I guess there is so little going on in the Cherch these days we have to resort to RB to get any kind of posts going. The mentality of the SO is soo summed up by these cartoons. If it wasnt so true it would be meaning less but alas he’s right on the money again.
Interesting how the sea org to new public interface does not work.
Commanding Officer of Wise. huh? Over the years we have seen so many idiotic examples of sea org staff interfacing with public.
Sea org body routers.
Sea org storming into a business owned by one scientologist, but who has 50 non scientologist staff, and hard-sells church books to the owner to give to his staff. It ends badly.
Mission staff to new public interface, used to work just fine. Well, it worked in non ideal missions……
Great Sea Org cartoon, Mike. Thank God I never was a part of that organization.
In my opinion, the evolution of the SO was one of LRH’s biggest mistakes.
I loved the purpose to help people and the world and all, but when they said I had to sign up for a BILLION years, I said, “Wow, that is a l o n g time. Can YOU REMEMBER that far back?” …Apparently they couldn’t because they couldn’t maintain eye contact when I asked the question. If they had said, “yes”, I would have had more questions like “what happened to organizations like Rome, Egypt, etc.?”
Great for putting your money toward a real non profit rather than the IAS, 4.0 Society. That’s a flow in the right direction. I read on the blog here, a post by maybe it was Greta, that said the Red Cross might not send ALL the money to the cause and there may be people making very big salaries at the Red Cross. I found another group that I’m going to give my money to and it is to train seeing eye dogs for the blind. I found out it takes $100,000 to train each dog that goes to a blind person.
Just made a donation to the Red Cross rather than the IAS figuring my money would go more directly to help the situation in Nepal.
The Red Cross has been at these things for many years like helping out the Allied prisoners during WW2 so seemed to be a organization I can trust to help get the job done.
From what I’ve read the IAS has one local Napalian trying to muster up some help from the IAS and cash to same if you can’t volunteer. God bless him for trying.
4.0, if you really want your dollars to get to where they do the most good, the Salvation Army ranks far above any other charity in terms spending the monies where they were intended. The head of the SA takes a salary of $12K annually. Check out what the head of the RC gets as recompense, including all her family, too.
Hey, Elbie, OSA, whatever your name is – come on, you have to admit that Something Can Be Done About It is really a cool blog with its own, in-house comic strip. Come on, even though you need to be outwardly a grump and a grouch for David Miscavige’s sake, admit to yourself that you like reading here. I’ll bet even your boss enjoys lurking around here, because despite all the J & D at his expense he still gets to read fresh stories from exSO, staff and public about all the hurt he inflicted, all the people he’s ripped off, families busted up – it must make his day.
Regraded Being is very generous and conservative.
Gets to the crux of the material but the truth and full picture
is far more horrible than one can imagine.
Got my fix and ready for next week.
How about the COB getting PI’s to watch his Father
that would be a great cartoon sketch—- Let him die !!!!!.
Regraded being is genius, as usual. I really love this comic. I wonder if people are aware of how much work it takes to produce something like this, everything from the idea for each comic subject, to the art and drawing, to the wording, etc. I’m assuming it must take a lot of time and effort, so I want to say thank you and well done.
I think that I recall Regrading Being (the person) once mentioning that the comic was intended to hopefully get into the hands of Sea Org people, to help them start thinking about getting out (or something along those lines – I apologize if my memory is wrong, or if I’ve somehow mistakenly stated this) but if so, I was thinking, it might be cool to make a printed mini-comic out of the Regraded Being comics to date, and hand them out randomly to staff members on the street as you go by, or even throw them over the fence or whatever, to get them into people’s hands.
I remember reading that South Korean people floated balloons across the DMZ to get things into North Korean’s hands, and that several North Koreans who defected later said that was what started them thinking about the regime and life outside of it in the free world.
In any event, I truly enjoy the comic, and look forward to Fridays when we get a new one! Thank you Mike Rinder and Regraded Being.
T.J. Funny, the same idea hit me while reading todays RB which really hit the nerve. Thank you OSA for reading this blog. Want to give you fair warning. One day you are going to wake up and all you can think is where is the closest door to get out of SO hellhole.
Thanks T.J. and yes, my intended audience is those still in though I’m glad to see others enjoying them. Feel free to reprint, text, twitter, email or float balloons with any of my material to anyone who’s still marching to COB’s drum.
