Scientology’s hyperbolic claims about itself have hit a new high (low?)
Gathering at the Advanced Org (why there are not Joburg org?) — a “diverse and eclectic team” mobilized on election day to hand out Way to Happiness booklets. As a result of the “more than 400” who joined in passing out the booklets (the photo shows about 50 and you can bet it’s a staged shot to include as many people as they could) the “predicted riots” were “everted.”
Not since the claims that OT VIII’s brought down the Berlin Wall have we heard such unadulterated poppycock.
The delusion is breathtaking. Surely the people who wrote this don’t actually BELIEVE it? Unfortunately, I am afraid they do. They claim they handed out 66,000 copies (certain to be an exaggerated number, but take it as true for the purpose of making a point).
South Africa’s population is 60 million. There are about 28 million registered voters and 14 million votes were cast in the election this article refers to. Were people intending to riot, they would not have to be enrolled voters, in fact, it is more likely they would NOT be registered voters — who would view voting as the way to remedy whatever their grievance was.
The arrogance of thinking they handed a booklet to one person in a thousand actually influenced whether they rioted or not is mind-boggling. Even if they had identified those planning to riot — handing them a WTH booklet would NOT have prevented them from going ahead with their plans. They grant such incredible power to this “common sense” booklet to influence the actions of people. All they need do is look at their OWN actions — the people who 100% buy into the idea that the WTH changes people’s behavior — to see that scientology does NOT follow the precepts.
Love and help children. Unless they are declared and not at all if you are in the Sea Org.
Honor and help your parents. Unless they are declared.
Seek to live with the truth. Unless the lie helps scientology.
Don’t do anything illegal. At least put it at arm’s length using lawyers and PI’s. Or unless it’s covering up a crime that would cause bad PR for scientology.,
Be worthy of trust. Again, unless you need to betray the trust for the good of scientology.
Fulfill your obligations. Like giving money back if someone asked for it?
Respect the religious beliefs of others. At least publicly. Don’t tell them what we really think. And anyone who is FORMER scientologist has no rights to believe anything.
Try not to do things to others that you would not like them to do to you. Disconnection? Smear sites? Harassment?
Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you. Disconnection? Smear sites? Harassment?
What they report as the results are typical vague, generalized scientology claims about anything they do:
Many read the booklet while waiting in line at their polling place and returned to the volunteers to ask for more copies for family and friends.
Seeing the book’s potential, some asked to establish partnerships. A mining executive asked for a presentation on how he could use The Way to Happiness in his company.
Local shops joined the movement, taking boxes of The Way to Happiness and personally handing them to customers and staff. Taxi drivers took copies to hand to passengers.
Several people who volunteered with the program for the first time that day expressed their delight at seeing the book’s impact on those receiving it.
A TV station interviewed one of the campaign organizers. The reporter was taken aback to learn that the volunteers were doing this to ensure happy and safe elections. He realized the campaign promotes human understanding, tolerance, social cohesion, and a positive personal outlook for the future.
One pastor, who was serving as an external expert in cross-checking election results, expressed how moved he was by the program. This is exactly the kind of practical initiative every church needs for its congregation, he said.
You can just hear Miscavige at his next event: “And with that, an entire nation was saved, brought back from the very precipice of catastrophe by the brave work of the Volunteer Ministers, the largest private relief force on earth… blah, blah, blah.”
Use Hubbard’s magic taboo words, and watch Volunteer Ministers’ reacitons:
a) Did Xenu cause the Wall of Fire?
b) Did Xenu dump body-thetans onto earth which Scientology does five steps of exorcism to free those body-thetans off our human bodies?
c) Is Xenu the reason “Advanced Orgs” of Scientology teach and practice the exorcism/soul-freeing to get rid of the body-thetans attached to their human bodies?
d) Does “Advanced” really mean exorcism/soul-freeing?
e) Why do you Scientologists do so much exorcism on OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7? Are humans full of so many of Xenu’s R6 implanted body-thetans that we need that much exorcism?
This article stirred a memory of, long ago, reading or being told a story of someone being healed simply by placing his/her hand on top of Christian Science’s book by Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, with Key To The Scriptures. . Not even reading it, mind you. Simply placing a hand on top of this book caused someone’s illness to be cured. I wish I could share more details but I can’t; this memory is very old and very faint but I know I heard it from someone or read it somewhere when I was a young child.
It appears that Scientologists are claiming marvelous powers to this small booklet Way To Happiness.
