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Scientology ideal scene -- North Korean Generals displaying their baubles of dubious distinction

Scientology ideal scene — North Korean Generals displaying their baubles of dubious distinction

Apparently the higher up the scientology “Bridge to Freedom From Your Money” you progress, the more gullible you are to being led around by the nose ring of shiny trinkets.

They dangle these little items in front of the sheeple with as much tact as The Publisher’s Clearing House.

Here is the latest offering — directed exclusively at OT VIII’s.

If you re-do all your bottom of the bridge stuff, you will be awarded a “pin” that announces to one and all “Get Ready for OT IX and X” (just to be a nit-picker, why doesn’t it say “I am Ready for OT IX and X”? Because undoubtedly the prerequisites will be more than just redoing the Purif, redoing Objectives, redoing Student Hat and redoing Solo Auditors Course. At some point Miscavige will probably reinstate “Class IV auditor” to the line-up. At another time he had Class 6 but that no longer exists. But who knows, the new GAG Class 6 with fully edited Briefing Course tapes may be coming soon and then everyone will have to do this before they can start whatever they are going to foist off as “new OT IX and X.”

But, in the meantime, as the IAS and Ideal Org fundraisers have proven, nothing gets a dedicated scientologist moving in the direction he is supposed to go better than the offer of some more lapel candy. Some of these people are starting to look like North Korean generals with all the pins they stick in their lapels.

 

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  1. OSD, Ann, Joe, and all you other brave folks, I’ll be posting on my own word press blog about my story starting tonight or tomorrow. Look for Pat Sheehan or I’m no one’s patsy anymore.

    I have so much to tell you good folks. 😉

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  2. Some of the material I’ve been reading:

    I was approached in 1981, when I was 15 years old, to join staff and work for the Mission of Steven’s Creek. I was asked to sign a five year contract. So was my little brother, only 13 years old…I was recruited by a Sea Organization Recruiter from the Church of Scientology of Clearwater. He told me he was from the Flag Personnel Procurement Office. An important sounding name. The recruiter was dressed in a navy uniform and explained to me that the Sea Organization was an elite group of well organized Scientologists dedicated to resolving all the worlds problems using the new discoveries of L. Ron Hubbard about the mind and life…My mother was drunk at the time and she saw my enthusiasm, was intimidated by the guy in a navy uniform and she signed the parental consent. My little brother was there and he wanted to come with me. She signed a consent form for him too. He was only 14 years old…There were thousands of hours I spent working on my sleep time on “all-nighters.” In 1993, I added up how many hours of actual sleep time I’d been given and divided it by the number of days in that year. The average of sleep time I got in 1993 was 2.5 hours a day! ALL YEAR. 1994 was better, I averaged about 4.5 a night all year…I developed health problems and emotional problems just from the stress of never sleeping and some work related injuries. I had to quit staff. Or they kicked me out for not being as productive anymore. Whichever. I left. I “routed out” which took me three years of being forced to confess to sins and evil intentions. I just started making things up after a while. It was not fun. I totally understand why others have chosen to skip the “route out” step by simply leaving. I found it oppressive and challenging to my sanity…
    http://exscientologykids.com/maureenbolstad-story/

    When you come to the end say, “Tell me about it again. Where were you when Daddy was talking?” “Tell it again.” Or, simply, “Let’s see now, you were sitting on the couch when Daddy says—what does he say?” Any simple phrase which will return the child to the beginning of the scene may be used…Children understand “Tell it again.” They love to hear stories over and over again, themselves, and they love to tell their stories to an interested audience. But don’t be overly sympathetic. Show affection and interest, yes. But don’t croon or moan, “Poor baby, poor little thing!” or similar phrases. To do so may tend to prompt the child to consider the injury or upset valuable in that it got him special attention and sympathy…The more you can enter a child’s reality, the better you will be able to help him. Imitate his voice tones, his “Yeah!” “You did!” “And then what?”—adapt yourself to his graphic mimicry, widened eyes, breathless interest…If the child is in grief, a good way to begin is, “What are you crying about?” After a child has told what he is crying about a few times, each time being helped by questioning about the incident, and when his crying has abated (become less), you may ask, “What else are you crying about?”…Don’t try to stop a child from crying by simply telling him not to cry. Either handle the incident that caused the crying by asking what happened and getting him to tell about it until he is laughing, or let him cry it out while you caress or hold him…
    http://www.scientologycourses.org/courses-view/children/step/read-last-part-child-upset-handling.html

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    • Eamonn – Thanks for sharing your interesting story. I hope the sea org has totally stopped recruiting children. They may still be getting away with it in foreign countries.