They must be getting tired of believing that stats internationally are straight up and vertical, when they are lucky if they can even beat last week’s or last year’s stats.
At first I was a little bit bummed with all of the swearing.
THEN IT HIT ME. That’s the type of foul language used in the “church” on a regular basis!
If I hear a swear word nowadays, it’s on a cable channel or a post on social media! The humans in my life don’t need to drop F-Bombs to make a point. They find meaningful words. It’s actual conversation. It is pleasant. No yelling, screaming, fear…
Will that go onto their “clear” stats?
Lol, if Toronto gets touted as (in a super duper huge EVENT!) “ALL CLEAR CITY” simply because it went to 100% all clear of Co$ members!
I’d love to see “Going Clear” with commentary by those guys from “Mystery Science Theater 3000”! LOL!
Claire Headley realizes Marty has blown… “Holy Sh*T!!!! Marty you bastard! Now I’m gonna have to lick the bathroom floor for an HOUR!! I’ll get you for this!! I guess I’d better hurry up and think of some crimes to confess so they don’t throw too much ice water on me…”
Regraded Being – just brilliant! The highlight for me is the fourth panel where the brunette simply opens with “Fuck!” Classic – that says it all.
Out of the mouths of babes. These little “born-ins” have absolutely no reality on the massive world they live in. I continually took so much heat for not enrolling my children in a Scientology school, or insisting they be on course, or taking them to events, letting regges speak with them, etc. etc.
Unfortunately, these “born-ins” also have absolutely no reality on what Scientology is either (and I don’t mean “Tiny Fists'” brand of Scientology).
Regraded Being, I don’t know who you are, but I sure hope you will be at OSD’s end-of-the-church party. I would like to shake your hand. And I promise to swear up a storm so you feel at home.
And, Mike, I have so enjoyed your hard work with this blog the last few months. You truly ARE doing something about the crimes David “Let Him Die” Miscavige (I think my new favorite is “Apple Box Boy” – don’t remember which commenter came up with that one – but THANK YOU!) and his wraiths are committing and I wanted to thank you for that.
WWHW, I believe I was the first to post “Apple Box Boy” here, and it is my own hands down favorite nick for David Miscavige, but alas it is not my creation, I copped it from a Bunkerite.
Aquamarine – you should never hesitate to pass along any gem you find. And, I do remember that when mentioned, there was no ownership taken or not taken – just the golden phrase “Apple Box Boy.” I still laugh every time I think of it.
Thanks, Espiando but I lifted it from a Bunkerite and (head down in shame) loved it so much I didn’t think to catch his/her handle. Someone posting over at Tony’s deserves this status.
I saw the Ideal Org expand explosively here in Sacramento. Went by and saw three staff in the area. Normally I see only one. David must be jumping with joy. That’s 300%. I will keep you posted.
Holy Body Thetans, Batman! The Sacramento Idle Morgue is growing by leads and bounds! Now let me clarify that. No one is really coming in, it’s just that the staff are jumping up and down quite a bit. Hmmmmm…maybe their body thetans are acting up…
It’s so true about Scientologists thinking they are above it all, being arrogant and yet so ignorant. A perfect example is Jenny (I know every inch of his body) Linson. She once told her doctor that she stopped using “the pill” because it kept falling out.
Every time Jenny Linson pops up around the blogs, it makes me think of how brave a man Tom Devocht was to marry that rabid harpy. He deserves a Purple Heart for the wounds inflicted and a Silver Star for valor under combat, not to mention a big Thank You from all of the single guys in the Sea Org at the time from stopping her devouring their souls.
Espiando – I’ll bet she didn’t start out that way (in defense of Tom). I’ll bet that she is now the woman (?) she is because of her intensive training in and completion of the Miscavology “How to Hate”, “How to Introvert Others” courses and the “Inverted Ethics and Justice Internship”.
That little filly needs some mild sedation and a BIG rock to look at for a decade or two, after the Miscavige Rundown.
Another home run Regraded Being! This one really does sting because it could actually happen word for word. I remember on many occasions being so pissed off that I told the person I was talking to they ‘could write me up’ if they needed to but I just had to say something. Some did and some didn’t. But the interesting part is that I didn’t really examine the fact I would even make that statement and not run for my sanity.
C’mon ElbsightA!
