There are “Stars” in New Mexico?
Must be a pretty low bar to become a “star”. Glitz and glamor is doubtful. They don’t even know where they are holding it and it’s just a few days away!
Nothing over the top here…
But wait…
The last one said it was the “human spirit” and this one says its the mind? Which one is it? 
Scots Humor
At least I think this is supposed to be humor
Serious Qualifications on display here…
Because he has completed the Student Hat and “KTL/LOC” (not even “things” in scientology these days). You can bet he knows all about relationships and business. He’s a “chemist” too… Can probably tell you what drugs to take for your migraines.
I have a suggestion for you…
Why not focus on english speaking people? There are about 12 million of them crammed up in your faces.
We are clearing Portland…
One every now and then should do the trick! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
One million lives…
Is this a pitch to distribute a million copies? Or an ad for the Oscars that will “reach” a million? Or a million paid tweets? Or what?
Pasadena is rocking
So much so this ideal org gets all excited about an SRD twinship completion. One.
Mighty My Mammy
Remember when they were “going to be done” in February?
Jackson Wyan!
Exclamation point! Does ANYONE know who Jackson Wyan is?
Our destiny?
A bit presumptuous perhaps. You haven’t won anything ever…
And why did Valley introduce their executives at CC?
Pitch the public
They are going to win the birthday game by telling their public to win the birthday game
Wishful thinking
Ever notice everything in scientology is “rapidly moving towards” and “clearing is being made a reality” — it’s all about ongoing nothingness. Birmingham will NEVER make it this year. And they know it, but to acknowledge that would be “CI”.
Mission expansion
Not happening. Anywhere. At least not since the 70’s.
No movement on earth like ours…
Yep, it’s massive. Unprecedented. It’s great. Bigly. Ginormous. If we just keep saying it, it must be true.
The Oracle of the Phoenix…
I can tell you right now what the Oracle is going to foretell. “We need your money. If you don’t have money, you must join staff.”
Mighty My Mammy
Be part of history by putting paper in old files — it will bring you “fame and glory”
That 70’s thing…
Still going with the 1970’s SO#1 quotes. Miami isn’t anything near what it was in the 70’s. And even then it was in a shitty building.
Another Ideal Org completion
Orange County creaming their jeans over one guy finishing the Student Hat
Tampa is no longer SH Size
They must be going backwards. They USED to be SH size… Now they are going for it again.
The hidden hand of Source…
Nothing like you’ve ever seen before (doesn’t this ever get tired?). This hidden hand is going to be so hidden it’s completely invisible.
Avoid the Vampire Personality
I can sum this up in a sentence. Stay away from ALL scientology registrars. Saved you a trip to Tampa where ironically you WILL be regged by vampires.
Nothing could be finer…
…than taking your Valentine to Portland’s OT Committee. 
We are the hope of man — the ONLY hope
And Cambridge “ideal org” is demonstrating this on a daily basis.
Obvious?
To who?
Open the Floodgates
When are these floodgates going to have a anything pass through them?
Missing some folks…
This is TWO “ideal orgs” and their public. Looks like less than 70 people total…
And the mystery man Jackson Wyan! again?
Most outrageous service possible?
Wait, what happened to the IAS?
How come CCHR is fundraising for itself? The IAS claims all CCHR “wins” are “made possible by your support of the IAS”
One time only briefing…
Here is the briefing: “Have L. Ron Hubbard lecture there each day in person. Short of that, it doesn’t work. Proof is 50 years of it not working.”
Might as well give up…
Another marvelous Thursday Mike. I love ” the hidden hand of Source” like my XRay eyes and my invisible ink said about me in court years ago. And love the quote on The Sea Org being ” an obvious success.” Yes to you Ron yes it was….. Love to All. ❤️?
On a side note: following is a link on News.com.au, it’s amazing they actually have something worth looking at, about Leah Remini and her television show (it’s only just come out here) on, gag, choke, Rupert cable along with some of the $camology replies to this scurrilous program.
http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/if-im-such-a-liar-why-havent-they-sued-my-ass/news-story/4c8919dcac50f5d1164931818c16d2de
Are all of these Ideal Orgs owned by the church or are they franchises run by local members? They can’t all be SeaOrg run.
