I was perusing the STAAD website as I sometimes do, and came across this which caught my attention.
The theme that scientology is fun is a tough pitch. Sounds all well and good, the old catchphrase used to be “If it’s not fun it’s not scientology.” I am not sure if this was EVER true, but in these days of crush regging, enforced disconnection and endless re-do’s of every level of the Bridge, I doubt there are many people, even the hardcore, who would describe scientology as “fun.”
But it’s an appealing concept and makes scientology sound like a good thing.
And then I read the body of this piece.
Right off the bat, he sets the stage for his premise:
In just about every society on earth, we humans are handed nothing but limits from the time we are born. The limits of popular opinion, culture and thought, along with authorities to appeal to, permissions to ask, expectations to meet.
What a terrible way to go through life — limitations on our opinions, culture and thought. But this is the world of scientology. Just try expressing the opinion that David Miscavige is not perfect. Or verbalizing a thought that perhaps Ron was wrong about insisting that people consume massive amounts of niacin. Or that smoking cures lung cancer…
And as for authorities to appeal to, permissions to ask,expectations to meet — this IS scientology at its essence. You are always expected to be giving money. To be on auditing or on course. Try getting OFF a course without permission from the “authorities.” It is part and parcel of everyday life in scientology that you must get permission to act, think or speak.
He then doubles down on this theme:
When beginning to study L. Ron Hubbard’s brilliant works, we discover that we can in fact, do whatever we want—live the life we want, or as many different lives as we want. With the tools we study, there are no barriers and no limits. We have the keys. The door is wide open. We are free to live our best lives.
He, of course, omits one VERY significant factor. You can do whatever you want, live the life or lives you want, AS LONG AS THEY COMPORT WITH WHAT HUBBARD DEMANDS OR SAYS IS ACCEPTABLE.
He then goes on to offer the explanation of how Hubbard was so brilliant. It’s simple: He never asked for “permission” from anyone.
To me, L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate rebel (my kind of guy). He never sought approval or asked “permission” from anyone. Anyone. A highly successful writer, engineer, researcher, philosopher, explorer, navigator and expert in many other fields, the man not only did as he pleased but succeeded at whatever he did.
This excuses his completely wrongheaded conclusions — his theories about radiation for example. He didn’t need “permission” from people who are expert in the field — in the mind of scientologists this means he didn’t need their “approval” because he was already the ultimate expert. An “engineer” and “researcher” which of course means that everything he “discovered” was based on sound research and engineering. Including the fact that drug residues are lodged in fat tissue and expelled through sweat. Or the Piltdown Man will be found on everyone’s time track. Or Dianetics will cure the crippled and restore the sight of the blind. It’s amazing how scientologists buy into the idea that Hubbard knew everything and was the world’s greatest expert.
And then, at the end, because this is the STAND league after all, he offers this view of “rabid critics” (like me?):
You’ll find that the rabid critics of Scientology have the common trait of resenting freedom. They have nearly all suffered a devastating loss in their past—a great failure of some sort, having to do with being who they wanted to be. They come to resent the idea that anyone would dare break out of “the box” and do as they pleased. But their criticism is really the last spark of hope that their dreams could become real, that they could live their lives as they would choose to. They become the obstacles they have failed to overcome. Yet underneath all of their “ranting,” they are really, deep down, begging for someone to prove that it’s true.
That they can be free.
This is a confusing bunch of gibberish, bit the gist of it is probably best described as projection.
I can assure you Rodger, I have never felt as much freedom as I did once I walked out the door of scientology. Maybe you should give it a shot, and break out of the “box” (I call it a bubble) and be able to do as you please. Rather than having to write brown-nosing drivel to try to prove you are eligible to get onto the “OT levels” or should be allowed to be upgraded from your lower ethics condition.
