Guardians of the Universe?
Maybe you should try to get some people to come to Flag before controlling the whole universe?
You people are so utterly deluded it is laughable.
Pasadena for Ventura
How about Pasadena for Pasadena?
The problem is there is nothing that can be bought that will make Pasadena, the ALREADY ideal org, a success. So, just move on, pretend we don’t notice, and spend money on another ideal org in Ventura…
Yeah, that makes sense.
Proud to be Pirates
I guess pillaging and plundering doesn’t require you to be able to spell.
More suckers
Hey, Chris and Brittany. Why don’t you pop into Valley or Pasadena or OC or Inglewood and see how much good this money does?
My life is too complicated to be on staff…
Euphemism for “I’m too smart to join staff”
Help Ron Clear the Planet
You have to laugh when you see this.
Ron long ago abandoned this effort. He shuffled off and has not been heard from again.
You didn’t notice?
Huh?
WTF does this have to do with joining staff?
There are fountains…
So, when you don’t have money for an apartment due to no staff pay you can always take a quick bath in a fountain? Or something like that?
Only 7 orgs left
After 15 years they’re still “enthusiastic” — Philly, Chicago, Battle Creek and New Haven have had buildings sitting empty for most of that time.
Long Island may never even GET a building.
But hey, the ideal org strategy IS “hotter than ever in the Eastern United States.”
More dance lessons?
Seems like this is catching on.
Bringing in the heavy hitters
September? That is an awful long way away.
You can bet when nobody confirms this will die a quiet death.
Powering the Future?
They are getting cornier and cornier as they run out of adjectives…
Sensible?
Hmmm, I don’t think there is ANY evidence of this….
These two look like they just got told the rice and beans ration was cut from FP.
That explains it…
I guess LRH postulated himself into a few strokes and pancreatitis.
What is Scientology’s role?
Absolutely nothing.
Cheapskates
Just recycling their promo from failed org to failed org…
We need to Clear LA!!
Why isn’t it done yet? After all it’s an “Ideal LA” — hell, there is more idealiness here than anywhere on earth?
You don’t think COB’s strategy is going to get it done?
Luminary?
They’re not only running out of adjectives, they are running out of nouns.
How about Grand Poohbah? High Muck-a-Muck? Magnificent Maestro? Fundraising Fundi?
You’re welcome.
He must be in Ethics Trouble…
Donating to the L. Ron Hubbard Hall of Smoke and Mirrors.
Doing a seminar at the WISE office.
Even flying out to LA to do a seminar for Valley.
It’s the only logical conclusion…
I guess the Commodore missed getting out…
How is everyone else supposed to manage?
Some crazy shit
They put this out like everyone should not sagely and mutter to themselves — “what genius”.
Apparently the more ridiculous and outrageous it is, the more it proves in the minds of the sheeple that the man was WAY ahead of everyone else.
Actually, by this point in his life he was more like a paranoid cat lady than a guru of greatness.
Time for a change
At least that is a bit more realistic than “time to Clear LA” — but anyone who swing by at noon on Saturday is going to be disappointed that they can’t even get people to show up to the event, let alone change the world…
The “Community Learning Center”
Going to cram some more LRH wisdom down the throats of kids… Or is this intended for adults and they only had a picture of kids?
In fact, this is just a Trojan Horse designed to infiltrate the “community.”
Don’t even know what this is?
Electronics? Teaching kids how to use cell phones?
Maybe she will explain that LRH decreed that phones are “psychotic” because “they have no memory.” But now they do… Uh oh. How is that going to work?
Trying to influence the community
Only scientologists will show up. It will be a sad affair — they will take some snapshots and OSA will put out a press release about how much the community loves the church of scientology.
Get control over your life…
Scientology speak for “earn some money to give to us”
It’s the perfect sales technique…
If you have a doubt about giving us your money it is because of your reactive mind which is the reason you have to give us your money because it is controlling you and only we can get rid of it.
Why do it in Columbus?