Also, what is happening in Australia? One of Flag’s top number crunchers has been there for awhile.
Munky,
The Ideal Orgs are paid for by the public and owned by the cherch. The cherch extracts funds from anyone they can, even staff making $50.00/wk, and puts it into the IAS or some other account run by Dave and then pays for the building and renovation out of those accounts. Because the cherch ‘pays’ for it, the cherch owns it.
Once the shit-er-ee collapses, Dave will sell off the real estate and move to a well defended compound of His choice. But most likely, He will end up on the Freakwinds until the dust settles ….. safe on International waters, ….. and then pick a spot to land with His most trusted confidantes.
My opinion in Aussieland …..It always happens when the pie continues to shrink. Send off a Flogger to identify a scapegoat and then announce the reason Why to all that pretend to care.
Munky, the now largely defunct network of missions was run on a franchise system, though as I wrote about elsewhere they apparently continue to sell the franchise packages for missions that usually can’t get off the ground.
Local churches of Scientology are nominally independent corporations, though like everything in the CofS that is complex and essentially ends up with complete control from the top behind the scenes.
The local churches of Scientology originally either rented space, or in many case owned properties. But when they go “ideal” and get a new building for that purpose, it proceeds as Newcomer has explained – and if they once owned their own building, funds from the sale of that also go into the new building.
I appears that the early ideal orgs were all financed by local public members, but that funding scheme is starting to fail and once local members are tapped out then stalled projects (some of the historic buildings purchased have now languished for about a decade) are being completed with financing from international management.
I live downtown Portland. Walk past that place almost daily. It’s a ghost town. Waste of nice property frankly
I hear you have some incredible historical buildings there.
I wonder if the older folks who dutifully show up for photos realize how often they appear in the back of the “crowd.” Organizations often try to appear vibrant, but jeez.
It looks like the SF org stuck the bust of LRH in there to make it look like more people.
So Tom Young just went clear in 2017? I worked beside him for a while in the late 1980s. He is just about the nicest guy ever. I must say it would be quite impossible and wholly unnecessary to say anything critical about him. Just an average joe living his life in the ivory tower atop a cultic bubble. For that is what the Delphian School is: a literal tower on top of a rural hill far removed from the usual haunts of the believers.
After “Social Coordination” was dismantled and reborn as “A.B.L.E.”, Miscavige’s Sea Org goons didn’t show up at the school until about 1988, where they caused a bit of upheaval. Eventually the school got in line with the new autocracy, even if we chafed mightily under the increased expenses of the “licensing fees” to “Applied Scholastics”, the circle within the circle within the head-spinning organization of the reorganized church. Indeed, it is during this period that the school’s tuition skyrocketed to the levels of elite east coast boarding schools. Of course, the executives at Delphi had to figure out how to afford their OT levels and pay off the Sea Org, so what choice did they have except to raise prices?
Tom Young is so typical of your average garden variety Scientologist: faithful, poor, unquestioning. Atop that rural hill, it’s as easy as pie to ignore the outside world, something those hill people have been doing for more than thirty years, which is also the amount of time it took for Tom to go Clear. All while the executives above him created scheduling dramas with their inconsistent and drawn out excursions to Clearwater while they audited themselves on OT 7 and then spent months on the Freewinds going to the top of the Bridge.
It was never clear as to how they were able to afford all this. Fees increasing from $12,000 to $60,000 over the course of several years might offer a clue.
Still, Tom is probably better off taking so long to go anywhere on his Bridge. Once he gets to the top, he’s just going to have to start all over again. Nearly all of the executives from the late 1980s who spent so much time on OT 7 and 8 seem to have mysteriously disappeared from Scientology. The ones who remained might be restudying the Student Hat right now, a particular irony given their purported occupation of educating students.
That one struck me, too. And you are absolutely right: Tom Young is the nicest dude you’ll ever meet. I ran into him a few times in the late 1970’s so it’s been more like 40 years it took him to go clear.
Now that he should be thinking about retirement, the fecking AO regges are thinking about milking him and his wife Mari dry so he can “get through the non-interference zone” through OT III (Right now! Or you’ll lose all your gains!!!!). Sick.
