They put up the monumental, epic news about the opening of the “ideal” St Hill on the scientology.org website.
And what a doozie it is.
The headline is typical shermanspeak overhype, and the text that follows is every bit as laughable.
The church claims that “more than 2000” were in attendance. If you can find close to 1000 people in the photo above it would be a miracle. More like 500. And you know this was the BEST shot they could come up with.
Here is a small sampling of prolix word salad from the mullet man:
A pivotal moment in what has proved a season of unprecedented Scientology achievement, the Ideal Saint Hill ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the instant when the very essence of what the Scientology religion has become achieved perfect synchronicity with Mr. Hubbard’s revolutionary vision.
I wonder if it is now pivoting down? A “season”? Like it’s the expansion season before the “contraction season” begins again as part of the annual changing of the leaves? I guess this is supposed to be poetic? As for the rest of this sentence, it makes absolutely no sense at all. It sounds like the now immortal words of Miscavige when he first appears in Going Clear spouting gobblydegook from the IAS stage about infinity of something or another.
They imported Erin Banks from the US to be the MC. Bob Keenan blew the SO and works for a scientology whale in Brighton. Apparently nobody else in the UK is up to snuff. Of course, the CO AOSHUK is too much of a “DB” in the eyes of Miscavige to be allowed to appear on the same stage…. (though John Danilovich was working with LRH in the Sea Org many years before Miscavige even joined). Really, there is nobody in the UK that could do the job of reading a prescripted introduction to the great man?
Obviously the words of Erin Banks were not written by her. The shermanspeak syntax is so apparent it’s as recognizable as Elmer Fudd or Daffy Duck. And certainly she didn’t write that Miscavige is “still remembered as the 12-year-old prodigy…”
Gag.
Ms. Erin Banks from the Church’s International Public Relations Office opened the ceremony, building the suspense while noting, “If Saint Hill is a place so many call home… and if Saint Hill is an Org so many call their Org… well, so it is that these grounds, too, hold an enduring personal meaning for Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center. Saint Hill served as his own training ground as an auditor, and indeed he is still remembered as the 12-year-old prodigy who became its youngest professional auditor. The rest, as they say, is history!”
Yep, history is right. Since he assumed power his “golden ages” have been the Dark Ages of scientology. And it is funny how they are now rewriting the history of Miscavige’s early years in the fine tradition of L. Ron Hubbard’s hagiographies that painted him as a child prodigy too.
Then the great man spoke, and as is so often the case, he made absolutely no sense.
Mr. Miscavige then took the stage, offering a warm and spirited welcome to those assembled for the dedication. “Today it’s not only a new Ideal Advanced Org and Saint Hill for the UK, but all Saint Hill in totality and reflecting exactly what LRH always wished for,” Mr. Miscavige said. “His dreams, his vision and his plans—all are now fully and resoundingly done.”
Wow, that’s quite a statement. If all his dreams, visions and plans are fully and resoundingly done then he really sucked. What a vision this is — an empty building.
After delivering a vivid description of the fully restored and expanded Ideal Saint Hill facility, Mr. Miscavige continued, “Yes, this is our history. This is Saint Hill. And, this is what lives on today at this Saint Hill Base—the jewel of our Scientology crown.” Moments before cutting the ribbon on the stunning property, Mr. Miscavige boldly declared, “I hereby dedicate this new Ideal Saint Hill in the name of L. Ron Hubbard and the Bridge he built to Eternity!”
I wonder if Flag knows that St Hill is now the jewel of the scientology crown?
Mr. Miscavige “boldly declared”? Seriously? That is bold?
What would really be bold would be if Miscavige would appear in public for a Q an A with the press.
But more to the point, what is all this construction and “idealification” that has been done?
You can look through the photos on the website. There appears to be ONE newly built building next to the castle (AOSHUK). Everything else is cosmetic, furnishings, with perhaps the back door of the “Great Hall” expanded.
And what does this new building house?