Get this fabulous course at the Mecca of Technical Perfection. Who wouldn’t want to introduce new people to scientology at Flag?
jere lull (38years recovering) says
70% of your life is spent WORKING!!?? ONLY in the sea org with their 20-hour workdays. For the rest of us, it’s closer to 33 1/3% (8/24)for 20 or 30 years, or about a third of our lives *IF* we go see DOCTORS instead of relying on Tubby’s quackery. The list of his true believers who died young of Cancer and other CURABLE disorders is SO depressing.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
“EUS only has 7 orgs left.”
AND NO FUNCTIONING FRANCHISES AFTER THE massacre of ’82 (or whenever Mustsavage first flexed his minuscule muscles.
Jens TINGLEFF says
“be one of the 175 founding staff”
As in, there’s soon going to be 175 more disgruntled ex-victims with stories of dodgy visas (not to say human trafficking), labour rights violations and encouragement to commit fraud?
Good show!
PeaceMaker says
Apparently nowadays about 90% of “ideal” org staff are just postulate contracts, people who live far away and who Scientology got to agree to come staff when the org grew enough to need them – which of course never happens. From some earlier accounts, it seems that they originally used to try to have that many staff show up for the first couple days of the opening, after which most of them would “blow,” but for instance after the Orlando facility opened, I checked pictures of staff that they were posting, and there weren’t any shots with than about 18 people in them.
Jonathan S Mark says
Denice Duff is a “New Haven Alumni” now? Is she still around in the CoS? She is in a hilarious 2006 video in which brainwashed Scilons insist that all orgs would be Ideal by 2010. She blathers about how the viewer needs to “invest in an Ideal Org.”
College dropout LRH writes of “spherical spatial length.” A length needs a metric space to be long in. If there is no space then there is no length.
Skyler says
Why do it in Columbus?
Wouldn’t a better question be, “Why do it at all?”
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Skyler opined:
“Why do it in Columbus?
Wouldn’t a better question be, “Why do it at all?”
Why in Columbus? Perhaps because they’re THERE? My wife and I don’t need no “why” to do it other than “just because”, whereEVER we happen to be.
Robert King says
I can’t imagine what the conversations between DM and Tom Cruise must be like??? Tom being 110% into it and DM who couldn’t care any less about his fellow man. I guess Tom never did the ptssp course.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Robert king threw out:
“I can’t imagine what the conversations between DM and Tom Cruise must be like??? Tom being 110% into it and DM who couldn’t care any less about his fellow man. I guess Tom never did the ptssp course.
”
I suspect the conversation would go “Ah, man, I’m so DRUNK!”
Tom might have “done” the PTS/SP course, but from what I’ve heard, the SP can NOT be a scientologist, which supposedly excludes the Munchkin®, since the current “scientology” is defined to be whatever he says it is these days, particularly when that disagrees with Tubby’s proCLAMations.
Aquamarine says
I’ve shared this before but I still can’t seem to get over how HAPPY these Ideal M’Org fools look while getting rooked by Miscavige the consummate crook.
God Almighty, how he must LAUGH into his scotch every night with Lou and his inner circle. How amusing it must be for him to look over these idiots in their chicken outfits, their pirate attire, gamboling and cavorting, grinning and mugging for the cameras while they get fleeced…how he must LAUGH at how beyond stupid they are. Because, really, with the evidence ALL around them that the Ideal M’Org program not only doesn’t work but is an utter, across the board disaster on every dynamic – with the evidence of the shrinkage of their OWN orgs right before their eyes – well, “stupid” is far too generous a term, it misses the mark. These people are way below Stupid. They would have to come UP to being stupid. Stupid should be a GOAL of theirs…ok, end of ran…almost.
Its just so EXASPERATING! I get so exasperated seeing this! It almost puts me in EMPATHY with PT Barnum, who said, “Never give a sucker an even break.” At times I get so impatient and these idiots exasperate me so much that if P.T. were alive I could walk up to him and say, “You know, I never thought I’d say this, but, you know that heartless remark you made, back in the day? Well, I get it. I get it. I really do.” This is awful to admit but I have NO sympathy for these jerks anymore and I can’t wait for it to dawn on them how conned, how scammed they’ve been. For it to be so plain that they can no longer twist and turn away from it, so obvious and generally known and acknowledged as true that they HAVE TO confront it, admit it, deal with it. I can’t wait. I know this is horrible and negative and all that but…I don’t give a fuck, at the moment. That’s how I am right now. End of rant for real.