A.B.L.E. and Flag. So that’s why Delphian’s prices went sky-high. Stupid, useless, Applied Scholastics milking them for a big cut of the action, like a bunch of fucking Mafiosi. Fuck, Delphian’s curriculum was written totally in-house by their own faculty and organized by Dr. Larson who (along with that Eeeee-vill SP Martin Samuels) founded the goddamned place. Applied Fucking Scholastics had nothing to do with it. All Applied Scholastics does is leach off them. And Flag. And Portland Org would fold without Delphian’s staff.
Now, Scientology has even less to do with the place. Clam kids are a minority there now. Used to be 90% Clam, now maybe 10%. Why? Because clam parents can’t fucking afford it! They’re too broke after bending over for the IAS, Ideal Morgues, Cornerstones, Basics, and re-doing their bloody bridge for the third time. So the School has been recruiting outside the Cult, heavily, for years, and laying off the Scientology with the kids.
Delphian doesn’t need the Cult anymore. The Cult needs them. In fact, the Cult is an Albacore (nod to Tony Soprano) around Delphian’s neck. They’d be better off if they dropped Applied Scholastics like the bad habit it is, applied some of the license fees they don’t need to pay anymore to their endowment fund, and reduced their tuition.
Unlike the Apple School that died when they broke with the cult because *all* the kids had Clam parents, Delphian would actually do better if they broke with the Cult. Hell, they could bring back Dr. Larson as Headmaster. They’d lose maybe ten students and pick up 100. Fuck, I’d send *my* kids there if the School, ahem, “disconnected” from the Cult.
The only thing that would go wrong if Delphian broke with the Cult would have to do with the staff. The employees of the School would all be ordered by the Cult to disconnect from it. The School wouldn’t lose students, it would lose staff who were worried about their “eternity.”
Of course, that’s all theoretical since the people running it today (basically the Ott family) are all hardcore into the Flavour-Aid. Too bad.
Thank for the in depth analysis of Delphi, Gus Cox. Same thing happened at the Delphi in LA. The local Scns couldn’t afford the high prices, so they started bringing outsiders in, such as a lot of Asians cuz they could pay the high tuition. The recruiters used Delphi as it’s recruiting ground. And yes, the Otts will never stop drinking the KA.
Isabelle and Abby, the SRD twins at Pasadena Org, look like such nice, really sweet, good-intentioned, young women. I am sorry that they’ve been lured into CoS and regret what will either be a difficult parting from it someday in the future, or–what’s worse–an even more difficult continuation in it for many years to come.
Some great articles recently Mike, but it’s important to have a laugh too 🙂
I know picking at poor grammar is cheap, but I enjoyed the irony contained within this “success” story too much!
“Axiom 28 outlines what communication is The Student Hat gives me another tool to communicate, It also gives me the tools with which to study and make more rapid progress.”
Putting to one side the clumsy word choice and general vagueness, he manages to omit a period (even a comma would have sufficed) before “The Student Hat”. Then he capitalises “It also” for no reason following a comma. Did his magic hat fall off?
I’m often amused when reading their fliers and such at how hilariously inept the “masters of communication” are at using the English language like real grown ups.
Just couldn’t help myself this time!
I have noticed this on so many of their articles too and just have to laugh.
That’s because they place all of their emphasis on Scientology schooling, instead of a ‘real world’ education.
I was interested to see the promo for the upcoming SMI convention aboard the Fleecewinds in April, where mission holders and their staffs will meet together for a fun-filled week of Caribbean cruising.
One leading indicator of $cn’s contraction rate that’s rarely mentioned is the number of active $cn missions that exist and their overall success rate in recruiting new Scilons and getting them up the bridge to pass along to higher level orgs, where advanced processing and training is delivered.
My bet there is that the once-vibrant mission scene in $cn just never recovered from the Mission Holder’s Massacre that occurred in 1982. It would be very interesting to compare and contrast the major success stats for the missions in the U.S. prior to the massacre and those same stats in the years since then.
Harpoona, the situation with the missions was something that I followed for years, due to some personal connections. I don’t have figures at hand, but I know that others have continued to track the situation and that there is some good information out there, and I think that Mike has published some numbers here.
