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The “Ideal” Scientologist

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This is a bit old now, but still relevant.

The “ideal” fad is really rolling inside the bubble. — now they have Rev. Alfreddie preaching to the converted about what an “ideal scientologist” is.

My concept of what embodies today’s “ideal scientologist” is seen in the illustration above.

I wonder what Reverend Johnson came up with?

Maybe he explained that the ideal scientologist would promote themselves as a “Baptist Minister”? The “reverend Alfreddie” is no scientology “reverend”… He plays his minister card to gain “acceptance” in “the community” because being a scientologist has taken on such a stigma that to drop the Baptist Minister front would turn him into a pariah. So, even on his own FB page he still refers to himself as “Reverend Alfreddie” and so does everyone else.

Is this his “ideal scientologist”? Or is it simply another example of do what I say, not what I do?

Here is how he promoted his “Sunday Service” on his FB page…

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After his Sunday Service he put up a post on HIS Facebook page with “responses” that was subsequently taken down. But the text was captured by an alert correspondent:

Alfreddie Johnson
SUNDAY SERVICE FEEDBACK REPORT
Reverend Alfreddie Johnson
“The Ideal Scientologist”
31 August 2014
The service started with Ms. Stacy Francis singing Amazing Grace which totally moved the crowd. The Senior Chaplain then read the Creed of the Church of Scientology and “An Invitation to Freedom, Man Can Save his Soul” and brought Stacy Francis back on the stage to sing a song called “I Believe” which got the whole crowd standing and clapping.
Then Reverend Alfreddie Johnson came on and completely blew the crowd away with a sermon all about being an ideal Scientologist and what that meant. The crowd was completely impacted by the message given in this sermon and they were on fire to be more active as a result.
Once Rev. Alfreddie was done, the whole crowd received group processing from the Senior Chaplain and the service was then ended with the Scientology Prayer for Total Freedom.
The public were completely rave and we had 129 public in attendance.
Here is what the public had to say:
Bob Duggan – I loved Stacy, I loved the Chaplain and the LRH references she read and the Group Processing she did and I also loved Rev. Alfreddie. Alfreddie is absolutely glowing and has really been growing so much! This truly shows you how Scientology works and everything he said was so right. I am also just amazed at how gorgeous our Chapel is and I am really proud to be part of this group.
Susan Hawley – Where do I begin? There are so many things that I loved today. I really got that an ideal Scientologist is someone who confronts the world outside and turns it into a place where Scientology is used everywhere and with everyone no matter who you come into contact with out there in the world. I am closed to work more on the 4th dynamic campaigns that we have in Scientology and start getting out there.
Wolfgang Brugger – I loved Alfreddie and the sermon today. It was so powerful. After coming to this and hearing these words from LRH and Alfreddie I am now truly going to become an ideal Scientologist.
Patrick Martin – The sermon we got was fantastic! I am going to continue to make things go right to avail myself of more Bridge progress and I am going to become a more effective Scientologist.
Anastasia Bang – I loved the message we got today and I loved the group processing. After seeing this I know my part is to do whatever I can to bring more sanity to this world.
George Mesmer – This was very impacting. Mr. Johnson said what really needed to be said about how a Scientologist is someone who applies the technology of Scientology and I really got it! I am going to become more active.
Zorica Stanulova – I thought everything was amazing! The Chaplain and the LRH words, the singer and the information we received from the Minister. I also really liked the group processing. I am going to come to every Sunday Service that I can and use the data and bring others too.
Diane Klein – The music was fabulous, the talk was awesome and the group processing was wonderful. This was also in my first time in this building and this was quite a welcome! This service really made me see that KSW is something that is 24/7 and really inspired me.
Brian Smith – I loved Alfreddie and his speech and the group processing that we did. I think I am going to start working for the IAS and work for the purpose of others and not just self.
Debbie Phelps – I loved this speech today. Alfreddie really hit home to all of us that this planet is in ruin but by the end he had us so uptone and closed on the application of KSW and Scientology in every aspect of life. I also really loved Stacy Francis who really blew us away. Man! All I can say is that I know I need to do more and I will do just that. Always!
Orlando Bentz – I really liked the message from today that something can be done about it! No matter what you have, in Scientology you will always find a way out. As a result of attending this Sunday Service I decided that I am going to stay on course and get others to get on course and do the same.
Audrey Steinbergs – The ARC, quality and personal certainty that Scientology works was so tangible in this sermon. I really see what I need to do. I need to keep on getting out there, keep on with my SRD and this also reaffirmed my intention to do the Cause Resurgence.
Shauna Pratt – This rocked! The sermon was excellent because it showed the ruin that is out there in the world and then gave the direction to handle this. I need to use Scientology everywhere in my own way to get public to become effective Scientologists.
Renata St Lawrence – Rev. Alfreddie is so real. I really got that I need to become more of an ideal Scientologist. The message about applying KSW really indicates to me.
Sally Shube – It was so much fun to be with this group. I loved the singer, the packed Chapel, the Reverend and the group processing! All of it! I definitely want to do more reach out in the outside world as a result of coming to this Sunday Service today.
John Elrick – Everything was awesome! I had a lot of fun today. The singing, the Reverend and the group processing were equally stellar! I am going to move so much faster and get my Purif paid for very soon and complete all my Basics very soon too!
Gaspar Kolosz – Really showing us what we can do as Scientologists was amazing. I am going to continue training and do just that.
Liz Dawson – This was so real. There are real problems out there and we have the real solutions in Scientology and I know something can be done about it. I need to help more on getting this done. Thank you for this today.
Marla Lenain – I really liked the technology we got today from Rev. Alfreddie. I decided I am going to do Super Power and disseminate more.
Doug Daniloff – I loved the message of what is an ideal Scientologist. This was so hard hitting. I decided I am going to get back on staff.
oOo