At the very end of the article you include this description of yourself:
If you really were in “recovery from authoritarian education” you would be on your way out the door. There is no more authoritarian education than scientology. But Hubbard said “I’m not authoritarian” and you have been hypnotized to accept that sort of statement as fact and believe it wholeheartedly, even when the lie of it slaps you repeatedly in the face.
Really one of your better recent posts, Mike.
It’s very clear by the way you delineate Hubbards absolute control of the “thinking” and doing of a scientologist, shrouded in self-determinism, that you have significant altitude of awareness of your old cult mindset.
When you get that scientology’s version of self-determinism is LRH and DM-determinism, you GET on down the road to truly Total Freedom
http://www.maplandia.com/cuba/flights/lrh/
Book one is for sale for a buck or two but the bridge ruin people.
There’s nothing greater that I have a sense that than that of Freedom. Being an ex-Scientologist, this easily invalidates STAAD in-charge’s narrative.
Here’s the Truth about ‘fun’ in Scientology. Practicing Scientologist public could not be physically further from the Org than possible, spending the minimum amount of time on course. Ok, maybe they will claim that they are ‘efficient’ people, but in my lens they couldn’t stand actually practicing Scientology. The Staff were there all the time, so they were stuck there unlike the public. The receptionist, for example, always looked bored and would ‘love’ when somebody bothered to stop for 5 minutes to talk to them. BORED OUT OF THEIR MINDS. The Div6 phone calls to recover, as recovery is such a big part of this Org, went unanswered. Never a callback from a VM. The Letters that we sent out after class, NEVER A SINGLE RESPONSE.
Scientology for the Org that I attended was a ‘status’ symbol. Besides the ED and perhaps a visiting SO, nobody cared. There was no fun. The rare win, but this is handling trauma in essence, not ‘fun’ (I recall one woman running screaming into the bathroom during session). When a whale came in, we all feigned fun as they did their extra-curricular activity – such as a poem to LRH or a guitar session. Friday night graduation was the most up-tone celebration, and most of the speeches seemed forced. Fun stayed at a distance, even when staff would throw up some up-tone pop song before or after the speeches. The fund raisers would made to seem fun, but it was all about money – not fun. Fun, where?
Recovery of people who left and never came back seemed to be the perpetual activity. The ones who claimed to be Scientologists rarely visited the Org except for the minimal required activity. Perhaps the OT Council met once a week. Nobody wanted to volunteer for ‘the files’. It even seemed like the babysitting service was simply used to drop off kids and leave, to save money from actually paying for real childcare. I knew one of the ED simply used the Scientology staff as their childcare, even if they were staying home working.
Many people just want the experience of Scientology. There are few real practicing Scientologists. There are even less that have fun while doing it.
“Currently in recovery from authoritarian education”.
Awww.
Yo, Rodger,
Whatsamatta, Snowflake?
Someone forced you to learn the alphabet?
How painful.
Share your pain with the group, Rodger.
We will understand!
We were all traumatized that way when we were six.
Much love,
Aqua
Rodger, let me add my two cents. If you asked me where I found more freedom to be what I wanted to be, I will tell you without hesitation that it was when I left staff at CCNashville and pursued my own desires. No Course Sup telling me when to go on course or for how long. No spending endless days in a ghetto shopping mall trying to sell people a book they neither could afford nor wanted. No being pulled from my post to man phones to get blown public to come to an event where the all holy David Miscavige was going to feed us utter horseshit on how big Scientology was getting. No more being paid a wage FAR below the poverty line. Yes, Rodger, I found freedom OUTSIDE the Church of Scientology, not in it.
Why don’t you try it and see?
Hip hip, hooray!
Thanks, Aqua.
