John Oliver on Scientology
It’s an ongoing joke that makes me laugh week after week…
I honestly think this is enough to fulfill the quota for Thursday Funnies all alone.
But people have sent me all sorts of other things so I will include them APU. But if you have not yet seen this, take a few minutes and watch.
AC/DC
I am SURE they would LOVE to be associated with scientology.
Rock N Roll is here to stay
Apparently this is the new theme for fundraising? Superheros are out. Rock is in.
But if this is all they could round up for an Ideal Africa Alliance it’s going to be a long time coming… A bunch of these people are STAFF.
The “power” of this alliance sure was “on display.”
There’s more!
Albuquerque getting in on the act too…
He didn’t get the word…
Superheros are old news.
Come Celebrate The Birth of Jesus
The man on the cross was an implant.
Man will have a new world…
Really? And Cambridge is going to do it? Not Toronto? Or New York? Not even Cambridge, England.
The Regges will be circling…
Sunday brunch for Dept 6.
Urgent. Epic. Milestone.
Reserve a seat. I am sure it will be SRO.
What is happening? Nothing at all. Still trying to make it go right to become St Hill size 5 years after “going ideal” in Florence Kentucky.
Cape Town events. Sort Of.
The only “Cape Town event” they seem to know the location for is the one in Joburg North?
Don’t waste time on the 2D
Have a “3D Thanksgiving” where the regges will be hungry for your cash.
Huh?
We have the tech to restore honesty
How about you start using it on yourselves?
Yep, it’s always “about to happen”
The future is always going to be good.
How long before you wake up and realize you have been running in a hamster wheel going absolutely nowhere?
She gave the planet a big hug
Did you feel it?
Food, glorious food…
It’s that season again when scientology promotes how good it cooks
Guys, a word of advice
Try to build ONE then do the next one. Three at a time is really rough when there are only about 20 people to get the money from.
Gosh — an OT Future.
How about Clearing? Doesn’t that come first?
Yuk
Not a nice thought.
Yeah, let the IRS be your bitch
Super Star sound barrier?
The Flag OT Committee has tours? To get money?
Chairman of the Chord?
Ooh, flying a little close to the sun there guys.
True Leader will not find this amusing.
Hey wait a minute
This is the South Bay guy?
They only have one Mission Holder in the region?
Yuk again
Another new trend to go along with AC/DC perhaps…
“Catered” means the local Sea Org slaves prepare and serve a sumptuous banquet of pigs-in-a-blanket. For the crew it’ll be the closest they’ve been to meat for a LONG time.
Any idea how many people show up to “events” like the SuperHero deal in Sydney? (Like 20 out of a possible 37 public and staff? Or whatever the numbers are.)
Is the party catered or does the local staff work like dogs that day to get everything set up and food prepared? Or is the staff expected to play dress-up so the 6 rich folks (for whom the party is intended) will feel like they’re at an actual event? Are SeaBorg utilized in some capacity? Do the Regs get to play dress-up or do they just stand around like chaperones at a 50’s school dance? Is having spent your “bridge money” on costumes an acceptable excuse?
Also, the Rock Concert Fundraiser. This terminology creates the image of a large venue with at least a couple of thousand people. Is this accurate or is it just grandiose verbiage for some garage band playing in a room that seats 120?
Just curious. Thanks.
Tommasina actually looks pretty happy which gives credence to the old saying that ignorance is bliss.
Re AC/DC – it’s great positioning if they’d keep the original song title (Highway To Hell) and call themselves Ideal Whores.
I counted 27 whites and 3 blacks in the group photo of South African Scios. That is not the way to clear South Africa, which is overwhelmingly black.
They need to get NOI on that ASAP.
They will never have the hearts, minds or money of black South Africans – firstly Africans commitment and dedication to their families puts white people to shame, secondly (like most working people with a limited income) Africans are as hard as nails about protecting their hard-earned money and thirdly Africans have the most wonderful sharp sense of humour sense with a keen eye for the rediculous and impossible.
The Africans in the photo are paid domestic staff who will happily smile and wave if the boss asks them – just don’t try and short change them on pay day ….
AMANDLA AFRICA!!!
Oh my god! An “ideal org” in Kentucky?? I bet that place is dead! Seriously, doubt it’s busting at the seams filled with people!
