Terra Cognita is back with some more thought provoking words.
Infinity and Beyond!
Scientology isn’t surviving. It won’t survive. It can’t survive. For the time being, the only thing keeping it afloat is getting members to pay for the next this-is-gonna-change-everything, planet-busting project. Over the last few decades, the church has launched one after another. Rest assured, once every org goes “ideal,” church leader, David Miscavige, has something else up his sleeve that will change the world and clear the planet once and for all.
Often, these projects involve acquiring new buildings. Buying and renovating old piles of bricks so orgs can go “ideal” has been going on for decades now. Constructing a new, multi-million dollar building to deliver “super power” was one recent project. Miscavige even bought an old television studio in downtown Los Angeles so Scientology could broadcast its message to the world.
Other times, these schemes involve forcing members to redo courses and auditing under the pretense that they didn’t get the full EP (end phenomenon) their first time around due to hidden suppressive persons within the church purposely altering founder, L. Ron Hubbard’s sacred words.
The Happiness Rundown, Key to Life, Life Orientation Course, the Survival Rundown, revamped OT levels, and one hundred and one versions of Student Hat are a few of these “tech” projects. Many, such as the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, aren’t even offered anymore.
Reissuing books and lectures is not only another way of getting Scientologists to cough up money for the cause, but is a covert method of altering LRH’s “unalterable” words in order to minimize and obscure the absurdity of his “workable tech” without disrupting the cognitive dissonance inherent to all his believers.
Unfortunately for Miscavige, none of his pet projects has stopped members from leaving. Much less, of dying from Wog disease. Nor have any of these grand plans enticed new people to walk through the doors of his churches. As has been witnessed and publicized many times over, his “ideal orgs” are closer in reality to “ideal morgues.” Which is terrible PR and off putting to new public. And which finds the man stuck in some kind of bizarre endless loop, searching for ways in which to reverse this trend.
Which brings us to the question of the day: What is Scientology’s next major project?
The Good Ship Lollypop
By today’s standards, the Freewinds is old, small, and sucks fuel like a camel slurping water at an oasis after two weeks walking the sands of the Sahara. Thus, DM extolling Scientologists of the need to buy a new ship is not farfetched. Especially, with the “impending” release of the two dangling carrots, OT levels nine and ten. It’s not hard to imagine the man standing at the podium at the next New Year’s event—or maybe Ron’s birthday— advising the audience that in order to release these new super-levels, they’ll need a new super-boat to handle the massive influx of members racing to finally achieve real OT powers—finally, once and for all.
My spouse told me that ships are just too costly—that it would make more sense to build or renovate something rooted in earthly soil. Something in Clearwater, maybe?
“When did logic, reasoning, or fiscal responsibility ever stop David Miscavige?” I replied.
She shook her head. “No babe. A ship simply costs too much money—especially the upkeep. Makes more sense to deliver these new OT levels in a brick and mortar building.”
“A building, huh? Well…they’d have to come up with a name for it.”
“Advanced Org is already taken.”
“How about the Infinity Org.”
“IO for short.”
“Catchy!”
“One on every continent. Starting with something in Clearwater. Townspeople love Scientology!”
“Give! Help save the planet by becoming a Cornerstone II Member. Now! Ensure yours and everyone’s future for all of eternity, everlasting, like until the end of time—which is only a consideration anyway. So give now, live forever, and save the planet along with the rest of the galaxy!”
“Regs are standing by at the back of hall. Cash, credit cards, sons and daughters accepted.”
“And don’t forget to fill out your survey forms.”
“Make the Infinity Org a reality!”
“Infinity Orgs—plural!”
You can bet that in addition to an Infinity Org—or Eternity Ship—a whole slew of swanky, updated courses are in the works—including a fully revised Student Hat, complete with glossy pictures for the English-as-a-second-language crowd, and two new barriers-to-study that DM discovered last week in the back of that famed closet containing the remains of LRH’s original and unblemished, handwritten papers.
Once all the orgs on the planet have gone “ideal,” there will undoubtedly be a huge push to idealize the mission network. Because what better way to stream new people into ideal orgs than via ideal missions. If this project takes as long as its predecessor, the last mission—I’m pretty sure it’s the one on the International Space Station—is targeted to go “ideal” in July 2045 (see International Landlord Admin Scale 47, for the complete plan).