Basically, the missions network, always overstated but still long an important piece of the CofS, has almost totally collapsed in the last two decades. Offhand, of maybe a hundred missions that once actually existed in some form North America, two dozen are still officially listed, but I doubt that there are more than a half a dozen left that are really open for business or that do any real business at all. But because old missionholders are hesitant to finally abandon their investments and CofS management discourages them from doing so for the purpose of keeping up statistics, many have retreated to token presences in the back rooms of missionholders’ other businesses and even their homes, and in some cases essentially merged into nearby orgs.
Maybe ten or fifteen years ago there seemed to be a small crop of celebrity-sponsored missions, but those turned into typical failed debacles and I think only one or two are left on life support. I’m guessing those are no longer being pushed, because their inevitable failure ends up creating bad relations with the celebrities.
Generally, the CofS seems to be sucking any life out of what is left of the missions network in order to try to improve stats and income at their orgs. Any remaining missions deliver few if any courses, unlike the old days, and are maybe more like FSM offices sending “selectees” on to courses at orgs.
There has long been what is essential a fundraising scam, selling a lot of expensive mission packages for operations that never actually get opened, or only have some token existence, again in a back room. From promo like we see here I get the impression that is still going on, though they are probably harder to sell and fewer than ever are actually opening.
One thing I will say partly from experience, while nostalgic old timers often seem to paint the “massacre” as a tragedy, as with many things the real picture was more complex and not so pretty. A fair number of missions had really gone “squirrel,” subjecting students and staff to crazy procedures like “de-dinging,” and a lot of money was being hidden due to not only management’s excessive demands, but missionholders’ greed. Like everything else of that era, individual experiences varied widely – if not wildly – depending on where people were, and when. And my analysis of what was happening then, was not that Scientology was being hijacked, but that Hubbard’s control was being imposed across the organizations by the Sea Org shock troops who he had trained on the ships.
Downtown St. Paul?
Why?
Why what?
It is a major metropolitan area in the Midwest. They seem to put many Orgs in state capitals an St. Paul is the capital of Minnesota. The Org is located in a building that was the previous Science Museum of Minnesota, which I find really funny.
According to a cursory search, Jackson Wyan is as advertised as some dreamy Tom Cruise clone. No thanks. The Svengali look doesn’t do it for me.
If anyone can tell me the address of that big, beautiful building in Miami, please do, because I’ve been here a long time and know of no such site…unless it comes and goes like Brigadoon?
2220 S. Dixie Highway. It’s on the east side of US1 around Coconut Grove. It’s the old Renzo building.
It looks to be 2200 S Dixie Hwy, the former Renzi building at about 41,000 square feet. They are still operating out of the old org building in Coral Gables, and are supposed to be working on renovating that new building, but some of the renovation projects have dragged on for at least a decade. I don’t remember seeing that Miami is on the list of new openings for 2017, or that there’s any sign of their making progress at all, so it could be one of the ones that sits for a long time.
From what I can tell, the local campaigns to buy and renovate buildings are faltering, and increasingly they have to wait until finally CofS international management decides to finish the project with their own money. At some point even that is going to break down.
For some perspective, a quick check shows that in the United States there is an average of 662 sq.ft. per person in residential living space. As Scientology membership shrinks but their real estate portfolio grows, some of the ideal orgs already have about that much space per active member, and if that trend continues at some point it is either going to be financially unsustainable or unjustifiable to the IRS.
This one and Valley are scheduled to be the big reveals for this year. Who knows what happened to Silicon Valley — they were done with their fundraising LOONG before Porn Valley…
Mike, the man you commented about twice in the Funnies, Jackson Wyan, is mentioned in the article link in “Another x so “‘s entry about 9:30am. I’m not sure if you were serious or not, but just in case thought I thought I’d let you know. Sorry if I was wrong.
Thanks, Mike. I think I may have gotten some of the info on Florida orgs confused.
Anyway, it’s hard to find anything about Miami. I didn’t see anything about them on the CofS websites, which had more on upcoming openings last year. I did notice that one listing of regions with new orgs coming included the UK, and I can’t imagine anything there that they could get ready to open anytime soon.
I found that you had posted a flyer that was shooting for a Miami opening by Hubbard’s birthday in March, and Miami was also apparently mentioned in the New Years’ speech, hence the files push. I thought we would also have seen signs of a push for staffing by now, which I don’t recall. It will be interesting to see what actually happens this year.