Rodger Clark is the same, uh, writer who wrote an article equating critics of Scientology with KKK, druggies and other forms of lowlife. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen in writing.
https://twitter.com/weatherwise_1/status/1146345573760421888?s=20
In 1999 I was told to stay behind after the noon muster on the Freewinds along with 3 others. The Acting CO CMO Ship Jenny Lowe (who was no more than 16 years old) told us that we had been personally selected by RTC to do an important Comm-Ev. The Interested Party was Andrew Stevens, a former husband of the President IASA and the RPF twin of the guy that blew from the ship by sliding down the lines with a rolling pin. The A CO CMO told us that he had asked for a Comm-Ev as he had been ordered to be offloaded but wanted to stay in the SO ( in the RPF.). She said that she had been ordered to GIVE HIM HIS COMM-EV AND ENSURE HE WAS OFF THE SHIP BEFORE IT SAILED IN A FEW DAYS.
I thought ” What the hell! She has already told us what our recomendations have to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cd9U-ZSgh4
Caught with hand in cookie jar…
Mike,
I got this far; “To me, L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate rebel (my kind of guy). He never sought approval or asked “permission” from anyone. Anyone. A highly successful writer, engineer, researcher, philosopher, explorer, navigator and expert in many other fields, the man not only did as he pleased but succeeded at whatever he did.” into the article and my brain started hurting (Doctor Gumby the brain surgeon where are you?) and it was very easy to work out that Rodger Clark is a raving bloody nutter of the highest order. He doesn’t just drink a bit of the Kool-Aid he swallows it by the barrel and comes back for more.
Even just a brief glimpse of Ed Parkin manifests his glowing energy, boundless joy and compassion for all beings. He is a paragon of elevated consciousness. Feel the love.
And, uh, just what flavor Kool-Aid have you been drinking?
Further, Hubbard’s OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 secret “upper levels” theoretically importantly put blame on the 4th Dynamic Engram/Wall of Fire incident, which was perpetrated by Xenu, resulting in the showering of zillions of “body-thetans”, resulting in the “body-thetan” clustering, resulting in Hubbard coming up with the exorcism “upper levels” 3, 4, 5 6 and 7.
So, it’s all Xenu’s fault, in a way. It was Xenu who let loose all these bodiless thetans to roam earth, infesting all humans, leaking their “body-thetans” bad implanted “R6” implanted craziness which leaks from our infestations of our own clusters of BTs (body-thetans earlier implanted and dumped onto earth by Xenu).
It is always important to spread one’s understanding into Hubbard’s theory, and the practices of “standard” Scientology today.
The reason the earth is messed up is always not fully ever told by Scientologists.
Their whole hidden (not to informed ex members who put it all together, when they think long and hard about all of Hubbard’s writings and lectures theory) story of Scientology will never be publicly told by Scientologists, for Hubbard’s reasons preventing them ever telling their full theoretical story and reasoning, and their goals.
It’s a bigger conundrum, always, discussing Scientology, and the better that people get at getting all of the important factors into the discussion, tying it all together, the better for then word of mouth to spread, and the Hubbard quackery subject of Scientology to be even theoretically laid to rest quite nicely.
What trips Scientologists who say nice things about Scientology, are Hubbard’s un-nice writings and statements.
It’s always Hubbard’s own words that refute Hubbard and Scientologists’ nice claims.
The Scientologists are forever stuck holding the bag for Hubbard’s false claims, which even Hubbard refutes his own claims.
It’s the perfect Catch 22 “third dynamic” predicament movement.
They cannot win selectively quoting Hubbard.
Because Hubbard’s other writings and statements and Hubbard voluminous false claims and unscientific statements nonstop refute Scientologists left holding Hubbard’s bag.
Recently Derek and I have re-established some old relationships with ex SO.
First of all they are all happy and living the life they chose.
In chats what we have seen that often pops up has nothing to do with what we have experienced. Little is said about it. Rather, what we have seen happens not only to SOs but also to orgs staff and public.
Some stories are heavy, not to say tragic.
Now if this idiot wants it, I can send him hundreds of stories of how much these people “got fun” and felt free in the cult.
He describe him self also as “Compulsive learner” ? Maybe compulsive moron is more than adequate.
