What a strange fellow.
I guess he thinks, sort of like Idi Amin or Moammar Qaddaffi, that if he pins enough shit on himself everyone will know what an accomplished individual he is.
And THIS is who the church uses to promote the March 13 event?
Once again, proof that making and/or taking money is an exalted status in corporate scientology.
Honestly, he looks like he just stepped out of the Golden Age Paintball Range and took some hits to the upper torso. Nice grouping on the right….
Now That’s Funny! The Golden Age paint ball range. Well…. What’s true for you?
Every day is suspension of disbelief day in the church. “Gibney is financed by HBO which is financed by Time Warner which is financed by big pharma which is financed by.the Queen of England who is in a centuries old conspiracy to enslave the world ” (oops, wrong cult, ignore the Queen of England bit). Miscavige screams “the critics of the church are all liars and only SPs lie. The church is growing and millions of new members are flooding the hundreds of new churches being opened yearly.”
Many members of the church have demonstrated that they are smart and talented. In the back of their smart minds they know the truth about Miscavige and the lies he tells. When the church is allowed to create an environment where the media is terrified to expose well known truths, the members’ suspension of disbelief is unchallenged. When the “silence” in the outside world explodes into mountains of eclaim for Gibney’s film which in turn generates an explosion of exposes of Miscavige’s enforced disconnection and abuse of members, the suspension of disbelief in many members goes to war with realty. The result is cognitive dissonance which begins to overwhelm them. Every truth told to him/her by exes and family is remembered, and after a time, he/she looks for the escape route. This is true for every cult.
I think in the next year, the number of members leaving the church will grow x47 x47. The escapees will be fortunate that the battles fought by Mike Rinder, Marty Rathbun, Tony Ortega. Karen D., and every ex that comments here, have created a welcoming, supportive reception if they choose to land among friends.
Very well put. This blog is in serious need of a “LIKE” button.
Still on Your Side – Very well spoken. Your care for the people ‘still-in’ shines through.
I love your “Oops, wrong cult…” conspiracy comment. lol
Yes, complexity is equal to the degree of non-confront, is it not? And their answers are VERY complicated, to say the least. That, or just hostile to the messenger like two political fans going at the opposing opinion. No debate, just denigration of the person saying DM did anything wrong. No confront.
Unfortunately, like many have said here, most people won’t allow themselves to believe it until it actually, really happens to them.
Bad ethics handlings, unjust rulings in WISE committees, kangaroo court Chaplain cycles, no help handling people who are hurting others in the field (thieves, child molesters, entheta partners, spousal abuse, etc, etc,) the MAA won’t help anyone with these sources of suppression, in general.
And that’s just for the public. The staff – they get the serious brunt of it while being convinced that THEY are the ones who are out-ethics, hence the violent and abusive treatment. And lest we forget, not paying people for their work is a form of abuse. Regging them for every penny they have, while the person can’t pay their rent or eat is abusive. There are many layers to that abusive onion.
NOTE TO STAFF AND PUBLIC – THIS IS NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR. SCIENTOLOGISTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE HIGHEST ARC GROUP ON THE PLANET – SO WHY ARE PEOPLE BEING YELLED AT AND MISTREATED AND SCAMMED OUT OF THIER MONEY?
You are right to think it’s not right. Speaking of rights, you have the right to leave.
Today. Now, while you are inspired to. Grab your purse or your keys, go out for coffee and never go back. Find that friend who hasn’t been on-lines for a long while. They are probably out and under the radar. They can help you with your exit.
YOU WILL NOT “LOSE YOUR ETERNITY” or your chance to go OT. The highest, LRH trained auditors are OUT and in the field, delivering the real, standard LRH, not the GAT squirrel processes.
You are right. There is something wrong. Keep reading. See you here, on the other side.
Remember Debbie Cook, Captain FSO for 17 years? Why would she lie?
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/new-years-email-from-debbie-cook/
A letter from Garcia – to David Miscavige. Mr. Garcia tells COB directly, why he is leaving after donating 1/2 a million dollars to Scientology:
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/a-letter-from-garcia/
What is the difference between what Ron said to do and what Miscavige is doing? Those of you who are newer to Scientology – only 20 years or so – may have only seen “Command Intention” or David Miscavigeology. This is what Ron really wanted:
http://friendsoflrh.org/COBvsLRH/
Connect with others outside and find out where you can go in session with Class VIIIs and XIIs and/or train in standard tech that works: http://www.iscientology.org/
These people are disconnected from the Corporate, current leadership of Scientology, but not Scientology tech. The Independents are building the better Bridge.
Grab your keys. Start your car. Drive away. Your true freedom is worth it.
Start.
But then again, some people confront it like the three monkeys.
Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
Like in this video. Is this you, Crusaders? Really? Would you stand quietly by if Walmart or the government or a supposed charity did all of the things you saw in the new movie, “Going Clear” or read about in the pages of this and other blogs? Really? This is your Scientology and you’re supposed to be a friend of LRH. Why aren’t you defending it/him?
Why are you letting Mr. David Miscavige run this group like his own, personal cash cow to buy him BMWs, motorcycles and 100-year-old scotch, and giving Tom $250,000.00 birthday parties while you have to fight to pay your rent or clothe your kids?
