Human Rights?
None of these guest speakers have any idea of scientology’s deplorable history of human rights abuses. Betcha this invite would be withdrawn in a big hurry if you chose to speak about that…
Fight for kids…
How about fighting for kids not be disconnected from other family members? That would be fun.
Michael Chan can revive the dead
The St Pete Life Improvement Center has not been seen nor heard from for YEARS. Bet the turnout was YUGE…
The Truth?
Michael Chan will try to get every dollar you have so he can get rich off the commissions. It is what he does for a living. And THAT is the truth.
Food, glorious food
Kebabs for cash
They always like to promote this as a special french meal….
Moneywinds running out of ideas
So they just keep reducing the prices hoping someone will show up… This is a red banner headline now.
And the prices keep going down.
Reminds me of Crazy Eddie’s. This particular convention is being held while the Moneywinds is in DRY DOCK! What fun that would be.
Apparently it is so bad they cannot even persuade one of the vulture WISE FSM’s to show up for this one.
Holidays on the Moneywinds
Oh please.
‘Tis the season to be giving — to the IAS, Ideal Orgs, CCHR, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, SuMP etc etc.
The Moneywinds holiday season jingle: “It is better for you to give than to receive.”
Dukes of the Auditor Elite
Well, not really. But it’s all they got.
Pay to be called a Humanitarian
For those who find this appealing, I will provide you with a plaque announcing you as a Superhero, along with a cape and a pair of Speedos for the small donation of $1,000. Believe me, it is lot cheaper than being anointed a humanitarian. I will also bestow Super Powers on you — you will be blessed with an impenetrable force field that ensures you will NEVER be regged for anything again by anyone in scientology. Just proudly display your plaque signed by me.
Pay to be called a Legend
My offer still stands. It’s cheaper. It’s better. And it will confer upon you the power to repel registrars.
See you there Saturday at 07:00
Yeah right. Another YUGE turnout I am sure. What a time to have an “event” celebrating the most valuable beings on the planet.
The IAS is “uplifting nations”
Show me just one. For real. Not one of your phony videos.
Timeless Moment In Whole Track History
Ah yes, an old favorite from the Shermanspeak book of bs.
Utterly meaningless. Even the image is meaningless.
Should be good for $1000
And once you are in the door, it’s a night of “avoid the vampires.” This is like volunteering to pay an entrance fee to Torquemada’s chamber.
World famous entertainment…
Bet that event drew a massive crowd.
A major milestone
Getting the filing done.
Mighty My Mammy is really “thinking big.” The next monumental and epic watershed moment will be washing all the windows.
Too little, too late
You already have this thing open (and to prove it you managed to get a shot of 3 people looking in the window) and now you are asking for volunteers to man it?
BTW, the “wins” here are amazing.
Scientologists have to pay…
Everyone else is free. That figures.
Human Rights
A high priority in scientology…. Once a year we promote it on the UN Day of Peace because it might get us some brownie points with someone.
Whose event is this anyway?
What is the Church of Scientology International doing telling the IAS who they can allow to attend “their” event?
Oh, really it’s all just one big ball of wax overseen by Dear Leader hisself, despite what they tell the IRS or courts and judges.
LRH would be rolling in his grave
If he had one.
A WISE group being promoted by an org to deliver a seminar on how to make money on org premises. This is EXACTLY what WISE was created to PREVENT.
Clear is a finite state. It is an ultimate and it is an absolute.
No false claims here…
Oops. Gavin is delayed at Flag
Can mean only one thing. He needs some more sec checking. Not getting enough bucks in the door.
Another flourishing ideal org
Nashville did not even have an HCO Exec Sec on post. Wow. One of the first 5 posts that MUST be filled in any scientology organization. Obviously another ideal org rocketing to the stars with massive expansion, straight up and vertically empty.
We are the elite
How do we know this? Jeanie said so. Nothing like a little over-inflated ego.
Porn Valley
They are just going all weird and mysterious – sending out posters that make NO sense.
The Rally! for the Valley
It’s FUN! You giving us money is a lot of fun for us.