Hey Rodger Clark!!
I am an avid critic of scientology. I have that right. No, I don’t resent freedom. I resent a lying “religion”, and I have the right to say that as well, having been involved for quite some time. I haven’t suffered a devastating loss, and not in regards to being who I wanted to be. If I have had any loss, it probably was to find out what I dedicated my life to for so many years wasn’t telling the truth about itself. I once had a dream that scientology was real, and came to find out I was indeed really dreaming. Wake up your own self, Rodger Clark, while it’s not too late to know the truth. I actually wish the freedom that I now have to be your freedom as well.
“You’ll find that the rabid critics of Scientology have the common trait of resenting freedom.”
Laughing. Anybody I know who has left the cult is happy, most have growing families, they finally control their life, and money stays at home.
Get lost who ever you are.
From the dawn of Scamology there hasn’t been an “event” where one wasn’t asked for money, money and MORE money.
REMEMBER, scamology only exists because Hubtard was a crappy writer who could not make enough money honestly to feed himself and was then denied gov’t hand outs in the form disability payments for mental illness. He had to SCAM people in order to eat.
Rodger is indeed all the writer he claims himself to be. Rarely ever will you find THIS much delusion so efficiently packed into such few words–few words being not exactly something scientology is famous for.
“A highly successful writer, engineer, researcher, philosopher, explorer, navigator and expert in many other fields, the man not only did as he pleased but succeeded at whatever he did.”
If Hubbard was a successful writer who generously used his financial success to fund his research, why HIS OWN famous “writing is a waste of time; religion is where the money’s at” statement?
Hubbard claimed to be a civil engineer despite never passing even freshman engineering, let alone obtaining an engineering license. Regardless, civil engineers build things. “Highly successful” CE’s build even more and better things. Rodger, name ONE thing Hubbard built.
Just as being a plumber requires that you actually do plumbing, researchers provide research work and the conclusions backed by it. Usually, they are happy to do so as they slaved over it and want others to appreciate it. Hubbard offers many opinions but NEVER ONCE provides the actual research to back those up. While Hubbard’s life has been researched thoroughly by quite a few, no one has ever been able to find the traces that research, let alone of the groundbreaking variety, will inevitably leave such as facilities, notes or former subjects. Research ALWAYS leaves traces–unless it’s imaginary “research.”
Philosopher? Are you sure, Rodger, that you didn’t mean to say “philanderer?” I know they sound an awful lot alike…
Hubbard, the “expert in many other fields.” Sure, try to listen to the music he produced. Look for the genius in his amateurish photography. Muse at how a fiction writer can be THIS bad. How a scientist can be so skillful at circumnavigating anything that we would recognize as scientific method. Keeping in mind that expert only is if expert does…
“Rodger, name ONE thing Hubbard built.”
Uh, let’s see. Oooooooh! I know! I know! A fake, crackpot, spaceship based religion!
🎶 If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands.
🎶 If you are happy and you know it, and you really want to show it, clap your hands.
🎵If you’re free from Scientology, clap your hands!
🎵If you’re free from Scientology, clap your hands!
🎵If you’re free and you know it and you’ve got the cash to show it!
🎵If you’re free from Scientology, clap your hands!
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Glad to hear it!
This is a great example of GAS LIGHTING
“ Scientology is fun”
“Flag is the friendliest place on the planet”
It could not be furthest from the truth
By the way, I am Flag Registrar, Dave Foster’s, “SLAPPING” BT
My stat? # of slaps Slapped
Hubbard was fundamentally wrong and his descriptions of control include a theoretical thetan which does not exist. Hubbard simply took the idea of a theoretically immortal, powerful spirit and projected its extended powers. On OT VIII, I discovered that Hubbard could not deliver. My FSM’s are all dead, my best buddy is long gone dead. My friends are out or long dead. Somehow I survived to tell the true story and show that this OT idea was simply “theoretical” all along.