The Curtain, Please
I can’t help revealing what comes next: Ideal Families! According to my sources, all Scientology families will be expected to buy new houses and then sign them over to the International Landlord (see Admin Scale 53). Of course members will still have to pay the mortgages and hand over fifteen percent of their income, but imagine Mom, Dad, Brother, and Sister all operating on the original household org board LRH devised while living at Old Saint Hill. If that doesn’t bring families closer together and clear the planet…
Last Words
Few things in life are more inevitable than death and taxes—and more recently, David Miscavige rolling out his latest project to clear the planet. Once and for all. At long last. Finally! “This time I really mean it. I’m not kidding. Agents and notaries are standing by at the back of the auditorium to help fill out your real estate quitclaim deeds.”
Still not Declared,
Terra Cognita
Quite correct Terra. And it has NOTHING to do with Miss Cabbage or anyone else. It ONLY has to do with NOT having anything worthwhile to even give away. Much less to sell.
With or without the “church” or Miss Cabbage, the proverbial jig is up. Time to fold up the tent and card tables and take the money an run.
The sad thing is that for DM, this is all working just fine. The CoS may be eventually doomed, but he just needs some version of the church to keep going for another 20 years or so…. after he dies, who cares? It’s all about giving him a life of luxury and and people to dominate. It really doesn’t matter if it looks insane from the outside as long as there’s enough cash to keep him King. In my 15 years of Scientology-watching, I’ve kept seeing scandals and big stories, and expecting a church-shattering kaboom, but it just keeps on existing, keeps on fleecing enough people, keeps on retaining the true believers. I no longer expect it to collapse before DM dies. I think he’s got enough cash socked away, and figured out how to keep hiding behind the laws to keep himself in expensive Scotch and handmade shoes until he dies. Please convince me otherwise, because I’ve been seeing predictions of the big crash for over a decade now, and it just keeps going.
You may be right…however, I think the big shock wave will occur if and when the government grows a pair and steps in to revoke tax exemption. That event may be preceded by the church losing a few legal cases. Even then, I expect a hand-full of tinfoil hats to “Keep conology working”
And I think that is my biggest disappointment…as bad as CoS is, it just doesn’t irritate the govt enough to be worth the storm of lawsuits and harassment that would result from trying to pull the exemption. It’ll be a huge pain in the ass, and most people won’t really care, or give them plaudits for doing it…..so it’s easier to just kick it down the road a little longer.
You’re right, Doubting, which is why what Leah and Mike are doing is vital. Co$ is too wealthy and too able to endlessly litigate to die by someone’s legal hand or by the government’s hand. It is dying, but by attrition, by their public and staff leaving, or quietly withdrawing, no longer donating, no longer buying services or showing up for events. And that is happening. I know my org is barely there. Calling what they have a skeletal staff would be too generous. The E/D frequently covers Reception. Its not a one man band – more like a 3 man combo trying to cover all the instruments in a full orchestra. Hardly any public. There are 3 or 4 die hard staff keeping the doors open. From what I read, other orgs are also on life support too.
Aqua, sounds like 90% of the orgs in the USA. All the videos I’ve seen show the same thing. MAYBE 1-5 staff that are part time and MAYBE 1-5 public on lines sometime during the week. There was a video of ASHO & AOLA a week or so ago that was in the evening and past 10 p,m. Only a handful of public were seen leaving those orgs after course time at night
THAT is my old org, Wynski! Wow. And, yes, those videos of other orgs you posted show the same limping scene. You’re making my day. These criminals are going DOWN.
There is some logic to buying an Ideal Ship, where a ‘floating’ needle is guaranteed.
Ok, I’m here to call up the spirit of Foolproof to debunk all TCs foolish speculations and fill us in on the next really big effective release coming out of the Scientology organization.
Also what about a space ship that delivers OT IX and X in outer space.
That would be worth the donation. Talk about straight up and vertical.
In other words the article was so silly, puerile and effete that you want an argument with me to liven things up?
No, Foolproof, we want an argument with you because we know that you love to argue, and will argue, and take the other side, even if, as I strongly suspect, you actually agree with the people with whom you are supposedly disagreeing 🙂 You just like to argue. I mean, honestly, Foolproof, you KNOW that Miscavige’s cherch is shrinking, is hemorrhaging members while at the same time trumpeting their outrageous lies about “unprecedented expansion” at Int Events. You KNOW this. This was the essential point of the article – how blatantly they lie, how desperate Co$ is to continue to the charade, to continue milking money out of whomever can still be milked. You know this and yet you’ll argue about it anyway…because you can. Because you’re a bright guy who is good with language who amuses himself this way. Tell me I’m wrong, if I am. I’m still trying to figure you out. I know you’re not OSA. I also know you’re an Indie and you left Miscavige’s church decades ago. I’d take a good guess that you’re a Brit. Maybe an Aussie but more likely a Brit. But my curiosity is centered on what really motivates you to come on here and whip these people into a frenzy when frequently you KNOW that valid points are being made. You KNOW that Co$ is a criminal organization. I know that you know this. So, give me a clue, Foolproof. Why do you do it? Not that it bothers me, btw. You don’t upset me, you puzzle me. A “mystery sandwich”.