“The Refectory” (cafeteria):
Cafeteria interior – this really is the crowning achievement
This is it, the crowning jewel of the crowning jewel. A cafeteria.
This must be the “vision” of L. Ron Hubbard Miscavige was talking about. St Hill as a tea room!
Just to be sure nothing else sneaked in here, you can see the aerial shot of the property below.
The red circle in the bottom left is the refectory.
I also circled in red a small section at the top left. Appears to be more auditing rooms tacked onto the back of the castle, though they are not mentioned. No big surprise when they cannot fill even half the auditing rooms they already have.
All this hype and fanfair for a new cafeteria?
Yep, in desperate times like these, anything is good enough to be the pivotal turning point in the scientology “season of expansion.”
And yes, for those who may be unfamiliar with these sort of activities in scientology — they are totally serious.
Much self-congratulatory back patting accompanied this wondrous occasion and they are convinced everyone who reads this drivel will be impressed beyond words at the magnificence of their accomplishments.
No joke.
Hi
According to the Online Public Register of Planning Applications on the Mid-Sussex District Council Website there have been four recent applications at Saint Hill (the numbers before the / are the year, so that’s one in 2011 and three in 2014. The latest developments are:
11/00749/FUL – Demolition of wooden storage sheds and ancillary structures and erection of small museum building for historic car and motorcycle.
14/03743/FUL – Extension of spa/gymnasium building (anyone for purif?)
14/03748/FUL – Extension of Castle building to provide improved classroom and administration space. (that’s the small section at the top left – they must have had an influx of administrators).
14/04146/FUL – Erection of new cafe/pavilion
If anyone wants to take a look all the plans are public, and available on the District Council Website, they aren’t hard to find, and when you get to the “Planning Public Register” you can simply type in the reference numbers and look at all of the twaddle that’s been submitted.
There is only one real question I have: Is St Hill, St Hill sized yet?
They’ve ruined an otherwise beautiful courtyard with that horrendous cafeteria. IMHO Hubbard would be putting a LOT of people in the RPF for screwing around with his castle like that — including Miscavige. I’m no longer a fan of Hubbard so don’t get me wrong. But that castle was his idea and his vision and I seriously doubt he would have approved of that monstrosity of a “refectory”. Just sayin’.
I’m surprised that haven’t released an “Ideal OT Briefcase” for every Idle Morgue…..Ooops. Did I say that out loud? Humblest apologies to the Whales.
The warm feeling the public gets at these Miscavige “Ideal” events is only the heat from the stupid cows next to them being led to slaughter.
David Miscavige – The Gollum of Scamology whose precious needs heavy stroking everyday or it deflates into a little mans nightmare: weak ego. Although, his other precious no doubt gets stroked and petted daily.
David Miscavige must have gotten some really good auditor training at Saint Hill if as Karen De La Carriere and other accomplished former highly classed church auditors have communicated that David Miscavige once smacked a pre-clear in the head during an auditing session because the PC didn’t respond “correctly”. All David Miscavige really does for the world is make a fledgling group look even worse. 🙂
12 year old who beats his LC. Way to go.
Well, the café is a big improvement over the little hut I remember from the 70s (as a kid left to roam SH while my parents spent all their money on courses). Though I did like their eccles cakes.
Having returned to my first love of auditing recently, I realize that there’s only one job that I’d leave it for: Dan Sherman’s. I can scribble out masses of sycophantic dribble with Lots and Lots Of Adjectives like it’s nobody’s business. As for the position of LRH Biographer, you can make up any old shit and scientologists would believe it, as has been demonstrated here on a daily basis and at the South African blog when scnafrica decides to do a new post (it’s even in their policy that you can’t bad-mouth Ron). All that’s required of Sherman’s position is that he suck up to the Toxic Dwarf. Given enough money and a good benefits package, I think I can do that.
Best of all, I don’t have a mullet.
Do you believe hypnosis has therapeutic value?
