The champions of protecting intellectual property rights (as long as they are their own) are at it again.
This is the organization that promotes itself as the LARGEST private humanitarian relief force on earth.
That they are at the forefront of guaranteeing human rights.
Their dear leader has repeatedly equated himself with the Catholic Pope (as recently as his letters to HBO).
Yet, they don’t put HIS picture on the Way To Happiness booklets.
Of course, harsh reality is that if they did put his photoshopped visage on their booklet, everyone who didn’t burst out laughing would wonder “who the hell is that?”
Rather, they try to associate themselves with someone who IS known for his humanitarianism. Someone that Captain Miscavige would love to be positioned with. He aspires to be regarded as a “world religious leader” like the Dalai Lama or the Pope. But he lacks a few things to pull it off though.
1. Any humility.
2. Any statements of his own — other than drivel at internal events. He is NEVER seen in public and never makes any statements about anything outside of the scientology bubble.
3. Fear of the media.
4. And most of all, he commands just a tiny handful of followers who are invisible on the world stage.
But it doesn’t mean he won’t stop pretending he is in the big leagues. And thus the church will continue to use the images of MLK, the Dalai Lama, Einstein and others.
Just imagine the indignant outrage that would erupt from the church if someone took the words of L. Ron Hubbard from the original edition of Dianetics about marijuana being safer than alcohol and used his image and the quote to promote legalization of weed?
They probably chose the Dalai Lama because they are pretty sure his equanimity and grace will not result in any blowback for their almost certainly unauthorized use of his image to try and gain some PR for themselves.
PS: How they are charging $2 per booklet for something that costs them about a quarter to produce (remember they have the “largest private printing facility on earth” manned by Sea Org slave labor).
So the Dalai lama is a Scientologist ?
They lie in any way possible. Disgusting, how they misrepresent honest and sincere people.
DM is really into positioning. He has positioned himself as source bypassing LRH. And by putting the photo of the Dalai Lama (who is surely one of the most truly spiritual beings on the planet) on TWTH booklets, tries to suggest that the Dalai Lama is actually aligned with the corporate C of S. There’s another very spiritual person I can think of, the late Mother Theresa. But I don’t think Miscavige will put her photo on TWTH. She embraced poverty to help others, and she looked poor. No, I don’t think DM would want to be positioned with her, although she was a great person in her own right.
They have no right to use the image of the Dalai Lama on a postcard that is soliciting money for their booklets. I feel really angry that they did this.
Like a magician, the Church has always used sleight of hand to distract people from what is really going on. A good, mainstream religion with nothing to hide will publish its beliefs in a straightforward manner–some will accept its beliefs, while some will reject them. But that is okay, because it, unlike Scientology, is not out to fleece people, but to guide its adherents in their spiritual walk, and to assist the poor and needy.
For poking people and passing out pamphlets?
As far as I can determine, Humanitarian David Miscavige has never been photographed with fellow human rights champion Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam.
The Church of Scientology has always been adept at stealing potent symbols. This stolen valor and stolen glory goes back to LRH’s fake war medals and fake Ph.D.
As the Pentecostals might say, “The Church of Scientology wants to act like the Devil and be treated like a snake.”
It’s the old con game of lying, cheating, stealing, and conning people while wearing a priest outfit.
So many well expressed comments today, thanks guys! The arrogant, shameful misuse of the Dalai Lama’s image is SO outrageous!
Thank you for your efforts. I truly enjoy reading your updates daily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UzvVOy0Dq8&feature=youtu.be
I posted this on Marty’s blog a while back but it bears repeating. (In case anyone’s unsure of the end products of each philosophical system)
Words of wisdom from Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama, Gelug School, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvVaZfFDKw
Words of wisdom from Grant Cardone (New OT VIII, Church of Scientology, Scientology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CElrsxeDNCA
Charging retail for the material (as they do with everything) clearly shows that the sheep are not “parishioners”, but customers.
And that Scientology is a profit making organization and not deserving of tax exempt status.
One must get past DM and not step on his daveshit on the way to happiness.
Davids, I loved your very truthful and well expressed rant. The part about the “church” never doing anything for the peoples of the world, especially the poor and those in need, really opened my eyes the last little bit they needed to be open. In all the 48 years that I have been mentally connected to scientology (I stopped
going to the church about 5 years ago) I never realized what you said. They NEVER did anything for anyone
who didn’t have something to give them. One of the always popular expressions among scientologists have been “he’s a DB” (degraded being) or “she’s such a downstat”. Those who can’t make their way through life with a fair amount of “upstatness” don’t rate the respect of a scientologist and are to be ignored.
