Ribbon Cutting Fever…
These days they will cut a ribbon for anything – a waterfall? Really?
No brains required…
Surely if you don’t need to pay attention to “file CF” there is something a little more entertaining than this they could be showing. How about “The Master”? “Body Snatchers”?
Yes, that’s right! You will be able to see Meg Ryan (and Tom Hanks and Kevin Kline) at Tampa Org CF this Sunday.
We’re hosting a DOUBLE FEATURE MATINEE
Watch two romantic comedies starring Meg Ryan while working on CF.
Our Double Feature Matinee starts with You’ve Got Mail, followed by French Kiss. Two thoroughly enjoyable romantic comedies that will make working on CF a breeze! All projected on the big screen in the CF Project space.
ChanMan
Trying to pay the bills with commissions from across the UK. He is the classic “WISE guy” who L. Ron Hubbard hated for “living off the backs of orgs.”
Second Annual Conference of Nothing
Why in Twin Cities? Because it’s meaningless.
Food, glorious food
“Just like mom’s”– except you didn’t have to pay for hers…
They are the elite
This IS what they believe. And that they are “clearing Cincinnati” — wonder what evidence they are basing this on?
Saving lives
They believe this too…
Interesting facts
Even more interesting is that in all these state with all these people there is a single scientology org. Yet this is the answer to all problems of mankind. Even the most incompetent management should be able to make people want water in the desert…
Did you know?
Facts about the Midwest.
Populations:
Kansas 2.904 million
Missouri 6.064 million
Oklahoma 3.878 million
Iowa 3.107 million
Arkansas 2.966 million
Nebraska 1.882 million
Total 20.8301 million
The Midwest has been the birthplace of 1/4 of the presidents of the United States. It is also the birthplace of the inventors and entrepreneurs of most of the technology that fuels the world’s economy:
Airplanes
Automobiles
Electric lighting
Transistors
Petroleum
Steel Production
It is the most productive section of the United States as well as the most generous in that more people in the Midwest donate to philanthropic organizations than people in other sections of the United States. It is also the nation’s breadbasket feeding not only the United States but the world. The Midwest also determines many political movements.
The United States is the 3rd largest producer of wheat in the world and the state of Kansas is the top wheat producing state in the United States.
3 suburbs of Kansas City are rated in the top 10 best places to live in the United States. Kansas City is rated the best place to live for “20 some things” as well as entrepreneurs.
We have an active thriving art community, great Jazz and arguably the best BBQ in the world.
What we don’t have is an Ideal Org to help all these amazingly productive creative people searching for answers.
There are no Scientology Class 5 Organizations in Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas or Kansas. There are 2 Orgs in Missouri – one in KC and one in St. Louis. Neither are Ideal.
I need your help to put our Ideal Org here in Kansas City so we can then create a Scientology movement through the entire Midwest.
Where else can a donation create such a huge effect and investment in over 20 million people and influence American politics and the economy and technology of our country and the world.
Please help put our Ideal here now. We need your help. We cannot do it without you. And we need to do it with speed. We have the answers to all the problems of life. We need an Ideal Org to make that available to everyone now.
Please consider making a donation today.
Sincerely,
Maggie Kittinger
Executive Director
Church of Scientology Kansas City
Call 816-753-6590 to donate today !
Not just another event…
Of course not, they never are. What it is, this is ALWAYS the most important event you must not miss. And this one is a “magical moment on the track.”
Be part of the boom
The only requirement is you need a good imagination. But some cotton candy and a petting zoo should help convince you the boom is really happening.
Ninja expansion
It’s so stealth nobody can see it.
This is a band?
And they are “Showman of the Show” too
Whatever the hell that means?
Big surprise
It’s an insider briefing. But I can save you the time. Either 1. Give more money or 2. Sign up for staff
As promised there will be a BIG SURPRISE at the Flag OT Committee meeting when you hear the special insider briefing by Wayne Fuller, ED Tampa Org. Find out what simple thing you can do to help Tampa achieve the first ever Double Saint Hill Size Ideal Org on the planet and make Scientology history!!! Come to the Flag OT Committee meeting, Monday night 6:15 PM in the Crystal Ballroom. Please RSVP.
ML. Kaye
Beyond even Wayne Fuller…
Oh, this IS important. Sort of. This unknown person from the CMO is going to brief you to give more money or join staff. This is the plan to make Tampa Org “double St Hill size.”
YES! This is important! Don’t miss this meeting, please.
6:15 PM tonight in the Crystal Ballroom.
Everyone is welcome whether they are an OTC member or not.
Your help on this would be very much appreciated.
Please RSVP to this messsage.
Kaye
They’re hot!
What do you get?
What does it take?
Another band perhaps?
Scots Humor
You guy’s may like this story….My father lives in Ocala,Florida. I am sure you are aware,a “certain celebrity” opened up a Scientology “center” there. Well,I went to visit my dad on Monday…I’ve an aunt that has been an auditor for years…currently she is in Scientologyville,Florida…and recently declared us S.p.’s. Well,I’ve always wanted to check out the house of hubbard in Ocala, Went there Tuesday afternoon. IT WAS CLOSED.HOWEVER,the door was open? hmmm. it was empty. not a soul in those digs! Why would they leave the door open? I got pictures,btw. if anyone is interested. it was fun!
Know what these constant “Events” remind me of? Has anyone here seen the NBC / Yahoo! comedy Community, about a dysfunctional community college? In that scene the dean throws endless, themed dances to try to keep morale up and to distract from his own incompetence. That’s pretty much what’s happening here, isn’t it?
