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It’s All About Aesthetics

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Bullshitahead

A bit of fun to kick off the weekend.

You will all be relieved to hear that THIS Maiden Voyage is all about “aesthetics.”

It also seems they have rolled back time.  Though the 25th Anniversary of the MV HotAir was last year, and though the magnificent Dear Leader cancelled that event because he was too busy preparing for GAG II (which then didn’t arrive til November), he has simply proclaimed THIS year to be the 25th anniversary so he could use the video put together for last year’s aborted MV.  And my word everyone, those silver streamers (also salvaged from last year) are just SOOO aesthetic.

And anyone who doesn’t find the fundraising insouciant (especially!) and FUNNY, just doesn’t have a sense of humor. Remember, if Dear Leader says it is amusing, IT IS.

I cannot wait to see the J&D Miscavige engaged in this year, mocking the idiocy of the “Gangster Nights” and “Bowling For Dollars” and “Top Guns” and whatever other desperation that has been on display over the last year. What a lof of FUN it has been, bleeding people dry. And let’s not forget the command: “There WILL be highest ever fundraising for Ideal Orgs.” It is such a riot.

Also looking forward to seeing the amazing! smarmy mullet himself, the Sherminator, delivering another “inspiring” presentation consisting entirely of run-on sentences that for the most part have no meaning at all, but are cleverly introduced with a revolving lazy susan of “Notwithstandings”,  “That is not to says”, “Let us not forgets”, and his old standby, “Given that”. More inspiring aesthetics “on behalf of” ASI (ASI doesnt have anyone that can deliver a briefing?) and it really was special.

Well, all I can say about this is Carol Espinoza’s photo should be in the new Tech Dictionary (if that ever comes) alongside the definition of theetie-weetie.

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 
From: CC Int OT Committee <ohtee@earthlink.net>
Subject: Letter from Carol Espinoza – From the Freewinds

Hi from the beautiful Freewinds!!!

We have had 3 events so far and what I can tell you is that this MV is TOTALLY about aesthetics! 

We launched amid 25th Anniversary silver streamers and have been riding on a flow of aesthetics every since. 

It is so incredible to see exactly how this beautiful ship and crew have changed every port they have touched and to be ringside for the celebrations and awards she is receiving.

The Ideal Org section shows how OT Committees around the world are using art, intention and (especially!) insouciance to get org after org completely done. Really. Who knew Ideal Org fundraising could be so funny!

About the ASI briefing, all I can tell you is get ready to be amazed once again by the LRH Biographer’s briefing on yet another unknown aspect of LRH’s life and to be incredibly inspired and completely into Aesthetics by the end of that event!

Plus the new release is a MUST HAVE for every single person!

Tonight is our IAS event and Friday our closed door briefing. I have been meeting, coordinating, planning and creating with some of the most wonderful beings on the planet. I cannot wait to tell you all about it when I return and invite everyone to attend our Kick-off OT Committee meeting on June 1 at Celebrity Centre!

Lots of love!

Carol Espinoza
OT Ambassador
Co-Chair, CCI OTC

Comments

  1. South Pacific on The Freewinds:

    When the real stats are going out the bottom
    I forget ev’ry truth I’ve ever seen,
    So they call me a cockeyed optimist
    Gullible and forever a sheep.

    I have heard Davey rant and rave and bellow
    That we owe everything to IAS
    So I’m only a cockeyed optimist
    And I can’t get it out of my head.

    I hear the human race
    Just laughs behind my face
    And wants to stay away in droves,
    But regges at Saint Hill
    Are sellin’ me a bill,
    And tellin’ me it just ain’t so.

    I could say life is granting lots of beingness
    Not to hide like some skulker in the dark,
    But I’m stuck like a dope
    With a ton of false hope,
    And I can’t get it out of my heart!
    Not this heart…

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  2. “Tonight is our IAS event and Friday our closed door briefing.”

