The money grubbing never ends.
They’ve got tens of thousands of WTH booklets sitting in a garage. But they don’t have money to mail them out.
They quote the words of Hubbard — but clearly scientology does not believe these words. If they DID believe them, they would spend a tiny percentage of their billions of dollars on mailing/distributing copies of the booklet to everyone in LA. Everyone in California. Everyone in the US… don’t they want a calm, happy world? All they have to is get the WTH booklets out everywhere…
But instead, they use this “moral code” as a FUNDRAISING tool.
You can bet Lydia Hopwood is not sending back the commissions she is making from this campaign. Selling Hubbard books (even if his name is not on them) is a lucrative source of income. You will note the booklets were bought (and the commission paid), but now they have to get them sent out. Why not take each $100 and buy AND MAIL 50 booklets rather than buying 300 booklets and putting them in a warehouse? Because they care more about the booklets being SOLD than they do about distributing them.
Of course, this is all delusion anyway — not a single thing has changed in Los Angeles following the distribution of 150,000 copies of this booklet. This statement from Hubbard that is the motto of the WTH has NEVER been proven, not even hinted at. Anywhere. Ever.
Is there a message if you read a WTH booklet backwards like the Beatles #9?
Or to alter Churchill’s words a little, “never have so many been fooled by so few.”
Just like; “show me a Clear,” I want someone to show me a happy person made happy by that little fire starter.
They’re doing that massive WTH campaign in LA because they think it will counter and overcome the massive “entheta” of the Masterson trial.
Crazy hey? Stupid is what stupid does, rape is rape – let the evidence in the court be adjudicated upon as the law does its process. But if it creates an opportunity for donations to WTH and pulls in more dollars, well… that’s the Scientology way of combating entheta. They have no shame, nor ethical or moral backbone Scientology. Just greed.
Yep, you got that right.
The intention and purpose,
for L. Ron Hubbard’s followers
to distribute ‘The Way To Happiness’ booklet,
is, to establish him, and thus Scientology, as a source of morality and sanity…
This, of course, is like putting oil on a raging fire.
One of the ways to happiness according to Hubbard is to pay your debts, or keep obligations once taken on. This was such a contradiction to what the regges did! They put us in enormous debt that we couldn’t pay! I was once told by a reg that depleting my bank account was a good idea because according to Hubbard this somehow makes us obtain more money…. I don’t remember the exact reference. She then proceeded to take way more money from my account than I agreed too. It’s disgusting what they do.
Shouldn’t $ci-ologists be the happiest people on earth?
They say they have the blueprint*. (*Too valuable to just give away.)
Yet, I continually read about how they berate, harangue and intimidate one another and they can hardly form a sentence without cursing.
But, since IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY GRUBBING, the hype, hard sell, coercion and UN-happiness adds right up.
“We are creating a sane city. Help us get The Way to Happiness to every mailbox in Los Angeles.”
I’m wondering if the timing of this for LA has anything to do with the current rape trial of Danny Masterson happening there?
If TWTH was that effective, then instead of making money on these booklets, they would sell rhem at cost or just send them out for free. Unfortunately it is always and only about the money. Any decrease in crime will be claimed to be related to TWTH, as they claimed in Colombia. It’s not a terrible booklet although not well written. Of course the CoS and its management does not follow the code. They don’t honor parents and take care of children when they break up families and they constantly break the laws of the land and never treat people the way those people would want to be treated. It is just a PR and money making activity and has no other value. On the other hand it’s not as crazy as History of Man. There are probably tens if not hundreds of thousands of copies of TWTH that people were convinced to buy and are sitting on shelves.
“Nearly 150,000 books mailed so far. Only 4,850,000 left to go!”
What a daunting task. What an impossible dream. It might as well be “only 4.85 quadrillion left to go!”
It’ll never end. Just don’t give any more money to scientology, one of the biggest con jobs I know of. If you don’t give them anymore money, sooner or later, they’ll just run out of money and fade away.
Here’s a suggestion, something I learned when I worked on scientology finance lines. It’s called the “No Drill.”* In order to say “no” to anyone (or, in this case, a scientology reg), you’ll need to stand in front of a mirror and say “no” over and and over and over again until you have the confidence to face any scientology registrar and say “NO.”
*I learned this from Mary Bievenouer at ASHO Day when I helped them out with Director of Disbursement and Audits duties. I remember that it’s a good drill for the Flag Banking Officer to have as an org will want to spend all their money (and then some). It’s up to an FBO to put their foot down and say “no” to “Rush” or mid-week purchase orders. Such a purchase comes with a penalty. Scientology comes with its own “penalties,” including slave labor, child trafficking, being declared an SP, Disconnection, losing all of your money through “donations,” etc., etc., etc. (the list just goes on).
My bird threw the booklets out of the cage … yelled some expletives and said “What are you … cuckoo?”
But, in the cult there would be an acceptable “in tech” or “in PR” answer as to why mailing to everyone in CA wouldn’t work. Just like the time we were talking about the supposed difference that 10k on solo nots would make. Apparently, the theta boost only happens IF IT’S PAID FOR. Auditing those on staff with billion year contracts do not count.
“Like gentle oil spread on the raging sea….”
The last I checked that’s called an oil spill.
Perfect analogy.
If I received a Way To Happiness book it would automatically go in the recycling bin.
I would do the same.
Mine would go outside in my outdoor grill so that I can use the paper to start the charcoal chimney for the grill.
Okay, that works.
Awww, I haven’t received any Scientology publication for well over a decade now, probably 2. I feel lost or something. Well, at least I may have assisted in saving a tree or two, that’s nice.