Skyler says
One reason they may all look so happy is because someone had just read a bunch of jokes to them.
I would think the primary suspect may be that lady Joke Reader.
Why do all these people have such ridiculous names? Is that supposed to be some big joke?
I always imagined these “Children of the Corn” had no sense of humor. I wonder if it may have something to do with the Kool Aid?
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Aquamarine stated:
“I’ve shared this before but I still can’t seem to get over how HAPPY these Ideal M’Org fools look while getting rooked by Miscavige the consummate crook.”
AHHH!The PERFECTLY executed con is when the mark THANKS you for being taken to the cleaners.
PTS-SP says
LRH data–although perfect, of course–needs a little update for modern science:
THE POWER (defined as mega-parsec giga-kilos per femtosecond) OF A THETAN IS MEASURED BY NOTHING ELSE THAN THE DISTANCE (defined as unrestrained hyperspatial multidimensional tensor arrays) AROUND HIM THAT HE CAN CONTROL.
See? It makes so much more sense now.
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Mike: I love Thursdays on your blog. 🙂
Do you realize that Thursday Funnies are the #1 statistical output of Scientology? There are more Thursday funnies items featured per year than new OTs for sure. They produce more derisive laughs than clears in any given interval of time.
Scribe says
Dave on the lam. https://otviiisgrrr8.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/dm.on_.pig_.jpg
WhatAreYourCrimes says
Mayne he can use his superhero powers to cause that pig to fly.
Yeah, when pigs fly.
Old Surfer Dude says
You’re not going to believe this, but, a pig just flew by my home!
Scribe says
Did you bring home the bacon.
Skyler says
That pig sure don’t look very happy to me. I bet it would look a whole lot happier if they would give it some food.
One of the basic human rights should be, “The Right to an adequate food supply”. But these stingy, cheapskate Sea Org member cannot see any benefit accrue to LRH when they spend money on feeding their inmates.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
I’m just happy they don’t run any zoos. Lousy tightwad MFrers!
jere lull (38years recovering) says
pigs CAN fly now, but the tonnage fee is pretty steep.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
pigs CAN fly now, but the tonnage fee is pretty steep. Talk about overweight luggage….
Scribe says
My apologies Jere. Any damage, please let me know and I’ll see that you’re properly taken care of. Damn, that sounds strange! 🤓
jere lull (38years recovering) says
No problems, scribe. The laughs are worth it.
Jere lull (38years recovering) says
Pretty picture of a full-and0by ship, but WHERE’S the connection to PIRATES?
bixntram says
I left New Haven decades ago, so I don’t feel much crivic pride in that berg. However I still feel considerable civic shame – shame that the New Haven org still exists. What a blot on the Elm City!
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Sounds like if “ideal EUS” is hotter than ever, it must have started somewhere in Siberia, for all the progress DM’s made in the last decade or two, which is par for the course, I suppose. They ARE fighting SUCH a headwind, no one giving a darn about scn in the real world and all. you know all the SPs and psychs and such they’re “fighting? Nothing more than shadow-boxing, which is an exhausting exercise, if you’re unfamiliar with it. No matter HOW fast you are, that darned shadow can always beat you.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Sounds like if “ideal EUS” is hotter than ever, it must have started somewhere in Siberia, for all the progress DM’s made in the last decade or two.
PeaceMaker says
The EUS vies with the Midwest for being the region in the US where Scientology does the worst. The whole Northeast Megalopolis, with a population of over 50 million, has just 6 “church” orgs- most or all small and failing ones, 2 with long-derelict “ideal” project buildings and another the only one in the US yet to even locate a new facility – that rarely have enough activity to even be heard from, plus 2 missions that are both run out of houses. South of that, the only org or mission on the whole rest of the coast is in Miami.
