Finally had a few minutes to peruse the latest International Scientology News recounting the epic, milestone New Years event.
As usual, it is filled with hype, smoke, mirrors and lies.
Just a few of the most glaring:
This page is the “overview” of the magnificent accomplishments of 2016:
37 million “walked through our doors”?
That is a ridiculous number. But let’s take it at face value.
Scientology claims “more than” 10,000 scientology “orgs, missions and associated groups” — this means 3700 people each per YEAR. Or 10 per day.
An average of 10 people per day darken their doorway? Hardly anything to get excited about. Not when they claim 12 million scientologists? You mean those 12 million are each passing through the door 3 times in a year?
150,000 educators using study tech? This is a number plucked out of the sky. They could not find 1% of this number who would actually answer the question “Are you using L. Ron Hubbard’s study tech.” Actual EDUCATORS? They may not be able to find 150. Not even in the same ballpark. They are counting every person in history who has ever attended a lecture on the subject or been handed a booklet on “study tech.”
39 ideal Narconon facilities? Not true. They have a TOTAL of 39 Narconon facilities around the world, most of them very NOT ideal. And what is most interesting, in the What Is Scientology book published in 1998 they listed 45 Narconon facilities!
300,000 now saved from addiction — that same WIS book from 1998 says “more than a quarter million drug-free lives…” Guess they haven’t gotten very far in the last 19 years?
“From sending out positive vibes… we have positively impacted the lives of millions.” Hahahaha
The biggest and most important thing in scientology -“the world’s coolest and most inclusive religion”- the ONLY thing that will make planetary clearing a reality (according to Miscavige) is the “ideal org” program.
So — let’s review what they accomplished on that this year – “time travel through a year of boundless expansion” or perhaps this is the “infinity packed into 12 months.” With an enormous amount of smoke and fluff, this is what they covered in their “story” that follows this double page spread above:
April — Atlanta ribbon yanked
July — Budapest ribbon yanked
July — Harlem ribbon yanked
November — San Diego ribbon yanked.
This signifies “boundless expansion”? 4 ideal buildings? You are a downstat Dave.
And not a SINGLE NEW CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OPENED ANYWHERE ON EARTH.
They still have 85 or so NON “ideal org” buildings.
At 4 per year, they will be done with this program in 21 YEARS. Then they can start working on getting them to SH Size (though none of those opened in the last decade have achieved that since becoming “ideal”). It looks like around 2050 they can start clearing the planet.
Woohoo.
And here is some of the “detail” on this astonishing expansion:
So, let’s take a look at some of these numbers. And again, though they are massively inflated, for the purposes of this exercise we will just take them at face value:
100 million books and lectures into public hands. Obviously a lie. This actually represents the total number of books and lectures ever SOLD. And that includes the books and lectures sold by the Pubs Orgs to orgs and missions. This of course includes the books and lectures that have been shipped to libraries around the world and have ended up in the dumpster. It also includes the unopened boxes sitting in people’s garages. And it counts one for each LECTURE in a series.
You can easily test this — go to a bookstore or library and see how many scientology books and lectures are available. Then compare to someone who HAS had 100 million books sold into public hands — according to Wikipedia these authors have sold 100 million copies: Ian Fleming, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Wilbur Smith, Anne Rice. See how many of THEIR books are on the shelves. A simple test of the veracity of this claim.
A new Clear every 90 minutes. Being generous and counting this as 16 per day (ie one every 90 mins 24 hours a day — but this is almost CERTAINLY counted as a 12 hour day because that is when the orgs are open) this means 5840 per year. To clear the CURRENT population of earth would take 1.4 MILLION YEARS. Now THAT’S Planetary Clearing at correct orders of magnitude!
An OT completion every 30 minutes. They count one for EACH “comp” – meaning OT 1 theory and OT 1 auditing are TWO levels. In total there are 14 “OT Levels” that each count as a “completion” (OT 6 counts as Part A and Part B). If the Clears were actually moving on to do their OT levels, there would be 14 times more OT Completions than Clears. Or an OT level completion every 6.4 minutes. Means 4 out of every 5 “Clears” are NOT progressing onto their OT Levels.
A training completion every 60 seconds. Yes, and this counts “extension courses,” introductory courses, seminars etc. etc.
A brand new auditor is made every 20 minutes. Which means it takes 20 “training completions” for any auditing course to be completed. They are really cranking out those auditors! And you realize it takes about 9 “auditor training completions” to make a Class IV auditor?
There are MANY more lies and misrepresentations in this magazine. As you can see, I just took some of the pages with numbers graphics. Not even addressing any of the insane shermanspeak word salad that packs an infinity of over-the-top hype into every 60 word sentence.
The saddest part is that scientologists accept these “alternative facts” as truth. And they know they will never find any of this amazing good news reported in the regular press because they are all merchants of chaos dead set on destroying “man’s only hope.” Of course, the church is the most ethical group on this or any other planet, so they would never lie about anything. Scientology; the prison of belief.
Have you listed where you find all the documentation you get? Do you have peeps on the inside or is all this on the web?
