The Big Being concept is spreading. More and more people are trying to shoehorn in on the exclusive club reserved for COB and Mr. Cruise.
I wonder if the IAS is telling people that giving them money makes them “Big Beings”, like giving money for ideal org buildings makes you a “humanitarian”? Seems like this is a good possibility.
Sooner or later the IAS can do away with scientology altogether. They don’t really need it — you can get all the case gain and OTness and become a Big Being just by giving them money. No need to be bothered with any “bridge” or redoing the bridge or buying endless packages of books and lectures. They are all just unnecessary vias. And they are costly too. No outlay whatsoever required to rocket people up to Big Beingness in the IAS. Maybe COB could announce it with an Epic, Monumental, Milestone confidential briefing — the new Golden Age of Streamlined Progress (GASP) where EVERY single arbitrary has been removed and progress to full attainment of true spiritual enlightenment now has NO barriers. Nothing to learn. No time wasted with arbitrary “bridge steps” that were NOT what LRH intended. No MEST interjected to block the flows — like books or those endless boxes of lectures that were entered in as a total arbitrary by some SP typist. No, it is now a straight shot to Big Beingness. All you need is a checkbook and a the desire to hand over everything you own to free yourself from the traps of the MEST Universe.
What a fantastic plan!
But enough of the idle daydreaming. You have to wonder about the intelligence of anyone who thinks “there are brilliant people who are the management of this [IAS] organization.” Brilliant at fleecing suckers like you, pretending your money is going to “worthwhile” projects — “They take these small amounts of funds (compared to the dollars used by psychs and pharmaceutical companies) and create HUGE effects.”
Sorry to break it to you Claire, but for the most part, CCHR begs and scrapes to finance its OWN activities, they are NOT funded by the IAS except for photo ops.
But even more to the point, CCHR has had absolutely NO impact on the state of psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies. Nothing.
Here is an exercise you can perform easily.
Whereever you are, Google “Psychiatrist” and “psychologist” and see how many hits you get in your city. Then Google “Scientology auditor” and “Volunteer Minister” and see how many you can find. It’s not looking good for the “good guys in the white hats with the S and double triangle.”
Then go to Google Finance and type in the name of any big pharmaceutical company, like Johnson and Johnson. See what their annual revenues are, and how many other similar companies there are that are making tens of billions of dollars a year and have market capitalization in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
OK, I saved you the trouble, here is a screen shot from Google Finance:
Who do you think is winning?
You see AstraZeneca down there near the bottom? That is their annual revenue — 26 billion dollars. And there are dozens more like this and they are the small guys on this sample. Just those 9 companies up there have annual revenues exceeding $375 BILLION dollars a YEAR. Now, you can say this is just the “drugged society” — but people WANT those drugs. You claim to have the ONLY technology for salvaging mankind and dealing with the problems of life, even psychosomatic ills. You also have the only tech of administration. The tech of Marketing. The tech of Data Series. Statistics. Surveys. Organizing.
Yet, nobody wants what you are selling. And if it really WAS what you claim it is, you would not have to be selling it to anyone at all. People would be breaking down the doors to get at it.
Hell, Facebook has you beat as far as technology that people want and will adopt. They’ve got 1.2 billion active users a month. It started in 2009. Just goes to show if you DO have something that people want and it works, they find their way to you — as long as you don’t try to trick them or rip them off in the process. That business model doesn’t work… Do you really think people want a social app so much more than they want freedom and happiness and ability and everything else scientology says it gives?
Perhaps instead of spouting about the brilliance of the management, you should actually LOOK at reality and see what YOU conclude rather than just what you are told to think.
As for the silly statement “The IAS makes us BIG BEINGS creating effects at the orders of magnitude we should be doing as Scientologists. The IAS is each of our organization and each of out tool be BIG and handling this planet.” Well, perhaps you could start out by learning some grammar and english as this whole thing reads like a grade school writing assignment.
The IAS is the bottom of the slimy barrel that is at the bottom of the well of money-grubbing that is corporate scientology.