Bravo to Ron Miscavige. Must see his interview on Fox http://www.fox5ny.com/good-day/137270378-story
Michael Chan’s facebook page is a joke. The “Can You Stand the Truth” weekend in 2014 looks to have been tremendous success: 220 invited. 3 interested and a grand total of 10 went. His six day visit to England should be just as successful.
CSDR is a “major ” player in the areas of disaster? BWAHAHAHA! They’re more like the sneaky yappy little dog that when sprung runs away.
Clearing Cincinnati: They rely on the meaningless graphs with no details. You know the ones that look like a snail trail and the snail has the hiccups.
Facts about the Midwest. I looked at this and scratched my head. Why? To me the figures translated, at first glance, to –
Populations:
Kansas 2.904 million = 2.904.000.000
Missouri 6.064 million = 6.064.000.000
Oklahoma 3.878 million = 3.878.000.000
Iowa 3.107 million
Arkansas 2.966 million
Nebraska 1.882 million
Total 20.8301 million
Carl Sagan would be almost proud to say “Billions and billions.”
The Moonlight Ball. What a load utter senseless drivel.
“We have the 3rd largest whirlpool in the world.” Yep, it’s Demento’s bank account.
Oh, the Sea Org needs “highly skilled and creative” people to man up Scientology Media Productions. Yeah, you can be like Peter Schless and waste your creative talent composing “inspirational” dreck soundtracks for the Midget’s scale-less graphs of wall paper, flooring, and electrical conduit installations.
Daphna (a.k.a. Egg Shit) Hernandez, Barbara (a.k.a. Superman) Russell & Pat (a.k.a. Tiny Tim) Parodi
These 3 FSM’s are as real as they get.
Not to mention of course Michael Chan (a.k.a. Singah) – who keeps showing up at events, among other recycled “so called” internationally famous Scientologists that no one has ever really heard of before, and re-introduces “The Dynamic Survival Axiom Principle of ARC” given by LRH in the “1952 Advanced Clearing Congress OT Series Lectures of Camden, NJ”.
Anybody hear ever see Michael Chan do his thing? Just interested in what makes him such a superstar money earner on the Scientology rubber burger circuit.
Can someone explain to me why KS ED Maggie Kittinger (was Magerowski from Boston) is using Almanac statistics to recruit staff? Is this kind of thing effective? Has this letter gotten one person even remotely interested in joining staff? Is there anyone who has stepped into that org who hasn’t been heavily regged to join staff?
The important statistics have nothing to do with the population or art community. On staff, you’ll be broke unless you have an extremely good alternative source of money like a trust fund or a spouse that makes megabucks. You’ll get an important title and some training and get to be extremely busy doing things that everyone in your club believes is extremely important. You’ll also be brainwashed into believing a number of tenets that sometimes true but your thinking and goals and dreams will be turned over to someone else. Forget about a family life. Just forget about it. And your friends will stop hanging out with you and your family will be cringing about you if you ever get to see them.
Why would I want to watch two movies about wogs going about their daily wog lives? There must be a ton of entheta implanted in those movies.
“Just like mom’s” … hey, my mom never served plain pasta with a meager splash of tomato sauce and stale bread rolls.
That fuckin’ Michael Chan must be laughing his head off, all the way to the bank. I bet he doesn’t believe a single word of what he spouts. What an easy gig. (Except for the conscience part.)
I read things carefully, and in the advert for the “Pacifica Base Celebration Weekend” I noticed the following:
“Hear how we are going to stop legalized Marijuana at the LA Org Volunteer Ministers Tent.”
This is the same week in which, for example, the city of Oakland voted to issue permits to dozens more medical-cannabis dispensaries and growers, and a petition for a November ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in California was turned in to the state government with more than the 600,000 voter signatures that were required.
So my first thought was, “Oh, AS IF!” My next thought was: “Good thing nobody is even going to notice this particular CoS project, because if anything could make Scientology even more despised in California than it already is (which is a lot), then trying to keep marijuana-smoking a criminal offense would have to be it.”
“Hear how we are going to stop legalized Marijuana at the LA Org Volunteer Ministers Tent.”
I think you misunderstood this. They are only trying to stop people from using at THEIR tent.
I guess some folks were walking in to THEIR tent smoking doobies?
Far out man… tents?? Are they like made of hemp or something?
“Hear how we are going to stop legalized Marijuana at the LA Org Volunteer Ministers Tent.”
Hemp was once was commercially grown as a source of material for making rope and canvas. And hemp seed oil was used as a lubricant. Hemp could be grown commercially again, but that would be capitalistic and focused on material existence at the cost of one’s Eternity.
It’s more than that. Hemp paper is made using an environmentally-friendly acid-free process and is highly durable (the Declaration of Independence was printed on it). Hemp can be turned into flax and flax into very durable clothing that can fix dyes easily and stand up to washing. And instead of being grown as an incredibly lucrative cash crop, it’s banninated because its leaves are on Schedule 1 for no good reason. And those ninnies don’t realize that the only way L. Fraud makes any sense, just like election results in Welsh (which I’m watching right now), is when you’re tripping balls.
Hi Espiando, Thank you for your recent posts.Cool, interesting and debonair! Safe travels,good auditing xo Ann B.
Election results in English ain’t making much sense lately, either.
Ok these all make sense IF you apply
Micavamatics, Miscavography, Miscavanomics instead of reality!
Tick, tock,……
Is that Kawhi Leonard of the Spurs in the Austin Org photo collage? That’s some serious copyright infringement going on. I’m sure the NBA would not approve.
pasting in a pic to a larger collage like that, in addition to being pointless, is a good demo of “fair use” even if it is for commercial purposes.