      I never had children but I scanned the Scn site. It seemed to have some good tips but the process type handlings might be complicated for some people. Best, Richard

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      • Hi Richard

        “I never had children.”

        Neither did I — decided not to (didn’t feel it would be fair for them to have a grandfather who was a rapist).

        My mother was a young nurses’ aide who was raped and became pregnant. Due to religious (Catholic) influences/teachings she was mentally coerced against having an abortion. I was born as a result. This happened mid-50s in Northern Ireland. I had a mentally abusive childhood as she had unresolved mental problems owing to what had happened to her.

        “Thanks for sharing your interesting story.”

        That wasn’t my interesting story — it was Maureen Bolstad’s (if you click the link at the bottom of the piece, you will be able to read the rest of it).

        Thanks

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        • Hi Eamonn Gosney, Good to see your post. Following Richard Hello! & your comments I thought I might add that I too never had children.All my younger sibs have and have felt for years I should not be part of all their children’s’ now grown lives because I did not have any.
          Truth be told my late Mom beat me weekly sometimes daily from age five or so until 15 when I told her never to touch me again.All knew of this but concurred it was my fault not hers.My late Dad was traveling the world with Wall St and was not engaged in anyway with my Mom’s stuff,She did what she wanted.Not maternal to me at all.
          Then on an island at 15 I was brutally raped by a family friend who was 30. My parents believed him not me and I was the baddie in the act.So not true it was unbelievable.So on I went with my secrets and lies.It was tough.
          I wanted badly a child or two but then medical stuff and a miscarriage took over at 39. The point of all this is I feel for all children and want them all safe and strong and loved.That is why I hate what the Sea Org and Ron dm do about kids.I felt so bad for those SO kids in the old children’s org years ago at Asho D & F.Thank you.I will be in touch Eamonn.XO Ann.

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  3. I think there is a misspelling in the bulleting for OT8’s, it reads
    please let me what you missing” shouldn’t it be “please let me KNOW what you missing”?

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  5. I heard OTIX and X should actually be delivered away from earth trafic and wavelength. What LRH always intended is a spaceship orbiting around the earth to deliver ACTUAL OT levels! You may now donate for the OT spaceship! We are coming back!

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      • Well after you complete IX and X and you are eligible for XI and XII (donating anything left) you will be able to do OT levels without the empediment of a MEST body and will join LRH at the other end of the bridge that he is not so lonely on the stars. Your MEST body will be put into the desintegration room and fully vanished then as a being you get free of any anchors points which might limit your progress on very advanced levels.
        For LRH hip hip hourrah! and thank to COB. Hoping, he’ll go first and soon do the advanced levels non empedimented.

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  6. Mike,

    I read in some order that lrh wrote: NO ONE WAS ALLOWED OR PERMITTED TO CHANGE WHAT THE SOURCE HAS WRITTEN.

    Then why is dm getting away with all the shit he’s CHANGED? And he’s now making everyone do everything all over again?

    That’s a violation of SOURCE and I can smell a LAWSUIT! Something like this is/can be permitted to be brought to Court.

    DM cannot change the SOURCE AND HE DID!

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    • He always makes sure to proclaim that everything is done “as LRH” intended. It’s all covered in “advices” he left behind.

      No such lawsuit would ever work in the US as it would violate the precedents about religious disputes not being justiciable under the First Amendment.

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      • Yep, even though the Old Man covered that eventuality in his “hidden data line” PL. I guess none of the sheep recall that one though. Or don’t care.

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        • It’s what I believe is known as window dressing. Or smoke and mirrors. Or bullshit. The more distance one gets from this subject and the organization, the more it obvious it becomes as to just how much of what he wrote or said was just that.

