The “wider” Bridge is the same old Bridge t .
But boy are they excited!
They don’t have to wear gloves or masks any more and “only” require a 3-day quarantine if you come from “out of town.” (Of course, people from “out of town” are much more contagious than those “in town”)
What is so amazing is that they think this is what has been “holding them back” — that they could not deliver the Purif and TR’s and Objectives.
They have a much more fundamental problem than that.
They cannot get new people to come in for ANY service.
A serious question — how does it make the Bridge wider?
“Everything you have been hoping and paying for came true last night”
Burn those masks!
“A historical night as a scientologist.”
It was “close to perfect.”
Hype overload.
How exciting! Scientology on the cutting edge…
The world abandoned mandatory glove wearing — oh yeah, wearing gloves was never mandated — but mandatory mask wearing went away last year in most places.
Quarantine? They’re excited that quarantine is just 3 days now! Nobody is doing “quarantine” unless you tested positive…
This is an Advanced Org — these are Intro and lower level services…
And ASHO too…
More stupid hype — the best news EVER???
Yes, Everything!
Huh?
Now, this is “Game On”??
BTW — count the number of staff in this “ideal org” (they are easily identifiable with their hotel clerk uniforms). Every ideal org is supposed to have 100 staff. They cannot even muster 100 staff, public and children…
Are these guys cool or what?
“Gearing toward Total Freedom” — whatever that means…
Come on dissemination…
Only a 3 day quarantine. How amazing is that!
Bring the kids….
Of course, the only people they can get onto these services are the kids of scientologists.
Alas, I have family members in CoS and I know they refused to get more than the single J&J vaccine. So how many of these reopenings will result in a bunch of new COVID cases?
They don’t want anyone to come into the morgues. Here’s a video taken outside the Mountain View CA Ideal Morgue (which was completely empty of parishioners) showing a staff member trying to get the police to trespass a couple of photographers from the public sidewalk. The police completely ignored the insane request from the staff member. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4lSkGPuKzs
Well, well the CofS has not changed much. Announcing something is “new” when it isn’t, announcing a “breakthrough” when it is not one. Someone did a survey of five people somewhere and came up with this tripe and do not seem to realize that by promoting this they are contributing to the discomfort induced by the cognitive dissonance created by announcing that the “Bridge is Wider” when non-one thought it was narrow.
so let me get this straight, the Dublin org were so worried about the spread of COVID they made everyone wear masks and gloves up until recently, stopped the purif, TRs courses etc……….
BUT they happily rent out their hall to all sorts of clubs and societies with hundreds of members of the public rolling through their doors, to bring in some cash and don’t ask a single person to wear a mask or glove or check the temp.
please make it make sense
maria, they were also heavily (over)using Decon7 system disinfecting products at all the orgs, so they presumably did an extra thorough job after letting “wogs” in.
It seems like a typical, cynical Scientology move in its way.
Oh I’m sure they did. The picture my friend paints of their day at the dublin org is just so dam weird.
Gold plated toilets, elderly staff members constantly cleaning, extreme security…….the need to bring in money must be constant when they are renting their halls to just about anywog.
Immediately upon reading this “Wider Bridge” nonsense and all the hype I looked from the viewpoint of a Still In In Good Standing who, for the past year it may be assumed, has had a taste of freedom FROM their local org and FROM Flag and FROM intense regging in general due to Covid, etc. I looked from this viewpoint and what I immediately got was a huge sigh and a feeling of dread. “No more masks…no more social distancing…Oh, God…no more space…here we go again…this is going to be intense…get ready…THEY’RE BAAAAAAAAACK.”
I always harbor a hope, a belief that someday, somehow, they’ll wake up, these people,and realize how continually and blatantly they’re being scammed.
But they never do.
How they cling to their delusions!
As, I suppose, I cling to mine, that they’ll wake up “one day”.
no matter what you have to have hope 🙂
I agree! “Where there is life there is hope.” So true. But then, the question remains: when does hope stop being hope, and become delusion? Perhaps, these people who cling, year after year, decade after decade, to their “hopes” (which are obviously delusions) do so because to let go of their hopes (delusions) would be a kind of death for them…? I’m just thinking out loud here.
I guess once cult mentality has its claws in, all they have left is delusion. So sad.
BUT for us on the outside, we can hold onto their hope or them 🙂
Yes, right again, Maria, and I will do that. After all, who would have thought – indeed, who would have even dreamed that Mike Rinder would leave? And so many others. So thank you for helping me work this out in my own mind to realize that my hope is not a delusion. There is evidence that it can happen – plenty of it. There are STATISTICS that it happens – plenty of them! Thanks again 🙂
Exactly! There is proof, the cult is crumbling. The end is near I hope:)
What did Hubbard say about present life goal? If memory serves, by the age of two or thereabouts one knows their goal in life. To audit it, it will simply be replaced by another. No where did he imply it had to be sensible. But he certainly did imply he had the best goal of all to have, ie Scientology! That goal is self imposed by the belief Hubbard has all the answers – he’s self proclaimed source after all, with all the trimmings of networks of churches and all that which goes along with looking like its got somewhere to go!
I’m of the firm belief now, he wrote dribble like that to gaslight the hell out of people. I guess some can’t wake up because it’s all they have to hang on to, Hubbard’s double speak mysteries.
