Somewhat abbreviated Thursday Funnies…
They’re Bringing In The Big Guns…
Well, on second thought. Sylvia Stanard is the best they could do? Wow, they’re really scraping the barrel. A total rimless zero.
F/Ning as defined here means “Money to give to scientology”
And Gavin Potter is an “expert” on these things because…?
35 Futile Years
They are further away from clearing Orange County now than they were the first day they opened
If they’re so cause?
How come Toronto “ideal” org STILL isnt done when they didnt even have to buy a building? And where is the AO — they’ve had a building for more than a decade?
Thousands of people all the way up the Bridge?
Sure. And she is total cause over life and they still cannot get 10,000 people up to Solo NOT’s. But she all alone has “thousands”. Clive Rabies must be pretty useless then…
Oh yeah…
These guys really know how to do that…
Traditional Give Us Your Money Potluck Dinner
Everyone has to bring their favorite form of payment and leave it on the table at the back
Whales sighted in MidWest
A couple of beached whales from the Tampa area apparently washed up next to Mt. Rushmore. How out of place.
Same old, same old
This is the same names that have been on these lists for decades. A few have died off, more bound to follow in the near future… Soon it will be the “Top 25” then down to the “Top 10” and eventually nobody left at all.
Haunted is right
This place has been empty as a ghost town forever. Literally since the day it opened.
Another OT VIII finally completes redo of Objectives
Big news. Let’s celebrate!
No comment needed
If you saw The Aftermath this week…
Another Nigerian scam?
Sounds like a Nigerian Prince has been on the loose with Narconon, conning everyone into believing there is some NN in Nigeria….
License to Build?
Seriously?
License to Ill more appropriate – with apologies to the Beastie Boys.
History was made…
Yes, another event is done and nothing has changed.
We are still pretending to be doing something in the world, but we are the only people that know about it.
They were short on time…
And the spellchecker missed them.
Still with the WD 40….
Never abandon a good campaign…
Bet they don’t come close to 40. You know there are less than 40 TOTAL staff and public in Orlando right? 
Defying Tyranny?
From DM?
They don’t even know his or her name?
This briefing could be done in 5 words. FUBAR.
Did anyone notice in the 33rd IAS Anniversary flier that they didn’t get “Nation’s Capital” right? Unless of course the meeting is actually in the Capitol building which, I am guessing it’s not.
Rule of thumb I read:
– When referring to the building in Washington, D.C. used by the United States Congress, it should be spelled “Capitol” (with an “o” and a capitalized “C”).
– When referring to a building occupied by a state legislature, lower cased “capitol” (still with an “o”) is by definition the correct use (though some style guidelines may make an exception to the lowercase rule).
– On the other hand, “Capital” with an “a” has many different meanings. For public interest news, the most common usage is when referring to the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country or state. For instance, Washington, D.C. is the nation’s capital.
another Nigerian scam?
Racist blog!
Wow. That’s a stretch even for a troll….
I.P., I called you out as an insane criminal a while ago. True to form you are!
One poster…”HOW TO HELP AND HANDLE PEOPLE”…SHOULD READ “HOW TO SCREW PEOPLE
OUT OF THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY AND HANDLE THEM FROM GOING TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND MAKING A COMPLAINT”. This is awful! Again;..do they use the mail to send these out to members?
If you haven’t made complaints to the USPS you should. You may be surprised. The federal government
may be wussy about the law suits, but there are very clear laws about how we use the postal service.
So, in Scientology, you have to pay substantial fees for classes and auditing…plus they pressure you to “tithe” several times a year? AND they are tax exempt? I would love to see a chart of different world religions and the average yearly costs of being a member and percentage of salary “donated” by members. Would Scientology be the highest?
After watching the videos made by hundreds of ex-scientologists documenting not only the amounts of money they “donated” (more like “were harassed into handing over”) to the “church”, but also the unrelenting methods that the “Reg’s” use to very literally force the members to “donate” to the “church”, I’m absolutely sure that Scientologists would be the highest. And I’m not yet even considering the money the members pay for courses, for auditing sessions, for books, for their memberships, to go to events a mandatory 5 times a year, to travel to other cities like Clearwater for mandatory events and courses, I can’t even remember all of the mandatory money-grabbing right now. It’s quite literally endless. And relentless.
If you want a real eye-opener on the harassment techniques used by the “Reg’s” in order to get donations, meet their daily (or seemingly hourly) quotas, to enable themselves to go to events and on trips (I’m sure these Sea Org members who do meet their quotas never get the prizes and rewards they are promised anyway), and any number of other excuses they come up with to constantly throw at members, I suggest you go on YouTube and watch Steve Mango’s video discussing his entire experience in Scientology, from the day he became curious about it to the day he left. It’s a 2+ hour long video, but Steve does something I’ve not seen any other ex-member do: he describes every moment he was asked for money, and every little swindle, harassment, and out-right lie he was challenged with, and every desperate “Reg” he had to deal with, as well as every technique they used on him to get his money. I’ve truly never seen anything like what Steve describes: Constant begging by “Reg’s” for money every single time he ever walked in or through or out of The Celebrity Center or any other Scientology building, being followed to and from his car every day, having to run out of side doors or crawl out of windows to avoid them, telephone calls from “Reg’s” at all hours of the night and early morning, being signed-up for every credit card available all at one time, calling his newly maxed-out credit cards and begging for limit increases (and often getting them because the “church” has members who work as underwriters at every major credit card company and bank in the country), being asked into an office and having the door locked behind him so he could not leave, then being told, not asked, told that he needed to donate the entire amounts of actual cash in all of his bank accounts right at that moment for the good of Scientology and his “eternity”, I cannot do his story justice. I do remember being particularly nauseated when Steve told the story about being locked in an office and being told that he had to donate every cent of actual cash he had to his name to the “church” for no particular reason (they had already maxed-out every one of the credit cards they got him, and were denied on their final requests for increases). Steve describes at first thinking it was a joke, that this upper-level Sea Org member or head of the “Reg’s” couldn’t be serious, but he