This is now a bit old, but still telling.
No international events: the only way Miscavige has to keep the sheeple convinced the scientology world is expanding faster than ever and that everyone wants Hubbard tech. Without the briefings, all they have is the evidence of what is happening in their own city, and that is invariably NOTHING. Those events are the propaganda machine that keeps scientology afloat. Without them, they must be hurting bad…
You may recall they recently tried to substitute a video SuMP put together and call everyone in to watch it. They touted it as an “International Management Briefing.” All it was — self congratulations for their brilliant work spraying disinfectant around to handle the “planetary bullbait.”
“When the world shut down, we geared up!”
Of course, “space is limited” in their entirely empty ideal orgs — even though they play the video every day!
But back to the original event announced at the top.
There is a so-called “ideal org” in Malmo (though after 20 years of trying they still haven’t managed to put one in Stockholm.) It is one of the more deserted “ideal orgs” and that is saying something.
What is MOST telling about this promotional piece is that fact it touts that there will be NO FUNDRAISING.
Of course, this was a lie, but it is significant they feel they have to say this to try to get anyone to show up.
This is perhaps the best indicator of how bad things are inside the bubble and how sick and tired people are of being pressured to hand over money.
The two things vital to Miscavige: international events and fundraising.
How sad for him.
This Briefing was 2 weeks ago, so do we know if there was actually “No Fundraising”? (Or did someone get some Brownie Points by insisting they do a little “pass the pen”?)
“space is limited.” Yeah, right!
As IF they’ll get more than 1 person coming in per day, per org if they’re LUCKY. the dumps have been public-free for so long; long before the ‘Vid, that they wouldn’t know HOW to fleece more than that.
Dear Mike, I have an off topic question that perhaps you know the answer of. In Ron’s journal 67, Ron claimed he broke his arm while exploring OT3 and almost died, becauso of the content of the Wall of fire.We know for sure he lied about it. Do yu know how he actually injured himself? I recall he once had a motorbike accident, was it related?
The motorcycle accident was much later — 1974. Read Russell Miller’s excellent biography.
As someone once said to me: “Spot the outpoint!” She was referring to something clearly very weird.
Thus with the rampant, over the top fundraising. Event promo staff: Spot the outpoint.
People don’t want this. It is, to them, like you are bringing your dead cat to their wedding, as someone once said.
#MannersPL #ViewPointPL
OT when this pandemic is over? the powers that be should have an anti scientology vaccine that would decrease the urge to give money to useless organisations like this awful disgusting fraud so people could live in harmony with each other and families could connect, that would be my wish this Christmas, as one who was never involved with such a scurrilous deception and its minute Charlatan and fantasist I hope that 2021 will be the year the walls come crumbling down once and for all!! Merry Christmas to everyone from South Australia!!
Smudge, the anti-scn vaccine is on your screen.
I don’t know if it will be eradicated in 2021, but its vitality has been greatly suppressed by the Dwarfenführer®.
Now let me get this straight in case the above article did not mention it enough.Absolutely no fundraising.Sure….
Nancy, if anyone BELIEVES the “no fundraising” promise, they’ve got this *lovely* “bridge” they’ll gladly sell the marks.
Hi George,
There will be no merger of the referenced entities, in my opinion. The policies and beliefs of both cults, as they exist now, forbid it. It was quite the slick hustle for jew-hating, white-devil-excoriating Farrakhan to sell the Fat Fabulist Racist’s ” science of mental health ” to a significant portion of his followers, even as quite a few decided they had to dip when he introduced it…
And the Philly Racist Runt(McSavage) pulling off that “sharing of Dianetics tech ” with a black separatist/black supremacist cult with a science fiction cosmology was and is quite the coin-collecting mind-fuck for his predominantly white “church”…Hey, maybe some splinter groups from both sides will merge in some surreal future, but the arrangement , for now, “works” precisely because of the physical and doctrinal separation that exists…
Having been in Flubbard’s cult and having known/grown up with N.O.I. folks, I see two completely different, mostly mutually exclusive universes in the two groups. Pay attention, as well, to the public comments of various leaders in the N.O.I. ; they tend to be even more racist, insular, isolationist, misogynistic, and bigoted than the head wanker himself…And Cunt of the Board, the Invisible Macallan Gulper, is missing in action, ducking process servers and…Reality…
But life has been truly stranger than any fiction in Murica recently, so…who knows?