And Buz and Claire are promoting for others to jump down the well and swim about in the sewage water and sludge with them — “Come on in, the water’s fine.”
Probably they are just dupes. They are certainly being lied to. But just as clearly, they like the status that the IAS slimes them with. So, they get to be called out with the other pitch-men for this horrendous rip-off scam.
Claire is a status-y girl. When I was the Auditors Association I/C for ASHOD in the late 90s I attended the PAC OT Committee meetings which she also attended. She was on OT VII then and quite certain of her importance. Now that she’s OT VIII her certainty must be as unshakable as a death grip.
It’s extraordinary that one has to describe the success or failure of what are claimed to be religious beliefs based on how much cash they generate or how costly it is to the adherents. I don’t know of any other religion that does that. Calvinism of course says that financial success is evidence of divine favor, but the dogma is free.
etk, in other religions, also heavy donors get special attention and discreet passes. The Cult of Scientology is only copy catting. I know one couple who are heavy donors to their kids’ private Catholic prep school This couple met as students themselves at this school and started going together there but she quit school at 16 to become a model and never got her GED afterwards He was valedictorian of his class. Just last year this Catholic school threw a huge gala honoring them with commendations and what not and hundreds of people toasting them – and not just him, btw, both of them, with her name BEFORE her husbands, and both of them up there on the dais. But they’re wealthy and they have given the school plenty of money, and their parents have been heavy donors to the school, so the fact that she got bad grades and dropped out at 16 is a non issue for the RC Church. The cult is just jumping on a bandwagon that’s been going strong for ages. Heaven has been being sold to the wealthy for a very long time. Probably a lot more people would buy in if they could but they don’t have the dough.
In my opinion, here’s how the cult gets these whale-sized donos. Now, with you and/or I its a non issue because even if we would be so inclined, we don’t HAVE it. I certainly don’t.
But the people who ARE rich, who DO have it, I think they give because they think like this:
“Hmmm, could be BS. This is a lot of money. Something doesn’t really add up here. But then, we’re talking about ETERNITY No-one really KNOWS what’s gonna happen…it could be bad…REAL bad…so, if I give them this money, what can it hurt?…maybe I AM safeguarding my eternity…and if I’m not, and its all BS, well, they’ll give me a plaque and say nice things about me and I’ll be looked up to…not so terrible, and I can afford it…you can’t take it with you, after all, and just to be on the safe side…Ok, I’ll do it. Better safe than sorry!”
In 21st century America, Scientology is distinctly predatory and cruel. Historically, sure, other religions have behaved badly. But, if you want to prevent the crimes of scientology it’s important to not become relativist about why and how a predatory religion functions. If we say “all religion is the same,” we render ourselves incapable of discerning evil, and impotent in protecting ourselves and others from it.
In a way Scientology cult behavior reminds me of Hindu renunciation (shed your worldly attachments), Catholic indulgences (buying your way to heaven, something Mr. Rathbun pointed out), fanatical self-flagellation (various religions), and Northwestern US and Southwestern Canada Native American potlatch ceremonies where lots of one’s stuff is given away.
So even in its “statuses,” much less its “tech,” Scientology has nothing new. Put up crime scene tape and post an officer to keep telling the curious “move along folks, nothing to see here.”
The crime scene tape stays up because there IS plenty to see here folks. There are Christians who handle rattlesnakes and Hindus who pull heavy statues of deities hooked into their flesh but the church of scientology, besides its dubious belief system, happens to have policies that harm people who don’t choose to adopt its beliefs. That’s why we speak out and why crime scene tape is appropriate.
The cult is pulling an old, old con. Religions have been pulling this con for eons. Appeasing the gods, buying indulgences, safeguarding your eternity, call it what you want, call it anything you like, its the same concept, the same old con job, and it works. It works because no one can say for sure what happens after we die, so there’s that mystery there, there is fear of what happens after death, and peoples’ fear of the unknown that is their after body death future can be exploited to get money (and work) out of them in the present. Its sad that people can be so stupid and gullible that way, but there you are. The money I gave to the IAS, which wasn’t much, I did because I felt sorry for the staff. Truth.