The fact that people pay hundreds of thousands to gain super powers that never materialize IS, in fact, fraudulent. Somehow, reading it in your rant made it all more real to me.
I thank you sincerely. Now I can take all those boxes of lectures that have been sitting around taking up useful space and THROW THEM OUT! I don’t want to listen to any more bullshit from “lrh”.
The last strands of the string that was keeping me connected mentally to the “movement to save the planet”
have been broken. I am finally free.
I can’t wait till the new film hits the streets. I really believe that 2015 is the year that li’l davy’s empire collapses. Now, I gotta go take some boxes out.
There may be other ways to apply the four conditions of exchange, but as I have seen them practiced, they reduce interpersonal relations to a business transaction. There is no “help flow” going to the poor and needy, because they have no money to give back in abundance. Gratitude simply does not cut it for the Co$. Makes for a cold and calculating modus operandi.
Congratulations on regaining space in your home 🙂
DollarMorgue, You just hit the nail on the head. This organization was never formed to help people, as the primary reason. If the goal was to really help people, all if not most of the services would be offered freely. This organization was, and has always been a business which was set up to make as much profit as possible.
If you apply the CoS logic of “helping people” by selling them products, any business can claim that they help mankind because they also sell products that are useful to people.
Last week I got rid of all LRH-Congresses, all Basic Lectures and even my Quantum-E-Meter.
A great stress is gone and now I can just be there in present time without questioning and “analysing” everything.
In this way, I have recovered a large piece of true freedom and happiness.
That disgusting promo? – just another day at the office for miscavige.
The sharks in the Caribbean will have nothing to do with him (wise fish) but the game of getting him is intensifying for the two legged variety of predator. When miscavige and his cronies are finally brought to justice it will be the day of the best party I’ll ever attend, & to hell with the hangover.
Soon miscavige’s name will be common place for all the wrong reasons, you’ll just have to forgive those with a little longer comm lag – but BIG public awakening sometime soon on the slippery slope to infamy for corporate $cientology.
All I want to see (I’d pay good $ for it if I have to) before I go is miscavige in deposition by one of those clever wordsmith lawyers – that would be really something, wouldn’t it?
Miscavige is like a shrimp in a fish bowl believing he is the ruler of the ocean. That he really believes it is what really amazes me.
I bet the church would scream holy hell if someone produced The Way to Happiness with a photo of Jim Jones on the cover. The Dalai Lama may not personally object to the misuse of his image, but given all the attention to the church right now because of Miscavige’s ads I would not be surprised to see this outrage going viral. Perhaps then someone like Richard Gere will object.
Miscavige may well be the last to realize the shipwreck he is floating in.
His failure to see that would directly stem from his intention, which is focused inward rather than on what is going on around him. His goal is clearly to get rich and be powerful. The world is coming out of a certain state of ignorance, despite him. You could say that the man wears a mask, has done so for so long that reality for him has indeed shifted, a reality warped at the beginning has only gotten worse, and now that mask is so familiar to his daily routine that even he is blind to it. It was inevitable, really. No one human being should ever be given absolute and unchallengable power, for power is the fuel of corruption indeed.
The Scientology experiment is just another proof.
MLK day is tomorrow. So, let me paraphrase a quote of his, (a long time favorite) which went like:
A man has not begun to live until he has transcended the boundaries of his own, individualistic needs and expanded his desires to encompass the needs and desires of all mankind.
Beautiful.
Miscavige – paraphrasing Tommy Davis is “too busy being the pope of a major world religion of millions” to talk to the press. Never seen in public or even talking to scientologists unless he is bragging on a tacky plastic set behind a teleprompter. Behind the scenes he screams at them and has physically beaten them up..His photos show a preened photoshopped image complete with photoshopped rent-a-crowd.
Pope Francis in the Filipines addressed environmental issues “the world is a beautiful garden and we must care for it”, the poor and the street people. He attracted hundreds of thousands at the site of the typhoon in the midst of a tropical storm. He travelled in the back of an open Jitney wearing a plastic poncho. The crowd in the rainy Manila park had six million but many had to be turned away. .
I’m not a fan of any religions but it is clear that Miscavige has a litte way to go and could learn from the other pope.
Knock, knock there. Note to the Psychotic Pope of Scientology and his Church of fanatics:
Here is what the Dalai Lama announced recently:
“There is no guarantee that some stupid Dalai Lama won’t come next, who will disgrace himself or herself. That would be very sad. So, much better that a centuries-old tradition should cease at the time of a quite popular Dalai Lama.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30510018?OCID=fbasia
David Miscavige make yourself and the world a favor and realize you are stupid and you are disgracing yourself and quit for good.
