Wow, there are seismic upheavals going on in LA on every front.
They have now downgraded the annual IAS event from the Shrine to the Bonaventure to L. Ron Hubbard Way?
Too cheap to pay for a hall at all now? Afraid there won’t be enough people show up to even fill up the Bonaventure?
Yet look at the description of this event that follows the “Monumental Advance” poster….
THIS IS THE BIGGEST EVENT IN IAS HISTORY! (where have I heard that before?)
…something is being presented at this event that is SO big, it will change our lives, personally.
This is not hype. (Riiiight…)
You will be blown away with this year’s Freedom Medal Award winners and the next major advance on psych busting!
I wanted to make sure you know directly from me that this will be HUGE!
Now, with an event like this, why isn’t there a huge hall with tens of thousands of scientologists in attendance? Surely the biggest event in history that is going to change everyone’s life (at least until the next event) deserves some attention?
Apparently each Cont CO is sending out these letters — they are pretty much cookie cutter. Another sign that call-in and confirmeds for the great event in the history of history isn’t doing so well…
From: Continental Commanding Officer ANZO
LETTER FROM THE CONT COMMANDING OFFICER
I wanted to let you know about the upcoming IAS 30th Anniversary weekend we are holding here in Sydney.
I will start with this very bold statement, THIS IS THE BIGGEST EVENT IN IAS HISTORY!
We have just heard that something is being presented at this event that is SO big, it will change our lives, personally.
This is not hype. There will be HUGE NEWS concerning ANZO presented at this event.
In fact there’s so much that the event is in two parts. Saturday and Sunday.
You will be blown away with this year’s Freedom Medal Award winners and the next major advance on psych busting!
I wanted to make sure you know directly from me that this will be HUGE!
There’s a few logistical points that I would like to brief you on:
• Part I is on Saturday the 25th of October. Due to the significance of the event we will be serving an early dinner beginning at 4:30 and the event will be starting at 6pm. (The location is being finalized and will be sent to you shortly.)
• Dress code is cocktail – dresses for ladies and suits for men.
• Part II is on Sunday the 26th of October, lunch at 1pm and starts at 2pm at AOSH ANZO.
See you there!
Much Love,
Lisa Terpstra
Continental Commanding Officer ANZO
Is there a way to crash this party? Maybe we could carpool and thirty minutes into it we could start a flash mob or something?
This just in: The Biggest Event in IAS History has just been cancelled.
Why, you ask?
Here is footage of the dress rehearsal DM’s personal appearance at the event, courtesy of StrangeLove productions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSQAZEp3PA
You know what’s funny? Psych busting. LRH spoke about generalities and yet here is a giant one – THE PSYCHS. Anyone notice the inconsistency? No one can tell me that Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist who wrote ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ is an SP.
Yea, the church is like the psych’s they preach against. All the coercion, force, must do ‘s, have to believes; their sec checking is the equivalent of electric shock treatment. It has become what it preaches against.
The church doesn’t even understand someone like Frankl. They have their own manufactured definition of Psych.
I’d rather have a small dose of electricity than a heavy dose of Sec Checked misery.
MJ – Yes. I noticed. “The Psychs” are blamed for pretty much everything. WHO are they, what are their names? No answer to that.
LRH wrote a bulletin entitled ‘Generalities Won’t Do’ – how’s that for cognitive dissonance?
Well to quote someone, “What you resist you become.”
Well, don’t resist them, Mock their oh-so-seriousness. They can’t combat true humor. The PL “JOkers and Degraders stripped the fun clean out of the organization. They can’t handle fun, now. It’s gotta be deadly dull serious or it ain’t important enuff to bother with.
Mike Rinder talking to David Miscavige: “I know what you’re thinking. Does he have some potentially damaging information on me or not? Well, come to think of it, in all the excitement, I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a widely viewed blog – the Internet being the most far-reaching communication line in the world, you gotta ask yourself the question. Do I feel lucky. Well, do ya, punk?”
Since there are a lot of comments about being bored to death at the long drawn-out events, I would like to pique the recall of those in LA (or possibly at Flag and other orgs if this happened there as well).
Does anyone else remember in 2004 after the Tom Cruise event all Staff and public were asked to come back and watch the event (all 3 hours of it) five times over? I sure do. I had friends and family on staff at the time and remember them struggling to meet this ‘demand’ put on their time and energy. The calls were ferocious to come back because it was ‘Command Intention’ for everyone to watch the event five times over. I asked one of my devout, staff member friends what the purpose of that was and she told me it was for “people to have a cognition.” I asked what cognition were they looking for, and she just said she didn’t know but was complying with the request (demand) herself. That got to me; it was so mindless.
I remember once at Flag during Dave’s speech, I had the urge to tell to shut the fuck up. Now I know where it was coming from – my perception of him as a fraud.
Oh, I know, I know. My IAS reg, Howard Becker, had me watch the event. Then he asked me, “Don’t you want to be like Tom Cruise?” I said, “No, not really.”
Yea, Pepper, remember going to that event and after the Tom Cruise bit and the out of valence love fest that David Miscavige and Tom had on stage, I looked at my husband and said “This is weird.” I was drinking the Koolaid in those days but obviously not as much as those applauding. It was actually a moment where the Koolaid glass fell out of my hands. By the time I was forced to watch that video again while on the ship, I was done and just biding my time til I could get off that effing boat and never look back.
Thank God you got off that effing boat for good McCarran.