    Translation: The doors will not only be closed, but welded shut. And there will also be a couple of 7 foot tall security guards standing in front of the doors with baseball bats just in case anyone gets any wild ideas of going to bed early to be sessionable for course the next morning. Your ass belongs to COB, bitches. And by the way, your cabins will be searched for contraband, hidden money and credit cards, just in case any of you try this lame “I’d like to donate, but I’m maxed out…” We’ll tell you whether you are maxed out or not.

    And for the upstat whales and other high rollers who make it go right and cough up a boatload of money, you will enjoy a scrumptious private dinner with COB the following night. There’s just nothing like an intimate moment with COB…

    And for those Gold Meritorius Diamond Platinum Patronus Supremus Leviathan Humanitarian with Honors, COB will later be visiting you in the shower. Try not to drop the soap. There’s just nothing like an intimate moment with COB…

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  3. Wonder why “insouciant” is now the word of the day? (well, LRH did in fact think this was a great attitude to have ….. uhm …. that of course was before writing Keeping Scientology Working, by the way …. insouciance was “out” by 1965 in Scientology and deadly serious game was in). BUT …. why is this attitude being pushed again? Well, actually only in ONE sense. The new implanted attitude is that when you are asked (that means commanded in Scientology) to completely bankrupt yourself, you need to smile and be insouciant – “hey, it’s only money ….. mest doesn’t last ….. I have batrillions of lifetimes ahead of me ….. I still have my health … but hope I don’t get cancer on OT7 …. ha ha ha ha …. I’m insouciant!!) Sounds more like “crazy” but hey …… the nutcakes are STILL showing up at the events ….. (I said this years ago on Marty’s site re: how long the fundraising/extortion will continue : As long as the customers are coming in the door, the store is gonna be open, folks).

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  4. I’ve been hearing about these closed door briefings for years. I resented this weird little elitist hidden data line. This then creates a clique of cool kids and it’s a natural human inclination to want to be in the know and included. This creepy, monied group surrounding dm has certainly contributed to his strangle hold on the church.

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  5. Ms. P – Hope I didn’t ruin the song for you! This forum has provided me with the opportunity to contribute some levity to balance out the goofiness and suppressive misuse of Scientology as regards the current regime under Miscavige. Thanks for your compliment and thank you Mike Rinder for letting me express myself and vent some of the pent up emotions that I have kept to myself too long.

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  6. Obviously the word of the day is “INSOUCIANT” and we will be seeing this in future emails, letters, etc. Remember old timers the ’80’s word of the day was “disaffected”.

    My favorite – “It is so incredible to see exactly how this beautiful ship and crew have changed every port they have touched…” – OK, how?????

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  8. OMG. The grammar. “…include there names…” ?? And they are now bathing in Propitiation. Begging people to show up for free drinks and real coconuts. Wow. !! That’s a good reason for me to make my way through Saturday night Hollywood traffic to get to that fleecing. They make it look like they’re going to give you something. … or their going to give you somethun’. Or there goin’a giv you sumthin’. Whatever.

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    • More fun to stay at home and re-watch the Scientology ladies on Anderson Cooper defend their church and leader and diss their ex-husbands. Now, that’s what I call entertainment!

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  9. An enticing (not) email I just got. Check out the bad writing and grammar:

    Flag World Tour is happening tonight at Hollywood and Highland! With 15 top technical staff that just arrived from Flag!

    Maiden Voyage happened on the Freewinds! I am sure you have hear the feedback as it has been pouring in!
    It is happening here in LA this next Saturday, June 28th, here on LRH Way, just as you wanted it to be. We work
    to make it as easy as possible for you to attend.

    Please reply “yes” that you will be there.

    Bring any and all family members and friends for a night they won’t forget.
    (please include there names in response if you haven’t already called them in).

    It all starts with the most incredible caribbean BBQ, drinks are complimentary and real coconuts!