I believe HH has also made statements saying he is considering not being reincarnated because he does agree with China’s participation in the choosing of the Dalai Lama or the Panchen Lama.
The child who HH decided was the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama has been held prisoner by the Chinese Gov’t with the gov’t insisting that a different child is the Panchen Lama.
This has done an incredible disruption to the cultural heritage of Tibet as the Panchen Lama is instrumental in the raising and of the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama is instrumental in the raising and education of the Panchen Lama.
There should eb a way to edit comments.
HH does NOT agree with China’s participation
The Panchen Lama became the youngest political prisoner held by any gov’t
The Dalai Lama could easily beat Miscavige on his own turf, without even trying. Remember the opening of the Portland Org? DM had his hands full trying to keep Mark Bunker from recording his drivel even from the roof of a private business, and then had to Photoshop the size of the crowd. On the same day, in the so-called Scientology city, the Dalai Lama drew a far larger crowd.
And as a sociopath, with no consciousness at all, he lacks a natural, honest care for others. He never has it, he never will.
And as you noted the microscopic ’empire’ he commands, with followers cowed and un-personalized, is something that will never leave the bubble which, by the way, is imploding big time.
I cannot determine if this is a notch above or below
the FAKE radio station promo at Gold Base that was supposed to be in Florida.
If the Dali Lama gets wind of this, Oh Davey what lies we spin.
Not only would people say “who the hell is that?” They’d probably add “He looks unhappy and SCARY!”
DAVID MISCAVIGE: The anti Dalai Lama. DAVID MISCAVIGE beats his staff. The Dalai Lama preaches love, compassion & kindness. DAVID MISCAVIGE in prisons staff at the Int base. The Dalai Lama doesn’t in prison anyone. DAVID MISCAVIGE lives a very lavish lifestyle while SO workers slave away working 100 hour weeks for $50 a week (IF their stats are up). The Dalai Lama leads a simple life of love. DAVID MISCAVIGE is a coward and won’t do any interviews. When he sends out missives, they are attributed to Karin Pouw. The Dalai Lama speaks for himself. DAVID MISCAVIGE is violent. The Dalai Lama is, to a fault, peaceful.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you to DAVID MISCAVIGE, the anti-Dalai Lama. These two individuals are polar opposites.
Well said OSD. Shameful!
To He Who Shall Not Be Named:
If you can keep your cash when all about you
Are losing theirs but not blaming you;
If you can trust yourself when most men doubt you,
And declare them all for doubting too:
If you can plan to smear detractors
Or, being exposed, only deal in lies,
Or being praised don’t give way to praising,
And yet still look good in a suit and tie
If you can dream and scheme just like a master;
If you can drink real Scotch and good champagne,
If you can make one great disaster
And treat all people with disdain
If you can smirk at what ex-staff have spoken
’cause you know they’re all suppressive fools,
And watch the lives around you broken,
And work to make all men your tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And show the world who’s really boss
Making sure from the beginning
It’s always someone else’s loss:
If you can force your will with threat and venom
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the thought “I’m heir to Ron”
If you can hide from crowds and scoff at virtue,
Live like a king and hate the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If no men count with you, and your words are puff
If you can avoid impending lawsuits
And always have the best legal guns
Yours is the MEST and everything that’s in it,
And which is more, you’ll keep your tan, my son!
That was brilliant! Bravo!
Thanks Kittery, glad you liked it.
An emulation of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “IF”
Alternate ending:
Yours is the MEST and everything that’s in it,
And which is more, you’ll keep your scam, my son!
That is very funny! And to the point. Rudyard Kipling would get a laugh out of this too.
Thanks Jenni!
I especially like the second to the last line because with his abandonment of spiritual goals and his embracing of bigger and better buildings as a goal, DM is truly heir to nothing but MEST.
I’m tempted to send this to my cousin who is a buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition, ordained by the Dalai Lama. He has frequent contact with other monks in India and Tibet.
They would probably do nothing though, and I’m not sure they’d even know who these guys are. They don’t really care about this kind of thing.
Miscavige is the anti-thesis of a religious leader. Talk to any SO member who had the misfortune of crossing paths with him, one for one they were shit-scared. Does that sound like an enlightened, spiritual man? Not even close.
Miscavige is a hybrid of mafia mob boss and military dictator.
It’s laughable to consider him the “Pope” of Scientology, unless of course, Scientology is an organized criminal cult.
I am stunned. They promote a Scientology event or ideal but do not include a picture or quote of its founder. Buddha and the Dalai Lama are fine…that is not the point. It is simply beyond telling that SCN does not use LRH. Embarrassment? Hiding? Pure fraud? And after the HBO fiasco, things will get much worse.