The sad part is, he insisted to make the tech your own, it’s free, keep it that way… it’s anything but free. It’s a prison to some, and they truly can’t see nor ever accept that they are in one. It’s bad enough anyway, but really hurts when that happens to someone you love.
And, hype addiction much? It’s similar to what in the Qanon world is known as “hopeium”, continual predictions that somehow the failed promises will finally be fulfilled by what is about to happen.
It does remind me of addicts looking for the latest fix. And their typical promises of remorse, that this time will be different….
“…addicts looking for the latest fix.” Yup, that’s it, alright. Sad.
Hip Hip who cares…what a dud for those still in. I know there were hard cores who had hung on to a teeny tiny hope that the next OT levels would be announced (along with the hoops one must jump through to attain said OT levels).
So how does this make the Bridge ‘wider’? It’s just putting back in place what was there to begin with. So it’s not making the bridge ‘wider’ it’s replacing the missing missing planks in the bridge that made it so you can’t cross it. Now will come the push to make every person redo their purif for the umpteenth time…then TRs…then SRD…and on and on. Miscavige effectively shut down all the ‘Ideal’ Orgs when he took away all these bridge steps. IF they were able to get new meat in who the hell could afford to go to Clearwater to do the TRs? Who would want to? Just imagine how impossible it was to even try to ‘disseminate’ to new people. Oh sorry new guy you have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to go to Florida to set in a sauna and run on a treadmill that you could do here in any local gym for next to nothing…or in our Org for several thousand. AND I’m willing to bet that the price of the purif, TRs and all early bridge steps have gone up in price…uh oh sorry gone up in mandatory donation.
Thanks to all UTRs out there that help Mike with the good work.
Wider bridge, less people on it. That only means that many will wander aimlessly, get lost, or fall of the bridge before they every get to the other side. Which is what I suspect has been happening in recent years.
Why would children need to do Purif? (why would anyone need the Purif)
Because Hubbard said so.
One thing that strikes me about all these “I went to ‘my’ church and wasn’t it wonderful” testimonials is that typically they end up with a come-on. In other words, it becomes clear that these folks are NOT jubilating about great experiences at their church and wanting others to enjoy the same. Instead, they have an agenda that will result in commissions to them.
Pretty much like having your neighbor tell you how much they would like to have you over for a bbq. And once you are there, they won’t shut up about how you too need to become an Amway distributor but that you must absolutely sign up through them only.
* A serious question — how does it make the Bridge wider?
The same way one can have an affluence when only three people buy a book. It’s all relative to the prior moment. The bridge was mostly closed, a very few even being able to take a few steps and only with restrictions. Now it is “wide” open, ready for everyone to show up.
Relatively speaking, it is wider than last year, and that’s all that matters. (Even if they only get a couple public to bite, they’ll be able to announce “record expansion” in the near future for the same reason, and with it the notion the wider bridge was the successful action.)
A great day for pervy dudes who get off bullbaiting and auditing for any real or fantasized out-2D actions of young female PCs.
But did they stop the profligate spraying of dangerous decon7? Anyway doesn’t matter what they do the public has their number. Thank you Leah and Mike and every other ex member who has spoken out!
Most incredible news EVER! Orgs now have toilet paper in the bathrooms!!! Masks, gloves and distancing in no longer mandatory!!! ASHO is all excited about being able to deliver TRs while they haven’t been able to deliver the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course for years. Somewhere Hubbard is rolling over in his RV.
😁😁😁
I count six uniformed staff members in the photo. We know, the world of scientology is not pleasant for public, and even rougher if you are staff. The post-pandemic low numbers are no surprise.
It all means nothing. Someone did a survey, and “wider bridge” resonated more than “like a greased pig”, so they’re running with it. Connecting it to reality – why? Nothing else there is connected to reality, so why start now?
Yo Dave,
So nice to see you can do some Tee Are’s at Asshoel but where is the beef good buddy? Time to break out yer new and improved Bleeding Course and start pushing out some trained auditors and Pee Cees.
Seems I recall that back in the day there were over 200 students on the Briefing Course and things were really going well. So what’s up with the down stats????? Get on it!
I love it when you write your letters to dave. Very funny.
I’m sure he appreciates it too! He ‘s such a warm and fuzzy guy.
Has Golden Age, Phase 2 started yet ?
Let me know please.
It could be called The Bridge To Nowhere.
Or the bridge to Financial ruin.
In Monty Python And The Holy Grail there was The Bridge Of Death Scene. DM would likely fail the test to cross The Bridge Of Death.
I would expect DM to say to the Bridgekeeper that he didn’t have the rank to ask him what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow was.
Old man at the bridge: “What is your favorite color?”
DM: “Goldenrod, no – greenbacks, no – just plain gold”
Whooooooooooooosh…
Sorry, I must have dozed off. A wide what?
Here is an asci-art representation of wide open:
EO3
mmmm… OK
What a joke. If this “church” didn’t do so much damage I would laugh.
Agreed, all I ever think is oh my god how laughable when I read these types of announcements………but then I remember how it isnt funny at all for those still under the spell 🙁
Reminds me of a scene from The Witches…
https://youtu.be/_dBbUCWVC1M
So the “bridge” isn’t any wider than it was before the pandemic. Though they now reportedly have fewer “public” members and fewer staff, due to losses from various causes over the last two and a half years; if that leaves the staff to active member ratio even higher (it already seems to be ridiculously inflated, approaching as many staff as members at some orgs), then there might theoretically be opportunity for remaining members to more get even more attention…..