What’s Next?
One thing for sure — it will involve taking your money. All of it.
Craig Mathieson? Been in the SO for 40 years and doesn’t have a post worth mentioning? And they can’t figure out who their top technical terminal is?
Moneywinds
Someone has been reading this blog and forced them to do a token promotional piece that doesn’t talk about making money. But how unreal can you get? Learn how to throw the switch to light a universe? Who is going to teach them that?
Mountain View Juggernauts
Now renamed the Mountain View Juggernoughts.
You will be transported…
…to a world of culture and fashion. WTF? Did whoever wrote this actually watch this cheesy ribbon yanking video?
Same old same old
Aptly titled. Give us your money. Give us your money. Give us your money. Give us your money.
Make money!
While we make more. Get two Purif starts and LA Org will give you $1,300. A little odd when they are being flooded with 700 new public starting on the bridge each week…
Food, glorious food…
Gatos is worth a slider and mac and cheese — what happened to the “gourmet” French dip dinner?
Oh, apparently you also get dessert? Maybe they put this out after they didn’t get much response to the mac and cheese…
“We have had our Ideal Org Building for over 15 years now”
And it’s about to be closed down as a derelict. Give us your money now.
Read the fine print
This is an ideal org fundraiser – see Saturday agenda. The rest is window-dressing.
Valley OTC is blazin hot! Smokin’
Apparently it is crack they are “smokin'” as they are anything but “blazin hot” as their weekly minutes prove.
The OCA has benefited millions…
It’s free and there is “no obligation…” It is also the most “accurate and reliable.”
Mighty My Mammy
NO 1970’s secretarial pool quotes this week, but some entertainment from My Mammy nonetheless. To find out who this is, come to a fundraiser!
Rolling out the big guns. Brandy Harrison! And “The Force” – wow, let’s get er done this week!
And if you needed any more incentive – they grabbed some left over white jackets from Valley and are going full Miami Vice. This is something you could wear with pride.
Let’s get ourselves excited
This is one of the emails that went out to promote to the INTERNAL public to watch their own ads on TV… They apparently don’t even get the irony.
But even more interesting — these are the “WUS” “ideal” org cities (Nashville is WUS… go figure). Of course, the schmucks in Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, St Louis, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Hawaii don’t qualify to have the ads air in their cities because they are downstat DB’s.
But Austin and San Antonio do… Yet there isn’t even an org in San Antonio and Austin is one of the most failed ideal orgs — they don’t even have to get a new building and they still can’t get anywhere. But there is a lawsuit pending still in San Antonio and in the Appeals Court in Austin….
To all the field, staff and FSMs:
| Thanks to the IAS support continuing a MASSIVE dissemination campaign. This coming Monday (tomorrow) we will be airing our ad in the next most watched televised event of the year after the Super Bowl: The Grammys! Not only in the Grammys but also in the show following it, The Post Grammys Late News which is also another top rated evening show.- This time the ad that will air is “HOW WE HELP” promoting to the millions who will be seeing this show how we benefit the world through our Social Betterment Campaigns. I’m including the schedule below so you, your family and friends can watch the ads. I’m also including all other cities as info.
NOTE: LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO AND SACRAMENTO WILL HAVE T-W-O ADS PLAYING DURING THE GRAMMYS.
– TV CHANNEL FOR ALL MARKETS: CBS
– MARKET GRAMMYS GRAMMYS LATE NEWS
GREATER LA AREA 5:58PM AND 9:58PM 12:21AM PASADENA ORG |
Cringe Corner
This. Is. Sad.
Oh, oh
Alexa report today:
mikerindersblog.org is ranked
United States 57,376
and Scientology.org is ranked just behind him at
United States Flag 57,632
Jesus, that super bowl ad didn’t give Miscavige the bounce he needed to pass up Mike. Bet that pissed him off. Someone’s going to the hole for sure…
And Scientology.org’s *bounce rate is up 7% from the previous 3 months….
*bounce rate
noun
the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page.
“a rising bounce rate is a sure sign that your homepage is boring or off-putting”
“Food, Glorious Food” WTF? … Are they kidding? … Are they THAT starved that they have to glorify cheap food all the time? … Mac & cheeze? … What shitty dishes are they used to that they expect people are going to come in for that crap? — Especially the rich whales who have gourmet dishes every night?
WOWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gosh … Golly … Gee whiz … I’m gonna get my “CREATION OF OT ABILITIES & POWERS ABOARD THE FREEWINDS!” … YIPPY, YAPPY AND YAHOOOEEE!!!
(NOPE! Sorry Dude, no powers there for you … The only way you’re going to get any OT POWERS is waiting for a comet’s tail and grab on!
I suggest you wait for the next HALE-BOPP SHUTTLE TO A BETTER PLANET!
It’s a little bit of a wait, though; about 4,360 years. But don’t worry, you got time ….
P.S. Take your bodies with – You’re gonna need them to start building IDLE ORGS, as “Heaven’s Gate” dropped their earthly bodies, party their asses off … And got shit done!)
WHHOOOPS, their BUBBLE just burst!
I hope that Crystal’s believer parents will seriously look out for her while she is on org lines. Children left in the care of the org, even under the guise of training, can easily be abused while away from the watchful eye of a parent. Speaking from firsthand experience here.
The only conversation that Crystal should be having with adults is “How many boxes of Thin Mints would you like?”. She should be carrying a pink butterfly purse full of lip gloss and copy of Taylor Swifts cd, not a briefcase full of confessional notes.She should be planning her next slumber party & worrying about the cutest boy in class, not trying to sort out an adults overts & withholds. She should be a kid and her parents should be in family court.
Agreed that Lynn shouldn’t be doing that. But it’s the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology who is directly responsible and for whose benefit this whole situation is established.
The Co$ knows that it deceives the parents about how great kids do in its care. Check out Jenna MIscavige-Hill’s “Beyond Belief” about how the Co$ had the kids put on a show for their parents so as to pretend to be happy and well adjusted.
(Sorry, “agree that Crystal should..” – can’t read the comment to which I’m replying)
“Battle Creek Call to Arms” Bwaaaaa-ha-ha-hahahaha! Jeez, they wore that buzzword out 30 years ago, after the Portland and LA “crusades.” They found a hot button phrase that would get people to show up back then, and so they started braying “Call to Arms!” for every minor reg briefing. A clam saying “Call to Arms” became the boy crying “Wolf!” They completely wore it out well before 1990.
How sick! If poor wee Crystal is what their “pros” now look like, what does that say. Using kids to shill is disgusting but if they are counting on “the next generation”, Davey’s no kid rule desimated the ranks. Talk about the bottom of the barrel!
We of the Church believe
That Man is basically status hungry.
That he is seeking to be like Tom Cruise.
That his survival depends upon David Miscavige and his attainment of Patron Vainglorious with the IAS.
And that no agency less than Dave has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
Come on guys, Crystal is a last lifetime OTVIII returning to do GAG 2!! That’s what a Kool Aide drinker told me yesterday. Pretty cool eh!
Hi Willie AKA Good Old Boy, The thing is to me your post comes very close to what those still in Sea Orgers would say.Shore stories always handy in a pinch for the cult.Always, Ann
Willie AKA Good Old Boy..
At first I was going to say, are your kidding me about the last lifetime OT 8 onto GAT 2 thing? Then I reread it and it made sense if the Cof$ would do a tally on how many Sea Orgs members have come back to continue on with their 2 billion year contract and how many Scientologist have come back to continue on with their bridge.
DM is the CS, so I guess anything goes..
Guess the parents of Vallerie shelled out $10,000 for those 2 meters just for a start.
“Please get me out of here! They bribed me by holding my little brother hostage in the tunnel of Big Blue. I’m really a sweet kid and love playing acoustic guitar, practicing aikido and cooking continental cuisine. Help!” ~ Crystal Vallere
Light up a universe? How lofty and imperious. I used to be a bit more practical. I would have been satisfied with keeping the green traffic light on just long enough to get through the intersection before it turned red.
Oh, but if you listen to Oat Tea stories, you’ll see how they can make traffic lights turn green for them, and immediately find parking spots.
All for the low, low price of all they have got, plus all they can manage to steal from business partner and borrow from banks.
Craig Mathieson. Sea Org – Saint Hill staff. I met him in 2010 and at that time his post was FSM I/C. His wife is (was?) the LRH House Director at the Manor House.
In the late 1950’s LRH had awarded my mother the SHSBC for her hard work and dedication to SCN – something she never acted on for years.