Criticism only helps when honestly given. Your ad hominem is very revealing!
Besides, not even Rinder can please everyone all the time. I don’t believe that you even hold yourself to such a high standard, so don’t make Mr. Rinder to perfect at all times standard.
He deserves the occasional break!
Run out of bitter defrocked apostates to try to Dead Agent? Oh, wait, that’s impossible, since the number of people who’ve seen the light and got out is growing straight up and vertical every day.
We’ve already won the game. You need to exercise your rights as a thetan to leave it.
Hi elbsightA
Thanks and welcome aboard. Be sure to tune in next week for another snippet of life in the Sea Org. As an extra treat we’ll include a special guest appearance by none other our beloved COB himself !!!!!
Be there and please communicate. It’s only a small crime.
elbightA’s toes will probably curl up like the wicked witch of the East, under that house that Dorothy dropped. “You can’t say that about OUR COB!!!You guys are all SPs. I’m taking my ball and going home.”
Welcome to the blog OSA. Looks like RB struck a nerve just to get you guys off to a good start. BTW, do you get stats when you post on Mike’s blog? If so,I’d say you are in lowers this past week!
I heard a rumour that the Church is BOOMING. Must be true, I heard it from real Scientologists. Can be easily verified too – just ask your local OSA for 10, 20 and 30 year delivery stats internationally. They do exist so should be a piece of cake to get them. While you’re at it, verify the rumour that your IAS donations are being put to humanitarian uses by asking for the audited IAS accounts.
OSA’s here, the party can begin! Glad you could make it, elbie. You guys must be like so amazingly busy lately what with all the Hill 10s and flaps and stuff.
Nice one RB. Good for a great laugh to start the day …… and week!
Chris Shelton also has a wonderful message on his new video over at TOs blog. To all bitter, defrocked apostates and their friends everywhere ………….. YOU ROCK!
Yeah, except 2nd and 3rd generation SO are being credited with a tad too much intelligence in this post, and not nearly enough F-words. In practice just about every sentence in a CLO or CMO unit is f-ing and blind-ing.
The part about the Scientologist’s encouraging the ex Scientologist to do Scientology help him with money and Tu Dee problems….was priceless. That really summed it up for me.
I believe the Scientologist’s left in are just bat shit crazy!
They have no clue but act so arrogant and all-knowing.
I remember being like that (cringe, turns red). I think what added to the mortification of my behavior the most is the “certainty” I exuded when I was so wrong! I was insouciant about Scientology.
I hang my head in shame.
But I pull it up and stand tall – for now we have the truth!
Well IM, don’t beat yourself up too badly. To borrow a phrase (I’m trying to forget where I heard it) the way out IS the way through! And you made it along with the rest of us here. Congrats to all!
Good advice on the action for the day! I’ll do it. 🙂
Yeah, IM and Newcomer – It’s nice to be standing on the right side of the bridge, isn’t it? Even though we have to do a facepalm now and then about how we once were, it’s air is still better out here. Whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
What cracked me up about the comic is that the two girls never even HEARD him when he said he used to be in. Oblivious.
They must have done the STCC (Success Through Communication Course) instead of the original Comm Course. I’m afraid that they didn’t have any “TRs” to get in because they were never trained in them. Perfectly true,like, comic, regraded being! 🙂
i’ve never been in, never fell for any of that stuff and yet….
I remember being like that (cringe, turns red). I think what added to the mortification of my behavior the most is the “certainty” I exuded when I was so wrong! I was insouciant about …FILL IN BLANK…. .
if we are honest with ourselves we all know we’ve all been that in our own ways and maybe even when we think we’re not like that anymore, still we might be.
maybe that’s what opens the doors for things like scientology in the first place, things that promise to fix that uncertainty about being certain.
“the more i know the less i understand” seems to be, at least, the way my life is unfolding.
this may or may not be comforting to hear Idle, but the likely truth is you would have had just as many “cringe” moments with or without scientology in your life.
the trouble with life is nobody gets out alive – Jim Morrison
I think it was Aristotle (won’t bet my life!) the said “…the only thing I know for certain is that I know nothing…” (Paraphrased).
This is true for everyone after honest self-reflection. Mostly, a huge fraction of our knowledge are really our own assumptions that work 90+% percent of the time for day-to-day functions. Your “…more I know, the less I understand…” is actually a normal human state. You’re in the same, heavily weighted, way too crowded boat as the rest of us.