Sydney must be classier than LA. Cocktail dresses and suits for a taped event? Wouldn’t happen in LA even if the public was asked to.
LA public, being the most out-ethics people in the most out-ethics city in the world will show up in their denim, leather, tennis shoes, boots, whatever. Even flip flops and sandals if it’s warm enough, which it has been lately. I wonder if people in Sydney traditionally dress up for the events, or if the request to do so is an attempt to lend more importance to it.
Sydney folk expects to get fed in order to just entertain the idea of showing up at an event, so ‘dinner’ is a must even if it hardly beats the menu at an Irish wake (without the grog of course).
They wear whatever they find in the morning half asleep and since the weather is pretty mild all year round, that could easily be on par with the LA motleyness.
Setting the dress code for an IAS event that is held on the premises is a first.
The staff should know that they’ve just reduced the number of potential attendees to somewhere below 80 per venue by throwing this pretentious dictate at them.
And confirming the same public for both days? Nah, not gonna happen.
I can’t even imagine why someone would do something so stupid as to have one of these boring, drawn out, over hyped, BS events on both Saturday and Sunday (even when they fall on the same date). Maybe pulling everyone off production for one night wasn’t enough to REALLY crash the stats. Does someone really think
the Scientology public want to spend their whole weekend sitting on a folding chair in a parking lot? My guess is one event is focused on the money and the other is recruitment. For those that don’t qualify for staff, they can pay both nights as amends. Hip, hip, hurrrrraaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!
Mat — the first event is the Miscavige Shermanspeak “main event.”
The second one is the “seminar” with speakers “from international management”, telling everyone how to now go forth and multiply.
BOTH are reg events.
The turnout for the second one will be a disgrace, and unfortunately for them its in the daytime, so it will be easy to take shots of how many people are actually there…
Any rain in the forecast for LA this weekend?
Saturday October 25, partly sunny with a thunderstorm, Sunday October 26, mostly sunny.
Unfortunately, the drought is expected to continue through the weekend and beyond. There will be no rain in LA and if there is, it will be an act of God.
People hate it when there are two nights of events and don’t go to both nights. If they go, they pick one night or the other. Stubborn and arrogant Int. Management refuses to acknowledge this and moves forward because they utilize no insight whatsoever. The Staff will be put through their paces and be kept busy-busy-busy, so they have to time to think, sleep, and most importantly look and observe. They’ll be too tired and demoralized to do so.
Is that division of DM and Management because DM does not want to appear on stage with any of the peon management?
Exactly Robert. He does not want their peanut thetanship to rub off on his glorious image, and also doesn’t want them gaining any status by sharing the same stage with him.
The people that do these seminars on Saturday nowadays are people nobody has ever heard of with post titles that nobody knows “Strategic Planning Programs Ops” or “Ideal Org Execution IC”. No Exec Ints or WDC members have been sighted for many years — because there are none that are posted. And there is no Snr CS Int or CO CMO Int or President CSI.
It’s a joke to even call these people “int management.”
Same as it is to call Miscavige Chairman of The Board. What board?
This is going to be UGLY and EMBARRASSING. A few members from “international management” on short leashes hanging out in the parking lot of the Complex trying to create a spark with two wet sticks.
Or as successful as Jenny Linson trying to be a stand up comedian.
Mike wrote “The people that do these seminars on Saturday nowadays are people nobody has ever heard of with post titles that nobody knows “Strategic Planning Programs Ops” or “Ideal Org Execution IC”. No Exec Ints or WDC members have been sighted for many years — because there are none that are posted. And there is no Snr CS Int or CO CMO Int or President CSI.”
Mike, maybe he will have his dog do the presentation, the one that is in the Sea Org and has the sweater with the epaulettes?
Totally bored to death during most of the events. Even hated more lying to the 20 year old surveying me right after the event. Kind of a tip off you’re in a cult if your being surveyed and are afraid to say what you really think.
One of the first freedoms I took advantage of after my suppressive declare was communicating publicly what was actually on my mind. 🙂
Sounds like grade zero to me.
The poor folks don’t even know what day it is!
I would like to see this event in the comfort of my own home and critique it Then burn it.
This event should pull in at least 50,000 people in the heaviest populated area of Scientology that has millions of members, right??
“Dress code is cocktail – dresses for ladies and suits for men.” – What is this, the 1950’s? Next they’ll be insisting that everyone wear hats.
🙂
I’ve got my cane with the retractable blade for all the reges.
MJ how do you come up with this stuff?? lol.
I come from a long line of flamethrowers.
Hats? David Miscavige has to wear all the hats these days, just ask him,
Dress codes – ah, yes – I can recall that my org was on that kick for a while. We were told to wear – get this – black tie. Anything more ridiculous can hardly be imagined – black tie to sit in an auditorium for 3 hours watching a video, and afterwards, not even a sit-down dinner, just standing on line to get a plateful of cheap baked ziti. It was beyond absurd. I cooperated but plenty of people just ignored it and showed up in jeans and sneakers, and not even nice jeans – scruffy ones with crummy looking sneakers. These people (I knew some of them) never wore anything but jeans anyway and refused to make any changes for the events. No-one prevented them from attending looking like that. They all got let in. It used to annoy me because I would have much preferred to throw on a pair of jeans myself. Some dress code. So there we all were, in odd looking groups, chatting with one another, some of us in semi formal black tie and the rest in jeans and sweatshirts The SO girls would rig themselves up with bargain priced thrift shop gowns and rhinestones. We all milled around, eating the cheapest food that could possibly be served. It was like a like a nightmare you could have, or a bad play, or something.
