“Our strategy to a whole new level!”
The squirrel buster in charge is hosting a fundraiser! And that world without psychiatry? It’s way closer to a world without scientology…
Really?
From an alley… who had this brilliant idea?
40 years of nothing
And now they think giving money is going to accomplish something.
It’s a festival
Desperate for anyone to show up for anything…
Bring in the outsiders…
Flag public seem to be the only ones left to support these “ideal” orgs.
Oh, and the kids…
Love those kids…
Bouncy house… Petting zoo…
Everything but scientology.
They don’t have an actual clear…
But it’s the next best thing.
Food, glorious food…
Hubbard is rolling in his grave…
The idea of scientology businesses inside orgs was the reason WISE was created. He never contemplated it could happen at Flag. He was screaming about the “external influences” in Philly and Sacramento. Imagine it happening at Flag OMG…
Looks tough and resolute…
Wonder if they actually have anything going on for real? Or just a stylish photo
Check it out
I’m sure there will be thousands in attendance. Maybe Miscavige can apply for a medal for this once the crime rate drops….
Finishing!!!!
It’s only been 15 years. Why is it going to happen now?
43 years on staff
OMG. Sad.
What a Success Story
They actually publish this like it’s good? This is gibberish.
Same old pitch
They have been doing this same briefing for years… And still no sign of OT IX and X
Just like the rental car companies
A monumental milestone
The milestone is hearing the strategy. Wow
After 5 years they made a clear?
This is not normal
Check out the photos
3 people handing out booklets… For a hundred million visitors
Oh man, I loved Lisa Witt. I’m sad to see she’s still there. 🙁
I’m curious about the Twin Cities org making two Clears. (After ~ 5 years of existence.) Are these the only two Clears?
In a publication called CityPages, there was an article called “Inside the Twin Cities’ dwindling Scientology movement” back in March that was interesting.
http://www.citypages.com/news/inside-the-twin-cities-dwindling-scientology-movement/478085193
82,000 square feet in that building must prove quite comfortable for the “few dozen” Scientologists in the 5-state region.
“There purpose is …” extracting everry last dime you have. Your freedom? Pay!
Bravo old friend Mike Rinder, you are exposing the sad truth of the down spiralling “church”” of DavidMiscavigeScamology like an unstoppable avalanche which will not end until this criminal organization and and those who support it are completely out of business and or in jail.I am an SP! I am with you, Leah and all who support you!
To: John Allender
From: COB Assistant
Re: Your Sunday Get Together
John – well done on taking responsibility for knocking out psychiatry per KSW #1. Let me know how it goes and report fundraising stats immediately.
ML,
LS
PS – Did you ever get that tech inspection done on Marty?
JUST MOVE LOTS OF BODIES THROUGH THE SHOP WHETHER THEY ARE PAYING OR NOT. Riiiiiight! Uh huh. I have a bridge to sell you. LOL
OUR TARGET: FINISHING!!!!!!!!!! (SCIENTOLOGY, that is.) Thankfully DM is doing a bang-up job, so we can just lie back and watch the slow-motion implosion from the comfort of our chairs and keyboards.
Almost makes me want to get out and visit the Morgs on the East coast. Been awhile since I was in DC; the FCDC was NOT impressive except for the cop who asked if I had a weapon on me, as if it would have been a good idea. NASTY neighborhood, no prospects walking about but for me. Pic of Philly’s behemoth is an area I’ve known, but is a no-go region for Philadelphians. ‘Twas an old piano warehouse in an area I’d rank the WORST for a viable org. AND the building’s 15 stories hiugh; bigger than the Fort Harrison
The continual propaganda you share from the Melbourne org gets sadder and sadder, If I didn’t live on the the other side of the city I’d probably pay them a visit to mess with them.
All those people smiling and happy, holding certificates… So sad they have lost themselves. My sibling at Flag, in since 1971, turns 70 this year.
I have read almost everything that’s been published about $cientology over the last 25 years or more. It’s nasty evil bad horrid.
The KC org promo piece…….
They’re waving the First National Confederate Flag?
What are they thinking?!!!!
Must not want the NOI to attend.
“What are they thinking?!!!!”
