Scientology has embarked on a self-promotional PR offensive (or perhaps it is merely some offensive “PR”) for the new year.
They are churning out paid press releases at an unprecedented rate. Straight up and vertical. Epic. And greater in the last 5 days than in the 247.5 days previously by a factor of 9.24X.
Of course, these releases are of dubious value, but they look good on their stats.
Here are their 4 most recent paid-for efforts to get some media:
If we look into these a little more closely…
Here is what shows up when you click on the first link:
If you bravely push on, you come to this:
Really impressive. Written by Linda Wieland in OSA Int, it shows an “interfaith” conference with CO OSA ANZO Vicki Dunstan and IAS Freedom Medal winner Churlya Wuerfel accompanied by 9 other people at least 4 of whom seem to be Asian. No mention of what religions united. Except that this event was actually organized by “Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light.” I don’t have the time to waste getting to the bottom of what this is, here is the first para of the Wikipedia entry about this organization and the guy who runs it: Lee Man-hee (born September 15, 1931) is leader of Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, an organisation that has been accused of being a cult. He is also a peace activist from South Korea and chairman of Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL), a non-governmental and non-profit organization for cessation of war and world peace.
This sounds awfully like a Unification Church offshoot — they have dozens of “world peace” front groups.
Who knows. Except it is likely even less reputable than scientology.
But it is somehow headlined as if this is “world religious leaders.”
It’s purely a photo op. This photo could be all 9 students and pcs on lines at AOSHANZO gathered together and told to make the “Loser” hand signal for a joke photo. Who knows…. (This is how Gold shoots such events – using shills to “represent” who “would be there.”)
Next up, a press release about the massive gathering of 40 people in Clearwater:
As you can see, another item written by the church and handed over with a check to get it “placed.”
The “story” is that Flag, the largest scientology organization on earth (by a factor of about 100) with 12,000 local scientologists (so they claim) managed to get 40 “associates, neighbors and community leaders” to gather together for a New Year celebration. Hell, I had more people than that in my house for our XMas party and there were 10 times that many at my son’s pre-school Xmas show.
Then we have the real laugher. Taken right off the scientology.org website, it is the hallucinatory story of the milestone New Years event in Los Angeles that I covered yesterday.
What is so funny is this: in the fourth para, it prominently reprints the insane, rambling “front porch of infinity” quote from Dear Leader David Miscavige. They actually sent this out to the world, hoping it would be picked up… Absolutely astonishing. I hope they sent it to SNL as it is wonderful material for their next parody.
And finally, the “Vets” story. And what a pathetic showing this one is too.
An unspecified (of course, it was probably the same two Tampa VM’s that go to every event) number of VM’s “The Scientology Volunteer Ministers” who “took part in” an event put on by someone else where 58 Vets were helped. Nothing wrong with helping 58 Vets. But to make a big deal about how “Volunteer Ministers” are doing such great work because they participated in someone else’s initiative shows that the reason for doing anything at all was ONLY so it could be turned into a “press release.”
This is the org that promotes itself as double SH Size and a model for all the world to follow. This is the region that claims 12,000 scientologists.
How could they not put on their OWN event to help vets and do more than hand out 130 items of “gently used clothing”? They should be embarrassed by this dismal showing, not crowing about it as some sort of milestone accomplishment.
What this flurry of paid releases tells us is:
- There is panic inside the bubble — the entheta media is drowning them and they see more coming on the horizon as we enter “awards season” (yesterday the editor of Going Clear (Andy Grieve) was nominated for the highest award in the editing world for his work). There is a lot more coming…
- There is so little going on in the scientology world that these feeble events and activities qualify as for press releases. One would think that with the massive international expansion and salvaging the entire education system of the Czech Republic, reducing drug trafficking in Colombia to nearly nothing and the psychs on the run in Italy and, and, and… there would be PLENTY of media coverage. And even if there wasn’t, they would be sending out paid releases about these amazing accomplishments? The reality is they are scared to put out anything that could be verified as a lie onto the media comm lines. So, they stick with the small and useless events and try to make them seem important.
- They get no pickup on these stories. But one show from Leah Remini or Alex Gibney and media around the world run with it.
Scientology PR is at is lowest-ever ebb.
But it hasn’t bottomed out yet. The entheta tide will continue to roll in. But unlike a tide, it won’t reverse direction any time soon.
Only the big boys got the money to do this, will the small companies are left with little chances.