Gus Cox says
“…How about Grand Poohbah? High Muck-a-Muck? Magnificent Maestro? Fundraising Fundi?”
I’d go for Supreme Mugwump. I’d give ’em 5 bucks for that. I’ve always wanted to be a Supreme Mugwump.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Gus cox served up:
“I’d go for Supreme Mugwump. I’d give ’em 5 bucks for that. I’ve always wanted to be a Supreme Mugwump.”
How ’bout ignoramus Supremus?
jere lull (38years recovering) says
GUS: NOTHING PERSONAL about you in my comment, just me playing with words.
Jen says
Has LRH comeback from the body he discarded and invented new tech ? Coz the old tech sure as hell doesn’t work. Oh unless you really mean learn how COS can get control over your life without you even realising it until its too late. But I think that one’s been sorta done before. Pretty pic though
Scott Tweedie says
Hey Mike, I need some help here. Every Thursday I see and read affirmations, declarations of “wins” or some other confusing bulls**t under a photo of an arm-folded puppet espousing the merits of their involvement in $ci. Now, I,m no Rhodes scholar but, it seems that most of their spruiking is written by the same person with a different name below.
Scribe says
“We wanted a big booming org and we got one.” L. Ron Hubbard
“I wanted big roomy morgues and I got some.” David Miscavige
“I never met a man I didn’t like.” Will Rogers
“I never met a whale I couldn’t hype.” David Miscavige
“We’re going up while the world’s going down.” L. Ron Hubbard
“I’m living it up, fuck the world.” David Miscavige
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Scribe gave us:
““I’m living it up, fuck the world.” David Miscavige.”
^^^ LOVE your work, Scribe.
Scribe says
Thanks Jere. Ain’t this cult a riot?
Old Surfer Dude says
More like a mouse.
Mark says
Scribe,
Haven’t you always wished for a teacher named ” Joke Reeder “?
Ah, yes…
She’s Ms. Joke Reeder
An entheta weeder
A dim sci-bot
Who makes wee minds rot
Purveyor of The Dreck
A brain-dead wreck
Emerges from the hive
To twist young lives
Don’t mess about
Kick her ass out!
Scribe says
Ah yes Mark, Ms. Joke Reeder, Head Mistress of the Kiddy Con School.
She’s a real nowhere gal
Acts like she’s the children’s pal
Making all her student plans, Ms. Nobody
Has a kool-aid point of view
Tricks the children through and through
Looks to me that she’s a real SP
Nowhere gal won’t listen
To the truth she’s missing
Nowhere gal, the world is hip to your scam
She’s as blind as she can be
Just sees what she wants to see
Nowhere gal, you don’t fool me at all
Mark says
Please go to the examiner to attest.
The ceremonial bong is outside of her door; hit it liberally, see her and attest, then do your celebratory interpretive dance before writing your success story.
Very Well Done, Sir!
Scribe says
Thank you Mr. Foster, I hereby comply to your wise counsel and am about to spread my message to the world. Hip, hip, look out Dave!
Cindy says
Joke (pronounced “Yoka”) Reeder owned and ran the Desert School which was kind of like a mini Int Base for wayward kids of Scns. There has been a lot published on the blogs about the horrible conditions and treatment there. Two of their former students got out and have done interviews and videos of what life was like there. It was bad. The kids were abandoned by their parents who put them away there “to get better.” When the kids would beg to be taken home and told of the bad treatment, Joke and staff would put on an acting job like it is all so good and you can’t believe the ethics particle kids. So the parents never took the kids out.
Skyler says
Oh My! Apologies, Mark. I thought that I checked every post today to make sure no one made fun of the name, “Joke Reeder” before I did. But I must have missed your post somehow.
In any case, your joke was funnier than mine anyway. Well done Sir! Or maybe it’s Madame?
Shereefe says
Mike, your comments are the best. I was laughing so hard about LRH’s prostulates. Would never want to verbally argue with you. Your comebacks are funny but also have a little “bitch slap” in them. Lol
Peter Blood says
That Sea Borg folding-arms-in-pics thing is their way of saying “I must be some kind of total gullible & weak idiot who hasn’t woken up yet.”