I wonder how Tom Cruise feels about all these Big Beings! I mean, when he was talking to one of his girlfriends, he put his hand over his head and said, “this is LRH”. He lowers his hand a bit and says, “This is Dave.” Lowers his hand to eye level and says, “And this is me!” You see, Dave and I are Big Beings. And for the longest time, there were only 3 Big Beings. Now, they’re a dime a dozen! Sort of water’s down the significance of being a Big Being. That’s gotta hurt….
Existing as a Big Beings is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Works the same for beings a “clear” or “O.T.” too. LMAO
I have a question. What is that a big being. A being is as big as he thinks he is. As LRH stated early, a normal being does not know that he is a being. He is a body. More or less a living machine who runs around for some years and dies.
A big being as described here today would do exactly the same. There is nobody who can buy eternity. If you hear or read the script of Death from LRH, you can get the impression, that you are a being who is able to fly around .. very interesting concept, but nobody will ever give the proof about .. it is only a good sounding idea .. and you can fall for it .. because there is some truth involved ..
Someone mentioned OT II here and the big being part of it .. but it means someone did implant the idea of a being who is bigger than you .. so the idea that your powers are always a little bit lower .. which is not the correct idea of the implant .. the correct idea is that somebody gave you the powers you have .. not your powers ..
As everybody may know here, an implant works only with your protest against .. so the protest holds it in actual present as an unsolved problem ..
Finally. LRH described death as a way to leave a body and go on to a new one. LRH has never described how do you do that really. It is often said that you fly to a hospital and pick up .. but this is certainly not a true statement,
Hinduism gives a much better descrition of death .. it says in short you go or stay with your now-existing-feelings as long as you find yourself a new one .. so going away and looking for a new human body for living is completely stupid ..
Lets say, as I have said often, when you die, you will have the same feelings as before, and this is that you gave up your life and have lost all communications .. now you have the same problem as before .. but surely all the unsolved problems of you life ..
So on .. if you go for eternity and a state of big being, you wil surely have a sort of very critical problems .. problems which you could already not solve .. a real big being should not die with a huge number of unsolved problems .. a big being would never create sort of problems which cannot be solved ..
So in consequence LRH was never a big being. He had great ideas about handling a whole universe .. he himself and all of us did fall for it in some way .. but the way how it went was an unsolveable problem .. not how it is done ..
Calling somebody a big being is a trap .. he will have real trouble after his death, and you will not see this guy for a long time .. do not think that such guy will fly around as a free being .. no, no, no he will be introverted in his own bullshit he did ..
My last word, if you die you will take with you all unsolved problems which you had with scientology. That is a lot .. and you will never come up again for life .. because then you have a lack of communication .. this is the weakest part in all scientology ..
You cannot handle anything if your communication is out of order .. the unsolveable problems of the bridge from LRH will make every scientologist to a BT .. yeah, you can then only throw out some disorder .. which you cannot get in order .. which is the only idea of OT III .. broken comm lines .. lost beings as described in older books ..
A real big being would never promote themselve as a big being ..
Hi Friend,A interesting post makes me tilt my viewpoint and think about why I am so glad to not be a big being with Status certs and an enormous mess on my hands regarding unsolved problems & after death.Communication that is one point I can agree with Ron,for ill or good because how and what is communicated is ultimately chosen by the first sender of comm to someone else,then they frame how to receive it.MayRon/David and the whole cos become very lost beings found in dusty musty books & fading DVDs.So much damage has been done & is being done by the cult.I am so so grateful for this blog & my freedom every second of every day & night.Thank you Always Ann.
Platinum Ignoramus
I have no words to describe this. Sheer madness? Total idiocy? In any case the “huge effects” translate into COB living like a Saudi prince and an army of fancy lawyers and private detectives making good money by harassing any good honest being who dares to question the cult of greed.