Happy New Year Mike
LRH said “Never use lies in PR”.
But of course this was in a Policy Letter, and the Scientology Staff and public no longer follow Policy.
This is evidenced by the never ending donations strategy.
Just like a Government, they think if they throw money at a problem it will get solved.
If you look more closely at the dwarfs handiwork it is all designed to slow down or actually prevent Auditing and Training.
I recently watched a YouTube video of the dwarf rambling on about how he had salvaged the true work of LRH’s book Dianetics: the Original Thesis.
It was very clever how he spoke and the audience reaction to his cleverness. He droned on about all the reasons why the audience could not and had not understand the book.
I myself understood it perfectly when I read it so his summation was a mystery to me.
The dwarf is a very good and convincing speaker, you have to hand that to him although he is a totally suppressive loathsome bastard.
I don’t see this collapse you talk of, as long as there are still people who fall for his crap it will continue.
The thing that is most disgusting is that the people who join staff, and hand over all this money to keep this little shit in Scotch and cigarettes are not bad people.
They are that very rare breed who do want to help, they do want to improve mans condition and work long hours and with little pay to show for it.
Although I do not agree with the current scene in Scientology at all, I do not see anyone else doing anything worthwhile for man and woman except complaining.
TT, Hubbard may have said never to use lies in PR but he himself was a compulsive liar so any lying from the church is not incongruous with its founder’s example.
I, for one, don’t consider scientologists a “rare breed” who want to “improve man’s condition”. Claims of caring about mankind is the first refuge of the scoundrel. Anyone who thinks “man’s condition”, meaning his human nature, can be collectively improved is COMPLETELY out of touch with reality. Those who think they are going to save mankind are themselves walking corporations of insecurities, resentments and anxieties. Reformers want to dominate others and call it “helping them”. It’s an egotistical enterprise and nothing more.
Charles Dickens peppered his novels with such characters. They worked slavishly to help mankind while their personal lives and those around them went to shit. Sounds like one of those “rare breed” Sea Org members.
Apt posting, RogerH. Keep going!
Dear Truth Teller,
I totally agree that Shorty has no interest in actually getting tech applied, and his constant refrain that the books, auditing, and now even the Clear bracelets (!) were no good when LRH was alive and no one understood anything is a major inval of LRH (and older Scientologists) worse than anything anyone outside the church could concoct. While putting LRH on a pedestal where butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth they have made him totally irrelevant. However I do think that there are other efforts to truly help this planet – charitable efforts like Heifer International and many others.
Well said Mam,
As for the other reply its nice to see CS/ series 22 dramatized
Keeps my faith in the Tech going
Hi Truth Teller,
I like what you said and agree with everything but the one statement that Scientologists are “that very rare breed” of people who want to help. There are all sorts of people who want to help out there in the world; doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, clergy, people who volunteer for community service, etc. Just because someone is a Scientologist, and ‘wants to help’ doesn’t make them rare, it just makes them a good human being.
Scientology’s state of affairs has really made for a very happy New Year. Thanks everyone who contributed.
C’mon Captain Miscavige, as you stand on the Porch of Infinity, ready for another mythic year of monumental expansion of unprecedented and epic proportions, don’t you think its time to stop squandering all this epicness and monumentalness by associating with Louis Farrakhan and that Korean John The Apostle Wannabe – linking yourself with these so-called religious leaders who orbit the mere fringes of ecclesiastical society? Of course, it is exceedingly kind of you to allow them to position themselves with you, but Is it not time for you to be hob-nobbing with Pope Francis or The Supreme Governor of the Church of England (AKA Queen Elizabeth) – those whose stature and relevance qpproximate your own? Please, Sir, consider this seriously. The time is now!
Wow. What did they do…. Give the homeless vets touch assists?
Btw there is no word whatsoever about scientology in the Czech rep. Thank God. Maybe they are trying something but nothing worth mentioning in any media. We are really alergic to adopting anyone’s way of thinking after communism and we already have really abnoxious Jehova’s witnesses around here. So I hope we won’t allow scientology to invade our country on any form of major level.:)
Cult meet Cult.