Mike. You’ve got it all wrong. These aren’t lies. They’re “Alternative Facts”. Just ask Sean Spicer.
Sorry. I had to.
I was just watching an episode listed as a “New” “9 minute episode“ titled “What Went Down; Life Goes On”, but after 4 minutes, the content suddenly switched to that of “Escaping Polygamy; After the Escap”.
Doing a Time Warner Cable search, I saw that there is a repeat of this “9 minute episode” listed as airing a few hours from now at 1:01 AM PST, but no further episodes are listed for at least the next week and a half.
Usually, 5 to 10 minute episodes have been brief previews of episodes to be aired a few days hence, but that does not seem to be the case this time. Does anybody know what gives?
Is CO$ exerting some kind of influence on A&E’s programming staff? (or is that just a paranoid substitute for a simple explanation?)
Please Explain during Season 2 as it NEEDS to be made clear (no pun intended)
As a “never in” but with great interest in what I’ve seen and read from Lean Remini and Mike Rinder, and from the former members about COS and David M……
…..I have NOT heard much about how the HELL do they keep their Sea Org members/staff locked up in the Hemet California COS compound behind a 6 foot tall fence topped with razor sharp Barbed wire, preventing anyone from getting in, but also preventing anyone from getting OUT?
Why is it Sea Org/members are required to have an Escort with them every time they leave the compound for a Dental or Dr apt etc…….of course it seems that COS is afraid you won’t come back willingly and I get that part of it, yet it’s taking away certain personal rights that freedoms that should not be stepped on.
How do they get away with locking their Sea Org/members in a place many call “The Hole”…with bars on the windows and a guard at the door, & force you to live like that with no chance of being “let out” unless a higher up decides you’ve “done you punishment time” for your “crimes”???
WHY is it necessary for their Sea Org/staff members to have to ESCAPE and be chased down by a seemingly pack of wolves to “bring you back to the fold”, even against your will? I realize the so called contract statement about “saving your spirit/soul” etc…..but this is worse than being treated as a prisoner in the most secure prison facility anywhere in the USA. You are CAPTIVES of COS because you signed a “contract”???
I would like to see Season 2 go into depth on this issue, and how the Hell they get away with paying you little to no income for the work done, yet claim they provide you with “housing & food”. Leah explained how the “members” pay for all the expensive auditing where members take out loans, mortgage their homes, empty their bank accounts, IRA, Retirement funds, kids college funds……leaving the member with NO financial backing to use IF & WHEN a member wants to END their COS relationship.
Here’s another reality check for the statistics that Scientology gives in units of time.
If there actually were 8,000,000 scientologists – an old number that is not even their most exaggerated claim – one would be dying about every 45 seconds, faster than any type of training they say is being completed.
If there were 1,000,000 scientologists – a number that I would guess most still-in scientologists might think has to be a minimal assumption – one would be dying about every 5 minutes, faster than any are making major completions like clear, OT or auditor.
Given 20,000 Scientologists – probably in the ballpark of an actual realistic count – one is dying about every 4 hours, or else one every 120 minutes of a 12-hour day. That might put them a little bit ahead of deaths in making clears, but not enough to catch up with planetary population growth anytime soon.
The other big-picture question, is how many of the completions represent members re-doing levels and attestations, which from some reports may account for the majority of activity. For instance an analysis of clear completions listed in publications and clear numbers issued on certificates showed that Scientology was producing fewer than 1,000 new clears per year recently, and had only made about 65,000 in their entire history through the middle of last year.
“37 million “walked through our doors'” I couldn’t help but imagine DM taking people out of the Hole and ordering them to walk back and forth through the doors.
Thats hilarious
One thing fundamentally self-defeating about propaganda, hype and false statistics is the fact that it leaves the liar with no credible place to claim “growth.” Which is naturally fatal to their propaganda efforts if the chief proof for the wonders that they do is continuing and explosive growth.
As far back as 1970, George Malko wrote “Scientology–The Now Religion.” Although this book was written by an independent journalist, Malko was generally sympathetic and genuinely desirous to understand the scientology phenomenon. Unlike most other independent authors on this subject, he received cooperation from “church” spokespersons. They led him to believe that the “church” had 15 million “parishioners.” In 1970!
Given the present-day claim of 12 million (a number that strangely has not “exploded” for quite a few years), this would amount to a net loss of 3 million (20%) over the course of the last 46 years! Despite scientology being the “fastest growing religion of the 21st century.
Scientology is not so much about “infinity packed into 12 months.” It’s a lot more about “12 million ‘parishioners’ packed into 30,000.”
It might work if they’re including BTs in their totals.
Am all too familiar with how these numbers are doctored.”walked through our doors”? How many turned around and walked right out?
Don’t know if you’ve seen Billy On The Street’s “Leah Remini’s Escape From Scientology” : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPMYhbX4yU
While pretty insensitive to what people actually have gone through in Scientology and (IMO) not that funny, it’s overall a good indicator of the impact your series has had on the general consciousness of outsiders. I don’t think you’d of seen something like this mocking Scientology three months ago.
