Terra is back with another thought-provoking essay.
Hiding
I am wary of leaders who don’t show their faces in public. Since they didn’t assume their lofty positions by being shy, I assume they’re hiding something. The higher their standing, the more dirty little secrets they need to keep buried—and the more suspicious I become of their motives.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Ron Hubbard started down this road to reclusive behavior not long after Dianetics was disparaged by the mainstream health industries in the middle of last century. He lectured to dedicated followers via courses and congresses, but shied away from speaking to the general public. He talked to crew, staff, and dedicated practitioners of his “workable technology,” but not to those who wanted to “see if it worked.” He allowed himself to be recorded on his ships and inside his churches; not so much outside these narrow confines.
LRH didn’t tour. He didn’t book conferences at the local Hyatt Hotel. He didn’t promote Dianetics on radio and TV. He didn’t meet with world leaders at neutral sights in Asia. He didn’t expose himself and his nascent mental health practices to anyone but those already fully indoctrinated.
LRH had much to hide, especially once he expanded into the realm of religion. Despite claims to the contrary, Scientology never grew as his “Policy Letters” dictated the organization should. On a personal level, he never lived up to his own definitions of ethical behavior. He abused men, women, kids, and family. He cheated on his wives; he was a bigamist. He exploited and mistreated his staff. He lied. He ignored his bills. He failed to disclose the financial status of the church. He hid behind the political shroud of religious freedom.
Foremost, though, he hid the demonstrable fact that his technology didn’t work as advertised. He was never able to prove the existence—both on himself and on others—of any of the suppressed abilities that were supposedly innate to all spiritual beings. Afraid to face the music (and warrants for his arrest), he plied the high seas on one boat after another, before eventually making landfall and going into hiding.
Until Finally…
The older LRH got, the more paranoid and reclusive he became. By the time he fled to rural San Luis Obispo County in California, only a select few knew of his whereabouts. At the end, he died a lonely man, sick and addicted to drugs in a secluded trailer, far removed from any of his churches and adoring fans—a sad memorial to the man who wanted us to believe he’d become cause over all matter, energy, space, and time.
Present Time Despot
Current Scientology leader, David Miscavige, has taken the same path as his predecessor. The older DM gets, the more paranoid, irrational, and reclusive he becomes. Just like LRH, he has a lot to hide:
Scientology is not expanding; it’s contracting; membership is falling. The OT Levels haven’t created superior beings. The levels beyond OT 8 are myths. Not only does the tech still not work, but Keeping Scientology Working doesn’t work, either. In an effort to appear relevant and keep the money flowing, he’s been forced to create his own versions of materials, courses, and rundowns. He abuses staff. The Hole was real. The church continues to break up families. He refuses to open its financial records to public scrutiny. Having disbanded LRH’s command structure, he rules the organization with an iron fist. And finally, despite one “target” or another, Ron ain’t coming back.
Just like Hubbard withdrew from the general public, so has Miscavige. He doesn’t go on speaking tours. He doesn’t put out public promotional videos. He doesn’t speak to the media. He doesn’t go on Sixty Minutes. He doesn’t press the flesh at public gatherings. He doesn’t mingle with shoppers at Walmart or Costco. He doesn’t fly the friendly skies of United. Instead, he lies low in lavish compounds, attended to by a core of select Sea Org sycophants. These days, even Kim Jong-un makes more public appearances.
I don’t have the statistics, but I would bet that the number of times DM shows his face in public is trending downward—sharply. Once the last “ideal” org is christened, he’ll have little reason at all to venture outside his guarded sanctuaries.
Speaking of Not Showing Their Faces…
Most Scientologists hide the fact they’re Scientologists. Most would rather run naked down Main Street than admit they’re practitioners of Hubbard’s tech. Just like their leaders, members have much to hide (deep down inside, they know Scientology fits the profile of a classic cult).
Also interesting is that the level “Hiding” is only four steps from Total Failure at the very bottom of LRH’s Emotional Tone Scale. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Last Words
Ron Hubbard lived in fear and went into hiding. Behind his designer suits, coiffed hair, and overly-rehearsed, members-only “events,” David Miscavige is following in his mentor’s footsteps.