Aqua, you made me laugh. And yes foolproof livens things up sometimes.
I never argue about such points as IAS and Ideal Orgs. I actually only argue about technical matters and then only when they are misrepresented or nonsense is written about them. And also over falsehoods such as the use of the word “wog” in Scientology is racist or the daft ideas that people had about the Barley Formula or George White’s “OTVIII” that “Hubbard was Lucifer”. This sort of nonsense.
Hi Foolproof – I had composed a reply to Aqua and here is what I was going to say about you in case you made no reply. (I often write out my comments longhand in order to check out if what I’m writing makes sense before I post, which is not to say they make sense anyhow – haha)
[Foolproof makes no apologies for the current CofS, but I think he feels a kinship with current CofS Scientologists since they are still the largest group of people practicing some form of Hubbard’s Scientology. Occasionally on this blog the JWs and Mormons have been trashed and a few JWs and Mormons have replied defending their beliefs and religion. Any of the tenets of Scientology from the Comm Course on up can be trashed and FP attempts to correct the “misinterpretations”.]
My general itsa on religion follows below. Cheers.
Richard —
I disagree. You say FP makes no apologies for the current CO$, yet he has often defended Hubbard’s cruel policies which are still carried out by Miscavige — i.e. Fair Game, disconnection, “never defend, always attack”, etc., etc.
Fool, please QUOTE where a person posted that “the use of the word “wog” in Scientology is racist”…
Ok, fair enough, Foolproof. Your answer makes sense and I appreciate that you didn’t fluff me off with a deflection, however clever and amusing it might have been, and as you are apt to do sometimes. Just so I have it straight while I attempt to look from your viewpoint: you are NOT a defender of Miscavige’s organizational criminal practices; you are a defender of the auditing and training tech and as such you take exception to, and want to correct what you consider to be unfair, inaccurate and/or 100%f wrong attacks on what you yourself practice and enjoy as a workable technology. That is where you are coming from, essentially. However you choose to express yourself about this on this blog, in whatever way you choose to respond to that with which you do not agree on this blog at any given time, this IS your viewpoint, and essentially, where you are coming from, when you post here. Do I have this right? Correct me if I’m wrong or missing anything. My thanks in advance.
Anyone with a belief in an afterlife, be it heaven/hell or reincarnation/past lives might be drawn to some organized religion. Likewise anyone believing in a Universal Intelligence as perceived through their cultural filters. Realists and atheists would describe both as wishful thinking.
The entry level of scientology is presented as Western science applied to Eastern philosophy and religion and requires no preconceived notion of an afterlife or Universal Intelligence. That comes later.
Most if not all religious scripture comes from the minds of human beings IMHO. Some people attribute outside agency such as gods, goddesses, God. spirit guides and the list goes on as contributing to the visions of their prophets. Hubbard spoke as a prophet.
In a sense it’s just a fun can of worms to open. Here are my own personal beliefs . . . . . . . nah . . . . . never mind.
Hey Richard,
Thanks for your response. All I want to do is what works. I don’t care who invented it or copied it, or plagiarized it. God, Vishnu, Moses, Jesus, LRH, Mickey and Minnie Mouse – I don’t care! If it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. And I see no reason to not cherry pick from here and there as regards what works. There’s so much I don’t know and may never know. I like living in the question. I don’t want to ever become mentally rigid and inflexible. There is so much to learn…at the same time, when something works, provenly, in the laboratory of one’s life, use it! Use it, and worry later about who invented it or codified it or stole it, or stole it and renamed it…etc., etc., etc…who cares? Not me, when it comes to application of a workable principle. Who the true source is, well that’s an interesting discussion, sure. And what kind of a PERSON was the inventor of the workable thing? That’s also interesting, but tangential, no? In both the Old Testament and the New Testament the Bible has some real wisdom and some provenly workable principles to live by: OK, great, does that mean I have to ALSO believe in talking snakes, feeding 5 thousand people with 5 loaves of bread and 5 fishes, and water walking? The guy who invented the wheel, was he a nice person? He (or she) could have been an absolute creep. Ok, you get the idea.
Hubbard says “if it isn’t written then it’s not true”but also say to observe it yourself and decide if it is true for you. So ironic.
Those people “members” in there need to get the hell out of that cult. The die hards will feel the sting the worst if they ever wake up.
Absolutely and Tommy boy needs his private lavish parties. While staff drool over the delicious foods and working ungodly hours to “make it go right” for the top special thetans. Sickening.