“Getting the band back together”
Who’s playing trumpet?
Oh, they don’t have trumpet anymore, it’s a suppressive instrument. Peter Schless said so.
Since my work’s almost done for the week, I have time to react to Thursday Funnies. If you don’t see me around for the next couple of weeks, don’t worry. It’s just that I’ve got five audits in four different locations (one being done through e-mail) and airport wi-fi generally sucks. So here we go…
So Saint Hell is having a ribbon-cutting for rocks, moss, lichens, and falling water. It’s appropriate. The moss, lichen, and waterfall accomplish more than the SuMP ever will, and that got a ribbon-cutting.
Is there any way for Meg Ryan to take legal action against Tampa Idle Morgue for this desecration? Actually, the best revenge for her might be to star in a film called Mighty My Mammy. Do it, Meg. You know you want to.
Vicky The Sicky Boyce is still in charge at Plymouth? I haven’t thought about her for years. I loved her when she was the star of Stu Wyatt’s videos in 2008. I always thought she’d make a perfect Nurse Rached. What a repulsive individual she is. Of course, she’s the pinnacle of Scientology Ethics: trying to Fair Game a guy who needs a motorized wheelchair. Glad to see you’re still around, Sicky. When’s your little storefront shithole going Ideal?
Can we lead the Scientology Disaster Response team deep into the Lindbergh Terminal at MSP? They’ll never make it out of there. They will get lost, and in a few hundred years their skeletons and rotting clothing will be found in an out-of-the-way disused gate in G Concourse. Why, yes, I am flying into there next week. And, yes, I will be having to change planes there twice in a few weeks. Why do you ask?
So Dallas Idle Morgue will be serving cooking just like mom’s. I hate my mom’s cooking. Can you do any better?
We are the Elite. We are clearing Cincinnati (from across the Ohio River). We have a really bad overbite that could have been handled if L. Fraud didn’t communicate his hatred of dentists to Scientologists.
The fact that they’re using the Pac Estates e-mail address as a contact in a Sea Borg bumf really says it all. Join the Sea Borg and work like a Mexican gardener for one-tenth the wages.
The whole Midwest spiel has been worked over repeatedly by the wonderful posters here. The only contributions I can make are thus: As a patron of Arthur Bryant’s and Gates, I will agree with the barbecue line. Kansas City cannot be beat in that regard. I do like its airport, which has a lot going for it. And some of the suburbs, especially on the Kansas side, are wonderful places. However, the city itself (whether on the Missouri or Kansas side) is a total post-industrial shithole populated by barely-toilet-trained urban rednecks and bisected by a river that can battle the Thames and the Rhine in the Open Sewer Olympics. No wonder Scientology thinks it’s perfect for an Idle Morgue.
So Brandy Harrison has now gone in Scientology bumf from “Mister” to “Disney Princess”. Is this a promotion for her? I’m not sure where Disney Princess falls in the Sea Borg hierarchy.
Oooh, LA, you say you’re going to have Jeff Pomerantz, Michael Chan, AND a petting zoo?! Sign me up! But only if you can explain to me how a bouncy castle is “interactive” with anything dealing with Scientology. You can’t? Tough luck then. I’ll have to say no. Maybe if you had a cruise down the coast where you could fire weapons at uninhabited Mexican islands like L. Fraud did, you could have convinced me.
Given the photographic evidence of the “band” getting back together, I’d have to say that the band was Westlife if all of the members were doused in sulfuric acid.
Kaye Sparkling Wine sounds desperate to get someone to come to her special briefings. But the giveaway was when she said that she was asked to report who was coming. Someone above her is putting her under pressure. This may be bigger than just another push for Tampa to go Double Saint Hell Size. I’d ask our Clearwater contingent to keep their ears to the ground and their eyes peeled for some big changes around their parts, but they’re already doing that anyway. You’re screwed, Kaye. Get out while you can.
The most disconcerting thing about the Service promo isn’t the kid being indoctrinated. It’s the unfashionable Nineties hairstyles on display. Of course, this promo’s coming out of Kansas City, which has only recently made it to the Nineties. See above.
Pat Parodi really needs to grow the ponytail back. Or, for that matter, to do anything to distract from his forehead. I flew into Sioux Falls, South Dakota airport this week, and the runway there is shorter than his forehead. Seriously, Pat, use some of those FSM commissions for plugs.
I think that Scotland should be proud of its third-biggest whirlpool. It’s the closest thing that Scots will ever come to a working flush toilet.
Two more words: Espi out (drops the mic).
“Maybe if you had a cruise down the coast where you could fire weapons at uninhabited Mexican islands like L. Fraud did, you could have convinced me.”
The island Lron’s ship unloaded on was occupied and one or more shells landed near an open resort. Bad Ronald, bad. The fact that Lron didn’t have permission to do gunnery practice at the neighboring island that was a US gunner range was the reason he was court marshaled and thereafter needed a keeper to watch over him.
The 3 inch gun on the pc 815 was the same cannon used on Sherman tanks in WW2. The 76 mm low velocity gun had a range of near 15,000 yards which was damned good. At least it was damned good in hands that knew how to use it.
Mexico declared war on the Axix powers in the summer of 1942. They were allies at the time Lron shot up the wrong island. Bad Lron, bad!
Wikipedia has a nice write up of the PC 815.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_PC-815
All the seminars and ‘briefings’ that clams have to go to remind me of an Amway convention or those Suk markets that Middle Easterners used to con each other in 90’s. All value was paper and paper that was worth nothing.