 

Interesting the first name on the list is super whale Bob Duggan. One would imagine someone supposedly as smart as he is would see through the bs. But there is more to come that will explain his “devotion to the cause” and it is a VERY strange set of circumstances that leaves him at the mercy of Charmaine Roger.

And we should make one of those thermometers the church is so inclined to use to track their progress towards achieving their (moneymaking) goals and put it up to to track the number of days before Doug Daniloff actually arrives back on staff. I bet it’s going to be the longest thermometer ever….

Soon to come, a special line of products in the Flag canteen that are “ideal” toiletries (the brands COB uses repackaged into ideal packaging), along with “ideal menu items” (COB’s favorite dishes, NZ lamb, Alaskan salmon and Philly cheesesteaks) in each Flag restaurant, “ideal transportation” (special edition black BMW 550i’s and Saleen Mustangs) and, and, and…. The possibilities are endless.

 

Comments

  1. Its always funny how Co$ uses crosses and other aspects of Christian churches to present a facade of being a “religion”…

    Question: in the service description that you provided here, there was mention of a prayer given (Scientologist Prayer for Total Freedom, was it?)…as Scientology teaches that Jesus, Buddha and other religious concepts were not real at all but were actually falsified memory implants, then WHO/WHAT are scientologists at that service praying TO? Are they praying to LRH or Davey Miscarriage?

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    • Here is the “Prayer For Total Freedom”:

      A PRAYER FOR TOTAL FREEDOM

      May the author of the universe enable all men to reach an understanding of their spiritual nature.

      May awareness and understanding of life expand, so that all may come to know the author of the universe.

      And may others also reach this understanding which brings Total Freedom.

      At this time, we think of those whose liberty is threatened; of those who have suffered imprisonment for their beliefs; of those who are enslaved or martyred, and for all those who are brutalized, trapped or attacked.

      We pray that human rights will be preserved so that all people may believe and worship freely, so that freedom will once again be seen in our land.

      Freedom from war, and poverty, and want; freedom to be; freedom to do and freedom to have.