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          • Paul – True what you say. Strangely, even after very many years out, a piece of scn here and there seems to take a “pull” at me. It’s probably something he plagiarized mixed into the bullshit – lol

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            • Well, there’s certainly enough of it which you could say has workabilities, usefulnesses and/or just plain common sense that gives it that veneer of validity and is what probably attracts most people initially. How much of it was plagiarized is difficult to say and is almost irrelevant. Some of it works and can produce positive results. Hubbard stated something to the effect he’d be offended if you believed everything he said without a subjective test of it for oneself. (That he also wrote KSW1 – amongst many other stark examples – just demonstrated how disingenuous he actually was.)

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      • Yeah, I know that, Mike.

        I’ve heard it all – So what, fight it! The little dick changed the so-called SCRIPTURES!!!??? Whatever happened to lrh’s word being solid gold that people lived and died by? I don’t believe a new source can have the right to change the original source.

        And what about finally PROVING that this is NOT a religion and it’s nothing but a pyramid scheme? (Among other criminal acts.) There’s so much that can be done to prove it’s not a religion – if everyone just floods the IRS and the JUSTICE DEPT., and forces them to take another look at this insanity! The world has to be saved, yes, but from SCIENTOLOGY!!!

        Also, the sci-fi FREAKS are fucking with psychiatry and hypnotism and none of them have a license to practice. Get them for fraud and malpractice. Jesus, you guys just have to fight back!

        DAMN, HAVE A FEW MILLION PERSON MARCH ON WASHINGTON IF YOU HAVE TO!!!

        You guys can’t just give up that easily!

        LAWS WERE MADE TO BE BROKEN – CHECKS & BALANCE (You know the drill) – THE SUPREME COURT CAN HEAR THE CASE ON APPEALS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS! (Once the polls stop fighting over choosing a new justice to replace Scalia, that is.)

        C’MON FOLKS, DO SOMETHING!!! TO HELL WITH THESE FREAKS!!!

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        • Are you complaining that other people aren’t acting? That’s a bit hypocritical don’t you think? You don’t even post under your real name.

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          • I HAVE posted under my real name and gave it FREELY right HERE, or did you forget? Or have a brain fart??????

            I liked “WOG WINNER” better since the sci-freaks degrade non-sci-freaks with that tag. I guess you just happened to skip right by that one, right???

            What I’m saying is, is not enough is being done, and you of all people know that! The government has to be inundated with more testimonies that folks are NOT getting what was promised to them when they joined, to prove this is nothing but a pyramid scheme. A few law suits here and there are not going to cut it. Proof: they still have tax exempt!

            This CRIME needs MORE advertising. As the little dick is doing advertising on TVs and at games, and whatever, SO DO WE HAVE TO DO THE SAME! Can you understand that much?

            Also, in no way am I including the older folks in this. I know all about age and illnesses, I’m old myself. Been fighting this group for over twenty-eight years; wrote letters, called the FBI, and etc., etc., and etc.

            And Mike, I’m no more a hypocrite than you are and YOU know that!

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            • YEah, must be a brain fart. Who are you and why don’t you use your real name even in this comment if you have “given it freely right here”? What are you afraid of?

              And what are you doing exactly to change the condition you complain about, i.e. “not enough is being done”?

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              • You’re repeating the same old answer. That’s your contention? You have no response to my comment but the same you’ve already posted? … Pathetic! … YOU know who I am! END OF SUBJECT!

              • Sorry, I know you think you are someone I know. And perhaps that is true. But I havent got a clue as you write this. Please refresh my recollection. You are just not someone that is on my radar screen and yet you keep asserting this is the case without identifying yourself. Very strange circumstance.

                And as for your threatening comments that I have not posted here, if you were more polite, didn’t call me names in ALL CAPS and accuse me of being “afraid of the truth” — let’s just start at the beginning.

                You identify yourself and lay out your history and experience and what you are doing and there will be a basis for some sort of dialogue. Not a tough request — you have said you have identified yourself. And I don’t recognize you. I dont know everyone admittedly, but I have asked you a few times now to simply identify yourself and you continue to refuse to do so.

            • SSSShhhhhh. Mike relays truth so people are not led by false hope. That is a good thing. You can contribute to that motion. I know you are frustrated, it’s not easy to be calm, when there’s something going on.