Mike you really have been on the inside. I have a friend working in the ideal org in Atlanta and per her husband she says the the org is not so organized. All this training with training “tech” seems to do very little of producing organization within their money machine.
Mike,
When you quote, I wish you would use your indent tool or
because I have bad eyes. LOL.
Sorry if someone already posted this, but on last night’s Real Time on HBO, Bill Maher talked a bit about his admiration for Leah and the Aftermath, and she has been added as one of his guests for next week’s show, Friday 2/3, 10 p.m.
https://youtu.be/rcjpags7JT8?t=44s
Well, not sweet and not so little. 😉
“…Wel, not sweet and not so little….”
Wishfully hoped for overly hyped lies.
Selling people cosmic blue sky, cosmic galatic pie
Mike,
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought of standing at the corner of Vermont and Fountain, with a variety of signs, stand with the arrow pointing down the street towards AOLA:
a) Xenu “body-thetan” exorcism training this way to AOLA ——>
b) Cosmic Pie In the Sky Thinkers’ Club Here This Way —->
c) Scientology Dead Space Alien Exorcism Training This Way ———–>
and for clarity, have a set of signs pointing towards the corner of Vermont and Sunset, pointing that direction where the LA Org body routers are handing out their leaflets:
d) Beginners in Scientology Go Up the Street, BUT Xenu and “Body-Thetan” Exorcism This Way
The whole “complex” and what the buildings mean, beginners for LA Org, and the long term dupes for AOLA could be spelled out with some nifty signs there in Hollywood and the locals I’m sure would love to be better and more simply informed of what the Scientology buildings have been used for all these decades.
Chuck, the signs would be hilarious. Maybe send them to Angry Gay Pope. He would probably do it the next time he does a video over there.
Mike…..I love your use of my favorite new term….alternative facts. It’s perfect. I see some very disheartening similarities between COB and our new “President.” It physically pains me to use that word to describe DT. The numbers game…..smoke and mirrors…..vanity…arrogance……undermining our very foundation. .I could go on and on…..
Please continue doing what you do…..you are a truly good soul.
Yours….. OverTheBridgeTPA
Someone on twitter today gave me a new one: “scientologists are very economical with the truth.”
Awesome. ?????????
Comparing either LRH or SoC COB to DT is silly…like the MSM comparing to Hitler…ppl don’t know history, our constitution or how the real world functions…the USA constitution has 3 (three) levels of government…executive, legislative & judicial….it’s for “check & balance”…we also have “we the people”…who can also weigh in…neither LRH nor DM have any oversight, no check/ balance…all CoS power & authority is consolidated in one person…why? Because LRH & DM CoS took that power…no election, no votes, ….we elected our President & whether we like him or not he’s our President & we should be ashamed to express our “horror, vomit, blowing up White House”..to the rest of the world who would & do crave to be here…in the USA…ppl want to be here…! They don’t care DT is President…they want to be Americans…
Have pride in being an American…or if DT is so repulsive – or your ashamed to be an American because DT is our President – then leave! As an American you can come & go as you please…another difference…
Please tell me why it is that Donald Trump supporters seem to have such difficulty understanding the difference between the pronoun “your” and the contraction “you’re”.
You’re undermining your credibility when you make such errors.
John Doe I’ve noticed that particular spelling error being common on any forum I’ve visited. Left or Right. Do you have statistically representative sampling to point to or are you just another frothing partisan (from either aisle) making shit up?
Right, all forums have people who don’t use proper spelling and grammar. It’s not specific to any political party. These are some of the most common:
Your vs You’re. If it belongs to you, it’s ‘yours’. If you are doing something, it’s ‘you’re’. That’s a contraction of you and are.
to vs too. If you go somewhere, it’s to – I’m going ‘to’ the store. If you are also going, it’s I am going ‘too’ (also).
No vs know. No is the opposite of yes. If you ‘know’ something, you have knowledge of it.
She vs her. It is proper to say “she and I” went to the store, not ‘her and me’. If you are not sure which is correct, try taking out the ‘me’ in the sentence… if you are left with ‘her went to the store’, it’s obviously wrong.
there vs they’re. It is over ‘there’ in that place. ‘they’re’ is a contraction of they and are. ‘they’re’ doing something.
there vs their. ‘there’ is a place. ‘their’ is possessive – it’s ‘theirs’.
My personal ‘worst of’ spelling: not using an apostrophe with names. Never write: that’s “Karen house”. Wrong. that’s “Karen’s house”. Or she drove her “boyfriend car”. No – she drove her “boyfriend’s car”.
And the worst of the worst, “I seen it” Is never ever ever correct. It is properly “I saw it”. People sometimes hear someone use “seen” and misunderstand how it’s used. “seen” goes with a past action and must have ‘had’ or ‘have’ in front of it: I “have seen” it, or I “had seen” it. Never ever write or say: ‘I seen it’. That’s always wrong.