I agree in getting rid of training and processing as they are just distractions or “vias”, as LRH would say. Just cut out all of those vias and go for the “The Supreme Test” (HCOB 19AUG67) which is “The supreme test of a thetan is his ability to make things go right”. And the best and perhaps only way o make things go right is to give all your money to the IAS. Not just a bit of it — all of it !! If you do that, you have passed the Supreme Test and you are most definitely an OT and you have jumped to the top of the Bridge as a Big Being OT.
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDEQFjACahUKEwjS9Oupu4nHAhUGchQKHUiyAtQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.matrixfiles.com%2FScientology%2520Materials%2Findex.php%3Fdir%3DHCOB%2BBTB%2BPAB%2Betc%252F%26download%3DSUPREME%2BTEST%2BBE190867.doc&ei=ZI-9VdKyDYbkUcjkiqAN&usg=AFQjCNEBvZPHevZjqf3n-E-p4zoL96ZRBA&bvm=bv.99261572,d.d24&cad=rja
I think it’s that matrix that Jason Beghe speaks of where Hubbard’s thoughts replaces one’s own and one becomes unable to think for themselves. I forget Jason’s words but these are my words. I wonder how Richie Acunto is doing now. I feel the pain these folks must end up with eventually.
Well said Mike. You pretty much summed up something that generally attracts a lot of cuss words, with the term “criminal…” repeating over and over.
It dulls the senses after awhile looking too closely at idiots. The disbelief people can be so deluded and openly insane is itself a test of character for the observant.
I’ve mentioned it before but scientology attracts the good at heart and turns them into lonely people with no where to go. With their best intentions preyed upon they are relieved of their money, life, friends (and often family) and future. There is no Bridge in the church of scientology, if there was ever was it was thrown out in 1978 along with anything else that made people independent like the mission network a couple of years later. Followed by Org structure and anyone who was able or questioned ‘command intention’.
It’s all group status now and all the lies that go along with that. Follow the money has never been easier, the lies abound easily seen except by the idiots. Pretty soon you simply by your OT status, sit in your temporary fake leather chair puffing on cheap Nicorette cigars admiring yourself briefly until your money runs out but there’s always eBay to sell your trophy and garages full of “boxes of scientology.” And you never have to audit anyone except yourself, and we all know how well that goes – no shortage of as- new emeters on eBay too.
I always had a button on the ‘Big Being’ concept. My first run in with it was in Science of Survival where lrh talks about “theta endowment”. Which would imply that how ‘Big’ you could be was predetermined. I never liked that idea. Then in 8-8008 he says you’re as ‘Big’ as you consider yourself to be. I like this idea a lot better. However it’s a complete contradiction of “theta endowment”. Lastly, if you look the words up in the dictionary I don’t think it will have anything to do with donating money to a cult.
Definition 2:
endowment [en dou′mənt, indou′mənt]
n.
[[ME endouement]]
1. the act of endowing
2. that with which something is endowed; specif., any bequest or gift that provides an income for an institution or person
3. a gift of nature; inherent talent, ability, quality, etc.
Big Being: someone with an oversized flatulent ego who gives at least a million dollars to Dave’s slush fund for the privilege of having his or her picture taken with the cob at IAS events and can then display it conspicuously in his or her ‘home to smaller beings as proof that he or she is in fact a Big Being, thus shaming the small being Into becoming a Big Being.
Hi MM, Love your work! It seems to me the Bridge has crumbled into a vicious version of a perpetual Ferris Wheel Ride.Strap in,pay David for the privilege of accessing his Tech & you are off for Eternity round & round on the endless circle of back forth to the top and down to the bottom again.Also a photo opp is at the end of the torture ride so one can get all sizes of Big Being pix to hang around the house.At my age now,I look back and even Ron who you may gather I do not give a pass to anymore because I finally saw the True being,but even Ron put a little more sparkle dust mystery in his whole scheme of cos.David is as cold as ice,money, lies and toys he is a walking disaster.Those that still give to him & are still in,serving him,are in his Hell.Always Ann.
Right you are Ann. And Dave, lighten up dude!