Yes Espiando, it amazes me that anyone cares anymore about bad mouthing Hubbard. His cover was blown so long ago, he no longer has credibility. He barely warrants mention at all let alone consideration, unless one is assigning responsibility to the cruelty and craziness/ridiculousness of this cult – in order to make himself a sh..t load of money at other people’s expense.
Dawn, the ONLY people who care are those who want to personally profit by scamming others using El Ron’s “tek”. I’ve never interacted with any other type of person who cares one bit.
Unfortunately, John Locke, I know many people who are out but still talk about “what LRH wanted for us” or “how he meant it to be” – whatever. It’s sad but I believe they can’t let go of the past when it all seemed so idyllic. They’re still trying to “save the tek”.
Yes Dawn same here and it is sad. However, just realize that those people never left the CoS (Cult of Scientology). They left the corp identity known as “the church” only. They are still brainwashed and in need of real mental help.
Minor point, but I find so lame how the same few red, stiff, fake-looking bows/festoons show up at every Scientology building opening. Flunk!
Funny you mention the bows…..I have this vision of a large warehouse where all the bows and bunting are stored. Then, COB wants to rededicate his beagles dog house, some poor schlub has to go and get the bows……
annladenberger, “…but I find so lame how the same red, stiff, fake-looking bows/festoons show up at every Scientology building opening.”
Wow, girl! How did you get this information? I mean, this stuff is classified info! But you are right on the money. I saw once, and was blown away. But, in the boxes where all the bows and festoons are, there are instructions that say: “Make sure we have plenty of fake-looking bows and festoons! We need to bring all of our decorations and show up at every Scientology building opening”
You got the gift, girl….
everything in scientology is holly, sacred. Any piece of MEST is not an ordinary piece of MEST. A cafeteria which would be an normal “wog” cafeteria, it a “theta” cafeteria. Even pen on the course are scientology pen. Everything has 100 time more value.
So Ideal Orgs are total freedom sanctuary.
And of course the little COB with his nice haircut, and his little child body is like a saint or an angel.
This poor people love this little man who himself alone do so many big things for the human kind. They feel some tendreness for him, and when they pronounce “COB”, it sounds like chewing a candy. Beautifull lttle sweet man, with nice blue eyes like hope in the sky.
They are so happy in the little word COB has provided for them. The legend says, that Hubbard trusted the little man, the little prodigy.
What is amazing is that none ever threw him on the lake.
No legend FG. LRH COMPLETELY trusted the little SP monster. Helped him to the top of the heap too. Monsters beget monsters.
FG, you gave me such a good laugh. Your comment made my day!
For the record….Erin Banks is the daughter of Irving and Paula Paiewonski. They got divorced. Paula is now married to Ken Shapiro and Irving is married to Amy Devoe – the CS at Tampa Day Org. Erin married into a very wealthy Scn. family from Australia. We’re talkin Scientology blue-bloods here.
Mike you made me choke on my tea – “What a vision this is — an empty building.”. Appreciate the laughs this am. 🙂
The mind holds you trapped inside the bubble looking and seeing only the reflecting surface, imagining substance inside when all there really is – is emptiness.
Scientology is and has always been just a big Public Relations front. The surface of the bubble is all you see because that thin, shiney surface is all that is truly there.
After that,
it is all only a matter of what you believe.
Let’s have that speech, dear leader, my my, what a lovely building. Now then, does world salvation according to scientology include your father? And your niece, do you have an enlightening message for her and what would you be willing to share with us, in order to let us know what scientology really is all about …???
It is time for you to speak. Give us real talk,
-or perish along with your founder, sir.
Great post as always Mark.
As Victoria and maybe others have noted, the 12-year-old “prodigy” was best known for roughing up a PC. Good times. He made his own squirrel process, which he called R-2-10, for Routine 2-10, which stands for slapping with both hands, all 10 fingers. Hence his enduring nickname, Slappy.
