On New Year’s Day I posted a comment to my Facebook page welcoming in the new year with some humor from David Miscavige’s address to the faithful sheeple at the event in Los Angeles.
A few other observations beyond noting the utter gibberish he spouted about compressed time and warp speed, a year equivalent to “a thousand years of triumph” and “arriving on the porch of eternity.”
I am ignoring the horrendous (from his perspective) events of the year that he also ignored. They need not be recounted, it suffices merely to say the words “Going Clear” passed the lips of orders of magnitude more people who had never set foot inside a scientology entity than even the most enthusiastic rah-rahs in the reg offices around the scientology world.
Of course, this event was held at the same old Shrine Auditorium it always is. And after decades of unprecedented expansion they still cannot fill it. In the world of hype, that which is NOT hyped stands out in stark relief. They put it this way: “Thousands commemorate twelve months of inspiring achievements in a gala New Year’s celebration at the legendary Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles…” Rest assured if the place was even CLOSE to full, they would have been crowing about “standing room only” and “packed to the rafters.” Remember, in 1993– more than 20 YEARS ago — the IAS event was held in the LA Sports Arena with 10,000 in attendance. The number of attendees at Miscavige extravaganzas has shrunk every year since then. I happened to drive past the Ft Harrison as people were arriving for the New Year’s event at Flag. There were a few cars in front, but no crowds coming in the front door or walking from the parking lot. The 12,000+ (according to scientology) local scientologists don’t even warrant the 2300 seat Ruth Eckerd Hall. They fit everyone into the Flag auditorium that holds about 1100 people and the vast majority of those are staff (there must be nearly 200 regges at Flag). Miscavige cannot draw 5000 to the only live event he performs in Los Angeles each year. And this is the largest concentration of scientologists on earth…
Now, to the “epic” accomplishments that he presented.
Dear Leader’s “vibrant synopsis of an epic 2015” broke down like this:
Recounting the “historic” announcement of a new “Golden Age of OT”. He then proclaimed that as a result people “are advancing up each succeeding step at five times earlier numbers.” It’s just a blatant lie. Flag has stopped putting out their stats each week — which means they are going down from the miserable ranges where they were. This is just ridiculous.
He then covered the “breathtaking” number of “new facilities opening their doors to the world in 2015”:
Ideal Orgs in Basel, Bogota, Tokyo and Milano (in earlier years there were up to 10 “new” ideal orgs in a given year) — this is unimpressive by ANY measure.
He also covered “The Fountain” and “Golden Crest” so-called “religious retreats” and the “ideal” CLO UK and CLO EU.
Plus the big news of the “Continental” Narconons in Denmark, England, Mexico and Ojai. Meanwhile, Narconon is imploding around the world.
And even dragged out the totally failed “model facilities” that comprise the Potemkin Village along N. Ft Harrison in Clearwater (not once have I ever seen anyone other than a receptionist in any of those places and I have driven by them dozens of times since their opening). Seriously? This is “expansion” news? Storefronts for CCHR, IHELP, APS etc? If these things served any purpose then Clearwater would be the showcase of the application of the “4th dynamic tech” on a large-scale. There is a greater concentration of these entities in Clearwater by square footage than anywhere in the world. But of course, like everywhere else, there is NO evidence of results just ribbon cuttings.
Because traditionally the New Years Event covers “all sectors,” he had to come up with something about ABLE, WISE and SMI/IHELP and boy were they lame.
He announced that in the ABLE sector The Way to Happiness spearheaded “a zero percent recidivism rate among program graduates” in Denver (?) “Rampant illiteracy in the Czech Republic was turned completely around by L. Ron Hubbard’s acclaimed Study Technology.” And Narconon Suncoast opened its doors (no results of anything, just another ribbon yanking).
WISE really hit big time with ridiculous stories of “the world’s foremost banjo manufacturer’s elevation of the instrument beyond its Southern roots to universal popularity,” “a motion-control pacesetter that revolutionized motion picture cinematography” and a “Japanese consulting company that applied the technology to help 650 new businesses succeed in a market where startups traditionally fail.”