* Disclaimer, this is an incredibly simplified explanation, and very superficial, I’ve omitted other grammar structures and explanations just for simplicity and ease of understanding.
If you want to learn more about grammar rules such as the ‘past tense’ vs ‘past participle’ and other language rules and structure please google it.
It doesn’t matter what political party a person belongs to, poor grammar is found everywhere. It’s useless to point out errors to people in forums or in the comments section after articles, most just don’t know any better and don’t care.
So there is no reason to point out incorrect grammar unless you enjoy wasting time in online forums arguing with clueless people.
Mike Wynski, my comment was hardly “frothing”. I’m sorry if it got your panties in a bunch. Yes, both the left and right make grammatical errors, but Trump supporters make the most errors.
I offer you an article from the Washington Post as evidence, although if you’re a Trump supporter, which I suspect, it seems likely you’ll find a way to dismiss it without offering contrary credible evidence.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/07/trump-supporters-have-the-worst-grammar-study-finds/?client=safari
Thanks, Barbet. I truly appreciate the sanity of your post. The political viciousness makes me very sad.
Barbet – well said – a very big difference, the checks and balances. I was a legal alien who went through the proper channels to become an American Citizen and am very proud of this. I haven’t liked or agreed with every president voted into office BUT I will always back up and give a chance to whomever is there presently and defend this country.
Don’t want to argue with anyone here but to compare how DM and Trump got into power and state it’s the same is ridiculous.
Barbet, I think that the point is not a political one, but that Hubbard, Miscavige, and Trump are all examples of malignant narcissistic personality disorder who exhibit typical characteristics including being self-aggrandizing, and telling outrageous lies that are not even necessary. While I’m generally skeptical about diagnoses made at a distance, these people are examples that really stand out and their characterization as narcissists has been made by many observers with real expertise in personality disorders.
Yes, most leaders and politicians may be somewhat narcissistic and prone to playing a bit fast and loose with the truth, but not usually to the level of these examples. You can see that even major Republican leaders like John McCain and Lindsey Graham are objecting to Trump statements in ways that are unprecedented. People have real cause to be concerned, just as how I can see they might have had the other candidate, with their own unusual flaws, been elected.
And this is the sort of where an understanding of the psychology and dynamics of high control groups and cults, is relevant to areas of life that directly affect more of us.
I love the connection Mike makes here between Scientology and DT … the alternative facts, the through-the-looking glass dystopia, the smoke and mirrors, the vanity, the arrogance, the numbers game, etc. It’s all right there. America … wake up!!!!
“alternative facts”; is that the same as “acceptable truth”?
No, their false beliefs that people choose over the hard facts
Has anyone ever read this article……….interesting read….
http://www.xenu.net/archive/lrhbare/index.html
Mike, Thanks for all you do! I have gotten my husband addicted to Leah’s show and he teases me about my innocent Mike Rinder ‘crush’. I know you are probably being pulled in a lot of directions. Never forget though, your wife and kids get priority! You have helped so many people, but your family will always have your back! Send by a happy wife of 34 years and a Mike Rinder fan of six years! Ann
Hello Ann from Ann. Good to see you. So happy you are happy with your 34 years with hubby & six with Mike. Mike and Christie Always in our Hearts. ?
Ann, I always love seeing your kind responses!
Downtown Clearwater is a ghostown, with half the storefronts vacant. Ask any “wog” why they won’t go downtown,and they will tell you it’s because of Scientology.
Ask any Scientologist why people won’t go downtown,and they will say it’s because there is no parking.
Finally Mike’s Blog is back! Wherever it wandered off to,I am so delighted to see it back on my IPad. Must have gone walkabout for a week! This piece screams Lies to the most Infinite degree. I truly believe now that those still in have totally covered their eyes, ears, mind and hearts with dms bs so throughly they can’t even begin to dig themselves out. Very sad but what you post so very important as it shows the complete and utter disconnect from reality within the bubble. ?
“They still have 85 or so NON “ideal org” buildings.
At 4 per year, they will be done with this program in 21 YEARS.”
I’d been meaning to look this figure up after some recent discussions. As I suspected, the current pace of ideal org openings just conveniently happens to run out the clock on Miscavige’s expectable life span (mid to late 70s for a smoker with other respiratory problems), which would get him off the hook for having to produce the (likely non-existent) OT IX and OT X levels once all orgs are “ideal.”
As for the 37 million “walked through our doors” figure, I think that like some of the others that has to be an all-time since the beginning of Scientology about half a century ago, and must count every single visit – including by members. Very, very roughly, that works out to about 5,000 visits per org (not accounting for the largely inactive mission network) per year, or each of approximately 20,000 active scientologists going into an org about 30 times a year. It’s equivalent to McDonald’s “Billions Served” number (does anyone remember long ago when they used to update their signs with the specific number of millions?) that counts every customer visit since the beginning.
They include those walking in and those walking out. For lunch and dinner.
Let’s not forget people who are going out to have a smoke, in a good day when I was on course I can go in and out 5-6 time a day because of that reason ))
One time around 1999 I walked into the building in Downtown LA on business (they had a floor finish question). I assume I was counted that day as going through their door.
