Flag Scraping The Barrel
Somehow this image is just perfect. What assholes.
Go scrape up some “unreported” stats so we can “present them to COB” for Maiden Voyage. They must “downstat” so it’s time to “get creative.”
Doing the impossible…
And that is “arriving at the org for this briefing.” Thinking big!
Another gift “from COB”
Wow, how generous. Buy me a building and I will have someone buy you a juicer (to squeeze every last drop?) and then say it’s from me. It’s like the old LRH “beer and cheese party” caper. He didn’t pay a penny….
Handing over your money sets you free
Here is the evidence in cold hard hype. Proof that “abilities gained” in scientology are fantasies and delusions that have lost all meaning.
The proud accomplishment of having been fleeced
Michael Robber
Hide your wallets. Hold onto your purses. Because he is going to “blow your socks off” like they have never been blown before since the last time there was a briefing by anyone on anything.
Not to mention the wins from the “Scientology Dissemination campaign” — but I bet he DOES mention them!
Seriously?
He moved up to “eight humanitarians”? Is this a very un-pc comment on his weight?
The lights are going out
Only paid half the electricity bill?
Medical advice?
Seems like a strange mix. But you have to admire those eyebrows.
Sizzling Seventies
The last time Miami Org had anything going to be excited about. In the doldrums for 40 YEARS but have faith. All will be well as soon as we raise enough money to decorate a palace for ourselves. Then the pumpkin turns into a carriage (though there are a lot of rotting pumpkins around the world that have to make you wonder…)
Clive Rabies is coming…
What a special occasion this is going to be. You can hear how they have progressed on their 10,000 on or through Solo NOTs from 6,324 in January to 6,417 today. And at this rate the target should be met in 2095.
And I guess they are expecting a really huge crowd. The AOLA auditorium probably seats at least 75 people.
Harry Potter has a new trick
No need to pay money for OT VIII to solve your amnesia on the Whole Track. D/COB Lookalike I/T has it all in hand and will splain it to you.
Secret decoder ring
My secret decoder ring tells me this is a euphemism for a recruitment event. In spite of being an “ideal org” now for about 8 years, they haven’t expanded and are NOT SH Size (how can that be?) They’re desperate for more staff.
Valley (un)reality
Things are a little warped in the Valley. Do they REALLY think that by renovating their building they are going to magically change the scene in LA when the 7 OTHER ideal orgs are going nowhere?
Food, glorious food
Have to have at least one food “sell” each week. What a deal. You give us all your money and we will give you a cookie.
It’s the ONLY way they could get anyone to show up to be raped and pillaged by Michael Roberts.
I wonder what happened to the May 9th event? Obviously lower importance than getting money to the IAS.
Facts?
I bet this “briefing” will be woefully short on “facts” and VERY long on regging. The drugging of children is coming to an end? And CCHR is single handedly making that happen. Sure….
Inglewood
Another of those stellar ideal orgs that are “clearing LA.” The CO CLO is going to be there for graduation? WTF?
When are they going to put ANY African Americans in their graduation promo shots? (Silly question — they need to have someone complete something and the only public they can get are Linda Lombardo and some other ringers sent in from CC or Pac)
More Valley Hype
If this truly is the “greatest ideal org movement on earth” then there is no hope ANYONE is EVER going to make another ideal org. Because this greatest movement on earth has been trying to pull it off for TWELVE YEARS and still haven’t even STARTED renovating their white elephant….
Mike, love that smiling pit you put up there today. Nothing can melt the heart like a happy dog.
Mike is an enemy for the cult .. and so he goes himself..
Mike, your information, commentary, and perceptions are all in all quite serious and make us think–the important part of education.
But let me say, you are wonderfully witty! Wondering if this humor was even allowed as part of your personality and style when in the cult.
Most of men is trustworthy .. scientologist too .. they try to deliver something which can do something with worth .. lot of them give their life for it .. many of us did the same and it includes myself ..
When I came into scientology in 1973 I thought about it as a religion .. believed in it very comfortable for some time .. then I found out that there is something wrong with such an idea .. which means, that nobody should give a promise which cannot be delivered in the sense of the agreement ..
It says, that I found people who wanted to be cause (which was not the cause for which I have looked myself) .. they wanted cause over money of others for themself .. so I did not longer accept scientology as a religion .. why? asking for money from others without delivering the promised agreement is a worse game .. it has nothing to do with religion ..