They’re just making nice with the “ethnic” of the area. Confederate Flags are part of Southern US’s “culture”,
Or so I’m told by my Evangelical cousins, who consider it as such.
Of course, not ALL Southerners give a damn one way or another about the Stars Bars so I’m NOT painting with a broad brush.
But this symbol of African-Americans’ ownership by European-Americans is VERY important to these relatives of mine and I suspect they’re far from alone.
Of course, my relatives deny like crazy that this flag has ANYTHING to do with slavery! They’ll tell anyone who’ll listen that its just a pleasant reminder of the Old South, i.e, mint juleps and magnolias and moonshine…and so forth.
That a Scientology “cherch” would be displaying this flag is no surprise to me at all. This is a “cherch” which embraces Louis Farrakhan., for crying out loud? You’d expect better? This is a “cherch” that would display a swastika if it could get away with it! If they thought it would help them they’d be wearing arm bands and carrying “Blood & Soil” signs!
Aqua, I live in North Carolina and I encounter this shit on nearly a daily basis as evidenced by all the redneck trucks driving around with that damn flag flying from the back bumper.
Hey New OT VIII guy, Herb…
You could have saved all those 45 years (oh, SO heartbreaking) and Hubbard knows how much money, by simply smoking a bit of weed in college or behind your high school.
You would have come up with the same crap you spouted off in that ridiculous testimony.
Look in the mirror, Herb, and be honest with yourself. It is time for an epiphany moment. You know deep down that all that Hubbard “wisdom” and tech is complete and utter bullshit. As painful as it is, the truth is still better than living a lie.
“From an alley… who had this brilliant idea?” That bloke wearing the sunglasses looks like he’s having a good time playing with his cans in his pockets.
“Food, glorious food” Food shown in flier is actual size of servings.
“A monumental milestone” The Hidden Monumental Milestone for Battle Creek is the fact that it managed to scrape through another year. Barely. Ah, $camology, never let reality get in the way of a nightmarish fantasy.
The actual sentence was supposed to read, “Just keep peoples money pouring into our bank accounts & out of theirs, no matter how or for what.” But they thought that was just a tad too blatant and so went Sherman Speak instead.
“Just keep people pouring in & out, no matter how or for what.” The sentence boggles my mind. Whew!
Yo David Miscavige… how are those stats looking today? Will you be sending out more of those threatening yellow letters from all your orgs to piss off even more peole?
You’re failing little buddy.
…”peole”, or people even!
Rage typing by tomatoes like me does not have lawyers proof-reading every word, unlike you, Miscavige, you disgusting little coward, always hiding behind those lawyers.
Be a man and face the press. I fucking DARE you, Miscavige, to be interviewed for an hour by Anderson Cooper. He is a WOG, so he should be quite easily handled by the likes of a big being such as you. Or are you full of shit and afraid?
Don’t hold back WAYC. Let it all out.
My watering New OT VIII’s are much better than my old watering OT VIII’s, but a tomato like me needs much care while attacking that sonuvabitchin’ SP Miscavige. How dare he defile LRH’s sacred Tech.
SO wish I’d chosen “Rage-Typing Tomato” as my screen name.
Thank you Miss Q…
…ahem… “Rage-Typing Tomato” is still available as your avatar name, if you want it, but you will NEVER EQUAL MY WRATH! Oh look, a butterfly just fluttered through my garden patch. So pretty.
Hi Mike. I haven’t commented in a while, but I’ve been following this blog almost daily. Just an observation….
…The photo in…This Is Not Normal….isn’t that Jamie Sorrentini Lugli’s father, Irving on the far left? I recognize him from the article that Ortega had written about them not to long ago.
I am waiting patiently for the 3rd season of Aftermath. From what I’ve read so far….it will be totally heartbreaking.
Keep Going.
From the other side of the Causeway….OverTheBridgeTPA
Yep. That’s him.
I bet a lot of people need rides since none of em can afford a car anymore.
Yes, and the staff who own cars will be made to foot the bill for gas, insurance, repairs of said use of transportation. I wonder who came up with this “Brilliant idea.” What’s next, free baby sitting?
Back in about ’71, *I* was the “transport i/c” who ruined a perfectly good car to haul students an hour to the “mission”(truthfully, more of a commune dabbling in various mystcisms, scn at that moment. They did pay for gas and tolls, but everything else came out of my college fund.
