Silicon Valley Groundbeaking
A year after completing their funraising they are finally going to beak the ground.
At least they spelled it right this time….
But what the hell is the CCHR IC EUS doing there?
New Year’s…
It’s either the 17th of December or the 27th? Save the dates….
Make sense out of this, if you can
Somehow the theme seems appropriate
Free lunch
But really, there is no such thing. Especially not in scientology.
Can you handle the truth?
The Chanman is going to explain the Whole Track to you. Then take your money.
Mighty My Mammy
Still thinks LRH is counting on them. Still cherishes a quote from an SO#1 secretary in 1975.
Not really political…
But I love those “sources.” If this is true, seems like a plus.
Yep, he’s an expert on OT
There are more OT’s at Flag than anywhere in the world and they bring in Pastor Freddie who is NOT OT?
Scientology has finally hit the mainstream
Every comedian now has a scientology bit it seems.
The bloodsuckers will be out
Plenty of vultures and vampires to go around…
Black Friday?
You do know that this is when they sell stuff cheap right?
“Roaring along” on “Be”
Tricks and treats in CF all day…
One down…
Only 5 million to go. Let’s see, at one every year, we will be done in….
One more…
Amazing that a single Clear is such a monumental accomplishment.
Hold the phones…
There are now 3 Clears. From 3 “ideal” orgs. Total. If ever there was a measure of the failure of the “ideal org program” this would be it.
Aussie dinner?
In Phoenix? Why?
Just weird…
If you don’t buy this bs, you need to get up the Bridge. Because obviously you just cannot confront it yet.
They are Clearing Nashville
And they don’t even have a single clear to announce…
It took them 13 YEARS
And they seem proud of that? And pat themselves on the back with a completely out of context quote that was about the legal case in Portland in the 80’s.
The Flintstones?
Maybe they really mean the Piltdown Man?
Come to St Hill
I Like Ham says
The Kansas City OT Committee made sure that all the Scientology trademark and copyright information is included in their flier, but I see no such deference made to Hanna-Barbera. Did LRH have a stand on trademark/copyright violations or would this fall under greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics?
pink legs says
Interesting seeing the election comment re Hillary. I’m UTR and merrily jammed between those still in and those completely out.
I have heard the independents supporting Trump avidly and the same on the still in side. Most use the logic of some sekrit they have about the nefarious intent of Hillary. Psych-support, religious tax exemption or some other stance. Like this email suggests. Not all on both sides support Trump but a lot. More than I would have imagined.
I say this from a non-voting viewpoint, but nevertheless an interested observer.
If one studies the Psychopath Next Door, Without Conscience, Snakes in Suits and many others, including LRH writings on the subject, wouldn’t that be enough to understand the nature of the two candidates? If one of them is a de facto psychopath, would that not be obvious to the trained eye?
I’m flummoxed.
zemooo says
You should not take any flumm from your Ox. I’m ‘independent’ and those of my ilk despise Don Trump. Those who buy into the conspiracy end of things are usually too busy stockpiling beef jerky to pay much attention to this election. Those searching for our reptilian overlords know that Trump is much more reptilian than Clinton.
Thankfully, NASA is in full on search mode for Niribu and they won’t surprise us again. Damn those oversexed reptiles!
Todd Cray says
This is hilarious: Move up the bridge, increase your confront. Be able to face the destruction of the Constitution and other unspeakables. But for Xenu’s sake, don’t confront Google searches, and be sure to disconnect from folks that do!
In other good news: Who has ever heard of a “church” that advertises discounts?
“For our Easter celebration bring all your friends. Get the Blue Plate Special: Communion is half off, if you buy 5 or more! And ask about our limited-time-only door busters Confession promotion. Hurry to lock in the Early Bird Special on Last Rites. These go fast! So call us direct, or call us collect, but call us today!”
Invisible Man says
Aussie dinner a pie??? I can assure you pies are not Aussie gourmet food. If you want to do cheap crappy Aussie food maybe a chiko roll would’ve been better choice.
