The Moneywinds is ROCKING
Recent shot of the “Starlight Cabaret”. Says everything you need to know about how they are busting the seams at the top of the Bridge.
It’s Epic
They have 13 OTC members flat out on the “ideal” org in San Diego. Should be done be 2050.
Last time for this year
Uncle Sam wants you to go up the Bridge. Seriously?
Tampa “is making” staff a viable career
It’s been an “ideal org” for 12 years and they haven’t yet made being staff a viable career.
If Tampa can’t do it, nobody can. After all, their big pitch to join staff there is that you get your OT levels for free at FSO.
There’s gold in them thar hills
That’s some serious commissions being shelled out…
Yeah right….
You will go from 25% awareness to “full awareness.”
Her? No way.
See photo #1 above. She cannot run her own org.
Learn how to ask for and get those big donations
Learn how to get those big donations….
I get the impression the fundraising isn’t going so well.
Disaster regging
The IAS can turn anything into a catastrophe and then demand money to solve it. But don’t worry, there’s pizza.
Food, glorious food
I wonder if these promo pieces actually work???
What a wackadoodle
“We can make the future of this country great.” Maybe he thinks he is Donald Trump? Though he does look down upon the idea that “This country is the most powerful.” So, maybe not. Either way, he is not making much sense.
McDonalds employee joins Harlem staff
And his supervisor in Boston got him to go to Harlem? Maybe that Sup was playing some kind of practical joke? Is there something wrong with Boston?
What’s Happening in the Inglewood Community Center?
Apparently the only thing is that this is the address of Rev. Alfreddie Johnson’s “Baptist church”?
Mighty My Mammy
A selection of silliness from the “org LRH counts on” and “the most upstat team on the East Coast” (not saying much frankly, but DC and NY are supposedly “ideal” and apparently Mighty My Mammy has em beat).
40 years on staff, Clear and Student Hat Completion….
And have made exactly 0 Clears as a result…
That’s just sad. Still struggling to achieve the same dream as they day they joined. Always hoping it’s going to be better next week. Always hoping they might get more than $37 pay.
That’s easy
Every party is a “patron’s ball” if there are IAS Regges there to “make patrons.” The Boston Tea Party would be a Patron’s Ball if they had regges present.
Moneywinds
Got some new blood on the fundraising circuit. Old Sea Org veteran Emanuel Mottl is being upstaged by Emmett Osborn who has more certs than anyone so is more important… But of course, it’s brought to you by the Moneywinds so it is all about making money.
A Grant Cardone “webinar”
OMG, the “legendary” Grant Cardone is going to teach everyone how to attract attention!
That Grant Cardone clown is nauseating.
Sorry, not protesting – was a bad joke after waaaay too much coffee. The joke was that there were no attendees so they photoshopped one in. Have been following Mr. Rinder’s blog for some time and have deep respect for what he’s doing.
Stay warm!
Signed,
Long time lurker from the cold Canadian prairies!
I got your joke and I thought it was hilarious!
Hi Out About, Good to meet you. I am a clueless one in certain web stuff everyone else knows in their sleep! But hey, I’m an old geezerette! So I asked The Oracle what Photoshopping was about was helped out in that direction.I saw the shot as a strange fading watercolor mood piece not knowing if the dude was asleep or on Target 2! Those Apollo stars, but I digress. So I did not get the joke but if Roger said it is hilarious then I’m in. Here is some warm moist Gulf Stream air for you.I love Canada, beautiful scenery.Love,Ann
Crowd at Starlight Cabaret is photoshopped in
How can the crowd be photo shopped in, when there is no crowd?
Hi The Oracle,Yes, when I posted Mike that the Starlight photo is creepy and unsettling to me, one of the reasons was the abscence of an audience save one.Only I would ask this question but I am clueless as to Photoshopping. Is that where one goes online and purchases photos to superimpose on theirs? And this is only a guess on my part.Laughter!Love U, Ann.
I’m not an expert. Know very little about it. I think you can alter photos. But you can’t alter something that does not exist. There has to be something there to alter. If there is no crowd in the photo it could not have been altered. I’ve been told (many times) I lack imagination, so perhaps the person protesting about the photo is more gifted than I.
Wait, a Scottish Donald Trump.
So, he’s really McDonald Trump, right?
“The IAS can turn anything into a catastrophe and then demand money to solve it. But don’t worry, there’s pizza.” – Priceless.
This is starting to get ridiculous. I know it’s been said over and over that the way they ‘splain empty orgs to the public is that the success is everywhere else ‘but here.’ But, come on. Public Scientologists haven’t seen critical mass at any org at any time in years. I know that plenty aren’t fooled, and they drift away, which of course is a dwindling spiral, but how to those remaining continue to disbelieve their lying eyes? It just don’t make sense.
Does anything about Scientology make sense? It’s all science FICTION.
Got about 30 seconds into scanning those flyers and contracted “Ideal Nausea.”