      Freedom to use and understand Man’s potential—a potential that is God-given and Godlike.

      And freedom to achieve that understanding and awareness that is Total Freedom.

      May God let it be so.

      Not sure where you got the idea that scientology teaches that Buddha was not real? Most scientologists believe L. Ron Hubbard was Buddha, based on Hymn of Asia.

      I would think that the idea is not that one is praying “to” anyone, but “for” something.

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  2. What exactly would be the definition of an “ideal auditor”?
    I would bet my house that the majority of ideal donators wouldn’t have a clue what 25 hours a week in the chair actually means, let alone what it feels like. The blind leading the blind pales compared to the broke convincing the not quite broke to give give give.
    Freedom? What’s that?
    Everything about Flag is exampled in the above (save the Lord)

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  3. Speaking of ideal, let’s look at someone, who in my mind, lived his life like an ideal person. Here’s an excerpt from his book ‘Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass.’

    “I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.”

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  4. Totally Off-Topic Humor Alert.

    I have to share this.

    Over at Tony’s, J & D ing on forthcoming cult TV shows from KCET studios, Sherbet posted,

    “And don’t forget the ‘Happy Days’ spinoff: Sunday, Monday, Slappy Dave! Tuesday, Wednesday, Slappy Dave! Thursday, Friday, Slappy Dave! Weekend comes! Ducati hums! Ready to race to Lou!”

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    • I’m out of control. More KCET TV J&D from the Bunkerites: “Mayberry RPF”..”The Man From OSA”…”Who Wants To Be An Ex-Millionaire?”

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  5. Dan’el, Funny that was you. We both knew these 2 very well – from the FB post of wins: “Renata St Lawrence – Rev. Alfreddie is so real. I really got that I need to become more of an ideal Scientologist. The message about applying KSW really indicates to me.
    Sally Shube – It was so much fun to be with this group. I loved the singer, the packed Chapel, the Reverend and the group processing! All of it! I definitely want to do more reach out in the outside world as a result of coming to this Sunday Service today.
    And good ‘ol Doug D. As for Frizelle Clegg – would that be the good Doctor?
    Ces

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  8. Where do you go from ideal everything? Let me think**

    The Golden Age of Ideal everything phase 1? than 2? and so on?

    How about idealing the concept of everything ideal and than look in the mirror Mr. M. What are you the Buddah?

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    • Ideal scene: sell all the “ideal orgs”, give the money back that was stolen from them, make a public apology on the Internet, train 10,000 auditors pre GAT, deliver auditing like it’s going out of style and honestly care for everyone you service as the lifeblood of your operation.

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  10. It’s hard to even imagine what it takes to actually attend such an event, and, come out and write a religiously glowing report thereafter.

    Unreal.

    The crosses, the sing-a-long, the “prayers”, the quotes, the ideal Scientologist sanctimony, the KSW speak. It is all too weird and so far from what I originally signed up for, it defies all belief.

    I cringe when I read this stuff. I am so glad I am no longer there.

    The fact that a “reverend” leads the cry, is just too plastic and surreal, as well.

    Gobsmacked I am.

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  11. It really cannot last.
    Repeat from prior post
    In the immortal words of Nancy Cartwright
    Aye Carumba , Eat my shorts.

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  12. Mike,
    What you are mentioning about Bob Duggan almost sounds like someone higher up in the hierarchy is holding some fat private priest-penitentiary indiscretion -normally called blackmail- over him for this financial blood-letting to go on and on.
    Would love to hear more…
    Greta

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  13. Orlando Bentz: “No matter what you have, in Scientology you will always find a way out” – heck, Orlando
    ALMOST got it right!
    JUST GET out!
    Greta

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    • That is only the appetizer before the main courses of which you can choose:

      1) MAA cycle on a repair of past ethics.
      2) D of P to inform you your Clear cert is not valid.
      3) Told by the reg you will need to redo your purif and objectives …….. again.
      4) Called to confirm your attendance for a briefing.
      5) Phone ringing ……………

      Q: How do you know when you have thrown off the yoke of suppression created by the cult known as RCS?