I would love to be the fly on the wall when Buz finally cognites that ALL his donations are contributing to Der Elf Lord’s slush fund. That not one red cent of his hard earned money goes to the projects that his reges says they go to. Buz may be looking for that high bridge that he and Claire can hand in hand leap off of because they have spent millions getting royally screwed by the Cherch of $. As the Dwarf sees them make their final plunge he will wave thanking them for sinking their last dollars into his deep pockets.
Alas, we might have to wait till Target Two.
I find it interesting that this couple, supposedly opinion leaders of Scientology, needs to be told that they are “Big Beings” in order to feel/know that they are “Big Beings” (we’ll skip over the part that they paid lots of $ to be told that). I mean, I understand the whole “agreement equals reality,” thing, but come on – I mean, really?
Exactly. There’s an old saying, “if you have to ask what jazz is… you ain’t never gonna know.”
That’s why the OT levels are simply some drivel devised to go on forever and pay more and more money on the never ending journey. That’s why I have my suspicions NOTs replaced from 4 on up – it’s a never ending story and does NOT make people happy, only broke.
But if you don’t know the tune after the first $100k – why give it a second?
Instead of IAS donations…spread that cash where it will do far more good
you mean, on hookers and blow?
The IAS fraud scam always gets me riled up and this ‘Success Story’ just rattles my cage even more. Buz and Claire are seriously deluded public of Scientology and I know that Claire is OT8 too. They, by their glowing “success” are an unwitting destructive influence on people. These are the types of Scientologists that people should not listen to and should stay away from if they know what’s good for them.
They are so very condescending with their lofty talk of how they communicate to and ‘handle people.’ Right. I would just love to be ‘handled’ by people like this and be qualified by my willingness to donate to the IAS, which is a black hole of unaccountability and probably the biggest long term fraud run by the CoS on well intentioned individuals there is.
You tell ’em Pepper!
Jesus! What swill! The continual use of “handle” – what the hell does that mean? When you “handle” your employees, your family, a situation, it implies that you are by force or heavy persuasion pushing everything to the outcome that YOU want. What about what they want? No one uses this word when discussing a negotiation, a compromise, a mutual understanding. It is another big ego word used by scientologists. It’s all about ME, ME, ME.
Hi Alice, I had similar thoughts about Claire’s use of the word “handle”. it gave me a bit of a Sci. flashback. Scientologists use of the word “handle” always makes me think of a mobster “taking care of somebody”.
Yeah…they take care of them alright.
You handle a car, your fork and knife at the dinner table,it means you get them to do what you want them to do to serve your purpose.
Same with people apparently.
Yuck.
Scientology and its church are crumbling fast and steady. I don’t envy Buzz and Claire for what they are soon to be faced with but I delight in contemplating it. I’m sorry if you think I’m wicked for that but I remind you it’s the stuff of great Shakespearean comedy.
When the church becomes unglued, push on to target two!
New slogan: If you’re unglued head for Target Two (as Ron intended).
Have your world upended, just like Ron intended.
I wish somebody could get Billy Crystal to do a stand up routine on the fantasies sold by scientology to the hopelessly deluded. Chris Rock would rock it too but there would be a lot more profanity. Either way would that be sublime or what?
” Just goes to show if you DO have something that people want and it works, they find their way to you — as long as you don’t try to trick them or rip them off in the process. ”
Amen. Well said Mike. So true.
The future of fundraising.
(some org somewhere – clapping and cheering – numbers being called out – excitement all around)
The ED is now the permanent M/C of his org. There’s no need for his position anymore. Actually, there’s no need for staff either. It’s all come down to creating Big Beings (as Ron intended). Let’s listen in…
(the M/C) “Whew! That was a fantastic donation Mr. & Mrs. Swinehart! That really pushes up your Big Being statuses! However, we all know how utterly useless Wog education is. Mr. Swinehart, you’re noted Astrophysicist, pulling down $2.5 million year. Mrs. Swinehart, you’re partner in the law firm of Dewey, Fukem & Howe. You’re pulling down 3.7 million a year. If you cash in all of your children’s college funds and triple what you make a year as a donation to becoming a Super Big Being, you’ll be so very close to Ron (as Ron intended). If you make that donation, you’ll automatically be OTIX! You’re Super Big Beingness will be obvious to everyone. SPs not only will not approach you, they’ll be afraid to even think of you because you’ll be able to read minds (as Ron intended). The IAS will erect a statute to both of you! (6 inches high as Ron intended). So…Mr. and Mrs. Swinehart, what’s it going to be? Remember, you’re either with us or your against us!”