Lee Man-hee, Founder/Leader/Messiah of Shincheonji , a “religious group” in Korea which believe that if you don’t believe that Mr. Lee Man-hee is the only way to salvation, you’re doomed. Only Mr. Man-hee is capable of correctly interpreting what is written in the Bible’s Book of Revelations, and what is written there will manifest ONLY thru him. Forget about the Apostle John, OK? Man-hee is your man. And in case you’re feeling skeptical, just read “The Creation of Heaven and Earth” written by Guess Who and all will be explained. Shincheonji utilizes a non-sectarian front group called ManNam to get recruits for it by offering free lessons in the Korean language to foreigners. The teachers of these free Korean lessons are volunteers and the cost is born by Korean members of Shincheonji.
Also, that’s Lee Man-hee front and center in the pic, and all of them are doing a hand signal that Shincheonji members use to wordlessly signal one another that they’re members.
You know, Aqua, I’m going to go out on limb and call it a cult. I know, I know, but, history will bare me out.
Dude,
High surf warning: up to 25 foot waves on West facing beaches in So Cal for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
And with the bacteria level through the roof, I will not be out there. Also, at my age, 6 ft. if as big as I surf now. “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
Scieintology: From the front porch of infinity to the back porch of oblivion, at light speed.
Front the front porch of infinity to right up the back passage of eternity….
From the front porch of eternity to the bottom of the bridge to re-re-re-redo their Student Hat, SRD & Purif…
Maybe dm is referring to infinity from a mathematical point of view. Something (any amount) divided by zero is infinity. Get the most from the sheeple and deliver nothing. That is the “front” porch of infinity!
“This sounds awfully like a Unification Church offshoot — they have dozens of “world peace” front groups.”
No, there are many MANY very weird Christianity-mixed-with-other-practices Korean religions out there. These guys may well be a cult, but they’re nothing to do with the Moonies.
excellent work:) thanks for sharing this! it’s important for people to see how much press they are suddenly paying for~ i think they are a bit late
These people are so pathetic ! Making the “loser” sign. Ha,ha,! I guess they meant to do the peace sign, but screwed it up, like they screw up everything else. They’re such a waste. They try to “put together a couple of tiny unknown cults and call it uniting the world’s religions. Is there a picture of the pope somewhere ? And how about the Jewish peoples and the peoples of Islam ? What a joke !
The Cult of Scientology manages to be on Infinity’s front porch while residing in public opinion’s back alley.
OSA, listen up. Another book is coming down the pike. Can’t tell you who’s writing it but I’ll dish the title: “The Life and Times of Captain David Miscavige – From The Slums of South Philly To The Porch Of Infinity.”
Dave,
From the fringe of the internet it looks like you are up Trout Creek without a paddle. Has the first wave of mud arrived on the porch of Building 50, your Club Med bunker on the fringe of Hemet? El Nino has kicked in and about 12 inches of rain is expected over the next 2 weeks. As a seasoned desert dweller, you know that the landslides occur during and AFTER the rains when the moisture softens the hillsides. Have a good Thursday at 2pm this week.
Hi threefeetback, I have no earthly or any other idea as to what dm does at any given second, but I love your post.I think he is up a raging river without a paddle and I could not be happier! Love, Ann
May the Lord deliver us from SPIN.
Amen!
David Miscavige calls 2015 a “mythic year” of “upward mobility that takes us to the front porch of infinity” to describe a year that has multiple mass shootings, the rise of hatred and racism as a political platform, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and oppression, severe drought in areas, and on and on. It was kind of a sucky year, really. Must be nice in the bubble of institutional insanity.
Mike, in the past these spurts seemed tied to trying to bury something negative that is grabbing headlines. So while I had also noticed they kicked into high gear, I was perplexed that the only thing they’re burying this time around is the tabloid reports on Tom Cruise selling his mansion near Saint Hill. Does it make any sense that that could somehow be perceived as entheta?
Does the Porch of Infinity have a bright light? If so, it’s a bug zapper and everyone should stay away!! zap……zap…..
The new motto for $camology PR: There’s no news like no news.
You know, that editor, Andy Grieve, really does know his business. The way the film rolls along and weaves the truly insane story from several talkers and creates this very real and coherent ambiance, this feeling that you are receiving the authentic story, a human tragedy, and then experience the joy of seeing all this deception and that which scn does – coming out in the open… Paul Haggis, man what a solid dude, thinking about his letter that went around the world. Jason, there’s the genuine article. Spanky Taylor being heartbroken because she couldn’t tell her friend, John Travolta, what was really going on… anyway the editing was indeed beautiful and seamless, taking all these hair-brained stories and putting it all together so cohesively. I bet he does get the award and rightly so. I’m very happy.