I have never believed that the church can produce OTs. It is simply that the mechanics of the tech from LRH will never produce one. It is impossible. It goes simply in one way with the idea of sec-checks .. in second it goes with the idea that you can be declared ..
All people on earth who are able to be an OT (something like that) would be declared under the rules of scientology. This is the only truth I found in this church .. so it is a religion of the stupid people who should have power .. as more stupid you go, as more power you will have .. and you will go stupid with the tech of LRH anyway .. surely, and there is no way out .. if you hang up on help .. you hang up on help yourself or help as the basic idea about .. help is basically an intention ..
Mike, your comments are so funny – superb wit. I’ve had a good laugh, so good for the soul. Keep it coming on.
The Demigod of Misanthropia ( a remote place in southern Caliphurnia where nobody wins).
There has been considerable speculation as to how he may end up. Some say he might cut and run to an off shore location and live off the money he has stolen from the golden geese, which any normal criminal would do.
I thought that too for a while but have changed my mind and will now toss out speculations of my own based on my special OT ability to see the future as a result of seeing history unfold before my very eyes.
As I gaze into my Chrystal ball, I see a small creature resembling a cross between a possum and a human standing up on his hind legs assuming a full human like form and morphing into his current incarnation.
He may be a past life psychopath or a current life sociopath but he is unaware of that and is delusional at best.
He really believes that he is hot shit on a stick, but wait, he also thinks that he is invincible and so is his body.
He craves power, control, admiration, status, alcohol and possible Meth.
He won’t give these things up and blow because he has never been alone out in the real world and doesn’t know Jack Shit personally.
So what is he going to do?
He will probably keep moving around trying to put on a show for a while, then retreat to his favorite castle and hole up with his favorite acolytes until they abandon him, then he will OD hisself and go out like a fallen angel in a cloud of self pity. Just sayin.
What’s the big CCHR news? Did the Well Done Shock Treatment Hours finally go down last week or something?
End of rant NOT Aquamarine, Hubbard infallible ? Really?
Hubbard infallible? I don’t believe he was, ralphienboy. Did I say that?
Making fun of someone for their weight is douchy….
Re it being hard to believe suit lady ‘invalidated ‘ her class whatever auditor-ness is funny…this is ‘Scientology’ people. Seems to me she’s already done a really good job invalidating herself just by being in the whole project.
And a ‘wog’ doctor is hysterical coming from a bunch of muggles such as yourself. I could go on, but that’s as far as I could stand reading your
superior smug being ness
Is it any wonder the good doctor, Alan Sosin, has managed to get himself sued for the PR and taking a guy of his meds. The guy tried to kill himself!
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/09/18/50389.htm
It’s one thing for Tom Cruise to tell the world: “I believe in a bunch of wacky shit–and you can too.” However, I am amazed, and more than a little disturbed, to see that an MD would be used to endorse a form of “medical” quackery such as the PR. One can only hope that his professional organization gets wind of this!
Fascinating. I guess ONCE you buy into it, you’re done. Despite the endless probing for$, the ridiculous openings of ideal orgs, one after the other….
Sadly it appears that once the individual Scientologist has” bitten into the forbidden fruit” it’s over. All logic is foregone. it’s truly heartbreaking. And maybe as Ron himself stated in a letter, he is the Anti Christ.
Mike, I don’t understand why the note given to the young man on the Freewinds(onboard to do hisOTVIII) on TonyOrtega’s column, isn’t used as the opening argument for all protests.. He said it. He(Ron) wrote it…. I’m coming back as the Anti Christ! Don’t you think current Scientologist need this tidbit of information forced into their faces!
Took me 14 straight hours to go thru all 4-5 personal account links on Tony’s site. Truly fascinating! I hope he continues to run them. Jess doing a great job, as you are. I pray you never get discouraged.
He moved up to “eight humanitarians”? Is this a very un-pc comment on his weight?
No, no, no. He ate eight humanitarians.
Deep fried, no doubt … at an IAS luncheon … getting fleeced … uhm, I mean briefed (the IAS likes heavier folks, they can’t move as fast to the doors)
Not only will Mike “Robber” blow your socks off, he’ll steal the shirt off your back.
“What is the difference between whole track amnesia and present life amnesia?” Umm, present-life amnesia is a real thing.
Forty-two hundred individual scientologists have joined the crusade for the valley. And that’s more than have contributed to any other project in the whole world. What about all those millions of scientologists, you know the ones from all the straight up and vertical expansion? What are they contributing to?