There’s HUGE NEWS
You need to gives us more money
Final Word
I pulled this out of the Thursday Funnies from 4 December 2014.
Does it seem familiar?
They have literally been saying the same thing for nearly 3 years.
And that list doesn’t look much different now than it did then.
A fine demonstration of the largest scientology field getting behind the most important and largest ideal org on earth.
“Wed are going down while the world is going up” is their new theme song.
freebeeing says
Quentin Strub was the CO WISE EUS, When did he route out of the SO? I imagine his wife Bronwin left with him – anyone know the story?
detroit12870 says
This is the funniest one yet mike. You rock! Here’s some of my favorites:
How about fighting for kids not be disconnected from other family members? That would be fun.
Just proudly display your plaque signed by me.
an impenetrable force field that ensures you will NEVER be regged for anything again by anyone in scientology. lol
You already have this thing open (and to prove it you managed to get a shot of 3 people looking in the window 🙂
Obviously another ideal org rocketing to the stars with massive expansion (sarcasm perhaps?)
We are the elite
How do we know this? Jeanie said so
Aquamarine says
Plenty of street corners for him to sing on, too, and if he comes to my town I’ve got an attic he can hang upside down in.
Aquamarine says
Non sequitur: this was supposed to be a reply to what Chuck said way further down.
Mephisto says
I think now would be a good time to start a YouTube channel featuring Jenny Linson. She got about a quarter of a million views with her LAX appearance and more coverage on Anderson Cooper. She could go even more mad dog and increase the number of viewers pretty easily. Granted, they might all be soldier of fortune types, but at least there’d be some expansion. What do you say Dave?
Mephisto says
Correction: over three quarters of a million at LAX.
Cece says
Mephisto, 837,788 if the 2 I found are added together. I’m re-sharing it to my FB. It’s amazing to re-watch since she is the one who on Friday 14 Jun 1996 gave me 15 minutes to collect my belongings and leave the building – I was dismissed after only 20 years of my Billion year contract. What an adventure it has been 🙂
Cece says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqePJgLjwE
This one has an add at the beginning but a good introduction for never-ins.
Ann B Watson says
I am so thankful you are here Cece!❤️❤️To you & yours.
Mephisto says
I hear you Cece. I also had a run in with her and I must say it wasn’t pleasant. Would love to have another tête-à-tête and give her a little taste of her own medicine. Happy to know you’re out and doing well. I assume like me, you’re not flipping burgers at McDonald’s. ?
Kronomex says
The “most valuable being in the universe” is the many small rectangular pieces of paper that have numbers on them that go into Miscreants bank account.
So Quentin Strub is famous (snort!) within the roughly 2,000,000th of a per cent of the world’s population that is $camology. WOW!
Jeannie of Cincinnati is showing us that after using her SUPER POWERS! she has worked out how a door works.
The rest…sigh…
I Yawnalot says
I’m noticing their photoshopping is getting very sloppy. Michael Chan is taking some vegetation to outer space with him. Makes sense with the frame of mind he has – greenbacks is all he thinks about but he is my favorite Scientologist right now. I long for a personal, one on one, in depth conversation with him. 5 minutes would do and I’d love to see him do a personal demonstration of a static.
Apart from that, seems like business as usual for the most ethical and creative masters of communication on the planet. In other words, same ol, same ol lies and deceptions.
amulbunny says
I’m a never in but follow Mikes blog as I know people who are in. Every time I see a photo of Michael Chan he reminds me of an evil devil. Perhaps his eternity will be in a flaming fire, would seem fair.
Aquamarine says
You know how at the end of a party someone always goes around sticking pins in the balloons to pop them, one by one? That’s the picture I have of the remaining Still-In Miscavige Cult Loyalists. They’re like balloons waiting to be popped, one by one. Cover your ears; each pop will make a very loud noise but brief noise. The party is over.
Ann says
Mike, I have a terrible dilemma and need some advise. As a never-in, I never got to read the cult rule book. Now that many of my favorite blogs have been unmasked as cults, I have to make a decision. It is my understanding that with cults you can only follow one and ignore all others. Which “cult like” blog should I follow? I recognize that this is a major life decision, because once I choose one I will have to either ignore or attack, attack, and attack all of the others.