A long holiday would be nice…
Hi Mike, That shot at the Starlight Caberet goes in my file of creepy and unsettling like an old Outer Limits episode and my other fave,Artist On The Whole Track!Love, Ann
The “benefits” listed on CO FSSO’s flyer contain a real howler: “Vampire Repellent.” Haaaa ha ha ha ha!
The best thing to “protect my prosperity” would be something to ward off those IAS regges!
Hey scientologists! Do you relate to this sign that says, “lost”, “confused” , “bewildered” , “unsure” “disoriented”? Sure you do! That’s because you’re a scientologist and are only 25% awake! What you need to do is pay an arm and a leg for the Survival Rundown and get COMPLETELY asleep!
Chad Olson: If he’s been “super rich and famous” and a “big musician” why is it that the only mention I can find of him seems to be a Facebook page of Chad Olson with a whole nine followers. That photo of Celia Petro gives me the creeps.
how were their stats this week?
Some time in the future the islands will become the sea? That would mean the islands _don’t_ succeed, but rather they subside beneath the waves. Well said and very prophetic, Ron.
And you are using only 25% of your mental awareness? Come on in! We can get you to the point through the tech (er, through pseudo-science and indoctrination) where you are not using _100%_ of your awareness! That’s a real upstat!
And for chrissake, will you please word clear the word “continent.” The western US is not a continent. The whole US is not a continent. When you say you are going to make an ideal continent, get clear on what the heck your fantasy means. Might even want to work on the word “ideal” while you’ve got the big dictionary open — and no dinky dictionaries allowed! And clay demo the crap out of these ideas so you can show you actually understand what a continent is and what ideal means! Then your fantasy will at least be stated in intelligible language.
Ah, yes, Scientology geography. The only place where North America, one continent, is actually three and a bit continents, where Europe, one continent, is actually three continents plus the Indian sub-continent, and where Australia, an actual continent, isn’t. I wonder what the teachers at Delphi schools tell their students when geography is discussed.
The Ideal Org’s are empty so how does that work for
the Western US ? We are talking Donors who put up
money that goes offshore and invested in bullion certificates,
Utilities, stocks and Bonds ?
Somebody correct me if I am wrong , send polaroid’s of
millions of Clears in Cities and the like. Something I can
see that is credible .
( I would take a free Baloney sandwich and coke)
IAS better not help the Valley complete and be an
Ideal org as then the valley bubble dwellers will see
what such an org REALLY looks like. It’s in their best
interests to continue to fundraise forever.
Mike, your inner Perry Mason is on fire. Photo of the empty Freewinds event is evidence of the dismal conditions. All I can say is, WOW! Lord have mercy!
Perry Mason! Wow… that brings back some memories.
The TV program was called “Ironside” wasn’t it?
First it was Perry Mason, he did a later series called Ironside. The actor’s name was Raymond Burr. He always found the right WHO, and gave everyone the right item.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqDIjPusO8
There you go! Thanks for the memories. I remember I enjoyed the sleuthing in that series, oh so many years ago, cutting edge at the time. Lame by todays standards but fun none the less.
When I was 12 years old I spent a year in the Mission District in San Francisco (ghetto). I used to go to the trash room in the apartment building and look for things to fix up and reuse. I found a small television set one day, took it back to the apartment. It had no picture but you could listen. Like a radio. Perry Mason was on and it was a Tuesday night a little after 7 P.M.. I fell in love. For the rest of the time I spent there I was parked in my bedroom with that television on every Tuesday night at 7 P.M..I was in love.
Pity the poor minuscule audience in the Starlight Cabaret. They have to put up with the worst entertainment on any “cruise ship” (both pun and air quotes intended) plying the Caribbean.
Exactly what is “Overnight Sound Expansion”?
Seems to me that it’s easier to do than Mr.s Mottl and Osborne suggest:
I’d just simply sneak out into my neighborhood at night and scream “BOO!!” at the top of my lungs.
There! A sound expanding! Overnight, too!
It’d be cheaper, regg-free, and more effective this way…
How can be it (ask those IAS ball patrons)? I think you just need a small amplifier to get that sound expansion you’re looking for. Failing that try rapidly banging some galvanized trash can lids together.
Well… I guess to expand nothing is easy, do nothing, works every time.
Whether it’s sound is subjective, unless music is involved.
How they can print crap like that is stunning in itself.
Celia Petro is listed as being a 40 year veteran Miami org staff member. And it is stated that she is not only a Student Hat Course graduate but Clear as well. Wow. She did all that In only 40 years? She must be super OT or something! 🙂
It’s obvious by the photos that there are fewer people than ever participating in Scientology. The CofS as a movement is not quite dead, but it’s only hanging on by a thread. I think that Miscavige could possibly generate more interest in Scientology, but it would take some concrete steps that does not see or is not prepared to take. He’s made huge mistakes that have contributed greatly to the decline of the “religion”.