very quickly realized that he was deathly serious. So Steve finally took a firm stand and told this whacko that he absolutely could not donate every cent he had in his checking and savings accounts, he had no available credit on any of his credit cards, and had just donated $5,000 while attending what he thought was a free “appreciation” dinner at the most expensive restaurant inside the Celebrity Center (another occasion where he and the other members being “appreciated” were locked inside the restaurant as soon as dinner was over). Steve then describes how this guy would not unlock the door until he agreed to hand over literally ALL the money he had in the world, and then describes desperately trying to reason with this guy, explaining to him “If I empty my checking account for you right now, I’ll have absolutely ZERO MONEY. No cash, no credit. How can I possibly do this? I can’t. I have no gas in my car right now, and I won’t be able to get any when I leave, so I won’t be able to even get home tonight. I was planning on going grocery shopping tonight too because I have absolutely no food in my apartment. If I do this I won’t be able to eat. And my rent is due, and if I don’t pay it tomorrow I’ll evicted. So if I do what you’re asking me to do, I’ll have no car to drive to get home, to work, or back here tomorrow and I’ll not be able to eat until my next paycheck which is weeks away. And I’ll be evicted and be homeless, and have nowhere to put my possessions, and not be able to get a new apartment because I won’t have money for the security deposit. I’ll literally be homeless with no car and no food. So obviously I can’t give you any money right now, let alone my entire checking account”…Now listening to Steve Mango describe his very rational explanation to this Sea Org guy of why he can’t comply with his absolutely insane request was heartbreaking enough. But it was the Sea Org member’s response which made me nauseated, confused, and as angry as I’ve been since I started researching this “church”. This Sea Org member’s reply to Steve was “Steve, Steve, come on now, you’re worrying about logistics. Just unimportant logistics. These are all just little details that mean nothing at all in the grand scheme of things. This is what you have to do for the good of the “church”, it’s your duty. You’re a Scientologist. It’s your year Steve. This is the year you’re going to “go clear” Steve. You’re a Scientologist Steve, and it’s a privilege for you to be a parishioner in our “church”. And this is your year Steve! So don’t you see Steve, you have to do this right now Steve, for the “church” and for your eternity Steve! Forget about little details and logistics Steve, they don’t matter, you should know that by now Steve, you should know what’s important by now…Now let’s get your checking account donated right now, and get you on your way to “going clear”!!!”
Steve Mango’s description of this particular ordeal disturbed me greatly, so much so that I became overwhelmed by this notion that I needed to do something about this damn cult, that right that moment I had to do something to stop Miscavige from ruining life after life after life, then followed by an overwhelming feeling of helplessness.
Seriously though, watch Steve Mango’s videos if you haven’t already, starting with the 2+ hour long one, as there is not been a more comprehensive, detailed description of what every ordinary, average, public Scientologist goes through on a daily basis, SIMPLY TO REMAIN A “MEMBER IN GOOD-STANDING” WITH THE “CHURCH”.
Amway (business cult) would be fairly close, I think. But still not above Scientology.
Ah, you’d think, but L. Ron Hubbard had a policy or stipulation, or simply just an explanation written into the “Handbook” that made no sense, but they covered for literally any accusation, question, or little shred of doubt someone might have. That being said, Hubbard could not have his new “religion” compared to a “Pyramid Scheme” (obviously he was well aware that this was all Scientology was, as was his design), so he wrote in a “process” of how commissions would be paid to members who would bring new people into the “church” that he was sure would prevent everyone from this comparison. So the rule in Scientology has always been that if a member brings a brand new person into the “church”, that member gets a 10% commission based on what that new person signs up for and buys. However, that’s the only commission that the original, recruiting member EVER gets as a result of them bringing that new member in. If this new member then brings another new person into the “church”, the original member who started this recruitment-line gets absolutely nothing…Thus IT CAN’T BE A PYRAMID SCHEME!!! That old psychopath thought of everything when he invented his new “religion”, didn’t he? No, seriously, Hubbard thought of everything. Literally everything.
Even after years of educating myself about Scientology, I often still become absolutely astonished of the minute details Hubbard wrote into every single one of the policies, processes, procedures, rules, regulations, and simply the way he built the general structure of the “religion”, specifically how Hubbard left not one stone unturned when he was concentrating on how to always protect himself, always defend himself and Scientology in general, and how to address literally any question that may be asked PUBLICLY about the “church”. To sum it up, Hubbard was an absolute master of covering his ass.
Amway has nothing on Scientology.
Hey Mike and posters.
Please do not ban me, but I just stumbled onto this Youtube Scientology nightmare. This UK spokesperson – Gemma – endorses some bleach treatment (yep) for kids with autism. Yeah. I could not watch the clip as I am a mum of a kid with disabilities and quite frankly, I would not be able to keep my emotions in check. As far as I could tell, it’s some type of bleach enema. Bleach fracking enema for kids with autism.
If anyone knows about this and has the ability to be rational and blast these IDIOTS please do so. When it comes to my son I cannot keep it together.
I do hope I am wrong about this.
Dear Mike
I have received an email from IAS, what it supposed to be US$ 5.000 for a Lifetime Membership will receive a discount by 66% off the real price, the cost in Colombian currency is about just US$ 1700
If this is happening also in the US?
it looks that this year they are not getting the “cuota”,
The email is as follows:
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL SCIENTOLOGISTS
Adjusted IAS membership fees
Dear NN Grad,
I’m pleased to announce that in commemoration of the IAS 33rd Anniversary, the membership fees have been adjusted.
Until now, the Annual Membership fee has been US$500, and Lifetime Membership US$5,000.
The new membership fees are now set in local currency. In Colombia, Annual Membership is now COP 250,000 and Lifetime Membership COP 5,000,000.
IAS membership gives you benefits that help you progress in Scientology, including lower donation rates on Dianetics and Scientology services and discounts on books and recorded lectures by L. Ron Hubbard.1
LRH wrote on 14 December 1970:
“Letting people INTO the group at large is the key to every great movement and bettered culture on this planet.”
Renew your membership today at http://www.IASmembership.org.