I have it on good authority (ha!) that UPS is creating a new service for pickup and delivery at Scientology facilities. They’re calling it UPTS.
🙂
Wog closets:
—Daytime office/work attire
—Exercise clothes
—Nicer outfits for special events
—Way in the back…A floor-length beaded gown worn only at your daughter’s wedding eight years ago
Clam closets:
—All of the above
PLUS
—A selection of expensive tuxes and formal gowns for IAS events
—Pirate costumes, medieval knights & damsels costumes, superhero costumes
—NEEDED IMMEDIATELY: rock star costumes…and a bigger closet!
Don’t forget the 25 boxes of Way to Happiness booklets in the Clam closet. Also – 20 extra sets of Basic books and lectures by LRH.
Those are “must haves” for every $cientology closet. That is – if the Scientologist has a closet. Most don’t – they are living under bridges or in flop houses living the “Stat Driven LIfe”
The key question is when will Dave come out of the closet.
Nah, they don’t need exercise clothes or office/work attire, that would be other fish to fry. They need only costumes, nicer outfits for special events and lots of beaded gowns for special events, and clothes to wear for those times they are forced to go on course. These clothes can be purchased cheaply at thrift stores from those UTRs who sneak out the back door and no longer need them.
The rest of the time is spent self-employed so they only need the specific camera-ready things Grant Cardone wears to make him look like he is WINNING.
The bigger closet would be a waste of money, that money would be better spent raising their status.
And then there is the Sea Org closet. 2 uniforms – 1 clean/starched/pressed, for photo ops, etc. The other raggedy and grubby, for wearing every single day, all day (and far into the night). And nothing else, poor bastards.
What’s the deal with “come in costume”? I see that a lot in these printed invites. If those costumes included face masks so no one would know who you are, I could understand it. But wearing costumes at so many gigs? A distraction from all the regging? An attempt at lighthearted entertainment? Levelling the scamming field?
Cambridge to go St. Hill Size? Yeah, the empty parking lot, maybe. First they’ll need to turn on the lights.
Pffft, thetans don’t have eyes and don’t need lights!
Postulates and money, baby.
Slavery is Freedom!
Bankruptcy is merely a single lifetime consideration that actually secures your eternity.
You DO know that eternity is a commodity with a price tag, right?
Don’t worry, folks in Cambridge, just give Davy the money…and never mind that
your knickers are hugging your ankles and your bank account is drained. Keeping
your mouths shut and your asses in the air DOES align with ” command intention “!
Hip hip, hooray!
Erm,,,,,, I’ve spotted an outpoint………..
First flyer shows AC/DC. Seen them many a time.
Why is it headed ABC? TOTALLY different group!!!!!
OK, bit slow tonight. ABC is the initials of the orgs that the fundraiser is for. Nonetheless, it still looks like someone doesn’t know the difference between the two.
I was on staff in Cincinnati when it was located in a seedy part of downtown. It was a 4 story dump with no parking.
I worked with Jeanie and David Sonenfeld – the ED of the Cincinnatti Org. They were both criminal con artists who tricked and deceived anyone that came in their path to total financial ruin.
The tech works when applied correctly as LRH intended.
There was a guy who came for years getting auditing – Ken J.
He was a very nice man who trusted this evil cult that he needed to keep spending money on the Bridge. I could not take it anymore and wrote up reports but they kept scamming the poor guy – telling him he needed more and more and more auditing.
I think they eventually put him on expanded Dianetics – which was totally inappropriate for him based on the sane man I met. I liked Ken – he was sweet and trusting soul.
They drained his bank account to the tune of approx. over $400,000 and they could not crack his made up “Scientological case” because there was nothing there. What a racket.
He eventually went to ASHO and they told him he was “overrun”.
How convenient – eh?
Scientology – What a racket!
He’s got undisclosed overts on the third dynamic. His only hope is donating all his money to the IAS and joining the Sea Org.
ML,
Dave
Yes Scribe – That is the goal of Scientology! Scientology and L Ron Hubbard’s tech is designed to get you in a State of total and utter CONFUSION…but insouciantly CERTAIN that you are WINNING in the game of Life because of Scientology.
The being will find themselves… alone, broke and vulnerable. They will find themselves in a state of “trapped in the prison of Scientological Belief … and willing to hand over family, self, bank accounts and life for the cause of clearing the planet.