One of his biggest mistakes was in removing so many executive level workers from their positions (many from INT base, but also internationally). These people were the most dedicated, hard-working, long-term members, true believers. It appears that this was mainly due to Miscavige’s paranoia and fears of being usurped; his aim was to solidify his power. It doesn’t seem as though there was any real threat to his position, but he felt insecure. This action was a mistake because not only could these people no longer do their jobs (and who else worked so hard for so little pay?) but because many who were forced out eventually became outspoken opponents (for example: Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Amy Scobee, Mat Pesch, Debbie Cook). I believe the CofS would be a much stronger entity today had he not made this ill-advised move.
Also, the policies that were instituted prohibiting Sea Org members from having children and the forced abortions, plus the later rules against Sea Org members marrying caused many to leave and essentially eradicated what would have been the next generation of Sea Org members born into the movement.
Another of his mistakes was his attempts to “automate” the processes, lessen the use of auditors, etc., to remove the personal element. But if you read the stories of early members, this personal element is what attracted people to the movement in the first place. The sense of camaraderie, the personal interactions, the relationships made. People enjoyed being a part of a group, no one wants to go it alone.
A more recent mistake: aligning the church with the N.O.I. This is a huge turn-off for most people. If someone had an interest in what CofS had to offer, finding out that they have aligned with a radical extremist racial hate group would definitely give them second thoughts. To join up with a group that preaches hate towards others and excludes people based on skin color is just not a good idea. People rightly questioned why the CofS would align with such a group; the more we learn the more it seems as though it has to do with generating and laundering large sums of money. Recent news articles have detailed the involvement of top N.O.I. officials in scamming the U.S. government Medicare program out of millions using unsuspecting members and facilities associated with CofS.
Which leads to another reason that the CofS is in rapid decline: it’s all-encompassing focus on pressuring members for money. The constant fund-raising, the extreme pressure put on people to donate larger and larger sums of money that they don’t have, the relentless “regging” to sell their property, run up their credit cards, to donate even larger sums to the I.A.S., which is a group that gives zero accounting for where this money goes, although recent news reports have come out detailing how they paid exorbitant amounts to private investigators to stalk former members, including Miscavige’s own father, and others who left the CofS many years ago (following Pat Broeker for 20 years? wow). Harassing Marty Rathbun at the airport and his home, paying someone to sift through Mike Rinders trash? again, wow.
Add to that the free and easily obtainable information found on the internet, the questionable actions by Scientology’s leader (where is Shelly? how did Miscavige amass in excess of 50 million dollars of personal wealth? why does he live in luxury and take private jets while Sea Org members slave away for pennies and eat rice and beans?) the scandals of their past actions (“Operation Snow White”, the ‘fair game’ actions against Paulette Cooper and others, death of Lisa McPherson, etc.) and the harmful disconnection policy that breaks apart families and separates children from parents, and most importantly, the fact that the things promised do not come about, including the ineffectiveness of the “tech” and lack of abilities that were supposed to be gained on the O.T. levels.
T.J., you nailed it perfectly. All of DM and the cult’s horrible and illegal acts are now found within one search on the internet. I think most people are like me in that I don’t go to a new restaurant without first looking for reviews on-line or even buy a toothbrush (hard or soft bristles?) or find a new BBQ recipe. It would be a shocker to me that they get anyone into their cult.
Truthful, comprehensive and well written summary of the facts as re the Decline and Fall of the Church of Scientology, TJ.
And may it accelerate…
That pretty much sums it up T.J.
As an institution, the Co$ does not contribute anything to our society. It is parasitic to it members. It does not forward Scientology as a body of knowledge, it just gives it a horrible image/name by association with a corrupt, dishonest and creepy organization.
I believe in 2016 Alex Gibney’s film will win many awards beyond the Academy Awards and give Legislators around the world the courage to pull the plug on institutional Scientology because it is an abomination in the eyes of the general public and in the eyes of former members.
Well said.
The Church of Scientology is a comedy, even without all their O/W’s (some of which you listed In your post). The church is a joke. They are the laughing stock of the universe. Here is what LRH says “…despite inferences to the contrary this tech has not been available before anywhere and was not even known…”. Correct you are LRH. Now, let’s take a look at the Church of Scientology confronting 5 billion PC’s. Some of their activities you have mentioned in your post. Is that realizing LRH’s dream? Is that realizing ANYBODY’S dreams ANYWHERE? The Church of Scientology is a rude prank. They are a lot of things for which they can, will and SHOULD be held accountable for. But most of all they are CERTAINLY not OT’s. This much I know. 🙂
The Bridge is going down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWsgmsTFAs
Actually Miscavige has already taken the bridge down.
It is Miscavige who is coming down.
Whatever.
Mike I was hoping you would post to the blog so I could directly respond. Something you said here really stands out:
“It’s been an “ideal org” for 12 years and they haven’t yet made being staff a viable career”.
When I was on staff I was paid about $3.85 a week.