    We will send you pictures tomorrow of what you can’t resist indulging in… so stay tuned to the Scientology Events emails =)

    Sincerely,
    Events Marketing Office

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  10. “The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.” Adolf Hitler

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  11. The insouciance of Scientologists is reminiscent of a North Korean dance troupe;
    colorful pageantry designed to hide the starving masses of humanity.

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  13. OK,

    I read the Art series and very good they were too. Well written and often amusing.

    I don’t find IAS vultures amusing using the promise “Aesthetics” to get cash.

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  16. The promo’s getting slicker
    While attendance just gets small
    And the speeches Davey gives you
    Don’t do anything at all
    Time to question
    When they grab your balls

    And if you go chasing GAT 2
    Then you know you’re going to fall
    And a money-grabbing registrar
    Has given you a call
    Find the exit
    If you’re feeling small

    When the minions in the churches
    Get up and tell you where to go
    And you’ve just had some wrong indications
    And your tone is slipping low
    Just deliver
    An effective blow

    When logic and proportion
    Have fallen sloppy dead
    And Miscavige is talking backwards
    As he’s under house arrest
    Remember what the old man said
    Keep your head
    Keep your head

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  17. If there is one thing I know for sure it is that there is NO create allowed by any Scientologist. “Repeat after COB…” That the CofS is a travesty of its former self is not news. That it used to be created by its staffs who specialized in actually helping people is long gone. Sadly, even then there were too many lies and arbitraries mixed in to the applications of tech and admin for the church to ever deliver the promise of Scientology.

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  18. The only time it happens in CoS is when DM has too much scotch and is insouciance on his floor all night.

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  19. Guess they got this big button on being “insouciant”, more like enforced insouciance along with enforced “aesthetics”. What a great combination. Something you’d expect from a serial killer.

    Anyway.

    Moving on.

    They got Danny Sherman who missed his calling as a romance novelist giving a “source briefing” of some kind.

    Probably nothing about Ron’s time in ONI or the Princeton School of Government which was a cover for a joint op run by OSS and British SIS.

    Likely more dull stuff dressed up in purple prose to counter the critics.

    Oh well they missed their chance when they fired Prouty.

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    • The ONI and Princeton stuff would be perfect for Sherman, since, like everything else Sherman says, it’s a complete and utter lie. And before you bring up Margaret Lake’s “research” (wish that the use of sarcasm brackets had spread from Ortega’s to here), there’s a little fact about science that she’s missed: you can’t prove a negative.

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      • True Espiando,

        You can’t prove a negative.

        And according to Parmenides “horror vacuo” which explains why a lot of disinformation is accepted as “fact”.

        Also lies are only lies if they a stated as truths that can be proven to be false which means just saying they are “lies” doesn’t necessarily make ’em so.

        Does it?

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      • Those statements have been proven to be false. Russell Miller proved them to be false when he got the original documentation through FOIA requests. Or is he just a purveyor of falsehoods and an entheta being whose work is invalidated because it doesn’t fit into some preconception of the hagiography the cult has pushed?

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      • Russell Miller didn’t prove anything other than the fact that he was nothing but a hack and had an agenda.

        Here’s what Hayden B. Peake says about another one of his biographical efforts of someone he actually admired:

        (begin fair use)

        Russell Miller. Codename TRICYCLE: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent. London: Secker & Warburg, 2004. 290 pages, endnotes, appendices, photos, index.

        The World War II British double-agent operation run by MI5—first made public in John Masterman’s book, The Double Cross System—was one of the most successful undertakings of its kind for two principal reasons: First, the agent-handling tradecraft was excellent; second, the British had broken the Abwehr—the German Security Service—codes used to send instructions and comments to their “agents” so that London had nearly perfect feedback, a genuine basis for trusting the more than 20 double agents. One of the early recruits, Dusko Popov, was a multilingual Yugoslav lawyer solicited by the Abwehr in Belgrade in mid-1940 to work against Britain and eventually America. Popov reported the approach to MI6, which handled overseas operations, and, after careful screening, was given the codename TRICYCLE. In 1974, he published his autobiography, Spy Counterspy, which made several controversial claims. Foremost among them was that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had known about the planned attack on Pearl Harbor beforehand but had failed to warn the country. Only marginally less outrageous were Popov’s claims to have been the model for James Bond.