Sincerely,
Carol Bragin
IAS Administrations
On behalf of the IAS
P.S. Take advantage of the adjusted membership fees and renew your membership in the IAS today—the movement for a better world.
Wait, so you have to PAY for church membership, classes, auditing, and they solicit donations? Holy crap! Someone on twitter was trying to say it’s the same as “tithing”. Uh, no sir! Not even close.
Sure JBX
And even the IAS will never sent a financial report of their activities made with your help as other tax excempt groups claiming to be covered under they church status, the fact is that its a money laundering just to bring money to Mr Miscavige in an offshore paradise.
When you are inside and realize that you will expend at least 200 grand in services a 10% discount over the years if you pay 5000 and also get a status sounds good, but once you are part of the list they push you up to at least patron level and that means 50000 invested and a never ending begging for more money, they also push to al your family members get the status.
It will be great to have an IAS tactics
Sorry, i wanted to say that it will be great to have an educative episode about the IAS money so people can also be aware
Wow, this one got to me. A few unfortunate memories. Marcy Seargent aka Marcy Henderson, was in the EPF with brother Matt at The Manor (what is was for years before it was CC) before I joined (age 13). Somehow I breezed through the steps and got to flag before everyone on the EPF who had been there a while before me. (Bitty Blythe was our CO). They weren’t too happy. When I finally left the Apollo, Marcy was one of the vultures who went through my suitcase and claimed I’d stolen their clothes. Marcy picked my underpants. I kid you not. She grabbed pairs of underpants out of my suitcase and claimed I’d stolen them from her. Eww…not likely! And since she wanted them so badly, and I was going home, I was all too happy to let her have them. With the nasty saltwater soap we were forced to use so no fragrances got near LRH, the undies had gone from nice white to dingy grey. Good riddance!
As for the esteemed Mr. Potter…he’d be one they’d drag out for my black PR video/website if my story was ever on Aftermath. I wonder if his daughter (first daughter, not the one from the rich family he married into from wife #2) would ever tell the story about how, at age 4 or 5, her Mom worked on post during the day and Dad, Gavin, worked at Author Services on the night shift. Apparently, the kid didn’t need cadet org supervision her Dad was home…ASLEEP! Apparently she fell down the stairs and was rushed to the hospital with a broken jaw. My sister got in big trouble demanding to get off post to be with her kid. Even so…it still took another three years for my sister to leave Gavin and get out. Took a little longer to get her kid out. The child custody and child support hearing was quite a fiasco. Judge wanted to know why Gavin had no money. Told him to get a job at McDonald’s to support his kid. Unbeknownst to the judge Gavin found a rich sugar momma with wealthy SCN parents. Yep he is SO for 33 years but he had all the benefits of the rich in-laws. Not your typical situation for sure. Gross. He’s a greedy, grubbing creep.
After this week’s show my kids really bugged me to contact you Mike and tell my story. I like my life. I do good work. I will not be destroyed a second time.
However, if the FBI needs witnesses…
Sooooo… Betty Green is a “GAT Class VI?” ASHO *still* isn’t delivering the BC – His Anointed COB-ness Mr. David Miscavige hasn’t finished fixing all of Ron’s fuckups yet. How the hell can anyone be a “GAT Class VI?”
O.T. My sister chose Troublemaker by Leah Remini for her book club to read. 🙂 One of the members has a sister-in-law that in a scientologist. More will be informed!
As a never-in, these flyers and programs never cease to amaze me. They are like no church programs that I have ever seen. The costly galas and celebrations are so foreign to me. The programs on how to get what YOU want, classes on how control/handle others and how to make more money are just not something I have seen at any church I have attended. A pot luck that requires $50 AND a dish to share?! Pot lucks, as I know them, are a comforting time of community, eating together with family and friends. The church I have been attending for several years does pass a basket during services. They often say, if you are in need, please just take from the basket as it is passed. It is a beautiful gesture that shows me that they don’t just want money from the attendees. The CO$ programs list nothing about worship time or anything spiritual. The events appear to be just big fundraisers. There is an heavy emptiness to theme when you see them listed all at once in a post. I guess my point is, obviously, this is not a church of any kind. You all know that but I just had to express my befuddlement when I see these “church” flyers.
Well said. “Nothing spiritually uplifting here folks; let’s move on.”
I’d have to take every penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and all cash from that basket as it goes around and give it to those that have left the “church”. So giving…let’s give them something to give!! They’d probably take it back and make you pay tons to be put on that meter…who are they kidding?
Betty Green..”The world is brighter…I’m more aware….I have control of blah blah blah”…”Now, I am going to scam as many people as I can”……Vomit..
So nice to see that Bubbles is back.
JOIN THE SEA ORG!
CALL TO SEE IF YOU QUALIFY!
Okay ,Mike, let’s say it together:
“If you breathe, you qualify “
Okay, so, what’s with the WD-40?
What is Orlando trying to unstick?
Come to the Halloween party at Brisbane as Helna Korbin and scare everyone out of the building.
Brisbane – come dressed as your favorite scary character? I going to guess that dressed up as COB might be a problem?
The only FREEDOM MEDAL Winners I know are Leah and Mr Rinder. All of those other cockaroches are forwarding the slavery of mankind. Well, I guess that says it all. Thank you sir. I don’t know the form of address for Leah. She would be sir in the Church, but I do not want her to take offense.
Bill — the correct form of address in the real world is someone’s name. Leah is good. Mike is good. Sir is no good — makes me feel older than I already am 🙂
Yes, Mike, I will remember that. In the SO, some people were calling me sir. ( I was a Warrant officer with a propeller or my epaulet.) I didn’t care what they called me; but I got it. I remember just after I joined the S.O. in 79 I was running the scheduling board in AO3 FSO and my Tech Page by the name of Chris Roach backed into Cmdr Wally Burgess and shoved his pipe down his throat. Mr Burgess said “Watch where you are going!”, to which the offender said ” Well you should’nt have been standing behind me”. Mr Burgess said sharply “Get your FO38 In!”
Everyone I had a lot of respect for I called sir, and probably some that I had little respect for but I considered dangerous, but I’ll get it right. I’m feeling pretty old myself, but we will see.