Its so silly. WTH is a useful booklet and there’s nothing in there that if practiced would be at all harmful. Of course, Scientologists don’t practice what this book preaches but then, what else is new as regards the various religions and what their believers actually practice? So that doesn’t bother me. What I find ridiculous concerning the WTH is not the material itself but the fact that people who are suffering from shock, loss, bodily or emotional tragedies, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, monsoons, hurricaines, etc., etc., not to mention in all likelihood a high degree of illiteracy are simply in no mental, physical or emotional condition to READ anything. Very likely they are highly stressed, frantic with fear and worry, hungry, ill, exhausted – I mean, even if (let’s say for argument’s sake the data in the book was that powerful – to me its just common sense, most of it – to expect people under such conditions and in such states to read anything is pretty much out-gradient wouldn’t you say?
I’m waiting for one of these Still Ins to share that he placed the booklet in someone’s hands and that alone was sufficient to sort the person’s life out.
Once again, Aqua, you hit the nail on the head. When I read this article my first thought was “Oh, no! Not this horseshit again!” Not at Mike but at the cult! Here they go again! “We sent our Volunteer Ministers into the countries of Pastafuglia and Spaetzlestein which have been at war with each other for over a century. We gave away over a quadro gazillion copies of the Way To Happiness while we were there. Thanks to this action, the dictators of these two countries are meeting in Paris to draw up a treaty that will end this horrible conflict. Three cheers for LRH!”. Ad nauseam.
WTH is just not that great of a book. Basic ethical/moral stuff that’s been around for thousands of years.
Nothing new to anyone reading it, except maybe a feeling of plagiarism.
And brush your teeth. Just maybe not with Kool cigarettes huh?
It all started with Book 1.
When you get a sci-fi writer trying to find a best seller in an age that had an explosion of self-help manuals who tried to pass off his brain farts as Science….
IF they actually handed out 66,000 copies of WTH, I would be willing to bet that 65,980 copies landed on the pavement or in the trash. Possibly the “boxes” reported to be taken by “local shops and taxi drivers” were a mercy act to dispose of this garbage en masse.
yes, when training cult bureaucrats, a surprising number of Dianetics books ended up in trash cans rather than being sold to newbies. The cult paperpusher trainees would just toss the Dianetics books, and report they sold them, but those books ended up in landfills.
Thanks, to let me laughing
The mindset of your dedicated scio is probably not so unique if you were to venture into the world of mental dysfunctions. These people actually believe the WTH is positively affecting the world. They’ve convinced themselves by their own determination that their reality it the correct reality, and anything to the contrary is just the work of SPs. They have to believe this, as to do otherwise would destroy the very universe in which they’ve chosen to live. Their very survival depends on maintaining this alternate existence. Just my observation, not a clinical diagnosis.
I agree. The same way that people go around distributing free Bibles, the Book of Mormon and that magazine The Watchtower. They truly believe that there is tremendous power emanating from the words on these pages and that this power must be made available to vast numbers of people.
I should know as I was a Mormon for thirty four years. Went through the temple and everything.
NOT A SINGLE SOURCE in the media sphere has a comment on this ludicrous news, except for the usual manufactured “Public Relations” press releases at the expected source … “Send2Press:”
https://tinyurl.com/3masatuy
And the single commenter on Scientology’s X/Twitter account for this news is correct: “NOBODY CARES.” I saved a screen capture from my “alternate” account since they’ve blocked me @realdennyowen…
https://novus2.com/righteouscause/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Scientology-Africa.jpg
And as we’ve noted before, there is no mention of this “incredible international achievement” on the Volunteer Ministers’ “News” page, which shows their latest update from October 13, 2022:
https://www.volunteerministers.org/news.html
How the hell can they be this incompetent?
In times of unprecedented crisis, the Volunteer Ministers acted not for glory, but out of pure duty to humanity. Wherefore, their deeds—saving a nation from the brink—resonate far beyond the bounds of mere digital pages.
Given that the essence of their mission is humble service, not recognition, the webmaster chose to omit this news from the website. The true legacy of the Volunteer Ministers lives not in accolades, but in the hearts they have healed and the lives they have uplifted.
Wherefore, the absence of this story on the website reflects a deeper commitment to humility and the profound impact of their actions, felt more in human spirit than in online accolades.
Your sarcasm has no equal … I bow to its elegance.
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Google’s Gemini has noticed…
Yes, it sounds AI-generated. Here are some reasons why:
Word choice: The use of “wherefore” and “digital pages” feels overly formal and archaic, not typical of everyday speech.
Sentence structure: The sentences are long and complex, with a lot of dependent clauses. This is more common in written language than in spoken language.
