As a result of a holiday, flying across country and mostly the deterioration of my gray matter, I mistakenly thought Thursday was only Wednesday and I missed the Thursday Funnies…
But never fear — here they are in all their glory (?)
Perth on a roll
Nobody graduating anything, but they have brought in a TV show contestant to try to attract some interest
Wizard of OH
With a special skit to “take our ideal org to a done.” Huh?
Strange ideas
You know what you said has nothing to do with what building you are in? Doesn’t even register on you?
Bold and Brave
You gotta really be brave to show up for one these fundraising events. Or be completely brain-dead.
More genteel…
But, you know if they are offering anything for free, even tea, it means it is a fundraiser.
Quarter Inch Thetan
What?
The Bandits…
…got robbed. But with logic like they display in their “success” it’s no big surprise.
Club of Jesters
Huh?
#10KLA
They need 10KPlanet. They have been trying to reach 10K for 40 years now. Still not close.
And why is this in the “small chapel”? Not expecting much of a crowd?
Erm…
Just not very enticing.
Bet he didn’t buy that with his staff pay…
Truth in advertising. “All” here means “only that which the org provides — and that’s not much.”
More lies…
A child with both parents on staff is really an orphan.
Trying to tag along…
United Nations. World Environment Day. Sounds iumpressive…
May also be the ugliest poster in the history of posters too.
WTF?
This IS meaningless. Don’t even try to understand it.
More non-graduation
Probably don’t have any graduates from their local org.
ASHO is selling Perth leatherbounds?
Desperate much? Perth? Why? Pretty sure they have plenty of Salt Lake or Silicon Valley editions laying around. And they are at least in the US…
Wait, isn’t this the same woman who…
…does seminars on confronting suppression and disseminating scientology?
Yet she makes NO mention scientology or Hubbard AT ALL.
Where is WISE? She is telling everyone inside the church she uses LRH tech.
“Power FSM” my ass.
Hattie B’s Hot Chicken
You know it’s a fundraiser…
How alive are you?
Wonder if he brings a stethoscope and blood pressure monitor?
She’s Bob’s Body Boss
Nothing seems weird about this at all.
Security Chief of a church
(Check out the monitors behind him…)
And this represents “intention” how?
Cashing In
Seriously — this is SO strained it is absurd.
John P. Capitalist says
The funniest thing is the “quarter inch thetan.” I thought thetans were beings of immense power and size, able to create entire universes, much less solar systems. If they’re infinite and devoid of physical manifestation, wouldn’t they be much smaller than 1/4″ — like the mathematical definition of a point? Either infinitely small or infinitely large would be the correct definition of a thetan, not some arbitrary number that Hubbard just pulled out of … wherever.
Peabody says
A thetan has near zero mass, smaller than a subatomic particle, just enough mass to occupy a location in the physical universe.
Wynski says
Peabody, that isn’t an accurate postulate. Mass and volume are not the same. Also you assume that a “spirit” is of this physical universe when almost universally in religion that isn’t he supposition.
Just saying that mixing science & non-science doesn’t work. 😉
Peabody says
I never said anything about volume. As a matter of fact, matter is composed mostly of space. If all the space were removed from an aircraft carrier, it would be the size of a head of a pin. Its mass or weight which is the gravitational force on the mass would be the same. Since a zero mass cannot be located in space, even a spirit would have to have some mass albeit very little.
I’m not interested in what other people believe. But while in Scientology, I did the best to understand what Hubbard was talking about. What I have stated is my attempt to understand how how a thetan could pass through solid objects.
Think about a BB dropping through a stack of bowing balls.
Furthermore, my comment was a response to John P. who seems to have considerable understanding of Scientology who pointed out that a quarter inch thetan makes no sense.
This is no more than an idea. Telling me that mass and volume are not the same is ludicrous. Your last sentence makes absolutely no sense to me.
Bruce Ploetz says
It’s strange, Peabody, Hubbard could never make up his mind about that. Axiom One says a thetan has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or time. But in another place, I think 8-80, he says if you thought of the thetan as a thumb the body would be like a splinter stuck in the thumb. Another reference says the thetan is centered in the pineal gland, others say the thetan is bigger than the body, in another place he talks about the “vast unexplored territory three inches behind your forehead”.