So I would like to know, which should I choose? See, by deferring to your opinion I am practicing the art closing my mind and submitting to authority. I look forward to to your orders, I mean I put. Thank you for your consideration! ??? Ann
Mephisto says
All together now!
Get on the road to fleecedom
Help us fleece all mankind
Your cash and all your assets
You know will soon be mine
Aquamarine says
“…the road to fleecedom”
Another good one, Mephisto. You’re on a roll lately.
Mephisto says
Aqua, there’s such a goldmine of material here, it would be an overt on my part if I failed to take advantage of the opportunity.
FOTF2012 says
Great funnies as always. I like the “V” posters — they remind me of the movie “V for Vendetta,” Guy Fawkes masks, and Anonymous. Maybe they have an Anonymous mole now doing some of their posters?
Harpoona Frittata says
“I will also bestow Super Powers on you — you will be blessed with an impenetrable force field that ensures you will NEVER be regged for anything again by anyone in scientology. Just proudly display your plaque signed by me.”
Totally killin’ me here!
While this is indeed a completely accurate statement of one of the most cherished supper powers that anyone in $cn could ever hope to achieve, there is, ahem, one small detail that’s been left out of the offer: It comes with an instant Super SP Declare, for consorting with one of the premier enthetarizers on the planet!
So, sure you’re going to be forever free from regging, but you’re also going to get booted so far off of the Front Porch of your Infirmity that you’ll be lucky to crawl to being in sight of it for the next trillion years…now how does THAT offer sound to you?
Harvey says
I just read a research paper from Cambridge University…you know the folks who brought us the Scino Personality Profile and they say:
60% of the time, The Tech works every time. There you have it. Time to shut down the blog Mike.
Mark Foster says
I remember Jackson Wyan from the DC org. Check out his quote at the end of this article from 10 years ago:
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/05/08/story2.html
Same shit, different location in 2016.
Ann B Watson says
Your Thursday Funnies burned up my IPad today,just astonishing how that Chan person gets around.My favorite is the Moneywinds/Rust bucket in dry dock and Yes Please I want to go to the Freewinds over the holidays and collect more blue dust.What with all the patching that ship receives there has to be some hanging around.I also love the idea of paying to get the Ledgendery Sword.Wow I am in the Sword Club and I’ll slice anyone who says otherwise!Seriously the Disconnection,Constant regging for IAS money and the dangling OT 9 & 10 promoted as if dm will save this planet with their release,the tax dodging the whole cult in fact is so off the rails.Yeah!❤️❤️
Kronomex says
You do realise that anyone with a cold or flu is not allowed on Rustwinds. Sneezing on a ship held together by the paint is a very bad thing.
Ann B Watson says
You got me!No sniffling,sneezing,whining,crying,I get to be on The OT Rustbucket I should count my blessings and bring Money!May I add one more item to the list?On the Excalibur first morning watch I was told when you are scraping and cleaning the deck you must wear a short sleeve shirt,but under no circumstances are you to get a sunburn.Pretty neat trick Ron!Can’t go on shore to get sunscreen and can’t get a sunburn!Now I know why I joined Sea OrgMultiple Contradictions to the front porch of infinity and back!❤️
Old Surfer Dude says
Mike, as you know, I’m not the brightest light in the chandelier. So, help me out here. Is Bright Thinking where you sit under a very bright light and think about stuff?
Overrun in California says
Naw, just another form of light pollution.
I Yawnalot says
Didn’t you ever shove a fork in a toaster as a kid? That’s get’s a bright flash. Then, later on, to get it confirmed nice and solid like, you went ahead and just had to experience what a live spark plug felt like – similar bright thinking as to what the Cof$ want’s you to pay for.
Aquamarine says
“The news will blow you away.”
I still cringe a bit when anyone around me uses that phrase.
zemooo says
You get a very different vibe when Dirty Harry is saying it. Every clam ‘event’ has some hyperbole like this. Do they ever deliver anything that actually kicks you 3 feet behind your head? I think not.