Oh you were better than that. You were a major completion with Honors and Gold leaf clusters. Anything with the term, “finish” in it gets special mention.
The IAS takes millions from the parishioners, but sends out only ” positive vibes” ? Those are some expensive vibes !
You forgot 2016 was the year of no limits because they “packed infinity into twelve calendar months!”
*eye roll*
Dave,
Doing the math . . .
Cash Flow Update:
El Chapo’s sixteen billion in assets is being eyed as a down payment on the wall to seal the US/Mexico boarder. Will your 2-4 billion be used as additional payments on the wall or will the proceeds from liquidating your reserves and real estate portfolio (starting with the 85 not ideal organizations) be distributed to the beneficiaries of several large class action lawsuits?
Awesome work, love seeing the New Years headline on lunar New Year. Happy Year of the Rooster.
HI – your name – thanks, you gave me the biggest belly laugh in awhile!
Unfortunately due to the information control and propaganda inside the bubble Scientologists, especially staff get suckered. They think the world loves Scientology and governments and big business is begging for its help. A friend of mine had been in the Sea Org for many years. She held responsible jobs within the Sea Org and was proud of the work she had done and the titles she had held. When she left the Sea Org and went into the real world she filled out an application at a major business. She proudly listed her production history in Scientology and the Sea Org. After reading the application the interviewer said “Mam, don’t you realize that the PR of Scientology sits just below that of the KKK?” My friend was shocked and started to cry. She asked “Does this mean I am not approved?” The interviewer responded “No dear, I’m afraid not.”
(Welcome to the real world…..)
Mat, that is probably one of the funniest stories I’ve heard about how brainwashed the people inside are these days. Yet, it is quite sad for her. I hope she ended up hiding SCN from her history and got a decent job.
When my parents took me to the SO in ’71 from our home in Iowa, so I wouldn’t look like a kook, I told all my friends we were moving to Arizona, not to a yacht in Portugal with a crazy ass cult leader. When I left the SO in ’82 and for 35 years I never mentioned to any “wog” that I was ever involved with SCN. I used OTC Operation & Transport Corporation as my employer on my job applications. OTC was our “shore story” of who we were rather than SCN while in port on the Apollo so I wasn’t completely lying.
So, DM has them so brainwashed they believe all of his bullshit about how great SCN is doing and then happily mortgage their home to donate money to a company worth $3 billion to buy more stupid, worthless buildings. I’m amazed.
Your story could have been a great Friday Regraded Being cartoon.
I feel sorry for those under the spell of DM and SCN.
“The interviewer responded “No dear, I’m afraid not.” And then added, “…but we do have an opening for snack bar attendant downstairs, if you’d like to apply for that”.
Any mention of cult employment on your resume is very likely to be “the kiss of Xenu” for you there and place you in line for a position right behind just-released axe murderers and convicted embezzlers.
Every former Scientologist staff or Sea Org member that I’ve looked up on Linkedin never, ever lists that they worked for Scientology.
There’s a reason for that.
Mike,
Just wanted to say that I have watched the entire Scientology series with you and Leah Remini and it is truly fascinating. I am so glad that you guys are exposing the real truth. You are very strong for what you had to go through and overcome. I hope someday that you will be able to reunite with your older children in a positive setting. Please consider writing a book about your experiences! Best wishes to you always.
There is a good interview (5 parts) with Mike on YouTube with Growing up in Scientology with Aaron Smith-Levine that I really enjoyed. Some of that would be great in a book. If you haven’t watched, I highly recommend.
Miscavige Church of Lies
Miscavige Church of lies AND Hate! Don’t forget Hate! They thrive on hate.
Dear Co$,
You ARE responsible for two book purchases I made this week and can highly recommend to those still in your bubble and to the public wanting greater knowledge:
TROUBLEMAKER and GOING CLEAR.
Perhaps you should start counting these and other titles in this genre.
And, where are the stats for the $$ you are spending for nonsense such as targeted ads for your whois websites. One for Mike has been the top search result for me for several days running, now. I’ve got a news flash for you, “I ain’t bitin’.” Good waste of cherch funds, though.
There are SO MANY very good books on the subject of Scientology that it’s hard to keep up with them. They must be as shell shocked in Hemet as a Boshe in Flanders a hundred years ago. How can they even keep up with the DA letters and sites?
I wonder how many anti-Scientology books have been purchased since Leah & Mike’s show has aired. I have purchased 2 & have 3 more on my wish list.
Leah was recently a guest on the Conan O”Brien show….and the COS sent a letter to the show “discrediting” Leah as wanting fame, money etc. Conan indicates that “this has never happened before”…….I wonder why? COS must be quaking in their boots now that all the wrongs they’ve done are coming out to the public
Would all these people who have spoken out and are being “discredited” lying?
WHY won’t the COB step up to the plate to defend his OWN “church” instead of having letters or statements saying “the church disputes”……
Seems like EVERYONE who has spoken out, continues to speak out, or those who will in the future speak out are making their own version of “Knowledge Reports” against COS.