They may get spontanious knowingness from Gavin Potter, but not spontaneous spellingness
And Gavin Potteringness gives me throwupingness
NOT end-of-rant Alert:
“Breaking through barriers to move up the IAS status is a demonstration of abilities gained. Cognitions and awareness are one thing, DOING something with them is quite another thing…and I say that’s where the real case gain come in…and that’s a new case state!”
Interesting, Linda.
Now, time was when “doing something” with auditing cognitions and awareness meant becoming an auditor,getting auditor trained oneself and being able to audit others. You know, as in “An auditor is senior to a Clear” LRH – ? Does this ring any bells for you, Class Vi auditor Linda?
Time was when the Founder said that half of all the gains of the Bridge came from being oneself a trained auditor.
But now, it appears that half of all the abilities gained from the Bridge come not from knowing how to audit, how to confront and handle the reactive mind – no!
These abilities – half of the Bridge – come from donating money to the IAS and Ideal Orgs!
Whew! Good to know, Linda! LRH had it wrong. SO wrong. Yes, just another of the Founder’s whims which have no basis in fact.
RIGHT.
Hey, Linda! My late Nana has something to say to you:
“DISGRAZIA!”
It’s like Deja Vu all over again.All this pointless fund raising
just proves that a Nickel is not worth a dime to David Miscavige.
On the Gavin Potter “Amnesia” flyer, when I was green and saw stuff like this I assumed that if the speaker was covering it then he must have it- know what I mean? In this example, Gavin is briefing us on handing wholetrack amnesia. So, I would assume that because he is such an expert, with his pompous grin and all that he would have some personal experience with this state. But no, that is not the case. That’s my assumption anyway. I don’t believe Gavin has a full recall of his entire 99 bazillion trillion years of thetan wholetrack any more than I do. Gavin coudnt, for a million dollars point us in the general direction of his most recent past life tombstone.
What kind of a doctor would ever reccomend the purification rundown thing, seriously. If you can buy your MD in WallMart then OK, no further questions.
Patron Success “… doing this status has been real and stable case gain.”
It is definitely happening: Status has replaced the steps on the bridge; it’s “The Bridge to Total Status” – from Lifetime member to Platinum Invictus – see the Underground Bunker:
http://tonyortega.org/2015/05/03/whale-watching-the-wealthy-donors-keeping-scientology-afloat-2015-edition/#more-22265
“Dig Deep … and find every possible stat, you may have forgotten to report!”
This is clear: His COBness is the finder of lost tech … and his minions are the finders of lost stats.
One piece of promo is bad enough but when you stack them back to back they really get funky looking. Talk about theetie wheetie…how in the f— did I ever let myself get bamboozled into giving them so much cash. Just the idea that dm “gifted” anything is ludicrous. Like that psycho is getting out his check book and buying an Org a juicer?? WTF?? Who believes any of this horse shit?
What, a 70’s themed event with no mention of “soul duds?” I’m disappointed.
And that Patron Success – how delusional can you get? Wonder how much case gain I can get by burning a pile of money in the back yard?
What is memory? It’s a song from Cats. Write a musical as popular as that one and you too can become a Platinum Deleterious.
There. I just saved you from Gavin Potter.
Amazing that in their promo, auditing and training are now being characterized as “inflow”s while on the other hand, donating in a major way to an Ideal Morgue is an “outflow” which affords the donor “real case gain”.
You know, I’m trying to think of some sharp and incisive and devastatingly clever comment on this latest tidbit of Co$ insanity, but all keeps echoing in my mind is,
“Being audited as a PC is an INFLOW?…
AUDITOR TRAINING is an INFLOW?…”
Honestly, its too much for me, just too much, no kidding.
“Its not auditing (inflow) and its not training (inflow) but its something I’ve taken responsibility for. I DID IT!!!! I took control and became cause over case and stops.”
All of you trained auditors out there, listen up, now you know how to REALLY become cause over your PC’s and your own case and stops, and, hey, you PCs, news flash for you: your gradiently increasing willingness and abilities in auditing sessions to confront the mental, emotional and physical pain in your past isn’t worth a tinker’s damn as far as responsibility for your own case is concerned.
OMG, this is a real mind-blower for me.
Problem is it is like the shit flowing out of a christmas goose. Every inflow has an outflow coming from somewhere. With the cult you can never be too careful…….
Yo Dave,
There is only one thing that we all know you have a consistently high statistic for and that is the production of Daveshit.