Michael Chan must be doing well, he gets 10-15% commission on what he raises. Or does he kick most of it back to the Dwarfenführer? Probably kicks back a lot…Chan is perhaps the most representative clam around. He breezes into town, sells his snake oil and then folds up the tent for the next town. He is a traveling circus all on his own.
Aquamarine says
Dirty Harry can say anything and I won’t cringe. I forgive him for everything including supporting Donald Trump.
Old Surfer Dude says
Maybe they’re just talking about strong winds…
Mephisto says
My concept of being blown away. Feel free to add verses as befits our favorite bottom feeder, er, ecclesiastical leader.
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
Early in the morning!
Take his money with a sharp attorney,
Take his money with a sharp attorney,
Take his money with a sharp attorney,
Early in the morning!
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
Early in the morning!
Take away his tax exemption,
Take away his tax exemption,
Take away his tax exemption,
Early in the morning!
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
What shall we do with a drunken Davey?
Early in the morning!
Free his wife and burn down Gold base,
Free his wife and burn down Gold base,
Free his wife and burn down Gold base,
Early in the morning!
Ann B Watson says
Mike’s Thursday goodies burnt up my IPad and after singing that old sea shanty,it miraculously came back to life.Love it,thank you.❤️
Mephisto says
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Ann says
Ann-Keep on smiling! You are a ray of sunshine! ?The other Ann!
Ann B Watson says
To my other Ann.We could combine our sunshine and then it will spread that much further.We will have to meet one day.I know seeing all you rascals will be even more sunshine for me.Love y’all.Thank you from my heart❤️❤️
alcoboy says
Okay, here’s my entry:
Pack him off to a psych hospital!
Pack him off to a psych hospital!
Pack him off to a psych hospital!
Early in the morning!
I Yawnalot says
We once called something similar, “brass ’em up” in the army.
Tom says
“Timeless Moment In Whole Track History”
No wonder the demented midget cancelled the SHSBC. So you could fall for this twattle. One of the things explained in detail in the SHSBC tapes is what and how incidents are made “timeless”. Guess it would explain what the self-styled “pope of scientology” is stuck in. LOL. Right up there with the CEO of Wells-Fargo.
Aquamarine says
“Where will your name be?”
Not on your list of suckers, praise God and all the saints. 🙂
Mephisto says
“…we need to rapidly meet with all of the Humanitarians and movers and shakers and go over the completion plan and get some BRIGHT THINK to move everything forward over the next 13 days.”
Vicki, moving forward in this case is like trying to reverse all of Scientology’s bad PR on the Internet, so here’s some bright think for you:
1. Quit while you’re behind
2. Stop kissing Dave’s ass
3. Quietly walk away from it all
You’re welcome!
Mike Wynski says
Alan Stein. Another over the hill Oat Tea Ate who isn’t smart enough to know he’s been scammed has now been told to join staff or no useless Oat Tea 9 & 10 for YOU!
What a complete maroon. (a nod to El Con’s favorite cartoon character)
Aquamarine says
Yes, its true. I’m losing compassion for these people. Maybe not a good thing, but its exasperating, I mean. they are SO clueless, SO dumb, and so damned stubbornly and persistently clueless and dumb. Maybe these stubborn Still Ins deserve to get scammed and defrauded by DM and the cult. Maybe PT Barnum was right when he said, “Never give a sucker an even break”. Maybe, if these blinders-on folk weren’t being scammed by Scientology, they’d be falling for some other group’s lies and scams anyway. Maybe this old circus impresario.
Aquamarine says
“Maybe this old circus impresario was onto some fundamental truth”.
Mike Wynski says
I can somewhat understand younger SO members, low on the bridge, who are kept in the deep dark but yes, the older people WAY up the bridge”. Something is wrong with their thought processes
Aquamarine says
Definitely. And its not funny, actually. There is something seriously wrong with their thought processes.
Ann B Watson says
I can get the same way as you when I get tired of the still in members mooning over dm’s every move on his own game board and still they will not see.But then I think back to how I was when totally immersed in Ron and the plain fact is that during my first almost three years in SO,I would never have remotely contemplated leaving.When push came to shove though when the gloves came off the cult and I saw how hard they punched both figuratively and literally I was able to drag myself out somehow.I still light a candle that just one person may leave too because of what Mike,Tony and all the heroes who keep speaking out can generate to shine our light even more brightly on the wreck that is the cos today.