When I was in the Sea Org I was not paid anything for weeks at at time but my Senior at FOLO WEUS was paid $1.50 a week. I guess things must be getting a lot better over there at the church right? 🙂 Happy New Year Mike.
With all this fund raising going on in the background the kind of money that staff has been paid is ludicrous. It is not even profits. And then to demand upstatness of you is too much. 🙂
Wow, If I sign up for 40 years of servitude, I’ll get to Clear and get my Student Hat? Will that student hat have a propeller on top and be covered in tin foil? I really need the tin foil, its the only way to keep Grant Cardones brain waves out. And tin foil underwear, I don’t want Grant Cardone to mess with my junk.
The prosperity preaching that has become de rigueur for the Fleecewinds and at the mOrgs, is very telling. You see such preaching only in poor areas and during large economic upsets. In the closed world of $cienoland, what could go wrong with the minions of Lron? Are they not rich enough to make the entire world Ideal? Doesn’t all wealth flow to those who can commandeer the best parking spaces by intent alone?
How did DM let Cardone get away from Bob Duggan? Duggan might wander off and give some of his billions to some real charity if he isn’t watched.
My first thought was for poor Celia, only Clear and Student Hat (why would they even put that in there? How embarrassing. Then I wondered how many times she’s re-re-re-re done Clear and Student Hat in her 40 years on staff. Poor poor poor poor Celia.
The one really WTF moment came with the Canada poster:
“there is a new dynamic to the drug scene in Canada and in a word, it is SUPPRESSIVE” Well . . . ooookaaayy??? hmmm. sounds urgent. I’ll be at that urgent? update for sure.
Or not. I just remembered, I have to trim my toenails that month. I wonder, when I was in, would I have possibly been curious or felt any urgency over that flyer? I would like to believe the answer is no. I am afraid it is yes. Ouch.
Valerie: Feeling bad about the past, especially where scio is concerned, is truly wasted energy. You’re out. Bask in the glow of THAT! Other than those declared and garbaged, everyone else left at exactly the right time…for them. And so did you. Brava!!!
The picture of the performance on the Moneywinds: is it possible that this was a rehearsal and not the actual evening performance? If it was indeed the evening program, then that is just so sad it makes me want to cry. Not really, but you know…
Dave, Your cult promo Tech just doesn’t cut it. Why is it that the Coachella Music and Arts Festival (held in your Club Med back yard) sells out a year in advance, online, in less than an hour every year?
Mike, a dumb question about the “IAS Top Reg Standings:” Do you think the numbers there are actual dollar amounts that have been brought in? Or do you think these are just arbitrary “points” that have been cobbled together?
Also, do you know whether the list is local or if it represents some sort of national contest? Unfortunately, the names on the list are sufficiently common that a quick search of one of our Global Capitalism HQ Lexis/Nexis databases doesn’t give me enough information to figure that out.
Finally, do you think these are staff totals or do you think they represent outside FSM’s like Jeff Pomerantz? If they’re internal, why don’t we see some familiar names on the list?
The answers to these would help me understand what the true economic picture for the IAS might be. If this is a national contest, and especially if it covers all of the 4th Quarter numbers, that’s a disaster beyond measure and my estimates of Scientology IAS donations are substantially overstated.
The “tail-off” of the numbers in the second table are particularly bad: like a recent table that either you or Tony Ortega published on WISE stats in the last couple weeks, a handful of individuals are holding up the entire enterprise and everyone else is basically doing almost nothing. In the WISE table, about 80% of the money was brought in by 6 or 8 individuals, if I recall correctly.
My suspicion is that the big whales like Duggan are handled by people outside the normal “stats” range and that IAS contributions are muddling along better than these numbers would indicate, but I would love to get any perspective I can.
Not a dumb question at all JPC. Wish I knew the answers. I suspect this is dollar amounts, but have no confirming data. I also suspect these are SO members, not the “outside FSMs” like Robert, Pomerantz, Becker etc
I suspect they are SO members who are the IAS registrars in the flyer since I know one of them well. And how convenient, the commission will never be paid them either, if they are SO would it? Another ploy to motivate people onto the IAS bandwagon and start regging each other, I suspect.
Anytime you see numbers like this from the church, it’s a lie. The fact that any dollar signs are omitted states that immediately. There is some sort of “acceptable truth” in here but basically it’s a lie.
The good intentions of this church are buried or gone. It’s intentions now are what, in its own words, are called “evil intentions.” So any goodness that these flyers seemingly express, is a lie. I don’t trust a single one of these flyers. Not one of them want people to come in so that they can be helped or there awareness expanded or they rise to new spiritual heights – not truly. It’s all about some meaningless number (stat); just so that some SO or staff member can show that their stats are up, and the only increase that’s cared about is the money stat. This church and the people in it need to be saved from themselves.
None of these names are people that I know from Flag in the IAS. I don’t think they would ever publish those numbers. The Duggans are dealt with by Charmaine and her husband Bruce.