GO FOR IT GUYS!
“Why won’t the COB step up to the plate to defend his OWN church…”
Because the dwarf is a sniveling little coward who can’t confront a Girl Scout troupe. What a loser…
He also whines …………. with Gat II, He has perfected his new alternate-repetitive process of whining and sniveling until He gets his way.
Yo Dave,
The fringes have come up with a new process to get You ‘your way’. We tell the world the truth about how wonderful You and Your Cult actually are. Please send commendations, you know where each of us lives.
Hey Mike, I’m wondering if these people have given up or do they continue their tricks with you (and Leah), Do they still follow you, record you and generally harass you? Also, is there hope of getting your family back from this evil organization?
I don’t want this to come across as me speaking for Mike, but in my opinion, with DM in charge, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do continue with their pathetic, embarrassing, and childish antics, although perhaps their confrontation with those 2 PI’s on their show gave the church and other PI’s pause since they were so publicly (and hilariously) exposed.
As for your last question, I’m of the belief that there is ALWAYS hope as long as we draw breath, especially when you’re on the right side of an issue and use logic and reason along with facts that are difficult to dispute (read Mike’s open letter to his family on this site).
These people who have been mentally and psychologically altered in their reality due this cult are victims, and they need help (even if they don’t yet realize it). That’s what makes the fight by Leah and Mike and many others so noble, and they have an army of supporters behind them that keeps exponentially growing by the day in a very “straight up and vertical” manner.
No matter how productive you are in the cult, you’re only as safe from consignment to the cult’s forced labor/re-education gulag as your work performance stats for the week are high.
The idea that dedicated, very hardworking and ultimately self-sacrificing workers could be subjected to such degrading, humiliating and sadistic measures at the complete whim and caprice of a tyrannical leader wielding absolute power is almost impossible to wrap your mind around.
No non-secular business in this country could get away with treating its employees in this way. It’s only by virtue of the religious cloaking of the cult’s completely undeserved federal tax-exempt status as a recognized charitable religious organization that it is enabled to do so…and that needs to stop NOW!
“you are a downstat Dave”… I am still LOLing over that line. Perfectly stated.
Face it, Davy Boy, you’re a down stat dwarf. Go get sec checked…
Surely, they meant 37 million walked PAST our doors. Just another MU.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Maybe 37 million walked OUT the door?
Maybe it was mentioned previously and I missed it but certainly the statistic for people finding out the truth about SCN must be in power. With Leah’s A&E series, her TV interviews and internet articles in major publications, there has to be 10s of millions of people added to this stat in the last 2 months.
Come on Dave, at least post the only stat that is straight up and vertical. Guaranteed it is more than 47X.
“39 ideal Narconon facilities?…..And what is most interesting, in the What Is Scientology book published in 1998 they listed 45 Narconon facilities!”
So…..they’re telling us that one of the areas of their church has actually shrunk by 13-14%? Awesome, only 86-87% more to go.
“The world’s coolest and most inclusive religion”. Most inclusive? I don’t even know where the hell to start with that one…..
Change the first syllable [of “inclusive”] and you’re there.
I know of one Narcanon shut down in Quebec, Canada by the government. Do a google search on it. I’m sure there are more…
NarCONon has attempted to open new facilities in Ontario and in Australia and been shut out. The ‘ideal’ NarCONons now boast 6 or 7 patients in place of the 30 to 300 that those facilities used to have. That cash cow has died.
As Tony reported recently, he’s heard from his sources that Arrowhead(Narconon-Ed)which was designed to house more than 200 patients, is reportedly now down to ten staff and only three patients. If Miscavige is going to continue to prop up his flagship drug rehab, he’s going to have to keep giving it “gifts” in the millions.
http://tonyortega.org/2016/08/18/ew-scientology-financial-disclosures-reflect-the-dire-state-of-its-chief-drug-rehab/
Mick, the Narconon in Canadian Ok was purchased from the tribe under a different name. When the truth came out, the community was not hapoy.
At least 4 people have died. The Arrowhead facility is being or has been sued by the families of the deceased. Investigations by State showed that Narconon lied about accreditation.
I do not understand how a drug detox facility can get away with not having, at the very least, an LPN. And a physician on call.
For rehab, they make them listen to Dianetics.This is preying on the vulnerable.
Wow… either Miscavige is buying the false reports received from Orgs and Missions and he believes them (doubtful) or the parishioners are so indoctrinated that they can not see that the Orgs are empty beyond belief.
Either way, all the above false reports, reminds me of a scripture from LRH where he says a lier is a coward, he lies because of fear.