Mark says
Peter,
They THINK that they are Teegeeackian Bad Asses, saving the Guh-laxy, superior to the rest of us dead-in-the-head meat-sacks. Really. Which is quite sad.
Peter Blood says
Martha Miller’s life is too complex as an excuse of getting out of serving as a time-wasting Sea Borg flunky? I thought $cientology didn’t let you have ANY excuses? Oh but I guess money always talks and comes before principles with a money-grubbing desperate cult.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
“My life was too complex” means she had OTHER things to do, probably all more survival-oriented on her Dynamics, like eating, sleeping in a comfy bed under a leak-free roof, maybe even spoiling the grand kids.
I can certainly sympathize with wanting to have my OWN life instead of living in the cast-off dregs of someone else’s — which is what the SO felt like and staff always looked like.
Aquamarine says
Mike and all of you,
These comments I find rather harsh.
Fair is fair, after all.
Each Scientology parishioner in good standing DOES have their Power Of Choice, you know!
They can choose to either:
Give all of their time and effort to the Cherch,
or, give all of their money to the Cherch.
Its a simple choice, really.
And the decision it totally up to the individual Scientologist!
Not unreasonable, I’d say.
After all, no one is asking them to do BOTH.
Stop nattering.
Aquamarine says
To recap:
Give them all your time, physical focus, mental focus, physical energy and mental energey as a Sea Org or Staff Member
OR,
If your life is not SIMPLE, meaning, if, like old Martha, your life is kind of COMPLICATED, then
KEEP your complicated life just the way it is, and give them all your money!
I hope this assists in the decision-making process.
Old Surfer Dude says
The Pirate HONOUR Roll? What the fuck does that mean? Oh! That’s right. They don’t need no stinkin’ grammar. They have the tech.
bixntram says
Okay, I’m no physicist, but what the hell are “light year kilotons per microsecond”?
Zee Moo says
That one bothered me too. Let’s see, a measure of distance followed by a measure of weight divided by microseconds.
Sorry, I am still stuck on when one train leaves Los Angeles traveling at 50 mph and another train leaves Chicago traveling at 60 mph…..
I don’t do math, and Lron didn’t do math either.
bixntram says
Oh, God; you’re bringing back horrible memories, memories I thought I’d left behind when I suffered through highschool algebra and never quite understood it. “Let X equal the speed of train A” didn’t help.
Newcomer says
Lets let ‘S’ equal the four letter word of the pile of stuff building up in front of Dave’s desk!
Yo Dave,
The next round of lawsuits ought to get yer attention good buddy. Only one big fat question remains. How much loot will you have to part with to settle …….. rather than take the stand? This will leave a mark!
Solution: Buy scotch now …… in bulk!
Old Surfer Dude says
I never got passed.
Scribe says
Just Ron talking out of his ass again.
Old Surfer Dude says
So that’s what I smell.
Scribe says
The stink of a thetan (measured in megatons of kool-aid consumption per year) is proportional to the complete absence of critical thinking plus ever increasing donations to the IAS.
Ann Davis says
Scribe! 😂. Always making me laugh.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
bixntram gave us:
“Okay, I’m no physicist, but what the hell are “light year kilotons per microsecond”?”
That’s OK, Neither was Tubby.
As best as I could decipher it, it was a big-sounding measure of “power”, riffing off of foot-pounds per second, or perhaps Megawatt-hours, which IS a measure used in the electric industry.
Bruce Ploetz says
Jere, the units are “light-year” (distance) Kilotons (mass) per microsecond (time). The usual expression, sans hype, would be kilogram-meters per second, the standard units for momentum.
Of course, momentum is not power. that would be kilogram-meters squared per second squared. So he just got a few power terms mixed up. Could happen to anybody.
But then he equates the whole thing to distance? Or maybe “spherical spatial length” is really volume?
Obviously written by someone who flunked even High School physics.
The worst of it, though, is the totalitarian philosophy. Power = control, if there is anything within lightyears that was not in your utter authoritarian grip you are weak and powerless. My way or the highway. The ideal of Keith Raniere and Pol Pot.