I’d like to add to Jim Morrison: that this game of life is so, so difficult that NOBODY wins! Playing just kills you.
yes, do not feel badly about being in the cult…I was too in love with my tu dee (love that phrase) to seek the truth about the evils…then again, no internet during those 27 years with the wasband.
IM, you’re not the only one who cringes at the memory of his cluelessly arrogant certainty. I once stormed out of the house when a friend refused to agree with me that Ron Hubbard was the greatest man who ever lived and I WAS IN MY OWN HOUSE AT THE TIME! I wouldn’t trade the experience of having been thoroughly brainwashed for anything. Of course I’ve had plenty of time to recover.
Thank you Roger Me too,I really did myself proud back in the day regarding Ron & SO.Then the cracks began to widen under me & when I really knew what was what I left.Ah brainwashing nothing like it till I woke up & realized that what I thought was noble true & beautiful, was just stage props.And what I thought & felt didn’t matter.All that mattered was the grand Illusion.Take Care Ann B Watson.
Allow me to let you in on a secret. I have never told this to anybody before. It happened in Clearwater JUST BEFORE I had a clear cognition of the kind of troublemakers in the church that existed, especially down there at Flag. I was walking home from Flag one afternoon and I saw a lady crouching about 20 yards ahead of me (I think it was Sue Penny). As I walked she was facing me and said “That’s what was supposed to happen”. That was in 1986 and in case you knew her husband Bob? There were real critics of the church way back then and even way before that. I am not surprised I turned out to be one, at all. 🙂
Hi Lawrence,A great post. Yes even before the 80s there were critics about of cos.I never ever would have thought when I joined SO Asho F in 74,I would be one too.Once I was targeted & never knew when the next sec check OW Rundown & many other GOI measures to keep me where I was wanted began,I knew the dark side of cos.Thank you for telling your viewpoint. By the way I love how cos keeps calling our posts ” church stories” Shore stories ring a bell y’all? We know the difference between stories & the Truth.Thank you & take care. Ann B Watson.
Gee RB, you communicate the SO reality so well. I couldn’t stop laughing! Guess that makes me a “Joker and Degrader” ah?
The “magic of the communication” says it all. I would like to see more cartoons on dear COB and his “handlings”.
Take care ; good job!
TC
I guess there is so little going on in the Cherch these days we have to resort to RB to get any kind of posts going. The mentality of the SO is soo summed up by these cartoons. If it wasnt so true it would be meaning less but alas he’s right on the money again.
Nice RG.
Interesting how the sea org to new public interface does not work.
Commanding Officer of Wise. huh? Over the years we have seen so many idiotic examples of sea org staff interfacing with public.
Sea org body routers.
Sea org storming into a business owned by one scientologist, but who has 50 non scientologist staff, and hard-sells church books to the owner to give to his staff. It ends badly.
Mission staff to new public interface, used to work just fine. Well, it worked in non ideal missions……
Brought to you courtesy of DLTCDM (David “Let The Cult Die” Miscavige). 🙂
Great Sea Org cartoon, Mike. Thank God I never was a part of that organization.
In my opinion, the evolution of the SO was one of LRH’s biggest mistakes.
I loved the purpose to help people and the world and all, but when they said I had to sign up for a BILLION years, I said, “Wow, that is a l o n g time. Can YOU REMEMBER that far back?” …Apparently they couldn’t because they couldn’t maintain eye contact when I asked the question. If they had said, “yes”, I would have had more questions like “what happened to organizations like Rome, Egypt, etc.?”
Great for putting your money toward a real non profit rather than the IAS, 4.0 Society. That’s a flow in the right direction. I read on the blog here, a post by maybe it was Greta, that said the Red Cross might not send ALL the money to the cause and there may be people making very big salaries at the Red Cross. I found another group that I’m going to give my money to and it is to train seeing eye dogs for the blind. I found out it takes $100,000 to train each dog that goes to a blind person.
Just made a donation to the Red Cross rather than the IAS figuring my money would go more directly to help the situation in Nepal.
The Red Cross has been at these things for many years like helping out the Allied prisoners during WW2 so seemed to be a organization I can trust to help get the job done.
From what I’ve read the IAS has one local Napalian trying to muster up some help from the IAS and cash to same if you can’t volunteer. God bless him for trying.