        Journalist Russell Miller adds new details to the TRICYCLE story based on recently released documents in British and US national archives and papers provided by the Popov family. He provides many interesting new facts about the Double Cross System and TRICYCLE’s handing by MI5, although analysis of their significance in some cases is open to challenge. An example concerns the claim, made by Popov in his book and Miller in his, that TRICYCLE was “the inspiration for” or “rather in the mould of” James Bond (5). Yet the quotations from British intelligence files that Miller cites as evidence raise their own doubts. Miller’s assessments that Popov had a greater attraction for women “than might be expected from his personal appearance,” had the facial characteristics of a “Mongolian Slav,” was “a careless dresser,” and was “short, and not handsome” (6) are not suggestive of the James Bonds known to movie goers.[13]

        There are also some inaccuracies about the British intelligence players that he mentions. For example, his comment that “Kim Philby . . . ran MI6 operations on the Iberian peninsula” (50) is untrue; Philby was a counterespionage officer and he studied, but did not run, operations.

        Miller’s difficulties increase when he turns to the American side of the TRICYCLE story. Tasked by the Germans to go to the United States and establish agent networks and find answers to a questionnaire provide by the Abwehr, Popov, in coordination with British intelligence, arrived in New York on 10 August 1941 where he contacted the MI6 station and the FBI. The questionnaire was in the form of a microdot, the first that the Bureau had ever seen. It contained several questions about the naval base at Pearl Harbor. According to Miller, “until the end of his life, Popov was convinced that Hoover, motivated by personal animosity [toward Popov], was responsible for ignoring the clear warning that he had brought with him to the United States that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor” (115). The “personal animosity” charge followed from Hoover’s disapproval of the “Balkan playboy” cover persona that Popov executed with skill and persistence.[14] In his book, Popov claims that Hoover did not even send the questionnaire to the White House, the War Department, or the Navy Department. In his well-documented study of these questions, intelligence scholar Thomas F. Troy shows beyond any doubt that Popov is wrong: The questionnaire was sent to the principal agencies involved, although they did nothing.[15] Troy also suggests that if the Pearl Harbor message was as clear as Popov and some historians later claimed, the British would not have relied on a low-level double agent to be the messenger. Miller cites MI5 comments that the Pearl Harbor data should have been transmitted separately, but “no one ever dreamed Hoover would be such a bloody fool” (254–55). He suggests another interpretation might be that the British did not want the Americans to take preventive action that might keep them out of the war and, thus, used TRICYCLE as a courier knowing he was unlikely to get much attention. Miller does not resolve this issue, although he lays out the various sides well.

        Codename TRICYCLE adds much new material about Popov’s personal life before World War II and in the European business world after the war, but it neglects to mention the prison term he served for financial irregularities. And although Popv was unquestionably a valuable double agent for four years, nothing in the book or his file supports the author’s contention that TRICYCLE was the “most extraordinary double agent” in the Second World War. Most experts would give that accolade to Juan Pujo, codenamed GARBO. Finally, the careless errors and many undocumented comments place the book in the easy-to-read-but-of-limited-scholarly-value category.

        (end fair use)

        https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no1/html_files/bookshelf_10.html

        Though I’d say that Bare Faced Messiah had no scholarly value at all. Limited or otherwise. And was nothing but a hatchet job as the late Fletcher Prouty suggests:

        http://web.ncf.ca/cj871/prouty.html

        Someone I find much more credible because he’s walked the walk and not some sensation seeking “journalist”.