A lot of good chuckles, Espi!
“French Kiss” was a funny movie. Good script, fine acting by Kevin Klein, Meg Ryan, the entire cast was good. I’d see it again but I wouldn’t be filing while watching it.
“The Power Stance”. The dedicated glare, the crossed arms, the smile. Puke.
Hi Aquamarine, Now ” The Power Stance” is making me feel not so well.Probably because I look back and still say,Ann what were you doing!? It is the ultimate Robot TR stance and I became quite good at it! Perish the thought! Laughter,xo Ann B.
Got it on everything, Ann. I’m not sure of your official stance on LRH pro but a number of things that the Old Man said really resonate with me, really makes sense to me, is this: “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your own tomorrow”. When you think about it, other than following this, how can anyone go on living, being productive, being happy and making others happy. Someone else said it another way: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”.
Ouch, typos! Sorry. I really must make a better editing effort.
Hi Aquamarine, Oh you are not like me with edits! I really wing those badly. My official stance today on Ron’s prower(spell check wrote it ” prowler stance” is double upchuck dog’s breakfast!
However.I can’t hate him 100% not in my nature but at least 98% of him and 100% of dm no I do not care for.XO Ann B.
Hi Aquamarine, Now I did it,Power Stance.Ann B.
“Never regret yesterday…” That’s a catchy platitude for sure but it isn’t the mark of wisdom to speak wisely. Con men speak wisely all the time, it’s one of the tricks of their trade. It’s a wise man who ACTS wisely.
Sorry but I can’t praise a man whose behaviors were execrable just because he gave lip service to a few universal truths.
Roger, I get it. No one’s asking you to praise LRH. I have no idea if he followed this himself but then, you see, I don’t care.
Look at it this way:
If one has done something in the past that one considers reprehensible, that others may also consider reprehensible, then what good does it do one or others beat oneself up over it for the rest of one’s life? Anyone with a conscience feels VERY bad about causing harm or pain to others. But what good does feeling bad about it do one or others NOW?
All we have is NOW to do whatever we are going to do, and what we do NOW creates what our future will be. Its very laudable to feel very badly FOREVER AFTER about one’s past mistakes and/or crimes, but practically speaking, what good does it do anyone that you or I feel bad? I would think it would be more productive to DO something in present time and forever after that would turn whatever the bad situation created was around.
All we ever have is now. What we do or don’t do now quickly becomes what we did or didn’t do yesterday and what we do or don’t do now forms our future.
Its a creation, a continuous creation. Perhaps we created something bad in the past, but we have NOW to create something good.
If this were not true there would be no hope, no possibility of future happiness, for any of us, because to some degree we’ve all done things in the past that we really, really wish we had not done, or said.
Many people have communicated this concept, with different words. “Where there is life there is hope”…”Hope springs eternal”…”Nothing is over until its over” (This last one was Yogi Bera. Not sure about the first 2 🙂
Aquamarine, I understand Hubbard’s statement and have no quarrel with it. Perhaps your experience with that quote led you to a life-altering epiphany and you want to credit Hubbard even though he was merely conveying conventional wisdom found in a million other places.
I refer you to the story of the Buddhist monk who attained liberation upon the sound of his turd hitting the water. His enlightenment was real but it wasn’t the turd that did it.
Roger, thanks for your kind response. I appreciate it, and you’re right, there was something, is something, with me, connected to this phrase, this concept. Many years ago I thoughtlessly and unintentionally did something, or more accurately did not do something, which contributed to disastrous consequences which were irremediable, for which I was not blamed by anyone but which nonetheless caused me a lot of anguish and regret that stayed with me on a fundamental level for a long time.. This thing stayed with me, I couldn’t shake it. One of the major ways that Scientology courses and auditing helped me over the years was to stop “regretting yesterday”. For me it was no small thing. Much of my young life was spent regretting and not being happy when in fact I had plenty to be happy about. Perhaps other practices would have helped me too. Its possible. I couldn’t say because I didn’t do other things.
Please don’t think that I’m sharing this with you to change your mind, your viewpoints. I don’t want to do that. Though our experiences and opinions may differ on some points they are each important, each equally valid.
Ann, it’s not actually the Power Stance. It’s the Scientology Power Stance. For the real power stance (which has a strong effect on the one doing it), think Yul Brynner in King and I. Then add “throw your head back, look straight up (great done outdoors) and take 10 deep breaths. It’s a physiological thing. You simply cannot feel depressed after doing it. 🙂
Hi thegman77, You are right! My late mother wore out the grooves on The King & I plus always watched the movie.Scientology Power Stance is not like Yul Brenner’s or your one with deep breathing.I can do that one.No the SPS is all about rigid control of all things mest and theta in your viewpoint.I emphasize the word rigid! Somewhere Q is laughing.Love to you 2. Ann B.
Scientology, the worlds largest cesspool.
Yep! A pool full of ‘cess’ is not good…
Is she talking about the Kansas City that’s in Missouri? I guess any state will do. I realize there are suburbs on the Kansas side but hey…..what the hell about Missouri? They grow shit too.
Admit it.
It takes courage to let someone take your picture of you yowling with your face painted green like that.
Or is it stupidity ?
I don’t know anymore.
I don’t know anymore, either, Kemist. When I howl, my face turns red…
I submit Kansas City does not need an ideal org. And if your in LA…stay away from the 3 headed monster at ASHO…. The pictures and names…thanks !!
“3 suburbs of Kansas City are rated in the top 10 best places to live in the United States. Kansas City is rated the best place to live for “20 some things” as well as entrepreneurs.”