Only Scientology does not clear the planet – they cannibalize their members and discard them without sorrow. They have a long road to chase the carrot on a stick with so many processes and training courses to do – the being gets lost in the maze…but thinks they are progressing towards survival and improving skills and abilities.
Just read one of Scientology’s lawyered up contracts – “if you lose your abilities – you won’t sue Scientology” etc… It is all there to tell you what will happen to you….
So What IS Scientology you newbies, lurkers and never ins….. ?
Scientology is a for profit Organization disguised as a Religion so they can hide behind the religious cloak while they commit their daily crimes of extortion, blackmail, money laundering, human trafficking, fraud, deceit and manipulation to get free labor and cold, hard cash now – now – now.
The tech is designed to get you broke, alone and confused.
Then the Parasitic Tapeworm called Scientology and it’s minions – the staff and Sea Org mini tape worms (who are also broke, alone and confused) attach themselves to you, your bank account, your family and your sanity.
It drains you of everything you own, everything you have and everything you want to be….It shatters your identity and replaces it with the Scientology Identity – Dauntless, Defiant, Resolute – but ONLY on the subject of Scientology….
then the Church of Scientology discards you without sorrow along with a big lie about you so your “natter” is considered your Overts speaking loudly (to another Scientologists – using the TECH what is known a whispering campaign about how degraded and out ethics you were so if you complain – no one still in – under the spell of the “tech” – will listen. They will immediately deem you an out ethics particle / terminal – whose case is TOO BIG to handle….and you probably blew up and destroyed many planets in previous life times.
The leader is the only one who benefits along with a few of his minions…(they get big pay checks and perks) but they have to slap, lie, deceive, manipulate and lose their own personal integrity – to stay in the bubble. The others that benefit from Scientology – A few celebrities – like Tom Cruise – who has had one of THE BIGGEST dog and pony shows ever put on by Scientology management in 76 trillion years….
Just think about if Tom Cruise ever found out the truth – would he survive it? Would he commit suicide or go out there like Leah Remini (thank you Leah) and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
The leader’s lawyers and private investigators also win – financially…. although they often die early deaths due to cancer and other karmic phenomena.
See – Man IS basically good.
Let’s hope Karma kicks Monique “Blinky” Yingaling and Eliot Abelson in the ass soon. It has kicked those private investigators in the ass – many have died early deaths from cancer. (thank you xenu)
Oh please – if there is a Xenu – please kick the rest of those ass hats asses karmically NOW NOW NOW! Include David MIscavige – PLEASE!!!
Thank you Xenu – praise be to Xenu!
Scientology reminds me of a sick joke: “Other than the assassination Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
Jeannie and David Sonenfeld used to be SO at CC Int in LA and AOLA in LA respectively. So were they demoted to a Class V Org in Cincinatti? OR was Cincinatti their first stepping stone on their way to PAC Base SO?
Have they somehow confused Earth with Tgt2?
Wow the PAC churches are giving a Thanksgiving dinner for only 25$.
I’m glad I’m no longer a Scientologist. I would be so embarrassed.
You’d think PAC could spring for a free Thanksgiving dinner, roast turkey with all the trimmings, with all of us serving ourselves and then sitting down at around 6:30PM as an incentive for people to be on course that day. Even my tiny org did that. Well, to be accurate, the org provided the turkeys and the coffee and soft drinks, and the rest of us brought the sides to be heated up. No big deal. At least we weren’t CHARGED on Thanksgiving.
It’s out-exchange. Your reference is Free Service, Free Fall. Hope that helps.
ML,
Izzy Schmendrick
🙂 You are very ill 🙂
Yes, but I’ve yet to find a cure. ?
Wow, the scientologists converging from all over Africa amounted to 32 people. Whoopee.
DOES Superman age? He grew up from being Superboy…
I coulda told that cute optometrist that she is simply… she… and I wouldn’t have charged her half a million dollars for it!
Contact: Name of person here at xxx xxx xxx. Brilliant! Port Elizabeth must be booming with promo like this.
Great catch!