False reports… your comment makes me wonder if a new Scio indoctrinated low life is hovering around the shadows of influence just waiting for conditions to be more supple with an aging Miscavige more likely to be prone to serious error or more willing to listen to one too many lies. Obviously Miscavige has gotten rid of anyone he suspects to be a threat anywhere near upper management. What’s left are either simply mindless brown nosing puppets or have been forced into servitude and suppressed. But odds are there’s got to be some very good if not professional liars among the influencing areas of Scientology. Having a propensity toward quick one liners to cover their butts and always ready to blame and sacrifice someone else is a prerequisite of survival and or camouflage in the Cof$ management environment. Wonder if a new “wonder child” is thriving in the shadows, biding their time, might even be an enterprising lawyer and not a Scio at all. Wishful thinking maybe, but covert dissension in the ranks by clever people has brought down many a despot and installed another or they took the money and ran. If something untoward does happen to Miscaivge I reckon the Cof$ will implode very quickly. That in itself would be a good thing. Nothing lasts forever, especially with large amounts of unscrupulously obtained money involved.
All this false reporting and lying is a dangerous breeding ground.
After more than three decades of purging the ranks of anyone that might even potentially pose a threat to his iron grip on power, the tiny tyrant has consolidated his power and absolute control over his cowed and craven minions so thoroughly that I sincerely doubt that any revolution from within is even possible.
Stalin was totally ruthless and depraved, just like lil davey, but he lacked the higher level of internal thought police control that the cherch’s Super SP I/C has implemented and fine-tuned over the years. In a snitch culture where everyone is encouraged to anonymously rat out everyone else, no one can be trusted as a true confidante…not even your spouse or children.
However, $cn takes the whole police state/secret police society one giant leap further by making certain thoughts into crimes that are punishable as if they were equivalent to actual actions, once they’ve been detected during sec checking interrogations. As a result, $cilons are operantly conditioned to never allow themselves to even think a questioning or disagreeing thought, much less act upon them, lest their punishment for thinking it be as bad as if they’d actually engaged in the act itself or voiced their disagreement out loud.
It’s a qualitative leap forward in group mind control effectiveness that no group has previously attained, except by killing and torturing its members. And lil davey has exploited its use to the utmost, taking what Elron had pioneered and turning it into the cult’s darkest and most powerful art. For cult members who’ve already been inculcated in the belief that the glorious end (i.e.,saving all of humanity) justifies whatever means, the simple understanding that internal thought can never be equivalent action, and therefore can never be considered an actual crime, just doesn’t seem to register for them, or at least not in a way that they’re allowed to consider…because that too would also be a crime!
Once the cult’s minions have internalized the prohibition against dissent and questioning that any authoritarian group has to create, cult members become their own secret police. In a snitch culture where ratting out everyone and anyone for almost nothing is the norm and regular interrogation sessions have become common place, all you need to make escape from this “prison of belief” nearly impossible is self-thought policing.
I hope someone really surprises us with a truly outstanding contribution.
This reminds me of a very funny video put out by some gorgeous SP’s – Tiziano Lugli and a whole bunch of others that “did something about it”.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjb3cO5j-XRAhVnzoMKHS04DwcQFgggMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftonyortega.org%2F2012%2F12%2F21%2Fvideo-tiziano-lugli-releases-shit-scientologists-say%2F&usg=AFQjCNG2wjFMK4SI0YfbzMo7VIs4-EAeIQ&sig2=OuigOvHknsdEwOUdFe3sNw
Just watched lol.
Went to an audition at Celebrity Center years ago , yes they asked me if I wanted to be a scientologist when I checked in….casually
I knew it was coming since I had a scientologist friend (passed away of a heart attack ) and I said NO I’m a practicing Buddhist
NO I didn’t get the Non Union Scientology In House Video job
Growing up as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I truly understand the fight it takes to dig yourself literally out of true darkness. I applaud all works that you continue to do. I had my rebirth at 28 years old, as I was raised in the cult. Keep on inspiring us all. Scientology has such similarities , I am so intrigued with all you & Leah are doing
Kind of ironic really … Think about it for a moment … Scientology actually runs its members through a continual drilling of not confronting the real world … but instead living in a sort of dubbed in one. And after years or decades of being run on participating in lies, is it any wonder that they act the way they do? Especially when any unpalatable truth is given to them? These people can no longer even look, much less perceive. Objectives are actually pretty good processes, but NOT when they are run in the CoS, where it becomes almost a “negative” process. That’s because Scientologists “cognite” that their dubbed in universe where they are getting audited at is actual present time. Only an emotional shock of some sort can get those walls to start to crumble. And some are too numb as beings for even that to occur.
Great post, Joe P. These Sheeple will believe anything, and I’m observing the same phenomena occurring outside of Scientology as well, though in germinal form. Pretty scary.
Hi Mike,
I have been out almost 35 years and like so many others are loving this blog daily. I can’t express all the reasons it’s helping me but I know it’s a place I can go to be with like minded people on this subject. Something I would love to see is a stat from you on how many people have now left the CoS or SO because of the information from your Aftermath show on A&E or this blog. Even if the number is 2 or 10, I think these would be considered GREAT numbers no matter how small they may seem. To us, even one is good to hear about. I also understand there may be good reasons why you wouldn’t want to do that.
Just a suggestion.
Thank you for all you continue to do daily
Since Scientology was your religion I am curious to what religion most former members become.