              Pick one thing, that is right, and that will end your fight. We may not be here tomorrow, but we can still be right.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DsYmxznWA

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              • Hi The Oracle, It is Sat Am here in Baton Rouge and Spring is starting to hop along! I wanted to wish you all good things in your life and tell you I carry a piece of your posts to me in my heart everyday. Always Thank you for your warmth , love and the voice of reason.Sure helps me when I feel rocky or Opps did I post something wrong to some-one?Then I think of you & sunshine and friendship from you makes me happy at that moment.
                I was thinking hard that perhaps the reason some feel I am too hearts rainbows and flowers with my posts skipping through the fields may be valid at times!A good editor would get on me for this I’m sure.But I do not need a good editor right now (smile)and I know I can get super sensitive. I think the reason I want to be as welcoming and positive and flow light love & laughter as I can her, is because I was so so hurt and battered the last Sea Org Year. I do not want to have the same back at me and I do not want to hold a grudge about any one.I am just to glad to be Alive & Out and as healthy as an old lady with cancers racing around inside looking for a place to land can be.
                Plus my passion lies in helping any who have escaped the Sea Org and might need to talk or want some one to listen.I can do that! I love you The Oracle thank you for letting me emote here.XXOO Ann.

  7. Does this sound like the beginning of the end?: 1) Extorting money in exchange for nothing… straight rip off IAS 2) OT VIII’s redoing the bottom of the Bridge because there is no where else to go and 3) Promoting the next, non existent levels (OT IX & X)

    This is burning your bridges ahead of you, not behind you. There is no future for this cherch.

    If you have not seen SurvivingScientology from 3 days ago, take a look at it. It is the true face of a fake religion that should not be tax exempt or exist in our civilization.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mt9RsvEjW0​

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  8. Most of the people that paid for OTlX and X, did so in the mid 80’s. Truth is, they were the older, more successful, folk back then, mainly in their late 50’s and 60’s. Some in their 40’s.

    Miscavige put the customers on “wait” for over 30 years for OTlX and X, and pushed edited books instead. The majority would not even be alive today to do the OT levels they paid for, to get that ship moving in circles.

    I guess he thought it was easier to let them die than to throw them a bone. OTlX will never be released. It would be too much of a P.R. flap now for 12 or 20 folk to show up for it. All of those people were defrauded, as those OT levels did not exist when they were sold to people. Mass Marketing Fraud.

    Mass marketing fraud generally tries to trick you into handing over your hard-earned money or personal information for the promise of future prizes, products, or services that never come.

    https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2010/june/mass-marketing-fraud

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  9. I wonder how many thousands of dollars they will have to spend to get the “honour” of owning a little piece of metal worth about five cents (being generous there). Dwarfenstein has already completed OTIX and X, probably somewhere between the second and third of scotch the same night he came up with the idea.

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  10. Just a thought, and whenever Black Hear decides to get more ‘sales’ by asking the OTs to do the Briefing Course it may not be that difficult if Miscavige keeps violating KSW Tech Degrades by cutting material due to too many semi-colons, editing tapes to prevent the student to get confused, prohibiting to use the dictionaries recommended by LRH and using only glossaries; exactly as he did with St Hat and Grades.

    Poor blind OTs, but, up to them really.

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    • Silvia: From what I’ve been told, the Saint Hell Stupid Briefing Course could be cut down by 25 percent or so if the tapes were edited to remove L. Fraud’s digressions and incomprehensible attempts at jokes, without losing anything important. So maybe some “elimination of semi-colons” would be appropriate in this instance. Yeah, it violates KSW, but we all know that DM’s revised the definition of that. And as for Tech Degrades, who’s going to complaint about that? Only the hardcore Ronbots, and DM got rid of them a long time ago.

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  11. Dave,

    How in the world can you be ready for 9 and 10 without an Ideal Yacht (sorry, Ballmer’s “Octopus” is wayyyy out of your league) to replace the Rustbucket?

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  14. Off topic question Mike, just watched part one and two of your interview on growing up scientology. I really enjoyed it. Will there be a part three?

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  15. They forgot to list prerequisite number 5, a thorough eligibility sec-check, because you never know what those miscreant OTVIIIs have done!