Still not Declared,
Terra Cognita
EXACTLY — LRH and MisCarrage are in hiding and hopefully MisCarrage will drop down to death as soon as possible ! thank u for your relentless expose of $CN 🙂
Great Post Terra! Great piece of writing — insightful
The assumption is being made that Hubbard was in hiding and friendless. The assumption could just as easily be made that he was doing what he wanted to do and didn’t need friends. Hermits are not necessarily misanthropic nor do they require a lot of human interaction. They choose to be reclusive.
Regarding hiding, even before the internet government agencies could easily have tracked him down if they were interested. Hubbard would have known that and my guess is that the government was aware of his location but didn’t bother to pursue him.
Fair comment Richard, but then if I endorse your comment it will suddenly be attacked viciously from all angles, so sorry about that, but nevertheless it was a fair comment.
And the group says “crickets” (but nice try FP)
There seems to be some chirping going on here!
Richard said, “The assumption could just as easily be made that he [Hubtard] was doing what he wanted to do and didn’t need friends.”
EXCEPT, we know from people who lived with him that this was NOT the case. He considered himself a failure and was insane and suicidal.
Why would you put forward an idea that has been proven false already? What is your motivation to do so Richard?
A hearsay comment from 1 person. Or to use the new loved expression – “anecdotal”.
What ARE you insanely blathering on about now Logicproof?
Hubbard made it clear time and again over the years that rather than friends he preferred to have servants and sycophants who served him, but only at his pleasure. When displeased, those same servants and sycophants were punished and banished from his sight. Perhaps he was doing what he wanted to do, in fact, his narcissism knew no bounds, so it is a surety he only did what *he* wanted to do, all else went undone (as in paying his bills) or was left for the servants to do. As for the government finding him, I’m not sure if there were any American charges outstanding that would make them want to find him. Hence his hiding was simple paranoia.
Looking at his behavior over time, I feel certain that serious motorcycle accident of his caused some organic brain damage. Even a close associate at that time remarked on the changes in his before- and after-accident behavior. Such damage can cause one to smell bad odors which are not really there, and other mistakes of perception.
He was compelled to write, write, write, and had to invent enough ‘research’ to justify much of his writing. If he saw two mousetraps, one baited with cheese, the other with peanut butter, and the peanut butter trap had caught a rodent, he would announce his ‘research’ showed that peanut butter is effective in rat traps, and cheese is ineffective -even if the pb had been there for days and the cheese for only minutes.. He called anecdotal evidence ‘research’ all his life, and his ineffective policies and procedures – and followers – suffered for it.
Here’s the new theme now – direct observation of results is now transformed into the belittling “anecdotal evidence”.
Right Logicproof, like how a person’s DIRECT observation of Hubtard after living with him for YEARS is “anecdotal” rather than a PRIMARY SOURCE.
You’re the most idiotic person I’ve ever encountered on the interwebtubes. You don’t even realize people can read ALL of your drivel not just what you haven’t forgotten you posted.
FP, supposed “direct observation” can lead to conclusions such as that the world is flat, and the sun circles the earth. Those are fundamental things that were observed from the dawn of civilization – and yet they were completely wrong, weren’t they?
Observation has to be combined with scientific method and analysis – otherwise it’s surprisingly easy to be completely mistaken (if not even fooled), and to fall into traps such as confusing correlation and causation.
If Hubbard had access to timeless knowledge and wisdom, and was intent on freeing humanity and making people more rational, why didn’t he teach proper rigorous scientific analysis, and educate followers about the traps of perception and belief that lead people to being fooled by their senses, and can even lead to their being controlled and manipulated?
Please feel free to carry on “analysing”, from here to eternity. No one really gives a damn.
As to your last paragraph, Hubbard’s works are stuffed full of such stuff, which means you haven’t even bothered reading any of it.
Fair enough, and possibly true to a point, Richard, but not wholly true, I’d say, in that I read that in the early 80’s there was a “Operation” being run to get Hubbard back out of hiding and openly on lines again. I know I read this but confess that the name of the “Op” escapes me at present. The concept though, from what I read, was most definitely to get him (safely) out of hiding. Someone here may recall what this program was called.
All Clear Unit – but Mike would know for sure. I believe Miscavige was head of it.
Correct — started as “Mission All Clear”. It was originally Terri Gamboa and Norman Starkey and maybe some others, run by Dave Miscavige as “Special Pjt Ops.”