Finally, the world has other sources, other than scn, to find out what scientology really is, and how they would take everything you own, heartlessly extracting everyone you love from your life in the process. What is important to scn-gy? Your money, every last dollar and every dollar you should make in this lifetime and what else, free labor, all you have to give until you’re dead, and that is it. Thank god for the end of this story, yes.
Let’s get ready and watch this buggy burn.
Front Porch of whaaatzat you say ?????
Scientology has entered a Black Hole of no return.
Hell, falling into a neutron star would be bad enough.
Father Spears nodded and asked another question.
“I’ve never heard of the concept of screaming matter?”
“Well, I’m surprised that someone hasn’t thought of it by now.”
Your ETERNITY, Jose! I thought we’d kick back on my porch of eternity and drink a couple cold ones….
And some popcorn to watch the show.
OSD, does that eternity porch of your face the ocean?
My Spouse said something really amusing to me yesterday. As my spouse is someone who has never been involved in anything ‘church’ related and has a completely outside view that ‘DM is a Televangelist’. This made me LOLOL so much, It sounded silly but once I thought about it, It’s so true.
“Front porch of infinity?” Alright, who’s been slipping Slappy LSD in his scotch?
How ’bout a blowtorch to G-A-T.
The church has travelled at “warp speed” to arrive at the “front porch of infinity”? And where does the church go from that front porch? Does it ‘set a spell’ in the rocker before going into the “house”? Does it actually enter into the infinity upon whose porch it stands? And once inside that infinity, what are its astounding feats? Does it do a photo op with The Bunch of Nobodies Peace Conference then off to insinuate itself in a neighborhood charity effort?
David Miscavige, while boasting of a Beethoven symphony, is really giving us “I’m a Little Teapot” on his kazoo. That hyperbolic speech wasn’t a ridiculous exaggeration of moderate success, it was an act of desperation to pretend a year of disasters didn’t happen. It was so outlandishly false, instead of being reassuring it no doubt exacerbated many scientologists’ growing apprehensions.
Good God, will these knot-heads never learn English through their study “tech”?
myth
1. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
synonyms: folk tale, folk story, legend, tale, story, fable, saga, mythos, lore, folklore, mythology
2. a widely held but false belief or idea.
I guess the writer jumped out of the extravagantly “epic” frying pan and straight into the “mythic” fire.
The porch of eternity is a good place to be. Walk on in and you get to see the dustbin of history.
Maybe, just like ISIS doesn’t like the term Daesh, DM should be referred to as “MissedCabbage”. His little ego might be enthralled.
McDonalds is coming out with a new menu item for kids based on the Pope of Pompadour called Micsausage. Buy two and get a free cobbler.
Don’t want to nit pic, Mike. But I think you meant for your headliner to read, “Scientology offensive PR” not Scientology PR offensive.”
In any case, it communicates the sad state of affairs for miscavige and his clan.
I’m wondering how on earth they dreamed up their PR message of uniting religion with science? Did they actually do surveys on this or did miscavige just pull it out of his butt one day?
He pulled it out of his butt one day.
Actually, it could also be called, ‘PR Defensive.’ The cult is on the ropes and is fighting against an overwhelming avalanche of truth. Their petty attempts to gain credibility is as silly as the lies they tell.
Let’s see…infinity is by definition is an undefined value, and mythic is unreal. I haven’t felt so uplifted since the implosion of the Soviet Union. I should get a six pack of something, sit back and watch the collapse.
The “front porch of infinity”? WTF??? What a riot 🙂
Here’s a few more for you Dave…
The verandas of eternity
The attic of tomorrow
and my personal fav…
The gazebos of yesteryear
Happy New Year Dave!
Hi statpush, Thank you all my favorites too! And on the front porch of Infinity, Ron’s Hypnotic Rocking Chair, one rock and one is zapped eternal slavery.I keep forgetting it is DM’s dynamite give me all your money rocking chair now & go get back on that Comm Course! Laughter, Love, Ann
Oh dear…you brought up the gazebo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_and_the_Dread_Gazebo
Oh! Hands down! The Gazebos of Yesteryear…. So poetic, so beautiful, so inspiring…
The gazebos of yesterday…
Oh dear, Terry Pratchett would have had a field day with this…
The front porch of Infinity?