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    • Laughter! The sec checks are going faster now that most of them are using walkers and have been out of the work force for decades. They are going to have to make new sec checks for these public if they want some dirt.

      Did you fail to eat all of your oatmeal?
      Did you fail to clean your dentures?

      etc etc

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  16. If he’s not careful, Regraded Being will find himself out of material, on account of the cult becoming too much of a parody

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    • The reasons they call the pin, “Get ready for OT IX and X” instead of “I am ready for OT IX and X” is because you are never ready for the next thing because they keep adding on more and more prerequisites as a way to make money. It’s the old Peanuts’ Lucy yanking the football out of Charlie Brown’s reach when he goes to kick it.

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  17. OH Please !!! I worked late and woke up to this ?
    A Time Travel Photo of OT 10’s ready for OT 11 and 12.?
    The front line management of the RTC?
    Somebody spiked my YUBAN SPECIAL BLEND ?.

    This is EPIC Miscavige of course.
    No doubt the OT 15 meter is in the works now
    and 5 th revision of Basic’s,Tech Vols,etc.

    Mike,
    whoever supplied you with this photo should get a pay raise.

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  18. I just received another nasty-gram from miscavige’s henchman, Bert Diexler, for the horrible crime of using some words. Apparently miscavige owns the word “the.”

    Makes me wonder if they already trademarked, “Get ready for OT IX and X.”

    If so, those of you who are planning to make your own pins should hurry before you get sued by Bert via Davey.

    These people get creepier by the minute.

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    • Well, the thing is, they send a LOT of threat letters. But never follow up with a lawsuit. They filed ONE suit in the last 20 years. That was against Debbie Cook. Ended up being mauled and running with their tail between their legs before the first hearing was even concluded…

      Let’s see if they sue Merrill Vannier and Co.

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      • What is most astonishing is they have the gall to accuse me of capitalizing on the “good will” of scientology.

        Honestly, I have fantasies about being in court and having Diexler and Miscavige try to prove that.

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        • Oh Les, that is priceless. Yes, they have built a wonderful reservoir of “goodwill”, it is positively brimming over the spillway, flooding the porch of eternity with enlightenment, butterflies and rainbows. Did you catch any of the tweets after the ads aired on the Grammy’s (in select cities…)? Tells you all about their “goodwill”… Frankly, distancing yourself as far as possible from the tainted subject that is scientology today is probably the best legal advice you could get. Reminds me of the line in the Hitchman film “don’t associate me with those people, that’s bad manners…”

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          • Mike and Les

            Yes, Scientology Goodwill is like “anti-matter” … it ruins what it touches. It has very negative value.

            I suggest you tell Bert to send you a check, because you are one of the few people giving it a good name.

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        • If you were capitalizing on the good will of Scientology, you’d be in the poorhouse. It’s like capitalizing on the ski resorts in Qatar.

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  19. I doubt he and his brainwashed “techies” will ever be able to do something looking as one of these hubbardites Scifis, with any sort of “EP” behin,d: OT IX and X have never been written neither existing.

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  20. I continue to be gobsmacked by david miscavige’s “strategy” and I continue to be utterly flummoxed that after so many defections of parishioners and of key personnel, the obvious decimation of any checks and balances, the heavy regging, the re re redos, the altered promises, the major TV station exposes, the myriad of newspaper articles, the books, the internet articles, the blogs, and the various documentaries that ANYBODY is buying this shit anymore.

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    • I reckon he’s just getting warmed up. His looney tune is loud and clear in his numbskull. I’ve seen prettier track wrecks that his organisation of flunk.

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  22. I suspect he will indeed make the BC a prereq to OT 9 & 10. That will give him a few more years to dangle the wonderful “benefits” of those levels. Plus he can come up with a special building for 9 & 10 only as the ship will of probably sunk by then. I guess by 2025 he will give a grand speech that 9 & 10 are only months away. I suspect by that point in time he will only be talking to SO members.

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    • Potpie, I….I don’t understand! Why are you so cynical? I mean, they’re going to give you a pin! A PIN!!! I’d confess all my crimes for a cool pin like that. But, I’m probably too much of a DB with BTs…

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  23. I’ve always found it confounding when Scn “management” would announce something, then a year later contradict themselves. Some that come to mind:

    Key to Life/Life Orientation were prerequisites for Super Power. All staff needed to get through KTL/LOC so they could do Super Power.