RK says
A President abolishing the tax exemption of religious organizations is right up there with allegations that guns are going to be taken away from people and babies are going to be ripped out of wombs the day before birth. A reasonable discussion would be that individuals shouldn’t become filthy rich, buy expensive cars and homes, through high pressure sales and slave labor of a non-profit. Tax exemption of these activities needs to be reconsidered. But, like everything that touches Scientology, this is not open for discussion.
Todd Cray says
2017 NY’s celebration? I thought scientologists are ushering in the year 67 (or is it 66? Degraded WOGs like me lose count). After all, L Ron Hubbard’s “research,” codified in “The Science of Mental,” was so groundbreaking as to require the ushering in of a new calendar. At least, the ever modest Ron thought so. And with the rapid advance toward planetary clearing (of check books, if nothing else), more people than ever ought to be agreeing to live in this new era!
What went wrong?
Espiando says
Oh, Kansas City Morgue, you’ve provided me with the best laugh of the day. You’re oh, so serious and so punctilious about your fine print, listing all of the copyrights and trademarks of Scientology that you’ve utilized in your bumf. However, I don’t see a single mention of the fact that the Flintstones characters and name are trademarks of Time-Warner. Personally, I’d be a lot more afraid of infringing their trademarks than that of your cult, since they have lawyers that would scare the living shit out of Toxin Moxin.
The next time you try to do a theme party, try to pull something out of public domain. How about a Beowulf-themed party? Your cult already possesses the midget version of Grendel (you call him “COB” for some reason), and I’m sure that Linda Hamel and Kathy True can swing by to play Grendel’s Mother and the dragon.
exccla says
i think its totlly appropiate that the cherch orgs celebrate Halloween . Perfect way to reg more $. Let them know that if they don’t pay up ,the cult will be sending ghouls and witches after them. Their eternity will be spent in hell.
roger hornaday says
Jim Rego wants people to know that he doesn’t really know if Hillary Clinton wants to abolish tax exemption for religious institutions but he heard she did so … whatever
And Daniel Trevor is sounding the alarm against the communist psychiatrists whose stated agenda is to destroy our constitution and abolish sexual morality and other shocking stuff.
Consider how low on the socioeconomic scale you have to descend in order to find the non-scientology target audience for that sort of communication. Not to disparage Star Magazine readers or confederate flags, but…
detroit12870 says
“Plenty of vultures and vampires to go around…” LOL – And I’ve often wondered what the flock thinks about the Piltdown debacle? (or any other exposition of the “Messiah’s” buffoonery for that matter).
No One says
Did I get that right? Walking Dead showing? If it IS the season premier, the one I watched already… they are just CRAZY to make an event out of it and even crazier to be doing a dinner showing… It was VERY disturbing. LOL
Infinitely More Trouble says
Re: Theta Clear and Knowingness
That quote doesn’t roll off the tongue, does it? Although, Hubbard himself said it in a lecture. So I’m sure his delivery made it more palatable as he twinkled his eyes, smirked his lips, and tilted his head in that peculiar way of his, as if nodding to his audience, “Get it? Get it?”. But of course they didn’t really get it, and eventually the playful winks of his early lectures faded away into the rank authoritarianism of the later years, by which point, even if he still knew he was fooling everybody, it hardly mattered; the system had achieved a state of self-perpetuation.
Anyway, here’s my go at what the quote means:
You could go Clear without all the data, and we could make you Clear without giving you all the data, but that would be quite cruel of us, because you’re too naturally stupid to get real results on your own without all the data. Oh, you have potential, but it’s a potential that only be achieved by giving you all the data, which you don’t have and we do. Your natural instincts are worthless, by the way. Look where they’ve gotten you so far, you meat-body piece of shit.
I went to the trouble of deciphering it because I wanted to point out Hubbard’s use of one of his favorite methods of creating a false elevation above his subjects. He says, “there’s a considerable body of information connected with the thetan and all the rest of the various parts of a human being.”