Nobody can really live that way. Some things are under your control, some aren’t. Others have rights even when they conflict with your wishes.
Mike Rinder says
Just love it when you put the scientific slammer-jammer on these things Bruce. A real smart person exposing the alleged genius who bamboozles the sheeple with bs. Perfect.
PeaceMaker says
Yep, in high school Hubbard got a 66 in Physics – considered a failure on the school’s scale, contributing to his being dropped from the institution – and in college he received a D for one semester of physics, an E for another with no credit awarded, and finally an F in Modern Physics:
https://tonyortega.org/2015/02/24/new-government-release-contains-a-surprise-l-ron-hubbard-flunked-out-of-high-school-too/
A math instructor indicates on a probational report that Hubbard “failed make up in analytics, failed calculus flatly. Work throughout term was weak, also failed final exam. Apparently loafing. Polite, talkative, but weak student.”
Also, he failed a college entrance exam in physics:
Ron took an exam to get into the Naval Academy, which had been his father’s ardent dream.
The FDA investigation managed to track down the scores of Ron’s failed test. “Mr. Hubbard failed to pass regular mental examination for midshipman, 17 April 1929, making the following marks: geometry 1.2, algebra 0.0, English 3.2, U.S. History, 2.5, ancient history 2.5, physics 1.8 (range 4 – 0 with 2.5 required)”
Peabody says
Light year is a distance.
Kilotons is a force (ton = 2000 pounds)
Microsecond is time
Power is force X distance / time, electrically it’s voltage X current
velocity is distance / time with direction (vector)
momentum is mass X velocity
energy is mass X velocity squared.
pound is a force not a mass
kilogram is a mass, not a force
Sherry says
I love the rainbow flag trotted out for LA Org during Pride month as if they welcomed LGBTQ people.
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Sherry:
“I love the rainbow flag trotted out for LA Org during Pride month as if they welcomed LGBTQ people.”
Of COURSE! THEIR MONEY SPENDS JUST AS GOOD AS “real” people’s
It’s ALL about the MONEY, MORE MONEY, make others produce so as to make even MORE MONEY.
Mark says
Exactly, Jere, that’s just how cynical and manipulative and greedy these amoral culties are. They will call them “faggots”and “carpet munchers” and degraded beings behind their backs, while love-bombing them and taking their money in a public setting.
Aquamarine says
Back in the day I at my org there was a then OTV public, a very creative guy, who, I was told, HAD been gay, but going up the Bridge all of this had been “audited out”. That’s what this girl who’d known him a long time and was herself OTlV at the time, told me. Anyway, this guy made very good money professionally, was very helpful around the org and an intelligent, witty guy too. I loved having him as a twin in communication drills. He was a terrific bullbaiter. Point being, the org had long before accepted him in his original self- acknowledged gay state for auditing. His money was just as green as a anyone else’s, apparently. PS: I have my doubts as to whether his gayness actually got audited out. No proof, just a hunch. He blew the org in 2005 and no one seemed to know where he went or if he was coming back. We all asked about him and missed him. He was popular. Possibly his disappearing had nothing to do with being or not being gay but was for tech reasons.
Miss Dutch says
I hope all the folks currently enjoying Howdy Con make a visit to the “Clear L.A. Event”. That would be epic!
Old Surfer Dude says
Miss Dutch, I think you have something there. Keep it up!
Roger Larsson says
If human beings I is the whole world it’s of more value to have critics, psychs and communists as friends than as enemies. In purpose to save the world critics, psychs and communists must be saved than sued, lied to, fooled and destroyed utterly.
Scribe says
“Can I have some more kool-aid please?”
Martha Miller
Old Surfer Dude says
If Martha Miller can have Kool-Aid, why can’t the rest of us?
jere lull (38years recovering) says
Scribe penned:
““Can I have some more kool-aid please?”
Martha Miller”
That’s twice today that you’ve endangered this keyboard with spewed coffee.
Scribe says
Mr. (ha) Andres Rodriguez. The memory of him screaming at me in the Flag C/S office is on a par with my later encounter with Mr. (ha ha) Jenny Linson. Enjoy your time away from the Complex motherfucker! And good luck in the Hole bitch!