Oh Terra, Please tell your wife that expense is what it’s all about for the cherch. They have to spend that money somehow to remain a 501c3 status, and Hubbard’s “legacy” of being at sea is the perfect way to do that! As long as there are whales in the ocean, they will want to contribute!
Hubbard loved the romance of high adventure—swashbuckling pirates and treasure seekers, uber-confidant alpha males, spies, intrigue—the works.
This fascination with adventure is woven through his pulp stories, and the tall tales he used to tell his friends. It carried right on through with his “tech”.
Ya gotta admit, his far-fetched Xenu story was shot through with adventure—the dastardly act, the hollow victory of the Loyal Officers. Wowza!
Thus, the current delivery of the OT levels demands of parishioners strict adherence to all the stupid security protocols when “trusted” with the “potentially lethal” upper OT levels. Being “allowed” to do the OT levels fills the participants with the sense they are sharing in the greatest adventure of all time, and they breathlessly indulge in all the pageantry associated this the advance levels.
I remember in 2005, at AOLA, there were biometric fingerprint scanners one had to use to pick up one’s OT 1-3 packs. And the hallways would automatically lock-down if a pack went missing with magnetically locking doors. Holy firetrap, Batman!
And this, despite the fact that the OT 3 story had been leaked to the LA times 20 years prior!!
This told me that all that…Pageantry! Adventure! Romance!..was an integral element in the delivery of the experience rather than the need to actually safeguard humanity from massive OT3-created illness, or even the more base protection of financial interests of the church.
If the steak you’re trying to sell isn’t very good, at least you can sell the hell out of the sizzle!
John Doe – It’s fun to identify with fictional heroes. The first one I remember was Hopalong Cassidy who would only be remembered by baby boomers. He was an early television cowboy hero. My parents bought me the whole costume with six shooter cap guns included.
John Doe, if you aren’t a writer you should be.
😌
Superb comment, John Doe. You nailed it, totally.
That’s exactly what the cult is doing – “selling the hell out of the sizzle”.
And then the sizzle fizzles, as it invariably does, the sheeple are stuck with being the same ordinary humanoids they were before, with the same physical, mental and emotional problems they had before, and a lot poorer.
Not always. It is a myth the effects of a placebo simply vanish upon discovery. Some diminish over time, whilst others can last for many years afterwards, even indefinitely.
It’s a fascinating subject.
Hi Terra – your spouse makes a great point but I would think that the little devil SP would keep the present Fleecewinds afloat or “operating” somehow in order to get all that money paid to offshore accounts. Wasn’t that the reason in the first place to have OT 8 delivered offshore.
So you are both correct. A newer better building in CW needed to be funded by the whales and all the left over dupes to deliver 9 and 10 because the Fleecewinds is too small to accommodate the influx of the massive amount of pc’s arriving. But all the monies will need to be paid via the regges on the ship that’s dry docked on one of the islands.
Plus, he’s getting his free scuba vacations, so there is that.
All this chatter, chatter, chatter and more chatter equates to an anology LRH once stated in one of the hundreds of lectures he gave. I refer to the one about those who sling smut. It was something about cur dogs nipping at the tires of a fire engine as it was in route of putting out a fire.
Say guys. can’t see the forest for trees even though they are ablaze and likely to consume life on planet earth should you guys have your way and prevent the tech from being applied? Oh my!
Prince Andor:
Yep,6 decades of ” the tech ” being applied equals no clears, no operating thetans, and the usual legacy of broken minds, crushed spirits, disconnected families, and decimated bank accounts.
Scientology ” scripture ” is loaded with the ” smut ” of racism, sexism, fascism and premeditated criminality. Scientology and its organizations are rooted in the ” smut ” of El Con Flubbard’s affirmations.
I think the yapping dogs have always known a fresh pile of shit when they smelled one…
$cientology has had over 60 years to “apply the tech”, yet you cannot point to a single thing and honestly claim to have made it better. The hype and propaganda doesn’t cut it anymore. People can see through the bullshit.
If the tech is so great, why are all the orgs like ghost towns? Why aren’t people beating down the doors to get in? Why is staff sending out desperate and creepy letters trying to get people back?
“You are asked to examine the subject of Scientology on a critical basis – a very critical basis.” — LRH, Ability 90 M, Feb 1959.
There are a variety of people here, all with different tone levels, attitudes and responses. What arguably unites them are the “intolerable and illogical situations” they perceive with regards to scientology.