I hear you Aqua and have had similar experiences. Like for instance, going to a $100 a plate dinner for Patrons of the IAS only to have cheap pasta, tacos, hamburgers, and the worse chocolate ever in a chocolate recirculating fountain. lt just made me lose my appetite it was so bad. And then they didn’t even serve you and you had to stand in long lines to get the crap. In the old days when they wanted to thank big IAS donors, they had good quality food served to you by waiters. In keeping with their out exchange frame of mine, those days are long gone.
Guys!!!!! I think I know what the big surprise is going to be!!!!! Dm is going to award HIMSELF with the biggest freedom medal of all time, because he FIXED Scn all by himself, while channeling LRH!!!!! That’s got to be it.
Or that Shelley is still alive.
Possibly and along with that an IAS self-regging automaticity. For a mere $10k a new Sherman speak inspirational command is installed just below the numbers on your credit card and every time you use your card a status altering payment is sent directly to dm’s personal account so it’s easier for him to disperse to what’s essential and vital for humanitarian endeavours, such as new scuba gear for example and a tropical island to dive off.
The EP is you’ll never feel as though you’re out-exchange ever again.
So, stop thinking about yourself, self, self and do the right thing.
Mike,
what’s the chances of a helicopter, Zeppelin, Balloon?
Greta
” By the end of that the crowd has been whipped up into a frenzy of pure delusion.”
All you left out would be the 25 reps of deep knee bends that accompany each round of salutes to Der Furher. That is likely the only real benefit anyone takes away with them ………. at least they get a little exercise and can work off the excess rice and bean meals.
Oh WOW! You mean this life changing event is even more life changing than last year and the year before that, and even before that, and bless my socks, even the year before that. I’m beside myself with… hang on, wait a sec… WOW!!! an exteriorization has occurred!! I’m FREE I tell you, FREE! You don’t need anything else, just the mere thought of the next IAS event which are super spectacular mind altering, evil crushing freedom inducing extravaganzas of the likes only an unknown secretly held but highly anticipated release can conjure up. Wait for it… wait for it… ahhh the third sweep. I feel great!!!
I’d like to attest that the IAS and it’s creator are honest and reliable spiritual sanctuaries and I’d sure as heck would want everyone to indulge in the fleecing process, it’s fantastically tailored just for you. I realised IAS event attendance is a vital step for anyone interested in modelling one’s life after el supremo, his exalted holiness and I’d also like to thank my dog Zot – he’s my much saluted SO uniformed inspiration and BTW never said a bad thing about anything except Marty and Psychlo the cat – he’s been nominated for his second Freedom Medal, I’m so proud of him I find it hard to hold back the tears.
God bless the IAS.
Ok, yawnsalot, you had me til socks. If you truly were blown away, your socks would have been left in the dust, although I was proud of your supernatural ability to still pretend to feel great while your “auditor” if that’s what they even call them these days, stared myopically at the screen waiting patiently for the elusive third swing.
And sheesh God bless, that’s Ron Bless or even better David Miscavige our eternal and supreme leader bless the IAS.
Report immediately for your next personalized sec check, wallet in hand. Fear not, it has been personally C/sed by the the only person capable of doing things right, you know him as the person who C/sed Lisa M. He hopes you have similar results,
Sung to the tune of the Battle of Davy Crockett
Born in the city, Philadelphia, PA
Didn’t give a shit ’bout the land of the free
Leader of the sheep though he’s too blind to see
Messed up a pc when he was in his teens
Davy, Davy Miscavige, king of the misery
MJ: Davey Boy was not “born” in Philadelphia, PA, but in South Jersey. No Philly suburbanite likes to be called “from” philthydelphia. The ‘burbs are SO much more civilized. Of Course, NYC makes Philly look like Elysium.
Valerie, I humbly kneel before far greater knowingness and beg forgiveness be extended to the greater than thee mu’s that plague my lowly status as a ‘not quite there yet.’
Apart from signing over my deeds, cc numbers and a blank cheque plus the next billion years would writing out 1,000,000 times on the blackboard, “dm is God” assist to cleanse my misguided thetanisms.
Earnestly seeking miscavige.
Dear Yawn,
Can’t reply to your comment below, obviously a case of your inability to comment correctly and nothing to do with me :0) but damn you’re hilarious. Your language structure makes it appear as though you reside across the pond from me but a great comedy team has been born.
P.s. Don’t let David Miscavige catch you saying DM is God, that is sacrilege. In DM’s book, he surpassed that status in 1986.
That’s about as accurate a summary as I’ve ever read – I was cracking up laughing!
Wow Mike, the wings have really come off this aircraft now. It is heading straight down and vertical and is about to drill a hole in a field. Thanks for documenting its end for posterity.
Hit rock bottom and started digging…
Yes, the end cannot come too soon.
It’s obvious that Scnists have experienced “event fatigue”, which is a close cousin to “hype fatigue.” This has been going on for decades, and I think it’s finally run its course. Bigger, Better, Best, Unbelievable, Life-Changing, The-world-will-never-be-the-same, on and on and on. I can’t think of ANYTHING they HAVEN’T heard before.
All of this has served as a distraction from the REAL scene, that of chronic contraction. Much like the stage magician, skilled at directing attention to cloak the sleight of hand. David Miscavige is the David Copperfield of Scientology.