    KTL/LOC will 3x your Bridge progress

    All orgs must be Saint Hill Size before OT 9 & 10 could be released (apparently by LRH’s instructions).

    All orgs must be Ideal before OT 9 & 10 could be released

    Class 6 is a prerequisite for OT 9 & 10.

    10,000 Solo NOTs auditors are needed to salvage the planet (based on a precise mathematical formula – yeah, no shit)

    10,000 Solo NOTs auditors are needed based on an LRH Policy which roughly states, ‘…at any given time there are only about 10,000 people on the planet capable of doing a little steering’. And of course, anyone on OT7 is a natural born leader.

    Getting through your Basics will reduce your TEs by 2/3rds (promoted when The Basics were released)

    GAT will produce 100% Standard Auditors (but Flag training is better)

    After a few years of this you begin to wonder “who’s driving this bus?” or “is anyone driving the bus?” It really starts to feel like they are making this shit up.

    When I look back it is hard to find ANY proclamation that was proven to be true, much less fulfilled.

    Mike, I know this was not your area, but maybe you know how these “big” strategic ideas come about?

    And was scotch involved?

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    • These big “strategic ideas” ALL involved SELLING something or MAKING MONEY. They are sales gimmicks pure and simple.

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        • It’s always couched in terms of “I am the only one that can make these things a success” and “I have a plan to increase SOR because you are all too incompetent to come up with anything” and “look how much money I made for SOR/IAS without ever asking anyone for money” and “you guys want to throw stuff away and not get a return on it, you treat all this as if it had no value,” etc etc etc

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    • I don’t think “who’s driving this bus” is the question to ask. What I want to know is how many suckers are getting run over and then backed over by this bus, and when will this bus finally run out of gas.

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  24. Obviously they are desperate to get people back in the fold. So many emails ask what courses have been completed and what is missing. What does this say about record keeping back at the orgs? They should not need to ask what OTs have done and not done. Duh.

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    • I believe the intent of emails like this is just to try to get some communication out of anybody out there – to see who’s still listening – who might still be interested – like throwing spaghetti to the ceiling to see what sticks.

      On another NOTE: I have an friend who recently got an email from Maggie (Freewinds OT Ambassador IC) that the heavy regging on the ship has stopped. Insane.

      “Oh Thank you! I’ll be right there. You can continue to rip me off for extraneous auditing and torturous sec checking, but so glad I will no longer be heavily regged.”

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    • They’re supposed to keep records? News to me. I thought with their Super Pooper Powerz they could remember everything and not have to write anything down. That’s a crack in the wall for me. I doubt I’ll go back now…

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  25. There are people I truly care for (and some I don’t) who are still in and are OTVIII — for the first or second time. It’s impossible NOT to imagine their response redoing these steps. I can’t help but hope it pushes them closer to the door.

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  26. Someone ought to make a cheap tin knock-off on these pins and just plop down a few thousand all over the Tampa area and LA. Freedom of Speech, baby And at the same time, also little flyers that just say “OT IX and X are coming soon!” When I get ideas like these, I almost wish I was in the US of A. (Imagine handing them out on Sunset and Vermont!)

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  27. So, let’s take some pins that were made back in the ’80s that were buried in the back of the warehouse, polish them off and use them as part of the money grab.

    Oh, skip the polishing part. The layer of silver is so thin it will all come off if you touch them.

    There, that’ll reel them in for another decade.

    Now who hasn’t redone their Purif this week? Grant? Bob? I’m looking at you.

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  28. Hmmmmm … now when you complete the four steps, are you “ready for OT IX and X”, or are you “FULLY ready for OT IX and X”, and then do you receive your “Get ready for OT IX and X” pin or as at the end there, a “GETTING ready for OT IX and X” pin????? World clearer! OH World clearer! I need some help please, I’m confused and per WC Series 16R, I want to find my misunderstood world. It must be me.

    Do these “Scientologists” even KNOW about Axiom 28, you know … the source part wanting to be duplicated and understood at receipt point?