But the best was left for IHELP. The word salad was magnificent “a majestic picture of the expansive scope of Scientology in uplifting human beings across every strata of society” but the specificis were decidely missing: “Purification Rundown delivery in a dozen cities to reverse the disastrous effects of radiation and pollution across the Siberian steppes” “tackling social decay in the streets of Guatemala City” and opening of the first “ideal” Mission of Spain in Valencia, “blazing a trail to freedom for the people of that city.” By now there should be at least 5000 functioning Missions around the world. In fact, the number keeps shrinking. Miscavige promised “ideal” orgs would generate new field groups and missions — if every “ideal” org had just opened 10 of them it would have more than doubled the size of the Mission Network.
Missing in Action – and totally missing from the hypefest: still no opening of SuMP. Not a single new org. Silicon Valley and Valley ideal orgs still not done. No externally verifiable accomplishment of anything. No OT IX and X.
The only thing that was without doubt straight up and vertical this year — inches and minutes of entheta media….
Mike, Back to census numbers, your comments about New Year’s Event attendance support my personal estimate that 40,000 active Scientologists worldwide may be exaggerated by double or possibly triple.
Regarding rampant illiteracy in the Czech Republic turned around by Study Tech, in 2011 their literacy rate was 99%. They were hardly plagued by rampant illiteracy.
Inside view – nothing new is being implemented into our school system. No new methods. A new style of writing was implemented a couple of years ago. Nothing philosophical. Ironically, there are just more liberal voices to give children more freedom in terms of what and when they learn and in terms of their motivation to learn at young age. Still no signs of ideology or any new texts. There are not even mentions of scientology as a religion or a way of life in our schools. Most people just know them as “those lunatics that Cruise and Travolta support”. I highly doubt the private primary schools teach anything that has to do with scientology, not even mentioning the public majority. That guy just uses the fact that very few people know where we are located or what even is our little state. I bet many people think we are some illiterate morons from Balcan. Illiteracy….pfff. This guy can piss me off even when he’s not standing on my doorstep yet. Come here little Davey, we will show you how deeply atheistic and problematic with discipline and authorities our little nation is. Anyways, I’ll look into their current status around here more.
“… Storefronts for CCHR, IHELP, APS …”
I saw a YouTube protester like video of the empty new store fronts.
Empty is the word! Empty isn’t new though.
Scientology seems to culturally fit right along after Christian Science’s similar empty public storefront reading rooms.
But Scientology’s done Christian Science way better in terms of glitz.
The glitzy empty Christian Science reading room motif is Scientology’s marketing storefront pattern!
Scientology just keeping up with the Jones’ of “new religions”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept up with Jim Jones once DM realizes the gig is up.
Dave, for Christ’s sake, when are you going to get rid of Sherman? I thought you read this blog–and Tony Ortega’s. These speeches make you a laughing stock. YOU can write better speeches yourself. Yeah, I know you’re busy doing everyone else’s job, but really, why work so hard and also get laughed at by the entire world as well? Don’t worry about the out-ethics, scumbag public wondering why you sound different. Just tell them it’s the Golden Age of Dave and they’ll continue to fawn as they always have. You got rid of that vile ‘voice of Scientology’ Jeff Pomerantz (thank you, thank you, thank you!!!). So what’s up with Sherman? He got something on you? (say it ain’t so!)
Mike: Thanks ever so much for wading through a video or transcript or whatever you got this post from. It saves us reading or listening to endless drivel. Though I must say I get a perverse joy in seeing these presentations – well for five minutes anyway – just to see if it is still so over the top and watch the sheeple eating it up.
There is a real sense of failure coming over in what you summarised. Now if only that tax free treatment by the IRS could be revoked.