What Miscavige and Co have failed to understand, and I hope OSA is writing this down (grab yer pen), is that the staff and public:
HATE INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
Absolutely hate them. Hands down, no doubt about it, int events are detested by the public and are venomously resented by the staff. That, you can take to the bank.
This is a mass withhold that gets missed about 6-8 times a year. The public anticipate these events and have to come up with creditable reasons why they cannot attend (or more politically correct…”Mark me as a maybe”).
For years now, your average int event is a 4 hour David Miscavige Show. It begins with Jeff Pomerantz doing his best circus barker during a dizzying display of round-the-world clips proving Scn is da bizness. Followed by the little man’s entrance where he half-heartedly attempts to calm the swooning fans, urging them to return to their seats; but then gives up and resigns to the outpour of admiration. Then he begins his Shermanspeak stream of consciousness for about 10 minutes without taking a breath. By the end of that the crowd has been whipped up into a frenzy of pure delusion.
He then shuffles on the Shermanmeister himself, who shares some anecdote about the time when LRH farted, and how he mastered the art of farting long before it became popular. Gold will have dug up some octogenarians who will recount the fart and how wondrous it all was. Blah blah blah.
Then it’s the stats-that-aren’t-really-stats machine gun assault on the audience, leaving them dazed and confused. Then the real estate segment of the show. Then a video clip of some newly repackage product that everyone needs to buy NOW NOW NOW. Through the corner of your eye you notice the sharks begin to circle and a nervous anxiety washes over the audience, as they scope out the exits.
Finally, 10-15 minutes of obligatory socializing and it’s a race to the car, which is like running the gauntlet, duckin’ and divein’ the strategically placed defenders.
You finally make it home, hopefully unscathed, grab a stiff drink and plop yourself down in front of the TV and attempt to recover from the 4-hour mindfuck propaganda-fest.
Did I leave anything out?
(Sorry, I’m looking at 20 years of event BPC. Gotta let go of it sometime)
Well, that was a pretty good sum up. Clearly, you have attended too many of the circusfests…
That was awesome, statpush, you have it down, except for two more “too’s” Besides the too long, they are also too cold and too loud. I got “in trouble” once for answering my auditor’s question on how I liked the event that it was too long, too cold, and too loud.
“Followed by the little man’s entrance where he half-heartedly attempts to calm the swooning fans, ….” You got him pegged.
You are correct McCarran.
I think the temperature is optimized for either cold fish or vampires.
And the sound…well, how can you get the Full Miscavige Experience unless you FEEL him.
(Sorry, that last one was even creepy for me)
Very apt description statpush!
Man, it was like bam!, like I was right there with you at the event!!! Everything just clicked and it was so totally awseome it just blew me away. I knew scn was gr8 but I had no idea just how theta we are as a group!!!
The only other thing you left out (that I can think of) is the up-and-down-like-a-jack-in-a-box applauses. Wonderful aerobic exercise, and the clapping and cheering goes on forever.
God, I miss ’em.
And even that can be an out-ethics indicator – in Copenhagen, Walter Kortric the Great (he thinks) once pointed out that the Danes (who he doesn’t like and considers 1.1) didn’t even get up when it was time to applaud David Miscavige the Great (he thinks) … we should look out for those ….
Besides being moronic … what a sleazy show for the purpose of having a (cheap) “show”
Dollar, didn’t mean to restim anyone 🙂 More like trying to as-is.
Ah yes, the up-and-down exercise, I used to call it sit-stand-kneel, in homage to my former religion. Also, I remember getting the evil eye from staff members when I missed one of mandatory stand-and-clap moments. Ridiculous stuff.
Statpush that was a perfect summation. The “fatigue” concept is so apt. The “wins fatigue” has been bugging me for quite awhile, that is, the hype of wins. It is very insidious because it is actually a ridicule of wins that people might have. It starts to get embarrassing to have a win clarifying an interesting etymology or handling a tough comm cycle well. Small cognitions are just not cold, chrome steel enough. Even in the wins department, one starts to feel that nothing is good enough. So half the purpose of the subject itself, the wins of pcs and preots, is now shrouded in fake hype and invalidation. That seems to be a thread that has grown in the radical church, the pervasive concept that nothing is good enough. Your wins, your effort, your money, your best, your time, your very life, are just not good enough. This is SO wrong and for those that are recovering, it’s important to weed this out of your thinking. It’s not crabgrass, it’s more like poison ivy.
Very good point Hallie Jane.
Great point Hallie and I agree. It feels like this is a natural phenomena of an activity that is founded on lies. Hubbard and Scn claim to produce super beings (lie), so they have to appear to be achieving that product (hype).
Great observation on the “not enough” aspect. So true, so true. It is never enough. It is as if the group seeks to “consume” the individual (heart, mind, soul); stripping it of anything of value. It truly is – the group is all, the individual nothing. Brrrrr…scary shit.
Yea, so true Hallie! Never thought about that “not good enough” aspect permeating the church.
It is as stations reiterated. The group all, the individual nothing. It has become the antithesis of what it preaches. The group and the “individuals” still in are one big ball of collective thought agreement.
“statpush” not “stations” reiterated.
+1 HJ. Well said.
I wonder, what entrance should the “extras” use?
(Talk about a logistical nightmare!)
ML, that’s what I was thinking too! If they can do it at FLAG, they can do it at Big Blue! Someone needs to film this shindig surreptitiously.
Well this is all getting to be a lot of fun even with the sadness of disconnection etc.