Aquamarine says
You’ve made a good point, Ann. I don’t think the Still Ins even dream of leaving until SOMETHING upclose and personal occurs, something that either affects them personally or affects someone close to them personally. And you have the right attitude, so I’l “light my candle” and keep hoping that something, somehow, wakes them up. Unfortunately, I believe their so koolaid drunk that before they’ll wake up and observe the obvious, something bad, or bad enough, will have to happen to them via the cult.
Aquamarine says
Edit: “they’re”, not “their”.
Ann B Watson says
You know me Aqua,always trying to make light penetrate solid Rock! I like your comment and I look for your posts.❤️❤️
Mephisto says
Each announcement here is best described by the Bard himself: “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”
Old Surfer Dude says
But….those kabobs looked pretty damn good! How much for one? $250?
Mephisto says
Two for $400. Supplies limited, going fast!
Old Surfer Dude says
I’m on my way!!! You want me to pick some up for you?
Mephisto says
Sure, put it on my Amex black card. The reg has my digits.
I Yawnalot says
No, your soul!
Aquamarine says
Jeremiah 5:21, King James Version:
“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, which have eyes, and see not, which have ears, and hear not”.
You got that straight, Jerry baby. Everything old is new again.
John P. Capitalist says
The fact that Michael Chan is making the rounds of numerous locations made me think of something: Where’s Jeff Pomerantz? I haven’t seen his name pop up on anything in quite a while. He’s gotta be in search of some income, since he hasn’t gotten any paid acting gigs in decades, and he lives in a neighborhood of $1 million-plus houses on the tony West Side of LA. Last I heard, he also drives a relatively new $130,000 Maserati convertible with a license plate reading “FN ING” (i.e., “F/N”).
And another one who seems to be only showing up occasionally these days: Bob “Twatwaffle” Twaalfhoven of Silicon Valley, whose career they try to spin as one of the great insiders but who’s known to none of the venture capitalists, CEOs or others in Silicon Valley that I hang with (as you can imagine, at Global Capitalism HQ, we have to spend a lot of time hanging with CEOs who want us to invest in their stocks, so I do know a lot of senior management in the tech industry).
And let’s not forget about Stan Gerson, the LA commercial real estate guy and sometime magician who does a lot of stuff for the cult including being chief attack dog trying to sweep the tragic death of Alexander Jentsch under the rug.
Are these guys still ubiquitous and I’m just not looking in the right places for them? Are they in ill health (all three are in their 60s or beyond) or are they perhaps going “under the radar”? I suspect these guys are all sufficiently indoctrinated Kool-Aid drinkers that they haven’t blown, but I am surprised that they’re not as visible as they used to be.
Bruce Ploetz says
Jeff Pomerantz makes most of his money shilling for the IAS. They call it a “Field Staff Member”. They get a percentage of the IAS donation they sell, which can be a lot if the whale is gong for Patronus Maximus Profundis Gluteus Maximus status.
He also used to do voice-overs for the events, don’t know that the VO gig pays much and don’t know if he is still doing it.
Aquamarine says
I can hear that voice now. Yecch.
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Does this sound like a scientology run company or what?
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I Yawnalot says
It’s all pretty simple really. Anyone that benefits from organised Scientology is engaging in a criminal act. In actuality any study of the activities of Scientologists is a study in criminality. Whether it be under the guise of religion, parking tickets or disturbing the peace, they are stealing money and time off people by deception for monetary gain.
A lot of so called business do much the same thing when they get too big or begin to deal with other people’s essential commodities for extended periods, we call that big business and when it gets to a banking level we call it credit providers and at a state level we call it politics and at global level things like CFC’s and depressions occur at more or less at regular intervals. Without starving and war effect people in the world we wouldn’t have anything to draw a comparison to. But at a religious level we have laws in place that protect their activities on a blanketed level. At a state level, there are no enforceable laws, just rhetoric for the disadvantaged . Ain’t organised money grand in what it does?