Btw, public are given a ride into the org but no mention of how they get home. This is a registrar, recruiter, and ideal org fundraiser’s dream to have you stuck at the org. I hope the public are smart enough to never accept rides especially when the IAS, SO Missions, and Int landlord is in town.
Would it be wrong to call and set up a bunch of non-existent rides to false addresses making them drive all over town wasting their time and gas?
Sounds like the greatest good to me.
If they can’t afford cars, let them ride BIKES — or roller skates. Heard that used to be a big thing in SoCal….
I love the picture of the regges in the back alley going to beat someone up for their money!
It’s based on an OT datum recently discovered in the Extortion Formula.
Gives off a Godfatherish vibe. “Leave the E-meter. Take the cannolis.”
Leave the broken families, take the cash.
Leave the emeters, bring the baseball bats.
Which I hear works every time.
If I saw that bunch coming down the alley towards me, it would be enough to make me turn around and go the other way.
And shouldn’t that Battlecreek post be ‘Monumental Millstone’??
Battlecreek Earth.
Seeing those kick-ass Scientologists marching menacingly down a back alley reminds me of when I came across one in an alley alongside the London Org on Queen Victoria Street. I only wanted to talk but he turned and ran.
Andrea [i – Betty]: I didn’t know you knew him Graham.
Me (mystified): I don’t. What makes you think I knew him?
Andrea: Well you called him Howard. You were shouting Howard.
Me (light dawning): No, I was shouting ‘coward!’
Confront? I think not.
Now, Graham, you really shouldn’t keep scaring those poor cult people! One of them might have a heart attack! Poor little cult people…
I’ve decide to award my cat the State of Clear. It puked on the carpet this morning and in a strange sort of way I thought, “yep, that’s a standard response to Thursday Funnies.” Wow, wonder what’s she got to do to become an OT pussy – the mind boggles.
My mind just short circuited.
Just needs to become a stable catatonic.
Thursdays just tire me out. I get winded just reading all the BS put out by this scam. It’s a good thing I never joined. I would’ve been declared before the first week was out. Of course the good thing is I wouldn’t have spent a bunch of money yet. :3
Re “the largest PE course ever,” the chap on the far left looks like Jamie Lugli’s dad. I understand he disconnected from her in 2010, by telephone (classy), after she and her fella were spotted paying Marty a visit. Yo, OSA, now that Marty is back in good standing, does that mean Irving can now speak to his daughter?
I think anybody that got declared because they visited Marty or commented on his blog should have their SP declare revoked. ?
Good one Mary!
Agreed! Immediately!
Sounds like Standard Dreck to me.
OMG 🙂
What, and lose their status?
I see that the Denver IAS dinner is scheduled for 2 days before the inquisition into “disaffection” in the field, announced the other day on goldenrod, is going to start – I wonder what the atmosphere at that event is going to be like….
I fell sorry for the people giving money in Boston. They’re now supporting the carrying costs of two buildings they can’t use or renovate, while the org has for years been in what were supposed to be temporary quarters, inconveniently far from their former long-term home. It appears that they still haven’t put through a deal to try to recoup their investment in the historic property that they bought to renovate over a decade ago, and instead let sit and deteriorate, the funds from which they apparently need to go forward with the renovation of the dated, ugly office building that they bought more recently – I just checked, and in spite of a supposed announcement 10 months ago, the property is still in the name of the CofS:
https://www.cityofboston.gov/assessing/search/?q=0900880000
This seems to be the sad fate of all too many of the projects these days, Scientology is practically burning through money raised through inordinate sacrifices by their members, in some cases costing them their own houses. I wonder if at the remaining small, failing orgs like Battle Creek there really is an “announcement” of any significance, or if they’re just trying to string along hopes so that they can fundraise money to go towards carrying costs – maintenance, utilities, taxes and fees, etc. – at their vacant properties, and probably also to help keep the lights on in the orgs’ offices, while they wait for a bailout when Miscavige finally decides that he needs another ribbon to yank.