We’ll see…
Thanks Mark. You write so well. My interest in NOI is growing rapidly since I often drive to East Tampa and now buy their newspaper. Reading the paper from cover to cover, I have been led to research some of the terms. The representatives in the streets are very well dressed and polite. They do sell papers but not to everyone. The black supremacy part of NOI does not block me from talking to them. I find an interesting mixture of Islamic culture with a dislike of the white former slave masters. Farrakhan is careful to take the middle path by his criticism of both political parties. What impresses me about NOI is that they seem to have a very firm world wide view of issues. For example, every newspaper issue is full of information about the black population in other countries. Both Scientology and NOI are under the cover anti-Christian but neither displays it. You are probably correct in that splinter groups will merge. Farrakhan is old and has not named a successor. I would love to see the two groups eventually merge. It would help them both.
Mark, Davey AIN’T a Philthydelphian. He was born & bred in South Jersey, not that he’s got any significant breeding to speak of.
No events and no fundraising, for DM must be like living in hell. His leadership was build through harassment, threats, mandatory presence to events, heavy indoctrination, etc etc. Now he is about to lose all the job done in many decades to convince others about his greatness. He had always problems to be loved or respected by others without use force.
And please let’s not call it a pull in! To such great beings anything that happens was never pulled in but always caused by some damned SPs.
Thinking that this campaign must be all over the Internet, I searched for “Don’t waste this brief breath in eternity in Google. This yielded two pages of results, mostly from critical sources and nothing up-to-date.
That’s an awful result, even for Scientology.
It seems to be very narrowly focussed on the orgs, and all of their propaganda is turning inwards.
Where I am in the UK my local org has been closed to the public during a series of lockdowns. At the beginning of the pandemic people sneaked in and stayed behind closed doors, but now the entry door is locked, and the ‘receptionist’ sits reading with their back to it.
This was after 40 years of opening from 09:00 to 22:00 weekdays (09:00 to 16:00 weekends) with always someone in reception watching the door.
I think members are drifiting away from the orgs. This campaign is evidence that the CofS is desperately trying to ‘recover’them – and failing.
Scicrit, there is NOTHING but “awful results” for Davey-Boy’s organization these days. Even “Aftermath” with no new episodes has higher viewership these days than *everything* the corporation is spewing out these days. Davey just can’t catch a break.
No fundraising? Ha ha ha, as if.🤮
“This is perhaps the best indicator of how bad things are inside the bubble and how sick and tired people are of being pressured to hand over money.
The two things vital to Miscavige: international events and fundraising.
How sad for him.”
Yes, a few billion dollars just don’t last as long as it used to. It’s a worry.
It is sad. Why does that make me smile? I guess I’m bad person. I’m going to put myself in time out and have a couple cookies.
Peggy:
That reminds me of something I stumbled across the other day:” The future ain’t what it used to be.” The “back porch to eternity” has taken a back seat to reality, sorta.
The ‘No fundraising’ meme has been used before at other $cieno functions. I wonder if anyone believed it?
Pretty soon, they have to advertise ‘$10.00 paid to the first 20 to attend.’
Zee penned:
“Pretty soon, they have to advertise ‘$10.00 paid to the first 20 to attend.’”
Sea Ogres will JUMP at the chance — IF they’re allowed to be paid for anything.
Very telling that they have to promise “No Fundraising” to get anyone to come. The telling part is that when they do not promise that, people just won’t come because the Fundraising is so excrutiatingly painful. This is a mark of defeat. They cannot threaten people with disconnection of fair gaming or anything else.