I don’t think it is possible to believe anything published by the Cof$. Everything they utter has a twist or agenda attached.
They struggle to tell the truth with one lump or two for their coffee, even when they don’t have sugar, such is their greed.
They have degraded reality to levels never before contemplated by anyone who can think, let alone remember or research anything.
8 Orgs, 1 Cause… Clear Canada?? The big event for Canada is being held at a small community Center “Leaside Gardens”. The seating capacity is 50-300. Now that’s an EPIC fail!
http://www.leasidearena.com/william-lea-room.html
Maybe they’ll use one of the ice rinks with the seating around it?
Freeze, or donate and be allowed to leave.
I have walked by the Miami Org several times, have never seen anything that gave me the impression that there was a lot of activity. One time the door was open and I didn’t see anybody sitting at the receptionist desk, they had a display of free “What is Scientology” DVDs outside the door near the sidewalk.
Same thing at the Pasadena Model, Idle Morgue, Doug. One day I walked by and noticed that there was no receptionist. Just outside the front door, was a small stand with a small sign saying, “Take One.” It was the WTH booklets. What’s that word again….confront?
Out of curiosity I tried to drive by the Fort Lauderdale mission. They have a phone number that goes to an answering machine. When I drove by the address that was listed I could find no evidence that it existed
Oh, c’mon, Doug! Think! I know you know this! Stealth Orgs! You can’t see them, but, they are there. It’s like Star Trek where one of the spaceships cloaks itself in invisibility! As for the answering machine, they are so loaded down with work, they probably haven’t had time to check it in a couple of months.
That makes perfect sense to me OSD.
You are learning well, young Grasshopper.
Poor Celia Petro, she’s been on staff 40 years so that’s pretty much all she knows. She’s talking about “Ron” as though he’s still alive and she’s giving the standard rap about making this a better world which means that’s what gives her life purpose. Of course scientology isn’t doing shit for the world and her life purpose is a lie. She probably has no savings even if she did inherit a bit from a deceased relative the church would extract it somehow. How can she retire? She’ll have to work till she drops. Obviously the church isn’t looking out for her. After 40 years it can only boast that she’s a ‘clear’ and is a “student hat” completion. That is pathetic! I’m surprised the church would divulge that embarrassment when it’s trying to entice people to join staff.
She wants others to achieve gains similar to his. I don’t expect she meant obesity, halitosis and rotten teeth, nor dying a drug addled and virtually incoherent sickly recluse in a trailer, hiding from the world. So what did she mean? I always wondered while still “in” what exalted state LRH had “achieved”. He made numerous references to “states where nothing can strike you down” and similar outlandish statements. I never really believed that – but do the faithful actually believe that he achieved some sort of God-like condition? I found the idea that he was “coming back” rather preposterous, but maybe that’s the hope. He will reappear from Target Two and take over again.
” I found the idea that he was “coming back” rather preposterous, but maybe that’s the hope. He will reappear from Target Two and take over again.”
Well, he better get a move on……………..the current caper will be over soon! And the Oscars ought to just about be the ten count for Mr Down and Out Miscarriage.
Yes, very sad.
40 years on staff and embarrassingly divulging she
is Clear must mean she has attested to it 3 times.
What a charm!
Good morning, Mike. Kind of curious about the IAS commissions: I notice a convenient lack of $ signs. Is it possible those are “points” to avoid potential fraud if a lawsuit were to come up? Also, how did Bloomfield earn more Bonus than Walker when Walker had a higher total, and where did Futris come from for the #3 spot for Bonus since she isn’t even on the list for Oct-Present? I know I shouldn’t care, just trying to attract some pro-survival attention. Thanks in advance.
Yes, it is possible they are points. See my answer to JPC.
Could also be “miles” like they use in East US…. But there, “miles” appear to equate directly to dollars.
“just trying to attract some pro-survival attention”. 🙂
San Diego county has a population of about 3 million people and the city of San Diego is the 8th largest in the US. The 47X expansion has managed to create 27 active members of their OT committee and 13 attended that meeting. How pathetic! I would imagine this is a good reflection of all of the US orgs. Dave’s hometown of Philadelphia is ranked 5th in the US. I wonder how big their OTC is.
I’m shocked they actually publish these low SD Org numbers.
Yeah, it always amazes me that they do post bad numbers. Maybe, throughout the years, they just started getting used to it. That it’s no big thing to post poor numbers. Almost like they’ve given up….
I suppose those names and numbers in attendance are mandatory. I recognized a few of those names from my time at the San Diego Org. What the San Diego Org doesn’t want you to know is that some of the most dedicated Scientologists I ever knew from the San Diego group are now DECLARED SPs. Gary Hill and Albert Andrade, two people you would have NEVER guessed would get in the crosshairs of the fanatical Scientology Nazi’s. PROOF that the Scientology cult is bezerk and insane to attack clearly good kind and helpful people who worked for decades to help people. Thats right San Diego, you guys are acting insane and suppressive, TOTALLY off the rails.