(anxious talk between Swineharts). Mrs. Swinehart: “Honey, that is so much money that they want! I mean, no college education for our kids? Three times our salaries? I just don’t know…”
Mr. Swinehart: I know, babe! But….(loud noise coming from the fundraising area).
“Hey, Mr. & Mrs. Swinehart, if you give the donation we’re asking of you two, when you drop your bodies, you’ll go straight to Target Two to work with Ron (as Ron intended). And if you hand over your kids to the Sea Org, when they drop their bodies, they’ll go to Target Two also!” (as Ron intended).
(Super loud clapping and cheering in the other room) (as Ron intended).
The M/C: Ladies and gentlemen, the Swineharts have just given a massive donation that will take them to Target Two upon leaving their bodies and their kids will join the Sea Org!” (as Ron intended).
(Noise so loud you can hardly stand it) (as Ron intended).
In the other room, the M/C tells someone that the next rube is due any minute now. The M/C calls out to the Swineharts: “Mr. and Mrs. Swinehart! PLEASE follow me (as Ron intended)!
He takes them to a door in the back of the org: “What an exciting night, Mr. & Mrs. Swinehart! I know that RIGHT NOW, Ron is very proud of you! (as Ron intended).
He holds the door to a very dark alley open for them. As the Swinehart’s exit, the large metal door closes and the sounds of locks being set is heard.
(Back in the org with the M/C)
Alright, alright, alright!!!! We’re back with Mr. & Mrs. Valimir Vicoski from Russia! So…Mr and Mrs. V! You want to become Super Big Beings (as Ron intended)???
(wild laughter, cheering and clapping) (as Ron intended………..)
Mike, I think you’re forgetting that they are not made mere “Big Beings” by donating piles of cash to the IAS.
They’re made BIG BEINGS
That’s gotta be worth a packet of dough!
Dave’s take on Marxism: “From each according to assets with no liabilities, to me according to my needs.”
You’re good…real good!
Simon Bolivar, Karl Marx, a twist of Hubbard and voila, an ecclesiastical leader.
Capitalization has taken on a whole new meaning.
Seems like some of the original whales are not around anymore or are flying low. The Jensen’s come to mind…
Many whales have voluntarily beached themselves to try and save what’s left of the pod.
What a picture that conjures up OSD!
If Buz and Claire only knew how little the IAS is doing to help mankind. May they someday wake up and realize that even though they have great wealth they have been supporting a scam.
How true, the IAS is the bottom of the barrel and is reserved for Idiots And Suckers not big beings like DHMDM who loathes these people. Wow, what a scam.
Scientology: It’s all about the Brain Spooge.
Alanzo
Which soaks up lots of juicy things…
They mean big idiots?
The Buzz and Clair ‘success story’ was certainly dictated for them by the clam commission department. All of the IAS money goes directly to DLHDM, minus any commission. Being on that income chain is the most desired place in today’s clampire.
Auditors and C/S and the Mission Holders used to be the money makers. Well, that end of the income stream took to much money to run, can’t take away money from Lron’s stuffed suitcases, or Davies slush fund. Never mind that destroying the ‘entry level’ part of the pyramid scam was only bringing in all the new meat.
Mustravage has turned what used to be an Amway type business into what has become something like the old Kuwaiti Souk market that crashed and burned in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souk_Al-Manakh_stock_market_crash
It really isn’t hard to imagine that LRH sought to retreive his book royalties. Besides his Scientology books sold, he was a best-selling author.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_100_Best_Novels
“Pulp science fiction writer and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard had three novels in the top ten.”