Then you are supposed to have a “theta body” with misty invisible arms and legs of “theta stuff” or something. Like a copy you are creating of an earlier body you had, or one you were talked into creating. Like the concept of “mental mass” this is a contradiction in terms.
Then there’s the “genetic entity”, another thetan that exists in degraded form only to run the body and keep the lights on when the thetan is not around. Is this another half inch sphere, or a wavy field around the whole body, or something that lives in the pituitary gland, or will we find it someday like that piece of used chewing gum in the family car?
So far nobody has managed to measure these invisible fields or estimate their wavelengths. It seems they would be severely disrupted by things like CAT scans that apply very strong fields to the body. Maybe someday they will be discovered and we will all have to give Hubbard some credit after all.
According to Hubbard, anyone with a damaged brain cannot benefit from Scientology and is an “illegal Preclear”. If you are not your brain, but an immortal spark of spirit, what does the brain have to do with it? In various places he describes the brain as a “shock absorber” or “control panel for the body”. Not well explained, even after thousands of hours of lectures and thousands of page of “sacred scripture”.
Hubbard’s “ideas” are just a mish-mash of various mystical speculations by others, largely from the 19th century. It does your brain absolutely no good to try to make sense of it. I suggest a walk in the park or a quiet meditation under a lonely tree somewhere instead.
Peabody says
Disclaimer: The following is merely an attempt to steer the discourse on Scientology away from the attacks on its beliefs back toward its abuses. I do not advocate that anyone get involved with Scientology. Furthermore, I would suggest that those still in, get out.
“… Hubbard could never make up his mind about that. Axiom One says a thetan has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or time. But in another place …”
Yes, I have read all those references. “That no mass, no motion …”, definition was given to the “Static”. Back in the day, Hubbard admitted that there was a lot of theory in what he was proposing. A theory cannot be proved nor disproved.
“Then you are supposed to have a ‘theta body’ … creating of an earlier body …”, Hubbard claims that a thetan is able to create anything, even the concept of its own size, I would assume. Some have claimed to “see” theta bodies while doing TR 0.
“Then there’s the ‘genetic entity’ …”, not a thetan but not dissimilar to a thetan, which operates under very primitive direction. A GE inhabits all life forms.
“So far nobody has managed to measure … “, does not prove their non-existence.
“According to Hubbard, anyone with a damaged brain cannot benefit from Scientology and … “, because the person considers he cannot think without a brain.
“Hubbard’s ‘ideas’ are just a mish-mash of various mystical speculations …”, which may be true, but so little is known about the human potential that any idea to speculate about it is attacked vigorously by those who cannot or refuse to think.
I suggest a walk in the park or a quiet meditation under a lonely tree somewhere in a cemetery.
John P. Capitalist says
Bruce, thank you for this! A brilliant expose of how Hubbard just threw out tons of drivel without even the least bit of editing to see if it was consistent with stuff he said before. I laughed all the way through this!
WhatAreYourCrimes says
Auditor death-defying acts? That is just rich.
What a fantasy these poor people are living.
chuckbeattyx75to03 says
Hubbard started the ball rolling and dupes come along to keep up the fantasy.
Another ex so says
I believe the security chief is james richardson from ccint. I havent seen him (thank god) in 17 years but i think its him.
Fun fact. Hes a giant a-hole.
Johnny Tank (Forever Autumn) says
“The New Dawn Of Scientoligy”… When you show the “sun” like that, it’s actually eluding to a sunset. The sun rises in the east, and sets in the west.
Old Surfer Dude says
Unless the dwarf says different…
MarcAnon says
Since we’re on the subject of the Ideal Orgs and I think they were his brainchild –
Do you think Miscavige really believes in what the Church teaches?
smorbie says
No, but I think he really believes in money and power.
MarcAnon says
Seems like that to me. I can’t imagine he believes in any of it given all his SP behavior and the fact that he changes things to suit his latest money-making scheme.
Dave says
Miscavige changes what the church teaches, to fit his beliefs…or at least to what is best for him.
Gib says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htn1PauZUYs
Zardu Bafflemaff says
Club of the buffoons and a Wizard of Oz montage…..oh,the irony of it all. Maybe they can write another rap song to show how well they fit in with society.
Nan B. says
A thetan is a quarter of an inch, to two inches – wow, that’s what I call great news….now, I understand why the ‘Hole’ was so small, didn’t really matter, just cram those poor souls in.