You’re sorry for that old couple? I’m not. Perhaps I should be but I’m not. They’re around for 40 years – FORTY YEARS IN THE SAME ORG and they can’t see the shrinking? They have to be pretty stupid, or stubborn, or both. Or, to be strictly fair, possibly they DO know better, and have kids in the SO, and the money is being extorted from them, in which case I would feel sorry for them.
Peacemaker: You got it with “[T]hey’re just trying to string along hopes so that they can fundraise money to go towards carrying costs – maintenance, utilities, taxes and fees, etc. – at their vacant properties”.
AFAICT, I never met a SCnist from Michigan; Definitely not one from the sticks of Battle Creek.
Close your eyes, while I frisk you
And pull all your withholds
Trust that we handle your ruin
Since you don’t have a say
I’ll make sure that you pay
And take all your money from you
All your money, I will take from you
All your money, I will take from you
I’ll pretend that I’m listening
To all your misgivings
And know that your dreams won’t come true
Don’t you dare go away
Give me more ev’ry day
And I’ll take all your money from you
All your money, I will take from you
All your money, I will take from you
Brill-yant!
Don’t mind tha’ credit score, man
We’re comin’ back for more, and
Our greed is just startin’, ya know.
When the regges get a foot in,
You fools are worth nuthin’,
Just send all your Money, by Two.
All your Money,
All your Money, Whoo hoo,
All your Money,
by Thursday, at Two.
Hi Mike. I haven’t posted in a while, but I read your blog almost daily. I just wanted to make an observation….in the photo of This Is Not Normal….isn’t that Jamie Sorrentini Lugli’s father, Irving on the far left? It certainly looks like him. I remember him from Ortega’s article about her seeing him on the street in LA.
Looking forward to the new Season of Aftermath. Already sounds like it will be throughly heartbreaking.
Keep Going my friend…I salute you.
OVERTHEBRIDGETPA
yep, that’s him
“We’ll give you a ride” ??
Desperate much?
What happened to scn makes the able more able?
And they used to have a policy that they first needed to arrive, reach, then “reach with money”
Ha. So desperate.
This was in response to so many saying they couldn’t come into course cuz they didn’t have a way to get there. One more excuse handled.
I wonder when the church will try and handle the excuse of, “because I don’t want to.”
according to someone dear to me… they arrive at your door. Happened very recently… Later, we had a discussion of better avoidance techniques. 🙂
Rip”“We’ll give you a ride” ??
Desperate much?”
Of COURSE they are. That’s confirmation, and it’s gonna get worse.
Oh, the desperation! Anything, except scientology, to get people in the door!
I’ve been working at the Int Base
All the live long day
I’ve been working at the Int Base
Just to waste my life away
I can feel the doubts a-growin’
Rise up so early in the morn
Can’t you hear my spirit screaming
Time to blow this org!
Man I’m gonna blow
Man I’m gonna blow
Man I’m gonna blow this org
Man I’m gonna blow
Man I’m gonna blow
Man I’m gonna blow this org!
Someone’s getting face ripped by Davy
Someone’s getting face ripped I know oh-oh-oh
Someone’s getting face ripped by Davy
Taking shit and eating crow
Fee fi fuck the whole show
Fee fi fuck the whole show oh-oh-oh
Fee fi fuck the whole show
Goodbye Davy, adios!
Yes! This is great!
MJM, I’m speechless. We must compile a coffee table book. Special leather bound editions too. This must be done.
Oh, my! That’s outstanding! You go, MjM!
The Boston couple’s expectations for results of their donation are appropriately low: not growth, but simply keeping the org open. So sad…their daughter in the Sea Org…sounds like they hope their $$ help to keep her alive too. Desperation after 40 years seeps out of every word.
And in the item about All About Drugs brochures, they surely should have changed the last line of the last quote to thanking LRH rather than God! …but then again, they often print NOI propaganda thanking Allah. No other practices??? The only consistency is inconsistency.
I agree – first thing I thought of was that this couple is just desperately hanging on – hoping not to get declared or disconnected from if they Play Big. This and the 43 Years on Staff pic just make me so sad. She’s so close to the time when she won’t be able to work the insane hours demanded by SoC anymore, and then they’ll kick her out.
OK, the cult has their daughter. Now I get it. Extortion, pure and simple. Cash Cows for life. Wow. And I’ll bet they STILL don’t see her that much.