In 2010 Craig Mathieson found out about this and arranged that LRH’s award be honoured. Of course this had to happen “now now now” and despite major health issues and other problems, Craig insisted my mom virtually get onto the next plane to Saint Hill. (there was an ulterior motive – they wanted to use my mom for some PR ceremony or other – she was finally knighted and named as an honorary founding member of Saint Hill – my mom had in fact bought Saint Hill on LRH’s instruction – she found the property, sent him the details and arranged the purchase – but she never actually put foot on the property as she moved to Australia before LRH took occupation of the Manor).
When my mom was done with their ceremonies and PR, Craig dropped my mom like a hot potato and she was refused onto the BC before she had done a Student Hat retread & Pro-TR’s (understand, my mother was trained by LRH and had audited him – and had done the Student Hat 3x). She had to pay for these services with money she simply never had. Needless to say, my mom never got onto the SHSBC and left Saint Hill 3 months later mid Pro-TR’s – utterly deflated. When she died in 2014 she was still not done on the Pro-TR’s.
Anyway, this was Craig’s response to my mom who sent him an email listing concerns about coming to Saint Hill (excerpted from an email dated 28th May 2010)
“You coming to Saint Hill is something that will benefit you, your family, as well as the Scientology community here and in South Africa. Of course you have problems to handle over there because frankly you don’t have a big enough game so your body will act up. the credit cards will need handled, the family will have wars, the dogs will get sick, the paint will fade on the door but these are all little things compared to clearing a planet, gaining all the truths contained in the golden age of knowledge by studying the Briefing course”.
Yeah, my mom’s game wasn’t big enough. 60 years of dedication to LRH and Scientology – first ever appointed HCO Exec Sec WW. Auditor & close personal friend to LRH. In excess of 25 years served on staff at different times including, finally, the letter Reg for Joburg Org in 2013 at the ripe old age of 80. And because she refused to choose between me (her big SP daughter) and her KA glugging daughter, she was posthumously declared and the org refused to allow any memorial service be held for her on their premises.
May Craig and his ilk rot in hell.
Shells — there are a lot of “Craig Matthieson” stories. 40 years in the SO, I would guess half of them on the RPF or being busted for either out 2D or financial irregularities. Mostly out 2D. He is a serial womanizer. Unfortunately he is a well known breed in today’s scientology. A guy with no conscience who justifies everything he does as being “the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics (ie the group)” They have no compassion. Utterly devoid of human emotion and willing to say ANYTHING to get money or an arrival onto service or onto staff. They permeate the scientology organization like termites in wood — they have pretty much eaten it from the inside, only a paper thin veneer of what was originally there remains today. A swift kick and it will crumble. A lot of kicks and the whole structure implodes. He is infamous throughout the UK. Your mother is just another victim in his stinking wake.
Thanks Mike – that helped to alleviate the anger and heartache I felt while writing the comment. I could see those 2D flows from Craig a mile away – his whole demeanor was was smarmy and lascivious. You are so right about the termites eating it from the inside out. Let’s keep kicking at those foundations! 🙂
Shelley, I am stunned to read Craig’s email to your mother. I have no knowledge of him, since I’m in the U.S. He sounds like a sociopathic person to me. Thank you very much for sharing your Mom’s story here. She must have been a wonderful mother for refusing to choose between her daughters, spending a lifetime in the church herself. Take care.
Just to be nitpicky, I don’t believe Battle Creek got that building until 2003, which makes it 13 years in their possession, not 15. Enough with nitpicking, it is just outrageous they have had that building for 13 years and have never even started renovations. Same with New Haven – 13 years. Maybe others been around that long. Battle Creek org building would make a great poster child for the Ideal Org Evolution as it pretty much encapsulates the idiocy and futility of Miscaviges “brilliant” Why and Handling for Scientology. It used to take a century or centuries to erect the Cathedrals in Europe in the MIddle Ages, C of S is well on the way to outdoing that.
I am not sure when the Battle Creek building was actually purchased. It was formerly the Hart Hotel and was in terrible condition. The dedicated public actually did a ton of renovations on that building at great expense and work. There was a new roof put on, all the floors were demoed and the rubble removed with a small front loader jimmied into the building and up the rickety stairs and there was a fundraiser to buy windows. You can not even imagine how hard people worked on that building. But it all ground to a halt over 8 years ago, before even the recession of 2008.