Now you may disagree on what makes an outpoint, or whether a particular topic is fair or appropriate. Some people here often do. But few are so “reasonable” as to ignore or deny that very real problems and injustices exist in scientology. To dismiss them, even for the greater good, is still a not-isness. A denial of reality. “It is an apparency and cannot entirely vanquish an is-ness.” (Axiom 11).
Are you open to the teeniest, tiniest possibility that you are attempting to “spray down something with the force of other is-nesses in order to cause a cessation of the is-ness [you object] to.” (PXL 7ACC-28A, 23 July 1954, Isness).
I’m sure you believe the tech is an effective tool to end much of the suffering and insanity on this planet. But your faith isn’t enough to make the problems go away. It won’t put an end to illogic or abuse. It is the spiritual equivalence of sticking your head in the sand.
“The ability to actually see an outpoint for what it is, in itself, is an ability to attain some peace of mind. For one can realize it is what it is, an outpoint. It is not a matter of human emotion and reaction. It is a pointer toward a situation.” — LRH, HCO PL 30 Sept 73 II, Situation Finding.
Damn, I can’t wait for OT IX and X! It’s gonna be a total lulzfest!
Dont hold your breath…
I know, it’s hopeless. Well, almost. It’s a fantasy. It sure would be fun!
Mike beat me to it. My guess it will happen during infinity or beyond.
I just got a sneak at OT IX & X and it turns out they’re really a repackaged version of the SRD run solo. You’re welcome Dave!
Somewhere in the “Freezone” literature I looked over a bunch of mental processes or procedures which I think were developed by “Captain Bill Robertson”. Why not package some of them and sell them as OT levels? Otherwise auditors and case supervisors who still believe in the tek could do likewise and offer them with supposed end phenomena. Somewhere Hubbard said others would follow him and expand on The Tek. (Idle thought and it won’t happen)
Another idle thought is that a measly one or two million dollars would keep the Freewinds fueled and sea worthy for another decade.
DM stays in Present Time and focuses on keeping the Gross Income up. Nothing comes out of him regarding long term goals for the CofS. He leaves that to Hubbard’s many speculations about “the future”.
Correction – I guess completing the idle orgs is a long term goal until he thinks up something else. I was thinking of what scientology might look like to future generations which might be like Crowley’s Thelamites who still have some undetermined number of followers.
OT levels dredged up from Captain Bill’s ramblings would be a real hoot lol
Probably better than anything that Slappy Miscavige could dream up tho.
Insatiable greed and a never ending need to be admired is what drives miscavige´s plans to ‘expand´this infamous cult.
Either a ship, or either a building for the OTs awaiting for IX-X it must, must have the word Ideal…that makes the difference, doesn’t it?
Glad you are not declared, carry on.
I’m not sure who first called it that (Chris Shelton i think), but the church of $cientology now has the world’s most expensive you tube channel. The value of the TV studio they bought lays in its broadcasting license, not the brick and mortar building itself. Why they didn’t buy the license is baffling. Buying the building was unnecessary since they already had Golden Age studios and anyone can get a youtube channel.
That said, the business model of TV channels is to offer their content for free and make money off of the advertising that said content attracts. However, offering content for free is blasphemy in $cientology and thanks to their methods of operation historically, their brand is toxic and therefore actively repels advertisers.
So, the only alternative is to view the channel as operating expense and instead fill their air time with advertising for themselves, like other religious channels do. But those other channels offer content for their viewers in addition to ads promoting themselves. I don’t see $cientology offering content until they’re -really- desperate, as in once they run out of whales. I’ve heard good things about the communication course and i’ve never heard anyone, even critics, say that they had a problem with it.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
So…about the communication course: it’s just another fetid crease in the large turd known as scientology.
It is a course of indoctrination. The ” drills ” in the course are nonconsensual hypnotic routines that induce disassociative states that do not increase intelligence or cognitive ability and can exacerbate undiagnosed mental health issues. The core concept of the course, the ” ARC Triangle “, is bullshit, with its Orwellian redefenitions of love( “affinity” ), reality ( no longer objective, it becomes ” agreement ” ), and communication( a robotic, cult-bound process of mouthing loaded language to ensure obedience to cult rules and the cult version of ” reality ” ). This course actually takes a person OUT of communication with himself and others and begins the process of conversion into a cult droid. It is NOT grounded in humility, genuine empathy for self and others, and a respect for others’ emotions and experiences. It is toxic garbage presented as a ” technology ” . Listening and speaking are regarded as tools of
” handling and controlling ” the other person; the idea is that one is operating with an auditor’s mindset in all ” communication cycles ” and that this is, of course, a mode of communication superior to the kind engaged in outside of the cult. It is loaded with lies and false assumptions, including the ” study tech ” that defines its delivery and student completion.