See Sec Check blog. Sounds like they are giving it a shot a little more intelligently this time.
4.0, if you really want your dollars to get to where they do the most good, the Salvation Army ranks far above any other charity in terms spending the monies where they were intended. The head of the SA takes a salary of $12K annually. Check out what the head of the RC gets as recompense, including all her family, too.
And, Elbie/OSA, you and I both know that in the depths of his dear little blackheart, David Miscavige misses Mike and Marty.
Went by Sacramento Org on the way to my doctor. Down to only two staff standing idle. Stats down from yesterday
Hey, Elbie, OSA, whatever your name is – come on, you have to admit that Something Can Be Done About It is really a cool blog with its own, in-house comic strip. Come on, even though you need to be outwardly a grump and a grouch for David Miscavige’s sake, admit to yourself that you like reading here. I’ll bet even your boss enjoys lurking around here, because despite all the J & D at his expense he still gets to read fresh stories from exSO, staff and public about all the hurt he inflicted, all the people he’s ripped off, families busted up – it must make his day.
OMG! Regraded Being didn’t create this one. He must have videoed it. It is SO real.
Great stuff. Even OSAI loves it.
Regraded Being is very generous and conservative.
Gets to the crux of the material but the truth and full picture
is far more horrible than one can imagine.
Got my fix and ready for next week.
How about the COB getting PI’s to watch his Father
that would be a great cartoon sketch—- Let him die !!!!!.
I laughed out loud. 🙂
Regraded being is genius, as usual. I really love this comic. I wonder if people are aware of how much work it takes to produce something like this, everything from the idea for each comic subject, to the art and drawing, to the wording, etc. I’m assuming it must take a lot of time and effort, so I want to say thank you and well done.
I think that I recall Regrading Being (the person) once mentioning that the comic was intended to hopefully get into the hands of Sea Org people, to help them start thinking about getting out (or something along those lines – I apologize if my memory is wrong, or if I’ve somehow mistakenly stated this) but if so, I was thinking, it might be cool to make a printed mini-comic out of the Regraded Being comics to date, and hand them out randomly to staff members on the street as you go by, or even throw them over the fence or whatever, to get them into people’s hands.
I remember reading that South Korean people floated balloons across the DMZ to get things into North Korean’s hands, and that several North Koreans who defected later said that was what started them thinking about the regime and life outside of it in the free world.
In any event, I truly enjoy the comic, and look forward to Fridays when we get a new one! Thank you Mike Rinder and Regraded Being.
T.J. Funny, the same idea hit me while reading todays RB which really hit the nerve. Thank you OSA for reading this blog. Want to give you fair warning. One day you are going to wake up and all you can think is where is the closest door to get out of SO hellhole.
Thanks T.J. and yes, my intended audience is those still in though I’m glad to see others enjoying them. Feel free to reprint, text, twitter, email or float balloons with any of my material to anyone who’s still marching to COB’s drum.
By “still in” I mean Sea Org, Org and Mission Staff and Public.
They must be getting tired of believing that stats internationally are straight up and vertical, when they are lucky if they can even beat last week’s or last year’s stats.
At first I was a little bit bummed with all of the swearing.
THEN IT HIT ME. That’s the type of foul language used in the “church” on a regular basis!
If I hear a swear word nowadays, it’s on a cable channel or a post on social media! The humans in my life don’t need to drop F-Bombs to make a point. They find meaningful words. It’s actual conversation. It is pleasant. No yelling, screaming, fear…
Great post Regraded.
The Sea Org emulate COBRTC David Miscavige, also known as Pope Pottymouth the First.
Well, Aqua, surely you can take credit for THIS one. I love it. Pope Pottymouth! LOL
Waiting a week for an RB hit reminds me of TV footage of boaters and canoeists waiting offshore of AT&T park in SF while Barry Bonds came up to bat.
Yep, another one out of the park.
Too real!!
Drive-by trolling by Scientology is a sure sign of success. I think L. Ron Hubbard said something like that about critics…
Ooh! A special showing of Going Clear with Alex Gibney and Mike Rinder in Toronto at the TIFF Lightbox on Monday.
Aaaannnd it’s gone. *sigh* Sold out by the time I noticed it.
YEAH, BABY!!!! Maybe Toronto will be the first Clear city in Canada. Clear of cult members, that is!