From: Sam & Sue Schmegeggy
Re: IAS Patron Moronboringus
Why We Gave:
The IAS is our only hope for every man, woman and child on the planet to go free. They haven’t a prayer otherwise just like Ron says. We didn’t really have the money, but our Registrar showed us how we could do it by some “creative financing” and we made it go right! Not only that, but applying the Toughness policy, we even found a way to donate to our Ideal Org in Duluth. Look out world, Minnesota is going to be the first Clear state!!! The tech works 100% of the time. We’re so damn proud, we’re looking for a way to increase our status even more because it’s just the right thing to do. So, all you guys reading this, how about it? All that’s stopping you is your reactive mind. We did it and so can you. If we make it out of the trap, what will be your answer to the question, did I help? So just do it!!!
Our undying thanks to COB and LRH.
ML,
Sam & Sue
I would like to contribute to the motion of why we went into financial ruin to donate to the IAS!
By Bobbie and Betty Blowdown
As dedicated Died in the Wool Scientologists – we believe the IAS will Keep $cientology Withholding.
Without the cash, $cientology would not have the ability to hire the sleaziest of attorney’s like Monique “BLINKY” Yingling the Dingaling.
Then $cientology would have no Spoke’s Hole.
Monique has made MILLIONS from hundreds of dedicated Scientologists who have Gone Clearly Broke and lost homes to Foreclosure, filed Bankruptcy and have reached levels of debt never achieved by man before.
Monique “Blinky” Yingling achieved the Freedom Medal of Lying last year – she was able to keep those TR’s in in in …and she has not even done any training.
VWD COB for hiring nothing but the most criminal people to keep the show on the road.
That alone was worth the $2,543,434 Teddie Braggin got out of us one night that turned into a week. Not only would Teddie Braggin not leave our house – He just would not leave – he really helped us maxed out all of our credit cards, drained every last dime out of all 401K accounts, wiped out our savings and checking accounts, got us into debt with new credit we did not even know was available and then had us borrow from everyone person we knew.
Now we are living under a bridge sleeping on Way to Happiness Booklets covering up with The Basics (books). We had 5,675 boxes of them when the bank kicked us out of our house. They made us take them and said they would charge us dump fees if we did not. We tried selling them but no one would even take them for free.
So – we live in the boxes and use the books for firewood.
Thanks LRH – without Scientology Tech – we would have froze to death.
Great guys, you’re that much closer to going up the bridge as it’s now literally within shooting distance. VWD indeed!
Thank you, Scribe.
Much love,
Sam and Sally Schmuck
Sam and Sally – I’ve known a lot of schmucks in my time but you’re both the greatest!
Thank you for that wonderful acknowledgement, Scribe! We feel so validated. But then…hmmm, actually, a plaque would be nice too.. Something for over the fireplace, you know. That sort of thing. Just saying.
Much love,
The Schmucks.
Dear Schmucks – As far as plaque goes, I suggest a trip to your dentist.
HelluvaHoax, is that you…? 😉
No – it is not Hoaxie – but I read his posts on EXSMB all the time.
I don’t post anymore – forgot my passcode…but I read Hoaxie’s posts daily.
I slipped into his valence and duplicated his Joking and Degrading. My bad…I just could not resist.
I love HelluvaHoax. He is hilarious.
Here is a song to my friend – HelluvaHoax on EXSMB
You Got a Friend (Carole King)
When you’re down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, nothing is posting right!
Close your eyes and think of Hoaxie
And soon he will be there
To brighten up even your darkest thread
You just search Ex-S-M-Bee
And you know wherever you be
Hoaxie will be posting – to make you LOL
Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall
All you have to do is Search
Hoaxie’s posts will be there – to make you LOL
You’ve got a friend
If the post above you
Grows dark and full of clouds
And that old OSA wind bag begins to blow
Keep you head together
And call Hoaxie’s name out loud
Soon you’ll see Hoaxie calling out that OSA troll
You just call google Hoaxie’s name
And you know you will L-O-L
He’ll start postin…. joking and degrading
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is Search
Hoaxie’s posts will be there – to make you LOL
Ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend
When OSA can be so cold
They’ll hurt you, and desert you
And take your soul if you let them
You just Search Hoaxie’s name
And you know you’ll L-O-L
He’ll come running – to add to your thread
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is Search
Hoaxie’s posts will be there – to make you LOL
You’ve got a friend
You’ve got a friend
Ain’t it good to know you’ve got a friend
Ain’t it good to know you’ve got a friend
I can’t Remember when I last heard the word, ‘Schmegeggey’ . . . . Classic ! ! ! !