The Valley Ideal Org in LA has been “in the works” for over 15 years now. That’s an awful long time to put an Ideal Org there in the state that has the highest concentration of Scns of all of them. What happened?
Thursday Chuckles…so much to J & D, so little time…”Bring your Valentine”..outright laughing at the concept of a guy inviting his girl to an OTC meeting for Valentine’s Day – no dinner, no flowers, chocolates, just, “Honey, I have something VERY special planned for us tonite, its a surprise” …and then, the expression on her face once she’s there with him and it all dawns on her…
“Surprise, honey! I sold the house and donated the proceeds to the IAS!
We now hold the status of Patron Vomitus Maximus with Honors! Happy Valentines Day!”
Cue sound of pistol being fired and body slumping to floor.
Associating poor Spanky with Scientology. He must be turning over in his grave right now!
Speaking of which, does anyone know if any of the former Little Rascals kids later went into Scientology when they grew up?
After reading on this site and some others recently, I am thinking we have been a little hard on the church. After all, there are a lot of good people there, who really mean well. I suggest we give them a hand. One of their projects comes to mind, the CF and getting it up to date. I think if we all got together and made a day of it we could have it in shape in no time at all. We could start by removing our own files. This would free up some space and save them countless dollars in postage, printing and phone calls.
I like your thinking. Very generous of you. How about we extend it to PC and ethics folders as well -.lighten their load a bit while they are expanding as unprecedented rates. What’s that’s policy, Lightness of Organisation or some such ignored bird tracks on paper?
Maybe get rid of 160lbs of useless crap called CoB.
LOL He’s a midget among his minions. As an athletic, tall, female of the LGBT persuasion, I’d like to meet the tiny little guy and say hi someday 🙂 Maybe I could help audit the stupid out of him
I believe technically a stout piece of 4 x 2 would be required to be CS’d for the rudiments first. Then you can audit all the stupid out of him you like.
That’s a small man, but a big pile of shit!
Normally I don’t comment on these, but there were a couple that I thought were too revealing:
“The only good news I want to hear is about my precious gold.” – Methinks his Freudian slip is showing underneath his kilt. Or maybe he’s reached the EP of running Hubbard’s case himself, and is channeling the old man in the Bluebird motor home.
The “vampire personality” one also smacks of unintentional self-revelation. The first thing that occurs to me, is that if the speaker really has any ability to identify the causes of failure, why isn’t he addressing the elephant in the room, Scientology’s own organizational debacle?
That final seemingly sentimental presentation in Miami about old St. Hill, along with some of the other recent presentations by old timers who were on the ships with Hubbard, makes me wonder if they aren’t starting to appeal to nostalgia about the “good old days” when Scientology was actually growing, rather than trying to flog the endless and increasingly unbelievable alt-truth “highest ever” pseudo-statistics.
“The “vampire personality” one also smacks of unintentional self-revelation.”
Totally hilarious, huh?
$cilons have uncanny, almost super human ability to project and displace onto others the exact behavior that they inveigh against. And the louder and more energetically that they do so is a direct index of exactly how deeply they’re engaged in it.
I always wondered why I have such big incisors! I need to bite someone….now!:
I know this guy, lives near Hemet Ca. Name’s Dave. Wait, wait, wait! Don’t do it! If you drink his blood you might turn into a….gasp…scientologist!!
Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: The Vampire Seminar Announcement
“In this seminar you will learn the LRH data on: Why do relationships fail? Why do businesses fail?”
Why do relationships fail? I wonder if Pat Clouden explained to them that a possible cause for relationships failing could be the coercive pressure that this particular organization places on their members to disconnect from family members and friends who have ultimately decided that “what was true for them” differed from the precepts of this so-called “church” and its founder.
Why do businesses fail? Hopefully Mr. Clouden informed them that business owners should invest most their available resources (both time and money) on line items that will actually yield a positive return on their investments, instead of “investing” those resources in massive donations to a so-called “church”, even with tax deductions……or squandering them so the owner(s) can pay for very lengthy and expensive courses trying to move up a “Bridge to Total Subjugation”.
Mick, hate to burst your bubble so harshly but the “vampire personality” he is talking about is you and me. He is talking about “suppressive persons”, which according to Hubbard includes anyone who doesn’t like Scientology.