Really, L. Ron Hubbard? Back in 1952, there was a “considerable” body of information about this subject you had recently invented? We all know there was no such thing, but one of his greatest tricks was convincing us there was.
marildi says
“Anyway, here’s my go at what the quote means . . . ”
No need to speculate – Hubbard explains what he means in the paragraphs that follow the quote, and what he says is parallel to ancient teachings (and some quantum physics teachings too) which basically state that the “real” world is just in the mind. Here’s an excerpt of what follows the quote about theta clear:
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“Now the reason we have to study this, and the only reason we have to study this is because it sums up into what they laughingly call natural laws. And these natural laws are the outgrowth of the composite agreement of all the beings in this universe. These laws, you might say, are the inevitable average of agreement if you start out with something like the first entrance into the MEST universe. The first postulates of the MEST universe. . . .
“You are undoing his agreement that makes him a part of the natural law which became the MEST universe. And when I say natural law I’m not hedging, I’m talking about E=mc2, talking about those funny gravity formulas that were put out a few hundred years ago, you’re talking about, oh, fulcrums, balances. You’re talking about the most real of real experience in this universe. And those sum up out of agreement and when we start studying this subject, we start studying natural law. And then we wind up by studying not natural law but the agreement which made natural law. And then it’s inevitable that we would start studying that thing which is capable of making an agreement which then becomes natural law, which then could build a whole universe.” (PDC-01 OPENING: WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN COURSE, 5 1.12.52)
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In the book Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda relates how the laws of physics are defied by advanced yogis – who are essentially OTs. Hubbard was attempting to develop a tech that would deliver such abilities, even if he never got there.
roger hornaday says
The material universe is NOT the result of an agreement of any kind and certainly not between “beings”. It is not a group effort. It is not your experience that you created anything. It is your experience that it is all done for you, not BY you. The truth is confirmed by your experience not by your adopted beliefs.
There is nothing wrong with believing there are OT powers nor is there anything wrong with believing Yogananda’s reports of supernatural siddhi powers. Those are beliefs. But you can’t use Yogananda’s report as confirmation of Hubbard’s OT power claims. One belief cannot be used to confirm another belief as a fact.
marildi says
Roger: “There is nothing wrong with believing there are OT powers nor is there anything wrong with believing Yogananda’s reports of supernatural siddhi powers. Those are beliefs.”
And your first paragraph wasn’t a series of beliefs?
califa007 says
marildi, I agree with your comment re: quantum physics. My cursory knowledge of quantum physics is what got me interested in Scientology in the first place. Spooky action at a distance, books such as the Holographic Universe, a Universe From Nothing, The Unobservable Universe, Biocentrism, and so many others. In reading Hubbard I tried to link to similar concepts in QP. I approached Scientology hoping that Hubbard had synthesized much of the theory and data – but, unfortunately, he didn’t do any better at that than he did at synthesizing the various psychological theories that he “borrowed.”
marildi says
califa007, there is no more most basic principle in Scientology than the following, and it directly relates to quantum physics, specifically the double-slit experiment:
CONSIDERATIONS TAKE RANK OVER THE MECHANICS OF SPACE, ENERGY, AND TIME.
statpush says
You raise an interesting point, IMT. I was in awe when listening to those early lectures, even the PDCs, where it appeared LRH unveiled a whole, self-contained philosophy – and in incredible detail. The whole track, origins of the universe, the nature of time, implants, theta-lines, the “science” of flows, ridges, dispersals, vectors, on and on. And to do this in such short amount of time. Impressive, even if it was invented whole-cloth with NO basis in reality.
zemooo says
The last time I waved my wand around in public, I got arrested.
Old Surfer Dude says
When I waved my wand around in public, all I got was derision & laughter.
Ann B Watson says
Love this zemooo.The back to King Arthur but done with Shermanspeak Camelot poetry did me in.And the Aussie Dinner in Phoenix,I really think the cos is dreaming mightily.However their continuing smear campaign regarding the loss of their biggest golden goose the tax exemption,gets the cult all shook up.?
roger hornaday says
I immediately hit my Netflix bookmark and THERE IT WAS! Joe Rogan FULL PAGE exactly as pictured on the bog! Does this mean scientologists are duty bound to cancel their subscriptions? It’s one thing to disconnect from your family but Netflix? That’s not something you do so casually!