Who owns and has sold some of that Ideal Org property that you’ve paid for? Where is the new San Diego org building, for example? Cha ching.
http://www.search.justknock.com/US/Vacant-Land-Property/CA/East-County/Rancho-El-Cajon/7380-Parkway-Dr/54492512.html
Note that it was sold on August 12, 2013. When did your money buy that building?
You say it isn’t happening to you? ha. Where is YOUR IAS contribution ending up, my dear friends?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy5vKAaTuA
Oingo Boingo – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Lyrics
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Why should I care?
A man broke into my neighborhood
He threatened the family with a loaded gun
He tied them all up and beat ’em real good
He took everything and he got away clean
And I can’t believe that anyone would
Wanna do such a terrible thing
But why should I care?
Did ya hear about Fred, he’s unemployed
They threw him away like a useless toy
He went down the drain after 20 long years
No warning, no pension and nobody’s tears
And I can’t believe that anyone would
Wanna do such a terrible thing
But why should I care?
Why should I care?
Every time I look around this place
I see them scream but I hear no sound
And the terrible things happen down the road
To someone else that I don’t even know
CHORUS
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Why should I care?
Have you heard about the Joneses, my, my, my
It happened so quick and no one knows why
Their teenage son, he seemed O.K.
But his suicide ruined everyone’s day
And I can’t believe that anyone would
Wanna do such a terrible thing
But why should I care?
CHORUS
(Nothing bad ever happens to me)
Nothing bad ever happens to me
Songwriters: ELFMAN, DANNY
Nothing Bad Ever Happens lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
___
Think. Research. Find out for yourself. Really for yourself, in private, like you’re doing now. You’re very brave for looking. Look more. Ron is counting on you. Something can be done about it.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34344-The-final-fate-of-7380-Parkway-Dr-(failed-San-Diego-Ideal-Org)
“Default Re: The final fate of 7380 Parkway Dr., (failed San Diego Ideal Org)
So the church of scientology aka David Miscavige fleeced the clubbed seals of millions only to sell to a developer and telling the staff and public of San Diego – FLUNK – you failed and it is your fault you could not complete the Ideal Org? Now the church of scientology aka David Miscavige keeps the dough from the sale? He really needs to get a real estate course going – how to make billions in real estate with no money down, no loans and get rich quick…5 years! You see you have to start a religion, hide behind the “religious cloak” – $ell your members lies that you hold the key to their spiritual freedom and destiny…$ell the clubbed seals that the world is going to hell in a hand basket and the church needs to expand to save it…then after the members purchase the buildings…and title them in the name of the church of scientology – $ell them, even at a loss. No money down real estate success!! He could use Bridge PUblications to print the books, make tapes and he could use the Sea Org slaves to $ell them…or else”
You’re right. Something’s wrong. Grab your keys. Walk.
Scientology paint ball .. nice grouping on the right.. now that’s funny .. unless your a scientologist
Hey Mike, just curious why some postings don’t have reply icons. Perhaps your webmaster can fix it.
It depends on the nesting depth of the replies. It runs out after two nestings.
But Qadhafi never won the Freedom Medal of Valor!
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/qaddafi-slideshow200908_slideshow_item10_11
Wearing badges or pins for giving money to the IAS is silly and vapid. It shows a desperate need for attention and validation.
What’s wrong with giving money to something you care about and just keeping it your own private business? Its a little more classy that way.
This is so like Scientology–always trotting somebody out to make those still in believe stats are still up, and all is well on the horizon. What a joke!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg2EJvvlF8
I like Pat’s Sea Org ensemble. Dig those Sea Gull droppings.
COB’s Birthday 2015
A message from COB’s only friend:
Through the calendar year, $cientology has a handful of significant international events:
• IA$ Gala®
• IA$ Gala-at-Your-Nearest-Idle-mOrgue®
• IA$ Gala At-Your-House-or-Apartment®
• IA$ Gala At-Your-Front-Door®
• IA$ Gala At-Your-Back-Door®
• IA$ Gala Where-Ever-You-Are®
• IA$ Gala When-You’re-at-Flag®
• IA$ Gala When-You-Are-on-the-Fleewinds®
• IA$ Gala Keeping-You-from-Moving-Up-the-Bridge-to-Total-Fleedom®
We know when you are sleeping, we know when you’re awake, we know when you’ve been to the bank and back, so be good for goodness sake.
The mostest important event to all of us is COB’s Birthday.
No doubt, dear $cientologist, you feel just like I do: COB is the bestest friend we could have ever hoped for and we owe Four Feet Thirteen so much for:
• His kindness, compassion and understanding that knows no bounds.
• His utmost care, warmth and effusiveness.
• His utmost in patience, understanding and interest in $cientology executives and staff and seeing to their duplication of COB’s writings, with every meeting designed to increase our competence, ability and purpose to bring about a renaissance on the planet with COB technology.
• Bringing about a Cherch expansion at orders of magnitude only previously dreamed of—and don’t you dare think of what L. Ron Hubbard (“LRH”) accomplished before COB entered the picture; even thinking about LRH will cost you a Security Check—led by COB, and with a proud management team following his lead.
