselves the most ethical group on the planet. They gave the term booby trap a whole new direction to explore. Religion the carrier, freedom the carrot!
The COS has mastered the art of creating nasty, uncaring seniors (unreasonable is a good thing!) demanding extortion with a great sense of certainty. Saving the planet, one bribed and pissed off person at a time. Ugh.
RTC inspired “Cold Hard Chrome”.
Nostalgia for the Gold Old Days that never were.
Of course there was a time when the average Scientologist spent a lot more time doing courses that could actually help someone if they really worked. None of us starry eyed idealists signed up knowingly for a group whose only purpose is to extract cash.
But there is always a disconnect between the “shore story” that is told to the potential recruit and the reality of life in the trenches. Hubbard did say: “Make more money. Get other people to make more money.” He did live that principle and he did die with a fortune most only dream of.
The principle of the “useful idiot” applies here. A pretty good explanation here: http://factmyth.com/what-is-a-useful-idiot/ Note that it is not only Communists who employ “useful idiots” or useful innocents”. They popularized the term but the concept has existed as long as their have been people who wanted to exploit other people.
Imagine it – the volcano explodes and destroys the village every so often. Nobody knows when it will happen again, even today with modern science there is still great uncertainty. A few thousand years ago in my hypothetical village it is safe to say that no one knows. But say one of the villagers has a great idea: he will say he knows the “heart of the volcano” and can protect the village. This shyster knows he is lying. But he can get all kinds of goodies by lying and the chances are pretty good that the volcano will not erupt anytime soon. Even if it does erupt and he survives to face the wrath of the bilked villagers, he can always say they didn’t do it right. Or he can “discover” the “errors” of his old ways and still go on bilking the villagers in new ways.
The shyster knows he is lying. But he never tells. It is in his interest to get followers and helpers. So he gets people who believe him to spread his lies. Only a true sociopath can follow this path. If you have any regard for the feelings and hopes of your fellow man, you cannot be the point man on this type of scheme. But of course you can also lie to yourself once the scam really gets going. Random successes and confirmation bias (the ground shook but I appeased the Heart of the Volcano!) reinforce the scam and draw more followers in.
These followers are “useful innocents”. In their minds they are doing the incredibly important work to appease the Heart of the Volcano and prevent utter destruction of their village. They fervently pray or shake special rattles or engage in special rituals as prescribed by the shyster. In their hearts they know that they are doing the right thing. In their hearts it is working. The village has been safe for 10 years! Stats are straight up and vertical! The last three virgins that were sacrificed went willingly and without a tear! New ideal huts are popping up everywhere!
But it is all really a scam designed to enrich exactly one person. And it works. Over and over throughout history shysters have dreamed up schemes and useful innocents have sacrificed themselves to enrich the shysters. I am not saying that all religion is a scam, there are lots of non-religious scams that use the same pattern. I am not saying that all leaders are liars, though the recent election campaigns in the US seem to make a pretty good case for that idea. I am saying that some sociopaths specialize in duping useful innocents. Some go on being dupes long after the sociopath is gone.
Those of us who fell for the dream need to wake up. There is no easy one-size-fits-all one-shot solution. There is no easy peasy lemon squeezy glorious past to return to. There is only now and the decisions you make every day, to help others or ignore their pain, to work honestly or try to rip someone off. One decision, one day, one person in front of you. We were lied to, but we need not perpetuate the lie.
So Brilliantly Written. Thank you.
RB you did it again! Not only a detailed peek at OSA and their daily whippings,Opps I meant briefings,and my they are expert at arm twisting with one hand and grabbing your wallet with the other.You also gave some peeks at the darker side.Using PC folder stuff to get people to donate $ is right up the cult’s ally.In fact doing that maneuver to tag a person as being anR/Ser and worse was used in my day.The best part were the two SOers starting to cognite on the money racket.That one little spark can become a raging flame of escape.❤️❤️?
I am very grateful to David Miscavige, because he made my path in Scientology so horrific that I had to leave.
If Scientology had been friendly and affordable, I would possibly still be a Scientologist.
Maybe I would be happy, but unable to really reach advanced spiritual levels.
As I am now following the Buddhist path, I see more clearly that Scientology is basically embedding several gross errors that are actually preventing the attainment of true spiritual freedom and higher spiritual abilities.
I’m grateful that I’m Scottish. Being a cheap bastard all my life has served me well. My auditor, Dave Petitt, wanted me to attest to Clear. I never did. What I did do is Clear out of the org…immediately.
I applaud you.
I’m grateful I’ve finally managed to combine a lost list of fuck ups I gotten myself involved in into some sort of workable system. A little bit of this, a little of that, build a couple of “fuck off” fences where needed, issue some bruises when necessary and knowing when to shut the fuck up or run like like crap the other way have all combined into a sense of well being and accomplishment.