        As you can see by his CV:

        http://www.prouty.org

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        • I will post this simply out of respect for the amount of time you must have invested in putting it together.

          But no more on this subject. Debating whether some other book Russell Miller wrote is accurate is about as off-topic as you can get.

          I would NOT agree with you either:

          1) That Russell Miller’s book has no scholarly value. To the contrary. He includes a LOT of INDISPUTABLE facts and documented evidence. He also interviewed LRH family members that nobody else has published.

          2) Fletcher Prouty cannot be held out as an unbiased source — he may or may not have been “sensation seeking” but he WAS PAID. A “paid expert” will generally say what the person that is paying them wants to say, otherwise they are no longer paid and no longer offer their opinions.

          Fletcher Prouty as some sort of “DA” on Russell Miller isn’t very effective. In my opinion. But he is ALL there is.

          The trail of abandoned, upset and downright hostile family members is what is covered in greatest detail in the Miller book, not LRH’s war record, which was after all only 5 years of his life whether you believe everything the church and Prouty says or whether you believe what Miller and others say. Fletcher Prouty does not dispute or even address most of the Miller book. But even you cannot deny that LRH’s first two wives were extremely bitter and felt he abandoned them, and his first three children Nibs, Kate and Alexis were all disowned by him.

          Because those things were written about by Miller doesn’t make his book a “hatchet job” and frankly you come across looking pretty foolish to say so. You want to pick out the war record and focus on this as if it is all there is to the book and to prove your point, rely on Prouty.

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  20. “The Ideal Org section shows how OT Committees around the world are using art, intention and (especially!) insouciance to get org after org completely done. Really. Who knew Ideal Org fundraising could be so funny!”

    The only insouciance happening is manifesting itself as a casual indifference to the finances of donors going into debt to pay for Idle Orgs and that’s not funny.

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    • The Scientological definition of insouciant:

      To have awful experiences while in Scientology such as to go bankrupt, lose your home to foreclosure, disconnect from your mother, father, son, daughter, lover, friends, max out your credit cards beyond ability to repay, get a divorce, get sick, witness Scientologist’s dying young from cancer or committing suicide or perhaps murder (Rex Fowler) etc.

      All in the best interest of you CHURCH aka David MIscavige’s cult and his billion dollar bank accounts to fund his lavish lifestyle and hire his high powered attorney’s and private investigator’s to sue and harass anyone that knows about his crimes and will expose it.

      and then….PRETEND EVERYTHING IS SO THETA!! This is INSOUCIANT ~ Scientology-style.

      Remember to apply the Tech – “no case on post, no entheta, take it up in auditing” and keep your pie-hole shut cuz you don’t want your fellow Scientologist’s to know the truth….Scientology does not work!

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  21. >You mean DM decided to just lose a year? Just drop it out of existence because it was convenient for him… and everyone is going along with it?

    Rewriting history – something the Co$ and North Korea both engage in on a frequent basis.

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    • George Orwell from Nineteen Eighty Four ‘He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.’

      Probably more “tech” the “Finder of Lost Technology” has found.

      Doubt if he read the book himself. Probably had the audio version or Dan Sherman read it to him at bed time.

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  25. ” Plus the new release is a MUST HAVE for every single person!”

    Even Bitter Apostates living on the edge of the Internet?

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  26. “Who knew Ideal Org fundraising could be so funny!”

    Oh you did your Titanium Humanitarian with Extra Honors but lost your home and filed bankruptcy as a result? But we were just having a laugh!

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    • Yes… and the reason you didn’t make that money up and then some was because you did the tech wrong. You deserve to get thrown out of your house and live on the street or on someone’s couch. You have Overts and Withholds. Give us some more money and you can write them all up for us and we will punish you again.