The comment you didn’t care what you were called says everything. I was a Msm and FBO and I didn’t care either. If I was a fairy I’d make you feel young again short of that I heard there is a herb that helps 🙂
Sir isn’t really that bad….if you were knighted by Queen Elizabeth you’d be SIR Michael Rinder……
Hey, Mike! I’m probably older.
Mike is to me Sir Michael John Rinder and he is a few years older than myself but I will address him any way he wants and he just said that he wishes to be addressed as Mike so that is how I will address him.
These Thursday Funnies aren’t so funny after coming to terms with the subject material exposed on last nights Aftermath. That sort of advertising crap is part of the lure that apparently the weak-minded but dangerously incompetent Scientologist or wanabe Scientologist gobbles up. To me it’s a sign of incredible weakness of character and gullibility that eventuates in the only course of action a Scientologist has left when their subject fails them – attack the defenceless. At a bear minimum any streetwise individual with a shred of compassion is a deadly enemy for Scientology. An intelligent person is beyond the comprehension of the mindset of Scientologists and all they can do is call them names and attempt to smear their reputations from the shadows, never face to face. Scientology is the home of and the perfect example of group cowardness – just think of Miscavige. Geezers, that organisation as part of its operating “mantra” condones and abuses children under the guise of religion! In the face of overwhelming evidence the time is fast approaching when the excuse of ignorance of the abuses perpetrated by the Cof$ by a Scientologist must be regarded as a crime. If as a group they had any shred of decency in them they would rebel and throw management and Hubbard’s ridiculous policies under the bus.
Geezers, I hate to use Scientology terms, I really do, but “service facsimile” describes everything that organised Scientology is and does. The only way they can feel they are right is make others wrong. I’m still really pissed at ’em!
I guess another, softer way of looking at it, if you’ve been abused by Scientology and feel emotionally scared by it, it is because you are everything that they are not. They’ve hurt you because they are very scared of you. You are the truth they cannot confront or apologise to.
I personally think that certain LRH policies should be followed, regardless if one thinks that LRH followed it himself; namely the policy that ignorance of the outness is no defense in any justice action. When I was in the SO, if something went wrong; it was no good to say I did not know about it or did not know how to handle it; I might as well tell them I did it myself on purpose because I wanted to destroy the Church because that is what they would assume anyway. The people that claim that they did not know about children being raped on their watch; in the SO they would be treated as if they personally raped them. No quarter should be given to those who say that it was not their fault or that they did know about it. If this is considered barbaric, I say this is what I lived under for over 2 decades and if I can do it, anyone can.
THIS! ” In the face of overwhelming evidence the time is fast approaching when the excuse of ignorance of the abuses perpetrated by the Cof$ by a Scientologist must be regarded as a crime. If as a group they had any shred of decency in them they would rebel and throw management and Hubbard’s ridiculous policies under the bus.”
The excuse of ignorance is gone.
All that is left is fear or complicity.
If you are a member of the “church”, you are likely in one of two camps. You either fear the repercussions of speaking up and leaving, or you are supportive of a despicable organization that commits human rights violations. How are either of these two conditions good?
“The excuse of ignorance is gone.”
WAYC, in all sincerity, I would REALLY like to believe that but in my own case I was in for 25 years, 23 of which were passed in ignorance of the abuses being perpetrated by Scienotogy.
This was NOT because I was incurious or uncaring.
When the string I pulled began giving me the truth I was astounded, but I kept pulling it (that string) because puzzles and mysteries have always fascinated me, and the data I was receiving (and sorting thru for the purpose of distinguishing fact from opionio) was like getting pieces that were fitting in, one by one, to a very large and complicated puzzle.
But for so many years, being only a public and never staff or Sea Org, I knew virtually nothing about the actual activities and policies being carried out by the cherch. I would read the Green Vols; I thought they were what the cherch was running on.
That said, my trust that things were being run per the Green Vols did not prevent me AT ALL from verifying when I saw that thread sticking out. By this time, Ideal Morgues were being rammed down our throats and I was amazed and disturbed that “my church” was operating “off policy”.
Yes, its true; in the beginning I thought that the fundraisers, the indefatigable demands for money, for a new building for us (when the halls were echoing with the sounds of silence) was an MU on the part of the staff and as such, a severe off policy action that needed to be addressed!
Yes, I was that naive. Or just plain dum and clueless.
So, again, I would like to believe that only I could have been that naive/clueless and did I mention dumb? but I suspect that there may still be others, still ins, like I was.
At least, I fervently hope so 🙂
Just kidding. Actually, I fervently hope its you that is right. One of my better qualities is the willingness to acknowledge, once I see it plainly, that I’ve been a total ass.
Missing top PAC FSMs (excuse my spelling pls) …. Ofra Bahat, Doug Nagy, Tony and Pat Falcaro, Tom and Ronit Sorracco, Daphna Hernandez…..
The ‘hosted by David Weissberg’ top flyer – wondered if that may be Ruthie’s son?
I keep seeing a lot about doubling scientologists’ incomes, they must mostly be quite successful if not even wealthy by now – or else something isn’t working….
As for Kansas City, there have recently been indications that Scientology is bringing outside money in to try to finally get the “ideal” org done. It’s one of the typical orgs across the heartland of the continent, that acquired an historic downtown building to renovate as an “ideal” org long ago (or in Toronto’s case, already had a large building), but which has probably shrunk to 30 to 50 active members, not enough of a base to raise the large sum necessary for renovations. If I recall correctly, KC is one of the locations where the purchased property has been left derelict so long that it has become not just a PR problem but a legal one as well, and so it may have been designated to be one of the locations for Miscavige to yank a ribbon in 2018 and try to keep up the illusion of “expansion.”
p.s. Has anyone found out anything about the longstanding KC org location, which was reported to be closed and its signage taken down last week? In some cases orgs have sold their buildings and moved while trying to finish their fundraising, but I can find no evidence that has happened here.
Learn the tech to sell anything to anyone? I challenge them to sell Leah’s “Troublemaker” to the the event attendees.
Now that would be a hoot!