Harpoona Frittata says
This indeed a weighty matter! After HBO released that horrific and perfectly awful hit job on the church by Gibney and his filthy band of bitter defrocked apostates, how could any self-respecting $cilon rationalize supporting that tool of the Merchants of Chaos? The same goes for Netflix, now that they’ve enabled this Rogan hater to savage the cherch. If this continues on, then all of cable television may be off limits soon.
One can only hope that SuMP finally gets up to speed soon in order to offer a full schedule of programming! I know that I for one desperately need to see that glorious 1993 “The War Is OVER!!!” event again for the 43rd time 😉 When they do, I’m hearing rumors that a special app is going to be rolled out at the same time which will limit all of your devices to receiving just that one single channel!
Just imagine: The glories of the Golden Shower Age of Dessimination raining down on your rapturously upturned face 24/7/365! Just the thought of it is making me want to rush out this very minute and up my IAS status to Meritorious Victimus Maximus!
edge says
That reminds me of the threats of “millions” of Scientologists cancelling their HBO subscriptions when Going Clear came out. Not to mention the numerous legal threats from mouthpiece Karin Pouw. Where’s that lawsuit? And HBO is getting along just fine.
Chee Chalker says
Cancel Netflix?! Jenna Elfman will not be happy. Neither will her horses
alcoboy says
Up next? How about inviting the Queen to Saint Hill?
Prince Charles?
Camilla?
Espiando says
They might be able to get Freddie and Sophie Windsor. He’s a banker, she’s a TV presenter. Right up Scientology’s alley.
alcoboy says
And the Royal FAmily is met at the gates of Saint Hill by the infamous reg team of Michael Chan, Bubbles Champagne, Gavin Potter, and Sharon Webber.
Mike Wynski says
Bottom line. After brushing aside all the weird party announcements, strange guest speakers, non sequitur “wins” it is plain as day that there is nothing happening in the Class V orgs. SO little in fact that one could give the clear cog to all new people (thus making REAL instant clears)
and the AO’s & FSO would still starve for Ad Course arrivals.
unelectedfloofgoofer says
Funny that Ron admits in his standard informal patter that the organizations of Scientology involve a history of a bunch of people working like the devil.
From the tone of his writings you do get the impression that Ron knows a lot more than he’s letting on, but he doesn’t quite have the time to tell us, and only has enough time to give us a summary.
pedrofcuk says
Yes, Migthy Miami does it again!
Old Surfer Dude says
What is it that they keep going over?
I Yawnalot says
Oh WOW! Michael (I prefer Charlie) Chan is going to tell the world about whole track. Yipeeee!!!
Just love his lectures. Is it just me or is he getting a little “paunchie”? Been indulging in the good life Michael and getting fat off all those commissions? Scientology can be hazardous to your health apparently from both ends of the stick.
Doug Sprinkle says
The one about the world federation of mental health sounds like something out of one of Hubbard’s science fiction novels. Amazing that anyone falls for that.
Old Surfer Dude says
With a constant supply of Kool-Aid, they will believe anything!
alcoboy says
They’ve been preaching this for nearly fifty years.
Still waiting.
I Yawnalot says
What? Are you saying Ole Doc Methuselah never went to medical college?
Get outa here!
Ann B Watson says
And I have the feeling Ole Doc M,fudged his birthday date as well.When he unrolled his cert on The Morgue -,back when I was Ron Aided I liked that bit in the story.Now I get the double creeps.?
lesbates says
On the actual plus side I’ve finished chapter seven of my novel project.
Old Surfer Dude says
Looking forward to it!
lesbates says
The problem is that I think I’m a lousy writer so the novel may actually suck.
Old Surfer Dude says
I highly doubt it….
I Yawnalot says
Novel? (TR2.5…)
lesbates says
By The Primary, I’ll never have to masturbate again!