If people get a whiff of Fundraising, they will do anything and everything to escape. So, a major part of the way they control their slaves has been defeated. Fundraising is no longer a way to raise money.
So as several people here have said, the Grand Poobah now realizes he has to find another way to get money coming in and it appears he is going after the whales to donate huge sums of money at one time.
Of course, no one seem to believe the “No Fundraising” promise and they all remember the intense pain they suffered the last time they came to a meeting and were “forced” to go into bankruptcy so they could leave the meeting and go home to their families.
Shame on you! You no good criminal cult. The time needs to come when you get shut down and your leadership all gets thrown into the Penitentiary. You easily deserve that. Miserable rotten crooked bastards!
I went to an event touted as “no fundraising.” When they finally brought up money and donating, I got up to leave. The SO were stationed at the doors and would not let me out. I looked her dead in the eye and said, let me out or I”ll pee on you. I have to go to the bathroom. She moved out of the way and I left and didn’t return.
A few Nation of Islam representatives were out in the streets in East Tampa yesterday and I took the time to reflect on how they could merge with Scientology. Louis Farrakhan is in his mid eighty’s already but his wife is under sixty. NOI reported over 8,000 hours of Dianetic auditing a few years ago so the merger into scientology can still happen. Elijah Muhammad, the founder, was really following Blavatsky. Thus the Marcabs in Scientology literature can be used as the theoretical entrance point for NOI’s black supremacy into Scientology. But Scientology should not be totally used in the merger. Dianetics makes more sense. Farrakhan could start out as Commander of the Flag Land Base which would be converted to a Dianetics Center. Merged NOI and Scientology theory could still center in California and Miscavige could be replaced. Ybor City Scientology Mission could be easily converted into an NOI mosque. NOI’s headquarters in Chicago could also be a Dianetics center. NOI could then control all of Clearwater and East Tampa thus eliminating Scientology, but leaving the modified Marcab theory of Scientology in place.
Latest statistics show about 35,000 NOI members and about 15,000 Scientologists so the merged entities would be about 50,000.
The problem is, in order to qualify as a “church” your members cannot be part of a second religion.
Good point. I completely reject tax exemption for all churches and religions. This is great that is why the free market must decide.
Interesting take, George.
I think one of the main things that has brought this unlikely affiliation between these organizations is that both see that they can use the other for their own ends.
Farrakhan undoubtedly sees the reserve funds in Scientology’s coffers as something he’d like to control and Miscavige probably sees the NOI adherents as a bunch of pre-indoctrinated sheep ready for shearing.
An accurate summary, I agree. Farrakhan will pass and Miscavige will retire rich.
I’ve been wondering how the NOI could reconcile Markab and their absurd cosmology/”history”…. Guess Xenu would have to take a front-and-center position as the guy who did the genetic tinkering, or something, but I don’t even remember their bad guy’s name though I recognized at the time it was a prominent name early in the Abrahamic religions’ traditions, NOT that I see NOI as Abrahamic, or even necessarily Islamic. It’ll probably come to me 4 hours into my next sleep cycle, of course.
Now, will they HONOR that “no fundraising promise, or will they break that one as they’ve broken ALL the promises they’ve made in 70 years?
I should have changed the tenses in the above since 29 November has already passed.
Elijah Muhammad had theories about the origin of the Black race on earth in the distant past very similar to Hubbard’s and Blavatsky’s mind wanderings. They could easily find common ground. The battle of the Marcabs and the Confederacy predates Xenu. The Black race was seen as an offshoot with Blavatsky that had potential to rule earth after the Aryans imploded. Common ground in a fantasy world is possible
I wonder if Calypso Louie has gotten Sec check handling on the planning of Malcom X’s murder (Malcolm X discovered and then revealed that Elijah Muhammad had impregnated a whole bunch of his teenage “secretaries” … His turning against Elijah got him a death sentence which Farrakhan helped organize ).