• His helping every single $cientologist achieve personal detriment with $cientology.
COB has dragged the Cherch, kicking and screaming, into a dark, dank, stinking void where no one can stand up and say they’re proud to be a $cientologist and yet, somehow, still be part of this incredibly painful bowel movement. Ouch!
I know that I’ll never, ever be able to fully eject my head from COB’s butt without your help. Help me! Please, help me, dear God! You need to get through your next level of The Bridge to Total COB Fleedom® without fail before Thursday at 2:00 PM:
• COB Patron: $1 million
• COB Patron with Honors: $5 million
• COB Patron Meritorious: $10 million
• COB Silver Meritorious: $15 million
• COB Gold Meritorious: $20 million
• COB Platinum Meritorious: $25 million
• COB Diamond Meritorious: $50 million
• COB Patron Laureate: $75 million
• COB Platinum Laureate: $100 million
• COB Diamond Laureate: $125 million
• COB Patron Excalibur: $150 million
• COB Platinum Excalibur: $175 million
• COB Diamond Excalibur: $200 million
• COB Patron Maximus: $300 million
• COB Platinum Maximus: $400 million
• COB Diamond Maximus: $500 million
Celebrate COB’s birthday with all his friends; it’s a sign of our gratitude for allowing us to stay alive… barely.
C U there!
Pat Parody, New, Newer, Newest Oat Tee 8
1,500th Time Confused FSM
“I hate you, I hate you one and all. The birthday cheer is mine, and mine alone. It’s all mine! F*ck Off and Die, COB.”
© C$WU$, All Rights Reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to JennyAtLAX for use of her Blog and to COB for permission to reproduce a selection from copyrighted works of COB. Oat Tee, COB and $CIENTOLOGY are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Trechnology Center (“RTrC”) and are used with its permission. Printed in U.S.A.
(Inspired by: Something Can Be Done About It (Mike Rinder’s Blog), “Pat Parody,” January 30, 2015.)
Complete posting (with a picture of “Pat Parody” that shows what’s inscribed on those pins he’s wearing):
https://jennyatlax.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/cobs-birthday-2015/
And it also just occurred to me that the Google ad in first place is there to ensure that, should the still-ins be so heretical as to google Alex, Mike, Tony, etc., that they will feel duty-bound to read what Freedumb says first, before reading anything. And, I’ll bet this is somehow going to be added onto the list when the OTVIIs arrive at Flog for their biennial implant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRvm0PfayR8
I would like to speculate on the effect on raw public of the cult’s Google ad. I’m trying to look from the viewpoint of someone who knows nothing of Scientology except perhaps that Tom Cruise is really into it. Looking from this viewpoint, the way the participants and contributors and creators of “Going Clear” are utterly trashed – this would be a turn-off to me. I can’t imagine any respectable religion writing this way about anyone. To really D/A someone who is raw public it would be necessary to adapt a “church-like”, conservative tone level and address very specific points, with no underhanded low blows, just show how none of it is true, point by point. The cult’s “D/A” is a yawnful of generalities – he’s a liar, she’s a liar, they’re liars, and, by the way, its all lies”. I’m thinking, this ad has to be for the benefit of the already ins, who will read this rubbish and say, “Whew! That’s tellin’ ’em! COB is definitely on top of this!” (and then will come yet another phone call or email begging for more money to help stave off the SPs.) Poor, sheeple. Poor, deluded sheeple. Its going to be so tough for some of them when they can no longer twist and turn and make the problem go away by throwing some more money at COB. Hopefully, for many, it will be a relief. Being at heart an optimist, I would like to believe that many already know, and are secretly longing to be shown, conclusively, that it is indeed all true, that they are indeed imbedded in an abusive cult, that their instincts were right, and now, finally, they are free.
YES I am a former Anon. so watch this or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=phR6QA9_hYY&x-yt-cl=85114404
He used to be my FSM decades ago. He was a long hair rocker back then but I guess Flag beat that out of him. Looks like he sold out for the easy money.
What’s oddest to me is that they’re having to beg people to come to the LRH birthday event. Not surprised really, but just goes to show how far south the show has gone
Gee, Pat, I don’t know if I want a best friend who’s homophobic, claims more knowledge of physics than me despite the fact that I have a degree in it and he flunked out of college, claims more military awards than me despite the fact that he was awarded less, and goes off about the Ebil Psychs all the time knowing that I take psych meds. In point of fact, if I saw him on the street, I’d go out of my way to give that guy a swift, hard kick in the nads.
Well, I would if he hadn’t been dead for 29 years.
As for you, Pat, the fact that you have a best friend who’s been dead for 29 years puts you in the same category as the people who say “Jesus is my best friend”. You tend to stay away from those types of people. Fortunately, we’re already staying away from you due to that creepy smile and little piggy eyes.
Memo to the Toxic Dwarf: Try to get people to speak up for your cult who don’t look like recipients of the Pedobear Platinum Meritorious Medal. At least Tommy Davis looked human. For that matter, so did Mike before you put him in the Hole. Lost your touch, have you? Or don’t you have anyone left who doesn’t resemble an extra on The Walking Dead?