This brings up an interesting point. If David were to openly loot the Church of Scientology accounts, and disappear, it might expose the lawyers and accountants who helped him to civil and criminal liability. My suspicion is that they would instead structure a really sweet “retirement” package for him, probably based on the compensation packages that deposed heads of regular for profit corporations receive. They also might give him control of a couple shell corporations for which the Church of $cientology would be paying ridiculous ongoing fees. If I were one of the souless parasites representing Dave, I’d create one such ridiculous deal with a huge cancellation fee. This fee of course would be held in escrow by some entity that was supposedly neutral, but actually under the control of COB.
“the world’s foremost banjo manufacturer’s elevation of the instrument beyond its Southern roots to universal popularity”
I truly think that this is the biggest lie of the whole night. ?
So exactly how many criminals took the Way To Slappiness course in Denver? My guess here is one, and the reason he or she hasn’t gone back to the pokey yet is that they made him or her a reg, so their theft is now legal.
My guess is zero. I didn’t hear anything about this program.
Hi Espiando, Thank you for your post.? Ann.
Mike, I hope you have a strong stomach. I just noticed this and no, it is most definitely not listed as an advertisement or “sponsored content”.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientology-welcomes-2016-following-unprecedented-130000112.html
Threw up a little.
I can recall an IAS event where a couple of people received the Freedom Medal for their efforts in having a psychiatric hospital in Lugano, Switzerland, closed. Now I find nothing on the internet about this, nothing on the Church’s website, and only about 11 of the medal winners mentioned on the website. Now perhaps my memory is incorrect, but it is odd that there is not more mention of the medal winners on the CoS’ website (or have I missed something?). And what of the follow-up on what the medal winners are doing? Or is it all flash-in-the-pan – photo op – embellished story? Well, IAS? What is really going on?
they were Freedumb Metals. 🙂
still are!!!!!
At least one Freedom Medal winner, Wendy Honor, was later declared. She wrote a email to her CF agreeing with the points in Debbie Cook’s email and resigning from the church. Perhaps Shorty is playing down the whole concept of Freedom Medal winners due to such experiences.
You lost me at SuMP???
Scientology Media Productions
Ron’s Journal 67 updated with GAT II tech just as LRH intended: “In all the broad universe, there is no other hope for man but through the financial resources of the dedicated Scientologist. You share it with Dave now.”
Discounts for Ideal Copper Rods?
Free with each purchase of a whorehouse meter.
“it suffices merely to say the words “Going Clear” passed the lips of orders of magnitude more people who had never set foot inside a scientology”
Yeah I’m one who’d vaguely heard of Scientology (until watching Going Clear) to telling everyone around me and now read daily Mike’s and Tony’s blog.
Same here Mike, same here.
I was on the Freewind’s in Ensenada Mexico
and there was a private group of very beautiful
women on board. Thinking they were Hollywood starlets
or Models I finally I asked who they were?
Discovered it was Cech Week on the Freewind’s !
About David Mscavige, he does not believe his own
slop he feeds to the sheeple.
example:
Jim Jones after convincing over 900 to drink cyanide
laced Kool aid he shot himself in the head
.A case of not drinking his own Kool aid
Keep up the wonderful work you do here!
COBs’ New Years speech is more evidence to support the argument that scientology is a just scam, one
that he is well aware of and actively promotes.
Dave,
The Feds have decided not to send 400 immigrants to live in the Ojai area. You will need to look elsewhere for new recruits.
“Word salad” is a great description of Miscavige’s speeches. Reminds me of a few politicians I know. Sounds good at the time, but if you go back and try to figure out what is really said, you realize none of it makes sense.
I had a word salad once. But the commas, colons & semi-colons turned my stomach.
🙂
I always prefer my word salad with croutons and ranch dressing.
What dressing did you use? I think you’re meant to use olive oil, not sump oil.
Or perhaps alphabet soup. It’s like watching a group of monkeys trying to write Shakespeare.
Hi Gadfly, Spilled my coffee regarding your post on monkeys, and Shakespeare! Great! You may have gathered amoung other items emeters, cans, PBX machines and the darn monkey room at Saint Hill UK and artist on the whole track promo ,these drive me crazy. In my dreams to-night, I will have flying monkeys auditing and reciting bits of Shaksepeare backwards while showing feats of OTness at the same time. Being on the other side of the cult can be so much fun at times. Love & Laughter are my orders now. Love, Ann
Ann, you’re the gorilla my dreams. ?