“Watch the spectacular Los Angeles’ and surrounding cities’ fireworks from the 6th floor deck’. This a community service to which they have not contributed a Fraction of a Dollar (i.e., TAX DOLLARS), but lay claim to as an attraction to their event. There are No words to express My Total Disgust!
The one thing that cracks me up the most about the OMG PSYCHIATRY IS GOING DOWN is the fact that psychiatry has evolved scientifically over the last 70 years and Scientology… hasn’t. They now have fancy fMRI machines that can measure actual brain activity, and psychiatry and psychology have branched out into neurology, neurobiology and neuropsychology. Scientology has… two tin cans soldered to a wire running through an ohmmeter. They lost the credibility war a long time ago, if they ever had it.
There is some amazing work going on how the brain actually works, and no thetans are necessary.
A fine recent book about advances in how the brain actually works are in an entertaining book called “The Psychopath Whisperer- The Science of Those Without Conscience” by Kent A. Kiehl. I may have mentioned this book already, but it is so good it’s worth another plug. Dr. Kiehl, starting as a grad student, was involved in the creation of the fMRI equipment itself, and the software required to derive results from the complex raw electronic data from the fMRI brain scans. His book freely gives credit to pioneers and co-workers: like all good scientists, he acknowledges “standing on the shoulders of giants.”
‘The Psychopath Whisperer’ is highly readable – almost a page-turner. It contains a wealth of easily understandable detail about psychopaths – who they are, what they are and are not, where they are, why they are, how many of them there are, how they can be positively identified, and at what age they can be identified. There’s a good section with some ideas about treatment of adults, and some hope for treating young people who have traits known to be precursors to psychopathic behavior in adult life.
People still define Scientology’s “Suppressive Persons” using terms like Psychopath and Sociopath are showing their age, or their ignorance of great advances in science since the Fifties. It has happened close to home fairly recently – Rathbun and Rinder have both used the P&S terms to describe SPs as recently as the early years of their leaving Scientology. I am not finding fault; until recently, even psych professionals might have been unable to correctly differentiate between Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and those assigned to the catch-all Antisocial Personality Disorder (research into which has been almost negligible in terms of number of published papers numbers over the past twenty years). They can be re-educated, if they like.
Back in the early 50s, those two terms, plus Antisocial Personality, were used almost interchangeably even in the psyche field, so it is no wonder Hubbard adopted them for his SPs, and no wonder Hubbard’s followers used what eventually became disinformation even after they left the fold. But unlike Hubbard, over time genuine scientific research led to credible new information, and gradually the terms Psychopath and Sociopath came to mean two different and identifiable sets of behaviors, and Antisocial Personality fell into disuse. Even the so-called bible of psyches, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), in its current DSM V version, has difficulty with continuing old stereotypes which have been surpassed by fast-moving scientific discoveries.
Thanks for the recommendation! I am so ordering that book.
After 5 year, they made TWO CLEARS in one week. At that rate, the Twin cities area will be cleared … NEVER. They’re creating disaffected apostates faster than they can find willing victims.
Don’t nag a rise. ?
?
I nagged a rise once…
I flagged a ride once. From Ted Bundy.
🙂
Each and everyone of these represent “bait and switch”.. we bait you into coming and then we switch out the dollars of your wallet. Just once I would like to see the poster.. “Everyone is welcome and leave your wallet and purse at home!”
but…but…but…the food is free
Free food? Whoa! Scored!
Mike how did that Miami staff member get to OTVIII while on staff? She wouldn’t have been able to afford it on $50.00 a week. Who would pay for her?
Her husband probably. Dont know her myself.
That would be a long time on the bridge.
43 years at least apparently
43 years of Kool-Ade. It boggles the mind.
Geezers! 43 years of Scientology… it’s way past ‘boggles the mind’, way past toast, more like treacle left out in the Florida sun for a couple of months. Something hard, indistinguishable and if you rub it real hard, it’s sticky.
“…and if you rub it real hard, it’s sticky.”
I’m just so tempted!
I was at Miami Org 9 years in the ’70’s and don’t remember any Lisa Witt. Poor thing!