Which means they will also be clear up to their ass in stacks of SP goldenrod declares! Let freedumb ring.
Will that go onto their “clear” stats?
Lol, if Toronto gets touted as (in a super duper huge EVENT!) “ALL CLEAR CITY” simply because it went to 100% all clear of Co$ members!
I’d love to see “Going Clear” with commentary by those guys from “Mystery Science Theater 3000”! LOL!
Claire Headley realizes Marty has blown… “Holy Sh*T!!!! Marty you bastard! Now I’m gonna have to lick the bathroom floor for an HOUR!! I’ll get you for this!! I guess I’d better hurry up and think of some crimes to confess so they don’t throw too much ice water on me…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR67ZfkytDc
Regraded Being – just brilliant! The highlight for me is the fourth panel where the brunette simply opens with “Fuck!” Classic – that says it all.
Out of the mouths of babes. These little “born-ins” have absolutely no reality on the massive world they live in. I continually took so much heat for not enrolling my children in a Scientology school, or insisting they be on course, or taking them to events, letting regges speak with them, etc. etc.
Unfortunately, these “born-ins” also have absolutely no reality on what Scientology is either (and I don’t mean “Tiny Fists'” brand of Scientology).
Regraded Being, I don’t know who you are, but I sure hope you will be at OSD’s end-of-the-church party. I would like to shake your hand. And I promise to swear up a storm so you feel at home.
And, Mike, I have so enjoyed your hard work with this blog the last few months. You truly ARE doing something about the crimes David “Let Him Die” Miscavige (I think my new favorite is “Apple Box Boy” – don’t remember which commenter came up with that one – but THANK YOU!) and his wraiths are committing and I wanted to thank you for that.
WWHW, I believe I was the first to post “Apple Box Boy” here, and it is my own hands down favorite nick for David Miscavige, but alas it is not my creation, I copped it from a Bunkerite.
Aquamarine – you should never hesitate to pass along any gem you find. And, I do remember that when mentioned, there was no ownership taken or not taken – just the golden phrase “Apple Box Boy.” I still laugh every time I think of it.
“Apple Box Boy” should be properly credited to Aquamarine, I believe.
Thanks, Espiando but I lifted it from a Bunkerite and (head down in shame) loved it so much I didn’t think to catch his/her handle. Someone posting over at Tony’s deserves this status.
“Apple Box Boy” definitely shows his ‘stature’ with us here (pardon the pun). “Let him die” however, exposes his dark and rotten soul.
Talk about a bad apple, box boy. 😉
‘we get to eat meat, we just throw the hot dog pieces right in with the beans..’
brilliant
I saw the Ideal Org expand explosively here in Sacramento. Went by and saw three staff in the area. Normally I see only one. David must be jumping with joy. That’s 300%. I will keep you posted.
Holy Body Thetans, Batman! The Sacramento Idle Morgue is growing by leads and bounds! Now let me clarify that. No one is really coming in, it’s just that the staff are jumping up and down quite a bit. Hmmmmm…maybe their body thetans are acting up…
No that’s not correct. They were standing outside with nothing to do. IDLE not Ideal
It’s so true about Scientologists thinking they are above it all, being arrogant and yet so ignorant. A perfect example is Jenny (I know every inch of his body) Linson. She once told her doctor that she stopped using “the pill” because it kept falling out.
LOL !!!!!!!! Direct hit Mat!
Did she ask for a perscription to hold a dime between her knees?
+ 1,000! Right on target (2)! Now that’s some funny shit! Thanks, Matt! I still can’t stop laughing…
Laughter!
Laughter! Well, if she gets sick of rice and beans she can always eat her IUD.
You guys and gals are frickin priceless today! Carry on………
Yo OSA,
Are you laughing yet? Toss us a bone …….. we’ll work on it!
Every time Jenny Linson pops up around the blogs, it makes me think of how brave a man Tom Devocht was to marry that rabid harpy. He deserves a Purple Heart for the wounds inflicted and a Silver Star for valor under combat, not to mention a big Thank You from all of the single guys in the Sea Org at the time from stopping her devouring their souls.
Espiando, please, DON’T HOLD BACK! Tell us how you REALLY feel…
Espiando – I’ll bet she didn’t start out that way (in defense of Tom). I’ll bet that she is now the woman (?) she is because of her intensive training in and completion of the Miscavology “How to Hate”, “How to Introvert Others” courses and the “Inverted Ethics and Justice Internship”.