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  28. That is flabbergastng. Why would anyone write such nonsense? It doesn’t make sense on any level. I think a person must be in a severely altered mental state to write and propel the godawful bilge that is contained in that email. I think they are so far removed from normal wants and motivations that there are simply no words for them to describe why they are devoting their lives to this lost cause, not in English and not even in Hubbardese. So they’re reduced to spouting unadulterated gibberish. Carol is almost literally a babbling lunatic in a padded cell. Poor soul.

    “… get ready to be amazed once again by the LRH Biographer’s briefing on yet another unknown aspect of LRH’s life and to be incredibly inspired and completely into Aesthetics by the end of that event!”

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    • Oh, dear, still some further drivel from Ron’s carefully created and edited past life, and soon to be proven one more gigantic lie? And since when has Aesthetics (capital A?) become a life target? I’m amazed she hasn’t shorted out her keyboard while drooling out this drivel.

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    • I know Carol and she is not “literally a babbling lunatic in a padded cell.” She is a nice and caring person, a little too certain in the correctness of her own opinions maybe, but she does live a life steeped in aesthetics, and really desires this for everyone.

      I am actually surprised she is still involved so deeply, having suffered serious financial setbacks, losing her house, etc. all directly related to church activities.

      No, she is not a lunatic as I’ve seen people in this thread that don’t even know her proclaim her to be, so judgementally.

      She is someone who is still being lied to and is hoping and hoping the lies are true and her observations are not.

      She is being duped just as you once were. And as he once was, and she, and him, and them and them, and you over there and all those guys over there…

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  30. “I cannot wait to tell you all about it when I return and invite everyone to attend our Kick-off OT Committee meeting on June 1 at Celebrity Centre!”

    Um…someone is out of PT, has an M/U or is otherwise in need of repair.

    She is inviting folks to a kick-off OT Committee briefing to be held…apparently…three weeks EARLIER than the when invitation was sent (June 20th.)

    Is she somehow cause over time?

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  31. You are a talented writer, Mike! I love your descriptions, and the endless variety you have in describing the lunacy of DM and his minions. Very funny post!

    I particularly like Carol Espinoza’s statement

    “It is so incredible to see exactly how this beautiful ship and crew have changed every port they have touched”.

    I bet she would have said this even if the SlaveWinds hadn’t sailed at all, but just sat at the dock after all the people had arrived. Her level of awareness and perception are so stellar!

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  32. The only word that was use correctly in Carol’s email was “ringside”. She is, in fact, ringside watching Davey’s monkeys and Davey’s circus.*

    *(The only currently known better view of the monkeys and circus exists in the gallery of a court room in New Braunfels, Texas.)

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    • Well it certainly is a circus event wherever it is happening. it even come complete with wild animals and all.

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  33. OK let me get this straight. I go to the first MV event all about Ideal Orgs, get to sit through the degrading of all the suckers that have been sucked into the Ideal Org Fundraising scam, then get the crap regged out of me for Ideal Org donations. Another night I get to listen to Danny Sherman gibberish that makes me feel like I got dosed with LSD and don’t even understand the English language anymore, since nothing he says makes sense, then at the end of that get press ganged to buy some new release. I also get to go to IAS night, watch Miscavige claim credit for the IAS for various campaigns that either barely exist or are not even funded by the IAS, then at the end of that get regged to donate large amounts to the IAS. Wow, I am sure this will go really well for everyone. Can’t wait.

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  34. How is “this beautiful ship and crew” changing Caribbean ports of call? Are they levitating shipping containers? Turning seawater bluer? Bananas yellower? Margaritas saltier? I know they aren’t educating children, reducing poverty, eradicating disease or improving the economy.

    I look forward to more pix of aging marks who yearn to become BFFs with Liz and Trish.

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  35. I think she has a date wrong in the last line. Can these people proof read?

    Mike, what is the sailing schedule? Are they leaving and returning to Bonaire? I’ve seen the boat there like it was in mothballs for a week at a time.