🙂
Sometime around the late 80s – early 90s, Pat went thru his retro-hippie look with long hair and while I can’t say specifically that he wore ripped jeans, he wore stuff of that ilk, all while a “Power FSM.” I guess he decided that wasn’t a good look for him and after a year or so went back to the short hair and more conservative attire. So maybe it’s time for a new “look.”
Right Simi, I remember the mullet, not a pretty sight. Expressing oneself is out PR you know, conformity is where it’s at. It’s the first step on the shutdown of perception on the robot express.
“All aboard sheeple.” Conductor Dave
Pat’s got a new look with super skinny jeans in bright yellow. He’s tiny. His hair has thinned out so he’s keeping it short. No more baby fro’.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Pat is just another butt buddy of the IAS. When the bubble pops His status will drop and the world won’t give a damn.
Damn, to paraphrase OSD, that’s some cold shit.
How many pieces of “flair”? Is Pat a waiter as well?
I am a practicing Pastafarian from the FSM (Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster and I am wondering how our creator and lord infiltrated $cientology, 15 times with this man? To his noodliness all credit!
Don’t take the name of our lord and savior… without tomato sauce .. Religious bigots … lol
I forgot the last one…..
4) How many days before Mike Ellis will have a bowel movement?
Not days, Cooper, weeks. Has to be since he’s so obviously full of it. Tends to poison the mind as well as the body. Hi ho!
He needs to get his stats up first. Takes as long as it takes.
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Trivia question for the day…..after all……it’s a new week in kool aide land !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) How many glasses of water did Mike Ellis consume during his deposition?
2) How many times did he have to wipe the sweat from his brow.
3) How many times did Dave utter a cuss word while listening to Mike’s deposition?
OH! OH! OH! I know, I know! 1) 10 because he was sweating so profusely. 2) Every 30 seconds or so because he’s morbidly obese. 3) Every 31/2 seconds 4) I’m taking a wild guess here, but, any minute now, his bowels are going to explode! Wouldn’t want to be that room!
“Undoubtedly you feel similar to me . . .” • feels arm, feels friends arm, ‘yup, feels the same.’ •
What a frickin Pat-sie. After March 16th he should have some new material to sink his teeth into about Elron and company.
These true believer types are all coming in for a real hard landing this year. Forget the Titanic, that is old news. The Org parking lots will look more like Pearl Harbor …….. only with more smoke rising from the crashed and burned kool aide stands.
Yo Dave,
Time to revisit your ‘WAKE UP CALL’ good buddy. Remember 9-11 and what that scene looked like. Well guess what Mr. shit for brains, that is what every Cult Origination Worship Hall (call it an IDEAL ORG if you want) will emulate by the end of 2015. That is why we on the fringes refer to Your edifices as Ideal Morgues. Get it?
How were your stats last week BTW?
True Coop. We are waiting for the March 16 event.
Completely obliterated from the list of events is May 9; it used to be an ‘important’ one.
Interesting concept Parodi expresses: ‘.. is able to grant him (LRH) that beingness every year to celebrate his birthday…’, is a twisted kind of concept. What does granting of beingness has to do with someone’s B.Day?
Maybe he is using the new definitions of new st. hat, or maybe he is so ingrained into the scn jargon of lies and PR where many words are used and little is said; whatever, is strange, very strange.
Interesting point about beingnes. Medals are a prop for beingness. More medals, less beingness IMO. Inner comfort and innate strength are enough.
Again, with the “you can never really get your exchange in with Ron.”
This implant command is now instilled so as to weaken one’s resistance when the IAS, Ideal Org, and other reges of that ilk come knocking, again and again and AGAIN!
It is also this mindset that elevates LRH to the power of a god.
My exchange is more than in. As a matter of fact, it’s out exchange. All the fucking painting, scraping, cleaning etc I did, then had to pay a freeloader debt? Who’s out exchange?
“What would Ron do?” Who gives a fuck. When your actions in life are dependent upon what another would do, then what are you? That’s right class. Can we all say ROBOT?
Outstanding post, JD! Indeed, “you can never really get your exchange in with Fatso.” This is a total set up for the Money Game. Talk about your massive guilt trip! All of you who are still in are in for an avalanche of regges…non-stop regging…forever regging…regging as case gain…
I really hate that phrase. Why do these jerks think it’s OK to hang people forever with a debt of gratitude they can never repay? Makes you propitiative forever if you buy it.
I would say the biggest freeloader of all is David Miscavige. He lives like a king giving nothing of real value in return.
A parody of what scientology pretended to be?
What I think we have here is a Parody of a Parodi. 🙂
My six year old saw Pat’s photo…”Why does he have that stuff on him?” “He wants to show that he has done a lot of important work for his group; it is kind of like Girl Scout Badges.” “Well, he doesn’t look important,” she said. “He looks silly. It’s silly for grownups to do that.”—My parenting “win” for the day.
What a wise child. 🙂 VWD!!
I hope you kid goes to Harvard. He deserves it.
Brilliant child! 🙂
…”showing up weekly on Service in an Org…” Wow, right there he is stating the pathetic state of things when it is now accepted to just make your weekly appearance! I wouldn’t make any appearance now, but this is certainly different than a standard course schedule which was so relentlessly crammed down our throats as the only acceptable schedule or straight to ethics.