“How can be it a Patron’s Ball … ” How come there’s no proofreading of these things?
“How can BE IT a Patron’s Ball AND a New Year’s Party at the same time? Well, first of all, they would have compress time. And second, these people don’t have a clue about the English language! And what’s really funny is, you see these grammar errors ALL THE TIME. Sure Scientology is a cult, but, It’s a really STUPID cult.
Well, Dave canceled semicolons and then KTL, what do you expect; WOG grammar, conjugation, punctuation, spelling?
They allow kids to conjugate? Oh, wait…my bad. No, this is good for the kids. Conjugate away!!!
I’m sure you have noticed the only guy in the starlight cabaret appears to be asleep.
Bob Twaalfhoven is an Ideal Org Icon….What is an Ideal Org Icon? I think it was misspelled.
It should read Ideal Org Con (man).
Not a single person in the join Harlem staff photos….maybe they were a lunch.
Celia Petro has been on staff 40 years and has finished Student Hat and attained Clear….Go Celia!
You know if they would just hurry up and open that media place they could save a bunch of money on paper by showing all of the above on TV, streaming…whatever they plan to do.
On top of that Miscavige can order no more promo on paper. Each piece of promo will have to go through the media center….for a small fee of course.
The cool aid being served must have some of the best moonshine in it from the innermost sanctums of the Ozarks.
I played the banjo in the Ozarks once. All of a sudden, all these mountain people showed to listen to me. They all had very strange smiles on their faces. They asked me to stay for dinner, but, I was already running down the road…..
When I young and silly (now I’m just older), ne of my favourite LPs was by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. It’s been lost for many years but one of the tracks was about ‘radar beams.’
Yep, fun to listen to but run away from them thar hills is a good advice.
Thursday Fundies.
It’s sad for me to see my fellow Scots buy into the drivel that comes out of the cult. I wish I could sit down with Fearless Leader and have a chat. Hey, were both Celts so we’d probably get along….
Then again, my Clan, Clan Campbell, not only beat up on the English, they beat up on the other Clans too. Never mind….
I didn’t see any mention of Fearless Leader and haven’t seen any of his missives lately. I don’t know if that is because he hasn’t written any, or they haven’t been sent to Mike. In any event, I hope he has not been locked up in Edinburgh Castle.
It breaks my heart as well, but the good news is there are only 6 people in that picture, one of them a toddler.
So, fear not OSD! I think our mutual ancestral homeland is safe. Knowing my Scottish relatives as I do, they do not suffer fools gladly.
As much as LRH loved Scotland, Scotland didn’t love LRH.
Arrrrrgggg! Tis news to me ye are a Celt! It’s (almost) always great to meet another Celt! And, yes, we do not suffer fools gladly. Tis good to be a Celt…..
There’s good news buried in that Scots item. Chris Whitham “chose to live in Scotland”. This means A) Another long-term UK SO vet is OUT of the Sea Org, and B) probably means his wife Vashti is out too. I know now of so many long-term St Hill Sea Org who are out, dead or blown that I wonder how they are keeping it together there at all. Still, they have now at least got an Ideal Car Park at St Hill.
Leaside Gardens?! They’re holding an oh-so-important Canada convention, and it’s at a community arena?
http://www.leasidearena.com/
It’s soooooo easy to laugh at these folks. But, at one time, the Nazi’s failed to take over a beer hall then the winds of history blew and somehow they came close to ruling the world. It’s hard to imagine the world ever taking LRH seriously (or his followers), but I don’t want to confuse the impossible with the highly, highly unlikely. Ugh…
The supervisor at the Boston org.. I can see how a billion years can seem like a minor commitment….. Just WOW
Chad Olson’s testimonial was very sad to me. It reminded me of my early involvement with Scientology. When I was first ‘in’, Scientology seemed like a cult to me and my intuition was to get out. But the people I was meeting were truly ‘good people’. Needless to say I lost the initial battle of cognitive dissonance.
WAKE UP CHAD!
Chad does not seem to be interested in getting his own bridge……
So Chad Olson was working for a multi-billion dollar company earning X dollars and chose to give it up to be on staff at Harlem Org. Hmm…sounds very noble, but how much was he earning at this exalted company, exactly?