Yes, it seems KC is doing plenty fine without the Fatman and his scribblings and utterings.
The Cincinnati promo “We are the Elite” kind of disgusts me. I never liked this “Elite” talk, claim or attitude, even when in the SO. Elite? In what way?
Little off topic, I apologize. I’m reading ‘Bare Faced Messiah’ and having major cogs and wins-LOL. I had read ‘Messiah or Madman’ and ‘Blue Sky'(both great) a few years ago, however I’m a little more intrigued by Miller’s book. So much I could say about it but I’ll limit my comment to one aspect. Hubbard is depicted as both mentally ill and mentally powerful. I’m curious if anyone has any theories on how he became the force he was. I know about the black magick and hypnotic abilities but is that it?
P.S. Before you start whaling on me for being a Hubbardite I assure you I’m not. But I am very intrigued by how he was able to control peoples minds and wills(which I don’t condone).
P.P.S. Cant’ wait to read ‘Ruthless’!
Hi Good People, Thank you for an interesting post.My two cents on Ron as regards your comments.I feel he did become more powerful in his own head the more words,policies,orders,SF books emeters etc that he felt he created,the list goes on and on.I think he fancied himself a genius on two fronts.One making a ton of money on the founding of his church and two his innate ability to charm you into total agreement whilst a little spark in you knows you are getting right royally screwed!As a hypnotist one of the most clever as to the black magick I think of how there was a whole other side to the tech,white at the start black at the end when I blew.
The thing is I gave him permission to control me when I signed the billion year contract.He knew that all along too! Always,Ann B.
GP, the cult had it banned in the UK after only 12,000 copies were sold. They really did not want “Bare Faced Messiah” to be around. And when you read it, you understand why, He absolutely shreds Hubbard’s lies. The first time I read it, I kept thinking Russell Miller was going to get slammed and sued by the cult. The problem was, for the cult, is everything he wrote was true. There was nothing the cult could do but whine….
Maybe if they drank wine instead of whine, the world would be a brighter place…
Hi I Yawnalot, Great post! I’m with you.Hubby gave me a ceramic bear with a tray with a slice of cheese that says do you want a little cheese with that whine? A joke because I love red with cheese but I can whine at times.Always look for your posts.xo Ann B.
Good People,
A theory you are welcome to is one I offered up in the early 1970’s after listening to the Philadelphia Doctorate Course tapes. While listening to Hubbard, he would stop in mid-sentence, pause, and then say… no, that’s not it; the way it really is, is… numerous times.
After catching on to this phenomenon I listened closer and I picked out voice tone and pace changes, along with changes in phrasing and sentence structure. I sorted it out to be possibly (a) his ‘higher’ self was correcting to the human; (b) he as being channeled by some being a hell of a lot smarter than Hubbard, he was tapping into Tao, or he was creating and testing these theories in his head as he lectured.
The AOLA MAA told me to knock off discussing who-or-what I thought Hubbard was, or not was.
Hi jrfool, Your post is really interesting to me because I spent many a late night into dawn @ Asho F listening to the big reel to reels.I was startled when I first heard Ron speak as the British accent threw me off.What you posted about a channel alot smarter than Ron, I have pondered about that too.At one point I decided perhaps what I had thought was a decent part of him might and I say might with a big M be actually a channel or the higher self correcting to the human.But then I think about Quentin & Mary Sue and all the countless others whose lives hearts minds and souls have been forever altered by this man and now dm,I think he was always himself.Ron always had an agenda and a gimmick and he was no fool with his idea of the Sea Org.He got what he wanted from us.
Totally hear you about the AOLA MAA.Seems I had meetings with Ethics and other types in GO about similar thoughts I had voiced to Qual re: Ron.Boy did Qual ever put me in hot water back in the day! Always enjoy your posts.xo Ann B.
Thank you Ann, OSD and JRF for the interesting thoughts and ideas. According to my rudimentary understanding of magic, if Ron had tapped into some black magic it might explain why things didn’t end well for him.
Just keep reading, Good People.
You are asking a psychological question, which is today a hardening “soft” science.
There is still a lot to learn, for all of us.
It is comforting to witness how much we know about the brain today, for instance, compared to the relative conjecture we had to rely on, back in 1950. Ignorance of science and a social void of emotional and psychological understandings opened the door, created a gap if you will, that allowed the social predator named Hubbard to take advantage of…
Education is key to preventing such a thing from happening again,
along with the practice of Critical Thought.
Just thank goodness the kids today are smarter…The average young person today already possesses the natural insight to prevent him from being isolated and sucked into the psychological trap labeled:
Scientology.
Speaking of education, I just finished “Super Genes” by Drs. Chopra and Tanzi. Mind boggling what’s going on today in genetics and epigenetics. And the new information is pouring in weekly. As someone here said, there is SO MUCH to be learned about ourselves. Einstein was so right when he said, “We don’t know one millionth part of anything”.
He learned hypnotism around the time he was messing with Crowley and applied it to everyone in his life for the rest of his days. He was a skilled hypnotist. A supreme gift from the universe to a power hungry megalomaniac.
Right OS. I’ve read a little about hypnotism since I’ve been out but I want to read more. He told us there was no hypnotism in Scientology. That was a lie. He also told us hypnotism was evil. That to was a lie. All hypnotism isn’t evil but covert hypnotism is. I believe he was a master hypnotist. But some where along the lines he gained a boat load of charisma. He was not known for charisma when he was younger but somewhere along the way according to his piers he became a complete force of nature. I mean he was an aesthetically challenged man who was slaying the dimes.
