Due to time constraints, I have not been able to put together Thursday Funnies yet. But Regraded Being, always one step ahead of the game, has this week’s cartoon ready. I am sure nobody will mind it being a day early. I will try to get Thursday Funnies done by tomorrow.
The only thing that would make it better is if there were portraits on the wall that look like Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, only the faces of LRH & COB were shopped onto the heads of the North Korean tyrants.
Hilarious! LOVE the dead plants.
There was a policy (that was never, ever pushed) saying that the EO post was to be swapped out every few months, because the accumulation of entheta was so hard on people holding that post.
Of course, this would have been before the Pro TRs course with it’s VFP of “A being who can handle anyone with communication alone and whose communication can stand up faultlessly to any session or social situation on matter how rough.”
Or the PTS/SP course where one learns how to “confront” and “shatter” suppression. The two big “handles” for PTS/SP used to be “disconnection” (which was stressed should only be done as the last resort) and the other “handling” used to be changing the subject to something that was easy to talk about (“good roads, good weather”).
We were all encouraged to never disconnect from an antagonist but always be “in a handling”(doing the Scientology jiujitsu of two way communication, the “good roads, good weather”)
But, back then, an SP declare would only happen very rarely. One of local important seemed to come out only once or year or so, generally only after something that had put the whole org in shock, like a big refund. We’d hear about SP Declares more often from the ship, or from SH, and we’d assume that that’s where the “real SPs” (actual psychos) were, as they were being drawn per the law of SP-ness to attack the planet’s one and only true Big Being, LRH.
Somewhere along the line, beginning, I guess in ’82/’83, SP declares got to be pretty common, and then, no one was encouraged to talk good roads and good weather. All we were allowed to do was to run away; to disconnect from these cads.
It’s always amazed me that the PTS course gets revised from time to time, and that it costs the better part of a grand each time. And all that it teaches you is
1. Disconnect from people when they have been declared by HCO.
2. Stay away from people below 2.0, as they’ll screw you, unless you are thoroughly trained, and then you might get away with it if you can stay at 4.0 or above and drag them up by shear force of will.
3. Learn how to do a “10 Aug” handling if you get a little cold or a bump on the head.
4. Learn that a type 2 PTS needs rest and then auditing.
5. Learn that Scn does not want anything to do with Type 3’s. And that, even though we were the only people who could handle such people, that we would also be the only people who could but than would refuse to, because, essentially, we’re too busy. Or, at least, should be too busy.
And, pretty sure that those were the only things one learned on that course that were at all unique to that course, about SPs. And none of that taught anyone anything that brought about confronting or shattering.
So, the EO post has been one of the more robotic, mindless, dumb jobs for a long long time. No one can actually think on that post, as there just nothing there that makes any sense at all.
Dan the actual LRH tech/policy was try to HANDLE someone who was just antago (but NOT an S.P.) but MANDATORY disconnection from someone who was deemed to be or declared an SP by HCO. It wasn’t “last resort”.
Two different classifications of people and two different “handling’s”.
RB brilliant as usual. Even partially leaving s empowering.
Very funny! Thanks RB!
Very funny punchline on this, well done RB!
Dear Mike
I’ve been following your blog. I kept having these dystopian dreams and recall. (senior moments)
And a name suddenly came to me “Winston Smith”
The Orwellian protagonist of 1984. Much of the Scientology practices and language used are in the book. And are very close if not directly taken from the book. The concept of ” thought crimes” is directly from the book for a start. I first read the book 40 years ago and have just reread it. One cannot but believe that Hubbard used the book as a primary source for his nightmarish vision.
Take care Mike
Fight the good fight
Graham Thom
Montreal Canada
Brilliant and funny piece, RB!!! Big guffaw from me. You truly have the flavour of scio down totally.
Oh how muchI love those Fridays, checking out the new Regraded Being cartoon.Thank you, live long and prosper!
This message is to anybody who has ever written a KR (except those who are Blown and and are now trying to atone for their mistakes).
If you have ever written a KR, and are still in scientology, you should be made aware of how history will judge you.
You are the lowest of the low:
– the East German Stasi, of the soviet era
– the North Korean cowardly informants, of the modern era
– the prison “rats” who are despised by fellow inmates as lower than child rapists, of any era.
If your “religion” encourages you to write Knowledge Reports, then you better re-evaluate your life.
(And to think scientology allegedly encouraged the children of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to write knowledge reports on Nicole Kidman. It is so SO sickening.)
“And to think scientology allegedly encouraged the children of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to write knowledge reports on Nicole Kidman. It is so SO sickening.”
Leah Remini writes in her book (on p. 147) that Bella (the adopted daughter of Tom and Nicole) called her mother a “fucking SP” and said that she wouldn’t be in contact with her if she had the choice.
Funny fact, in Russia Scientology is loving to say about soviet-era tirany and all the secret police psycho clinics and etc but at the same time press hard on Stalinist style methods of control of thoughts.