However, Slappy may have gotten sloppy with his favored Shermanspeak. with its “profoundly deep, meaningless inanity.” “Season … of achievement”? Yes, winter is coming on, and SH is in the UK. Methinks the season being unconsciously referenced is the winter of our discontent. That’s a fitting reference, coming from the play Richard III, who ascended to power through scheming and treachery. Hmm. Like Miscavige?
Fotf- Reading shermanspeak is so much harder for me than listening to it, I’m glad you were able to understand something from it. Haha
Here’s looking at you, Captain:
“Sunday, Monday, Slappy Days
Tuesday, Wednesday, Slappy Days,
Thursday, Friday, Slappy Days,
The weekend comes, Ducati hums,
Ready to race to Lou.”
(This isn’t my own parody; I lifted it from a Bunkerite.)
Feeling a little silly today.
In Tony’s blog yesterday, someone posted a picture of Diana Hubbard at this event.
what more can I add? this is funaful! I coined a word: I am now an OT Sceintooolagist.
I’d be interested if anyone knows whether the local mayor (or similar) were invited and whether or not they showed up? The Mayor went to the recent opening of the not so far away Narconon place (along with someone on staff at London University’s Imperial College who really ought to know better). I’d be grateful for any intelligence on that point!
The Child Prodigy has announced L. Ron Hubbard’s dreams, vision and plans are now FULLY DONE! That’s a pretty hard act to follow. The Child Prodigy is going to have to come up with something mighty pivotal at the next monumental event.
It appears that there is a great empty space directly in front of the podium in front of Miscavige. No one is standing in this area. Does Miscavige typically not allow anyone to congregate near him for security? Or did they push the crowd back so he can be clearly seen in the photo (albeit in tiny detail)? Or did they want to push the crowd back so it seems like there are more people?
Within spitting range perhaps?
…pissing is a word I shouldn’t mention.
It really shows the restraint and kindness of former members that no one has taken a shot at him with a high powered rifle. Or just slapped him.
…or bodily sounds with accompanying odours?
Pissing is a word you shouldn’t mention? Why, did something horrendous happen to you while you were urinating? Is it bringing back bad memories? I mention ‘pissing’ all the time and nothing’s happened! So far…
I thought the main reason Miscavige the auditor prodigy was remembered is because he physically assaulted one of his PC’s there at Saint Hill.
And I’ve been asking for decades what 5X Saint Hill size means, because back in the 80’s that was the random goal we had to achieve for new OT levels to be released, or something.
There was some other vague reference to their needing to be 10,000 OT8’s before OT9 could be released.
Did Miscavige clarify whether or not Saint Hill had finally gone Saint Hill size yet?
I’m confused.
Victoria, if LRH has his own office in every single org, the least we can do to honor the Child Auditor Prodigy who is now the most important ecclesiastical leader of the fastest growing religion in the history of the entire universe – whew, let me take a breath – the LEAST we could do would be to insist that the room where Slappy slapped his PC be roped off and not used. In fact, I think that EVERY org should have a room which is not used, all roped off, in honor of what Mr. Miscavige achieved on that day at Saint Hill.
If this were done they could reg for donations to have one of these rooms in every Ideal Org and it would be a key segment in one of the cult’s upcoming events:
Dan Sherman: “…and, yes, it was in this very room that a young, teenaged, Class IV intern named David Miscavige belted his PC in the face, and reduced her to a twitching, sobbing, nervous wreck, all of which cut thru her evil purposes and circuitry, revealing her own true beingness, resulting in her being returned to Native State after a trillion years of blind Whole Track blindness, and, while we’re on the subject of blindness not to mention for the Scientology religion itself, for, with this pivotal act, as this PC’s head pivoted on her slender neck – as this seemingly hopeless PC, considered beyond even our help, was, in effect, slapped to cognition by a young, green, David Miscavige, while one life changed utterly and permantly for the better, it so happened that Slap Tech was born, and, yes, with no exaggeration, it can be unequivocally stated, that also born was a New Age of Spiritual Freedom for all Mankind, right here in this very room…”
Feeling silly today…
Funny how they position Miscavige as a professional auditor. I doubt he could solo audit his way out of a wet paper bag let alone as a “professional auditor”.