Hubbard claimed that Scientology was part of original Buddhism. Can anyone imagine Hubbard with a begging bowl in 600 B.C. wandering the trails of India? No it is impossible.
With that flaming red hair, he would have stood out in India or Nepal.
This reminds me of a Mormon story in which Joseph Smith claimed that God had revealed to him that there was a box of money in Canada and that he was supposed to send Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris to get it. When the two men returned empty handed, Joseph then said that some revelations were of God, others were from the mind and others were from Satan.
Sounds a lot like LRH.
O/T. I really want to recommend Tony Ortega’s story today, which, to provide a bit more context, I will title as:
Anti-vaxx and anti-mask Scientologist attorney Leigh Dundas gets her first “head on a pike” with OC health officer resignation.
https://tonyortega.org/2020/06/11/scientologist-attorney-gets-her-first-head-on-a-pike-with-oc-health-officer-resignation/
On the same general theme, today I posted:
Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam says:
“The U.S. government is using the recent murder of #GeorgeFloyd to PUSH vaccines onto the Black community in the name of ‘Help & support.'”
My tweet:
https://twitter.com/ISNOINews/status/1271095593150976002
My ESMB Redux post:
https://exscn2.net/threads/scientology-youth-for-human-rights-award-winner-nation-of-islam-brother-rizza-islams-anti-semitic-racist-homophobic-anti-american-etc-statements.54/post-41222
Brother Rizza Islam’s full Instagram post. Please go to the link for the video.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBSAW1MADag/
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$cientology is no Disneyland of happy places. In fact quite the opposite as oppressive, money-grubbing, soul-sucking and mind-controlling. I wouldn’t call that “fun”. The delusion is sad and wrongly manipulative. I hope Miscavige gets his daily wedgie and vicious wet towel snaps today and everyday.
It seems to me to be an outpoint that he says that LRH was sucessful because he did not ask permission from anyone to do what he did but is certainly not recomending that anyone else do the same.
On staff in the S.O. there is the refrain ” What would LRH do?. And the answer is to do just that.
They don’t really want you to do that because if you did not ask permission from anyone, you would no longer be a slave. You would no longer be in the S.O. or on staff.
I am only still alive because I stopped asking permission for anything.
I was told by Bill Bragg, the Chief Officer of the Freewinds to go to Disneyland, to the movies and have a good time. At the same time I was clearly dying of AIDS. Seems like pretty stupid advice unless, of course, that they wanted me dead.
“…oppressive, money-grubbing, soul-sucking, mind-controlling…”
Don’t forget,Peter, there’s also a negative side
Great article, Mike, thought-provoking as always. And so true!
“What is true is what is true for you”, good advice for a science fiction writer creating his own self-consistent but imaginary world as he pounds out pontifications at pennies the pound on rolls of butcher paper.
Not so good for someone that actually has to live in the real world. If what is true for you is not true for the boss, or the doctor, or the undertaker, guess who wins?
I always took that little maxim about truth as an invitation to test anything I encountered in Scientology, apply it, see what happens and make it my own. Sort of what Hubbard suggests in the little essay about it. A crippled version of a perversion of the scientific method.
Try actually doing that in a Scientology course room! If what is true for you is not in every tiny detail what was true for L. Ron Hubbard, or Dave Miscavige, you lose.
Somehow it all turns out to be brutally enforced totalitarianism in practice, not “freedom”. Freedom is slavery under Big Brother, as George Orwell pointed out in “1984”.
“What is true is what is true for you”
… is just a covert way to lull people into a false sense of security to lure them in and used as thought-stopping when one has critical questions to avoid answering them. It was used on me too when I was sucked into the cult.
As soon as you are hooked on the Kool-Aid it transfers into: “What is true for you, is what Hubbard says!”