Whoo hoo!
Newcomer says
At least we have a definition for a big being and a little being.
Dave’s theety weety thetan is a full 1/4″ across while the ole El Con had to be a full ‘too’ inches in diameter!
Yo Dave,
Why exactly is yer Hole so small these days?
Aquamarine says
Mike, not flattery: to possess your level of grey matter on the worst of your days would be a good goal for me..
smorbie says
Once again, I could never be a scientologist of even the most casual sort. I would never attend the fundraisers, just like, never. I don’t like crowds and at the end of the day, I want to be in my house, wearing my jammies, and watching tv, not eating rubber chicken, or whatever was found on the road that day, watching community theater rejects acting out some stupid skit some idiot once thought was funny. I just wouldn’t do it.
That’s on top of the fact that I’m not going anywhere for 2 1/2 hours every day AFTER work and memorizing an incredibly arcane org chart and a bunch of acronyms that take the place of actual words.
It’s a good thing I never was “curious”, isn’t it?
P.S., probably would have decked Miscaviage by now, as well. I’d be the only public assigned to the RPF. Pretty sure that wouldn’t have gone well, either.
This certainly does not mean I’m too smart to have been taken in. I’m lazy is what I’m trying to say. So lazy, in fact, I might not even finish this sente
jim says
You mean today is NOT Thursday??????
S**t!
2muchmonkeybidness says
Ha! Worth the wait! If it weren’t for Alexa, I wouldn’t know what day it was either!
Love the guy sitting on the motorcycle that looks like John Deere! Maybe he’d better start mowing lawns!
Quarter Inch Thetans were lame. They opened for Two Inch Thetans. Concept bands are terrible.
Balletlady says
Maybe they were referring to “the private part (wee wee) of a certain Tiny Tyrant with fists of fury….
PeaceMaker says
[I believe that this comment about oddly small recent Orlando org staff photos was lost when a jumping cat jogged my mouse, and not in WordPress – but due to apparent current problems, I can’t see if it posted and was invisibly put in moderation, so I’m going to try again and apologize if it is a repost]
In the vein of org “funnies,” I just posted over at Tony Ortega’s Bunk a couple of pictures of Orlando staff that I recently ran across, which the org posted on social media in the week after the “ideal” facility opening. The images show only a a surprisingly small number of people – not much more than what I believe to be a normal org staff complement – which indicates that they may not even have succeeded at the big temporary staff-up that’s usually been done when an “ideal” org opens:
http://disq.us/p/1syor3e
The second image in that post is the initial frame of a video on Facebook, which may or may not post here the way it does with YouTube videos:
https://www.facebook.com/OrlandoScientology/videos/522213888180451/
In the promo piece for Perth, that wide angle shot with the seemingly stretched-out crowd was said to be “massively photoshopped” by “Fred Beagle,” who reported observing the actual crowd when they went by the event during the ribbon-yanking. I think it and other images may well turn out to have had a lot of extra figures inserted at the far ends, when reports come back from some experts in image manipulation. I’m starting to think that Miscavige may be working on a “Scientology without scientologists” strategy; first the video kiosks in orgs eliminated the need for people to interact with visitors, and now they may be well along towards developing a “tech” where they can throw “openings” in far-flung foreign locations and produce promo showing large crowds, when only a much smaller number of people were actually present, just like Hollywood does in the movies – SuMP may have found its real purpose….
Alcoboy says
Finally! Something out of CCNashville!
But why at a hot chicken place?
Maybe they’re still reeling from Marc Vallieres that they’re too embarrassed to bring people into the org.
Anyway, here’s today’s installment of:
THE ADVENTURES OF BOB, MARY, AND SHAHEEN
Bob and Mary have, stupidly, gone to an IAS event after being told that it was not a fundraiser. Once there, they are told that they can’t leave until the target amount is reached. Angrily, Bob and Mary exit the building and attempt to drive out of the parking lot only to find the gate closed and locked by Shaheen who tells them that they can’t leave until they contribute $55,000.00 the the IAS as well as another $25,000.00 to the David Miscavige birthday fund. Furious, Bob pulls out his cell phone and calls the police who have arrived.
Police officer: Young lady, open that gate now!
Shaheen: Not until we reach our goal of $500,000.00. All must contribute. That’s Scientology fundraising.
Police officer: No, that’s called extortion! You can’t hold these people here against their will!