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  36. The letter is on June 20….but her meeting is on June 1? Then she says tonight is our IAS Event and Friday is a closed door briefing. If she wrote this on June 20, that is Friday (yesterday).

    I honestly feel a little bad for the people on that ship. I wonder about the pressure of these “wonderful stories from aboard the FW” But maybe I’m wrong and she’s just drunk on all the aesthetics and insouciance?

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  37. Will we ever finally know all the
    aspects of LRH’s life?

    The closed door meeting sounds
    VERY important.
    I think I know what goes on behind those closed
    doors……..Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll.

    All totally done in the aesthetics band of
    course.

    The finale to this MV is Miscavige rolling
    out on his brand new Electric Harley Davidson
    that was bought with embezzled money from
    SO staff and IAS donations.

    This is all so beautiful.

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    • “I think I know what goes on behind those closed
      doors……..Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll.”

      These things are all to boring for He Who Is Everything To Everyone. The real fun is toying with his sheeple and getting them to commit to doing his bidding. That begins and ends with more money and more of their time. He will ask them coyly to “own the problem” of creating a world without crime, insanity and all that other stuff the CO$ does in spades. “Go forth and accomplish this in the name of the Cult (oops I mean church), the founder and of course He who brings it all together”. Get out your checkbook and your credit card and make it go right. Feel the power of the force, feel the hatred in your veins (for those lowly bitter defrocked apostates) and “make a difference because those of you in this room are the only ones who can get the job done. Now go forth and reg and build your Ideal Morgues like good sheeple.”

      Happening somewhere in the Carribean………………………..

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    • What a day for a daydream
      What a day for a PTS boy
      And I’m lost in a daydream
      Dreamin ‘bout my dear Leader’s ploys

      And even if he ain’t really on my side
      It’s one of those days for takin’ a walk outside
      I’m blowin’ my cash to take a walk in the sun
      Applying the tech by learning to hold my tongue

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  38. Sure, riding on a flow of delusion. It is all ‘over there’, sort of speaking. Theetie-weeite is what best describes it.

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  41. You mean DM decided to just lose a year? Just drop it out of existence because it was convenient for him… and everyone is going along with it? And now he is just pretending that what he says is true because it works with the footage he has already shot? I wasn’t paying attention about 25th Anniversary last year or this year because I’m just outsider now observing the ship go down while putting a very busy life back together. I didn’t put the date-thing together.

    The amazing thing is how people still on the inside justify THIS lie. Do you not suppose anybody else notices but you? It certainly is a flagrant example of the way DM does business… er… performs his ecclesiastical duties as the pope of Co$.

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  42. Speaking of Bullshit Ahead.

    “It is so incredible to see exactly how this beautiful ship and crew have changed every port they have touched and to be ringside for the celebrations and awards she is receiving.”

    Wasn’t there a video a few years back of the Freewinds dumping its raw sewage into an open pit on one of the islands?

    Does her comment mean they do that everywhere?

    Awesomely aesthetic.

    Sorry for being redundant, but I feel the need to post this again.

    From 20ACC-16 of 23 July 1958

    “Now, where aesthetics have turned against the preclear or he has become dependent on something else for his aesthetic quality and then it betrayed him, you have the neatest Rock you’ll ever have. Now, that’s a wonderful Rock. That’s thud!
    This individual walked into the door of the most beautiful building he had ever seen, and they grabbed him and put him in the clink and held the body in duress and transported the soul elsewhere, you know. Fabulous situation. But he was attracted there by an aesthetic.
    Well, this is the entrapment by aesthetics. And you’ll find aesthetics are a usual trap. That’s why you find, by the way, Dianetics and Scientology are not all trapped up with a whole bunch of horse-aesthetics. Get the idea? You’ll find a few of them around because they’re un-avoidable. But it’s not that anybody’s against aesthetics, but we don’t want starry-eyed people wandering in the front door dramatizing for the hundred-thousandth time the lock where they see a beautiful building and walk in. Or the lock of where they hear beautiful music and walk in, where they hear a beautiful organ playing and a choir singing and they walk in the front door. See? Because all you do is collect a lot of nuts.”