The next chapter begins with sex between a twenty-something Star Command (Sea Org) officer and 15 year old girl..
shelgold says
Funny about every comedian having a SCN schtick. Was just watching the very popular 2016 movie, Central Intelligence and the bully (Jason Bateman) foams “I’m a Scientologist. I’m Clear and have removed all thetans”
Can you imagine a current movie making a joke about being a Muslim, Christian or Jew? Not going to happen.
Talk about proof of “PR area control” from the ideal orgs.
Space cootie on Sherman's shoulder says
Just watched the Joe Rogan Triggered clip on scientology(scientology is about 5 minutes from 27 to 32 min)https://yourbittorrent.com/torrent/10290007/joe-rogan-triggered.html
He talks about Scienttologists being a nasty cult that needs to get its tax exempt status revoked.
calls hubbard the biggest blabbermouth in history,South Park.About how a couple cannot buy a house because the wife is going clear.
Jokes about how they are making a total fool out of themselves with their psychiatric horror museum.
Amazing that scientology gets picked up as the hook for people to watch the show.
Now that is what I call massive dissemintion by the correct order ofmagnitude.
Gimpy says
Sorry Seattle but I’m not signing up to ‘go clear’ with you as I can see that Caron MacLane has not achieved the advertised result – she is still wearing glasses! What’s the betting she doesn’t have perfect recall either.
Old Surfer Dude says
But, she can still make an ashtray float in the air, right?
gtsix says
No, but if she sens all her intention at the ashtry, it will choose to float all on its own.
But don’t believe me, look for yourself. Read the book. It is quite informative. Pennywise had it right all along.
Old Surfer Dude says
Wooooooooow. That’s heavy….
FOTF2012 says
But she can run a coaching business! http://caroncirclecc.com/
In the picture at that URL she is not wearing glasses. Maybe her vision got worse with Scientology — either that or she wears contacts sometimes.
Contacts can conveniently — if not intentionally — hide the fact that even the claims of DMSMH were not reached, much less the later, revised clear or OT.
I Yawnalot says
The glasses are just part of the mock up. They give a humanistic side to Scientology so the masses will feel more comfortable. Even superman wore glasses as Clark Kent you know.
Oh, I wouldn’t take her on in a memory contest. It’d be a bloodbath!
Clear? Go on, go knock yourself out…
John Doe says
Re Jim Rego’s covert email about H. Clinton.
“It has been reported to me…” that’s a statement by someone creating plausible deniability for spreading misinformation. Chicken shit.
I suppose with only 20,000 scientologists left, it’s not going to make a difference. Now, if it were 12 million scientologists…
I Yawnalot says
12 million Scientologists?? Gee, there’s a thought!
What would you do with 12 million of ’em? Call the pest exterminator I suppose.
Bit like cockroaches they are, being able to survive radiation and all.
John Doe says
Please, they are people just like you and me except they are caught up in a cult. Talking about “exterminators” is troubling, and dehumanizing.
Mike Wynski says
John Doe, Scamology is MUCH more troubling and dehumanizing. Yawn was CLEARLY just joking. Scamology REALLY does damage to humans.
Old Surfer Dude says
Yep! You gotta have a sense of humor to post here…
I Yawnalot says
Maybe lighten up a little… Seriousness is what created this whole damn mess in the first place and keeps it going all nice and solid like. The day Scientologists can laugh at themselves.will be the day their abuses will drop remarkably and start to disappear completely. Also the day Ex’s can do likewise will not be all such a bad thing – or will it?
When I was in the military stationed in the tropics, we were known as and called “mangoes”. Green on the outside, yellow on the inside and if you have enough of ’em they give you the shits. I thought it was pretty funny and didn’t take particular offense, they were just civies anyway, A lot of others did and introverted on it.
marildi says
“Maybe lighten up a little… ”
I agree with John Doe. Think about how your previous remark would come across – and what it would say about you – if you had been talking about Muslims (for one example):
“What would you do with 12 million of ’em? Call the pest exterminator I suppose. Bit like cockroaches they are. . . ”
And then, in answer to any protest about that remark, you were to say “Maybe lighten up a little…”
I don’t get that this is who you really are.