By the way I drifted out of PT the other day and found that I had achieved perfect synchronicity with Mr. David Miscavige himself. A strange feeling indeed. As I was drifting through the perfect synchronicity, I all of a sudden felt a strong slap to my face and a violent tug in my groin area. The perfect synchronicity had become all too real……and painful. As I struggled to break this synchronicity I heard a faint but yet strange voice saying…..silly rabbit….then bang I was back in PT. What a strange experience….so strange that I felt pain in my groin area and when I looked in the mirror I saw a small red spot on my cheek in the form of a tiny little hand. I decided to never become synchronized with Mr. David Miscavige again.
There is just too much to comment on with this one but I do sort of like – he is still remembered as the 12-year-old prodigy who became its youngest ever professional featherweight. The rest, as they say, are on the canvas. He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. Miscavige wins every session by knockout and his pretty looks reflects his unprecedented skill in avoiding any and all contenders.
Saint Hill has become the home of the ghosts of better times. Scientology has become a contracted wilderness unto itself and is preserved in tinsel, gobilygoo baby talk and other people’s money. Nobody else knows how to navigate it except Miscavige himself.
What is the purpose of scientology again?
Scientology is here to snow you.
And not the white, fluffy kind……
Aw Geezus Yawn, that was incredible, I got a laughing cramp in my guts. Once again I am inspired by yet another insightful post.
Like the band that played as the Titanic sank, these events are played to an internal public while the unsinkable Titanic sinks….
Very funny – and very apt. What must the poor long-suffering SO rank and file be thinking, spending umpty-ump thousands on renos when the most they will have been paid is about twenty quid a week. Rumour has it it’s going a be a long cold winter this year weather-wise and probably stats-wise.
I’m surprised His Greatness didn’t mention the new “ideal car park”, which has also been nicely renovated. This is truly a car park even Ron couldn’t have envisaged, making all previous car parks seem trivial by comparison.
Ideal car park – priceless. 😉
That car park is absolutely essential, you know.
It’s so Oat Teas can practice their most vaunted skill : finding parking spots.
He was apparently seen recently in LA doing body routing! Don’t know if anyone can verify that, but likely he was being re-programmed. No doubt he is told on a daily basis that he must be an SP to let St Hill contract to the extent it has. Wouldn’t want to be in his shoes for all the beans ‘n rice at the Stables.
John Danilovich that is.
A new cafeteria. David Gaiman would be so proud. Imagine how much dough he could make today selling victuals to students and pcs (assuming there were any) in this Ideal Cafeteria! The mind boggles. Have fun with the letter I sent you, Mike.
Dave,
As your hairline and cult recede, your comb-over hairpiece expands.
-hey now that’s just mean.
@mark, & threefeet I think he’s trying to go for the Trump.
Of course Trump can pull it off because – oh wait Trump makes it look ridiculous too.
It is interesting to note that the opening of yet another *yawn* overblown underused scientology building is of such little consequence that the hair of the narcissist and the cafeteria are the focal points of the conversation.
Well my dear Mike, I don’t know who will be impressed by such a convoluted drivel; shermanspeak’s talks are so twisted that, I guess, only the deaf-blind scientologists remaining can pretend is great.
Ah, and the season is autumn- it parallels nature; the leaves of the tree fall the same as the parishioners are falling off the church premises. The only difference is that the tree will provide new, green, fresh leaves next season, whereas the church will keep getting rid of more people through its abuses and scams.
I remember ASHO in 77. I was there getting my grades. Over 200 students on the SHSBC and I believe they had around 90 staff. Probably more public in and out of there in a given week than miscavige got to his monumental event England.
Do they still deliver the Briefing Course in England? Or are they too awaiting the Epic re-write of the Tech volumes overseen by the failed class IV, david miscavige?