More like “not just of Death’s Door but well inside the foyer and studying the hat rack.”
wayfare has some really nice gazebo of yesteryear wicker that would look great on the porch of infinity..
http://www.wayfair.com/Yesteryear-Wickers-Gazebo-Collection-X287835.html
I’ve seen this happen over the past month. Nothing from any main stream media but Globe News Wire sure cranks out a lot of stuff. Little did I know information could be provided to them without them doing any actual reporting.
I imagine a room full of SO’s on computers, clicking on the scientology.org website to make it look like increased traffic in order to make it the first thing that pops up when you type in Scientology. The first being, of course, their paid ad.
My second post of the day – I forgot to say: the website by C of S has had issues in the past: a couple of months ago, my computer gave me notice of a virus immediately when I went to their site, it was a “trojan horse” and my Kaspersky anti-virus removed it. I seldom encounter this type of issue at any website, I was happy to have good anti-virus software installed, and did not return to their site.
Also: I’m late in this, but Wishing everyone here a very Happy New Year! 🙂 Thanks to Mike Rinder for this forum and great information and analysis of C of S.
Hmmm…Scientology…a virus? Yep, sounds about right 🙂
A real tasty one at that, stat! The virus turns people into assholes! And the really scary thing is that they really think this is the way they should be acting.
Bye bye Dave
Bye bye slappiness, hello IRS
I think you’re-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye Dave,
Bye bye little shit, hello screaming fits
You feel like you could di-ie
Bye bye DM goodby-eye
There goes Mike Rinder with-a someone new
He sure looks happy, you sure are blue
He was your minion till he broke free
Goodbye to slaughtered Scientology
Bye bye Dave
Bye bye slappiness, hello IRS
I think you’re-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye Dave,
Bye bye little shit, hello screaming fits
You feel like you could di-ie
Bye bye DM goodbye-eye!
Perfect morning giggle in case Mike’s article on their PR fail wasn’t enough! Love it but that tune will be stuck in my head all day…omg, tell me it’s not a BT!
Bravo! Excellent! Terrific post!
Ok, ok….I know. But, really? I mean if, “Yo, yo, yo. Big Mike! Was SuMP!” gets pulled, you wouldn’t have wanted to see some of my shows when I was a young man. But, it was a perfect play on a word! It was funny! And funny is always good……
I wonder if David Miscavige is writing his own speeches now? In my opinion, it was really bad. The first few lines had me frowning because: “mythic” sounds like mythical, or fantasy, unreal… I was wondering if it was some kind of joke on us, this mythic year? Then first “tick of time” had me asking myself, does time tick? Was their ever a first tick of time? When did it occur? Maybe this is an inside reference of some sort in their religion… but it was distracting, and my thoughts wandered away from what he was saying to ponder these questions and more. Then “front porch of infinity”, again, does infinity have a front porch, a physical address? And how does one arrive there? There would have to be some huge, massive movement of many peoples in an extreme way, if such a thing was even possible, and I don’t think Scientology’s shrinking numbers of members have done anything world-shattering in the past year, eh?The visuals in this speech really just don’t make sense. If a person finds themselves frowning through the speech (as I did) how effective is it?
Well stated, T.J. I thought perhaps that there was a definition of mythic that I didn’t know so I looked it up. Basically it is just make believe. Usual SCN cult lies.
myth·ic
adjective
adjective: mythic
of, relating to, or resembling myth.
“we explain spiritual forces in mythic language”
•exaggerated or idealized.
“he was a national hero of mythic proportions”
•fictitious.
“a mythic land of plenty”
My only visual seems to be wee Davey in a rocking chair on the porch, Corn of Cob pipe and all, the outlandish metaphors perplex me but they entertain me too.
Hi justmeteehee, This is getting really funny.First it was Gadfly’s post about dm’s feet that set me off.Now I post about rocking chairs before I had read yours, and there are the rocking chairs in your post! Love it! Love, Ann.
JMTH, I like your visual, but I think He’s been off his rocker for a long time now.
Hey, the dude is desperate! It’s like getting all your Facebook friends to click on your YouTube video and then trying to convince a major film distributor that you have a hit movie.
I would love for Miscavige to describe the “first tick of time” in more detail. When did this first tick happen and where? And who decided it was a tick? Miscavige did not say for whom time ticks, but it is obvious the time for the tick, tick, tick of oblivion for Miscavige has arrived.
I would love for Miscavige to describe his love for Shelly.
My husband and I were watching a Gordon Lightfoot special once and as he struggled through his old songs, I said “it’s sort of like he’s become a parody of himself.” Thats what these ads feel like. They are parodying themselves.