There is just not a big enough community to fund and support the renovation of an 1890’s building that needs millions of dollars of work. And now the Michigan Scientology public is saddled with another white elephant of a building in a similar state of disrepair in downtown Detroit. There is just no way it can happen. And even if Int or the IAS ante-up the money there are not enough people or interest to keep the lights and heat on.
Really what is needed, if scientology wants a presence in Michigan, is an economical lease for one of the thousands of empty commercial buildings int he Detroit-Metro area that are located in an area such as Royal Oak or Ferndale that have street traffic and up and coming neighborhoods. Then there might be some hope for the people that still want to do scientology.
The scene in Michigan has devolved over the last 40 years. They heyday was probably mid 1970-1982. It’s a sorry state of affairs at this point and a lot of good intentions and money and energy were channeled into the boondoggle it is now.
Poor Crystal. She already has the blank stare of someone who has no joy in her life. Her parents are obviously mentally deranged. No sane person would subject their child to such a perverse organization.
The people doing it, the parents, are subjected to the mind-fuck perpetrated by the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology. The Co$ depends on turning its victims into perpetrators. But it’s all the organisation, these parents are not themselves.
Check out “Combatting Cult Mind Control” by Steven Hassan and “Cults Inside Out” by Rick Ross about the personality changes that totalitarian orgnisations force on their victims.
As a Jedi, I must protest the religious bigotry being shown by Miami. To suggest that the living Force could be used as a cheap money-grabbing tool is deeply offensive to me.
What is the Church of Scientology really going to do when they finally reach the public they make believe they have been gearing up for? With all do respect I hardly consider that offensive from MY perspective. 🙂 People cannot live happily ever after with the Church of Scientology because living with the truth is the only known way to true happiness these days. 🙂
Doris Tate gave a speech to Charles Tex Watson once at one of his parole hearings trying to explain to him how that because he had stabbed at least one person (not including her daughter) 27 times in the back that parole for him was not something currently on everybody’s agenda. It is the same as trying to explain to the Church of Scientology that people want LRH’s true tech, not the church’s fake altered versions of it. The first thing a group that offers such things to people is going to ask you is “Where do you get this tech?” Is a group that alters LRH tech supposed to even know what your definition of it may mean? 🙂
You don’t need to promote this event.
These aren’t the OTs you’re looking for.
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He can go about his business.
Move along.
Perhaps change the title to Thursday Flunkies.
“In native state you command enough power to light a universe.”
So the people delivering this seminar have all achieved Native State and can easily demonstrate lighting a universe and will teach one and all attending how to do this?
It’s actually very simple. Just close your eyes and mock up bright yellow. Practice it a bit and you’ll be able to do any color at will. Voila! You can now light your universe.
Please thank me for this brilliance by hitting Mike’s donate button and leave $50,000 on your way out the door.
Thanks Les! The room seems brighter somehow!
I will definitely leave my donation.
Hi LDW, Your post shines as the sun! Thank you.Always,Ann.
Oh my… the last one with the kid. There is so much wrong with that it defies all manner of compassion for anything like a future filled with accomplishment, love and prospering. If she makes it to 20 years old & is still in, she’ll be an expert at sec checking, be able to introvert anyone opposite her in a flash, immediately assume the PC is hiding something if they don’t FN and actively work toward caving people in. Her first thought will always be towards pleasing her seniors and she’ll excel at keeping out of trouble by any and all means possible. She’ll accept CSs without a 2nd thought as to consequences and her own case will solidify into a solid mass of protectionism. She’ll rave about her so called “wins” until one day she’s thrown under the bus because she falls in love with someone and wants a life with children, a home and a future. That is of course if she doesn’t join the SO… One thing is guaranteed though no matter what she does if she stays in – she’ll never have any money.
There’s another decisive product with scientology’s regime you acquire rather quickly and that is the inability to smile from within above the tone level of 1.1 – No wonder they have gone pie face insane at a group level and recognise that money and only money is God! Individually they are already fucked and will remain so and only get worse if they stay in. There is nothing good about being a member of the Church of Scientology.
Dear I Yawnalot,
Oh my indeed, you took that girl’s photo way far into the future…sadly, not to be a downer, but will she even make it that far?