Oh that John Oliver video is a hoot! Thanks for posting, Mike. So glad I took the few minutes to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvll655MVTM
Ditto.
The photos of their gatherings like in South Africa and AOSH Europe show about 35 people tops.
Contraction big time!
It’s not just SA, a lot of their promo photographs from around the world show about 30 to 40 people at those sort of fundraising events. As of a few years go it seemed as if average active membership at orgs was probably around 50-60, with about twice that or 100-120 who would show up a couple of times a year for major events. So maybe 30-40 represents the sort of hardcore subgroup who come to the more frequent org events, or else active membership has slipped down a whole notch.
All the remaining members are Dave’s BTs and clusters.
Scribe! ROFL! ?
Don’t forget Hubbard’s. He disembodied a zillion of ’em.
Yawn, I believe they’re still with him at Target Two. Pesky little critters!
Yeah, they can be sticky hey? Maybe Hubbard is working on a Fac2 machine. You know, like those pocket sized zappers so he can zap ’em like mossies get zapped when they get near those blue lighted electronic thingos.
You might be right. His cog, alas too late, was that he mistook suppressive entities for himself and thus Scientology failed – sort of a monumental cluster fuck. Also, it turns out that the original OT 8 was based on his work with Jack Parsons, and like with Jack, the whole thing blew up.
OT Committee for Ideal Africa channeling John Wayne:
“There are 1.216 Billion Africans out there…and 35 of us…Reckon that’ll be enough.”
On a good day, yeah.
John Oliver: “Xenu next week”
That’s a classic.
After we watched John Oliver, my wife walked around the house repeating, “Xenu next week”. What a hoot!
Reminds me of an old folk song I heard as a boy. Just replace Tzena with Xenu and it’s perfect for SNL. Lorne?
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
Can’t you hear the music playing
In the city square
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
Come where all our friends will find us
With the dancers there
Tzena, Tzena join the celebration
There’ll be people there from every nation
Dawn will find us laughing in the sunlight
Dancing in the city square
On 25 October 2018, newly minted OTVIII Tommasina Pasqua Sideris sez:
“I never knew sec checking could be fun.”
Ya, me neither…
I’m glad that stood out to someone besides me. I just kept going back to it. ‘Sec checking COULD BE FUN’? I have no words! BTW, as a life-long Catholic, I had no trouble finding answers. It’s just the answers are not ‘I am the most important, god-like person in the universe’. It’s been more like “love ye, one another”.
Wow. Great comment. Great comment.
The entire end phenomena of any action on the scientology grade chart is all about me me me me me me me. It is about making you the most narcissistic self-centered egotistic boorish person you can possibly become.
It has nothing to do with humanity, help, love, caring, or, for that matter, reality.
Well and all about funding David Mismanage’s luxurious lifestyle as well as they circle the drain of disappearing found-out cults.
$cientologists and especially the upper management at COS are the closest thing we have to uncaring and unemotional Pod People. They are an anathema to mankind and human beings, Novis or Sapien notwithstanding.
Yeah @peterblood71, I was talking about the grade chart, which is sort of a side thing in scientology right now. IAS and all the other fundraising are all about David Miscavige.
You reminded me of that scene in Finding Nemo when all those seagulls go ballistic trying to get the one fish, all the while each and every one of them shouting, “MINE, MINE, MINE…”
Kool aid drinkers always seem is such a hurry to go nowhere & spend every cent they have or can borrow trying to speed up their own demise. And at the top of the heap COB is whistling that Willie Nelson tune, “blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see,”
Actually it’s Irving Berlin but your point is well taken. A greedier bunch of motherfuckers the like of which this planet has never seen.
Scribe,
YOU..ARE..ON..A..ROLL..!!
Just call me Tootsie.
First time I ever heard that song it was being sung by Willie while I was having a REALLY good time – sort of stuck. Very much like All Along the Watchtower by Jimi, but it’s a Dillon song and Me and Bobby McGee by Janice but it’s a Kris Kristofferson track. MIsownership – surely I can be forgiven for that, can’t I?
Yes, and you have my blessing.
The girl who gave the world a big hug inadvertently, puts commas in the wrong place. And. Too. Many. Periods. and bad capitalization. doesn’t anyone, Proofread. This. Stuff?