I’m feeling as certain about being out of scientology as I was about being in. No – actually I feel much more certain.
We will need LA parties soon. How about the sidewalk across from all the cafes the ‘thousands’ of parishioners frequent? Maybe on the 25th and 26th and stay long enough to make a few marches around Little N. Korea to get a really good view. OSA and PAC security will be happy there are no public to see us and of course the staff will all run away. I told my daughter the other day I was starting to get rambunctious again – she knew exactly what I was talking about. Two days later I got a call that I (the SP) will be allowed to see my year old grandkid of daughter #3 who disconnected 1.5 years ago. Yes Mike, Something can be done about it. Thank you for caring enough to Do something about it. Thank you for all the excellent reporting and comments.
Wow! Cece that IS good news; congrats on getting to see your grandchild!
And yes, thank you Mike.
That is what you would call ‘ethics presence’. VWD
Looks like it will be up to all of the SPs to finally get in some form of ethics on the last of Earths great cults.
Yo Dave,
We are comin for ya good buddy. It will not be pretty, I guarantee you that!
Cece,
Excellent on seeing you getting rambunctious again!
Go for it!!!
Greta
Cece, be sure you get your dates right – the events are the 25th and 25th you’re trying to use wog time for the Scientology event, sheesh :0)
My last post belongs in Crack Command Team.
I’m on a roll.
The PAC base sheeple sing this song,
Doo-da, Doo-da
The PAC base bridge is way too long
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to work all night
Goin’ to work all day
I bet my money on a Sea Org nag
Somebody lost in LA
You inspire me!
I’m glad.
Stop MJ, stop! I can’t take any more! ROTFL!
Reporter to young starlet: What do you see in MJ anyway? – he’s way past your age.
Her: He makes me laugh.
Dream of a prepubescent female SO member:
Ooh Davy love, my Davy love
I need you, oh how I need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me, what did I do wrong
To make you stay away so long
‘Cause Davy love, my Davy love
Been missing ya, miss kissing ya
Instead of breaking up
Let’s do some kissing and making up
Don’t throw our love away
In my arms, why don’t you stay?
Need ya, need ya
Davy love, ooh, Davy love
Davy love, my Davy love
Why must we seperate, my love
All of my whole life through
I never loved no one but you
Why you do me like you do?
I get this need
Ooh, ooh, need to hold you
Once again, my love
Feel your warm embrace, my love
Don’t throw our love away
Please don’t do me this way
Not happy like I used to be
Loneliness has got the best of me
My love, my Davy love
I need you, oh how I need you
Why you do me like you do
After I’ve been true to you
So deep in love with you
Davy, baby, ooh till it’s hurtin’ me
Till it’s hurtin’ me
Ooh, Davy love
Don’t throw our love away
Don’t throw our love away
LRH Way? Are they seriously thinking under 500 for the event?
Wow….. It’s game over if you can’t get 500 Scn’ists to a weekend event in LA. Wow….
“Due to the significance of the event we will be serving an early dinner beginning at 4:30”
No one can handle this much BS on an empty stomach!
The image of ladies in cocktail dresses and high heels stumbling down brick covered LRH Way, which is in a crappy part of East Hollywood, makes me crack up. I wonder if the out of shape SO women will be in cocktail attire….to make it look like it is full of public. This event will be a sight to see!
Good one Steph. Cracks me up too.
A quick question: given SO pay, who has to pay for their cocktail dresses?
It comes out of their weekly allowance and is also added to their freeloader bill.
Oh boy LRH way! They can use “tree tech” like they did in Portland to make the “crowd” look larger. Pretty soon they are going to have to use photoshop at the actual events to make the 10-20 people who show think they are not alone.
The Freedom medal winners will blow you away . . . how can anything top “I didn’t have to do anything to be the hardest working Scientologist on the Planet Tom Cruise?” — sort of like when Adam Levine stood on top of his chair at the Voice to show how much he thought of a contestant. – there’s only so high you can go before there’s nowhere else to go.
The still ins remind me of this book from the 60’s: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Last time there was an event on L Ron Hubbard way last summer, they used tree tech to close off the entrance to the street on Fountain Ave. Between the walls and fake trees in front of it, you could not enter near AOLA at all. That way they contained the entrance to the other side, Sunset Blvd where there were lots of Security people checking each person who came in. Have to keep those bitter apostates out of the vent, you know.
Who would want to go? It will be online very soon and I can watch it (or most likely not) in comfort. The secrets will be leaked and the bitter apostates will be working on their punch lines.
Maybe someone can get to the upper floor of the building across the street (Kaiser?)and get actual photos of the size of the flock of sheeple.
Excellent idea. Almost worth checking into the hospital.
A out in the open Lron love fest where all the happy clams can be counted? Security will so tight that only a drone will be able to get pictures. Anybody got a drone? Will the new 230 Sea Orgres be in full regalia? Counting the public would be so easy if that were so. So it won’t happen, its all about hiding the real number of public.
While it is October, the LA area has still be hot. Ninety degrees or so possible for the event. They’ll be dropping like flies, makes it easier to pick their pockets.
Will any one actually be on the edge of their chairs waiting for the ‘monumental news’? Same old hype, the clams used to be good at special events, what happened? All the effective clams in the Hole?
No, seriously, all we have to do is bribe an orderly or a janitor (I’m thinking twenty bucks should do it – fifty for inflation? – and that could be done via PayPal) who has a cell phone to take the pictures and email them. As long as there’s a window overlooking… easy, easy, easy.