Shaheen: Yes we can because our Dear Leader, David Miscavige, has given us permission to do so. Scientologists are not subject to wog laws.
Police officer (to Bob): Uh, wog laws?
Bob (shakes his head): Don’t ask.
Police officer: Young lady, one more time. Open that gate now!
Shaheen:Not until our goal is reached. Our Dear Exalted Leader insists on a Cabin Cruiser for his birthday!
Bob (to Mary): And all LRH ever wanted for his birthday was inflated stats.
Police officer: okay, that’s it!(speaks into walkie-talkie) bring it in, boys!
(A battering ram vehicle emerges and drives straight for the gate, sending it flying off its hinges as the vehicle enters the parking lot)
Shaheen: Hey! You have to pay for that!
Driver: Oh, yeah? Well, sue us!
(In attempting to maneuver in the parking lot, the battering ram vehicle drives over the VM van, crushing it flat)
Shaheen: HEY! You gotta pay for that, too!
Bob: Ah, horseshit! It had four flat tires and the transmission had fallen out! The org wasn’t getting much use out of it, anyway!
Shaheen: False data! False data!
(meanwhile, the rest of the event participants come running out of the building to see what the commotion is about)
ED(sees wreckage of VM van): Hey! We needed that for photo-ops!
Police officer: Are you holding these people here against their will?
ED(nervously)uh, no,officer!
Bob: Bullshit! You said that no one could leave until our goal had been reached!
DFBO MORE: That’s right, sir. That’s why you sent Shaheen out here to……
ED: SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Police officer: so you were holding people here against their will!(to crowd) anyone who wants to leave now is free to do so!
(At this, everybody goes running to their cars which go tearing out of the parking lot. Several people laugh at the wreckage of the VM van as they leave)
Police officer (to ED):Wog laws! Sheesh!
TitleWaves says
GREAT JOB, Alco! Sounds like you speak from experience…. It certainly reflects my own. Being tracked down at work, stalked by I ASS regges…
Although, I think Shaheen or some other arrogant clam might say to the officer in reference to holding people against their will, “What are your crimes? Are you selling babies when you’re not wearing that badge?”
Alcoboy says
That would get Shaheen arrested.
Tune in to my next episode and see when that happens.
Title Waves says
Can’t wait for next episode! You’re right about Shaheen getting arrested… I sometimes forget that kool-Aid drinkers are short on courage– far less than the average human.
I’m thinking the police officer isn’t going to walk away from that scene without a WTH booklet in his hand.
smorbie says
More! More! That was hilarious! I’d love to see something like that
Rip Van Winkle says
Thursday Funnies on this beautiful sunny Saturday …just the thing!
A lovely reminder that I’m not late for roll call, I’ve no battleplans to submit…. no weekly condition formula due….
I’m not skillfully getting out of going to a fund raising event…
and I’ve no inner urgency pushing me and worrying me about the tens of thousands of dollars needed for Super Power and Class VIII and and and…..
…
I’m going to just stretch out a bit, relax some more, and read my book.
🙂
Thanks, Mike!
It’s so good and comforting to have you and the gang here.
Aquamarine says
Second all you’ve said, Rip!
Its sooo nice to have my weekends back! Now, I did have to work part of the day today because that’s how it can be, when you have your own business, BUT I got to sleep late AND now I’m free to enjoy my evening – Saturday nights are SACRED now! No more EVENTS -ugh, I cringe just thinking about them and how many Saturday nights they ruined. Moreover (:) I love saying that) moreover, NO MORE PHONE CALLS TO DODGE from staff doing Call IN for the next money-grubbing thing that I “really wouldn’t want to miss”. None of the above. Just great sunny Saturday, feeling good be alive, doing my thing, and being here with all of you!
Rip Van Winkle says
oh yes! Isn’t it just GRAND!?!
I don’t have to CSW to get a weekend off. All the angst leading up to wanting time off – who will hold my post? What will I have to do in return? Will it be acceptable? How can I ensure my stats are up so that the CSW is approved?? (I had some TOUGH stats at times) (QTSM, anybody?)
That was the first big thing, when I was no longer on a staff that required me to work weekends. Having a day off without begging..was sublime. No begging, no weeks of planning and hoping and worrying.