What a funny world
whoops…I now get that the event is not a SCN event, but I think my comment still stands…in a funny world way. Anything connected to SCN promo is just screwed up.
100,000 WTH booklets sold to bubbledwellers = $200,000 less $25,000 for print & paper
Profit = $175,000
Humanitarian expenditures = 0
Moral social standing = Bankrupt
Using your visa or mc to pay for it all- Debt, Bankruptcy
RE: DM’s defense of intellectual property rights, which means copyrights.
What has to be known and understood that there is no copyright that the COS owns is bonafide, which means “without fraud and deceit”, or malice, or some sinister motive, or ill gotten, proceeds of crime.
In fact this extends to everything the CO$ does. There is no exception.
The goal of the seduction of naive vulnerable, ignorant, public
(to bait you with truth- the best bait in the universe)
into the so called church ( a perversion of the word)
and on to the bridge is to eventually make the victim (the sucker)
a slave and take them to the financial cleaners.
The CO$ is a criminal organization of the most slippery, devious, diabolical, conniving, despicable, perverted kind.
They are the world’s best, slickest con artists.
Nothing they say or do is bonafide.
Sooner or later in one way or another they will entice, trap, masturbate your financial resources -present and future, and enslave the naive, the vulnerable or feeble minded.
Everything they own, all the money they have are the proceeds of crime.
Dio
con artist – a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
con man, confidence man
chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger – a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
Dio. I couldn’t agree with you more. I still don’t know how hey get away with what in essence would be Racketeering. When members are being fleeced out of all their finances, and left with absolutely no savings or property to speak of, it is not only immoral but should be criminals as well.
When people get harassed, just because they dared say something negative about the organization, that is stifling of freedom of speech.
When you are assured that you will be able to gain super powers after paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, only to realize in the end it was all a sham, that is Fraud.
When an organization forcefully, takes away your child, wife, brother, or sister to prevent them from learning the truth, it is a akin to kidnapping and forceful confinement under duress and threats.
What good has this organization ever done for the general public anywhere in the world? Except for photo ops in disaster zones, they have never built, or offered free services to the poor. If their is no money or profit to be made,you can count the organization out of it.
As Mike put it very correctly, this organization is a pest in society, It just eats at society and gives nothing back. It causes more harm than good, and tries to convince people to ignore the bad and focus only on the good, which is usually minimal at best.
How can every single critic against the Organization be a liar? How can every singer Journalist who have ever investigated the Organization be very bad journalist who don’t know how to ask the right questions or do their jobs.
The saddest thing is that an organization like this is still allowed to prey on its victims, brainwash, and bleed them to death financially. Something needs to be one about it. When many people realize the truth and say enough is enough, that will be the end of this organization.
I don’t know if the Dalai Lama’s people would push back against the cult’s use of his image, but they have in the past taken legal action to safeguard the image of the man and of his office and his religion. A long time ago, when software giant Salesforce.com was just starting out a decade ago, CEO Marc Benioff, who is something of a “bad boy” in software industry circles (I know him rather well personally from my work at Global Capitalism HQ, where we own a large slice of his company), decided to use an image of His Holiness in an ad campaign.
Even though it wasn’t really in a way that implied that HH endorsed SF.Com’s software, the legal threat from the Dalai Lama’s people and the press mockery blew up badly and he was forced to pull the ad and apologize.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone were to get word to the right people in HH’s organization that his image is being misused in a far more sinister and inappropriate manner than it was in the Salesforce ad campaign all those years ago. I would have to believe that any publicity over a cease-and-desist letter from the Dalai Lama’s people to the cult would be a disaster equal to the currently unfolding “Hill 10 flap” over the idiotic ads around the Alex Gibney HBO documentary.
I did not know that.
Perhaps I should send this to my cousin then.
ohhdl@dalailama.com
on a similar note:
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1434/6496/original.jpg
I just found this.
Click on the link above I provided, and now read this from the COS site on Ron:
http://legacyimgs.lronhubbard.org/eng/journal/page18.htm
“To put it very bluntly— and this from LRH friend and author Will Durant—…………”
What a bunch of liars the COS are?
Will Durant was not friends with LRH. LOL LOL
Outstanding post, John P. The cult has no qualms about using ANYTHING (copyrighted or not) to advance its evil intentions. I so hope word gets out to HH and his organization regarding this flagrant, unauthorized use of his image. DAVID MISCAVIGE and His Holiness are two people that could not be further apart…
Talk about from the ridiculous to the sublime…….