To prove you are a sociopath, a vampire or toxic personality in Scientology all you have to do is speak out about its abuses or leave.
The terrible power of those who don’t like Scientology is so great that not even garlic or sunlight or the True Cross will banish them. The true believing Scientologist must completely cut off all contact with such persons.
Problems with relationships, failed businesses, cancer, the common cold, inability to get any good result from a Scientology service, the blues and inability to find a parking space are all traceable to these “vampire personalities”.
We are so powerful that everything wrong with Scientology can be traced to us. Those of us who were once Scientologists screwed up everything we touched before we got the boot, and those who were never in just create a poisonous atmosphere so bad that nobody comes in to see the free films or take a personality test anymore except the youtube goofballs.
I am exaggerating a bit for comic relief but actually this is not too far from what Scientologists actually believe.
It would be laughably absurd if it did not break up so many families.
Wow, I’m flattered. I had no idea they consider someone like me to be so “powerful” just because I “don’t like Scientology” (actually, I don’t like the abuses that are committed by the organization). And to think that all this time, I was under the impression that Scientology was supposed to be the philosophy that would make a person (or more accurately, their thetan) have superpowers.
I suppose it should make me feel better about myself by learning of this newly discovered superpower that I apparently possess, but unfortunately, based on my own twisted “wog logic and reason”, I am forced to admit that in reality, I have no more or less of these so-called “superpowers” than anyone else. Bummer….
love the superbowl and grammy commercials. Gotta spend the money somewhere.
Should be totally done within 10 years. GREAT job Mike, Leah, Tony, ……etc. Keep it comin’.
Mike, It really is unfair and vilely suppressive of you to present the Thursday Sadness Parade in this fashion. You keep publishing promotional turd pellets from the same few orgs over and over again, making it seem like there aren’t 11,000 churches, missions, groups and covens in 182.3 countries, all pumping out special briefing announcements weekly. Please try to present a balanced picture of geometric growth of Scientology by showing us the flier for the next paper shuffling, free hot dogs and bank account high colonic party from the booming org in Ittoqqortoormiit*, Greenland. Thank you!
*Real place; you can look it up.
What????!!!!! You mean there’s actually a booming org? Impossible!
Oh, did I say booming? I meant ka-booming!
Much better!
The most fascinating one is the ad featuring “Chemist” Barham Tagavi. Apparently, these days, he is involved with “Chiropractic Business Academy” in Orange County, which is a WISE consulting firm that showers the benefits of Hubbard’s wisdom on the shrinking number of chiropractors that haven’t heard of this particular scam.
In searching on the name Bahram Tagavi, there are two psychiatrists with that name, one in Hawaii and one in Phoenix (which may well be the same person); the one in Hawaii may not be our guy but looks similar. A son, perhaps? If the psychiatrist with the same name is a son, wouldn’t that just be a mortal insult to the father’s values, kind of like a girl from a fundamentalist cult moving to LA to become a stripper?
There’s also an inactive pharmacy license in the state of Michigan in the name of Barham Tagavi, which could be our guy in another life.
In any case, it’s pretty amusing that the only people I can find in the US with that name are either dreaded “psychs” or were involved in dispensing drugs, and are thus aiding and abetting the administration of “PDH” (pain, drugs, hypnosis) as part of some plot to enslave thetans.
Ohhhh… I just got all tingly… I just gotta get to know this Pat Clouden guy. Looks all spiffy in his suit and all. Michael Chan, back in box chocolate, we have a new vampire slayer in town who specializes in “Life’s Nightmares.” I want to get me some of those – wonder if he has free samples?
Yep, I’m in, sign me up! (Fang sharpening service extra I’m told, but well worth it per the SSs)
(Wonder why it’s only on at night?)
I Yawn, Pat C. has been a slimy snake oil sales guy preying on wogs & new scamologists for over 40 years.
http://www.scientologynews.org/press-releases/meet-a-scientologist-patrick-clouden-2012.html
The first time I met him I was shocked. I had never met a snake in a 3 piece suit before.