That’s how I felt Phil…but more so. I asked if I could sign a 2 Billion Year Contract. The funny thing was everyone was just standing around with this shocked look on all of their faces. No one spoke. It was like they were all catatonic. Then I realized I was the very first person to say they wanted to sign a 2 Billion Year Contract! So I quickly said, “Just kidding!” and I ran out the door. It’s funny that no one ran after me…
WARNING, WARNING…KEEP AWAY FROM THE FOLLOWING:
Alex Swartz
Erica Newman
Sherie Bloomfield
Brian Philips
Michael Norber
Sasha Laplaine
Jackson Walker
NOTE: Dauntless, Defiant and Resolute wallet, bank account, life savings, college fund and pension plan drainers. Will convince you to use credit cards, take out loans, second mortgages, or borrow money from family or other Scientologists. Will visit your home from midnight-2 am if necessary and refuse to leave without a check. Will make promises of statuses and trophies which are worthless, and which you don’t need in the first place. Will also promise that you will get your photo taken with “C.O.B.”, which is very unlikely to happen, and you don’t need a picture of yourself with “C.O.B: because statues, trophies and photos with “C.O.B” will not make you happy, bring you fulfillment, or make you spiritually free anyway. Will lie that the IAS programs are helping people, or the planet, when no money is spent on these programs and goes to such things as PI’s to trail “C.O.B’s” father, collect people’s trash from their homes, and many other unproductive and unworthy activities. Not to mention that IAS money provides “C.O.B” with an opulent lifestyle while the Sea Org lives in abject poverty. As a further betrayal, “C.O.B” denies the fact that he is the Captain of the Sea Org, and the sole ruler of the Church of Scientology, which includes the IAS.
Proceed with caution, and Look – don’t listen.
“Look _ Don’t listen”. That is wise advice. Sometimes I wonder how many grown ups think there is a boogey man under their bed and they are too afraid to look under there. You find them. But you have to be willing to see that when you start snooping, you have to be willing to find the boogey man, that is the thing. And get them out from under your bed.
Oracle, as re your boogie man under the bed comment, I have my own personal theory about the still ins and their unwilingness to look. Based solely on several comm cycles I had with several Still Ins, my theory is that they studiously avoid looking because they already KNOW what’s “under the bed”. In other words, they HAVE looked, and seen that boogey man, glimpsed him, you know, and said, “Uh, oh. This is trouble. Can’t have it. Too complicated, too much to confront and handle. Better ignore this. That’s right, never saw it. Nothing there. Nothing to see under that bed”.
And henceforth, all hints and invitations to look under that bed put them on a kind of Red Alert which in turn triggers a circuit they’ve set up to immediately handle the situation…”entheta”…”disaffected”… “PTS”…”suppressive”
But then, what I think is that they’ve actually already seen it, and know. But its too much for them. I think that most of the long term Still Ins are in overwhelm yet pretending all is fine.
So, to sum up, I think they don’t look not because they’re afraid to look, per se, but because they ALREADY looked and are in overwhelm about what they saw, and so are in denial, trying their very best to not-is it – which of course, works beautifully for Miscavige’s purposes.
This is just my theory, and it works for me 🙂 (Seriously.)
I think you nailed it buddy. All the way. The thing is, (and I am in the process of writing a book about it), a lot of people can’t confront an inconvenient truth. The common denominator between all “inconvenient” truths, is that the first thing you have to confront after you confront the evil, is your own wrongness. For your decisions and choices. And that can be very humiliating. Unless you are very humble to begin with. Or have had to rise above a lot of humiliations already so you are flat on that. Scientologists are very unforgiving people, and I have found that a person’s ability to forgive them self, is proportionate to their ability to forgive others. If you can not look at your own wrongness for your choices and affiliations, the truth becomes inconvenient. If you do not have the ability to forgive yourself. For whatever choices you made, paths you crossed or walked down.
I did the ethics specialist course, the pts sp detection course, the personal ethics and integrity course. So did many others and they can not use any of the information because it involves some hard truths and inconvenient truths. Not that I agreed with everything I read or studied, I did not. But I have been able to incorporate that into other reading and align it with other ideas. Snakes In Suits is a very good book. I read them all. There are many books on shady characters.They made a lot of sense to me. I have even discovered simple ways to detect people with ill will, that I plan to share.
For instance, a sociopath can not bang above non e in condition. They are so wedged into continuous treason and enemy conditions, they can not find out what is wanted and needed and product it. Literally.
In the book “Without Conscience” (about sociopaths), Robert Dare wrote: “Psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate and ruthlessly plow their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations and empty wallets. Completely lacking in conscience and feelings for others, they selfishly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.”
It is absolutely true that they take what they want and do what they please. This described David Miscavige perfectly. Agreements, policy, social norms, human decency, agreements and exchange gone to the wind. But all sociopaths have this in common. No matter what the pretense is, they take what they want and do as they please. You pay someone 100.00 to come and rakes leaves, you find him organizing your garage. They can not find out what is wanted and needed and produce it. It is very easy to weed one out. You pay him 50.00 to come wash your windows inside and out, he cleans the outside and vanishes. And in this covert way they undermine your authority. Miscavige does this in law suits and courts of law. He does it with his staff. The purpose is always to knock your authority out from under you through calling all the shots, doing things you never wanted and needed or asked for, and hidden agendas. He could not get out through a non existence formula is his life depended on it. 24/7 it is about what he wants and needs from others and how they all failed him. Who the hell ever asked that man for GAOT? To cancel certs planet wide? Who does he serve? Himself. That is all. And since this is the case with every sociopath, they can not do a simple thing like find out what you want and need, and produce it. You hand them 5.00 for apples, they give you two oranges. The “still ins” ? They serve him now. Even when Miscavige finds a way to butter up Tom Cruise by finding out his wants and needs (and making others deliver it), he sabotages Cruise in other ways that disable his authority. Who is running the Cruise household? Who is the head of that home?