Who can apply helicopter tech? I know Mike is on the East Coast but there has to be an ex or an indie on the west coast with some means to patronize a helicopter pilot. Jeff and Karen? Anyone? anyone?
” Another sign that call-in and confirmeds for the great event in the history of history isn’t doing so well…”
We know the day of the Titanics maiden voyage is here and she is going down with all on board. The next historic event for Dave’s Cult of Greed will be more like the one which took place in 1876 near the Little Bighorn!
LA Orgs crash and attempted rescue by Dave’s vaunted Sea Org will now expose the underbelly of His folly. The arrogant attitude and utter disdain for the rights of others as demonstrated by Custer is about to be upstaged by David Miscavage as he orders the horses shot and stacked to form a bullworks to defend his dying ego.
Yo Dave,
It’s over good buddy. You can call off the cavalry and send your minions home (as with LA Org staff) or you will ride to your demise. You are outnumbered, out gunned, and you are definitely OUT ETHICS. The next thing you will see in the sky over Hemet will be buzzards good buddy. Lots of buzzards!
An appropriate finale to the vulture culture.
Love it, Cooper. Well said
They have been circling over that part of Hemet for years
I thought this stanza from Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s Ode apropos:
For we are afar with the dawning
And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning
Intrepid you hear us cry
How, spite of your human scorning,
Once more God’s future draws nigh,
And already goes forth the warning
That ye of the past must die.
Continental COs just LOVE being dragged into the annual live IAS event attendance flap. Each year, Walter, the European CO was regularly calling the CO of the Hungarian unit, Miklós, to get as much Hungarians over to Saint Hill as possible.
It turned out that he was directly “product officered” by IAS Administrations staff, who were considered his seniors to get people to the live event and he was personally responsible for the EU attendance quota. Mind boggling.
BTW, the most notorious of these BMW-driving, 5-star-hotel-frequenting IASA people was Bart van Loocke, or as well called him, the Dog (as he had the tendency to follow you everywhere if you happened to be his junior). Even Walter, who was not easily fazed, described him as “very painful on the phone”.
Peter, your turn of phrase had me rolling on the floor: Even Walter, who was not easily fazed, described him as “very painful on the phone”.
These IAS people, almost to a one these days, are arrogant assholes who think they are entitled not only to your money, but also to your respect (because of course they are the bulwarks of the most important group of people in the history of the universe, beyond even the superheros of Marvel Comics fame).
Oh, if they only realized in what low regard, even contempt, they are viewed by ANYONE who isn’t blinded by KoolAid, they would likely self combust on the spot.
Would make a nice bonfire for a marshmallow roast.
“These IAS people, almost to a one these days, are arrogant assholes who think they are entitled not only to your money, but also to your respect”
In an IAS interview at Flag I told them that I wouldn’t be donating because I had emptied my savings to buy a piece of land. The little cannon ball shaped IAS fellow almost came out of his chair to go for my throat. It was as if I had spent his money, the money he needed to report that day as IAS income. He then asked me to run up my credit cards and when I refused he typed up a Knowledge Report on me.
I was tagged after that as a selfish “Consumer Scientologist” – Someone at Flag who is only there for auditing or training and not interested in the travails of mankind in sad and far away locations.
🙂
Howard Becker was speaking with me once out on the street. I think it was at Flag. Then he waved at a gentleman who was not far away from us. I said, “Who is that?” He replied, “A prospect. He ‘owes’ me $100,000.”
KFrancis,
I think we had the same cannon ball shaped IAS reg. I had a similarly shaped guy stand in front of me, his legs touching my knees as I sat on a sofa and literally scream at me at the top of his lungs. His face turned beet red and I thought he was going to have a coronary on the spot.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned but I have a problem with men screaming at women, while invading their personal space. Same the other way around. It’s just not acceptable behavior period and I don’t give an F what the reason is for.
A bunch of rude, nasty motherfuckers. I wouldn’t give them squat. However, I would give them their shit back up a notch.
I also hold Bart van Loocke in very low regard as a basketball player, since a number of years ago, my wife (at least 5 years older than him) and myself (at least 15 years older than him), beat the pants off Bart and another 30ish athletic looking guy in 2 on 2 basketball. Pathetic part, can’t beat a woman and a guy well past his athletic prime, when you should have been in your peak athletic years.
This huge thing they’re talking about – has the re-born L Ron Hubbard finally turned up or something?
He has. He will be presented on the aponymous boulevard, where DM will yank his ribbon to much fanfare.
That’s gotta be it! It’s about time. Everyone will be so flipped out and VVGI’s!!!!!!!!!!!
The thought has occurred to me this could be tried someday. But if they put that one out there, then some of the faithful might wonder why the hat of COB is not being turned over to the reborn L. Ron. He could be 28 years old by now, if he really had come back.
Look towards a political figure, some young guy who’s working his way up in that world.
Dave Jr.
A parable for the church.
https://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
Ironically, one of my cadet org nannies told us this story when I was 4 or 5. Too bad I didn’t “cog” on its significance for this “church” back then already.
Will they never learn? The last time they had some IAS shindig on lrhway, complete with the dude on the white horse, one lonely protester sauntered over to say hi and within 5 minutes max the road was cleared as they all scarpered for cover. 😀
I tried to find the video for this but couldn’t, so if anyone knows it, please post it!
Probablyl Torrey Christman “Magoo” has it.
Scattering for cover is how you shatter suppression.