I no longer have to do all hands. No more after post on Friday nights until 3 am, or just the whole Saturday night … no more all night renos….
no more liability formulas….. “deliver an effective blow” shudder. So many ways …I was subject to debasement and then in order to DEAL with it, the things I would tell myself about how this trial was making me STRONG and would help me achieve OT……
…….
I’m going to go mow the lawn and drink a beer.
hahaha!
Alcoboy says
Sounds like you were either contracted staff or in the Sea Org. Either way, I’m glad that you’re out, Rip.
Rip Van Winkle says
Thanks! I’m so glad too. and I’m glad to have this wonderful secret bunch of friends. 🙂
You all help me every single day.
Title Waves says
Ditto.
Aquamarine says
Ditto again. You all help me a lot. New information, reconfirmed already known information, encouragement, chuckles ‘n lols. Can’t beat that therapy! Thanks to Mike Rinder and all of you.
TitleWaves says
Me too… With or without the hashtags.
Pizza Driver says
“Auckland Ideal Org has “IT’S” weekly graduation….”
Wowza, that Study Tech sure seems like The Way to Uneducate….
hgc10 says
You and your wogpostrophes.
Old Surfer Dude says
I was a Wogpostrophe once. But they erased my mind.
Balletlady says
Of all the things I’ve ever lost…..I miss my mind the most….
Old Surfer Dude says
You too! Oh, thank goodness! I thought I was the only one!
SoreTushy says
Victoria Falslev is Bob’s Body Boss….what is her secret? She gives a great hand job and prostate massage.
Aquamarine says
Yeah, “Bob’s Body Boss”…double-entendre, much, cult? This non too subtle attempt at enticement conjures up all kinds of religious images, doesn’t it? . Real class. Well, as the experts say, “sex sells” and staff MUST get those confirms, so just do whatever it takes to get those dilettantish, other-fish-fryin’ publics’ attention, so they cart their lazy out-ethics asses into the M’org.
SoreTushy says
For all you technical experts out there, that’s also known as the Extraction Rundown (or rubdown as the case may be). The EP is clearing the body of all those pesky aquatic BTs.
Aquamarine says
🙂 Sore, and with this comment are we now officially in No Children Under 17 Admitted territory.
IndieScientologyNews (@IndieScieNews) says
A Scientology Cautionary Tale.
The Squeeze My Cans one woman show about Scientology, June 7-10, 2018 at Rogue Theater in Sturgeon Bay, WI.
https://doorcountypulse.com/a-scientology-cautionary-tale/
* * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * *
Former Scientologist, Cathy Schenkelberg, premieres her solo show at Rogue Theater. The Church of Scientology had actress Cathy Schenkelberg for 14 years; it took another five years to leave them behind in the face of harassing phone calls, midnight knocks on her door by “outreach” staffers, an expensive custody battle and constant paranoia about the monitoring of her every move. She has the courage to tell this hilarious and horrifying story under the direction of Shirley Anderson with sound and projection design by Victoria Deiorio.
Her story premieres in her new original solo show, Squeeze My Cans, for four performances, June 7-10, at Rogue Theater in Sturgeon Bay.
“Many of the people who went as far as I did in the Church lost everything, went insane, died or killed themselves,” said Schenkelberg. “I’m lucky to be alive and healthy.”
Squeeze My Cans shows June 7-10, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. The June 7 performance is a special pay-what-you-can preview, with proceeds benefiting HELP of Door County.
* * * * * END EXCERPT * * * * *
bixntram says
“Aliveness” – hadn’t heard that one before. I’d say ‘life” instead, just as I’d say ‘knowldege for ‘knowingness’ and existence for ‘beingness.’ So typical of Hubbard and $cion in general: why be direct when you can be convulted. Any other ‘ness’-suffexed words I should know about?
Re: Columbus Org blurb: “A place where you can come and get serviced without anything else. Pure L.Ron Hubbard” Subsitute the word ‘fleeced’ for the word ‘serviced’ and you’ve got excactly what scientology is all about.
Kronomex says
Iness didness aness doubleness takeness whenness Iness readness “Aliveness” atness theness topness ofness theness flierness…aghness…helpness meness.
Theness horrorness, thenes horrorness…NOOOO…ness.
Alcoboy says
Now, bix, you’ve been in Scientology long enough to know that in the laughable land of kool-aid there’s a ‘-ness’ to everything.