I caved at imagining that 10 year old youngster in the photo to soon be the amazing 11 year old child-star-auditor who will be told (screamed at) to knock off her misemotion (uncontrollable-sobbing-tears) and get her absolutely-perfect GAT (Golden Age of Trash) TRs “in” and figure out a way to get a 3 swing “F/Ning” needle on her 18 year old male student-preclear who absolutely refuses to give up his sexual “secrets” to a child.
Then, if she doesn’t complete her 3 page pink sheet (correction assignment) within 45 minutes (by Thursday at 2 PM) she will be given a Flunk for that failed session and will need to re-do her entire 2 week checksheet (which she will already have been on for 3 months) and she will need to borrow more money from her dying grandmother, and…and…
Much love, 1.1
Yes indeed. To survive let alone succeed with org training and audit in their HGCs, you can be pretty much guaranteed to be some sort of asshole to begin with. Time will tell with this child but with any luck she’ll do a bunk on the whole show nice and early before too much damage is done. However, it does lend itself to think just what sort of “person” could survive as a HGC auditor in a miscavige org. They read one thing and then are CS’d to do exactly the opposite, and then to expand on that, realise an auditor CS’s for next session anyway meaning they have already really learnt to screw cases up and get VWDs on them. With the amount of sec checks, redone actions & endless reviews on their line up it also makes you wonder about the trick of faking FNs while holding the cans. Bedlam is a lot term than HGC.
As I said earlier, no good can come of being a member of the Church of Scientology.
perfectly written; too, too truly sad
The joys of training.
That girl is going to be under pressure to sign a billion year contract. I hope she’ll wake up one day like Jenna Miscavige did.
Children in Scientology means no education, no logic, no critical thinking no life and no future.
“Win 1 300$ in one week ! How ?”
Simples.
It’s called “working”.
You know, in one of them “career jobs”.
Laughter!!!!!!!!!! 2FF!
Christianity, Suffer the little children to come unto me.
$cientology, make the little children suffer.
Briefings, postulates, prosperity ‘seminars’, how does any clam hold a real job or have a life? Oh, they don’t have a life, the clampire wants all that time.
The parents of that child Crystal Vallieri and the church should be reported for CHILD ABUSE.
What will happen to her when she encounters a PC with heavy out 2D’s for example, or worst still gets bull-baited on 2D mis-behaviour/s For a starter??????
Really makes one sic……. Bunch of cretins……..!!!!
Hi Mike Moretti, Thank you for articulating what I was leaning toward. 2D inThe Sea Org was insane enough without dropping this poor young young girl into the boiling caldron that is cos in all it’s f###ing decadence and evil.Always Love to U,Ann.
“In native state you command enough power to light a universe.”
*squints and yawns* Get that blinding light out of my face, I’m trying to take a nap. These OTs are so rude.
This poor little girl! Are they not aware that such a creepy ad promote that they are a cult?
Groundhog Day on February 20? Does that mean it’s Groundhog Day 19 days in a row?
Hi Mike, Another thought provoking post Two things jumped out at me. Firstly, “In Native State I have enough power to light up the universe, but I do not know how to throw the switch?! “Wtf?? Hey dm I know how to throw the switch alright and I won’t charge you for the privilege of watching me do just that!Why not do the deed of universal switch throwing on the front porch of infinity!I bet I’ll throw more light on you than you could ever generate.Too too dark where you dwell.
The second thought is the photo of the girl Crystal ripped my heart apart.It is one thing to put on the dedicated glare when you are over 18 and quite another when a child is involved.This poor Thetan has no idea she is toting her valise for a one way trip to slavery if in Sea Org and a life of paying for dm’s lifestyle if she decides to pay her way up and down and up the twisted bridge again.And if she does join SO no kids for her later in life either.
Definitely one of the more powerful photos showing the hook that is this cult firmly slashed into her soul.This photo will haunt me and keep me more sure the path I walk here is the path of Truth.With Love, Ann.
In Native State I have enough power to light up the universe, but I do not know how to throw the switch?! oh dear the switch is YOU ..
I understand it, that is is not easy to do .. think, if everybody would be OT — there would be no light anymore .. so also no switch ..
Hi Friend, Thank you- your post makes sense to me! Always,Ann.
I agree about the child Ann, it’s heartbreaking to see a young girl like that in their clutches. I have read so many heartbreaking stories, I pray her’s turns out better.