Hi Gadfly, I think the only thing for it, is to show up in each others’ dreams! Here in Baton Rouge,La, once in a while I will get nostalgic for days gone by in Boston, Mass, so I blast The Cars Girl of My Dreams and the whole subdivision says There goes that Yankee Miss Ann again! Laughter! Love, Ann
Hi Mike, I think I have a case of the vapors, TC ‘s Jack Reacher movie is now filming in down town Baton Rouge,be still my heart.. Laughter! TC Going Clear is “coming out of nowhere on the run!”Love, Ann
Thank God they rescued the Czechs from their illiteracy! The literacy rate there had been stuck at 99% since at least 2011. The Czech Republic being one of the most progressive East European countries for centuries… A perfect illustration of Miscavige’s PR lies.
Agreed. The Czech Republic’s literacy rate was reported at 99% and equal to that of the U.S. Definitely a misuse of the word “rampant”, and as usual, making over exaggerated statements to mislead people. In this particular instance, that L.Ron Hubbard’s ‘Study Technology’ is “acclaimed” and relevant in society.
Every question asked of miscavige about scientology’s expansion will be answered with lies. Every originated announcement by him results in another fabrication of a lie. He is unavailable for comment, he is unavailable for clarification and he is unavailable for any public or legal scrutiny. He is a recluse, yet he is married but he wife is never seen, he has no children and enforces abortions within his organisation. He eats exotic food yet his staff often eat rice and beans. He travels the world in private planes, holidays in the Bahamans, yet his staff work 7 days a week. He has access to vast sums of money but his staff get less than $50 a week.
It took massive crimes and threats to usurp the command and wealth of scientology. He does not receive auditing, nor gives it. He does not study but when he did, he failed due to violence committed within the confines and sanctity of attempting to applying religious succour to another. He wastes vast amounts of parishioners donations on surveillance of his conceived enemies which are vast and growing in number.
He has no remorse and is capable of continued evil for as long as it takes .
He resides with massive security and is paranoid, yet believes he deserves admiration.
That is the leader of the church of scientology.
To paraphrase Tom Cruise, it’s because he craves so very, very, very much.
Surely, surely, the Still Ins must be catching on to this bs by now? Surely they are at least noticing a lot of hot air and not much done?
I can hear his voice at these events and I must say he’s convincing. I was once convinced, just like a sheeple.
No, they don’t have a clue AND, stop calling me Shirly!
I think surly is correct.
Well IYawn I think that pretty well sums it up.
Very well said. It resumes in a nutshell all there is about his holy slappiness.
Rampant illiteracy in the Czech Republic? According the the CIA’s World Factbook, the literacy rate in the Czech Republic was 99% in 2011. And if nothing else, the communists that ran the place as Czechoslovakia until the early 90’s certainly implemented to[p-notch education. Actually, according to descriptions of people who lived there in the 1920’s, there was no “rampant illiteracy” in the country even back then.
This reminds me of National Enquirer stories. Any incredible new research was always performed in some little-known or completely unheard of university, in other words, some place that can not be fact-checked.
According to the CIA World Fact book, the Czech Republic has a literacy rate of 99%, equal to the UK, US, France, Japan, Germany etc. Not sure where the “rampant illiteracy” comes in.
Did DM postulate it?
No, he prostituted it.
Deering Banjos are quality instruments made by a luthier who happens to be a Scientologist. Of course all the “success” and credit has to go to the church. Fucking makes me sick to my stomach,
This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase: “paddle faster, I hear banjos”. Especially if there is a reg involved. Hot tip for the uninitiated, in scientology there is ALWAYS a reg involved somehow, somewhere, someway. On second thought, maybe this doesn’t bring new meaning to the above mentioned phrase …
And speaking of banjos, Dave is soon to get his deliverance as in the movie.
Sometimes I wonder if Miscavige, after having lied so, so much, has started to believe those lies himself.