Sure be easier to sell ice to an Eskimo. I’d even donate a couple of Leah’s books to see that exercise in salesmanship.
Oh… here’s a random thought, Leah doing a book signing in the foyer of a IAS event with Mike smiling beside her.
It always strikes me as ironic that the Sea Org uses as a motto the words Jesus speaks in a parable of the final judgment, “For many are called, but few are chosen.” (Matthew 22:14)
A duly updated, accurate motto for the Sea Org would be, “For no one is called, so anyone is chosen”.
‘Many are called, but few are chosen.’ What a crock! If they can see your breath on a mirror, you’re good to go.
“Not a single person is called, any living, breathing, ambulatory mass of protoplasm is chosen”.
“The time is now.”
PS: You’ll have to forgive me as I love saying, “The time is now”. It always cracks ME up. Possibly no one else 🙂
It’s always now. Now is.
Cracked me up!
Even the dead ones are considered a stat. Their names appear on many completion lists.
“…dead ones…”….. LOL! This just tickled my funny bone….I got a visual of DM maniacally scavenging thru “dead files” looking for accomplishments because the “live ones” are few with no money left.
OSD….right on target…..as in “You’re 14, old enough to commit to a Ga-zillion year contract, sign here”……
For Marcy & the ranch……something missing from that AD…..”Reserve your space in HELL today”…Child care & nap room provide while Mom & Dad attend the meeting….& then after their consult….sign you over to “camp” 24/7 for years.
Reminds me of the time my wife was advised by Freewinds execs to put me in a hospice to die. I was afraid that she would leave me there and I would never see her again.
Now that’s really fucked up.
“Come dressed as your favorite scary character.”
OK, NOW HEAR THIS! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
To EVERYONE HERE on this blog:
I shall crash this Halloween Event at Brisbane dressed as MY “favorite scary character” , namely, Laurisse Stuckenbrock, Captain Miscavige’s “Communicator”.
Respectfully, HEAR IT now! I OWN this character!
i already have the very short spiky black wig and the tall black boots I used for a Sally Bowles costume back in the day.
For the rest, I’m putting something together. The end product will fuse the concepts of Ninja with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All black of course. Carrying a crossed out cross might be a nice touch. This is a work in progress. Any suggestions are welcome.
So, all of you SPs: if you’re planning on crashing this Brisbane Event, remember:
LOU is MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you,
Aqua.
Okay!!?
Pics or it didn’t happen. 🙂
🙂
Oh, man! I wanted to be Lou! You always get the good roles, Aquamarine!
I hear you.,OSD. Yes, its true. The best parts come effortlessly to me. But I wasn’t born lucky, OSD. This is merely an Ability Gained. I urge that attend the very next seminar, given by Denise Fluff at your local Morgue so that you too can learn to “Walk Into The Room And Nail The Part, Or, If You Don’t, Scratch The Eyes Out Of The One Who Does”. It changed my life, I swear.
OSD, I’ll be McSavage, you can be Lou.
Hey now…that’s something l’ll pass on. I’m sure you understand.
Yes, love this idea.
Oh, that sounds great Aqua. Can I wear my Klan outfit and escort you through the door. We’d look great in black and white.
If anyone asks, am I your date? Say no – he’s security!
Your Kan outfit! Me in spook-bladk and you in spook-white. Sounds good. But quick question: who is “he” that is “scurity”?
I mean “Klan” not Kan, outfit.
Eye doc next week for new prescription.
Someone REALLY brave should dress up as SHELLY….DM would shit his pants….
Yes. Shelley Miscavige. A red wig with that 80s hairdo and that dress with the heavy shoulder pads, dark blue or purple, wasn’t it?…OMG!
But then, that would have to be another party with another theme, i.e. DAVID MISCAVIGE’S “favorite scary character”.
With Leah Remini and Mike Rinder as possible firsts also.
LOL!! Unfortunately, I don’t think they’d make it through the door.
Someone could come dressed as Shelley, his banished wife. That would freak him out to see her. He’d be wondering how she got out.
In 1986 senor Gavin Potter was in CMO CW and he was the I/C of the Ship Quals mission to determine if the person’s who were supposed to become ship’s crew were qualified to be there. I was assigned to his mission but I had not done mission school. Per LRH FO no one can be on a mission who has not done mission school. So I signed the invoice, got the checksheet and went to study. As soon as I sat down in the chair, I got up and we went on mission. It seems that one has only to have started the course, not even read any of the material, to be a missionaire. We got some PC folders and checked them out. The person in charge of Dissemination Division, Don Watts was a “computing psychotic” according to the C/S. But he was running off all of the promo for the Ship Project so that was OK. Anyway we had a meeting and Billy Linstein, who was WDC FSO at the time was there. While we were all standing at attention Don Watts said to Mr Linstein: ” We all love you, Mr Linsteeen. Here is our Captain; we call him Mikey.” I had to restrain myself from puking; this was the ultimate indisrespect; we were a bunch of psychos sent to run the 0T VIII ship, which had not been purchased yet.
I never saw Don Watts again, and, after working on the Diana for a month we were sent to the ship. We had to sign a bond for 10 million dollars to be paid if we told anyone where the ship was. I went to the ship on 15 Sept 1986, the day the Church took possession. When I got there, Mike Napier, the Captain, was the QM of the gangway. Another person with us; I do not remember his name was busted at the
airport for trying.to get a gun on the plane. He had stolen the gun from someone at the FLB. So began my 16 years on the ship and almost.the last years of this lifetime. My years after that seemed to be from the next life
I went to the Engine Room and went through a routing form taking me around the ship. I got to one wall in the Engine Room and was told that this was one of the Main Engines. Far Out, man. Of course, I did not think that at the time nor did I know how fucked up the machinery was there. It took a year and a half to get the machinery squared away so we could put on the Maiden voyage. Shortly thereafter, due to the condition of the piping down there, I was working just to keep the ship afloat at the dock. One night I was awoken in My Bridge Deck cabin by the EOW telling me that their was a leak on E Deck. I said OK, I’ll check it out. I was walking down C deck and I heard the sound of a waterfall. I got to Deck by the Library and the entire deck was underwater.(continued).