      A: When you look forward to receiving a call from them!

      I wish everyone on this blog the opportunity to receive a call from the cult today and hope you have some fun kicking their ass and taking some names.

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      • I’m getting there, Cooper. Not quite there yet though. Listening to Claire Headley’s interview today got me badly. Who knew! I wasn’t even in the SO but the false imprisonment aspects of my final days trying to finish OT VII at Flag and then the TWO MONTHS I spent on the ship jumping through all their hoops …. Whew! One of these days I’ll get there, Cooper.

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      • I very much love to get calls from anyone at the Church. I establish ARC about personal wins first. E.g., (This is all in sincerity as I am sincere in my calls with these people. Don’t read the following as “1.1”)

        “Oh! So glad that you called! I was just thinking about all the wins I have had in Scientology! Amazing stuff and I am so proud to be a part of it! If anyone needs to do the F/N drill in the EM drills, tell them to drop by as I will give them F/Ns!

        “So, what org are you calling from? AO? Cool! What’s your post? Qual Sec (or whatever they tell you…)???? Really?! Do I have a Qual cycle? No? You are calling me about a ___________ (donation for a building, poker party, wienie roast, Valley door knob pledge, whatever)? Really?

        “Let me get this straight… you are the Qual Sec at AO and you are calling me about the _____________ (fill it in with whatever off-policy, off-hat action the person is doing.)???”

        “Well, Qual Sec, I hope this is some sort of joke or something, because if it is really so that you are the Qual Sec and you are calling me about this ________, then you are WAY off hat! Were you ordered to do this? You were?!?!

        “Have you done your staff statuses? Do you know about Orders, Illegal and Cross, Job Endangerment PLs??? You do???? So what are you doing? Don’t you see how wrong this is???”

        Get the idea? 1 Establish a big fat comm line based on wins and ARC. 2. Ask what they are doing, and 3.) Issue a cramming order (so to speak) right on the spot.

        In other words, act as if you were a staff member from an org in 1974 or before that somehow got teleported into 2014 and don’t act as if you are accustomed to all this off policy stuff. 95% of the admin actions that are commonplace today would have got you crammed then retreaded then to ethics then canned if it were mid 70’s or earlier. Everyone has just gotten so used to these off policies actions being enforced by off policy directives and orders.

        And the staff members KNOW it! They do! They do the staff statuses even now, in this day and age; they do! Really! But they then go into an existing scene where they can’t find a single soul who applies any of it with any intelligence so they just dub in that they must not have understood some key part. Or they are told that to do such and such is “Command Intention” and that excuses it all. There are some people who have written up that it was off policy but they were then pulled in for Roll backs and sec checks and they have been in the RPF for 6 years now.

        But still, these people have got to be reminded of what policy says at every opportunity, and a phone call accidentally placed to a now independent Scientologist might be the only place these people will get such an opportunity. I recommend that we use these opportunities intelligently. I really do. I KNOW that my calls with these people leaves them thinking. Shaking, but still thinking. I’d like to think that I might have helped a few people walk away. (No real evidence of that yet, but I think it is possible.)

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        • Great Dan! I bet the phone calls they make to you give them quite a big surprise! And I imagine you don’t hear from them again.

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  20. The “ideal” Scientologist is someone which I have never met .. but somewhere in the past there were some who were good about ..

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  21. Ideal Scientologist = Willing to BORROW money to increase IAS status in return for back claps from other cult members!!

    Ideal Humanitarian Scientologist = Willing to make substantial cash donations to increase IAS status in return for fluffy color promo pieces enhancing their status within the cult.

    Ideal Whale Scientologist = Willing to write regular six or seven figure donation checks in return for super mega bowling trophies and semi-worshiped status within the cult.