Of course with Your cult we know that it is really Allshit. That of course is on good days …………..
Aqua, we gotta keep this simple in order to really understand it. Let’s forget about inflow, outflow, overflow, etc. 😉 and just remember the KEY axiom to understanding the situation.
Being a scientologist = being mind f#cked 🙂
Hi John Locke Thank you for your post. When I wake up from nightmares where I am hit because I am evil intention incarnate by the GOI many years ago it is a shock one never forgets. The Team that love bombed me so hard now wants me dead. Incredible but true I was a sacrificial lamb,& yes mind f…. Thank the universe for Mike’s blog I spent so many years unable to communicate what happened to me until I found his site.Thank you always & a friend forever Ann B.
Very true, JL. I’m so glad I’m out. There’s some stuff I can barely handle reading about even though I am safepointed outside the cult. Mike frequently makes things funny and that helps my confront a great deal, but some things are just…well, you know.
My pleasure Ann B. I too have nightmares connected with that time. Probably always will.
First time commenting, love this blog and all of your comments…I was never in the church, two questions that I’d love someone to answer. First, do most Scientologists have a clue about the massive piles of cash that Miscavige controls, do they really think that their own constant fundraising and donations are needed to keep the church afloat? And second, do they really believe that the church is truly delivering on the promise of clearing the planet, are members given false statistics about huge numbers of new clears, so they actually think all that they’re doing/donating is worth it?
Wecome Kathy,
Answers from a 30+ year involved apostate (also officially defrocked and from time to time bitter but enjoying it):
“First, do most Scientologists have a clue about the massive piles of cash that Miscavige controls?”
A) no
” do they really think that their own constant fundraising and donations are needed to keep the church afloat?”
A) yes. It’s called ‘building a warchest’
” do they really believe that the church is truly delivering on the promise of clearing the planet, ”
A) yes, they listen to Dave and (better) believe what He says.
“are members given false statistics about huge numbers of new clears, so they actually think all that they’re doing/donating is worth it?”
A) no, the stats are true which is why they believe it.
Sorry, couldn’t resist a sarcastic answer! I suggest you attend an event as a first timer and tell us how it goes with the initial love bombing you will get. Remember, leave your wallet and anything of value …..at home.
Thanks!! Your reply made things really clear (pun intended!!)…I will consider attending an event, your suggestion reminded me of the early 70’s, in Hollywood, my boyfriend was literally dragged inside for a personality test, while I had to wait outside (only 17, too young to be indoctrinated I guess!), my boyfriend reappeared a short time later, guess he didn’t have the right ($$) stuff!!
First off Kathy you must understand. Questioning authority in Scientology has always been met with punishment.
It is actually a High Crime in Scientology to question anything regarding auditing tech. High Crime in Scientology basically means you are doing evil.
This doctrine was created by Ron Hubbard and is being applied standardly by Miscavige.
Part of the sick nature of Scientology as taught by Ron is:
If you are critical it is because of YOUR EVIL INTENTIONS.
And once Ron becomes infallible and his students agree with “criticism = being evil”:
Minds shut off. Inquiry becomes illegal. Agreeing to having intellectual sovereignty suppressed becomes a form of Scientology integrity.
The power structure of Scientology has always met criticism with punishment. And Ron suggested to “ruin utterly” those that he defined as SPs.
So you see, if you want to keep your family, friends, jobs and life, you better tow the line and equate being a slave as being a Homo Novi.
In Scientology, they tell you we are going to teach you to be free. But when you demonstrate that independence you are met with punishment.
It’s a philosophical dictatorship.
Hi Brian, Thank you again I love your posts you are so incredibly on point with what you say & when I was in the SO I was ” ruin utterly as an SP because the GOI decided I
had evil intentions.I never did but from then on I was ground hamburger & Ron who I thought was my leader threw me to the wolves. I love your posts. A friend forever Ann B.
Thanks Brian, it’s fascinating and chilling, incredible to see the level of mind control. So many of the ex-Scientologists who are bravely speaking out are brilliant people, but that brilliance was so completely controlled and manipulated, you end up thinking thoughts that aren’t your own…
Mike,
I love the way you are able to de-construct these promo pieces and distill the verbiage down to its very essence.
There’s a lot of funny in Thursday Funnies and the best of it is in the little details.