All the stats are down and the sky is gray
I went for a walk, passed out OCAs
I’d be better off, if I walked away
California dreamin’ it’s time to blow today
Tried to be a church, truth got in the way
Hubbard is our God, so we never pray
Some people venture in, but they never stay
California dreamin’ I’m gonna blow today!
Well I come from Nicaragua
my salvation so to seek
Was met by a Scientologist
who said his name was Zeke
Zeke sold me books and CDs
And told me I must go
Sign up for needed courses
While the price was still so low
(Chorus)
Zeke took me down
To the Ideal Org
Now I’m routing out to Auckland
To join an Idle Morgue.
I figure the adults there are on their own to figure out the stupidity and vulgarity and obscenity of where they are and what they are doing, but I just get this sick feeling in my stomach every time they show the children they drag into this hell hole. That cult can’t be brought down soon enough. Hey, that bouncy house thing? Yes, that’s going to be the only happy happy joy joy memory these children are going to from this abusive disgusting child molesting cult. Oh to see DM handcuffed and doing the perp walk, followed by all his good buddies.
So much to say, so little time.
The Dublin Org guy should be saying, “I’m going Clear….to bankruptcy.”
The Hollywood photo — nothing is going to clean up Hollywood like five white folks with shovels.
Stories from the top of the bridge? That blew, alright.
As for Michael Clancy — Hey Michael, I’ve never been confused by false ideas and fears, and I haven’t spent a penny on Scientology.
Oy.
I’ve spent what has to be many hundreds of hours over the last decade just reading about the insanity of scientology. You couldn’t make this crap up if you tried to — except that’s exactly what it is — crap made up by a world class nut job (L Ron Hubbard) in a warped science fiction novel hen penned come to life. It is absolutely freaky to watch people living their lives out whose minds have been taken hostage by this bizarre mind cancer. What to you folks who are in scientology secretly reading this blog think? Are you not horrified by what has happened to you? It’s like you have been bitten by a GD vampire or something and are now the living dead. I feel sorry for you all but at the same time I can’t get enough of reading about this shit. It’s just sick! And how do people like Rinder escape?
I don’t want to tell his story, but I think years in the hole and a threat of being exiled to the outback had something to do with.
But it was the best thing he ever did. I have to think he’s helped more people on the outside than he ever did before.
God bless you Mike (and Leah, of course)
$cientology – the most self-parodying & clumsy cult ever designed by a shameless money-grabbing huckster.
What Peter said!
All those faces should attract people who can let them know the ship is going down.
Too late…
It is a mass exodus in our tiny little mORGue. Everyone is leaving the area – some moving to the Mecca of Technical Scamming and Extortion – FLAG.
I am hearing rumors that they are selling the Idle Morgue Building too – but I don’t want to ask because I have kept the wolves at bay and do not want to be investigated by the SCIENTOLOGICAL THOUGHT POLICE.
I wonder who they will name as the SP?
Maybe they will now name the two Executive Directors as the SP
It is time to get some new fresh raw meat to Keep Scientology Scamming.
It has been a while since they purged our area of those who might figure out the entire religion is nothing abut a scam. A horrible hoax.
Dang. I’m so curious.
I am too! What the Hell are we talking about?
Hey, OEO. I can stand in and be the SP! I’ve been one since ’82, so I have a lot of experience.
We were born SPs Dude. It’s just that we had to do a stint in Scientology for the truth to be revealed. What’s that song… we stand tall…
Isn’t that their National Song?
Yeah, that’s because anyone who is tall is immediately declared!
There’s been a report here that in St. Louis they’re giving up on the historic building that they bought – and started sinking money into – about a decade ago, and are going to try to sell it. That’s more or less confirmed by the fact that recent promo pieces show a rendering of a renovation of the building that the org is currently in, even though that building is less than 20,000 square feet, far below the minimum of around 50,000 square feet that “ideal” org facilities were supposed to have. Boston is an even messier example, that I just wrote a comment about.
If there’s yet another case of an org abandoning a building bought to renovate, it would be interesting to hear about it.
I live in St Louis and have also heard rumblings that they’re looking to sell the building they bought to renovate into an Ideal Org…they’re in a really gorgeous building already…I’ve been inside and pretended to be interested in a personality test…on the check in book, for people on course, only had 3 or 4 people signed in…clearly they need those 30,000 extra sq ft!!