This may sound petty, but when I see some of the photos of DM here are they doctored with Photoshop (I don’t mean by this blog but the way scientology releases them)? It may just be me but DM looks somewhat disproportionate in size, especially his head, which also has, at times, an almost plastic look. Not in all the photos, but in some, like the head is almost too big in proportion to the body. I suppose he must really be present for the photo but it almost looks like it’s just been placed in a photo with others. I can’t imagine that he actually want to look like a bobble head, and it that’s just the way he looks then oh well. People just look how they look, not a big choice about those things. (If there was a choice I wouldn’t mind an option 🙂 )
One thing they do is massage his pompadour hairdo upwards to give the appearance of one or two inches greater height. I’ve seen photos which show shoes with lifts, too. He does have a much longer than wide face, and adding the pompadour hairdo to that makes him look funny, at least to me. He is short, his arms are short, his hands are small, yet his head is possibly oversize – I mean the one atop his neck – so being out of proportion like that makes photos of him either appear photo shopped, or as one who is actually photo shopped. I feel certain one of his attractions to Tom Cruise is Cruise’s short height – he towers over Miscavige by only a few inches. He can speak eye to chin to Cruise, rather than craning his neck as he must do with many other grown males.
Thank you Ammo Alamo, that explains a lot.( Interesting grouping by your name 🙂 ) I would guess that he has to approve any photos too since he’s just a little bit of a control freak, or so I’ve read. Maybe that plastic look is due to botox?
My avatar has been photo-shopped. The original target was intended to look exactly like this, but the vagaries of smallbore rifle and shooter accuracy at 50 yards (from a rest) left my target with a crooked smile, so me and Mr Photoshop gave him some dental work.
Still darned good shooting Ammo Alamo 🙂
Senior C/S Int (at least when I met him) Ray Mitthoff was freakishly tall……..COB must have needed a ladder just reach high enough to beat him……
Terra, This is your best article so far, IMHO. So spot on true.
Yeah, it is a mighty bleak path Miscavige is trudging down. What is the final stage of his disgraceful life he has chosen?
It is actually a pretty sad situation really. What happiness he might have provided for the world, but instead chose to ruin lives and be an all-around shit.
David Miscavige – a midget on the lam.
DM is now a midget on the lamb? Wouldn’t that hurt the lamb? Geez, can’t he leave the lambs alone? Or, is it a fetish?
Maybe we should assign him a theme song…I nominate one from the Rolling Stones: Turd on the run.;-)
The amazing thing about scientology is not that its promises are a few degrees off from reality; as in, you’re promised steak but at least you’re getting a solid-quality hamburger. Instead, its claims, promises and pretenses are often the diametrical opposite of what is being delivered.
A guy who siphoned hundreds of millions of $$$ off his marks is branded as a humanitarian. A guy who barely passed high school invents “Dr Hubbard.” And a bunch of other stuff along those lines that TC already listed. DM has Tom Cruise advertise him, of all things, as “the most compassionate being.” And an organization that teaches its adherents how to lie, commits wholesale fraud and covers up crimes (by a wog definition of the word) tries to pass as the gang of the “most ethical beings.”
But even more amazing about all this hiding; not just from cooperating with the public and media in proudly representing the scientology “religion” alone. But also this phobia of being exposed to any of the content of the wog media or, gulp, the interweb. Amazing if one considers that the most elementary teachings of the “tech” allegedly enable one to confront anything, withstand any amount of baiting (even those dreaded master baiters) and communicate with clarity and authority.
Forget about creating/destroying/ruling universes, going exterior or even going clear let alone OT. What about even these most entry-level of skills that the “tech” promises to provide?
Back in the late 80s, when one went through “OT eligibility”, there was some emphasis on dissemination of scientology, and not hiding that one is a Scientologist.
Fast forward to 2004-2005. The smoothest eligibility is to those who have given a lot of money to the IAS and other “pure donation” activities. No mention of “are you disseminating?”
The church has finally, tacitly acknowledged that it is harmful and dangerous to one’s reputation in the larger world to admit any connection to scientology.
Back in the 80’s, not telling people you were a scientologist was somewhat of a crime and you’d be handled as PTS. Considered as a silent disapproval or inverse of a public disavowal of scientology.
Except if you were a celebrity. Rumour in the org, stated they should do FPRD before announcing they were a scn. After FPRD, it was up to them to announce it if and when they were ready for personal or professional reasons.
Nowadays, the South Park Mission is in the closet. There is no mention of scientology on their website. Oh, I mean South Coast Mission.
Thanx for a great article. Very insightful. Open your eyes people still in. It’s time!