Tone: The tone is overly dramatic and grandiose, focusing on abstract concepts like “duty to humanity” and “human spirit.” This feels artificial and not very genuine.
Repetition: The phrase “in the hearts they have healed and the lives they have uplifted” is repeated almost verbatim. Human writers usually vary their phrasing to avoid repetition.
Overall, the passage feels like it was generated by an AI trained on formal written language. It lacks the natural flow and nuances of human writing.
I bet no one showed up to protest because they didn’t want to encounter a scientologist pushing their line of shit and get pilfered.
The solution to encountering street disseminating Scientologists truly is to talk Xenu and body-thetans to them:
a) Is it true that when you get to OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Scientology, you do years of soul-freeing/exorcism to exorcise Xenu’s R6 implanted body-thetans off your human body?
b) Is it true Xenu caused the Wall of Fire?
c) Is it true that if Xenu hadn’t dumped all the body-thetans onto earth, then today us humans would be having all the spiritual problems which those body-thetans are leaking over to our minds?
d) Are humans really full of so many body-thetans that it takes OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to get rid of them all? That’s a lot of exorcism you guys do to yourselves.
e) Did Hubbard not think of a better way to get rid of all the body-thetans, like why didn’t he come up with some Group Processing for soul-freeing all the body-thetans or something?
f) Why can’t you guys admit Xenu caused the Wall of Fire and he also caused the full 4th Dynamic Engram which includes the R6 implanting Xenu did to all of them?
Cut and paste the above, and say the above to street Scientologists, and guaranteed, they will shy away from you.
Xenu and body-thetans talk is like garlic to vampires.
Xenu is pronounced ZEE NEW
body-thetans is pronounced BODY THAY TONS
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Xenu and body-thetans simple talk, use the above, will sweep the streets clean of disseminating Scientologists. Test it out.
Use the power of Hubbard’s own brainwashing to see Scientologists squirm and make themselves scarce.
Now, do I do this at the stress test table after the bookseller takes the e-meter cans away and then starts to get me to buy a copy of DMSMH on the claim that merely reading it will cure all my ills?
Sure, the WTHs will definitely stop the social conditions and tribal disputes that have existed in South Africa for hundreds of years, even before the Europeans arrived.
“And with that, an entire nation was saved, brought back from the very precipice of catastrophe by the brave work of the Volunteer Ministers, the largest private relief force on Earth.”
blah, blah, blah:
In a time of grave crisis, when the shadows of despair loomed large, the fate of the nation seemed all but sealed. Given that the situation was dire, it required not just action, but a beacon of hope. Wherefore, the Volunteer Ministers emerged, a formidable force not constrained by bureaucracy, but driven by compassion and duty.
Traversing the ravaged lands, they brought solace and aid, lifting the fallen and healing the broken. Given that their mission was one of profound service, each act of kindness wove a tapestry of renewal and hope. Wherefore, in the midst of devastation, they restored dignity and breathed life back into a beleaguered nation.
And so, the tide of despair was turned. Wherefore, hope replaced hopelessness, and renewal followed ruin. The Volunteer Ministers, through their heroic efforts, not only saved a nation but rekindled the essence of the human spirit. Given that their legacy will forever shine, it serves as a beacon of what compassion can achieve.
Excellent!
With all that in mind maybe Missy Cabbage should send the VMs to bring peace to Russia and Ukraine?
Grest idea, indeed. I was wondering about the same thing. Also the OT 8s could be fine.
Good idea! Give Putin a copy of the Way To Happiness so as to cure his compulsive land-grab obsession. I mean, doesn’t the guy have enough land? Honestly, I can understand, if not condone, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and Germany needing and wanting more land and just going and grabbing it. They are, after all, rather small countries. But Russia? Good lord, there’s just nothing but land, its endlessly huge…I don’t get it. But I digress. Give Vlad WTH!!!!
“But Russia? Good lord, there’s just nothing but land, its endlessly huge…I don’t get it.”
It’s nonsense, that’s why.
But that’s the dominant Western narrative.
Don’t question it.
Just accept it.
Thanks but actually I did question it and get it now. After posting this I did a little superficial research. Russia doesn’t have very much arable land. 80% of it, mostly east of the Urals is some sort of arctic tundra that is either frozen all year round or frozen part of the year and kind of spongy in the few warmer months. Aside from it being unfarmable, the cost of infrastructure is extremely high because of the condition of the land. Also much of Russia has very long, bitterly cold frozen winters. But aside from that, the country is depopulating. The death rate has exceeded the birth rate for a long time. So what they need is people, pretty desperately. People, and technology too, I would think.
Just reading this now. “Wherefore” this is hilarious!