If you haven’t seen this already, go to Tony O’s site and see the leaked video of Marty’s deposition on the Luis Garcia lawsuit. Fireworks! Worth the time to view it.
I so enjoy your posts, John P. Capitalist. You’re right. I hope that we all start sending the stolen and trademark infringements to the proper places so that the stupid people creating these fliers get a taste of how illegal their actions are. I understand the world of trademark and copyright infringements, as I am an artist as well as an entrepreneur and investor who is deeply concerned with the solutions to copyright infringement. It’s total stupidity and blasphemy the way I have seen Co$ use copyrighted or trademarked materials to promote their crap. I would love to see the morons stopped in their tracks… although, the poor slaves who create this stuff would probably end up in the RPF. Or the RPF’s RPF. Maybe that would wake them the F*** up. Thank you for your intelligence. It’s always refreshing.
Gosh! The church just has no where to go.
The PR is so bad outside of the bubble, that anyone who sees this and knows from where it emanated, has to hold down their last meal.
One thing I know for sure is that David Miscavige and his minions in the church of scientology know nothing about a way to happiness. The booklet is a shame – another ruse.
The Dalai Lama co-authored a book on happiness with a psychiatrist. The book is called The Art of Happiness, and the psychiatrist (an old friend of the Dalai Lama) is Howard C. Cutler.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Happiness-10th-Anniversary-Handbook-ebook/dp/B002UK6NO0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421592403&sr=1-1&keywords=dalai+lama+art+of+happiness
Of course this book was slurred at an int event, by Miscavige hisself.
Of course scientologists do not spot the irony. Anything for a buck (sorry, to save the world), and we have such short memories. Amnesia is only handled at OTVIII, you know.
You mean OTVIIII . . .
It is actually handled on OTVIII if you run it correctly…….
“Amnesia is only handled at OTVIII, you know.”
This is where you FORGET ABOUT THE CULT!
Great post and good catch, Dollar Morgue.
This is yet another example of the dishonest and manipulative positioning and safe pointing by the most “ethical” people on the planet.
It would be even more damning if someone has the video of Miscavige denigrating the actual book which the Dalai Lama co-authored.
+1!
They use the image of the Dalai Lama, a REAL theta individual and religious leader, a man who actually PROMOTES affinity and communication among people … and of course THEY ASK FOR MONEY!!!!! (Always get the dough, the lettuce, the moolah, the dinero … pass up no opportunity to keep squeezing people as you threaten them with loss of family, friends and jobs if they don’t go “VGIs” on the latest racket.) I’ve talked a number of times about how Miscavige is content to just keep his 12,000 member customer base intact as he pumps them for more money. But it is a VERY GOOD THING that this blog and the new movie and Tony’s new book, etc WILL PREVENT THAT CUSTOMER BASE FROM GROWING.
*and yes, the Dalai Lama, like Pope Francis, talks to reporters and other members of the media all the time. And he doesn’t beat people, break up families or steal money either like another religious leader who has even stolen his moniker from Frank Sinatra, another man who actually GAVE money to people in need, rather than taking it from them.
Amen, Joe.
I agree Joe!! Hey Joe, If you see this can you send me an email? I lost your email address somehow. I need to talk to you about something.
The Church of Scientology practices are not the way to happiness for anyone. I do not remember a time on recored when they ever really were. It is only a miracle that I even reached the gains I made at all in the church surrounded by the kind of group criminality the organization supports.
It is an outrage to ANY humanitarian effort that such an organization should be allowed to promote itself freely the way it does because people that have not yet heard of the church will be misled.
Pope Frankie will only punch you if you talk smack about his mamma.
YOu said it, Joe! Excellent points and excellent post, Mike.
It incenses me that DM tries to position himself and the church with greats like the Dali Lama who actually are doing good works of charity world wide and who actually do make a difference. It’s called positioning, and the serpent is trying to position himself with great humanitarians when he isn’t even worthy to touch their hems. And then to add insult to injury, to ask for money on the same piece where he puts up the Dali Lama so that you have to pay for WTH books! Outrageous. I know churches who would give the book away for free, who give food and shelter to homeless and don’t expect anything in return. It’s called charity and helping others, something our church in its current incarnation doesn’t do. I’m glad you shed light on this, Mike.
“But it doesn’t mean he won’t stop pretending he is in the big leagues. And thus the church will continue to use the images of MLK, the Dalai Lama, Einstein and others.”
And DM accuses others of his own overts. Notice how he accuses Marty of wanting to “run in the tall grass with the big dogs” when that is axactly what DM tries to do! But he is so short that the grass swallows him up.