Espiando says
You seem to forget that the Jokers and Degraders PL doesn’t apply to us. I didn’t mind Yawn’s simile too much. I’ve seen worse in terms of religion. Try Thomas Nast’s classic cartoon “The American River Ganges”. Or is it fine to compare Catholics to crocodiles?
I Yawnalot says
There’s many ways to view anything. It takes little recall ability to see that ethics officer’s face and recall being told the most degrading, dehumanizing things about me and others I liked. And then suffered through the most degrading actions that were enforced upon me, cost me years of my life and countless $. Now, who here hasn’t had much the same experience of being treated like that in the Church? mmmm?? And they do it to everyone, regularly. Am such an ao because I refer to them as cockroaches in jest!
There’s many a time I’ve noticed people seldom attach evil to where it’s deserved but prefer to police the victim, it’s easier, less kickback. The Cof$ has a hell of a lot to answer for. I try to make light of it because I can, they can’t and apparently a lot of others out there can’t either.
So be it, now, where’s that beer?
marildi says
It’s not that there haven’t been horrific things done in the church. But denigrating a whole group of people – the same horrific group all of us were once part of – isn’t right either. Even if it’s done in jest.
And I wasn’t doubting your intentions, Yawn, or I probably wouldn’t have “picked” on you in the first place.
I Yawnalot says
You know… I thought about this from a few angles, just for the sake of it as an exercise in thinking what other people might think. And to be honest, if Scientology in its present format did expand to 12 million members – GOOD GOD! Just think of the human carnage in terms of torn up families, money coerced and power transferred to people like Miscavige and his RTC cronies. That would expand the “crimes of the soul capability,” that the present practices of the Cof$ dramatizes upon it’s members. Also, notice Church practices are getting more and more insane and dehumanizing in real terms, they don’t have all that far to go to do something really stupid as a group. They will surprise you as they are leaving the sphere of comprehensibility well behind them, unfortunately.
Yes, it is a serious business Scientology, for all the wrong reasons! The last thing it is, is static. It’s degrading at an alarming rate. Whatever one can do to expose it is validated by the misery that would be avoided. The cycle of action of a Scientologist is an observable and provable cycle to misery. Not even insects do that voluntarily!
marildi says
I Yawnalot: “Whatever one can do to expose it is validated by the misery that would be avoided. The cycle of action of a Scientologist is an observable and provable cycle to misery. Not even insects do that voluntarily!”
When you refer to “a Scientologist” in general like that, you include all of them. I haven’t seen you or anyone else here refer to “a North Korean” with slurs against all of them – regardless of the fact that they are members of a country (a group) that is headed by a vicious authoritarian regime, and many of them don’t even know it because of being brainwashed.
Also, if we start thinking “Whatever one can do to expose it is validated by…” it starts to sound like “The ends justify the means,” and that would be doing the same thing we are protesting.
Sorry to say it, Yawn, but I think your good sense and intentions have been undermined by anger and fear.
I Yawnalot says
Oh Marildi, the things you say! All members of the Cof$ at this time imo have a responsibility of what they now support. It is way past the time of their using ignorance as an excuse for dismal statistics and criminal abuses. Their own tech/policy gives them all the tools to correct their own non viable and criminally abusive situation. They have attracted world attention for their abuses, yet do nothing. Court cases abound in ever increasing numbers and intensity The smart ones leave it.
I have done nothing but comment on things like the Nth Koreans and their desire to get the bomb and saber rattling etc. Pakistan already has the bomb and has 10 Divisions (do you have any concept of what that means?) of Indians on their borders more or less on full alert as a matter of a national operating basis. Scary stuff. I have commented many times on the insanity of western military operations aligning with political and financial games. From my small part in that game it was pretty obvious to me there’s more than just Scientology to worry about and I do. Just because you didn’t read them or choose to ignore or make up stories about something you didn’t pay attention to doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Anger and fear…??? of what? Your words? – hardly!
