Before the “Colombian Miracle” where, according to scientology, distribution of The Way to Happiness reduced crime in Colombia by 90%, there was the Venezuelan Phenomenon — the Way to Happiness literally “saved the nation.” Two of the earliest IAS Freedom Medal winners were awarded their bauble for getting the WTH used by Government agencies that “saved the nation” blah blah. Then Ruddy Rodriguez and others followed, each having accomplished incredible feats of distributing TWTH to even more miraculous results. I would bet there have been more IAS medal winners from Venezuela than any other country.
Though they have repeatedly touted massive and monumental accomplishments for LRH tech, things are not looking good in Venezuela (and have not been for some time).
How can this be? It’s got to be bad when a profit making business decides to abandon its capital investment.
See also John Oliver’s show this past week.
Surely the millions of copies of the WTH that have been distributed have not been thrown in the trash? Or everyone forgot all they learned? Or is it just that the SPs have once again overcome all the good of standard tech? It would seem there is a bit of a miscalculation with respect to the ability of the tech to bring about any lasting results….
NN Grad says
Its because TWTH have been a way to get money for the church
You pay 1 buck for each booklet that really cost a dime or less (95% profit)
They had nothing to do with Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia as a major handling on criminal activities, thats real bullshit, but internally they belive that are saving the ethics and moral in the world, its so vain
Also Its just a weekly stat game because is easier to sell a booklet instead of a real scientology book and also serves as an ethics handling easy way to step out the MAAs surveillance, you are ot with 2 or 3 12 packs and thats it or having a whale who is cheating her wife and just buy 1k to have free access to the HGC again but labeled as the 4Din guy of the month that causes an all single and married female staff desire to get laid with him.
You can take a look for yourself at the TWTH Headquarters in Glendale to realize that they are not doing even the 1% that COB claimed at the grand openning about 12 years ago, what they claim in the Success Stories require at least 200 staff hard working full time but they are not even 5 or 6 there, about 7 years ago i was invited to a breefing there, good and expensive greek food, some drinks but we were just 6 public in a small space for 30 or 40 seated people that left less than100 dollars in fundraising,
Thomas Weeks says
I never considered The Way to Happiness to be real Scientology – even when I was in the SO. It just seemed like watered down Scientology ethics for the general consumption. If you want real Scientology, you have to go to the HCO PLs. That was likely the out point here. Venezuela needs to do the Confusion formula!
Kronomex says
I just thought, using $camology speak, that it should be “The Way to Cashiness.”
Mary Jane Sterne says
Well they have shown up in Lindenhurst, NY recently!
carlix alfonzo says
Hi, Mike; I’m Carlix… I’m from Venezuela. And I just found out that TWTH had something to do with all this scientology crap.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing your space and giving light to the things that are happening to my country, and my people, because my mom and my dad still there, and is getting worse every day.
Anyway, what you are doing is absolutely fantastic and courageous. And I hope someday you can be reunited with your kids.
Wish you the very best, you deserve it.
Mike Rinder says
Thank you Carlin. Welcome. And good luck to you.
Miss Q says
Off topic, but does anyone wonder if fair game policy had any hand in the cancellation of Kevin Can Wait, starring Leah Remini?
Mike Rinder says
It didn’t. Don’t wonder.
Miss Q says
Good to know.
KatherineINCali says
Good to know, Mike. Thanks.
Newcomer says
‘THE WAY TO HAPPINESS – A Global Campaign to restore basic common sense values.’
Yo Dave,
You’re a ding-a-ling idiot and a hypocrite! Let me give you a clue on how to restore a BASIC COMMON SENSE VALUE such as communicating with your family you undersized douche bag.
It’s called climb down off your self imposed high horse and say hello to your mom or dad. Scheesch, YOU ARE SUCH A LOSER ………….. AND A REALLY STUPID ONE AT THAT. Actually, you are way beyond stupid!
Yo OSA,
Howz yer global campaign coming along these days? Don’t forget, Eff Pee needs to be allowed to come out and play occasionally or he will lose his edge. Have the rest of the unknowns of time, place, form and event got the rest of you all stupefied as well?
WhatAreYourCrimes says
I love this comment!
xenu's son says
Me too.He said what I was thinking.