Some people don’t like science fiction. A lot of people didn’t especially like Da Vinci, or Nostradamus, and Jules Verne – all of whom were clairvoyant – and especially and expressly didn’t want to hear w-i-l-d looney “theories” about how the Earth is not the center of the universe. But then again the intellectual level of the masses is hardly ever quite up to that sort of stuff = stars and space and rocket ships, bah. Drivel..
Come back to a saner, more ethical and in exchange planet? Really Claire? You wanna wait till you come back to see those things? I would think you would want your hard earned money to get those things done while you are still alive. Do you feel by giving money to the IAS you have done your part in such activities? I suggest you take a good look around because the planet is heading in the opposite direction in terms of sane, more ethical and in exchange and the IAS is a wart on a pimple of a piss ant’s balls when it comes to turning this place into a sane, ethical in exchange planet…..bottom line the IAS doesn’t even wanna do that Claire.
Mike, so spot on as usual. Besides Google, all one needs to do is turn on the T.V. for an hour and see the endless bombardment of drug commercials, enough to spin your head. Taking a pill for any and all ailments either real or imagined has unfortunately become mainstream America.
Ms. P, is this meant to be subtle? Or are you comparing the massive body of empirical science, centuries of study and basically the entire field of western medicine to a cruel set of beliefs invented by a single Sci Fi writer?
No, just making a comment about the over drugging of our society. Example, doctors are now promoting taking anti depressants to woman who are menstruating or pregnant. Why? woman for centuries didn’t need to. Has nothing to do with “a cruel set of beliefs invented by a single Sci Fi writer?”
There have always been people with mental illness. Always. It’s not new. If you are under the impression that a percentage of women have not always suffered horribly with hormone related mood disorders, you are obviously not terribly well read. We used to be friendless, reviled, imprisoned, isolated, homeless, unemployable. If we get therapy and are willing to take meds as needed (I have never been forced to take meds,) we get to go to school, have jobs and relationships, be with friends, laugh, have homes. I didn’t choose this because I saw a commercial. I am now a highly educated person with a wonderful family. I have a psychiatrist, a therapist and take my meds.I am grateful for real science every day.
Yes, it is VERY over drugged. Especially children. Very few adults need it. Most are just given a pill to shut them up. MANY doctors have told me so.
I almost feel sorry for Buz and Claire Taylor. Even if I was an super upstat in a Church of Scientology I would never make comments like this to the public. At least not in this day and age. There was never an information highway like the internet available before anywhere until recent times. Unfortunately for the Church of Scientology this does not work out to their advantage. “Corrupt LRH Tech for Profits” is the new policy the church operates with. To think I could have belonged to a mess like that and/or had the temerity to allow others to be born into it, is unforgivable. Thanks LRH. I wish you were around and in present time enough in spite of your discoveries to catch a glimpse of this church’s future. 🙂
Hi Lawrence,I really liked your post.The more I read & post here the more I cannot believe I sold huge chunks of ” blue sky ” to so many. And completely believed in all that the SO presented.Amazing that I am still around.Ann.
Sheldon & I had a friend (He disconnected from us.) who was a big donor to the IAS. He had a framed cert on his wall from the IAS that said his name and “BIG BEING.” He believed it. And for him to put it on his wall, it had to be very important to him. Scientology is selling indulgences and the faithful believe they are buying their way to “heaven,” or in their words “Eternity.”
Sara I’ve seen this too. I had a friend who did the same thing with Cert on the wall. Once we went to the Ship together and he made a sign for himself “Reserved for Patron of the IAS” and would tag his selected seats in the auditorium whenever we went for convention briefings and meetings. It was silly and sad at the same time. They really do believe their own hype don’t they? And is is very important to them too.
Clarification: my friend would tag his selected seats for him and his wife. Not for me the smaller being of course. I hadn’t paid to be a big one 🙂
What, Pepper??? You mean the hype is really NOT true?? I’m lost…
It is sad and Sullivan. These “Big Beings” don’t disseminate Scientology because they lack confront. And most of them do nothing in the way of volunteering in getting the tech out in the world. They just give money in hopes they buy their eternity
Nothing like a tall jug of kool-aid to wash down Dave’s chili con corny.