This is a very perceptive comment. Hubbard and Miscavige are afraid, at the core of it. Afraid that they will be exposed as the frauds they are not just to the non-members who see through the con, but to the loyal followers. This is a common feature of tyrants and cult leaders: building mechanisms that allow them to hide their weaknesses and vulnerability. Punitive handling in Scientology like “ethics,” the RPF and the rest, are all a big part of preventing the horrible secret of the cult leader from being exposed.
And you’ve hit on the other: hiding. Sometimes, it’s hiding away from members, as you’ve described here. And sometimes, it’s hiding in plain sight. Hubbard only did lectures, never a conversation. If he appeared in public with people who were skeptical of his “tech,” he would never be able to answer even a simple question. Interviewer: “So how many people were in your research study where you proved that a rock slam meant you had overts and withholds? And what alternative hypothesis did you consider and reject to explain the rock slam phenomenon?” Hubbard: “How dare you question my brilliance!” When you can’t answer a simple question much less “confront and shatter” the interviewer, there’s not much hope that your cult “sells” anything of real value to a potential “customer.”
So Hubbard could only do lectures to the most loyal of his followers, who had been gradually led into believing that he was the Smartest Guy Ever, and who would be terrified at the thought of asking even a “softball” question, for fear of being excommunicated or worse. There’s also a side effect: this tends to drive the group into having “secret” special knowledge, one of the key tools of keeping people stuck in a cult-like situaton. It’s one of Robert Jay Lifton’s eight characteristics of a high-control group.
It’s been clear for quite some time, not only is the Runt hiding, for sure he is totally on his own. His BFF and other Big Name $’s have been curiously quiet (although FatActress has shown further proof of her limited I.Q. with recent tweets). Rats deserting the sinking ship; cowards to the last. All Hail Xenu!!!
Yes, all his celebs have been remarkably quiet for some time now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_v._United_States_Post_Office_Department
Then seach within this above article the words “captive audience” to see some alarming similarities to Scientology’s treatment of their followers who don’t explicitly quit sufficiently to be left off the mailing lists.
“captive audience” caught more and more in the Hubbard “captive audience” totalistic world.
TC,
Excellent points. Hubbard liked to play the Stranger In A Strange Land card except he had no real powers. Blame it on the poor stupid, barbarian WOGS.
He and his followers turned out to be the evil ones.
Hubbard wanted to SURVIVE and he will, as the 20th century’s biggest religious scam artist.
I think one of the few times Hubbard showed his Scio-face in public was when he tried to show off some poor student as a clear in San Fran I think in the mid-50s, and the event was a total failure when she didn’t remember the color of Hubbard’s tie.
I guess one way to look at it, Scientology is a prison. The deeper you involve yourself in that organization, the more you are imprisoned. It’s leaders are well explained here TC, you’ve done a good job summarizing the self imposed sanctions of it’s leaders, past and present. And to think, none of this would have ever happened if honesty was considered important. Too much money to be had in those lies.
Strange sort of suicide Scientology…
Excellent TC! You really nailed it. Kudos to you…..you have great insight.
Many local Scientologists are leaving our area ….leaving Staff and getting away from the suppressive tiny, minuscule and shrinking local Org
I am hearing that many are moving down to Cultwaters, Florida….the Mecca of Technical Extortion, Human Trafficking, Bribery, trickery, deceit and Money Laundering. Home of the Fruit Plate Wars…just watched Hy Levy’s You Tube videos. He was a REGISTRAR at the Mecca of Criminality and admitted all the shenanigan’s the Registrar’s did with the MAA’s. Sickening. Sad for Hy Levy – he also died of cancer.
The Scientologist’s here are moving….
Out of the FIRE
and into the FRYING PAN!
Computer Guy: in defense of Hy Levy, he started whistleblowing on his own fellow staff members when they went criminal in order to meet the unrealistic high quotas that DM put on them to get them to sell Basic Books packages to everyone and then donate for libraries everywhere. (The libraries rejected them and don’t even carry them now). The HCO head honcho even threatened Hy for turning in all of HCO staff for using their post time to cram Basic pkgs down people’s throats and make them buy them over and over again. Some staff were taking money off account without permission to sell them and get their stats up. Some staff were taking money from dead people’s accounts to sell the Basics. Hy KR’d and whistleblew on all of that. And then when he left, he spoke out in an excellent TV journalist piece “The Truth Rundown.” He continued to speak out on Marty Rathbun’s blog (back when Marty was a whistle blower against the church.) So I think Hy did whatever amends he needed to do to make up for years of regging at Flag. I think when he died, he went with a clear conscious and clean slate. I am forever in his debt for giving me the truth when I was just beginning to be on the fence about the church. It helped me make up my mind to leave and strike blows against this criminal church. So don’t denigrate anyone just because of what they used to do on post in the church. Look for what they’ve done since then. I wrote a poem about Hy Levy a couple of weeks before he died. I’ll publish it here if you like.