Mike I normally access your site by googling “Mike Rinder Blog” and your site has always been the first site displayed at the top of the page.
This morning when I googled “Mike Rinder Blog” the first site displayed was a link to Freedom Magazine article about you being interviewed for the HBO film. I don’t really know how Google works but thought it odd that Freedom Magazine’s unfavorable article about you was the first site displayed.
WTF! Just for yuks, I just went in and googled Alex Gibney, Sara Goldberg, Marty Rathbun, and Mike Rinder (I think I tried Lawrence Wright also) and the church’s Freedom Magazines site comes up first for all of these people.
How the hell did the church pull that off.
I got it; it’s an “Ad.”
It’s expensive, and every click costs them. So search ’em all, then be sure to click on the result. It will cost Scientology several dollars. It adds up ;-D
Doug, you didn’t see a Google search result. You saw a keyword based Ad placed by Miss Cabbage for Freedumb Mag. The cost (to the advertiser) is based on the popularity of the search term(s) purchased.
Yes, these paid ads have been purchased to appear any time anyone searches for me or my blog, also everyone else in the film and Alex Gibney etc. It’s costing them a fortune… But then again, that is ALL they have, money. No credibility. No PRs. No answers. Nothing at all to offer, just spend money.
Thanks for the clarification. Amazing what lengths they will go to.
Yea, I checked out Freedum. It’s good that people see it. It’s the most immature, hateful “magazine” in existence.. It’s just another foot bullet. Thinking that this kind of “journalism” is going to win over those who read it, is just ridiculous. The more people read this stuff, the more they will turn away in disdain.
It’s super easy to spend other people’s money, as in the CoS’s case.
Those ads are so dumb too. Any person with half a brain will figure it out as to how one sided they are and that they are only out to discredit the key players.
Likely 1000s of Indians paid to click on the Freedumb article non-stop to maintain 1st place!
Greta
Poor Pat Parodi. Mike, those aren’t paintball stains on his lapels; those are petrified Kool Aid.
Mixed with drool in anticipation of his next FSM commission.
Mr. Parodi has earned his medals by paying for them. Not just with money but in exchange for his intellectual and moral integrity. The illustration calls to mind not so much George Orwell as Jonathan Swift.
Gee whiz and gosh darn Pat, I’m so sorry that I’m unable to attend due to a previously scheduled get together with friends to see reruns of I Love Lucy. Damn, and I was so looking forward to listening to Miscavige drone on and on and on, ad nauseum, while getting the golden age of brainwashing that I’m sure will be provided to all the thousand minions confirmed within an inch of their lives. Tell you what good buddy – let me know what the new release is and I’ll write a check – not saying you’ll get it.
Have fun and say hi to Ron!
PS – love those pins!!!
Hey, I really like that golden age of brainwashing. I’m calling it GAB. Here’s an example:
Scientologist A: Are you doing your training?
Scientologist B: We’ll we really like to GAB.
Scientologist C: Yeah, we GAB all the time!
Scientologist A: That’s so theta!!!
would it not be such an evil and pompous corporation, scientology could well be one of the main souces for comedy, (unwitting) parody and enormously absurd chicken feed.
You mean it’s not now?
You mean it hasn’t been that for the last 60 years??? Really??? And the really cool thing is, they really hate being laughed at! So…Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!! Stupid cult!
When someone helps you (with anything) you want to return the favor of course.
The concept that Mr Parodi speaks about: “I do not think I can ever truly get my exchange in with him” has been felt by many people who got auditing and training. Unfortunately, in the early 80’s this debt of gratitude was recognized by Miscavige and exploited by him into taking money in exchange for nothing.
Miscavige eventually institutionalized “out exchange money” by making the IAS senior to all Scientology organizations. This new institution, along with other variations, like Ideal Orgs, Super Power Buildings, etc.. have the sole purpose to extort and rip-off money from Whales and mini Whales. Not some of their money, but ALL their money in exchange for nothing.
That is the trap of Scientology today. So, buyer beware. Scientology is only bait for this rip-off organization. That is why they are doomed.
David Miscavige can never get his exchange in with me.
Hey, Michael, let’s you and go over to Int to see if he can possibly get his exchange in with both of us. Now, we might have to be in a locked room with him so he can’t escape,but, it would still be a lot of fun!
You know OSD, I drove by the Int Base earlier this week. I thought of going up to the guard shack asking to see Dave as a lark, but then changed my mind when I recalled Jenny Linson’s LAX rant: “You were never one of us. Pathetic.” 🙂
Maybe all he has left now is change. The ex left exchange. Change the bridge, the tech, the rules, the policy, the purpose of the whole shebang.
Yes, Robert Almblad, this is what Scientology is now – bait for the trap that is Miscavige’s insatiable cult of greed. This is a tragedy, actually. When I think of the wins I had from auditing and training, and how they helped me help myself and others, there is no other word that applies, and its hard for me to confront.
On a happier note: “golden paintball” yes, he does look like he ran into one, LOLOL!