“I’ve been in a Release state since I finished my Gold Meritorious status in the IAS.” Linda Lombardo “FINISHED” her Gold Meritorious status? That sounds like she is saying she completed a cycle of action that required time and effort. In truth that cycle of action consisted of her pulling a credit card out of her purse, giving it to the registrar, watching the registrar swipe it, receiving it back from the registrar and FINALLY, putting the card back in her purse. That’s the new standard tech and it delivers case gain and a Release state. It also helps make Thursday such a funny day.
Let’s see how long her “Release” state lasts if she flowed money she couldn’t afford and the bills she can’t pay start piling up, OR when she cognites on the enormity of the overt of conning people into believing that donating = case gain. What a whoring, lying, shilling bitch and what a disgrace to the auditing profession. “Disgrazia” as my Italian grandmother would have put it. Alright, I’m done, end of rant.
I can’t believe Rooster is still shoveling his horseshit. Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy and we have been friends for many years especially when we worked together with Amanda and he has told me some of the most salaciously racist jokes for a Black man, but really, to be backing the Dwarf the way he does is for one reason only…..wait for it….the almighty dollar! He lives on his commissions! Hey, we all did when we regged for the IAS. But it came together for me, not soon enough, I’ll tell ya! When one gets donations for things like CCHR, all you are telling your prospects is what they want to hear and that CCHR will do its earnest to pull it off and “we may need to return to the pump” for more, but that will be all right….right? After-all the psychs are always coming out with new stuff and try as we might it’s hard to keep up, we need your donations to keep up the battle.
One can rattle on about this crap forever. One Clearwater ‘boys club’ IAS reg told me once that in order to get a dono he would always lie to his public. LRH did say somewhere that the way to control people is to lie to them. Well?
One of my biggest problems with LRH and scientology is the perversion of words for their own means. Forget about “ethics” and “technology” and look at the ones relevant to this post: “humanitarian” – this is not curing cancer or promoting world peace, it’s investing in real estate! And “status” – lovely to know people with money can always attain a higher status than those without.
And “status” – lovely to know people with money can always attain a higher status than those without.—well, we knew that! It’s been happening since money was invented. Only in this case the status is as plastic as the debt cards.
These nutbags just don’t grasp the situation. Arriving at the Battle Creek org is not MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. It is MISSION: UNDESIRABLE. That’s why no one will be there.
“MISSION: UNDESIRABLE.” Laughter!
Dr Allan Sosin is “board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology’. You would think anybody knows about kidneys would know about all the blood filtering that organs do. The ‘topics’ that the Doctor was going to discuss are totally useless. All you get out of the ‘purif’ is dehydrated and fiscally poorer.
A quick search found that one ‘doctor rating site’ had no complaints or lawsuits against him. Fortunately, another web site had info on a lawsuit against him. So much for ‘doctor rating sites’.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?28632-Patient-Sues-Scientology-Based-Clinic
Spontanious (actully spelled Spontaneous) knowingness? – when a thought just creeps into your head, like ‘why am I getting the same old reg story, time after time’. Hey, I like that Cyndy Lauper song..
Memory occlusion? – what happens when your memories don’t align with COB. = Sec check
Memory? Those little sticks of chips that make my computer work.
Linda Lombardo?? Deluded into buying a quicker end to all $cieno ‘courses’ by buying status. Martin Luther would nail the 95 feces to her ass.
Gavin Potter?? So Vince the Sham-WOW guy wasn’t available?
Clive Rabies?? I had to have my dog inoculated against him.
I will be chuckling for some time, thanks to these funnies.
‘Actully’ should be ‘actually’.
“You would think anybody knows about kidneys ” I left a ‘who’ out. Dyslexia be bad…but strong in this one…..
The Dr. Is heavily into alternative medicine. As we skeptics say, “The woo is strong in this one.” Read the smaĺl print. What a hoot!
Good Find Ze! Woo ..ugh
Linda Lombardo is supposedly a class VI auditor. Here she is promoting the new “give us all your money for buildings” tech. So, there is case gain in having a rich husband who lets her give some of his money for her own self-aggrandizement.
Okay ladies. Don’t fret over the fact that there is no class VI course any more. Just go marry a rich guy and everything will be hunky dory and you’ll be OTeee as hell. Just hand over some of your new hubby’s bucks for Dave’s buildings and you’ll have case gain galore.
Have I got that straight now?
Thanks, LDW! Roger and will do. Now I know how to make my WDDH* stat go straight up and vertical so that once and for all I can have real and stable case gain.