A Scientologist never takes a shit. When he’s on the toilet, he is in a condition of Defacatingness.
Peggy L says
This all just gets curiouser and curiouser. Like Alice said:
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”
I had to laugh at the “come in and get serviced”. Interesting choice of words.
I do look forward to these Thursday Funnies no matter what day it lands on.
Miss Q says
“A place where a person can come in and get serviced without anything else.” Hmmmmm. Maybe someone should call in a tip about a suspected house of prostitution.
mwesten says
I quite like the Black Panther promo. It’s referencing the black panther mechanism from DMSMH as well as the comic book hero. One of their better ones, imho.
Miss Q says
Wow…I can feel burn of the Security Chief’s patented scientology stare through the ether. His “intention” is clear; he’s gonna kick my ass if I don’t toe the line. Yikes.
A J says
Everyday and everywhere it’s a “new dawn” for the CoS.
Old Surfer Dude says
“New Dawn.” To get your dwarf clean as a whistle!
nomnom says
Warner Bros. who owns the copyrights to Wizard of Oz will be thrilled to see this rip off by the Columbus Scientologists.
Miss Q says
The Great and Powerful Ron is really just a bloviating old man in hiding. The irony escapes scio’s poster-makers once again.
Alcoboy says
I want to see the part where the Wicked Witch of the West comes flying over the stage and skywrites with her broom:
MOVE UP IN STATUS!
FORK OVER THE CASH NOW!
Aquamarine says
🙂 🙂
Aquamarine says
I’m envisioning a remake of the Wizard of Oz. Leah Remini as an adorable Dorothy – not from Kansas though, but Forest Hills, New York. She’s certainly petite and young looking enough. Miscavige would be the perfect, gender-bendering Wicked Witch of the West. His/Her flying monkeys would be OSA of course, with some sort of Sea Org slogan on their wings, and Gold Base the Witch’s Castle.
I want to watch Leah/Dorothy accidentally throw a bucket of water on Miscavige/WWotW so he starts screaming, “Oh, help!…help,, I’m melting, I’m melting,…melting…”, dissolving into a tiny puddle of water on the floor, leaving behind the Ecclesiastical Dildo, which Leah/Dorothy promptly puts in her apron pocket as proof of the demise to bring to Glinda and the Munchins…so she can go home to Queens. .
TitleWaves says
And Toto takes a bite out of crime.
Miss Q says
You exes are a very creative bunch! ?
Peter Norton says
I hope someone lets Warner Bros know. 🙂
SM says
Couldn’t Ohio State University sue for use of their Brutus character’s use?
Marne says
Encroyable! From week to week I’m thinking, ‘It can’t get any more Idiotic, Unbelievable, or Ludicrous than this – AND IT DOES! Pinch me; I’m either dreaming or hallucinating.
zemooo says
So the Minnesota CO$ is blessing the Auditors. They used to be the backbone of $cientology, but they have been retrained so many times they don’t know the terminus of their alimentary canals from their elbows.
Getting people to pay for Auditor training and them promising them large incomes used to be the heart of the scam. By sharing their income with the Lron and the Case Supervisors, they were supposed to earn big bucks. Well, that train left the station long ago.
Robert says
How can so many people be deceived by Scientology? It’s unbelievable….
Old Surfer Dude says
Hope springs eternal…
Sue says
test
Cindy says
Daphna Hernandez is “coaching” (Not “counseling”) others on how to save their marriage. But she didn’t save her own. She is divorced from her husband and using a different name now. I would say physician heal thyself, but she is nowhere near that. She isn’t even a trained auditor, and so she has to say how coaching is so much better than counseling because she doesn’t have the credentials required for counseling in the C of S. But I won’t be too hard on her. It’s hard to get auditor training now that there is no BC, no Class VIII course, and Specialist Courses is a graveyard per an UTR poster who went in and he was Dick O’s only student.
xenu's son says
If in 2018 you are so retarded that you still let yourself get fleeced you are not human as in humanitarian.
Piltdown man maybe?
The Japanese saying comes to mind: Baka wa shinanakya naoranai.
Unless an idiot dies, he won’t be cured.
bixntram says
I’ll run that by my Japanese niece-in-law next time I see her.