What WAYC said!
WAYC, please note that in its earlier guise, back in the 60s and early 70s, a KR was simply a way to correct an issue which was holding something up rather than squealing on someone. The person involved would also receive a copy of the report. It was a corrective action and was fairly mild. That obviously changed dramatically.
Nothing to apologize for. After all, you’re busy with Aftermath. You’re doing God’s work. Thank you.
Spot on, as usual RB.
Hey mike we dont give a crap if thursday funnies is on saturday and regraded being is on tuesday and terra cognito is on monday.
WE ONLY CARE ABOUT YOUR FIGHT. AND YOUR EXCELLENT AT IT.
hats off to you and leah. Our inspiration. Your tje man without fear.
Hip hip hooray
Hip hip hooray
There are so many levels to this strip as always. If David Miscavige were capable of self-awareness, he would see, just by reading RB what a laughingstock he has made himself. He, however, being incapable of self-reflection, believes no one sees him as he is and that the wool is still firmly over everyone’s eyes.
LRH died in hiding. Miscavige sneaks out only occasionally now. Not long before he goes into total seclusion himself. What a tremendous waste of skin. I am glad the internet is allowing more people each day to breathe free. Well done RB.
This! is truly funny. Thanks, RB! Love the dead plants! Cracking up, here!
At first, I thought it was Friday, and wondered how I had lost a day. A few observations on RB: the plants are dead. The MAA is pasty white, same color as his shirt. Scientology KR’s are silly. It’s a control mechanism. Happy to see more people are getting out every day. Celebrating freedom of thought, as always! Enjoy your day. 🙂
The dead plants gave me a good chuckle. And now people in this waiting room are staring at me because that last panel? It’s genius.
May every beleaguered Scieno make a similar phone call, and get the hell out.
I remember every time a couple would break up, there’d be a flurry of KRs from both parties, along with Chaplain requests and itemized lists of how much money one owed the other. And this wasn’t from divorces, it was from plain old boy/girlfriend breakups.
I wonder if that still happens?
Somebody else here said Scientology will be officially over when the last two Scientologists write KRs on each other, lol.
And they cancel each other out…
It looks like the plants need some Tender Loving Care. I used to go steady with a gal who did plant maintenance at offices. She’d be appalled.
I hooked up with her soon after blowing scn. She had been in a cult called The Center for Feeling Therapy. We’d compare notes about our cult experiences – laughter
It was a tiny cult in LA with a max of about 2,000 followers between 1971 and 1980 according to wiki.
She was still hanging onto some of the “right-ness” of The Center and I was still hanging onto some of the “right-ness” of scn.
Occasionally if she was upset about something I’d explain it in terms of scn and vice versa. It was never an argument. We both agreed that one good cult deserves another.
Love the poor dead plant in the corner! Literally at his elbow & it’s neglected…
Excellent RB! Just so true. My own son wrote KR’s on me and my husband and a lot of it was on petty stuff and then he also got things so wrong. He was in that mode of “I am here to save you by doing this”….made my stomach turn! But on the other hand, he was being told and had read the PTS policy letters, where it says that if you do not write up the KR’s, then it is as though you are also guilty of those “crimes”.
I know how hard it can be, my brother wrote a KR on me and my wife about what we were talking about on our mother birthday.
Thank you for the comic relief, RB. Dealing with true believers and their ‘snowflake’ sensibilities can be exasperating, at best. I’m exhausted. Love the people, hate the cult. That’s my present mantra. Plus, I LOVE the dead plants! What a perfect visual cue for how the poor guy is barely hanging on.
Hilarious!…the cult has always been big on twinning folks up, so be a good $cilon and take someone with you when you escape!
Just hilarious.
We finally see the cult circling the drain to oblivion and thanks to rb we get front row seats.
Hey RB thanks for helping my son and me reconnect a lot sooner.
What is an MAA?
“Master At Arms”. In the Sea Org, its the term for the post of “Ethics Officer”.
It is the Master at arms, the ethics officer in the sea org
Master At Arms.
Master at Arms. The Ethics officer in the cherch.
Master at arms (Ethics officer)
Boy, could I teach ’em what it really means to be a true master of arms! They have no idea of life history to claim that term of reference as a rank of responsibility. Such are some of Hubbard’s inappropriate terminology. .
Mindless Authoritarian Asshole
Good one 🙂
Funny.
Good punch line ,didn’t see that coming.
Last one remaining, please turn off the saunas…
Lol
Ha,ha,ha! Too funny,RB!
I have known public and staff who have filed KRs on people for the most stupid shit!
If there’s one staff post I would not like to have, it’s Dir I &R !
You should have seen MY ethics folder! About an inch thick! But that’s what you get in a snitching culture.