That’s the problem with having someone at the helm of your organization who believes education is a waste of time. Trickle down illiteracy aided by LRH study tech. No amount of looking up every word in the dictionary will teach you grammar and punctuation.
Jehovah Witnesses also discourage education (a cult mainstay) since obviously to be educated IS TO SEE YOU’RE IN A DAMN CULT! How convenient is that? So loathsome. The irony is JW’s serve Lucifer far more than God, whereas $cientology is directly run by Satan.
Good point, Peterblood71. The Cof$ SO and staff members quote LRH as saying that the longer you’re in college, the stupider you get and that you don’t need to go to college cuz it will just make you stupider. So based on that my two kids dropped out of college and joined staff. Bad move. And by the way Ron, if college is so bad, why did you lie and say you had a degree from one when you didn’t? Seems like it was important enough for you that you lied about having a degree.
You don’t seem to understand Ken – they ARE in-house proofread prior to publication.
Ken, she. Is. Celebrating. Her. Newly discovered creativity, due to the unleashing of her.
Limitless theta! Power. Strong is the cal mag with this one, praise COB! And. Pass. The.
Rice and beans!
She is free from the constraints of grammar and punctuation and has expanded all the way to THE HORIZON, due to the fact that she…is full of shit.?
Hope that clears things up…
Don’t worry Ken. In the new GAT 3, Dave will be releasing the brand new Comma Rundown (not to be confused with the Commie Rundown which LRH was piloting in the 50’s) which will put period to any grammatical peccadillos. See your Reg to make an advanced payment!
The semicolon rundown has barely passed muster and now they’re already pushing the comma rundown out the door. Say it ain’t so!
Sorry Val, Dave needs another source of income.
Only you see it as a problem, due to your Wog education.
True Scientologists don’t waste their precious time on such areas of study. If it reads like Hubbard spoke, then it is fine to print.
Another week of so many mixed fonts and horrific graphics that my head hurts. Rushing out the door right now so no time to comment on content, but the one thing I saw that really made me saw WTF was the one where the OT cert is almost as large as the girl holding it and the photo is a teeny little thing at the top of the flyer.
Bottom line is all those flyers are designed to be read by people who think Miscavige’s set design is understated and his events are a model of decorum.
Anyone with a computer can design a flyer these days. That doesn’t mean they should.
Valerie,
My thoughts exactly. Thanks.
Miscavige’s set designs – Faux Renaissance Meets Black Hand Italian Provincial.
With the voice of Mini Darth Vader on meth…
They’re applying that old familiar Hubbard humdinger “any particle is better than no particle.” Seems rather stupid in retrospect, doesn’t it?
Young shiny faces….in the mags but not in the orgs!
In the latest mag for AO/ASHO …the first prominent picture of happy shiny people testifying ..is a young guy, looks about 22, talking about his journey to OT V
It’s so transparently not a picture of truth in the orgs. Unless Mummy and Daddy are rich, young people don’t zip up the bridge and go OT and smile for the camera…because YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T HAVE 300,000 TO SPEND ON GETTING TO OT VII.
Tout GAT II and Ideal Orgs all you want, the bridge still costs a metric f*ck ton of money, on top of the bleed you dry fundraising gauntlet.
Happy shiny young faces indeed.
The real local event photos could be mistaken for photos from the free Tuesday meeting at the library for AARP and blood pressure screening.
Part of the PTS course is to handle questions as to why Scientology has so many young people…and the politically correct answer is given to not alarm parents and family when they lose a member of their family to the cult.
They give you a “Can We Be Friends” dvd so you can “handle them”
They want young people so they can hypnotize, manipulate and deceive them in to working for free to save the planet and it is horrible hoax
Similar type thing happens in the infantry too. They develop problems with anyone aged 25 or over as generally they begin to question orders both subjectively and/or objectively. The young ‘uns just jump in boots and all.
For all their hype the biggest missing aspect of Scientology is life experience. I question the sanity of anyone that believes Scientology is based upon Hubbard’s ‘research’ into life experience. It’s based upon hypnotic scamming technology using life as bait.
I don’t know of anyone who’s gone free using Scientology & I’m so called OT7 and I’ve got a two OT8s in the family. They are anything but free spirits. It seems ridiculous that Scios never noticed that Hubbard himself wasn’t free or adorned with any of those stated OT abilities. And now have a look as MIscavige’s life – he lives by lies, stolen money and oppression of others.