*Well Done Donating Hours
I’m doing my best to J & D but it actually depresses me to learn that this Linda Whatsername is herself a trained auditor, giving forth with this crap about donating in order to achieve real and stable case gain. Its very sad, I think. I don’t understand how she could invalidate herself and her fellow auditors this way. A Class VI auditor! I just can’t get my mental mitts around this!
“At no time in our history has it been more exciting to be a Scientologist.”
This might just be true, in a “may you live in interesting times” way.
Laughter!
Heh Orange County – you have a walking corpse – Dr. Sosin – helping you get healthy and getting you up the Bridge? How Ideal is that? I thought your Idle Morgue was going to help. GAT II?? Super Power??
Now you have WOG Doctor’s that looks like a walking corpse giving you advice on how to be healthy ? WTF?
Can a Scientologist anywhere just wake up please?
We need some more defectors announcing their leaving Scientology. Surely we have someone sane inside Scientology seeing this opposite of what claims to be…
Whose next?
Learn the difference from Whole Track Amnesia?
I recall going to one of Gavin Potter’s “Get Rich Quick” Seminars. It was called something else – but you get the drift.
Gavin Potter has no experience running a pop corn stand. He is a robot. Poor sap!
Scientrickery – Science of Bullshit, Smoke, Mirrors and Parlor Tricks since 1950.
What’s the difference between whole track amnesia and present day amnesia? I’ve forgotten. remind me.
Short term memory loss.
Save your money folks. All you need to know is that you are you and no one else. Not even all those people you thought you were. You were always just You, and you are You right now. So now you know. Whole track Amnesia solved.
Wait a minute, I know…damn! It was right there
As far as I experienced it, the problem of the weekly statsgot a lot of people fabricating stats in order toget at least some money from the cahier… Being a companies consultant BEFORE coming to the cult, as soon as I saw the weekly stats, I could see the obviously illogical ones, like :money from books not in coherence with number of book sold, student points or whatever else not coherent with what I had observed during the week. The observation you did here went fromsimilar motivations,the worse lies coming fromthe Upper Echelons!
I’m fascinated by this. So the actual number of books sold doesn’t always match up to the reported number of books sold? I figured that one, and maybe those volunteer hours reported might actually resemble real numbers, since people would tattle on you for making those up.
Is there a stat for certificate-making? This would be a useful one. Also flyers publicized on a certain blog or two….
Also on the funnies; how did I miss that there is an Orange County Org? *adds another empty one to the list*
First you Toot to OT now you Coclo Wus. Love that they leave the acronyms as though everyone actually will understand them.
I hope that the OC event by that doctor is secretly recorded and PUBLISHED. He should have some pretty fancy things to say about putting people into a hot box pumped up with extremely large amounts of “vitamins”. He should be held to back up his claims.
I know…. How did COS get a real doctor to put himself , his credentials on the line? Not to worry, he may have received (bought) his degree from the diploma/certification bogus ‘ CCollege that RLH got his degrees. Sad Sad Sad
A good tittle for the Flag OTC poster is: “Stat Push” or “Pretense is what matters”
Hey now…
Hi Statpush, Thank you really I couldn’t confuse you with Flag OTC poster. That OTC committee gives me night terrors! They all look vacant with no one home. Thanks always & take care. Ann B.
This is all so ass-backwards. I’m all for cool renovated buildings, but instead of jamming everyone to give-give-give,
the simple obvious solution to expansion would be to allow student auditors to actually AUDIT people for something like a reasonable
fee of $25 dollars an hour with, perhaps another $25 per hour for C/S time. Considering that Staff and Sea Org make virtually no money anyhow,
they should be spending their time actually helping people instead of running them ragged through ethics cycles and fund raising activities.
Then if some high-flyers want to donate more for buildings and PR, they would have something to really feel good about.
Good point Paul. I wondered about that for years. It would have been SO easy to arrange for students to train and allow people to co-audit their way up through Clear. Didn’t Hubbard mentioned that things don’t just happen, and that low stats and low-production are caused internally? THERE’S NO MONEY IN IT= The Why.
Paul M and Dave P – Agreed that what you’ve outlined is an excellent plan for the expansion of Scientology, but “how best to expand” is not the problem that Apple Box Boy David Miscavige is solving.
It’s funny but when I read about Linda Lombardo achieving a “release state” on handing over her life savings all I could think was that she has actually become detached from reality in order to deal with the insanity of her actions. It’s what I used to do, some how convince myself that “the tech” would get me to a point where I could pay off all my debts with ease. 15 years later and having seen my personal debt spiral to unimaginable levels it finally became obvious this was NEVER going to happen while I still had anything to do with scn.