I Yawnalot says
GFCs it’s meant to be, both of them go round and round tho.
alcoboy says
How in the hell did CCNashville bamboozle Alan Stein into joining staff?
Oh, as a correction, CCNashville did have an HES when I was there. Her name was Miranda Piersson and she was SO.
To join staff, see Melissa Rosenthal.
What?
What happened to Dan Eddington?
Mike Rinder says
They STILL have SO members manning that place? Wow…
alcoboy says
Yeah. Not enough public want to join staff. Unless you’re Alan Stein. Who next, Dan Maddox?
Nezquik says
Hilarious as always. I do have a question though: On one of those Freewinds flyers, it mentions that
“Sea Org Tech + OT Tech =…” What does it equal? It looks like they were trying to have the Freewinds be the sum but whoever was designing this flyer didn’t get the mimeo. Fail.
P.S. R.I.P. Crazy Eddie :'(
Bruce Ploetz says
Looks like the sum of all things Sea Orgish is supposed to be the Bridge of the Freewinds. They just got the picture flipped with the caption. Happens all the time.
But what is really goofy is, didn’t Hubbard say “We define a Sea Org member the same way we do an OT- cause over matter, energy space and time.” ? So Sea Org Tech and OT Tech are the same thing. One plus one equals two, but infinity plus infinity is just infinitely more BS.
Of course the hapless Sea Org member, who may or may not have completed even a Communication Course and is about as OT case-level wise as those folks peeking in the window of the CCHR Exhibit, is supposed to be at cause over MEST just because. So if there is no toilet paper, he is supposed to make it go right without any special seminars on how to make his postulates stick. Hope it all works out in the end.
But strangely the Grade Chart no longer says “At Cause over Matter, Energy Space and Time” anywhere. At the very top of the Bridge which is it, at cause or just starting over? Or do we have to do OT-whatever-Ron-did-on-his-deathbed to become cause over MEST?
But it all makes sense if you use the right values for the variables. Zero plus zero does indeed equal zero.
Mephisto says
Allow me to fill in the blank: Sea Org Tech + OT Tech = Total Wrecks.
Gus Cox says
I guess that’s why SO members in general seem to be the least audited and least trained scientologists. Yet they are in charge. Crazy.
Mike Wynski says
I don’t know about that Gus. I’d rather have someone in charge who had LESS exposure to the damaging practice of scamology and was therefore probably saner.
alcoboy says
The “Sea Org Tech +OT Tech =” is a reference to the Confidence and Leadership course offered on the Freewinds. Just another term for on-ship slave labor.
dr mac says
When I’d just left scientology about three years ago, one of the first things that happened is I got an email from my daughter’s school informing us of a wonderful anti-drugs presentation they were about to have for the kids and teachers. I thought, Great! Then I looked at the bottom and saw a familiar name. Although there was no reference to scientology or narconon I immediately knew this was a covert attempt to get into the school – or why be covert? The school was quite Christian and was also diagonally right across the road from Joburg org. I was still so recently out (UTR) that I felt a little guilty about emailing the school to tell them they were about to let vultures in but felt duty bound to have this out in the open. They cancelled the meeting within minutes and later got some people with an interest in people to come in and do an anti-drugs presentation. I see they’re still targeting kids. Like the CoS gives a shit about kids being on drugs or suffering human rights abuses!
Cognited and Out says
Now they’re doing it with the Boy Scouts – drug programs with zero mentions of CoS. Scouting is very religious – Catholic, Mormom – I wonder how they’ll feel when they find out that they’re kids are being exposed to scientology
Ann B Watson says
You rock dr. mac.Thank you for your comment.❤️
Mike Wynski says
An old proverb that fits Chan
“Show me a liar, and I’ll show you a thief.”
Old Surfer Dude says
Well…show me a thief, & I’ll show you a liar! And you can find these people in any Idle Morgue…
Harvey says
Not Internationally renowned street performer David Pomeranz???!!!!
Get your tickets early folks. You don’t want to miss this one!
chuckbeatty77 says
He needs to go set a Guinness record marathon “We Stand Tall” street performance in the Valley!