GP, if you re-read Miller about the early parts of his life you will see he was able to manipulate people from a very young age.
Plus he had the gift of the gab all the way through his life.
Good looks help, but they aren’t essential to slaying dames, especially if you have supreme confidence and the gift of the gab. Ask any lady.
At some stage his manipulation skill grew to expert level.
Manipulation + gift of the gab + hypnotism + “all men are my slaves” = mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
Hi Outsider, Very good to meet you.I have archived your post,it is that good.I also feel Ron worshipped the $ but he also worshipped his words.That can become a very powerful motivator.When he turned that part towards someone for good or bad it definitely existed and worked.Love your last line.Always,Ann B.
Michael Chan is one busy dude. On May 1 he is in LA rallying up the troops, then on May 12, he is in the UK doing what ever he does. He must be one of the few who still get commissions. And good commissions if his travel schedule is paid for by himself. I wonder how much he raises for the clampire? He’s like a rock star, but without the heavy musical instruments and ability to play anything. Does he have groupies? Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know.
When I saw Miss Cinncinnati I thought maybe they got the “dont cross your arms memo” but nope the “disseminators club” hasnt been clued in. Dont they just give off a warm/fuzzy vibe.
I was both amused and bemused by the PAC Weekend scheduled meeting to learn how they will stop legalized marijuana. Good luck with that. Even the fact that it is still an illegal drug by federal law has not deterred states from legaliziing it. Further, what they most likely don’t know is that LRH at one point in the 70’s or 80’s wrote something to someone (honestly I forget who, but I definitely read this when in the SO) stating that as part of the solution to the drug problem Marijuana should be legalized, both for better control of it and also for the tax revenues. Some poor fools are going to be donating to this joust with windmills.
Pat Parodi , Barb Russel, and Daphna Hernandez
are rock solid David Miscavige supporters with
titanium blinders.
Instead of crossed arms on chest they should
be holding their asses, but this is a toss up because
the more Kool Aid they pump out Scientology gets smaller.
I agree, Jose. Is Barbara de Stephano – Russell still married to Bob Ealy? Anyone know?
I think they cross their arms because they think it portrays confidence and competence. Those are the two words on the promo under the crossed arms picture anyway.
Ribbon Cutting on a Ideal bouncy castle. Hey they are popping up everywhere. Straight up and vertical then straight down and vertical, then straight up and vertical, then……
I came across an interesting writeup on crossed arms at http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/parts_body_language/arm_body_language.htm
“Crossing
Arms can act as the doorway to the body and the self. When they are crossed, they form a closed defensive shield, blocking out the outside world. Shields act in two ways: one is to block incoming attacks and the other is a place behind which the person can hide and perhaps not be noticed.
Crossed arms may thus indicate anxiety which is either driven by a lack of trust in the other person or an internal discomfort and sense of vulnerability (that may, for example, be rooted in childhood trauma).
The extent of crossing indicates how firmly closed the person is. This may range from a light cross to arms folded to arms wrapped around the person. An extreme version which may indicate additional hostility is a tight close with hands formed as fists. If legs are crossed also then this adds to the signal.
The hands in an arm-cross may also be used to hold the person in a reassuring self-hug, for example holding upper arms in a folded-arms position or wrapped around the torso, holding the sides. If the thumbs are up, this may indicate some approval or agreement with what is being said.
Crossed arms, especially when holding one another can show the person to be trying to keep themselves still. This can be to suppress any signals. It may also indicate repressed anger (I have to hold myself to prevent myself hitting you). In some cultures it also signals that the person is holding themself still so they can pay greater attention to you (and is hence a compliment).
Crossed arms, especially in a folded position can just mean the person is feeling comfortable, especially if there is little tension elsewhere in the body. Comfort indicates a lack of fear which may come from being with friends or may be because they feel sufficiently powerful to handle any attacks as they appear. Folded arms with a little more tension may indicate that the person is feeling judgemental.
When arms are not crossed, they expose the torso and the person, making them more vulnerable. This signifies comfort that often indicates trust. It can also be power position that dares the other person to attack whilst knowing that the other person dare not.
Crossed arms is a very obvious signal and if you do it in front of other people they will likely feel rejected and respond accordingly (including not agreeing with you).
Note that not all crossed arms are defensive, for example when the person is relaxed (as indicated above). Crossed arms are also used when the person is cold (this is typically done with hands tucked under armpits to keep them warm).
A common method sales people use with a customer in order to break the customer’s crossed-arms closed position is to give the person something to hold or otherwise ask them to use their hands.”
Who in the world would consider a crossed arm position an acceptable or inviting one for poses in a recruitment flyer? It puts out just the opposite feeling – whatever you do, stay away from me.
Ok I will.
Yes, their crossed arms indicated they are closed. They think they’re the most competent-est beings on the planet, and you WILL do what the want (which is give them all your money and credit cards).
That’s what those crossed arms and facial expressions tell me, anyways.
Crossed arms, head down is a defensive and hostile posture. The chest and neck are protected. Doesn’t matter if someone is smiling, it is still defensive and hostile.
Arms open wide with head back is a friendly and vulnerable posture. The vulnerable neck, heart and belly are unprotected. This posture says, “See? I’m not harmful to you. Let’s be friends”.
Dallas Ideal Org. Hmm, I guess the “most ethical group on the planet doesn’t really give a damn about truth in advertising (I KNOW, I was shocked too). I hope the people going there don’t expect food that looks like the stuff in the advertisement.
The food they feature in those posters is never real food, just images stolen from the internet. Every week, I reverse search a couple of images to verify that is still the fact, it is.