I had a similar consideration, but afterwards I came to the realization that the longer I was connected to the orgs the faster my cash reserves were dwindling. It would only be a matter of time before I was broke.
The C of S = The only known black hole that exists inside of our own atmosphere that specializes in sucking in cash, property and peoples lives. Here’s some statistics that CAN be easily measured, the number of broke, destitute, financially raped and disgruntled ex-members of Scientology.
Fantastic! Report that Stat at once!
Scientology Justice? How many 1000’s of people would get any of their money back? None. David Miscavige going to jail…rotting there?
It’ll never be enough.
A pure atrocity
Yep. Amazing. Had a Principal who used to over used the word “phenomenal.” Hated her lazy use of that word. However, to think of the destruction that one sad man of ‘average intelligence’ had promulgated on our
‘ planet,’ is phenomenal. Hate, despise the man who is LRon Hubbard
Brilliant Comment Doug.. Bravo..
Gimpy, actually this is the best thing for Linda; her therapy was going nowhere. I’m sure that’s exactly what DLHDM thinks about the clubbed seals. Their not making it up the bridge
to higher status so lets give them a status they can make! Like make me mo money!!
Linda Lombardo jumped out at me too. She looks like an attractive and successful woman in that picture. It’s so hard to believe that anyone would say that upping their IAS status gives “real and stable case gain.” It’s shocking that the church would even print that. What an invalidation on their glorious technology, which is the thing that is supposed to be giving people real and stable case gain.
This is very bad P.R. for the church, and the church is too greedy to even begin to see it. Zero insight.
” Linda Lombardo jumped out at me too. She looks like an attractive and successful woman in that picture.”
So do most of the clubbed seals and SO members that appear in the cult PR publications. Things are not always what they seem and remember, it is very important to always tell the truth, Dave Miscavige says so! When all else fails, ‘Let ’em Die’.
Has Linda Lombardo ever actually had a job? (I don’t think she has in the past 35 years) No doubt her big challenge was getting the money from her husband.
Right? What kind of hell? what kind of turmoil is that poor ‘good looking’ woman going through?. sad sad sad
Real and stable case gains? Priceless!
Truly sorry
I wish I lived close to some of these orgs that have these big dinners and cookies lol. I would love to show up with a bus full of homeless starving people and tell them this church has free food for the night lol. no that would be mean to the homeless people cause they surely wouldn’t even part with the cookies. How humanitarian is that? I love these .. thanks , I like to read them all in my Bart Simpson voice lmao…..
But at least the attendance stat for the briefing would be Highest Ever…
I suppose one could always turn up to an event with completely empty pockets (no wallet, no cash, nothing) and see what happens…
That’s when they follow you home or get in your car to drive home with you to get your wallet. Don’t think I’m kidding either.
True fact: during the “War is Over” party at the Atlanta, they did not order enough pizza for the folks who showed up, and were asking everyone to only have one slice each…
‘at the Atlanta org’
sorry
Oh Tony.. ” Always Leave ’em wanting more..” in true fashion. ugh.. Some Freakin party!
You need to.
You absolutely should!
An “OT Committee” sending out promo to help create “stats”, now I have seen everything. Are they giving out certs to those who can find the most forgotten “stats”?
I remember now…………there was a session I gave myself back in 2002 when I was on a refresher (….that is an oxymoron) after I found out that Heber had been on a reg cycle with my wife over in LA where he told her she was one of the few big beings around and needed to make it go right and donate whether I wanted to or not. Yes it is becoming quite clear now that I put down that the session was 8 minutes long but it actually lasted 18 minutes. The ARCX just didn’t want to F/N with the three swings and after waiting for the three I got pissed again…… so there are the extra 10 minutes.
BTW, these gains are really cool. Now that I am recalling the 10 minutes I am getting pissed again in a whole new unit…………….the gains just keep on coming. Who would have thunk?
So there are 10 minutes of WDAH to add and also be sure to put down some time for cramming, ethics and more dono cycles that will need to happen to make up the damage and fix the ‘falsified auditor report’ that I must have done.
Thanks for the straightwire session Mike and Mat!!! Where is my cert?
The whole divide and conquer practiced on your wife.. truly SHAMEFUL. Just another horrible ploy used on/against well meaning people. Despise the self professed Anti-Christ that is Hubbard
The OT committee at my org used to post flyer like: “Sunday at noon, coffee and treats. We will talk about future plans. Commends for attendance (for OT eligibility)” etc.