Well said. It’s truly amazing the power a photograph can have. I too shuddered with that image but it’s just an indicator of the compassion for life we share. It’s something miscavige doesn’t understand and actively seeks to destroy it in the staff of the church and he sees it as a weakness in people at large and something to exploit for money. Unfortunately he’s doing a good job and luckily his followers numbers are diminishing rapidly. The public on the other hand stay away in droves. How they expect that photo to work for them is hard to comprehend as it’s so degrading to anyone who knows what they do in the name of religion.
“You are unique Individual with your own personality traits…” Don”t worry we can fix that. You to can learn to be a Ron Bot with personality that Ron believes is best. Can’t figure out what answers Ron wants on the personality test? Don’t worry neither can most Scientologists. But just do as DM asks you to do and you’ll be happy and more self-determined then ever. Also, be sure to add DM as a signatory to all your accounts
So said to see that last one. Think of the great things that young lady could achieve if she was as hard at work studying a real Science. And Not DM’s Squirrels LRH’s tech 47X and beyond! I cann’t help but be reminded of someone training to be an Auditor at CC around 2000. She was very young 12-14, SO and her name was Maddy? Mags? M something. Only met her a couple of times on Course. I really hope she escaped to a good life.
As always: who actually READS these flyers and promotions other than MAYBE a local AVC person and the poor schmuck that created it. I think we’re safe on them luring people further – heck, each one should push people further away. How many times can you have a “special announcement” and anyone actually care?
Speaking of that: do the big whales ever actually show up to these events? Other than to feed off of the FSM commissions (love to see that breakdown…likely the big fish are taking a majority of them).
Michael Chan: what dynamics have your been so bad-ass at? You stole a business from a fellow scientologist, married and dumped your wife…let’s see…anyone else familiar with his stunning production on all of his “dynamics”?
All the FREE FOOD: would someone in that town please alert the local homeless shelters of this information? It could actually turn into something helpful for other humans.
Those Tom Cruise white jackets: white, yes good. Like a straight jacket. Remember when they “awarded” Road To Freedom cassette sales jackets? They were and always will be so gawdy. Pass.
Brandy: I’m sorry. Have you ever owned property personally to then dish out advice about real estate? Don’t mess up this briefing like Pablo did – it will be recorded (I’m sure) and DM will hear it personally and if you mess it up you will get canned! Do you look good in black/blue apparel? Oh, and where DO you get your nails done? Just wondering.
Lastly: the child with the briefcase. Who are her parents? They should be investigated for child abuse or child endangerment. Are they leaving this little girl in the hands of other people all day – people that act above the law (I know there are sexual predators amongst the members). Will OSA jump in and cover it up if it happens? WHEN WILL THE GOVERNMENT TAKE A CLOSER LOOK at this behavior?!?!
That last one is just so disturbing.
After 5 years in the cult I stopped reading the flyers and began throwing them into a large box I kept in one of my closets. When it filled up I’d cart it downstairs to the storage bin and get another large box for my closet. After 11 years I moved and had 4 large boxes of flyers, mags and other promo. I left all of it behind. Lucky for Miscavige I did that. We’d have a J & D festival with it today.
OMG. That last flyer is just heartbreaking. She looks like a 12 year old. Shameful.
I was thinking she looked more like my 10 year old granddaughter. Either way it is heartbreaking. IRS are you looking at that? That is what the tax exempt “CHURCH” does with its’ funds. This to me is worse than exploiting children in beauty pageants.
The unbelievable arrogance of that message from Battle Creek – drop all your personal plans for this Saturday as you MUST be here to bail us out of yet another F*** up. These sort of communications used to make me see red even when I was a believer, the idea that scientology was vastly important to anything you could possibly be doing. I still shake my head in wonderment that I ever gave such obvious incompetents so much money.
Hi Gimpy, I really liked the last bit of your post.I too shake my head at how in 74 I just threw fistfuls of cash at Asho and they gathered it all up and then wanted more.It seemed to me as a SO member then, the more cash I gave while in Sea Org, the more enemies crawled out of the woodwork.So so relieved I escaped Ron’s World.Love, Ann.