That little filly needs some mild sedation and a BIG rock to look at for a decade or two, after the Miscavige Rundown.
RE Jinny Linson, yes she needs all you say and more and so does her mother, Lil Linson, Solo Nots D of P. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Another home run Regraded Being! This one really does sting because it could actually happen word for word. I remember on many occasions being so pissed off that I told the person I was talking to they ‘could write me up’ if they needed to but I just had to say something. Some did and some didn’t. But the interesting part is that I didn’t really examine the fact I would even make that statement and not run for my sanity.
what a stupid post Rinder.
Run out of churchie stories and rumours?
Very intelligent post today. Thanks Mike
C’mon ElbsightA!
Criticism only helps when honestly given. Your ad hominem is very revealing!
Besides, not even Rinder can please everyone all the time. I don’t believe that you even hold yourself to such a high standard, so don’t make Mr. Rinder to perfect at all times standard.
He deserves the occasional break!
Ohhh, poor elbsightA. He/she didn’t get the joke. Can’t see the forest for the trees?
Maybe somebody can explain it to them…well, naw, never mind. Too many beans to invest in that one to expect a good result.
What a stupid post, OSA.
Run out of bitter defrocked apostates to try to Dead Agent? Oh, wait, that’s impossible, since the number of people who’ve seen the light and got out is growing straight up and vertical every day.
We’ve already won the game. You need to exercise your rights as a thetan to leave it.
Hi elbsightA
Thanks and welcome aboard. Be sure to tune in next week for another snippet of life in the Sea Org. As an extra treat we’ll include a special guest appearance by none other our beloved COB himself !!!!!
Be there and please communicate. It’s only a small crime.
“clap! clap! clap! clap!” Can’t wait, RB!
elbightA’s toes will probably curl up like the wicked witch of the East, under that house that Dorothy dropped. “You can’t say that about OUR COB!!!You guys are all SPs. I’m taking my ball and going home.”
Welcome to the blog OSA. Looks like RB struck a nerve just to get you guys off to a good start. BTW, do you get stats when you post on Mike’s blog? If so,I’d say you are in lowers this past week!
Well, it apparently touched a nerve, didn’t it ?
U mad bro ?
Keep on drawing, Regraded Being.
I heard a rumour that the Church is BOOMING. Must be true, I heard it from real Scientologists. Can be easily verified too – just ask your local OSA for 10, 20 and 30 year delivery stats internationally. They do exist so should be a piece of cake to get them. While you’re at it, verify the rumour that your IAS donations are being put to humanitarian uses by asking for the audited IAS accounts.
Audited by an independent, 3rd party, reputable CPA firm………..
Big News from Flag!
Co$ announces the creation of a Scientology Public Accounting firm in 3……….2………1…..
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OSA’s here, the party can begin! Glad you could make it, elbie. You guys must be like so amazingly busy lately what with all the Hill 10s and flaps and stuff.
” Run out of churchie stories and rumours?”
Never Ell Bee! You OSA bots are on a permanent self inflicted feedback loop.
Reload……. aim at other foot ……… pull trigger! Continue until you are looking up at the apple box!
The silly and ridiculous mentality of the Sea Org / CoS is a churchie story and we’ll never run out of things to say about that.
Time to wake up hon. You’re welcome to join us if you like.
Not even a very creative post, Elbie. But stick around and you’ll learn how it’s done properly and with both humour and grace.
Nice one RB. Good for a great laugh to start the day …… and week!
Chris Shelton also has a wonderful message on his new video over at TOs blog. To all bitter, defrocked apostates and their friends everywhere ………….. YOU ROCK!
RB scores again! I did actually laugh at the inanity he so well describes.
🙂 Regraded 🙂
I think you like got it down.
Yeah, thanks, Regraded, I thought this post was like really on target and funny and stuff.
Yeah, except 2nd and 3rd generation SO are being credited with a tad too much intelligence in this post, and not nearly enough F-words. In practice just about every sentence in a CLO or CMO unit is f-ing and blind-ing.
Yay! Another awesome Regraded Being! Humor is such a great weapon against the oh-so-serious Co$! Thanks Mike!!