If Demento ate a hundred kilos of asparagus and pissed the green result into a barrel then flavoured it with lime Kool-Aid and called it the Limited Edition $camology Drink (only $75.00 per 250mls), I can see Clark buying it by the litre and drinking it with joy and gusto.
During my last Ethics meeting before I left the church, my EO didn’t believe that Hubbard ever said that. They said I had to believe everything in Scientology, and to have independent thought was a violation.
They actually made me give up my FSO that told me that quote because he apparently gave me a false impression of Scientology. I was refusing to continue on one of the basics books because I was not agreeing with what one of the pages said, and the Supervisor wouldn’t let me continue past that page until I agreed with everything on the page.
So I can give first-hand proof that this is not practiced. It is a subjectively practiced religion, and they pick and choose the Hubbard quote’s they prefer, and in this case they ignored ‘What is true is what is true for you’. EO and Div6 Sup wouldn’t let me continue on course, until not only I understood the page, cleared all misunderstoods, but agreed 100% as written what was on the page. I am trying to practice the religion, as taught in previous books and they only can robotically stay in PT and scan a page at a time and apply AU to the reasoning-logic on a single page. The EO was a well intended kid, younger than me, but very naive thinking he knew Scientology better than what the books actually say. EO have to maintain authority and stick to their position even if they are wrong, sounds like many in power today too.
I felt real Freedom as I walked away from the Ethics Office and out of the Scientology Org for the last time.
So in Scientology Reality isn’t real?
Hello Mr. Ploetz or Bruce if you prefer,
The Hubbard-centric paradigm isn’t even the major issue. Invalidating Hubbardisms is easy, as the man often invalidated himself from one book to the next. Very little consistency, bi-polar intellectually. The problem is the state of Scientology in the 21st century, and the structure of the Church hierarchy, as well as the failure from the top-down to right the wrongs, and then there’s the whole money-scheming to keep these expensive buildings maintained by public who are struggling with debt themselves.
Under the Davidian-rule, as you said very authoritarian, he solves problems by ‘attacking the attacker’. He labels other executives as ‘the attacker’, he labels staff as ‘the attacker’, and he labels Scientology public as ‘the attacker’ to solve any issue brought up to the executive level (RTC). He then ‘attacks the attacker’ to solve problems, sometimes literally with violence as past credible reports show (ref. Truth Rundown, St. Petersburg Times). So now you literally have an ecclesiastic enforcement arm of Scientology literally getting rid of anyone, through the hole, PTS/SP labels, or other methods. Instead of practicing forgiveness and amnesty like other religions, they are literally using Hubbard’s adopted McCarthy style ‘offense as the best defense’ strategy, under the current Davidian ecclesiastic enforcement, to purge Scientology of anyone that is targeted for applied Ethics. This way they can keep the claim that Scientology is filled with these ‘up-stat’ people, while in reality you have a outmoded, violent, authoritarian running the cult.
You are absolutely right, there is no Freedom if you fly above the radar. Most stay low of the radar, stay out of right, and spend as little time in the org as to not become a target. I am sure North Koreans practice the same daily life style.
That’s if this Rodger Clark chap really exists, and isn’t just some phantom creation of OSA…
Loved this.
Here’s a personal anecdote to illustrate how ultra-controlling of its members the cult is.
Back in the day I was on course at my org. It was a “twinning” course which meant that students were paired up to do each course action in tandem.
In the Academy at the time as a student was a Sea Org member, a young girl of about 17. One day she didn’t show up and the Course Supervisor, who had been given no reason for this non-attendance, was asking us if we’d seen this Sea Org girl. No one had.
Now, when one is scheduled to be on course, one does NOT NOT show up for said course with no prior arrangements AND permission from the Sup ( of itself a detailed written ritual called a “CSW”) when scheduled to be there.
So what it amounted to was that this Sea Org girl had not CSW’d, had not priorly communicated in any way and had therefore “blown” course. The Sup said she’d be writing it up (writing a Knowledge Report).