This was before the Ideal Org program. I think the OT committee just disappeared after that.
Why not? Would barely add to the delusion that is Scientology ,
Matt: I don’t actually remember “us” meaning you and I but I remember seeing you EVERY DAY when I was at Flag. At least once a day I saw you walk back and forth from the Fort Harrison to another one of the Clearwater buildings up the street. I am amazed that you came to this blog and even more honored that you brought an intelligent being like Amy Scobee with you. I watched her full interview. I never knew of Amy before until the Truth Rundown was released. I am happy for both of you. You have not changed too much since then (1986-1989) when I was at Flag otherwise I might not have recognized you from your photo.
The advertisements posted above coming out of the church are horrific. I don’t know how anyone can prepare someone to clear the planet locking them up in the hole or depriving them of sleep and pay. These posters REEK of COB.
I suffered from the discomfort of memory occlusion once. I took some over the counter ‘gentle cognition’ medication and ended up with a horrible case of spontanious (sic) knowingness for about a week. Reading the funnies brought back little phantom cramp memories. Thanks, Mike.
Hi Newcomer, Love your post! So True However I don’t want the one horned horses to be unicorns, more like the hell fire dogs they ride on! Thank you always & take care. Ann B.
Good catch Ann! I agree. May the force be with you.
Hi Newcomer, I lost track of your post for awhile.Thank you so much for what you said. I need the force to be with me now more than ever.Your posts are always helpful to me.Love Always Ann B.
NEW TOM CRUISE MOVIE
FINAL SCENE:
Tom beats the shit out of DM and hauls him off to jail. Hero to all Scientologists and WOGS the world over. Receives a real Freedom Medal of Valor as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor from the President.
Rides off into the sunset toward galaxies unknown – with young boy chasing, shouting, “Shane, I mean Tom, Come back Tom…
THIS COULD HAPPEN
No way! The final scene would be “Let Em Die” beating the shit out of Tom Cruise for failing to deliver the goods on being the greatest disseminator the universe has ever seen. You know right now inside a deep Hemet bunker can be heard grumbling about some sorry asshole having to do everything himself….
“Why doesen’t that CICSMFAH say something to the media about His religion. I’m gonna get that fucking piece of shit in here and get him sec checked to find out what is really going on! Lou, get me the phone and get this shit hole cleaned up for a fucking visit. And get his folders FESed and ready for a god damned sec check like no fucking other……are you done yet? Fuck, what a bunch of incompetent assholes …..I have to do everything!”
Yeah, but aren’t we going for the happy ending?
Right on Newcomer!
But seriously, that’s Tom’s “checkmate” move, personally, professionally & for “all humanity.” He could do it all with one press conference. Talk about creating an effect! Davey boy could send his entire VMH army, by the way the greatest relief force on the planet, and it would have no effect against the Tsunami that would be unleashed.
IMHO Tom has created his own Prison of Belief and it says that Mr. Shit for Brains is the greatest thing to come along since the monkeys climbed down out of the trees, Lfucking RH included. He owns Tom Cruise and He cut off his balls along time ago …………. both of em are in his folders somewhere deep underground in Hemet.
The cult is now all about celebrity eunuchs and the one horned horses they ride in on. Just my opinion of course ………..
I see you’re a dreamer, John. So am I. Let’s dream on. Why shouldn’t our dreams come true?
Newcomer, I like your thinking. You are so right.
Would Tom ever have the guts to do that, I wonder? His ratings as an actor and star would soar but does he realise that? Pity he doesn’t know that as soon as one uses his integrity in any situation, the most amazingly good things start to happen.
I’ve got personal experience of this. I’ve just ended a vampirish relationship with a Koolaider (somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind, I had thoughts to get her out but have come to realise that it’s not going to be that easy. She enjoys her martyrdom and feelings of superiority too much.) only to be vamped by phone calls for my services and am raking in money that wasn’t on the cards.
Not that Tom needs money but isn’t his career a shaky legs at the moment? Haven’t his last two or so movies been a failure?
Thank you Aprilfool. Ya know, before I saw what was really going on….I, as I’m sure thousands of others thought and behaved similar to TC. Imagine the headlines and the impact if TC renounced this despicable excuse for a human being…whoops…sorry I meant “homo novis”……or OK, how about just plain “homo”.