I love Hy Levy and agree with you
I love whistle blowers too
I hate registrars and MAA’s that hurt people by using their high pressure tactics and scams
Hubbard just didn’t do well in interviews or on TV, where he couldn’t control the milieu. In the one infamous TV interview aboard ship, he can’t just slip past the interviewer’s question about his second wife, the way he could if something awkward came up in a lecture. And even in his one official interview, he was also revealed as such a smarmy fake, that reportedly scientologists in the missions and orgs shelved the tape, because it was too awkward and embarrassing to play and watch.
Succinct and accurate.
Toot-toot! Next stop, TOTAL FAILURE!
lol
All Idle Morgues ARE Total Failures. And have been for some time now.
Miscavige is playing Stalin to Lron’s Lenin. Purges and internal exile included. But with fewer executions. Give Miscavige that, he is not as blood thirsty as Stalin was. That would look nice on a tee shirt, wouldn’t it? A big pic of Miscavige with the caption, ‘Not as bloodthirsty as Stalin’.
And Marty played Trotsky till he sold out.
When I was at The Delphian Foundation located in the current peoples republic of Oregon in 1975, the org members posted there were already reclusive and cloistered in that old monastery just like munks. Nobody who lived in the closest town of Sheridan knew who lived up in that three story monster on the hill, or what they were doing there. The only music that was allowed in the building was “The Moody Blues”. It was a depressing place to be posted. There seemed to be lots of planning but nothing ever got done. Lots of scio verbage and people fighting over what to watch on the one TV located in the staff living room on the second floor. It was a mixture of hippies and newly minted scio’s wondering how they ever got there and why.
Oh to think my beloved Moodies ever served a cult, I’ll be sad all day… or maybe just until lunch.
Sound familiar?
Psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astounding egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the center of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules. “It’s not that I don’t follow the law,” said one of our subjects. “I follow my own laws. I never violate my own rules.” She then described these rules in terms of “looking out for number one.”
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare
“Speaking of not showing their faces…” About 2 years ago a bunch of us SPs were meeting in a London pub and decided to give the London Org a quick ‘hello’. About 5 SPs standing outside taking photo’s with their phones when a ‘public’ comes out and walks down the street. Her immediate instinct was to HIDE HER FACE. Why?!
Scientology- the religion that dare not speak its name.
David Miscavige is getting very old and will be going into hiding soon.
It is written in the history books.
All Dictator’s go crazy.
All of them.
Scientology can’t help David Miscavige – he is too far gone.
Just like L Ron Hubbard. DEATH was L Ron’s salve to his demented and tortured mind.
Death and / or prison is Miscavige’s only recourse to get out of the mess he is currently in.
I almost feel sorry for him had it not been for his abuse to the Sea Org…not to mention that SHIT rolls downhill…and I was a victim of invalidation and nullification by Scientology – along with many others.
I was highly trained in many things.
After the Golden Age of Scam…. my certs got canceled and I was told to DO IT OVER.
I was very upset and then was forced spend a ton of $$$$ at Flag getting sec checked when I balked about having to re do my Bridge and Training.
I had what a Scientologist would call – HE&R over the matter.
It was a mind fuck and sent me reeling into realms of insanity never experienced before…but now I realize that my reaction was perfectly normal.
Scientology’s side effects are death, suicide, psychotic breaks and psychosis along with shattered families, bankruptcy and foreclosures.
Thank you Mike for doing something about it.
Dave, this one’s for you!
Everybody’s talkin’ at me
I don’t hear a word they’re sayin’
Only the dictates of my mind
People stoppin’ starin’
I can’t see their faces
Only the details of their crimes
I’m going where the sun keeps shinin’
In my private plane
Going where the weather suits my clothes
Banking off of the North east winds
Sailing on a summer breeze
Knocking back all my Macallans till I’m stoned
I’m crying now. Whew! You are good, MjM. Till I’m stoned sounds good.