Oh yeah, just my type of snake. Noticed he got onto 7 in 2002, he’s done the Ls and would be well versed in both Flag and the Freewinds fleecing procedures as he’s done quite a number of tape courses to earn his right to hover around for victims at the Mecca and at the Ship of the Damned. Per the completions list on the Truth about Scn, he’s a typical one way flow Scammer, no levels or internships, just a professional PC, specializes in helping himself only – what a good Scientologist he is… bought his way up the Bridge to Doom & Gloom with commissions no doubt. No really good upper level Scio lecturer actually uses their own money if they can help it – vampire personality is something he knows all about.
Yes I Yawn, back in the day you could be pretty accurate sorting out the slime from the people who really wanted to help (regardless of whether or not one thinks scn helps) by looking at the presence or absence of training in the subject itself
Silly boy! Nighttime is when most vampires are around to be regged.
Even vampires can’t stand up to regges!
NOW ya got it! Did you really think anyone would be immune? Hurumph…
Pat Clouden is in love with Donald Trump, in every way. He’s an uber-level fan. I think he would shriek like a teenage girl if he ever got a chance to meet him.
Thanks for these, Mike. I can’t help wondering how you acquire all this stuff? Very funny to the non-Scientologist, yet extremely disturbing and sad.
I get about five pieces of scn junk mail every single day.
They must really love you…
Nah. They just want his money.
But that’s what Scientology love is…
Oh my god, what a bunch of pretentious hyperbole…Scientologists REALLY take themselves seriously! Mike, how can you sit upright? i would have fallen out of my chair laughing.
Reminds me of Amway Conventions, except Amway has more real members!
And Amway product fit nicely under the sink. It’s important to be practical, both will clean things, one relates to bank accounts, the other to dirt and grime.
Of interest to me would or has anyone in the handwriting analysis field ever analysed LRH’s scribblings beginning with his signature above? Just wondering what one could discern.
According to the Great L. Fraud, a scamologist can grant a someone personal immortality!
ANYONE who wasn’t born into it that still follows the “path” L. Fraud created is pretty idiotic at this point in time in the life cycle of the cult.
Just reading these is painful, when it’s not saddening.
You’re a good soul, Jim. But, keep in mind that this is Scientology. Enslaving people is their forte. And if they leave….
OSD,
Thanks for the thought. It’s jut that my involvement from the late 60’s means my memories are of training and auditing, and then auditing and training, and that was all that the orgs existed for.
Such a waste.
Glad you’re out, Jim! You got your old life back. Congrats & well done!
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/05/08/story2.html
The very last sentence is pretty hilarious
Hysterical but true! They need people to “make lots and lots of money” so they have lots and lots of money to take away from them. Can’t have one with the other.
“The accuracy of the numbers is often questioned. The D.C. church declined to offer detailed figures of its membership or growth, but says interest in the church has increased.”
The jokes just write themselves, don’t they?
All of these invitations to Greater and Better Living through Lron sound like a bad Amway Convention.
The “interest in the church” has continued to greatly increase since that article was written almost nine years ago, although not in a positive manner.
As you may have heard, they hold to a propaganda line that any interest is good interest – I think there’s a Hubbard quote about that.
It’s also one of those typical things that there might even have been some truth to in the past, that if a negative piece came out about Scientology, people might actually go check it out for themselves and maybe even get sucked in thinking that the one piece might not have really gotten it right. The problem now is that it’s not just one article, most people will get online and find all the past articles available on the internet, not to mention the huge volumes of detailed critical information, and they will be much more wary due to the weight of evidence and unlikely to even give it a try for themselves.
Ironically, Scientology itself accepts that even anecdotal and largely outdated information is enough for someone to determine that a practice is so potentially harmful that they should avoid it entirely and not even consider “trying it for themselves” – that is exactly how they consider psychiatry.
I suppose that in DM’s “celebrity-type” of mindset, he must consider that “there is no such thing as bad publicity”. That concept is a laughable myth.
Yes, I became very interested in the subject of Scientology once Aftermath started airing, but my interest is not in “checking it out” for myself. My overriding interest in this philosophy lies in seeing the abuses and exploitation ended, and in seeing people reconnected with their loved ones. My level of interest in Scientology will end when that happens.
Well, the interest in the church has increased. Only not quite the way they meant it. I’m sure hundreds of thousands more people have taken an interest in scientology since Aftermath. For once a spokesman for the church told the truth.