    Well, in any case, I’m betting on “GETTING ready” instead of “fully ready” cause you KNOW those four steps ain’t the end of the pre-reqs, ha ha, for “OT IX and X.”

    Now, on to the speculation of how they’re gonna come up with these, cause I’m starting to think that they NOW have to come up with SOMETHING. I mean, what if Duggan or Nancy actually learn how to do TR3/4?

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  29. Hi Mike, Oh boy what a Pin!! The most incredibly designed piece of pot metal- I have never seen better.Soon with all the pins in their lapels and on their chests,these ” great OTs ” will step forward and fall on their faces! Love, Ann.

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    • Mat, you might want to take some time off of cult watching just to refresh your mind. Because, the only thing you’re EVER going to get is massive amounts of STUPIDITY. Stupidity beyond human emotions. Stupidity of the kind that you’ll have to explain the difference between ‘shit’ & ‘shineola.’ Stupidity of the kind not seen on this planet for trillions of years. So, yeah, take a breather, Mat! You deserve it….

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    • On the floor!!!!!!! 2FF! Hysterical! Dang my ribs hurt from that one. You summed it up for me there. Thanks Boo, I needed that.

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  31. I’ve spent as much time as I could or dared in my life pursuing fishing. I got right into fly fishing for many years and the most peculiar thing happened when I finally started having success with it (& my wife loves fresh fish!). I started feeling compassion for the fish and began frequently adopting catch and release because it was becoming easier and easier to fool them. Oh the chagrin I got sometimes for letting them go!
    However, the trap of using feather and steel coupled with increasing knowledge of insect and trout behaviour made catching them a lot easier (it’s still tough, but just easier). It resulted in the more I adopted the mindset of being a predator, the more fish I caught. I developed experience along with a better understanding of the tools required. And so it is with scientology with this aspect of employing shinny trinkets & pushing the freedom/help button. From whichever aspect you view scientology a definite predator/game relationship exists.
    For better or worse I became to a degree technically proficient with scientology auditing back in the day. To see it actually written in that email that people have to redo actions again is so wrong on so many levels and violates so many technical delivery aspects of their technology I’m lost to explain it any other way than they are simply predators. The aspect of overrun is incredibly damaging but they don’t care what their HCOBs say. They want that fish flapping on the bank.
    Scientology delivery in the orgs is a sickness and results in a disease of the mind.

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    • Nice story! You nailed it with the “predators”. Like predatory lending, there is now predatory “enlightenment”. Laughter! Those seeking “help” become prey. The customers have become prey. Laughter! The herd is thinning out and what is remaining is a moving target. Laughter! Lord have mercy….

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    • “From whichever aspect you view scientology a definite predator/game relationship exists”.(…)
      “I’m lost to explain it any other way than they are simply predators. The aspect of overrun is incredibly damaging but they don’t care what their HCOBs say. They want that fish flapping on the bank.”
      “Scientology delivery in the orgs is a sickness and results in a disease of the mind”.
      Brilliant comment, I never thought of it this way, but I think you are right. It’s a predator relationship in which the clubbed seals as Mike calls them develop the Stockholm syndrome and ask for more.
      When they started on this folly of redoing everything again, having glossaries instead of dictionaries, and asking so many pre-requisites for training that the number of auditors on training whet from 20 to two, I woke up and left.

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      • Hi Alex De Valera, Thank you for your post which resonated for me .I am here because I feel this Blog is where I need to be.And after a year and abit more here- I am learning more lessons than I ever did in school college or Sea Org so long ago.Thank you from my heart Mike. Communication her in all forms it may shape itself helps keep me on my path with experience and knowledge With Love Always,Ann.

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  35. Hey Kerensa! Before you photograph an old piece of junk trying to pass it off as something shiny and new here’s a little tip: hit it with a little silver cleaner. For fucks sake it looks like you all found that thing in the trash out back.

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  36. Speaking of Bling I was a bit upset when someone stuck DM’s head on a Soviet uniform in a parody image. As much as I despise Communism I had some respect for the Soviet Army dating back to my service in the US Army during the Cold War. Understanding and respect for the opponent is necessary to survive hostile contact and ultimately to overcome him.

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