Mike, forgive me for latching onto your J & D as I do, but you are funny. Its your fault, Mike 🙂
The first thing I thought when I saw all those metallic doo-dads on Mr. Parodi’s web page was that the guy is basically a waiter at a high-end restaurant, but that he was embellishing his tuxedo uniform with the same “37 pieces of flair” that Jennifer Aniston had to wear on her uniform at “Chotchkie’s” restaurant in the movie “Office Space.” A classic comedy, if you haven’t seen it.
Painful to watch….
I know them both personally, well, used to. Nancy Parodi is his wife. “Old” CL VI, never made it back through GAG I. I guess by now they are both trying to sort what to do after a rehash of the newly CS’s GAG II Purification and GAG II OT Objectives. They likely still need a lot of your money.
I really don’t think Ron would consider this fellow a friend.
And with a name like Parody, the comical is certainly suggested.
Good grouping on the left lapel – what range?
I knew him way back when. A decidedly unpleasant and a slimy used-car salesman type of guy.
He must be in extreme pain; knowing how badly he has messed up the lives of many by INSISTING that they can and should and must turn over all their money to the church … through him for his big fat commission.
BTW — we don’t hear much of Barry Klein these days. Where has he gone?
I did hear his brother — a devout SEA ORG member perhaps passed away or is very ill. Which isn’t surprising. It’s about the only way to get OUT of the Sea Org or Scientology … that or go crazy and threaten suicide or attempt. That works wonders.
ONLY the very perfect are given service.
OH — wait — WHERE the hell are those VERY perfect beings?
Huddled around each other in their own fundamentalist sect/cult/group which sadly at this time there is a plethora of fundamentalists in ALL walks of life.
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Kudos for your job well done at Sundance. Brought tears I have to say.
OH — and Spanky ain’t lying about the conditions in the Sea Org for babies. Just ask Kathy Wasserman Heard WHY she took her daughters OUT of Sea Org berthing. Yvonne was FORCED to send CC infants and kids to Sea Org berthing. CC had it’s OWN berthing for their children and CC parents were promised their children would NOT go to SEA ORG berthing. The GO forced her to send the children there.
WAIT — Kathy Wasserman Heard is STILL drinking kool-aid and therefore WILL NEVER state that she took them OUT of SO berthing because I went over to check it out and told her — TAKE THEM OUT NOW — she needed confirmation that it was as bad as she thought.
It was worse.
Sorry for the ranting but the FB kool-aid ravings of those still in is just too much …
PEOPLE won’t leave UNTIL it no longer works FOR THEM on a personal level to stay. Pure and simple.
IMHO.
Which, as we know, ain’t that humble 🙂
Love,
Windhorse
“PEOPLE won’t leave UNTIL it no longer works FOR THEM on a personal level to stay. Pure and simple..” Yes although this is self-serving, you hit the nail on the head with the truth, Windhorse.
Yeah, I remember Parodi, the Power FSM and slimy SOB. I suppose I should be big and feel sorry for the guy and all, but… fuck him. Whatever happens to that guy won’t be bad enough.
True, Windhorse.
Public – and I will speak for myself, will ignore the implorable conditions of Sea Org members and other violations of people’s basic rights to privacy, their children, their bank accounts, their spousal relations, etc. until it no longer works for them.
I saw all of this and remained “on the bridge” for some time. Then it came to the point where I knew I could no longer support a church that engages in the activities that it does, by observing Sea Org members walking in single file one night back from a 20 minute dinner at Flag. I was on my cell at the time on the same conversation with my Mom when I saw this.
I decided in that moment that it was over for me. I couldn’t ignore what I was seeing any more and I didn’t want to support it with my time or money.
When I discussed this with my friends and family they were stunned into silence. Some were scared, some angry. One told me that he “didn’t see that at all”. I know we are all on the same planet, and that they see it too. They just don’t want to. Going up the bridge is number one to them. Not how people are treated.
Love,
Pepper
Wanna Be medals, you suck Pat Parodi
Pat Parodi, 15 Times he sent Scientologists into bankruptcy, foreclosure and DEBT beyond belief.
Thank you Pat! VWD!!
Hands off regarding Ethics for Pat – he can go ahead and murder, rape or just bankrupt someone.
Pat Parodi is in Power and those in Scientology who reach Power can commit the crimes and we won’t breath a word of it..no sec checks … it’s a free pass….
UNLESS you leave and tell others about what you know or saw in Scientology.
Then…you are SHUNNED and labeled a BDA, DB, PTS, SP who had been commiting crimes and would not get your ethics in.
and THAT ^^^Ladies and Gentle Thetans, is how Scientology Keeps Working.
perhaps they should call it keeping David Miscavige smirking.
Yep, so true, Idle Morgue. Pat is in too deep. He makes his living off fleecing others in the church and so can’t leave. Plus he may have a child in the SO still.
In the early 90’s he was my FSM and he and a SO member together ganged up on me and “regged me” (invalidated me) to stop being a mother, stop breastfeeding a new baby, and get back on course and auditing. He wanted the GI and so they leaned on me for hours to tell me how wrong I was to take a break from Scn “just to breastfeed a baby.” They told me, “stop being a body,” and “you are not a boob (breast).” All of this because I wanted to do what mothers have done since time immemorial: care for a baby.