The part about the Scientologist’s encouraging the ex Scientologist to do Scientology help him with money and Tu Dee problems….was priceless. That really summed it up for me.
I believe the Scientologist’s left in are just bat shit crazy!
They have no clue but act so arrogant and all-knowing.
I remember being like that (cringe, turns red). I think what added to the mortification of my behavior the most is the “certainty” I exuded when I was so wrong! I was insouciant about Scientology.
I hang my head in shame.
But I pull it up and stand tall – for now we have the truth!
Do something today to get someone out!
Well IM, don’t beat yourself up too badly. To borrow a phrase (I’m trying to forget where I heard it) the way out IS the way through! And you made it along with the rest of us here. Congrats to all!
Good advice on the action for the day! I’ll do it. 🙂
Yeah, IM and Newcomer – It’s nice to be standing on the right side of the bridge, isn’t it? Even though we have to do a facepalm now and then about how we once were, it’s air is still better out here. Whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
What cracked me up about the comic is that the two girls never even HEARD him when he said he used to be in. Oblivious.
They must have done the STCC (Success Through Communication Course) instead of the original Comm Course. I’m afraid that they didn’t have any “TRs” to get in because they were never trained in them. Perfectly true,like, comic, regraded being! 🙂
i’ve never been in, never fell for any of that stuff and yet….
I remember being like that (cringe, turns red). I think what added to the mortification of my behavior the most is the “certainty” I exuded when I was so wrong! I was insouciant about …FILL IN BLANK…. .
if we are honest with ourselves we all know we’ve all been that in our own ways and maybe even when we think we’re not like that anymore, still we might be.
maybe that’s what opens the doors for things like scientology in the first place, things that promise to fix that uncertainty about being certain.
“the more i know the less i understand” seems to be, at least, the way my life is unfolding.
this may or may not be comforting to hear Idle, but the likely truth is you would have had just as many “cringe” moments with or without scientology in your life.
the trouble with life is nobody gets out alive – Jim Morrison
I think it was Aristotle (won’t bet my life!) the said “…the only thing I know for certain is that I know nothing…” (Paraphrased).
This is true for everyone after honest self-reflection. Mostly, a huge fraction of our knowledge are really our own assumptions that work 90+% percent of the time for day-to-day functions. Your “…more I know, the less I understand…” is actually a normal human state. You’re in the same, heavily weighted, way too crowded boat as the rest of us.
I’d like to add to Jim Morrison: that this game of life is so, so difficult that NOBODY wins! Playing just kills you.
yes, do not feel badly about being in the cult…I was too in love with my tu dee (love that phrase) to seek the truth about the evils…then again, no internet during those 27 years with the wasband.
IM, you’re not the only one who cringes at the memory of his cluelessly arrogant certainty. I once stormed out of the house when a friend refused to agree with me that Ron Hubbard was the greatest man who ever lived and I WAS IN MY OWN HOUSE AT THE TIME! I wouldn’t trade the experience of having been thoroughly brainwashed for anything. Of course I’ve had plenty of time to recover.
Thank you Roger Me too,I really did myself proud back in the day regarding Ron & SO.Then the cracks began to widen under me & when I really knew what was what I left.Ah brainwashing nothing like it till I woke up & realized that what I thought was noble true & beautiful, was just stage props.And what I thought & felt didn’t matter.All that mattered was the grand Illusion.Take Care Ann B Watson.
Allow me to let you in on a secret. I have never told this to anybody before. It happened in Clearwater JUST BEFORE I had a clear cognition of the kind of troublemakers in the church that existed, especially down there at Flag. I was walking home from Flag one afternoon and I saw a lady crouching about 20 yards ahead of me (I think it was Sue Penny). As I walked she was facing me and said “That’s what was supposed to happen”. That was in 1986 and in case you knew her husband Bob? There were real critics of the church way back then and even way before that. I am not surprised I turned out to be one, at all. 🙂
Hi Lawrence,A great post. Yes even before the 80s there were critics about of cos.I never ever would have thought when I joined SO Asho F in 74,I would be one too.Once I was targeted & never knew when the next sec check OW Rundown & many other GOI measures to keep me where I was wanted began,I knew the dark side of cos.Thank you for telling your viewpoint. By the way I love how cos keeps calling our posts ” church stories” Shore stories ring a bell y’all? We know the difference between stories & the Truth.Thank you & take care. Ann B Watson.