In hindsight, the communication course strikes me as being a sociopath’s( El Con Flubbard’s ) concept of communication.
“In hindsight, the communication course strikes me as being a sociopath’s( El Con Flubbard’s ) concept of communication.”
This made me laugh out loud. Now that i think about it, you could say that about everything in scientology. “Hubbard’s conception of family as a group of actually unrelated individuals who owe each other nothing except what they can do for each other is a sociopath’s conception of family” “The tone scale is a sociopath’s conception of emtions” “Hubbard managment tech is ….” etc. Good observation!
Love this guy!
Any chance that DM takes out life insurance policies on the big donors, ya know, just in case they haven’t left all their money to the cult by the time they die? Of natural cause or old age or an unfortunate accident of course.
If he could, then you could take out a life insurance policy on Bill Gates.
Doesn’t sound too legal. Does it? I think there is something called an “insurable interest” that means that before someone can take out an insurance policy on someone or something else …. well …. I’m not exactly sure how to define it. But I’m pretty sure someone who doesn’t know Bill Gates could never take out an insurance policy on his life.
But you proposed a very interesting way for someone to make a bunch of money. I hope someone who understands more about insurance than I do can explain why it wouldn’t work.
Thanks Skyler. He does have all of their personal information but that probably wouldn’t make any difference.
Skyler you are correct. There must be an insurable interest to buy life insurance policy on another person.
Of course, he can just reg the survivors who have an insurable interest and receive the death benefit.
The word alone, “Scientology”
Smells of quackery.
People kind of get that, day one.
You go on, hoping, that Scientology
Will deliver you from your “ruin.”
By the time you get to OT 3, Xenu caused the earth dump,
The mega massive earth infestation of “body-thetans”
And now it’s time to do 5 secret exorcism levels,….uh, really?
To rid yourself of your personal load of Xenu’s earth-dump of “body-thetans” …huh?
Okay, I guess.
By then, It’s kind of too late.
You’ve bought a whole strung out load of Quackery.
You’ve become a complicit Hubbard quackery adherent.
Hey, are you trying to invalidate my clusters?
Scribe,
Luckily it is beneficial therapeutically to just give one’s Hubbard “body-thetans” beliefs the yo-heave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyigdRxPOR4
I’m heaving now. Damn, I just coughed up a bunch of them. Okay, I think I’m ready to attest!
Can’t have Ideal families.
Something tells me David Miscavige and Tom Cruise aren’t the best of examples for that.
Not to mention Tubbard.
OT 9 and 10 will be given only on a ship or at Clearwater. Both need the income. A boat is a hole in the water in which you pour all your money. Unless the Clampire can find a ship near the size of the Fleecewinds, they will never get near a break even point with anything larger and they can’t fill the present Fleecewinds without doing all sorts of conferences and seminars. So much for all the crowds doing OT 7 & 8.
I have seen ‘success stories’ about clams applying the org board organization methods to their immediate families. It was really sad.
I could see them buying a newer, somewhat larger ship if it had lower operating costs due to being more modern. The Freewinds may even be facing an enormously expensive overhaul at some point before too long, to fix things like those buckling plates. Looking for an example, I came across one of the oldest cruise ships afloat, now called the MV Astoria, launched in 1946 – 23 years older than the Freewinds, but about 25 years it was rebuilt from the waterline up.
Plus if things get bad, Miscavige might want a ship that was more capable of ocean voyages….
I met David Miscavige in 1988. He had only one idea about Scientology. It was that his “cheap knowingness” copied from Hubbard was reality. When I go back to my early days in Scientology, I see that Hubbard was really selling the idea that whatever a “thetan” thought was truth. Miscavige copied that idea and so sees himself as supreme leader. He never communicated with me when I met him because I was fully cocked and ready to take a swing at him after he threw a punch at me. I am amazed that Miscavige has been able to maintain his lie for so long. But there is no one left in the Church to challenge him. Miscavige had a fit when Hubbard wrote his doctrine on anti-Christ. That ended Scientology “OT levels” forever. They do not need a new ship. They need a cave to relive “History of Man”.
How big a cave are you talkin’ about? And can we come over and party?
We are talking the biggest cave in Africa located on the Ocean on the East Coast. Enough room for thousands of people. We are talking great surf for all kinds of sports. The caves will echo the loud Beach Boys music from the speakers. Drive your Woody onto the beach. The last ditch efforts of the Scientologists will be to run The Caveman implants from History of Man. Miscavige will charge $1,000,000 for caveman makeup and e-meter auditing. This will be the end of Scientology. Miscavige will tell everyone that space aliens will pick them up upon completion.
Well George, if the topic is where Scientology goes from here, I think you have the best mockup so far! Party Time!