After all that hard invalidation from the two of them, I wrote him a letter firing him as my FSM and stating why. I also stated that he was a hypocrite because his own wife, Nancy, was not working while she breastfed their baby and did the BC full time. Oh that made him mad!
I overheard him telling his MAA in the ethics office at ASHO Day that it was out ethics for his wife to want to care for the kids and do the BC full time and that he needed her to work to bring in GI to the family. He said he couldn’t handle the FP-1 nut himself as it was $10,000 a month. (That’s a lot of money back then and even now!) His solution was to tell her to not care for the kids, not breastfeed, not do the BC.
Look how the church’s high prices, and their constant pressure to donate to IAS, to Planetary Dissem, to Author Services, to this that and the other as well as pay for your Bridge…. and it ends up harming families just like it harmed Pat’s family. It cuts into the 2D badly. LRH even talks about how families are being destroyed by the mothers having to go to work. He attributed it to high taxes and that may be true. But also true is that the high cost of the Bridge and the donation expectations on people made them all harm their own 2nd dynamics and do overts just to get the money for the Bridge. So you do overts to get the money, finally do get the money, sign up for auditing, and then spend all the time getting Sec Checked because of the overts you did to get the money in the first place, and then you never do the actual processing level on the Bridge that you thought you’d be doing. A circular, nowhere activity. I wish Pat would wake up and get out.
What a guy. I also fired him as my FSM. Since he’s got his nose so deep up Dave’s ass and slavishly follows his orders, we should rename him Pat Parroting, or perhaps The Brown Parrot.
Cindy, I am breathing fire. How dare this man to have interfered with your 2D in this way, presuming to tell you, a mother, how to care for your baby, making you wrong, pressuring you not to breastfeed? He is odious. So glad you fired him and told him off in a KR. Way to go, girl! The odious, greedy cultist.
That’s a strong first hand account Cindy, thank you! The pure evil of encouraging a new mother (or father) to not take excellent care of their newborn is outrageous. This is deeply amoral and speaks to the general distain for the integrity and well being of the family, not to mention the autonomy. Good for you for fighting back.
I feel sorry for Pat’s wife, getting inval for being a mother. Good for you for standing up to them. Pat and people who think like that sure don’t have their priorities straight.
Idle…the Power FSM Award was given if an FSM had a 100 Starts generally newbies etc onto a Div 6 course in any given year so that’s 15 x 100 =1500 souls to their financial demise and ruin …he should be court martialed now eh?…lol
Just a thought on the status of Kha-Kahn. You are supposed to be able to get away with murder 10 times before ethics even looks at you. Bullshit! I have a Kha-Kahn Certificate and my children were taken away from me as punishment for posting under a pseudonym when OSA tracked me down! Disconnection is EVIL.
Paintball! LMAO!
Pat was an interesting guy, not that literate, always working on his large group of selectees, caught in the same trap all the rest were. He was constantly regged and constantly regging others. I can not imagine how much debt he had as he was nearly at the bottom of the scion food chain. He’s still on the same treadmill I saw him on in the 80s and 90s. Never was too bright, never read the writing on the wall on what a scam he was involved in and maybe never will. This circle of abuse has enslaved so many over the years. I can only pray a little prayer that he will wake up and get away before he dies an untimely death like others like Enid Byrne (aola), Gretchen Swartz (FSC) big tall Israeli reg from AOLA who all died in their 50’s. And so many FSMes who smoked too many cigarettes, never saw the countryside and were constantly demeaned by their ethics officers and looked down at with a sneer as they were too dilettante to join the Sea org. Truly a sad cult, just glad I got out over 10 years ago.
I agree with all you said, PACite. Pad is a sad person. Used to be my FSM. Good heart, but theetie wheetie and unable to see the handwriting on the wall. The fact that they published his plea to everyone to please please please attend LRH’s birthday event tells you they are desperate to get bodies in the seats at these events.
PACite
You probably mean AMIR GEURON….
Greta
Zephyr. Yes Amir. Tks for helping me remember.
The big tall Isreali’s name is Amir or Emir. He was a CS for a long time at AOLA. I don’t recal his last name but his daughter Corina is tech staff at ASHO. He was a great guy and I really liked him. We used to drill together. He was so fun and is missed.
Also Morten in the Ship office. Another fine person who went too soon.
Amir, I used to work with him in Div Six at AOLA. He became the tours reg and traveled most of the time. Probably a smart move as he never had to deal with the day to day insanity that became PAC and AOLA. In case anyone was wondering I tracked down Steffanie Cary (Now Robinson) the old captain of AOLA. She went back to Australia. Judging by her FB pages she is still drinking the Koolaide. Looks like she’s planning to move back to the USA soon.
Hello Mike,
I tried sending this through the contact page, but I’m not sure it was sent.
I have the same problem as someone else mentioned SOMEWHERE in the comments on one of your posts. For about a month or two now, all styling of your pages has ceased. I am viewing 1995! 🙂
I am using Firefox 35.0.1 on a PC Win 7, but the pages also fail on my iPhone, Kindle Fire (Silk browser), Chrome and IE on the PC. Clearing caches and history makes no difference.