I mean, does he spout all these false statements at an event in an attempt to keep the blind followers ‘excited’, or does he really believe this cult id doing well under him?
God knows but, what is factual is that scn keeps shrinking.
I believe he knows exactly what he is doing and has a planned exit strategy while someone else holds the bag when the house of cards fall and Miscavge will disappear
Hi Jeff Smith, A good point you bring up. I have had a similar thought for awhile. Dm will gather up all his ill gotten cash from wherever he stashes it around the world and poof! He will be gone. Does he appoint a new screw up as head of cos? I cannot wrap my mind around that one. But if the sand gets too hot under dm’s feet,he will run I think.Love, Ann
Miscavige running off with the loot? Yep. sounds like a plan. But then a new game really begins in earnest. Miscavige will be hunted like a prise trophy, especially by the whales when they realise he duped them. We haven’t began to see the hate he has generated. The only thing keeping his scalp on his head is the belief of his sheeple who fund his defence. When that is gone… release the hounds!
Taking the money and running is a sane choice but is DM sane?
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see a Fuhererbunker scenario.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7PmzdINGZk
he has a bunch of underground vaults to hide in. I believe most Sci watchers are of the opinion that he has used at least one of those to store gold/cash. as to where he could run to, idk if after being waited on hand and foot for his whole life and based on the hoarding acquisitive nature of his personality, he would be able to live the quiet life of a fugitive. my impression is that he’s cunning and has a high sense of self preservation, but is nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is.
The flip side hey? Just as realistic, heaven forbid.
Hi Jeff Smith. I actually said the same thing last night to my wife. He is going to rip off couple of million and flee to some country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US (if that exists). It would be in secret and he wouldn’t give a damn of what happens to the cult when he leaves. It would work out better for the church if he left, so I think it is best he stays to keep on destroying it from within. He is soooo good at it.
Each org is a kind of island.
I was never staff but from my understanding Class V orgs do not communicate with one another laterally, they only communicate with other orgs via the Command Channels. Per policy, the orgs are not in comm except when commanded to be for specific purposes. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong.)
So each org is limping but for PR purposes each puts out that it is doing well, or, at the very least, that there isn’t anything seriously wrong, while at the same time each knows very well how badly its doing, and, all the while it labors under the incredible delusion that it is the only org doing badly!
What a con! What a clay demo this would make! (Ok, I used to like to make clay demos, so sue me 🙂
Yes, this is an amazing con, while it lasts.
Dear Aquarmarine,
I was in the Sea Org from 1975-2003, was Flag Course Supervisor for a few years, was in the middle bureaucracy for 5-6 years, then worked in the computer branch for 2-3 years, then I worked in the fake literary agency that the royalty payments roll up to and other license agreements so money was able to legally flow up to Hubbard before he died, and my key zone was the administrative training of staffs.
I’d say in hindsight “we” looked like a busy Christian Science storefront fake church, at best.
Today, Scientology’s sticking with this busy looking glitzy storefront motif of the Christian Science movement’s storefront reading rooms.
Scientology’s “orgs’ are kind of glorified “reading rooms” where Scientology does their spiritual therapy training and delivery of it to each other.
Empty Christian Science storefront glitzed WAY WAY up! But even more empty, but a lot of pretend busy-ness.
No production of the superpeople who are supposed to be able to fly out of their skulls at will, when they become “Full Operating Thetan” status. None of them can soul fly, like they are supposed to be able to.
A lot of hopeful fake therapy brainwashing but none of them turn into super soul people who can soul fly.
They are caught up in a fantasy that none of them achieves.
And last but not least, let us not forget the use of foot tech to a whole new level, whereby David Miscavige stomps out counter intention in unprecedented amounts. This action is known as seeing the sole of COB.
Hi Gadfly, Laughter! Right above your post I posted about dm’s feet and here comes your post, even better! Love,Ann
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!! LOL
Banjos have been universally popular longer than Scn has been around. I would guess Miscavige may not even know what a banjo is.