You need to knock off the personal evaluations, otherwise others may start to play that game too. As referees say in contested and heated argument between players – “walk away!”
Sheesh, did I have you all wrong!
marildi says
“I have done nothing but comment on things like the Nth Koreans and their desire to get the bomb and saber rattling etc. Pakistan already has the bomb and has 10 Divisions (do you have any concept of what that means?) of Indians on their borders more or less on full alert as a matter of a national operating basis. Scary stuff…”
That is either a deliberate Straw Man argument (which I doubt) or you have entirely misunderstood what I wrote.
I was trying to say there is a difference between oppressive leaders and the people they rule. The North Korean people have been even more heavily indoctrinated and lied to than members of the CoS, but I doubt you have called them disrespectful and denigrating names. And I doubt you or others here have engaged in any rhetoric that juvenile since you were in grade school, but you think it is rational and justified in the case of Scientologists. That’s why I say you seem to be operating on anger from past experiences.
I don’t think scientologists should all be put in the same basket – of any kind. I imagine they are individuals who, in large part, are making the best decisions they can based on the data they have.
More to the point – I don’t think it’s true that members of the CoS know very much about what’s really going on – or that those on the fence would be swayed to get off of it by being called names. They would probably give no credibility at all to people who talk that way.
Regardless, I appreciate the comm.
Old Surfer Dude says
I turned on the lights at a org once. You should have seen those staff members scatter! They all looked like cockroaches running for their lives…
I was once a cockroach says
Cockroaches was not funny but unfortunately a little appropriate.It is more like algae that have attached themselves to the Fleecewind and are thinking they are in command of a spaceship.
It is not fair to call a mentally deluded person a cockroach.Besides cockroaches are doing a pretty good job surviving.There are probably more cockraoches in 2 blocks of Fort Harrison Boulevard than Scientologist in the whole world.Besides 20.000 seems in the high side for end 2016.Probably closer to 15.000.
These are deluded people with limited skills. The young ones are dreaming of a being a superpowerful master of destiny as they sell Kay’s rugs in the malls or go to their Clearwater telemarketing job.
Chewkacca says
It should be noted that cockroaches run AWAY when the lights are turned on. Clam$ run away too. From SPs, from reporters, from the truth. Even from people that are curious about what they do, and haven’t Googled them yet. Sneaky and secretive, they raise suspicion in everyone they meet. This makes it even MORE likely new people will Google them, and run away. Screaming.
There two ways to handle cockroaches: 1) stop feeding them (in this case, giving them money), and 2) call the exterminators (in this case, the FBI, INS, IRS, and tell them what you know).
And realize that, even if the exterminators do nothing, they are dying out.
There is a new status: SP meritorious: The date of your SP Declare. The earlier it is, the more merit you have. AAARROOOUGH!
John Doe says
There is too much harsh, dehumanizing rhetoric happening in our society in general.
Just watch FOX or MSNBC to get what I mean.
The scientologists call you suppressive persons, degraded beings, no case gain. You call them cockroaches, clams and alge.
It’s all dehumanizing. And it’s a bad trend.
My mother once saw me tormenting a bug and she told me to stop. 8-year-old me defended by saying, “It’s just a bug!”
“I’m telling you to stop because it’s not good for you,” she replied. I’ve come to learn she was right.
History has shown that if one group keeps up with a dehumanizing line against some other identifiable group, terrible, tragic things can happen.
Yes, I understand the attempt at humor. It just wasn’t funny.
Yes, Scientology harms people. Don’t fall into the trap of becoming a noxious, toxic person because of what Scientology has done to you or others. Just keep calmly exposing their lies and crimes and the collapse we see happening will continue.
**steps off soapbox**
marildi says
“My mother once saw me tormenting a bug and she told me to stop. 8-year-old me defended by saying, ‘It’s just a bug!’
“’I’m telling you to stop because it’s not good for you,’ she replied. I’ve come to learn she was right.”
What wise words your mother had for you. She stated the simplicity of the matter.