Fast forward to lunch time, and my twin and I were on our way to pick up sandwiches down the street. He mentioned that he thought he might have seen this Sea Org girl the day before but wasn’t sure it was she so he hadn’t said anything when the Sup asked. I said something to the effect that I was surprised that a Sea Org member would blow course like that with no word to the Sup beforehand.
All of a sudden I felt a kind of breath on my neck. Turning around, there was another Sea Org member, an older woman, right behind us. She was very familiar to me. A bossy Sea Org cow. I had noticed her being about 10 feet or so behind us once we left the building but now she was right over our shoulders. We paused and faced her; she was crowding us, scowling.
“You can’t talk about this!”, she yelled.
Startled, my twin and I stared at her and said nothing.
“You are not allowed to say anything about this and you may not discuss this with one another, do you understand?”
Dumbfounded, we nodded, and without another word she scurried ahead of us.
Digesting this in silence, we continued on our way to the sandwich shop.
Inwardly, I started to fume. A sort of slow burn, wherein I formulated smart aleck responses I might have given her, like, “You old buffalo, what’s your problem?”, and “Who are you, the Speech Police?”, and “This is not Communist Russia, you know!”
But yes, she had overheard us discussing that a Sea Org member had blown course and as a Sea Org member had the authority, in Scientology, to forbid us to discuss it amongst ourselves or with anyone.
How do you like those freedom apples?
Aqua, I am writing you a Cramming Order. Please drill the following:
Sea Org hag: Don’t talk about another Sea Org member. Ever.
Aqua: Who the fuck are you?
Sea Org hag: What did you just say?
Aqua: Hard of hearing?
Sea Org hag: I’m writing a KR on you for backflash. What’s your name?
Aqua: Knock yourself out. I’m Dolly Parton.
Sea Org hag: Give me your real name. Now.
Aqua: Bitch, I suggest you get back on post before you run into a medical emergency.
Sea Org hag: You’re in big trouble lady.
Aqua: I’m trembling in my boots. Enjoy your next billion years.
(Sea Org hag walks off in a huff).
Hope this helps.
Good ones, Scribe 🙂 Would that I had flung such juicy retorts as these back in the day. Especially, “I’m trembling in my boots. Enjoy your next billion years.” Can you imagine their faces? Ooooooh yeah!
Yes, I can clearly picture it. One of my fantasies is to run in to Jenny Linson again, and instead of her shouting her invectives at me as before, I give her, as they say in Scientology, a severe reality adjustment. I would pay just to see the look on her face!
One of the sad realities of Scientology is that if you really get into it you become an absolute bossy piece of shit.
Glad you, Leah and all other ex-Scientologists who broke out of the box and have the freedoms you deserve. Keep up the great work to expose this cult and bring it down!
This article kinda makes me wonder how much fun Shelly is having these days…
I hope she’s having more fun than we think she is. I hope that she’s feeling if not happy at least safe and comfortable and not pining at all to be back. I pray that she is thanking Lou every night and that her worst nightmare is being reclaimed by her husband, that little prick – a phrase that should be taken definitively.
Wonderfully expressed post, Mike! You nailed it.
Hubbard knew he could snare the youthful idealist. A certain amount boomers were the perfect catch. I was one. Against the establishment, big brother, brave new world etc. Hubbard was clever in how he built his little cult to appeal to us dreamers. We believed his yarns and tall tales. And donated our lives to his cause of making himself a great And rich man. He built the ultimate ship of fools. He carefully constructed the very matrix he railed against. That is an example of a man acting in a truly evil manner.
Nothing like working around the clock in the RPF to set up an event with no sleep, while making sure no one catches you walking, to prove that freedom in Scientology is as rare as snow in LA, and fun is about as welcome as a psychiatrist visiting CCHR. So I took the concept of self-determinism to heart, asked nobody’s permission and blew!
Well done!