Whoa man! The awesome announcement must be some of the new super power tech or something. Some kinda mind warp time bender thingy!!
In the poster it say’s Part 1 of the event happens at 6:30pm Saturday the 25th of Oct.
And Part 2 happens at 3:00pm Sunday the 25th of Oct!!!!!
They got part 2 happening before part 1, and even on a different day of the week while being on the same day of the wog calendar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going… I’m bringin’ all my money….I want whatever they are usin’…..
If what they’re usin’ is good shit, save me some…
They don’t specify the year so presumably Part 2 is on Sunday 25 October 2015.
Pitiful…if any normal, sane church continually contacted their parishioners with this kind of crap, the parishioners would not only be totally creeped out, they’d head for greener pastures lickety-split!. Mind boggling, but at this point about all Scientology can have left are the born-ins. They’re the only group who would find this relentless and constant mania in any way normal.
whostolemycog, the VAST majority of still in public are aging Boomers. The next group are SOME of their children. That’s about it statistically. The same group of dupes you saw running around in the 60’s protesting “Big Brother” but who now support the same. Truly a study in insanity. Once that demo dies off their is no chance for this Cult.
Plus.. Ahhhh Yes a little thing like the Internet is here..and We are all Watching.. and so are they.
Maybe they are just making everything Miscavige-size?
Yes, instead of super size it, they are mini me sizing the event it to match the diminutive size of Mr. Mcmoneyminime.
Now, now BT…Oops, my dirty mind is speaking…….
Greta
At ANZO they are going to serve dinner prior to the event, not because of its magnitude; simply they don’t want the public distracted at the end of the event so the vultures can rip off them as much money as they can with no such mundane distractions, such as a dinner.
LA – It’s a two fold paranoia: mostly they fear the auditorium could be infiltrated with apostates, but the major concern is NO attendance and on this regard they are finally right.
Get the picture? Paranoia of being found out together with NO real friends with whom to have a good time. Boy, that is no life, really.
The bigger the hall, the more seat-fillers they have to hire.
At least Management shipped in over 200 new SO staff members to PAC Base. That should fill up a few seats for the event.
Yeah. Too bad they can’t figure out cloning tech.
Hey Little Davey…I think my grandmother’s living room is open that night, if you need a place for your event. Seems like a good fit for what you have in mind.
Btw Davey, do you ever think about when they arrest you, if they’ll let you throw a coat over your handcuffs when you do your perp walk? I’m betting no.
Oh Davey boy, the Feds, the Feds are calling
From up at Int, too late to stem the tide
Your power’s gone, and all the stats are falling
It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.
And get ye gone with all your boring speeches
Your phony ethics, screaming, threats and blows
It’s we’ll be here to see you in the shadows
Oh Davey boy, oh Davey boy, we told you so.
+100
Applause.
Bow.
OMG MJ, you’ve outdone yourself…can’t stop laughing!
Hope I didn’t ruin the song for you Hallie.
Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greta
LOL!
Whoo hoo, MJ, excellent. I hope Makemerich appreciates all the songs we croon to him.
Believe it or not, he may feel a tad resentful. I’d love to have a conversation with him but the last time I did it was all one way.
Sammy, you and I both know your grandmother’s living room is way, way, way too big to have the event there! You know that’s CI on DM lines! You’d be setting him up for failure…Hmmmm, I guess that could be fun!
“dresses for ladies”????? Sorry, that’s me out. The only dress I own is definitely not cocktail…
Will guys in dresses be let in if they have loads of cash? Tough call.
It’s a kilt, laddie, not a dress! And, yes, MJ, I’ll be appearing in full Scottish regalia! And if you have to ask, no, we don’t wear anything under our kilts! I might even bring my bagpipes to entertain the masses that show up! Arrrgggg, but it’s goo do be a Celt!
Look at the poster, it really says Saturday 25th AND Sunday 25th … shows you how OT powers are cause over time. Poor marketing guy who will have to bite the dust for this ….
He probably had a “Greatest IAS Event ever” poster template and merely had to fill in the dates … but the dates kept changing … and in the end he was confused which is what
So now they start feeding the public … so they don’t have an excuse to leave early or to show their humanitarian side, you know “feed the poor” (which we regged dry throughout the year) Why not provide sleeping bags as well, gives you more time for regging.
Little warning to the organizers of this “bred and game” show – people do sleep well after a hearty meal 🙂
Wonder when they will start serving them rice and beans …
Otherwise should be an interesting (read: boring) pony show.
Note: the IAS was formed on 7 October … they can’t even celebrate on the proper birthday (same for LRH birthday) … these events are always delayed for whatever “don’t know what to say” reasons.
George,
I was thinking that with the kind of radical changes they’re making now it would not be inconceivable to have a ‘public pen’ to KEEP the Saturday night crowd in overnight. Some thin foam matrasses, you know, S.O. style. That would guarantee a public presence on Sunday.
Greta
I’ve got a feeling that Part 2 will be even more sparsely attended than Part 1.
Those that dragged themselves, despite their better judgement, to Part 1 will have those concerns confirmed and bid it all a bitter adieu.
I doubt there is one kool aider that doesn’t know that part one will be the smoke blowing aspect where you get all sorts of warm and fuzzies (if you can call chrome steel at minus 286 deg.warm and fuzzy!) and then part two is where you get the plastic surgery on your face after having it ripped off by one of dick breaths minions. (In case there is any doubt, dick breath would be the one who refers to his friends as CICSMFAHWSCOHB, aka David Miscaviage)
Yup. You said it.