I would love to be made wrong about this…
Yup. All that.
Sorry Yawn, you’re right.
Advertising to their own public is all they do these days. Even their disgusting billboard signs in Clearwater or LA have zero positive appeal to the general public. Billboards and local events are just “whale bait” for the harpooners in Scientology’s registration office. What a bunch of crooks and losers. There aught to be a law.
Chairman of the Chord!? I wonder if Miscabbage approved that? Too funny
I’m reading Chairmen of the Chord.
You are right Jane. TY ☺
Great, crazy stuff, as usual. They have high hopes.
What happened to all the Scientology celebrities? Cruise seems to be on a “look at me, I’m a normal superstar” with no more couch jumping or obnoxious declarations about the evils of psychiatry. Kirstie was all like “just read a Scientology book and don’t ask me”. So surley, such a perfect example of how Scientology turns people into aholes!
Elizabeth Moss is perhaps the most prominent Co$ victim right now, and she stars in a show about an authoritarian run dystopia. Bart Simpson doesn’t seem to have the godlike powers she was shooting for. Isaac Hayes died, probably on the purif. Travolta is failing with his latest bombed movies.
Meanwhile, most stars and successful people didn’t and don’t need Scientology to help them achieve their position.
Keep up the great work, Mike and Leah and all who expose this ridiculous, money sucking, life destroying cult! Thank you!
IRL, people are not assholes. Perhaps someone needs to give scientology that memo. Between in your face anger and fake enthusiasm, they just seem like caricatures of real people, honestly. I blush to admit I was once that way.
No worries. You woke up. That’s what is important. Sadly, the faded celebs I mentioned may die in the cult. :'( Glad you are free to be yourself!
I saw the John Oliver clip yesterday. It’s perfect. Lol. Best laugh of the day! ?
Chairman of the Chord? I might just like that. How about COCH for short?
Chairman of the Chord sometimes performed as the Friday night graduation entertainment at AOLA in the mid 2000’s. My recall is that they originally called themselves Chairman of the Board but after a week or two, senior PAC executives let them know that this title was taken by Dear Leader so they changed it to Chairman of the Chord. I had totally forgotten about them until I read the Thursday Funnies.
Oh wow! Thanx for sharing that info Mark.
I live in Kentucky and grew up here. I can’t believe there is an org in Florence. I mean I know now there is. I have never met a scientologist in KY or ever heard anyone mention it in my whole life. And no friends of friends. It can’t be doing too well. When I moved to Ft. Lauderdale at 18 a guy did give me a copy of Dianetics when I came out of Publix grocery store. He didn’t try to get me to join really. Maybe I was just too woggy. ☺. Lol
I grew up in NJ, where Lafayette once lived. For decades, I’d only heard of Scientology through my memory of the 1980s Dianetics commercials, and through my father’s complaints about the got junk mail he got from them for years after he foolishly gave some Scientologist in New York City his name and address. I finally met a person who personally knows a Scientologist last year, and that was revealed only because we started talking about Aftermath! My daughter met several of the more vocal ex-Scientologists at a public social gathering in New York earlier this year.
I am from Kentucky as well and I just cannot believe they would be very “welcome” there. Of all the places to put an ideal org, that would not be a place that one would think of.
I am just imagining Tony Muhammed’s ‘welcome’ on his Kentucky fundraising tour.
There are so many different types of people in Kentucky! I don’t really know too many people from the mountains. We grew up very normally, with education as the goal as did our friends families. But I got stuck around someone very ignorant recently who was also a nice person. I hate that people’s perception of us may be a little skewed. Like on tv shows they will find the dumbest recheck possible to represent Kentucky. Lol. Now I love our state and it’s people, but just saying we are varied and diverse here. Plenty of liberal open minded folks too. ☺ ok. I’m done now.
Thanks for sharing this and reminding me that it is unfair and unworkable to use stereotypes as a substitute for direct observation, Ann. I live in a blue state that’s stereotyped altogether differently but let me tell you, there are people in this cultural “melting pot” whose raw provincialism surpasses that of the worst Hollywood stereotype of mountain people.
I live in Frankfort, 90 minutes from Florence. Where are you? ☺