“1984” seems to be the predominant philosophical text book for the church of miscavology.
After SHSBC students numbers fell to about two it was decided to mark a new era of unprecedented expansion by… closing the courseroom.
They do not offer the Saint Hill Special Briefing at Pac Base LA. Meanwhile I love the aerial shot of St. Hill. Do they throw people in the pool who are downstat?
Only at the times when the pool has been drained of water.
I have an uncle who is so narcissistic that the mention of his name brings down an entire room.
This Miscavige-inspired praise fest of himself would embarrass even my uncle, which is saying a lot.
The reason they said the cafeteria was the crowning jewel was because they were able to find a place where they could put all 46 people who showed up to the opening and make it look like a crowd.
Hey, I take issue with you, Valerie! I love cafeterias! I mean, you take your tray and slide it down on those little bars! I love doing that! I sometimes ram my tray into another tray. I tell ’em, “My foot slipped off the gar pedal.” Some of my biggest wins in life was while I was at a cafeteria! One of the biggest ones was I realized I was still alive! And, that I was hungry! And it’s so bitchin’ to see all the food they have to offer and all you have to do is reach for it (just like in scientology)! I wish Disneyland had a Cafeteria Ride.
I did find out, though, that you actually have to pay for the food you choose. I always thought it was free.
OSD I know! I quit going to cafeterias the day I realized that the food wasn’t free.
(My parents always made us sit down before they dealt with such unpleasant details).
We quit scn-gy when we found out the food wasn’t real.
Oh, no shit! It’s Soylent Green.
Soylent Green! LMAO!!!!!
I was shocked to find out the food wasn’t free. SHOCKED I tell ya! I always thought the word, “Cafeteria” meant free food! Boy, was a I dope or what?
Is this some sort of cafeteria rundown you’re talking about?
Food and beverages for OTees or some such… I hope they serve cal mag, my personal throw-up favourite.
CalMag! For a very interesting evening…..
As winter approaches, I’m positive that “new Ideal SH” will have at least one rapidly increasing statistic: the utility bill! That glass-walled cafeteria will be expensive to heat. Anyone know what their utility bills were averaging prior to this latest round of renovations?
Probably because I haven’t had breakfast yet, the Ideal cafeteria looks epic to me!
There’s nice place called The Ideal Diner on Central Avenue in NE Minneapolis. I usually try to breakfast there at least once a week. http://www.idealdiner.com/
You can’t beat “Cafeteria Tech!”
This event is a turning point is nothing less than the future of the Scientology religion and the Salvation of Man on Planet Earth.
The Whole Track Cafeteria at Saint Hill is the template upon which all future cult self-service eateries will be modeled. Once the Whole Track’s doors opened people flooded into Saint Hill to eat there. Consumption of mashed potatoes alone has 47xed in the past week with steak and kidney pie in a nice affluence. Ideal Meat Loaf with Brown Gravy is straight up and vertical, and that statement can be taken definitively. Hoards of new raw public are now reaching for auditing and training at Saint Hill after their unprecedented experiences in Saint Hill’s Whole Track Cafeteria. Planetary Clearing is now a reality.
I would be impressed if they were serving something better than institutional food.
(I hate institutional food!)
Oh, I love to taste international food! I mean, you get to eat food from all over the world! In fact….wait….what? Oh, you said “Institutional food.” Is that what the serve in asylums?
Oh Leslie! How could you say such a thing? Institutional food is a 3rd dynamic achievement of unprecedented achievement. It takes a special skill to produce consistency to that degree.
Are you trying to put fitters and turners out of business?
Let’s see…attended public and spent 3 years in the army plus 4 months in hospital and 5 months in a nursing home after a serious illness. I’ve more institutional food than I could stand and no amount of brain damage will erase those memories.
I found ration packs the most interesting. It alarmed me when I read a warning in the fine print in the manual on survival that it’s dangerous to eat them for more than 7 days. Apparently they are designed to slow down your poohing so it doesn’t get in the way of tactical deployment – don’t you just love those minds who think of everything for you?