Well, I lost that part of the comment like a complete dumbass. (Continued) There was a waterfall going down to E deck where the gym was and I determined that it was from the Main sea water line that fed all of the toilets in the aft (rear) half of the ship. After waking up the entire crew (It was 3 AM.) We got the water out by bucket brigade as the bilge pumping system did not work. We were told later by the Company who owned it before us that they had spent no money on repairs in the previous year as they were trying to sell it. It was the Standard Operating Basis of the previous engineers to do only as much work as they had to until the next poor dumb bastards came on duty. Since they worked like 6 weeks on; 3 weeks off they were always trying to get the difficult jobs done by the next one on duty.
I did not have to figure that out; with a billion year contract I would never leave there alive, and how long I would survive would depend solely on how well I got the job done. (Of course, I did not figure on being shot in the back by my own people).
Your post is really scary. And I thought I had it bad at the mission. Mine was a cakewalk compared you.
Bill, hats off to you just for surviving. In your case that’s no small thing. Pretty much everything that could literally and/or figuratively kill a person was thrown your way. And yet here you are with us. You are a strong man and a courageous person.. Talk about facing down adversity…wow.
Wow Bill, just wow. Was any of it fun?
Your bravery speaks volumes Bill to those who got out as you did & for those of us never ins & those sitting on the fence. The rest, well, when the shit hits the fan they will be in for the biggest surprise of all….they’ll learn that all the years they spent being loyal were a waste of time & thousands of dollars, along with losing the chance at a life on the outside….& possibly their acceptance to disconnect from their family is the biggest price they paid. .
Yes, I understand the hardships you’ve been enduring, that speaks also of the strength of character deep within yourself. Many of us are not in the best of health, & are older, yet we carry on, refusing to throw in the towel. Those who abandoned YOU, have suffered the greatest loss, that of a truly remarkable man who has inspired many of us. I would give anything to know that I INSPIRED at least ONE person before I die, Bill, I feel you’ve already accomplished that feat!
Apparently the fact that FSM Ray Barton died some years ago does not matter as long as they can use his name to continue the illusion of activity and relevance. Truman show on repeat.
Doug
Did Ray Barton pass away?
I heard through sources of which I do not recall, that Ray had passed. Perhaps more than a year or so ago? Last I spoke with him was in 2007. Ray was in his late 80’s by then and looking pretty frail. I have no idea what happened to his wife Pam or if she is still in. Too bad. Nice people but badly suckered.
Doug,
Wow. He was our FSM for years. They both were good people with good intentions. All those years he put in doing all the different versions of Solo Nots. I don’t know if he ever made it to OT 8. Agreed, nice people but badly suckered.
IN 1999 or 2000 they came up with the game of “get 10,000 people on our through Solo Nots.” It is now 17 years later and they have not hit the target and are actually going backwards as many OTs including OT VIII’s are leaving the church for good. There have been educated estimates from those in the know in this blog and others, that in all of Scn now there are only about 20,000 people total who are Scns. This puts it into perspective how unreal that 10,000 target really is. Not going to happen.
Backwards for sure. I know first hand a number of people had been in state of shock at the number of people that were dropping dead after the OT levels. They were convinced the “tech was out”. If they only knew.
Doug, that’s crazy! Like all the dead guys on the 10,000 on OT VII list….
Thank you Doug and OSD. Though your good ack should frighten me. An ack is a full stop according to LRH. One of the only reasons I stayed alive on the Freewinds is that nothing was ever over. As soon as one worked onself to death getting the stats up it was a new week. I would have CSWed for permission to drop the body if I thought there was a hope in hell of it getting approved. The agony of keeping it going was pretty bad. If I stood in one spot for in 10 seconds.the legs would just shut off and I would fall down. In the last year I was there (01) the Air Conditioning crapped out during Maiden Voyage due to an electrical problem. The electrician had not done the maintenance on the starter box as he was off post writing Purchase Orders for the renos. The Captain called down to the E/R saying we had 5 minutes to get it going. He obviously had to report to DM as to why it was hot on the ship after the previous evening’s MV event being the Captain giving a speech about the new State of the Art Air Conditioning system we had just installed. (It was not finished as the starter box had not yet arrived. I was responsible for the mechanical end and it was finished but there was no power to run it.(continued)
The electrician had finally gotten the existing A/C unit going again and the starter box had arrived and now the heat was on to get the new A/C running as the Captain had been exposed as a liar to everyone aboard, as he briefed the passengers on the new “State of the Art A/C that had just been installed and the next day it was unbearably hot on the entire ship. It was 3 AM and I was completely trashed. The Chief Engineer ordered me to supervise the welder installing the starter box. I begged him for an hours sleep to no avail. I went down there but I was useless. I could not stand anywhere for more than a few seconds without falling down. I felt like the character Gomer Pyle in the movie Full Metal Jacket where he shot his drill seargent. I wanted the job done so that I could see it explode when it was started up. In other words, I was insane.
“How to help and handle people’ is that a $cieno euphemism for extracting money?
Eight of the ‘top 50 FSMs’ sold only 8 stupor powerz packages? WTF?? Amway is not amused.
Orlando wants 40 ‘donations’ per week? What happened to selling Lron? Maybe they can rent out the ‘chapel’ for weddings, like other mOrgs do to keep the lights on.
Mace KIngsley giving a seminar in how to raise children?? What, was Josef Mengele not available?
How thick is the bubble protecting the public clams? Mace Kingsley is ebloa coated kidde porn, and nothing can ever change that.
Josef was busy. He was sent on mission to open an Ideal Morgue at Treblinka. I should know, I was his second. We got a couple to donate 2000 Reichmarks for a sign that said “arbight Macy’s frei” for the gate, just.like the cross for the Super Power building. For that they got a certificate signed by Der Fuehrer.
Goddamn auto correct again. It changed.”Machts” to Macys. I have to figure out how ro turn it off.
Machts sounds evil. Macy’s sounds nice.
Gavin Potter is starting to look like Mr. G:
https://youtu.be/mA1_tyWvqNs
LMFAO… I doubt he’s as fabulous as Mr. G though!