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    • Yep, a few nuts are all that remain in the beautiful aesthetics of Davey’s Idle Morgue Program. Nutty public and nuttier staff with no basis of reality to their surrounding environment or what an ideal scene might be.

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      • Thanks Les,

        For those very prescient words by the Ol’man. Sorta describes the current state of the Church of Scientology which is a bunch of nuts led by a nut.

        Mix ’em all together and ya got Peanut Butter which is a favorite food of squirrels.

        Back in the day there was never any big push to make orgs “aesthetic”. Most of them didn’t even have furniture that matched and as I remember it the paint scheme for the Briefing Course was battleship gray for the stair well and off white for the course room with a bunch of cheap metal chairs and collapsable tables.

        Yet the place was packed.

        Last time I was there after one of their many endless renovations in early ’05 the place looked like an empty cathedral which I guess is the look they’re aiming for.

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      • Good quote, thanks LDW!

        Remoteviewed, yeah, we didn’t care about the MEST much, did we? It was truly secondary. We had our hearts in the right places, not with the MEST, but with applying the tech.

        I could never stand those catholic cathedrals with all their pomp, their gold, their bloodshed. How much blood of well-intentioned, trusting Scientologists has gone into these shining empty ideal MEST orgs!

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    • Yep. The “church” today is only a series of traps. As if the current condition of this planet isn’t bad enough.

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    • Let me guess ….. LRH gave this lecture BEFORE he bought Saint Hill Manor (east grinstead, sussex) ….. in any case, entrapment by joining the CoS even when Ron was still running the show? Perish the thought!!! (entrapment by contract, entrapment by “duty motivation”, entrapment as being the only answer to save this sector of the universe, yadda yadda yadda, etc etc etc)

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      • Before DM, people were moving up the Bridge, and training and applying the tech successfully, without going deep into debt. And, nobody was attacked or ostracized for opting out. There was no time or interest to get caught up in that low toned activity. I suppose it’s a matter of perspective regarding the “trap”. Virtually every lifestyle is a trap of one kind or another, but what is the outcome? What is being produced, whatis being helped? …is oone’s self determinism being increased, or are they only towing the group think? In the “church” today, OTs are redoing the Student Hat and loing their ability to spell. And going broke and broker.

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  43. Someone needs to help Carol get into present time. Maybe she is high on “aesthetics”. She is writing on June 20 inviting everyone to attend a meeting on June 1???

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  44. Isn’t this just like the car industry and it’s relentless sales?

    “Now is the time to buy”, “There will never be a deal like this again”, “it’s the greatest sale in the history of sales”. These guys just keep re-inventing the wheel and then selling it likes it’s a brand new concept, over and over and over again.

    I always watch them and laugh saying,”what idiot actually believes this is the last chance to get a good deal? They are going to make the same claim next month”. Inevitably, I will drive by the dealer and see the clubbed ones walking around, with salesman in tow, hoping to ‘score a great deal’. It’s just like scientology, except car dealers (for the most part) don’t rip your family apart, completely bankrupt you and make you sign billion year contracts. They do follow you around, harass you and try to take your money though….

    Hmmmmm. Maybe being a car salesman is some sort of scientology training.

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  45. Dedicated to Dave in celebration of the momentously gargantuan and humongous 25th anniversary of the most theta and aesthetic event in history!!!!!!!!!

    Fly me to the moon
    And let me hang out with the stars
    Let me see sip my special Scotch
    With Tom in private cars

    In other words, kiss my ass
    In other words, don’t resist me

    Fill my vaults with cash
    and let me loaf forever more
    I am all I long for
    All I worship and adore

    In other words, I’m what’s true
    In other words, I own you!

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