This week’s Dallas food images were stolen from the following sites:
Top Left Image
Easy Butter Rolls – this is a default image for a person who clicks on a youtube video on how to make these easy butter rolls:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zry5neFoYQ4/maxresdefault.jpg
Top Middle Image
Chicken and mango salad
https://www.finedininglovers.com/recipes/first-course/chicken-mango-salad/
Top Right Image
Potato salad – copyrighted image by laurassweetspot.com
Posted at http://wholeandheavenlyoven.com/2013/07/01/4th-of-july-round-up-45-ideas-and-recipes/
Center Fruit tray
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/474144666995810266/
I’ve gotta give them kudos. This week (unlike some of the past weeks), they did not steal photos from restaurant sites and use them as their own.
How do you google photos? I’ve always wondered.
Google Image Search (images.google.com) is your friend.
“Find anyone’s ruin and introduce them to Dianetics and Scientology all weekend.”
Because then their ruin will BE Dianetics and Scientology…
PS. They should teach Scientology Fliers in introductory graphic design courses as a cautionary tale: “How to mix fonts and graphics and NOT influence people.”
WHaT? !1** YoU mEaN MiXiNg sTyLeS iS AeSTHeTicAlLy UnPlEaSaNt tO THe eYe?
YEs! I DO, VALerIE! 🙂
The blonde lady on the recruitment poster reminds me of Amy Scobee. She was just as enthusiastic and idealistic about the church when she first joined. I’d like to advise the lady in that poster, please read Amy Scobee’s book before you go any further. Good people, treated badly. – T.J.
ack, need edit button. I have to remember that one does not need to sign one’s posts on this board, my name is right there up at the top of my comment, lol.
Hi T.J., You are right about your name being at the top of the post.I never thought about that.But I always have to sign off personally.Ornery old lady that I am! xxoo Ann B.
Ornery you may be, Ann, but old you ain’t!
Hi thegman77, You are too good.You are ageless.xo Ann B.
You must have a very, very bad case of CRS…(can’t remember shit).
Hi OSD, I got CRS quite sometime ago.I am working on an advanced degree in it! XO Ann B.
whirlpool… hmmm, i think this is cool idea
I’ve got a whirlpool in my backyard….
I still think that this should be retitled, “Thursday Insanities” 🙂
Orrrrrrr….”Shit that you just can’t make up.”
Orrrrr … ”Shit that you just can’t make up, but Scientology can!.”
The United States produces the third largest amount of wheat in the world and Kansas produces more wheat than any other state. It also has arguably the best BBQ in the world. It is in the mid-west. People in the mid-west are the most generous in the nation in terms of charitable donations. Scientology isn’t very prevalent in that region. Therefore Maggie Kittinger wants you to call this number so you can DONATE MONEY. You didn’t think this was a geography lesson did you?
Maybe the Church of Scientology Disaster Response Team knows something we don’t, and we should be evacuating the Twin Cities…
Short of an Ice Age don’t see why.
When I take over the world (which will be soon), I’m having Minneapolis tried for Crimes Against Humanity for the Lindbergh Terminal and the Mall of America. I will be demanding the death penalty. So I suggest you evacuate now before sentence is carried out.
Before you do let’s do the Breakfast Rundown at the Ideal Diner.
Seriously, you may change your mind.
Had to pick the low hanging fruit…
“It is also the nation’s breadbasket feeding not only the United States but the world.”
The WORLD? Really?
“This is it Miami! Our whole field is to gather for a magical moment on our track!”
They’re gonna make everyone’s wallets disappear.
“What does it take? COURAGE”
Courage to make a fool of yourself.
“Power FSMs…1000 people onto the bridge in a year”
Really? That’s 19 people per week started on a service. Week-in, week-out. Geez, that’s more than most orgs get.
“3rd Largest Whirlpool…”
How can you respond to that? I am speechless.
Hi Mike, Love Thursdays! “We have the third largest whirlpool in the world”! All righty then,all the better to suck all of the current occupants especially dm and his servants,down the mighty Whirlpool Drain! Send them right out to Sea! So appreciate you and yours,thank you always.xxoo Ann B.
Ann B. you gave me my first laugh of the day! hehehe 🙂 Thank you, always love seeing your posts. – T.J.
Hi T.J., Loads of??to you & yours.You know I love your posts too.Ann B.
Ann B Watson, you are a treasure!
Hi JennyAtLAX, When I first ventured to Mike’s Blog along with some amazing posters who helped me greatly, your posts I have always followed.I would love to meet you and all here.One day we will do that very thing! xxoo Ann B.
Gave me a great visual Anne 🙂
Hi justmeteehee, I know,something about that whirlpool lends itself to all sorts of special effects!And I know you know where I am going with those! Laughter!xo Ann B.
Ann is defiantly a total sweetie…. Xoxo to you….Phil
Hi I’m Dee Dee, Thank you truly from my heart.I am so grateful and lucky to have found this space and all you totally glorious spirits.Why would anyone stay in the cos when outside those walls and bars and locks and cameras,there lies true humanity,compassion light and love.Shine on.Aot of xxoo to you. Ann B.
Hey, Mike, I especially liked the “Midnight Ball” in Miami, “fit for a fairy tale”. The fairy tale, of course, will be delivered by Brandy Harrison. Lots of words, lots of claims, all of them lies. LOL
I’ve never been to a ball with a guest speaker, doesn’t sound very dreamlike. Maybe they put something in the punch?
Kansas, but don’t mention LRH’S history in Wichita….
“Why in Twin Cities? Because it’s meaningless.”