(On the other hand, Narconon WISHES it could use “Naughty Girl” from the Mr. G Musical!)
She’s a Naughty Girl with a bad habit
A bad habit for Scientology…..
I wish there had been an entire series based on Mr. G, like there was for Ja’ime.
I’m glad Emmett and those other dudes work in three DIFFERENT countries. Three of the same would be boring.
I have to take issue with the poster depicting someone with their mountain bike as this is not the sort of freedom they encourage at all, this person should be on on course studying! Being involved with scientology they strongly discourage you ‘wasting time’ doing fun things like this.
Gimpy, please. This person is obviously on route to the Academy to put in extra time on course! By Thursday at 2PM.
On his bike, right?
Of course. He doesn’t want to be late.
marcy sergeant sure has a dumb smile on her face…..Having “SuperPowers” must really put a bug up her butt!
Don’t they all have dumb smiles on their faces?
Brisbane Haunted House: come dressed as your favorite scary character. That’s a tough call: LRon or DM? Sure would be a hoot to show up wearing a DM mask.
Oh, man! Please do it and tell us about it! That would classic.
Here is my own short list of favorite scary characters aside from the obvious LRH or DM.
1) Communicator Lou. Very spooky looking chick and she’s a Black Belt (Note: LOU IS TAKEN – see “Lou is mine” earlier post)
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2) Monique Yingling/Dingling (super scary momma. Halloween material in every possible way.
3) Gavin Potter. Eerie resemblance to Miscavige + Hitchcock-worthy smile = distinctl chill-worthy.
4) Bubbles Champagne. Not sure why but she always gives me a chill too, for some reason.
5) Any of the Squirrel Busters. Costume a no brainer, just jeans, eponymous tee shirt, head cam, etc.
6) Jenna Alfa-man. Costume suggestion: Regular jeans and a tee shirt with What Are Your Crimes? across the front. Ride a VERY large, black stallion to the event.
7) Tom Then There is Me Cruise. Endless possiblities. A wealth of material.
8) Krustie Alley. Ditto.
More later. Feel free, anyone, to add to this list.
Tom C on the look out for wife #4…..which according to info might be Vanessa Kirby (?)
Kirstie Alley on yet another diet plan
I still think someone should dress up as SHELLY M……that would send DM into a tail spin
The best Halloween costume I’ve ever seen was someone dressed as a ham and cheese sandwich.
Anyone going as TC could rig up a kind of lightweight couch attached to his back by loose springs. Periodically he could laugh maniacally, lean back so that his couch hits the floor, shout at the top of his lungs, “I love her!” and jump up and down on his couch. His date could be Oprah. I’m sure they’d win a prize.
Oh – you know what would freak them out?? Someone dressing up as the sassy goddess Leah and the silver fox Mike – you KNOW it would send them bolting!!!!!!! That would be soo much entheta in one room – I HOPE I used the term right. I never want to be disrespectful to anyone on this site and those that are lurking in secret.
You employed that term quite correctly, Maria B, But, even if you hadn’t, no one here would have mistaken such an error for disrespect, Your friendly tone and supportive words always communicate very clearly your empathy. Thanks for being here and caring.
$ci is really crumbling. Their pathetic attempts. They’re dumber then dog dirt?. I really an looking forward to it’s evil devise. Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish little cob MisScumbag!!!
Lol@self…wheres spell/grammar check ..?
But you can have an evil devise. It all comes out in the wash.
edet, idet, iddit, adit…….awww crap….FIX IT YOURSELF!!! LOL!!!
Evil demise. Not devise.
Any more these ads have the same flavor as the Flat Earth Society. I offer this as evidence:
The Flat Earth Wiki
The evidence for a flat earth is derived from many different facets of science and philosophy. The simplest is by relying on ones own senses to discern the true nature of the world around us. The world looks flat, the bottoms of clouds are flat, the movement of the sun; these are all examples of your senses telling you that we do not live on a spherical heliocentric world. This is using what’s called an empiricist approach, or an approach that relies on information from your senses. Alternatively, when using Descartes’ method of Cartesian doubt to skeptically view the world around us, one quickly finds that the notion of a spherical world is the theory which has the burden of proof and not flat earth theory.
“How to Help & Handle People”.
Are they so divorced from normal English usage [no need to answer that] that they can’t see how creepy that is? People are there to be ‘handled’ like pawns in a game? For their own good of course. And following some of the Mace Kingsley revelations ‘handing’ has an even more than usually distasteful edge to it.
typo: ‘HANDLING’ has… not ‘handing’ has… on penultimate line.
“rimless zero”! Too great!
This was very informative, yet scary.
I was in Amway for a year…. many of the function s sound like Amway events. It seems that Scientology is not the only self proclaimed world changing entity that uses the purchase of books, tapes and function s to wow the herd….. well written Mike. The best to you and Leah. Julia
My folks got into Amway and then most of the people they recruited into their group ended up following my parents into SCN. Most are out of the cherch, but one of the offspring is still in and used to be Leah’s photographer (LMP’s sister-in-law from first marriage they graduated Apple School together). Or at least Leah was the most famous person on her website a few years ago. Just checked the site…no Leah. Anne Archer, Nancy Cartwright…no Leah.
Never before have the lyrics, “Ma Bell, I got the ill communication” been so appropriate. Well played, Mike!
An event where you learn the LRH tech on how to accomplish what you really want in life?
Well, if I wanted to start a fake religion to enslave others and scam their money so I could handle my insatiable appetite for riches, I’d be the 1st one in line. Why not learn the “tek” from a master? But, that’s not what I want to accomplish in life so I’ll pass.
Well, Wynski, all I can say is, “Fine. To each his own”. I get it. We all get it. This is NOT what you want to accomplish, so you’ll pass. Understood.
But always remember, there’s a Pair Of Boots over there. A pair of boots for your to wear whenever decide to walk in them.
They’re a size 8, dark brown suede Salvatore Ferragamos, with 3 inch heels.
There they are, ready for you to step into, anytime you decide to take responsibility.