Geez, don’t “they” learn from this blog how much even those IN hate these events and why? It is truly astounding to me time and time again how there is no concept of who the customer is and how to treat and what to do for them.
Ehmm Coop,
I am sort of new at this….always willing to learn….could you please spell this out for me?
Greta
Oh, c’mon subgenius! Where’s your spirit? On the second day, and this is from a very, very reliable source, we’re all going to find out that every 5th person on Planet Earth is a scientologist! How can you not attend this event? Tell you what. At least think about. I’ll save you a chair!
I’ve got a feeling that Part 2 will be even more sparsely attended than Part 1.
Those that dragged themselves, despite their better judgement, to Part 1 will have those concerns confirmed and bid it all a bitter adieu.
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I don’t know Sub.. I think that Part 1 may be sparsely attended and those who DIDN’T attend will have their asses handed on a plate and will be ” Forced” to go to Part 2..
Or Part 1 and Part 2 will be attended by same people…due to UH Pressure.. Big Pressure.
It really is amazing to me how they tout expansion of 47 times since last November. Such an insane stat. No evidence whatsof’gever. If the shrine were filled in the past (and it had been in the 90s) – at 47 times, you would need Dodger stadium or the Coliseum.
But no, they don’t even need a hotel. The parking lot on LRonHubbard Way, If that’s not 47 times expansion, I don’t know what is.
And of course, the event is the greatest one of all time. Who believes this shit anymore? I guess they are in the category of the “true believers.”
It is somehow in the DNA of Scientology. Everything has to be hyped to death.
LRon has a good policy on getting new people in SCN using the dissemination formula. It included finding what was really bothering the person, then showing them how SCN could help them with it.
Why all of the BS about OT powers that no one has ever achieved, include LRON himself. My “ruin” that lead me to SCN was not being able to as-is walls with my bare eyes. I simply had some personal issues that SCN more than helped me with.
If SCN would be more honest about what it really does and especially about what it really DOESN’T, it would have a much greater chance of getting in some new people and a much greater chance of surviving. As I still believe there is some very worthwhile technology there.
But most people these days can smell BS from several galaxies away.
And by their stink you shall know them.
Also their stank…
“This is not hype.”
“I am not a crook.”
And, hey, the world REALLY is flat!
Lol several galaxies away, Sheldon. And, what does “as-is walls with my bare eyes” mean? I haven’t come across that idiom before.
Thanks!
Margaret
Make walls disappear by just looking at them.
Being “more honest” means dealing with reality. And not your personal reality, but the third universe, the one we all agree on. But nooooooo! That’s being reasonable! That’s going into agreement! That’s going to get you RPF’ed!
As for the “downsizing” of the venue, all one can say is DUH!
It’s all about dealing with reality. I read somewhere that the basic purpose of life is to survive. I also recall LRH writing that the only guarantee of survival is abundance. So, let’s pressure and soak the public of every cent they have, and actually well beyond that – every cent they plan to have in the future. I.e., the absolute opposite of abundance. And people stop showing up! Wow! You mean people want to survive?Where does that come from? Who could have ever predicted that?
Sheldon, none of them really want to go to the event. They don’t like being bored to death for hours in tight shoes, and then being fleeced after it. But they attend anyway out of fear. Fear that they won’t get Eligibility, fear that the MAA will ream them for not attending events on their next 6 month check, fear that their pr will fall by not appearing there. I knew a lot of Scns before most disconnected, and not many liked going to the events. The others pretended to like it just like the fanatics in the book “1984” clapped and hooted and hollered in agreement with everything the Leader said just to show their zeal and have their pr in.
One former friend on OT VII admitted in a Sec Check to not liking to attend events, and she was made to watch the last two events on video at Flag, every stinking minute of it.
Totally agree. I really hated events. Never fully sat through one. Would go for walks. Went to starbucks for breaks, etc. I used to think my TR0 must be out because I couldn’t sit there for 3 hours. Then I saw a 3 hour movies, American Gangster that I really liked and never moved.
47x more free space per person and building. Sounds cool, doesn’t it?
I guess if emptiness is your thing.
Great comment Sheldon. I have such a peeve about all the lying. Developing a group to incorporate more and more and more lying is so classically insane. I too, didn’t aspire to be super woman. I was terribly dysfunctional and actually aspired to be “normal”. I got more than I thought possible.
Neither honesty nor math has ever been their strong suit.
Dear Terpstra,
Sorry, can’t make it.
ML,
MJ
Oh yay!!!! L.RON HUBBARD WAY!! I’m giddy. Confirms must suck big time. I’m doing a jig.
The big psych busting news – can’t wait to hear the latest bull on how scientology is bringing down psychiatry and how the church pushes this button to get big IAS donations. More and more people start smelling the bull the more the church shovels it out.
Ho hum… Nothing new here.
On the poster Saturday and Sunday are both the 25th.
Masters of matter, energy, space, and TIME.
Part 2 will be like deja vu all over again.
In the world of “now, now, now”, Saturday and Sunday are always on the same date. That’s called “getting it done”.
Even in the World of Now, Thursday is Coming!
Wow! They actually learned how to time travel! I’m impressed!
LOL!
That tells you about the frame of mind that poor sod of a graphic artist was in as well as the non-existant
qual to catch it!
Time to buy new ear plugs to keep the being ‘droned at’ to a minimum.
Greta
Even their IA sucks.