You had only ONE ethic’s folder?! You just weren’t trying hard enough Dude. I know I had at least 2, writing OWs was the favorite pastime in our neck of the woods. Gee… I wish I still had copies of some the KRs written on me. Some were worth framing, hilarious they were. One of the best was for swearing on bullbait and there was another about not attending an Org event, and yet another for not donating enough money to show I was serious about Scientology, written by an CLO SO member. You know… real important crimes I was terrified people would find out about my wicked ways.
I think your wicked ways are bitchin’! I realize now I wasn’t trying hard enough to make people KR me. I feel bad about that…
I had an SO registrar KR me for pulling my phone line out of the wall jack while she was regging me over the phone at 11pm at night.
Well done that man! Take no shit from no stinking Scientologist!
You should have told her to fuck off before unhooking the phone. Then you would have been put in Lower Conditions instead of merely being KRed.
i was sent to Ethics @ Flag because I had mentioned that that some dangerous thing that had been prevented to one of my small kids at that time; must be the help of the “Angels.” I waited over an hour to be told that : “oh; someone had read it in my auditing folder and said i must be following Other Practices!”
All of us here are practicing Other Practices….Total Freedom! Yeah baby!
Yes Sir!!!
Scientology got one thing right – the ‘downward spiral.’ Pretty soon it’ll be know as the Church of Human Trivia. Good one RB. Once again you amaze me at your satire, but it is also at the same time is quite true.
The End is in sight!
What…did the dwarf bend over?
He always looks that way.
May be my all time favorite RB, and I love them all. Thanks RB for coming in a day early
Congrats on the Aftermath special!
Yeah, no Thursday funnies today. I know it’s a necessary evil to post all that drivel but frankly I never miss it.
RB another great one today. And for those never-ins, don’t think this is an exaggeration cause we’ve all at one time or another have had to deal with that lunatic KR writer. Yes, the loony KR writer is the same busy body who has to put everyone’s “ethics” in. They will put your ethics in whether you’ve committed an overt or an “imaginary” overt in their opinion, of course.
“Yes, the loony KR writer is the same busy body who has to put everyone’s “ethics” in.”
Wow. Just like that one kid who was the class tattletale in 2nd grade, huh? Seems kinda obvious that these lunatic KR writers are either, A) trying to tear others down to make themselves feel better due to their own insecurities, B) trying to kiss ass to the higher-ups in the hopes of gaining favor, or C) are actually withholding their own “overts” and trying to put the spotlight on others before it turns to them…..
….or possibly even D) All of the above.
Mick, great analogy. The answer is D) all of the above, of course.
I totally believe this nonsense. As a never-in, I equate it to a ’55+ community’ my husband and I retired to after our kids were grown. (didn’t last long there) Besides the fact that they had silly, silly rules (ex….all Christmas lights had to be white) there was one woman who walked around the community every day with a camera in one hand and a clip board in the other. She was power happy and loved to write people up. As soon as we found a buyer we moved. I feel so badly for all the people who left Sc. with nothing to show for it and look forward to Leah and Mike’s second season of Aftermath.
I like the Funnies. Thursday Funnies or Friday Funnies. I look forward to them.
RB, you are amazing! The KR writing woman is so over the top in her zeal, while the poor ethics officer just wants to run away. My guess is that there are less zealots, and more running away, now! Brava!!
“…less zealots, and more running away, now!”
I believe that too. A conversation I had recently with a long term still in, whose family is still in, wherein he/she stated that said family were “quiet Scientologists” convinced me. I happen to know, but this person doesn’t know that I know about the disconnection issue in this family, so I didn’t ask what was meant by “quiet”. I didn’t have to. They are all UTR in this family.
That was funny RB. Thanks for bringing it a day early.
And Mike, I’m sure everyone who frequents here completely understands that you have much more important things to do than to worry about keeping our daily appetites satisfied. Your work on Aftermath helps raise awareness to the public instead of just our own “echo chamber” here (the show is what brought me here in the first place).
Thank you for continuing to take what precious little time you have these days to still provide us with a place to laugh, learn, discuss, and at times, even vent. Can’t wait for the 2-hour Aftermath special on Memorial Day!
Wow. 2 hr special on Memorial day. Im glad i read this. Mick
wow!!!..me too………didn’t see any ads for it…..I’m assuming it will be on A&E?????
Yes. It’s coming on A&E that evening at 9:00 PM Eastern. Looks like a Season 1 marathon starting at 1:00 PM Eastern.
However, it looks like there may be another 1-hour show that morning at 8:00 AM? My DVR is set to record it, and when I set it last year, I set it to only record New episodes (the Season 1 repeats aren’t set to record). Wonder what that’s about…..
Spit coffee on screen – LOLOLOLOL
Loved the DEAD PLANTS in MAA’s Office….
Everything dies around Scientology…
Lurkers and OSA – get out!
Laughed out loud???
I wonder how many Sea Org members have this thought and wish they could leave the nuthouse.
More than we can possibly know. But, leaving is to become able.