Don’t use the excuse that you’ve never before walked in high heeled shoes. Learn. Confront the heel height and learn. They’re not stilettos for crying out loud.
And, OK, sure, you’re a man and your feet are probably larger than a females’ size 8.
Confront that too. Make it go right. Cut off a toe or something. I’d rather have you permanently crippled and in perpetual agonizing pain than incapable.
Those ARE the boots, Wynski. The choice will always be yours.
LOL! Brilliant Aqua. 🙂
Scn definitely needs some geographical “word clearing”, as Mt. Rushmore’s in South Dakota, considerably north of KC. However, closer to home, the “Mt. View Org”, which at one point in time actually WAS in Mt. View, is now some 4 miles away from me, here in my home town of Santa Clara… As for the rest of this dreck, well, not much changes. Scn gets compared to a lot of egregious stuff, and justifiably so; for a money guy like me, it gives the appearance of an ongoing penny stock swindle. Complete with promised random % gains pulled-out of nowhere, all touted with unrealistic expectations and fantasy promised returns, all underwritten by a whiff of fraud… Yep, Scn, the gift that keeps on taking!
Yes, it lives down to all our expectations.
Funny how the objectives were not run the way Ron really intended them to be WHEN HE WAS ALIVE AND RUNNING SCIENTOLOGY! Geez … I tell you … Scientologists will believe virtually ANYTHING they are told as long it comes from a “group authorized authority ” … The world sheeple doesn’t even begin to tell the story . .
Agree and here’s a good definition of that “sheeple” dynamic:
‘Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.
Groupthink requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, and there is loss of individual creativity, uniqueness and independent thinking. The dysfunctional group dynamics of the “ingroup” produces an “illusion of invulnerability” (an inflated certainty that the right decision has been made). Thus the “ingroup” significantly overrates its own abilities in decision-making and significantly underrates the abilities of its opponents (the “outgroup”). Furthermore, groupthink can produce dehumanizing actions against the “outgroup”.’
Amazing, isn’t it?
Just wanted to say how riveting the most recent episode was. I applaud all of the brave the people who have come forward. Coming forward is like stepping on the chopping block, literally, because you are faced with losing family, friends, and even means of survival. These episodes are intensely riveting and important work. They are rippling out to pockets of people all over the world, and shaking everyone’s awareness. The celebs who remain in Scn and refuse to watch and learn about the dark side? Paul Haggis is absolutely right – they are now counted among the ones who need to be held responsible. Thanks Leah and Mike for doing this important work. Did you ever imagine in your life that you would be helping people at this level? It seems like you are both becoming trauma specialists – much needed.
P.S. Thursday funnies are great!!
I also applaud all those brave people who stepped forward.
I do not necessarily consider myself on their level. I have stepped forward, but it did not require bravery. I have no family left in Scn so there is none to lose. And as the Security Clearance I/C OSA WUS told me ” Ex Sea Org members do not have friends”. And I was in good standing at the time. I did not ask to leave; they just did not want my corpse littering up the ship.
Dear “Dead” – I was never really “in” – okay I did some lower level stuff but never considered myself a true believer, and never drank the LRH kool-aid. But I have quite a number of friends, and extended family who are still in to varying degrees and its incredibly tough to think those relationships could be on the line. I still think it took bravery for you to step forward. It’s funny, though, I bet the celebs who remain in even though they clearly know the negative aspects are believing they are “the brave ones” for staying loyal….. yikes.
How can they promote the Mace Kingsley Ranch as a family center if the parents do not accompany the children? The horrific stories shared on the latest episode centered around the children being hauled away per request of the parent and kept for years without being allowed to contact or see their families. Not that anything I’ve read or seen so far would indicate that Scientology is concerned about being legal with their practices but…are children of the adult staff working at this horrible place have to stay here just so they can call it a family affair? Even if they are not considered troubled?
Reminds me of “Schindler’s List where the kiddies are all riding away in trucks and their mothers are chasing after the trucks because they just realized they are going to the gas chambers
Heil Miscaviage!
That is the scene that keeps replaying in my head ever since I saw the movie. I don’t think I could even sit through and watch it again I was emotionally drained after watching it and that scene just wrenched my heart.
I guess the folks in Toronto don’t see the irony in their promise: “Learn the tech on selling anything to anyone.” HAHAHA
Wasn’t Marcy Sargeant ED of St Louis Org? What happened there that she left that position?
I heard she was running Scientology’s Mace Kingsley Child Slave Labor and Molestation Prison Camp. Anyone know her history? I met her a few times at the advanced Orgs – curious to know the truth.
I only know her earlier history. She was course Sup at ASHO Day. Then got pregnant again and had to leave to a Class V org because of having a baby. So that fall from there to Mace Kingsley is interesting. I’d also like to know why and what happened? Her brother, Michael Henderson, left the church and spoke out quite a bit on blogs and interviews and things. I haven’t seen much from him recently in the way of speaking out. Maybe he is enjoying life too much to have time for that now.
I knew Marcy at age 14 when she joined the SO and went to the Apollo by way of Low Angeles. She and older brother Matt (16 at the time) got to Flag within a month or so of each other. They were enamored of their brother Mike who was supposed to be an auditor, I think. They were family friends of the Yeagers, but they despised Mark when he arrived. Matt hated being in the aft Mens dorm near Mark. Marcy hadn’t made it out of the CMO IT (in training) group by the time I left. I was there for nine months.
Throw an egg at them.
It’s got to be rotten, though.
Although I’ve been gone from the cherch for years, I am still on a scilon’s mailing list announcing events by Gavin Potter, usually about how to 10x your income to skyrocket up the Bridge, etc. Recently the person emailed the group asking for help with finding a new place to live because their place is no longer under rent control and the amount of the rent has skyrocketed. So why, if this person has endorsed these “prosperity” talks so enthusiastically, can they not just produce the extra money needed to pay the additional rent?
That’s not the Scientology way…
That’s so unfair, Bozo. After all, this person’s “hat” is giving seminars on how to make money. Sounds like he’s an expert seminar leader and very OT. The fact that he’s getting evicted and has no money and needs to beg for it online is irrelevant.