Someone — and I’m talking to you, Dan Sherman — needs to fully grasp the meaning of the word “infinity” because (I hate to burst your bubble) it’s impossible for infinity to have a front porch. I, on the other hand, DO have a front porch on a very pretty street in New Hampshire. It’s ideal for recovering copywriters who’ve succumbed to ill-conceived and non-sensical metaphors, adverbs, and adjectives.
If Dan and DM keep this up, they might be eligible for Social Security disability.
Ha ha, good one Robin.
fighting off the temptation this morning to go have a look at the comments at the underground bunker to see if anyone there shopped an Infinity car with a front porch…
Speaking of Social Security – do you know if members of a church are eligible for it or how that would even work? They aren’t paying into it, same with workers compensation. So do they get to take from it?
Social Security Retirement benefits are only for people who pay into it. Your payout depends on how much you made and how long you worked. Supplementary Security Income (usually just called SSI) is a Social Security program that guarantees an income to those who have never worked or are disabled and don’t have enough paid work to qualify for SS Disability. Current SSI payments are about $750/month for a single person and $1350 for a married couple.
Actually, per the CoS settlement with the IRS all SO Members who are not designated as Executive or Auditors actually do make social security contributions out of their “allowance”. Of course, Miscavige, as an executive is exempt. And the Church (at least the management organization corporations) does pay for for workers compensation – it has to as an “employer.” Most likely the above holds true for all the church’s corporations in the US. But don’t worry SO members and other church staff will latch onto any welfare and government funded type benefit they can, when they can. But of course LRH in policy consistently decries welfare as out-exchange.
Toot – It depends on whether the org, mission or sea org reported their “employees” wages to the IRS. From “Social Security – Understanding the Benefits” “You must work and pay taxes into social security in order to get benefits. . . .As you work and pay taxes, you earn Social Security “credits”. In 1999, you earn one credit for each $740 in earnings you have–up to a maximum of four credits per year. . . Most people need 40 credits (10 years of work) to qualify for benefits.”
Additionally there is a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) U.S. Government program which bumps up payments to about $750 per month for (I believe) anyone whose Social Security income is less than that along with food stamps. I mention this because it would be a lifeline to oldsters wishing to escape the cherch. Younger escapees would need to depend on various welfare and job training programs. The Affordable Care Act might also provide Medicaid for those kicked to the curb for medical reasons.
Just checked my yearly SS report as of 1998. I was SO staff ’77-’96. My estimated benefits at that time were 188$ a month when I turned 62. Of those years the only ones with SS earnings were ‘77,78,79,80,82,83,94,95,96,97 – 10 out of 20. I was not minister exempt. Basically I was screwed 🙂
Hi Cece, Yes screwed we both were.Now you are beautiful and free! You stuck it out longer than I could have.You are brave too.Love, Ann
No changes from before except that the insane leader thinks that the number of the particles of communication determines the Gross Income! This was one of the very first critics I was doing to LRH when Inside: it’s evident for anyone with something in his head that lies added to insanities, false promises, stupid explanations, won’t get a better result than a very few truths and well targeted words.
PS: to day, scientology was one of the three cults targeted in a well known show called “Toute une Histoire” on France 2 television.
“It is time to celebrate successes and resolve to look ahead to the possibilities off another year”. Is it just me,or does the fact that the article is dated jan. 4, 2016 make “the possibilities of another year” 100%?
Most ten year olds already know about the Front Porch to Infinity. That’s what it seems like to them when you ask them to sweep it.
Scientology: Telling hallucinatory stories on the front porch of infinity.
Hello Alonzo, I was wondering why you closed down the comments section of your blog. It’s nice to see you are still around. Richard (Clear? on your blog) (“decompression” completed! thanks for your help)
Vicki Dunstan and IAS Freedom Medal winner Churlya Wuerfel hey? I know that pair. Churlya has thrown countless amounts of money at miscavige,(she once had a retail shop in the Queen Victoria Blding in Sydney if memory serves me) I’m assuming that is the truth behind why she was given that medal. Wow, I knew her way back in the 80s & she’s still stupid. Vicki is just a pain in the butt, always was. She’s the type of person that after you’ve talked to her, her words and concepts hang around, bouncing inside your head for days looking for a way out. An extremely out-ruds type of person, spreads enturbulation by existing.
It’s an understatement of humiliation when you’re reduced to having to self create and then buy time for your own “good news” for the media in lieu of it occurring naturally. What a bizarre bunch of people.