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  22. And now we know that the surrounding area of Flag has only 129 public in attendance. Not too many considering that in addition to the resident public scientologists in Clearwater, there are a lot of scientologist in service from all parts of the world.

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  24. Was the feedback report actually on his FB page with these people actually making comments onto his FB page as a response to his feedback report? Or, did his feedback report include these “canned comments” in it? I know this is a “well, duh” statement, but this just seems really odd.

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    • I was the person (or at least one of the people) who copied and pasted the feedback report. (I didn’t think to screen-cap it at the time. I have learned my lesson.)

      The feedback report as quoted by Mike was all written by Rev. Alfreddie Johnson in a separate Facebook post (which he later deleted) and contained all of the “canned comments” quoted by Mike. Everything in the feedback report quoted by Mike was written by Rev. Johnson. People then made separate comments (not copied by me or quoted by Mike) underneath Rev. Johnson’s post. I hope this is clear and makes sense.

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  26. If you have not been to one in person, you probably have at least seen a Southern Baptist service with all the dancing and singing and shaking and near-convulsions as people get whipped into an ecstasy. Although my nuclear family escaped its direct influence, I am familiar with it in that many of my mothers family were preachers of that sort, with their parishioners becoming “sanctified” and speaking in tongues and being “filled with the Holy Spirit”.

    I remember my friend Frizelle Clegg saying that’s what he missed in Scientology: that sort of fervor and passion.

    I have never heard Alfreddie speak, but I would not be surprised to hear that he was a preacher of that sort. I don’t know if Scientologists could handle the “full ON” of the best of the best of these fellows, as they seem to shoot lightening bolts and vibrate the whole room. Truly amazing. Scientologists have become accustomed to the very conservative careful to read-right-out-of-the-book speakers such as Gavin Potter and Rick Alexander.

    I think it was in the early 80’s that all the Scientology speakers who dared to speak extemporaneously and with any sort of life in them were all shot for “verbal tech”, people like John Rafanello (“The Magic Thetan”) and LA Org’s Seaton Thomas, with his VERY popular “Love Sex and Marriage” lectures (Seaton would get lots of blushes and signups from the crowd with his extrapolation of the Know to Mystery scale.) These fellows may not have filled you with passion, but they had their charisma and could charm or interest a crowd and could create strong interest. There’s many an LA Scientologist who would tell you that they got into Scientology by being routed in to a Seaton Thomas talk. (John R’s public, as I recall, was more for already-Scientologists, and his aim was to interest people in OT for the AO’s benefit.)

    So, if every “ideal org” had an “ideal reverend” such as this… well, I don’t know! I have been paused at the keyboard for a full five minutes trying to get some idea as to how that would go over…

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    • I attended one of Alfreddie’s talks on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his mentor. It was actually a very good talk because he showed videos of MLK talking about freedom and fairness and decency.

      Alfreddie actually made a comment that he had been on course and read about the “Life Continuum” and realized that he was in one with MLK. That’s when I knew he was actually ON the Bridge.

      Even then, even though I wasn’t verbal about my disagreements at the time, I thought, “Well, there goes your VIP status, Rev. Johnson. Now they can use you for free and, instead of saving you for big events, they’ll get you to do these piss ant events in the Little Theatre and never promote it.” I think that there may have been 15 to 20 people max at that event. It was actually a dishonor to MLK, in my view, because it was the anniversary of his death and it should have been a more major event.

      Anyway, now Alfreddie is one of the minions, sort of.

      I understand that he is the one who brought The Nation of Islam to the alter of David Miscavige.

      I digress but, I’m watching for the day that Mr. Louis Farrakhan gets an up close and personal look at what’s really happening with his and his parishioners’ money or gets stung by DM. Hell hath no fury like a preacher scorned.

      I think it’s going to wind up to be a pairing from hell for DM, in the long run, on the hole.

      tick tock, tick tock

      You may need some of this afterward, little dwarf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kavu–Hqf-0

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    • MJ, $500? That is INFINITELY more than was given to SO members when I was in way back in the day. Has DM instituted something new? Back then they would literally kick you out into the street with no money.