Sue Kameka says
Can someone please explain what “moving up in status” means? Status as in how much $$ you’ve parted with? Does it have anything to do with The Bridge? Thanks!
zemooo says
‘Status’ in this case refers to how much you have donated to the IAS. This is in addition to any donations you made to your local Org or money spent on Auditing or money donated to any of the front groups. Donate enough and you get a big trophy suitable for impressing any bowling team.
It is a copy of the old Catholic scam of selling ‘Indulgences’, except you have to stay in $cieno purgatory forever.
Alcoboy says
Right, zemoo. Sue, in the IAS, after you fork over $5,000 for a lifetime membership it doesn’t stop there. Fork over a few thousand more and you achieve the status of Patron. A few thousand after that gives you Patron Meritorious and so on.
Aquamarine says
It means you give the cult a larger donation amount than the amount you gave last time for which you receive or come closer to receiving another pin or plaque or trophy upon which is another, higher more impressive sounding title flattering your vanity and in actuality proving that you’ve still done absolutely nothing to help absolutely anyone – unless helping multi billionaire scam artist David Miscage get even richer is your idea of help.
Aquamarine says
And, Sue, i think, as someone on the blog recently shared, the highest status in Scientology is “Patron Meritorius Fucked To The Maximus”, which several former Big Beings who post on this blog did in fact achieve.
I say “former” Big Beings because, as BIG as they once were, as MIGHTY as Yuge, powerful, amazing etc as they ONCE were, they are NOW, alas, per the cult, minuscule beings, who have, in fact ALWAYS been minuscule beings? How can this be, you ask?
Ah! by virtue of the fact of their having wised up to the cult’s money grubbing scams! Realizations like this which caused them to close their checkbooks to the cult, and to announce this closed checkbook as permanent policy to the cult and the world in general!
Heresy like this cancelled out all their former greatness!
For such ex-Scientologists, Sue, that “Bigness” in their Beingnesses emigrated to their Bank Accounts and found a new life and a happier home.
Ann Watson says
Mike, Your grey matter is resting up before turning to pure Gold. I am amazed at all you juggle & keep up with. Thank you for your site where any day is ripe for the Funnies. This latest batch does me in! From the first promo piece to the Black Panther as Auditor & the death defying feats auditors perform-each day, gilding the lily much Scientology? The Security Chief will escort all either to a sec check rpf or full listing session whenever asked to do so. What a great OT dude! Plus Hattie B’s hot chicken flew the coop before the Scientology Foxes in their hen house could get to them & those birds flew fast to get away! Love to four Angels! ?❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ann Watson says
Mike, Your grey matter is only resting prior to turning into pure Gold. I am amazed at all you keep track of & all you do. Any day of the week is appropriate for the funnies. Hattie B’s chickens will fly the coop before being consumed by foxes in the hen house. And such nonsensical bs from the dwindling flock of cob lovers just keeps getting worse! Thank you from my heart for keeping your site as a great education on why the cult of Scientology is such a sham scam. Love to four Angels..❤️❤️❤️❤️?
Ann Watson says
Did another comment as my first got eaten & then came back. Whoops! ?
Aquamarine says
Ann, you post something, it disappears for a few minutes and then it posts, and you see it. Once you send your post, wait a few minutes and you’ll see it.
Ann B Watson says
Thank you Aqua. I get it now with your help. ❤️
Wynski says
I with my “genius” IQ didn’t notice the error Mike.
OK folks, there is SO much concentrated stupid in the few remaining non-staff cult members there MUST be away to get their cash from them and use it for good.
Old Surfer Dude says
You actually have an IQ? Damn! You’re way a head of me.
Wynski says
OSD, I borrowed it from Hubtard as he never used it.
Aquamarine says
🙂
Old Surfer Dude says
Is it still in good shape or all fucked up? Remember, he died delusional.
I Yawnalot says
Just like the way he lived.
smorbie says
Obvi, that’s caused Wynski borrowed it. He’s making better use of it than Lrong ever did, though.
chuckbeattyx75to03 says
I wish he’d have had more doubts and failure feelings, enough to have ordered tearing his whole operation down, but he didn’t.
He seems to have had only fleeting doubts of failure in the end, amid his delusion, but those “body-thetans” chasing him to the end of his life, while technically they are delusion, per the whole Hubbard false quackery, the “body-thetans” were real.
Such a massive long problem in human history to keep allowing people to have their organized delusions, “body-thetans” being Scientology’s key delusional false reality.