Pepper, there is no end to the damage that raging EGO can create.
I wonder if Claire and Buz ever ever got onto OT 2, not likely these day, they would be struck when they came upon one of the implants titled…………………………………The Big Being.
Hi Mike,The ML sign off on cos comm now, gives me a headache!At least fake Ron’s had the sweeping infinity symbol under his name,in case we would ever forget that!Always Ann.
Naw, somebody already told me I was a Big Being 40 years ago. Ain’t nothing new. It was 1975 and the ink pen and the billion year contract was sliding towards me as she got about 12 inches from my face and told me that. But I didn’t sign. But I’m just playing now. I think you are right Mike as it seems people are now buying their way into Big Being Heaven with COB and Cruise. Maybe Regraded Being will sometime do some of his excellent work on this subject also.
Al, you’ve been a Big Being your entire existence. And that’s without paying through the nose…
>The IAS makes us BIG BEINGS creating effects at the orders of magnitude we should be doing as Scientologists
Alternate version:
The IAS makes us BIG SUCKERS creating stupidity at the orders of magnitude we display by donating to the IAS
What kind of fool am I
Who never saw the mess
It seems I’m not the only one
Who bought the IAS
What kind of mind is this
An empty shell
A lonely cell
In which a great big being dwells
What kind of clown am I
What do I know of life
Why can’t I cast away this curse of Dave
And live my life
Why can’t I see the truth
Like any girl or man
And maybe then I’ll know
What kind of fool I am
What kind of lips are these
That need an ass to kiss
That proclaim empty words of praise
That keep me selling shit
Why can’t I tell the truth
For once expose the lies
And maybe then I’ll know
What kind of fool am I
I love it!
Thanks Oracle.
Absolutely Brilliant MM.. Wow.. Ain’t that the truth..
What fools these minions be.
Brilliant lyrics! Full out laughter. Many thanks for your creativity.
Thank you!
A masterpiece, MM. Out of the park with this one!
Thanks much Aquamarine.
Lol!
Great poem, MM! Many a true word, hey…!
Funny as hell. Come to think of it, if they did away with the El Con’s damaging “tek” a lot of current cult members might start recovering.
Excellent post Mike.
This says it all — eloquently.
Another spot on summation, Mike Rinder. You are gifted; and a gifted writer, to boot.
Buzz and Claire are certainly welcome to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars (or a million or two) to get that “good feeling” that thinking you are a big being changing the world apparently produces (though only for a time, as they will no doubt discover at some point). Seems like they have that extra cash lying around that they don’t have anything else to spend it on.
But in reading their “success” story, I once again ask the question that these type of posts invariably brings to mind: Have ALL of the people who have remained in the CoS just agreed to postulate themselves into a state of complete motherfucking stupidity as beings? (uh … well … of course, yes)
Yes!!!!
They have become “dead” beings…..I would rather use the words overwhelmed beings but either way they are surely are being stupid beings.
Laughter!
The wholesale mattress business must be pretty good
or do have a chain of franchise ice cream shops ?
Anyway they were on David Miscaviges Radar screen.
That’s what the COB does all day is find out who has money
and how much. Surely you don’t think he is fixing the Bridge !!!
Jose, Hubbard found it impossible to fix the bridge so it was workable. So, DM fixing it? Not possible. So he does what criminals do best, commit crimes. The ONLY ethical thing he could do would be to tell all cult members the truth. But THAT would violate LRH policy…
Dear John,
If stray to the truth C of $ declares you or makes life brutally
messed up for you. The reason “Why” so many Kool aide
drinkers die from cancer or commit suicide or their pets run away !!!
They sell mattresses? I must say that they have made their bed and now they must lay in it.
Laughter!
🙂
Oh no, no you have to say dog kennel to the Taylors because if you say mattress they put a bag over their heads. I should have explained. Apart from that they’re really all right.