It took me over a decade to eat pasta again after getting out of the army.
Hospital food?? Oh there’s a goodie. It’s purposely designed so you’ll never come back, no matter how sick or injured you are. And the only reason they gave you free booze on airplanes in the old days was to cover up for the poison they fed you. These days, aircraft food is part of the terrorist’s arsenal of fear.
Spent a bit of time once with the Indonesian army, wow! give me ration packs any day, whatever they put with that rice you could solder with or strip paint.
Oh yes, institutional food… yummy if you have a death wish.
Reminded me that a walnut flavour they used in the 70s was actually a component used to harden concrete. Once again, don’t you just love those minds who find these innovative ways of adding flavours into your diet?
The universal institutional meal of choice…..
Rice and MF’in beans. Day in and day out in Hemet and cult facilities around the globe.
I share your hate. Worked for 4 years in a hospital, 5 in a university.
And you know what’s even worse ? The “healthy” version of institutional food that appeared in the last few of those years. Horrible boiled vegetables with no salt, no fat, no taste, either over or undercooked. Pasta, mashed potatoes and rice galore. Sometimes even combined in the same meal, served with bread, as if there wasn’t enough starch in there already. Protein ? What little there is was not highest quality. Eating that crap made you more hungry than eating nothing. You’d have a hard time finishing the afternoon without taking yet another “healthy” institutionalized snack.
Is it any wonder I broke my metabolism so badly I cannot eat these things now without having hypoglycemia attacks within 15 minutes of consumption ?
Sad. Talking about J.D., he was one of sanest (and nicest) execs at Flag back in the day. Very competent for what he did. Of COURSE DM would hate him.
Interesting you brought up J.D…for years I felt the same way. Whenever I was at SH the guy was always friendly and would take a moment to chat with me. The guy is permanently uptone, sporting a Cheshire Cat grin, unshakeable.
But, consider this – for the past 5 or 6 years there has been a purge occurring. Valued, long-time parishioners are taken to the basement where they are crucified (figuratively), declared suppressive by the Witches of East Grinstead (Maude and Helen, MAAs) and Phil the DSA. All the while, old John doesn’t lift a finger, doesn’t try and stop it, just keeps on smiling and shaking hands. I concluded there’s something not quite right about J.D. A type of madness, like the glee of insanity.
I was actively onlines at SH for nearly 20 years, and during this time AOSHUK is pretty much the same size as it’s always been. No expansion. Constant churn of staff. SHF gone, collapsed into the AO. And J.D. has been there at the helm with his shit-eating grin. How is it he’s been allowed to remain on the post?
Down and Out, new people INTO scientology has been downtrending since the 70’s. People eligible for AOSH services PEAKED ~1988. That he kept the org even for 20 years is incredible in itself. As far as he not stopping the abuse that is Scientology, yes that is very unethical.
I can say the same for every person, on or off staff, who over the years did OT levels and thus knew that LRH was running a scam and didn’t blow the whistle…
John, when I was on staff in Hawai’i, in the mid 70s, the Encyclopedia Britannica said scientology had 15 MILLION members. Man, I thought we’d take over the world! I was actually counting on it. But, I now realize they probably only had 100,000 at their peak and it’s been shrinking ever since. All hail the mighty internet! Like the e-meter, the internet sees all and knows all…
15 million!? LOL, the Encyclopedia staff sure didn’t source that correctly. You are correct. At that time the total was closer to 70,000 “on the books”, not even active.
The company just accepted the cults numbers and published them.
I believe the latest addition of the Encyclopedia Galactica has membership somewhere in excess of 748 trillion. (To be announced at the IAS event – you heard it here first).
Martin, wasn’t that figure for the Church of Jedi? 🙂
Yeah, Martin, John is right.”… membership somewhere in exces of 748 trillion” is a Jedi number. I know this because I saw a cult flyer that said they only have 284 trillion members.