One “fact” stands out: “73 Million Shown The Truth About Drugs”
But…
About 30 million still smoke marijuana….so I guess that’s the tech working. 🙂
Cannabis anyone?
Not if it’s legal. I wouldn’t trust just any source you know, I’ve been a Scientologist, I know about such things. I’ve got multiple certs of having done same thing over and over to prove it too!
Legalizing hooch – Geezers – takes all the fun out of it! What’s wrong with you people out there?
Marijuana can also considerably lengthen anyone’s New OT IV. Just ask any Scientologist that smoked marijuana the day before their first OT Drug Rundown session that passed their Sec Check first. 🙂
When I was in, years ago, I remember a course or TR or something that was about how to lie effectively. I never did that one, but I wondered a bit about it’s purpose.
It’s justified with the L Ronster catch all to justify any devious, illegal, destructive activity. “The greatest good for the greatest number.”
AKA as, an Acceptable Truth (read, lying)
Over 30 years ago I had part-time jobs in bookstore chains in several states. Although it used to happen more frequently when I lived in the Tampa Bay area, the same thing went on everywhere. We would unpack a box of “new” copies of Dianetics and they were already stamped inside with either our store barcode or somebody else’s. We used to laugh and wonder how many Co$ members were busy buying up books and recycling them back to stores to resell and jack up the ratings.
Is that right? Well I’ll be damned, a witness stating how a Scio book does the rounds. Well traveled books hey… just like the author stated about himself, no ivory tower for him. He preferred ship cabins and motor-homes.
Yes. I remember back in 1990 or so Bridge Pubs. released “Scientology.Science of Survival” with TV ads. Sales were so bad that one night after course a staff member “asked” us to go to Waldenbooks and purchase the book because they were going to stop carrying the book if sales didn’t pick up.
It got so bad in Sodom and Gomorrah that God had to destroy the city. I think there needs to be some “Divine” intervention with Scientology! Keep up the great work, keep on fighting. I Loved the show (with Leah) and I’ve read so much stuff, reading Deceived by Bonnie Woods right now! Watched going clear”! You escapees are BRAVE people!
What a bunch of propaganda and crap…and they actually believe this stuff? The robots must need their gears oiled and overhauled!
Mike and Leah and all others involved in exposing this cult……thank God for all of you!
I don’t think a Scientologist ever, and I mean EVER, ‘fact checks’ their own religion. For if they do… they are no longer Scientologists but become instant enemies of the Cof$. Simple formula, open to interpretation, but here we are nonetheless…
You’re correct, Yawn. Any Scientologist who “fact checks” the truth of what they’re told by Scientology is an automatic enemy. But then, this is nothing new. The Church of Scientology is merely following a well trodden path. Historically, all totalitarian governments, religions and cults operate this way. “Believe what we tell you”, or we’ll punish or imprison you, or, you’ll burn in hellfire everlasting, or, you’re out of the group – whatever. Nothing new.
O/T but probably of interest. Joe Rogan will have a talk with Leah Remini some time over the next week. This is his podcast, which I highly recommend anyway. Most of his conversations last around 3 hours and they are real in depth conversations.
Do you happen to have a link, IP?
As a person who has been an educator for 30 years,I can tell you NONE of my colleagues has ever used,let alone heard,of study tech. I can tell you that our school libraries did receive many materials and books from Scientology. And you’re right…they ended up collecting dust on a shelf. These claims are ridiculous and desperate.
Unsolicited cult books ALWAYS end up in the $1 bin. And if you do buy one, you’ve paid 99 cents too much…
Thanks Mike for giving us the truth, not the bloviated, slick Scientology propaganda. Just on one point. Several years ago I looked up the number of LRH books in the Los Angeles library system. 85 and most of those were fiction. And I like everyone else had donate thousands to get them into that huge library system. What’s ridiculous is that I so easily found the true numbers on line. And I did it for other cities as well. All the same results. The Cherch truly personifies complete waste and lives up to its current moniker as “The bridge to nowhere”.
Does the “300,000 now saved from addiction” include one diminutive, individuated dramatizing psychotic that is addicted to popery, finery, controlling others, fine scotch and narcissistic hubris?
I thought not. Such a fine example of KSW…..
(Sorry….a work in progress….)
He was short and skinny, came out of Philly,
an usurper with an evil mode;
failed as an auditor
couldn’t be broken with a halter
as restrictive as the auditors code.
They called him Davey, lil Davey
the most out-KSW kid in the West.
Now out-ksw was a blanket, you see,
designed to entrap well, you and me…
Never mind this thing called ‘Tone Arm Action’
if you can’t make the ethos that is currently in fashion
you ain’t never going to be Free. I guarantee….
Davey, lil Davey;
The most out ksw kid in the West.
Now somehow being a spectator changes you inside
armed with camera tech mighty fine;
its all sets and props don’t ya know, it aint real;
Get these rushes to Ron, don’t dawdle or squeal
Davey, Lil Davey
the most out-ksw kid in the west.
Did you base this on a Johnny Cash song? It would have been a good one for him.