Nice one I Yawn! LOL………..
” An extremely out-ruds type of person, spreads enturbulation by existing.”
Yo Dave,
You be the top notch mentor for this behavior good buddy and these days every member of Your cult seems to do the same!
Speaking of spreading enturbulation by existing, I see your underlings Bodi and Jenna Elfman have stepped in it one more time with their racist slurs about the Native Americans and they even managed to toss in a reference to the Jews. Are you going to give them one of your Freedumb thingies for it? Dave, you are a bad (really bad) joke.
https://otviiisgrrr8.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/chief-ferocious-jew-squaw-hot-momma/
I’m on the front porch of infinity. Should I wipe off my shoes?
Yes, and be sure to drive up in your Infiniti.
Looking out in the yard from the “front porch of infinity”, I clearly see the outhouse of insanity. And just beyond, I see the mother ship. There coming for you Slappy!
Whoa! Are you sure you want to go there is right! Is it true Mike that CO$ has only 40,000 members
IF that many at all. The org and missions surely don’t demonstrate nearly that many. And if one simply requests ACTIVE members, the numbers would crater.
We in Global Capitalism HQ have a certain skill with numbers and estimating things and we have tracked available data to come up with estimates of cult membership. I would say that a number more like 21,000 to 23,000 worldwide, including staff and Sea Org, is more likely at this point, with membership declining at a rate of about 1,000 per year, with approximately half of that from deaths of older members and about half from defections.
The 40,000 number comes from the American Religious Identification Survey in 2008 and is subject to significant potential for inaccuracy because it is below the survey’s margin for error.
It is especially important to note that this number was published before the Debbie Cook e-mail, which caused a significant number of people to wake up and blow the cult, so even if that number were accurate when it was published, membership likely has shrunk by at least 20% to 30% since then within the US.
JPC,
Have you been sending out second-string supermodels to do Central Files volunteer work for data collection and use as a tax deduction at Global HQ?
I would guess that if one could add up the individual family members, that they have affected through their disconnection policies, it would probably equate to 40,000 or more. The disconnected network though would speak out against the church, to family, friends and at the office, more than the 40,000 people that are in the church would. Most of those still-in should be and probably are embarrassed to be part of that cult. These estimated numbers would indicate the church heading one way fast, and it isn’t 47X’s up.
40, 000 members? As one wit observed a few years back, that’s not even a good Mets game.
Mike, I take your point(s) but just yesterday this nonsense showed up on YAHOO news, hardly a seedy and corrupt manufactured outlet. Nowhere did it state that this was an advertisement or “sponsored content.” This is appalling, especially after the Atlantic magazine backlash. Honestly Mike, how the hell did C.O.B. manage to pull off this bit of larceny?
yahoo.com/news/scientology-welcomes-2016-following-unprecedented
It’s easy. Pay for it. Just like the Atlantic.. And then as it becomes known (like you informing us here) it blows back. I removed the link so it’s not generating any additional views. But perhaps now some readers will send their thoughts to Yahoo for being at the beck and call of paid Press Release services. Little wonder Yahoo is rapidly going the way of AOL and MySpace.
Exactly, Mike! Yahoo is pathetic. My previous email account turned into a spam generator. The “news” section has poorly written & contradictory opinion-piece articles about everything from finance to dieting to space exploration on the front porch to infinity and beyond. Many times those contradictory pieces are posted sequentially right next to each other. If anyone believes everything/anything they read on Yahoo maybe to them the Co$ IS a reputable source of info and a great place to just go socialize and hang out with their pals!
@anthony when I started working with a friend of mine he had two email addresses but gave out his yahoo one because he believed it was easier for people to remember. I said, really? It just makes you look like a yahoo. He no longer gives out that email address and uses the one connected to his domain.
People don’t use yahoo which is why yahoo will accept scientology’s dollars. They are both circling the drain together. Forbes even wrote an obituary for yahoo in 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/04/17/who-killed-yahoo/
There are people who still use Yahoo ? I’ve always thought it was a mess, especially when they tried to distribute the malware that is their toolbar (default option) with Java updates.
Next you’ll tell me there are people who use Bing as their search engine.
@Kemist. Bing? The only Bing I ever liked was Chandler. You’re right. If I see Yahoo anywhere, I run as fast as I can. I wouldn’t have discovered a “news” story on Yahoo because I wouldn’t have been there in the first place.