“Ideal Caves” might sell.
Send out Flag Tours with the Tours personnel dressed up with cave man threads/furs and clubs and beards and lots of hair.
And be sure to sell a minimum of six cave paintings so it meets the criteria for ideal. (See HCOB Why Cave In When You Can Build Your Own Cave?)
I am going to comment on this, but I am going off topic first.
It seems as though a few commenters think I am Valerie Haney. I am not. I said so in a comment I posted when Mike posted about her. I have said so in a couple more comments when people ask me if I am her or say things to me that make me believe that they think I am her. I am NOT.
I escaped scientology about the time Valerie Haney was born. based on Ortega’s November 2018 article stating that she was 39 years old at the time of that article.
I was posting as Valerie on blogs 4 years before she escaped scientology. However, since the Valerie Haney story broke, there are several long-term commenters as well as some newer ones who assume I am VH.
I am not saying this to disparage Valerie Haney. I am also not trying to bask in her reflected glory. However, I do not want people thinking that Valerie supervised the SHSBC in LA on Temple street in the ’70s or talked to Heber Jentzsch about polygamy. That was me, not Valerie Haney. Valerie Haney would not have been born when the SHSBC was on Temple Street.
This being said, and although I have been posting on scientology watching blogs as Valerie for a little under a decade now, I am going to change my screen name to ValR so people won’t believe I am Valerie Haney.
As for the article, Terra. It made me tired just reading about it. I hope scientology collapses inward before Miscavige comes up with a new scam.
I understand your frustration Valerie. Having posted for a long time and suddenly your preferred (actual) name gets swamped by a trending identical name, and causing repeated mistaken identity assumptions. It’s a shame people don’t have (or seek) enough data/context to simply avoid making such errant assumptions.
Any reasonably intelligent person should clearly know this: Valerie Haney won’t be posting and chatting anywhere, period. If she has litigation in process she is absolutely under the strongest instructions from her counsel to limit all of her public statements. Period.
To think that she, as plaintiff in major pending litigation, would be posting here so casually is just ridiculous. Seriously, people should absolutely realize that without having to be told.
PS: Having seen her past interviews, she is obviously an intelligent person, and she wouldn’t need to be told by her counsel to limit her public comments during litigation.
“ValRE” might work .
@Richard: AAAAAh, I have an engram on ValRE!!!! ;-). An ex-boyfriend’s mom used to call me ValREEEE. It grated on me every time. Since my last name starts with an R and my grandkids call me grandma Val (when they are not introducing me to everyone as their grandmamarazzi), I will stick with ValR so I don’t have to remember something cutsie, because I’ve heard that the mind may start going when I reach my “golden years”.
Sorry I “restimulated” you, Val. You just never know when those “locks” will pop up. 🙂
Somehow “Dick” became a nickname for Richard. My father was Arthur Richard and went by the nickname Dick so I was always Rich or Richard except that a couple of little league coaches nicknamed me Dick. Occasionally they would call the house to let me know about a practice coming up and say, “High Marion. Is Dick home?” A couple of times Mom “innocently” asked, “Do you mean Big Dick or Little Dick?” Mom had a sense of humor.
The Ideal Boat seems a logical extension of the Ideal Org program, necessitating lots of fundraising, creating a delay for Cabbage to stall the release of further OT levels.
Or better yet, OT X requires an Ideal Fleet!
(As legal challenges mount, I think the mobility of a ship is going to become more and more alluring to Miscavige.)
Maybe it is not only the evil drive’s fault.
Maybe the last remaining dupes are so dense that this is the stuff they need.
What are we going to do with the kids when they finally come out?
Put them to work as telemarketers?
Scientology, as I’ve stated before, makes people stupid! And that’s because they KNOW that Scientology works.
SD, brilliantly funny.
OSD – Scientology DOES work…but ONLY for David Miscavige. You have to have the correct definition of Scientology.
Scientology – a verb and a noun. An evil cult organization, disguised as a religion, that destroys families, bankrupts members and shatters lives using lies, manipulation, fraud, extortion and deceit. The only one that benefits IS David Miscavige…who lives a lavish lifestyle hiring private investigator and thug attorneys to attack and harass critics who tell the truth…
Daivd Miscavige “temporarily” benefits as he sits on billions of dollars unethically obtained from members….until Karma kicks his tiny little ass to prison for life.