Old Surfer Dude says
Please, PLEASE, don’t hold back! I want to see how this ends!
Scribe says
Stay tuned for the upcoming movie THE BIG CON.
Old Surfer Dude says
Should be the HUGE Con.
Scribe says
Monster Con.
PeaceMaker says
Are we seeing a new emphasis on the Personal Efficiency Course? At least it has a title that might resonate somewhat in the 21st century, though typically the wording is still a bit dated – I think “effectiveness” is more the sort of term used currently.
And isn’t the Pasadena org being moved to Ventura? I’m sure CofS management would like to re-frame that, but it’s got to be a bitter pill for Pasadena members to swallow that they’re having to give up their beautiful downtown building for an ugly monstrosity a long drive to the South, and even lose the name of their hometown org. It may well be one of the most disastrous moves to a new facility yet, if they leave behind a lot of long-time members in the process.
Speaking of disastrous moves, among the 7 small and failing orgs that don’t have the wherewithal to get an “ideal” facility without outside help, there’s Boston, which moved out of longtime central location to another one inconveniently to the South, in their case while in the midst of a real estate debacle, and is hardly ever heard from anymore in spite of being in one of the largest and most prosperous metro areas in the country (about twice the size of Kansas City). And the Long Island org is one of those accidents of history – and internal politics – that should never have been anything more than a mission in the first place, though in that case it might well have died off by now.
I did read the other day that Kansas City is noted as an example of a revived and thriving downtown. But as the example of Boston shows, the demographic that attracts is not one that Scientology does well with – at the risk of generalizing, it might be said that they are college educated professionals who grew up on South Park.
And as for really dated, and ridiculous, language, I can’t believe they’re trotting out a quote with that line about “light-year kilotons per microsecond.” It just exposes Hubbard as a scientifically illiterate poser who was making things up as he went, trying to fool credulous people with overwrought language.
Ann Davis says
lrh quotes are a huge footbullet!!!
Scribe says
Next time you’re found
With your chin on the ground
There’s a lot to be learned
So take a look around
Just what makes that underpaid staff
Think they’ll clear all the nasty riffraff?
Anyone knows the staff, can’t
Clear all the nasty riffraff
But they’ve got high hopes
They’ve got high hopes
They’ve got high apple pie
In the sky hopes
So any time you’re gettin’ low
‘Stead of lettin’ go, just remember that staff
Oops, there goes another ex-staff!
Oops, there goes another ex-staff!
Oops, there goes another ex-staff!
Mark says
I got my mind on my theta
And my theta on my mind
Add coffee and cigarettes
And I stay on my grind
Though I can’t afford food
I’m not gonna brood
I’m livin’ the dream
I’m on the crack team
Dig my world-saver kit
Full of super-hero shit
I got the P.E. course
A supernatural force
It’s just what they need
To bring ’em up to speed
There’ll be a roar and a din
From the public crowding in
With yaps and yelps
They’ll rejoice in the help
They’ll sign up for more
They’ll break down the doors
The overwhelming demand
Makes ALL orgs expand
In no time at all
The ebil psyches will fall
We’ll get so much money
It’ll flow like honey
The G.I. will increase
For my beans, a bit more grease
For my car, a little gas
And for me, a bit of mass
Called ” a place to rest my ass ”
Until Cap’n Davy cracks the whip
And sends me to the Asbestos Ship
Freedom is Slavery
Servitude is Bliss
I thank him for degrading me
And give his ass a kiss.
Flat-assed broke and almost dead
3 feet back of my empty head
Twist and turn and zig and zag
And end up licking floors at Flag!
Scribe says
Great one Mark! 👍
Mark says
Tryin’ to ride your jet stream, man!
Getting a kick out of your writing here and at the Bunker!
👍👍👍😁
Ann Davis says
Mark! One of your best! ☺💖
Wynski says
Watch video of NOT open for business Church of Scamology Ventura and how scamologists have less confront than cockroaches confronted by a flashlight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvpzPf2j4lk