One thing that did ring true for me, and seems to be very common sense, is Hubbard’s quote:
“You can therefore know your enemies by those who seek to knock out any part of your
(a) Power (b) Authority (c) Personnel (d) Wealth (e) Property. ”
Because, people of good will just don’t do that. I think the policy letter is called Vital Data on Promotion.
When you really think about it, isn’t this what David Miscavige has done to everyone exploring Scientology?
He knocked out everyone’s authority to audit with “GAOT” and these people fell to their knees. Right before their enemy.
P.S. The really crafty sociopaths have a unique way of not delivering what is wanted and needed. They just refuse to give you your items and sell on another item. You pay for apples. they sell you oranges. You pay for auditing, they get you to debit your account for books. You see? It is very covert. All the while you think you are getting something and it is an item that has been denied you.
Miscavige did this with GAOT. Nobody got involved with Scientology to have all of their certs cancelled, ordered to retrain and re process. He manages to deny people their items, and sell them on HIS items.
It is just another way of wriggling out of NOT finding out what is wanted and needed, and producing it! He just denies them their item, and puts another one in it’s place.
Another thing Miscavige (and other sociopaths) specialize in, is “false knowing”, They issue false reports ,(by half truths and many other methods), and impart to the people they convince, a false know.
They build this on other people’s “trust”.
But people do not see, if they have to “trust”, they already do not know. Public have to “trust” the Sea Org, because they are not part of it can not know. It is very easy to give these people false knows.
The entire purpose of the “Freedom Mag” web site, it to create false “know”. All of these flyers going out saying the Church expanded 47X, the Church reduced crime in Columbia, the volunteer ministers saved humanity blah blah blah.. It is all, False KNOW.
Anyone who issues a false report is into causing others to false KNOW. The anti Scientology purpose. Did you know there are people who write false reports for a living now? Creating false know is their thing. They get paid to go on web sites and leave glowing reviews of places and people they have never crossed paths with in their life. There is actually a market place for people that specialize in false knowing.
The Duke – John Wayne said a few memorial things in his life, one was:
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
A corporate scientologist is scared, very scared actually of not having the organisation, in any form.
We know the church doesn’t hold the key to eternity, but those in believe it does. It takes more guts to look at the obvious than a scio can muster.
Hi Aquamarine, I have been thinking about your post.It does make sense to me in that there were red, warning flags that came up about 2/1/2 years in.I was seeing the fissures occurring because of the inconsistency between what was said by Ron and what was actually done.However I was not ready to totally confront that the team I gave my body mind and spirit to for lifetimes, was operating in a very different fashion than at the start.It took many Conditions for months and all the other stuff that came with that, before I knew 100+% I had to escape. So I can relate to your theory. Love, Ann
I’m in agreement with your theory Aquamarine. Contrary to most assumptions we have no control over what we believe to be true. We automatically believe what makes sense to us even when it contradicts what we PREFER to believe. The impersonal discriminating function operates independently from the personal emotional one. When people talk about how truth has a “ring” to it, that’s because the higher impersonal function recognizes truth.
I say, not only do scientologists know there’s something amiss with their church, but they also believe the “entheta” things they’ve heard. They don’t want to believe them but since believing and not believing aren’t matters of choice, it becomes necessary to deny, or “not is” them. What the critics say have the ring of truth. The higher function recognizes it and the emotional function (ego?) either works as a servant of the higher function and moves to explore the truth, or it hijacks the mental operation and protects its personal interests at the expense of the whole through denial. It’s a matter of being habituated through practice to go with rationality or emotionalism. This is a way of explaining the classic conflict we all have known within ourselves. It works for me.
Ron was only in it for a billion years, so you were obviously a ‘plant’ conspiring to take over the cult.
I don’t think so! Ron was in it for a billion dollars but only for a few years. Notice, he left the rest of the contract signers holding the proverbial bag ………………… of Daveshit!
Yaah, he told Sarge that he quit.
Hi threefeetback, Thank you your post is one that gave me a big smile today! Love, Ann
I tried negotiating a 500 million year contract but they didn’t like the terms. Said I was being too theety without enough wheaties. Ah well, maybe when the galactic patrol arrives we can all rest easier that the situation is well in hand. I hear that should be happening in the very near future, probably around the time target 3 is fully manned and Idealerized. I’m so happy I found the way! Yee ha and hip hip hoodeenie.
What the hell is in my coffee today? 😀
🙂 At least we can guess that the coffee wasn’t in a chipped mug 🙂
I’m betting that supervisor who was “super rich and famous, a big musician” is now broke and unable to pay the mortgage on his big house due to being regged into financial ruin.