MJM, wow!
I’m living with cirrhosis of the liver and waiting for a transplant, I am swimming in medical debt and suffer from depression and recently lost my mom to cancer. Even through all that, I am so much higher on the ‘tone scale’ than Miscarriage will ever be. I still go out, enjoy public, can go to airports and restaurants and just be a happy, productive member of society. I’m glad I don’t have to worry about seeing that ugly midget in my daily life.
I think we all are.
Thank you TC – this is one of the best and simple points about Hubbard and Miscaviage.
Do you think David Miscaviage had someone teaching him or guiding him on his takeover of the entire religion?
Was it a bunch of Lawyers? I wonder what those conversations are like. How is he tricking so many people? Like Monique Yingling (correct spelling?). I saw her on an interview and she was a big bully but still seemed cowed and I watched her lie about things I’d seen with my own two eyes.
It all just pisses me off that they continue to get away with so much hurt on humans with undeniable PROOF it is a total scam.
Terra, I’ve appreciated everything you’ve written since I came on board at this site. But today’s essay gets the prize for shear brilliant insight. You’ve nailed it perfectly re: Hubbard, Miscavige and scientology. I wish all the clams could read this. I hadn’t thought about how much Hubbard started hiding from the public early on and only addressed his brainwashed sheep henceforth. I always thought that his dying alone in a Bluebird trailer (when he was worth 450 million and didn’t even know it or probably didn’t even care toward the end; it couldn’t buy him real love or friendship) was a horribly depressing way to make one’s final exit. You’ve summed it up well here. Thanks for all your hard work.
Bix
I have it on good authority, the son of Jose the local who kept airing up the tires on the Bluebird, that Ron was very pleased that he single handedly teleported some tons of diamonds and platinum to Target 2. HOWEVER:
He ended up in that pitiful state because he apparently could not teleport his most prized possession. His last words, per Jose, was: “Rosebud”
LOL
Yeah, these are good points. I never thought of it like that. The big question is….where are all those oatees? Where are all these people that never get sick, never need a dentist and live in serenity of being ness? I don’t see it. Tom cruise appears to have those powers in his movies though. sigh. LOL
Yeah, he really looked OT clinging to the side of a building with a broken ankle. I wonder why he didn’t demand (WORD!) that they perform a touch assist to heal the break, by banging him gently against the side of the building over and over again until the pain went away.
Much was made by those still in about the fact that his ankle healed in an astonishing (WORD!) time of only six weeks, the same exact time all broken bones heal.
Gawd, I need a LOL button for this!!! The imagery…
Total bullshit. Some of the most physically sick people I’ve ever seen in Scientology were OTVIIs or VIIIs. I used to wonder: “Why is it OK with them to be sick like this?” Now, don’t laugh. I thought that because these people were “Cause Over Life” i.e, OtVII, VIII, that they just COULDN’T be sick or disabled or whatever WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION. Yes, I believed that, back in the day. They were Cause Over Life so why would they be ok with having these body problems? It was always a puzzlement to me because my own physical health was great and always had been, but if I were sick with some debilitating condition and I were Cause Over Life – Presto, I’d zap that illness immediately! So I wondered why they didn’t.
Ok, now you can laugh, and believe me, its TOTALLY fine if you do, because you’re not going to be laughing harder than I am now as I type this. I mean, honestly, folks, feel free, its too funny, as you really can’t make this shit UP 🙂 🙂 🙂 A team of comedy writers in Mel Brooks’ apartment couldn’t come up with this stuff!
Why is Scientology like a home run hitter in baseball?
They strike out a lot, but eventually it’s going, going, gone.
“…going, going, gone.” Story of my life.
To me the biggest indicator of thier tech working against them is the tone scale. Just like hiding is low on the tone scale so is victim. And god does scientology love love love to play the victim card.
They have nothing else to play but the ‘Victim Card.’ The world knows Scientology is make believe. So, that’s all they’ve got left…the Victim Card. Maybe I’ll make a bunch of Victim Cards and scatter them around the Pasadena Model Idle Morgue. I’m sure they’d appreciate it.
That is probably the best discription of LRH and Mini Me I’ve heard in a long time! My sediments exactly. VWD …my needle is a-floatin!
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Coming late to read this: Terra, what an article – simple, eloquent, well -written, wholly true. Your best yet, I think.