You wound me, sir.
Back in days of wind, sails, and waterwheels Saint Paul was the upper limit of navigation on the Mississippi River and Minneapolis had this big waterfall that was really, really, really useful. Of course Minneapolis is also the home of the Ideal Diner (http://www.idealdiner.com/) where I do my breakfast rundown at least once a week.
Ideal Breakfast Rundown™…..Sign me up.
Me too! Will it give me powers like being able to mock up breakfast? Or is that out gradient?
It’s a real breakfast. You won’t have to mock it up.
Indeed Leslie. As a former resident of St. Paul, I concur with your assessment of that header! I’d say something mean to the Aussie about it, but that wouldn’t be nice and it would upset my gramma.
As I haven’t lived there in years…. my goodness those prices! I do laugh however at the “sour kraut” in the Reuben. I guess that means it is served with an unhappy german?
“Sour kraut.” Oh dear, I’ll have to speak to Kim about that. She the nice lady who owns the place.
#1 Austin Texas Tornadoes 122
# 2 Kansas City Stallions 891
Am I having a stroke or is just Scientology math?
How many times have I told you not to use Wog math, NOLAGirl!!!! When will you learn…..
*smacks forehead*
I must stop trying to make this make sense. Happy Cinco de Mayo OSD. 🙂
Hey, that’s right! I’m a little under the weather right now and almost let it slide by me. Thanks for the reminder! Let’s see now…..aha! Tacos and Pacifico Beer. Man, I feel super powerful already!
Hope you’re feeling better soon. ❤
NOLA you of all people should realize that Wog math does not apply in the Land of the Bubble.
You’re right Scott. I’m off to do my A-E right now. LOL
Kinda thought I was seeing things.
There’s no kinda involved. You are seeing things. Hey…it happens.
Interesting ranking they have on the “overall standings”. Or is my wog logic just flawed?
O well, that must be it.
TrevAnon, you and NOLAGirl need to stop, completely, using Wog logic. Stop it NOW! It’ll give you one hellava headache!
Too late, I already got that headache. 🙁
Now I need my supply of painkillers from Big Pharma.
Damn, there goes the cheque that I got from them.
I guess when you learn Scientology processes, there’s no more room for Geography in your head. The Midwest, as defined by the US Census Bureau, is:
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
But perhaps Scientology has its own definition of the Midwest. It’s convenient that they mention it’s the birthplace of the inventors of the airplane, which presumably is the Wright Brothers. Except that they were born (and lived and worked) in Ohio, which is not on Scientology’s Midwest list. Electric light? Thomas Edison born in Ohio too.
One consistent thing about Scientology documents that present simple, easily verified facts about the outside world: they’re always wrong. Why is it so hard for them to look simple shit up?
I think the reason they print these inaccurate “facts” is that they are either afraid or not allowed to go on the internet for fear they will find out the truth about their cult. They are probably getting their facts from 30 year old encyclopedias or something.
EUS (Eastern US) is a continent in scientology. Please do not try to apply wog geography to a scientology flyer 😉
Of course EUS is a continent! I mean, you’ve never heard of the Continent Divide (With John Belushi). Where you been, Valerie?
I’m just glad that Canada is cut out of the continent, now if they’d just leave poor Scotland alone.
Thomas Edison; from Ohio? It’s common knowledge that he did most of his work in New Jersey, which is middle-atlantic, NOT even near mid-west.
As regards to Edison birthplace, I was giving maximum benefit of doubt, since they do say birthplace of inventors, etc, and indeed Edison was born in Ohio. If you want to get persnickety, let’s start asking wtf the fact of birthplace of important people has to do with the specialness of a whole region. Or more importantly, wtf does any of this drivel about the Midwest have to do with value of Scientology? This is the Kansas City version of the 100 goofy facts about Scotland. If Kansas City is such an awesome place, despite not having an Ideal Org, then that’s just more evidence that an Ideal Org isn’t so important.
And they didn’t even mention their very own Midwesterner: The Turd of Tilden!
hgc10,
You’ve just gotta get with the logic being used here with regard to the reason for Ideal Orgs in the Continental Midwest now.
Honestly, its not complicated.
For example, Joan Crawford was born in San Antonio, Texas, but then her mother remarried and moved the family to Lawton, Oklahoma, where little Joan spent much of her childhood.
Now, right here you have just TWO out of the two hundred reasons for the necessity for the establishment of Ideal Orgs in both San Antonio, TX AND Lawton, Oklahoma!
Here’s another one, off the top of my head: Joan Crawford’s real name was Lucille Fay LeSeur. This is # 12 for San Antonio.
And another item on Lawton list of 100 – #82, I believe: The Song “Okie From Musgogee” was Number 1 on Billboard Magazine’s Hot Country Singles chart for 4 straight weeks back in 1969. Of course, this is causing waves with Musgogee Scientologists who want to start their own Ideal Org and use this reason, but hey, we’ll let them work this out.
Point being, these are just a few of the reasons illustrating the immediate vital need for Ideal Orgs throughout the breadbasket of our nation. And the time is now.
Why is hard for them to just look shit up? Simple: They’re all waiting for the Golden Age of Looking Shit up to arrive. I hear the course takes two years….
It’s an Ideal Whirlpool. Now they’re talking! 🙂
Per the last flyer, Scotland has the 3rd largest whirlpool in the world. I’m guessing that the 1st largest whirlpool is in Los Angeles on L. Ron Hubbard Way.
Nah, that’s not a whirlpool, that’s a sinkhole.
Actually it’s a “Stinkhole.”