When people get pissed off with me now, I know I’m on the right track in there somewhere. Such is what old age does when a broken down body with a lifetime of experience and misadventures gets combined, all the while floating on a sea of alcohol.
Bring it on!
Dear RB,
You have been Channeling Sheila Chaleff except it’s two fists clenched
not just one. Don’t forget jumping up and down and screaming that makes
pictures of LRH go cross eyed and fall off the wall.
Yes falling down and screaming will get those big portraits to fly off the wall!❤️
The stories I could tell you will swear are all made up
to make scientology look like tales from an insane asylum.
Great line Jose.I could come with my sleeping bag and listen to you until you were finished.I believe,I lived some of that insanity.❤️❤️?
After people pay for the privilege of Sec-Checks and repair, will they have anything left to donate?
Oh sorry, wrong question.
RB nailed it again. To keep my sons from disconnecting from us, my wife and I were extorted into having sec-checks to the tune of $30,000, a few years back. This was after not holding those stupid cans in over 35 years. What a scam they have going. They have 2 caring parents who would do almost anything to keep their son and they exploit that to the extreme.
I wonder how much of their auditing stats and GI are derived from extortion based sec checks.
I’m going to say a lot….
Just when I think I’ve heard it all. Those sons of bitches. $30,000?! Makes me sick to my stomach that they extorted money from you to keep in touch with your sons. Absolutely unconscionable.
Did you keep your son?
I managed to keep one of my sons. He refused to disconnect from us. The other moved with no forwarding address, changed his phone number/email address, blocked us from FB/Instagram and we haven’t heard anything from him in about 1.5 years. This last communication was a 10 page KR about us.
We’ll keep on fighting though. I personally feel I wont see him again, ever, unless the church is brought down but my wife is more positive.
Of course, our money is needed!
How else you can have the lavishest, bestest and epicest, altough modestest surrounding for the cob to perform his tiniest will?
This has to be very gratifying for those ready to confront the supreme test…
This is per “policy” or “creed” laid down by El Con.
“NEVER fear to HURT another in a JUST cause”
DM is the MAN when it comes to following El Con and El Con’s Command Intention!
“Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.” And, of course, they are all just causes…
Yes OSD, ANYTHING that is Command Intention du jour qualifies. That’s how El Con lived his entire crooked life too.
Wow RB! I was in for a LONG time. I witnessed the change come right up to this! Just as you described. Scary accurate bro!
At this very moment there are teams of SO members combing through “sacrosanct” folders of “enemies” of the church looking for damning evidence to be used against them in covert operations.
While in the “bubble” I like I’m sure many others thought that this would not happen in a million years.
But then again, when the future of every man, woman and child are at stake there are NO measures taken that are not justified in order to save the planet.
Too many tracks to cover guys….too many lies Dave….they’re coming out and there is nothing you can do about it.
Maybe a billion dollars can save Dave from imprisonment. We’ll see. But there is no doubt that the end of this debacle is coming to an end. And none too soon.
Hilarious. Andres Rodriguez the senior cs aola was replaced because he was not creepy enough. This has now been corrected. Hilarious besides COB and me.
Thanks RB.
RB your plots are Chuck Lorre level.
What a clusterfuck of a cult scientology has become that RB can do his work and never becomes boring or runs out of funny plots. Is it just me or are they becoming funnier?
Did Andrew Roderiguez, Sr CS AOLA get put in the Hole at Int on the RPF? I remember an LRH reference regarding doing conditions and he says that you can’t buy your way out of the condition and that doing work and amends that requires doingness is better than buying your way out. He also says that Outflow is holier than Inflow, and he means doingness outflow and not just open the checkbook outflow. David M and the RTC changed that. Now if you were to point out the LRH about how you shouldn’t try to buy your way out of a condition and should actually do the amends or doingness, you’d be labeled CI or worse and at least would be glared at by the MAA.
RB – oh my… I don’t know what to say…
Do we both need a holiday? Geezers, talk about right on the money???? Fuck!
Scientology is one big clusterfuck…
Superb, once again.
I just had a little personal insight into how WOGS view scn. I don’t talk to people much about scn any more, but chatting to some dude this morning it turned out we knew someone in common who is a scientologist. I gave my disclaimer that I’m a lapsed scientologist, and he proceeded with what I know is the usual list of objections to scn: although the person concerned was ‘intelligent’ my companion was irritated because this female scientologist was trying to “make me into a scn” and tying to “analyse me” and the biggest complaint which from my experience is lodged against most scientologists whether active or lapsed is she was excessively garrulous. That;s a charge I’ve certainly heard lodged against LRH. Scientologists just won’t shut up and think they know everything – a characteristic I think we share with most ignorant people! All I could really do was commiserate and ask him if he wanted to go into the org for an ARCX session!
dr Mac….are you telling me Scientologists DON’T know everything! I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya! I’m not sure I’ll be able to get over this. Maybe I should go surfing….
Wonderfully done Regraded Being!
I know the answer to the lady’s final question: no.