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        • Yeah, that seems to be the going rate for run-of-the-mill route-outs. The ONLY reason it is given is so there is consideration for the documents they sign upon departure — nothing to do with any concern for their well-being. One sided agreements not to talk and admitting to all sorts of heinous crimes and agreeing never to go to the media or file a lawsuit are signed by everyone who “routes out.” It is contract law 101 that any agreement for which there is no consideration for what is given to the other party is unenforceable. It’s simply an effort to remove that problem — though such agreements are not enforceable anyway.

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    • MJ,
      The deal with the $500.00 was dangled like a carrot in front of you for MONTHS while one was wasting away
      on the RPFs RPF. It did not happen. The GI (Gross Income) was ‘never good enough’, i.e. they were wasting their money on way more important things…

      It is kind of enlightening to see what one gets for 27 years of service in the S.O. In fact it should have been
      way MORE enlightening! I am not proud of my commlag of 12 years before digging in and finding out
      what was really going on.

      Now Hansueli Staehli (RTC or better one of DM’s henchman), when ‘visiting me’ in 2010 offered to make this right. I declined based on suspected gag orders and non-transparent doxs. I am glad I never accepted
      that f…ing, miserable pay off!
      Greta

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  29. I liked Doug. Say it ain’t so, Doug. Hopefully his “high” has already dissipated.

    The word “Ideal” has become a joke. I hope to write the Ideal Comment one day.

    Thanks, Mike, again, for keeping us informed on the insanity that IS the RCS.

    What keeps Alfreddie in? The commissions perhaps? Hmmmm

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  30. I had quite a number of conversations with the Reverend Alfreddie when I was on lines at CCI. He never once failed to ask me to donate. My understanding is that he makes a good living off his 10% IAS commissions. Not surprising that he’d use his innate charm to sweet-talk his flock into giving even more by convincing them that’s the way to be ideal parishioners.

    129 public in attendance? In a city of ten’s of thousands of scientologists? Where students who are on course take course time off to attend? Much bigger than the average Co$, but certainly not going to clear the seven billion folks on planet earth.

    Never in the history of religion have so few given so much for no really good reason.

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    • Thanks, LDW, I was wondering what Alfreddie got out of it. The c of s seems very adept at turning good people into pimps or whores.
      Also, very good!!…your last line, “Never in the history of religion have so few given so much for no really good reason.”

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      • They also seem to give pimps and whores a happy home. Collect the money and don’t even have to deliver the goods. A promise of how great it will feel in the future is all that is required.

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    • Oh – now I get it. All-feeding-frenzy-ffffreddie’s motivation that is. Aw shucks though; I thought he was just trying to clear the universe. But nothing like combining good old southern baptist tub thumping with a collection plate and a more affluent crowd than down at the olf chapel

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    • Repair the ravages of the week caused by doing Scientology Services…….

      Wake the Fuck Up and get the out of Dodge! Gawd, what a clusterfuck it is.

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      • But more than that Cooper, if you’ve been on lines just hanging out, you’ve been ravaged. They come at you from every angle.

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      • You,re right on McCarran! Reminds me of the trips back to the friendliest place in the whole world for my six month extractions. Things would be pretty peaceful and then it would begin with your first meal. The Walter and Rudy show in the Sandcastle. Actually I really like Walter a lot. I wouldn’t feed Rudy to my chickens though. Anyway, it was like a feeding frenzy at the zoo with all of the regges and dono cycles, jeeesch. And that was before the Ideal Morgues got going.

        I wonder what the atmosphere in the Sandcastle is these days. Grim comes to mind. Any recent OT VII comps out there from under the radar want to weigh in?

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    • ‘Ravages of the week?” Really? So…every week you have a different “ravage?” Sounds like a world infested by WOGS. Here at the beach, “Ravages of the Week” are banned. You settle in with a laid back vibe and enjoy the weather.

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