That arrogance used to burn me up too. Phone calls demanding I come into the org to meet with one person or another, without even giving a reason, a purpose for the comm cycle. No, just drop everything and come in, if only out of curiosity. That worked on my for the first five times. Afterwards I insisted upon being told why I was being summoned; what was the purpose? Of course, they didn’t want to tell me. That irritated me too, that my time was being wasted on the phone, spending time on the phone trying to find out why I should drop everything and make myself available for one person or another, AND i had to be polite, even though what was being done to ME was rude and inconsiderate! Today, I’m amazed that I tolerated it for so long. Well, that’s brainswashing for you.
What is also amazing is the uniformity of it from one part of the country or even one part of the world to another. Always the same thing – you must come in but we won’t tell you why until you are here. You are right it is designed to make you curious, but only works on new people, after a while its simple to work out, they either want your money or want to recruit you for staff.
Speechless.
I have to say that photo did get me hankerin’ for some good mac and cheese. Not gonna get that where I live. Probably have it in Bangkok, but that’s like 500 miles away, too far for lunch. You know the food angle is a pretty good idea. At ASHO I used to attend all the CCHR Mexican buffet lunches. They put out a good spread. Yeah, you have to sit through the 20 minute blather on psychs and pretend to take a donation card to fill in, but hey, it’s a free lunch and it’s dang good. Even went to an IAS lunch or two, but with Brridget there, you’re pushing it for the free lunch. Sometimes, would you freakin’ BELIEVE they wanted you to sit through their deadly spiel with NO food at all!!! Man, you really had to cultivate the art of sliding through the front door before they posted someone there, or just run down the hall to LA Org and go out that way. (“it’s only for a half hour, stay, stay ..” Yeah, I’m gonna stay and listen to the psych victim stories with no food, are you freakin’ kidding me???)
When I was in college at the University of Texas in Austin I would walk past the scientology org every day ignoring them as they offered free stress tests. I always thought they should offer pizza, it would get more college kids in the door. A friend of mine who would do anything for food would probably be a member today if it had been pizza
Hi Jeff Smith, I echo your post. When in Sea Org I would have crawled across broken glass for a slice of pizza!I remember when I first found this blog there was a comment that cos in La had stiffed the pizza delivery person out of a tip for numerous pizzas.So dm now has another bribe to keep the still ins cracking the whip! Back in the day, two bites of a slice and I would have been in heaven for a week! Love,Ann ps handing out pizza for stress tests would have been a great idea in the 70s.
Laughter!! . . .crawled across broken glass for a piece of pizza – LOL From the bowels of Big Blue to from sea to shining sea, your sea org memories and adventures are a hoot. It could be a book. 🙂
Hi Richard, Thank you for your post.Richard,a bunch of wonderful shining lights here have amazing material for books.I am one of the worst get it together and think about that- of all of you.However I may put a self published essay kind of dream state tale of my time down The Sea Org rabbit hole! that those who wanted to could read it in one place.I am so bad about organizations for book material and to think I never would have been that way in SO.Ecstatic to be free!Love your posts Always,Ann.
Ann – IMO your book is already written. Just go back to when you startede bogging here
oops continue – I was going to say gather up your earlier posts but I don’t think Mike’s blog stores all the earlier comments. At any rate I would still like to see “My Adventures in Scientology’s Sea Organization” by Ann B. Watson. Love, Richard
Sad to see Alec Wheelis is CO CLO. I last saw him as a child in SFO – helping mom who was probably the OO at the time. Lots of good memories from those days. But however good the memories are, I am ever so glad I left – life is sooo much better!
Who is Obi Wahn and Hans Solo? Maybe they are related to Obi-Wan and Han Solo..?
Also: Princess Leah. I thought she’d blown?
They’re the knock-off imitations of Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi you use when you don’t want to pay copyrights.
Then why spell other names correctly, especially Luke Skywalker? Remember, Lucasfilm forced Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew to stop using his Luke Skyywalker (sic) alias back in the 80s for trademark reasons (and the fact that 2 Live Crew didn’t project, let’s say, a family-friendly image).
No, I think “stupidity” is still the sharp blade of Occam’s Razor in this instance. After all, we celebrate the cult’s stupidity here on a weekly basis with Thursday Funnies.
That last flier. No words.
Unbelivable isnt it, that young girl could be doing any number of things which involve doing something – Girl Scouts, dance classes, but no she intends to be listening to confessionals from grown adults.
It’s pure evil that filer.