Therefore, I think perhaps some change has been made to the styling at some point that is tripping up these browsers, or a stylesheet is not loading correctly, or an error is blocking something.
When I run the contact page through Firebug (it’s a Firefox plugin that’s very handy for web developers – it tells you about errors and optimisations) there are numerous network and jQuery errors on resources that your page is attempting to read, including styling.
Anyway, well done on your blog.
Go to “view” “page style” then make sure it’s on “Basic page style”
How do I do that in Safari on my iPad?
Rarely does one run across a scn so aptly named. As for “respect” for LRH, the man has been dead for almost 30 years and is no longer tracking “respect”. As well, it is the pc/student who does the successful work, not LRH. Without that work, not a thing the old man came up with will have any effect at all. And, of course, with so little actual auditing and training now taking place anywhere in the world…especially at Flag…none of it makes any difference.
Why is it that, by and large, Scientologists write so poorly? I’m not a graduate level English student but it’s still obvious, even to me, that aside from the many non-sensical ‘Scientologese’ words and phrasings, there seems to be narry an editor among them -including for their official publications?
It’s strikingly unprofessional. Regardless of the frivolity of the content, it’s hard to take any organization seriously if they can’t write in a clear, cohesive, and mostly correct manner. I’m not just talking about typos, which we all miss here or there, I’m talking about writing like a moderately intelligent and moderately educated person for items they claim are of world-wide importance and geared towards in many cases multi-millionaires.
Thanks -after two years of ‘Scientology watching’ this ‘message from Ron’s friends’ finally pushed me over the edge enough to comment about this. 🙂
P.s. If Davey really dreams about becoming a pope, he’s got a long way to go upon comparison with official Vatican communiques and publications. Whether you agree with them or not (I often don’t), the dudes at least can write with acuity and precision.
Wog education is verboten! Stupidity is encouraged. English writing skills? They don’t need no English writing skills! They have the tech! And that’s all they need…
Maybe if the Sea Org had AK-47s and called themselves “Wog-o Haram”, we’d take them seriously…
…no, we’d never take the Sea Org seriously.
Never, ever, ever, ever…will we take these CLOWNS seriously. And, I meant to say, “They don’t need no STINKIN’ writing skills.” But, being my age, I forgot! It happens…
Remember, though, they’ve had 2000 years of practice.
Our fraudster who art in Hemet, David be thy name.
Enturbulation come and Xenus’s will be done on Teegeack as it is on Target 2.
Give us this day our daily entheta and forgive us our o/w’s as we forgive those who have o/w’s against us.
For thine is the money, the MEST, and John Lobb. Amen.
Roflmao Katniss
+100 beautifully stated!
Wow! Incredible post!
In hindsight, “give us this day our rice and beans…” would have been funnier. What can I say. It’s a work in progress.
And lead us not into expression, for we are the sheeple, the davebots forever. Ahem.
LRH’s writing is clunky and just thrown out on the page. He was a pulp fiction writer. His pulp fiction was so bad that I couldn’t read it…and I’m a BIG reader. I love reading. Scientologists ONLY read LRH. That’s the only example they have. So they just plunk the words down onto the page, stir them around and hope they say something.
37 Pieces of Flair from Lloyd Wilson on Vimeo.
Good one jojo, one of my family favorites. Pat obviously wants to express himself with flair.
Love you Mike! “Going Clear” is going to kick ass! You inspire me!
Pat just loves to be seen and be interesting….means more buttons and more money!
he’s got it down pat.
The Top FSM Scientologists, they’re tops for all the top tips and pointers in Big League Sales book.
Charming, showing honest sincerity and unquestioned good intentioned believability in doing their job.
A whole lot of selling of LRH’s long laid out ladder, it’s a continuing career sales job for the Power FSMs who have nailed their careers as Scientology top Power FSMs.
If only there were some real OTs who were full blown Operating Thetan soul astronauts, but it’s selling a dream that no OT Scientologist ever really demonstrates, but a whole lot of convenient and conditioned play acting by a whole lot of “OT” super Scientologists, so the Power FSMs have plenty of successful Scientologists to use as their “products.”
The whole Scientology “product” orientation, the whole FSM system, the whole OT Scientologists who play their roles, it’s a multi level play acting activity.
Big league sales is so outdated not its not even funny. I have one for sale if there are any trolls here needing a copy.
Is it me or is Tom Cruise sort of morphing into a Mini Me of Mr. D? Is he getting DNA treatments to turn himself into David Miscavige’s brother? Maybe since little Dave’s bro and papa left Scientology he needs another brother from another mother that can look like him.
Maybe Tom is going to play him in a movie?
“Missionaire Irresponsible”?
“Super Powers: International Man of Misery”?
“Top Gun, Mini Me”?
Whatever it is, it’s sad to me to see how he’s looking. Not just the physical look but the theta. His anchor points are no longer out to the next county, and his ARC isn’t overflowing like the TC that people fell in love with. It’s like his space has just reversed; imploded. Reverse processes, anyone? So sad. I hope he pulls his head out and takes out the Medusa who’s been enslaving him.
Now’s the best time to make the leap, Tom. We got your back with this movie out and all.
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/tom-cruise
OMG you are right. His beingness is “odd” in this picture.