I think the Ancient Aliens and Universe shows would love to know more about the compressed time and warp speed turning a year into a thousand years. I remember sitting on a porch once….had a six pack of beer and a nice cigar. Didn’t see eternity. So I tried another six pack and a couple joints….couldn’t see much of anything after that….maybe that was eternity?
Pot pie, the last I heard a banjo was in West Virginia. I didn’t stop running until I got to Ohio…
“We’ve arrived at the close of an all but mythic year,” Mr. Miscavige began.
If only there were some technology or method of checking the meaning of words like mythic before misapplying them. Or was it an accidental truth?
His statement is totally accurate. The expansion of Scientology is indeed a myth.
And here I thought that the Soviet Era was the golden age of BS.
Do the sheeple really avoid all internet and not know everything he says is bogus. They least have to realize the orgs are empty
As a contractor was leaving my house today, he saw my copy of Leah Remini’s book, “Troublemaker.” He asked about it and said that he had seen the “Going Clear” documentary. He was horrified at Scn.
He said one of his clients was a Scn and it was such a “weird experience.” He said he went to their house in the San Fernando Valley, and they would never let him talk to the owner. All he got were the assistants etc. And they wouldn’t let him see the owner. And they talked to him by phone within the house, never in person. He thought that was very creepy. And he saw tons of materials (probably Basics) all over the place and it looked like they were throwing them out. (Or they were just stored there since the church made everyone buy tons of the Basics packages, and because people couldn’t sell them, they ended up warehousing them at their own house.) He was pretty freaked out by the experience, so he went home and googled the owner and said he was one of the head honchos that gets others into Scn. So that could mean he was a Power FSM, or a recruiter or reg. He couldn’t remember the person’s name. I asked if it was a celebrity. He said no. But well off and expensive house. My guess is it was a Power FSM because staff members can’t afford houses and live on base. It goes to show you that so many people saw and were affected greatly by “Going Clear: the Prison of Belief.”
Did he talk about the Denver Ideal Orgs close location to Sports Authority Field at Mile High as the reason the Broncos are the number 1 seed in the AFC going into the playoffs?
AWESOME!
The Broncos are #1 because of the orgs OTC! They go to the games and with their super powers they can influence the ball while it’s in the air.
I do recall a guy who was my auditor when I first started telling me “you don’t have to worry about nuclear war anymore, there are too many OT 8’s out there”. That was in 1988 or 1989.
Yep! Good ‘ol OT8s! Stopping WW3, among other adventures. How many of them have died now?
LOL. That’s the best ‘fission’ I heard for a long time. OT8s defending us… LOL I know a couple of ’em… LOL
Did somebody say, “Balls?”
I don’t think the OTC would know balls if they hit them in their faces.
Looked on line and The Wise banjo company does not have much web presence. I think this Far Side panel is appropriate.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/16/42/aa/1642aaf027dff8ecf2845992366fc013.gif
Mike, Thanks for the synopsis of the event. How does Mousecavige justify the obvious continued downtrend of stats everywhere?
He’s trained everyone to believe that the stats are up EVERYWHERE else… except where that individual is. And since it’s only them, it must be THEIR fault! Really insidious. They go blank. Reminds me so much of what Ayn Rand spoke of in her “Atlas Shrugged”.
Yes Gman, this IS the modus operandi of The Tater-dicked, Dictator! (Mission-kid, you are out there…?) First addition of 2016…:)?
Every single Idle Morgue is filled to the rafters! Expansion is 436X. Scientology is on track to become the largest church in the world! EXCEPT YOURS!!!!! Yours is the only org that’s failing. Why? Because you’re all a bunch of CICSDBs!
Ayn Rand would agree with L. Ron that you “never reward a downstat” and there’s nothing wrong with smoking.
How many people, pay people that have not delivered what they promised?
I do it often just to get people off my lines. It is a pay to play world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCX-TETPgc8
The upstats live off the back of the downstats.
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P.S, When you can understand this, you can take responsibility for the “downstats”. Because they hold up the economy.
Objectivists don’t demand sacrifices.