What is THE most important thing that you need to know about Michael Chan? C’mon, you can do it, kiddies … c;mon … that’s right! He is …. “IN BIDNESS”!!! That’s right, he’s one of the wealthy jobless who make money by using and squeezing other Scientologists (you know, I have no money making sense, first of all I wanted to go into broadcasting in college when I should have gotten a business degree and moved 3,000 miles to Wall St. and then I get into Scientology as a teenager and stay as a freakin’ org staff member making five bucks a week when I should have cultivated a friendship with a Feschbach brother or Drew Johnston or the sleazy Arte Maren and gone into bidness … geez, if I had just gotten into the ground floor of the IAS scam … too busy getting on the damn Briefing Course to make money … oh, well, not complaining, just dreaming, I have enough to be retired and live outside the USA ,, doing fine,) BUT back to Michael Chan … he’s “available” for one on one interviews … geez, INSTANT hatting me on ROCKETING my dynamics … Michael, I disagree with the Ethics Officer, you see I have a wife AND a girlfriend AND a boyfriend I see occasionally, but you know, I’m happy about it, not in doubt at all and my wife just likes me to get out of the house every now and then so she can binge watch Netflix … yes, I have a checking account and a credit card …. why do you ask?
Mike, your title on the last one is so spot on. So so so sad.
They just finished the WISE convention on the Freewinds. I wonder if they let anyone leave before starting the creation of human liability stuff?
There’s something that’s come up about the building that we need to “BRIEF” you on …. This is an in-person “BRIEFING” and it’s extremely urgent … We need your “help” … I can’t stress the importance of this “BRIEFING” enough … ha ha ha ha ha ha … I am actually chuckling to myself here … if there is one world that SHOULD be the big red loud whining warning light to Scientologists, it is “briefing” … I don’t REALLY have to say what it means, do I? Cause I ain’t gonna, you already know it. But there will be maybe 6 or 7 semi to fully brain dead elderly folks who feel honored to be asked and “briefed” and they will make appointments, and yes, they will be “briefed” as in practically robbed of their underwear.
But here’s the thing … fifteen years they HAVE the freakin’ building and can’t get the fucking cycle COMPLETED? … but … but … why didn’t they just assign the right condition and apply the formula steps???? Or simply word clear the appropriate materials and find the misunderstood words that are preventing them from going into action? Or write up their OWs? Or get product clearing? Or write a program? (you know, with all the different named targets, vital, operating, yadda yadda yadda) Isn’t there admin “tech” to handle this? Folks, it is TRULY a mystery!
Unless you wish to commit financial suicide scientology ‘briefings’ are to be avoided at all costs.
Well said, Gimpy. At ALL costs. In fact, in all its forms, I can’t hear or read that word now without flinching a little.
David Miscavige’s personal Mantra
“If an Ant gets in your way, step on it”.
Always thought he’s was “If an Aunt gets in your way. Step on her”
Dave’s an equal opportunity kind of guy – he’ll step on anything that gets in his way, though sometimes he might need a ladder.
Poor Crystal. That is heartbreaking. I’m going to have to watch my grandson swim and watch my granddaughter dance just to wash the memory out of my mind,
It is one thing to do that to yourself, but she looks about 10. How DARE her parents deprive her of the joy of childhood?
the parents don’t know what they’re doing – no victim of the Co$ gets to make an informed choice.
The cirminal orgnisation known as the “church” of $cientology knows full well. Check out “Aaron Saxton Scientology’s Sea Org Recruits Minors” on a video sharing site near you
I like the faux star wars promo! Hans Solo? Obi Wahn Kenobi? Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Crystal Valliere? Is she somehow related to Marc and Anne Valliere down in Nashville? She might be their daughter or something.
In the Star Wars item, note the following character list.
Chewbacca – right
Princess Leah – wrong
Luke Skywalker – right
Obi Wahn – wrong
Hans Solo – wrong
That’s 40% right. Scientology is showing improvement.
I always say a helpful evaluation of an organized religion is how they treat their children. The picture of Crystal off to her training is beyond creepiness. Many argue that Scientology indoctrinates it’s followers – but really if your an adult you consent along every step of the way. But if you’re a child you really are indoctrinated. This girl will probably be derped for the rest of her life.
“Out of this world dinner”…but you get less than a half hour to gobble it down, then we pluck your funds!
And using children to promote training is one of the sickest methodologies used in scio. Poor Vallerie!