Most of the young ones would never work at any job like that. Don’t forget, a number of them have parents who paid upwards of 200K for them to go to Scientology high schools and grade schools. So even if all they’re qualified to do in the real world is telemarketing or cashiering or burger flipping, etc., even if they fall securely within this unskilled, low paying demographic, that demographic of youngsters who go from job to job and are frequently teetering on the edge of needing public assistance, unless they are absolutely desperate they’ll never do these jobs. Instead, they’ll beg online to other Scientologists who have businesses for work, touting their dubious qualifications to be highly paid (chiefly that they’re not Wogs) or like many I knew, they’ll “work” in Mom & Dad’s business, doing the oldsters a big favor by showing up every now and then. Scientology parents are THE poster people for helicopter parenting. Their kids NEVER grow up which is just how Mom and Dad want it -keep the little precious safe within the bubble, at all costs. From what I observed, had a enormous over-appreciation for their Scientology children’s limited talents, along with an enormous willingness to support the little dears well into their 30s. Two of these 2nd generations Scns I knew were in their early 40s and had never left home.
I also know 3 STill In, 2nd generation, Scientology couple WITH CHILDREN who have been supported by their families their entire lives. Getting married didn’t change that. Having kids didn’t change anything either. All three of these couples are long term CL V org staff members earning nothing at these orgs. They get away with this because their fathers (or fathers in law) are professionals who earn money. The youngest couple of the 3 I know is expecting their 2nd child; each of them are on staff full time. Grandma babysits, cooks, cleans and grocery shops for them; Grandpa pays the bills. The eldest couple are 50 somethings. His Mom and Dad have been paying his bills since infancy; thru college and thru 2 marriages and 2 children. His parents paid for each of his kids to go to expensive Scientology elementary schools. In brief, these are some real life examples of LONG TERM staff “making it go right” to be and stay on staff at Class V orgs. Its simple. First of all, you’ll never make it on staff if you have to actually WORK at an outside job. Its just a matter of time before you become exhausted and quit staff. This we know. But still, there are other ways to make it go right. If you’re not a trust fund baby or if you don’t at least have sufficient steady income from investments or somewhere to keep body and soul together, or if you don’t have a wealthy spouse to support you, well then, be a moocher. Guilt your family into supporting you, your spouse AND your kids and mooch off of them, and justify it to yourself as being justified because you are, after all, “saving the planet”.
When you think about it, this ultra-Helecopter mentality, that a parent has to constantly watch out for their children who never seem to grow up, is not helped by the parents’ continued association with Scientology.
Scientology constantly juvenilizes their adherents:
“You’ll need to do a full CSW if you want time off from course to go to your brother’s wedding.”
“The CS is sending you to ethics to handle what came up in your sec check.”
“Your departure to visit your sister was unauthorized, and you have 24 hours to return or it will be considered a blow.”
On and on. You are not trusted to make your own decisions. Or mistakes. Or your life’s pathway. It will not be possible for you to ever graduate Scientology with well-wishes from them.
RB,
I have title on an ‘ideal’ island in the Caribbean that would fit Admiral Pompusass to a ‘tee’. It is only a short cruise eastward for the Fleawinds. It was run by the French from the 1850s, and can easily be revonated to accommodate to house the thousands, er… hundreds, err… tens of students to route onto OT Level Nextious Nauseaus.
It has a rich history that sets the correct order of mgnitude’tone’ that Admiral Pompousass would appreciate. I would be willing to quitclaim ‘Ile de Diable’ for , say, 6,000 bitcoin. Call my Broker, day or night.
/s
“…there have been thousands and thousands of suggestions and writings which if accepted and acted upon would have resulted in the complete destruction of my ego, much less my sanity. So I know what a group of people will do and how
insane they will go in wanting a little recognition for their input. By actual record the percentages are about twenty to 100,000 (not sure what that means, but it’s impressive) that a group of human beings will publish my bad naval records to destroy my good projected image. As I’m above the need for humanoid agreement, then, I had better steel myself to continue to be so now that I have created this thing. This point will of course be attacked as ‘unpopular,’ ‘egotistical’ and ‘undemocratic.’ So fucking what! It’s also a point of personal pride. And I don’t see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for me but push me further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses Ian Fleming, self-abnegation has filled me with guilt feelings for failure to provide child support and democracy has given me nothing but headaches and competition.”
From the original draft of Keeping Scientology Working by L. Ron Hubbard
Scribe,
Well written.
🤓
It’s the never ending reg cycle. And I mean NEVER!
I just had a cognition! The EP of the Bring Back to Life Assist is for you to be able to continue donating!
What an awesome post today!
Infinity Orgs would be my guess (are we supposed to choose? hee hee).
They’ll morph into Infinity Morgues and when you return to your next life you’ll be able to check in and out in a more streamlined way. They’ll likely have the Routing Form waiting there for you.
Every “Terra Cognita” I read I love. 5-Stars.