How much lower can you go as a human being than splitting up families,forcing abortions for married couples,force people into debt so they can rid themselves of Xenu`s curse and the list just goes on.
Newcomer says
I guess I’m not quite done today…….
And all the while the frickin scammers can continue to lie that they are here ….. ” to restore basic common sense values.”
The assholes can’t restore shit to the backside of anything.
Yo Dave,
Howz about a 4 hour diatribe to yer fleecewinders about …..BASIC ………COMMON …………..SENSE ……………..VALUES ……….. good buddy. What the fuck are those anyway Mr. Clueless?
First – You are confused about where BASIC is on yer chain Dave. The only thing basic about yer groady ass is that You are Basically an Evil Motherfucker.
Second – There is absolutely nothing COMMON about them in yer cult at all.
Third – Nothin that emanates from your pie hole has anything to do with making ‘SENSE’, especially when you drift into the never never land of yer front porch of the thingy you call e-frickin-ternity Captain Dingleberry.
Fourth – Values?????????????????? YOU OF ALL THE ASSWIPES ON THE PLANET HAVE THE UNMITIGATED GALL TO MENTION VALUES?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Dave Miscaviage are fucked up beyond all recognition. How many other sheeple do You have confirmed for yer Maidan Vourage?
Too is comin taday Dave. Count up the new blows and admire yer upstatness.
Jane Doe says
I’ve never witnessed the WTH precepts applied by scientologists. More like the booklet of Rights you lose when you join staff. 10X if you join the SO. It’s an evil joke on members.
“Eat properly, get rest, honor and help your parents, do not tell harmful lies, respect the religious beliefs of others?” That’s not going to happen when you join staff.
Patrick Luscher says
So true, so sad…
Randomness says
OMG +1000 spot on!
David Bates says
I just finished reading an article that gave the 2017 citizens against crime repot for Central and South America. It stated that last year Caracas, Venezuela was the worst capital city of both countries even beating out Mexico on murder rates. I don’t know where the midget gets the info he spews out but his so called WTH booklets that were handed out must have been used as target practise to improve a shooters aim. They didn’t help anywhere else it would seem.
Old Surfer Dude says
That’s absolutely correct. You want WTH booklets? Just look down and you’ll see plenty of them on the sidewalks.
Aquamarine says
He manufactures whatever facts he needs and the sheeple believe whatever he says. Not complicated.
WhatAreYourCrimes says
Lyin’tology’s ecclesiastical leader dwells in fantasyland.
The little muppet.
I Yawnalot says
“The poor little sheep have lost their way, ba ba ba…”
I’ve never known such a killer of intelligence than to see people put all their faith & a whole stack of cash into a little booklet like TWTH. Boggles the mind that Scios can suck up such bs and rejoice so earnestly at the blatant lies concerning its effectiveness.
Seems to me like it’s on the same ‘order of magnitude’ that getting people to look both ways before crossing the road is going end nuclear proliferation or solve terrorism. Scientology math… an exercise in extreme gullibility.
Old Surfer Dude says
Effectiveness??? Effectiveness!!!
Effectiveness has never been in the cult. It’s constantly ineffective. And no one knows what to do….
Aquamarine says
Nothing wrong with what the Way To Happiness says. Its common sense, overall a good and sensible ways to operate in life.
The problem is what the cult claims are its magical powers.
Drop these booklets around in some disaster area – a flood, an earthquake, someplace where there’s been a mass shooting, some, some violent country where even the police are criminals – hand these booklets around and poof! All their problems just smooth out. The whole area improves in every way! Its magic!
Its bullshit, is what it is.
So read WTH, do what it says (not that the cult actually practices it and certainly not that Hubbard, its author, followed its precepts, so there’s this huge hypocracy factor also) but anyway, you won’t go wrong using it as guidelines for a decent life. Its precepts are similar to the 10 Commandments. Language re-worked but concepts are essentially the same.
But PULEEZE enough, Cult, with all the spouting about the magical, mystical powers of this thing!
E-NUFF!
Most of the people dealing with a disaster are in shock, in grief, or homeless or ill or ALL of the above.
A booklet isn’t going to help them. A bible isn’t going to help them either, in that state, no matter how much wisdom it contains!
In brief, such people who have sustained a disaster, who are reacting from a calamity, are in NO mood to READ.
Aquamarine says
Some people are more cult prone than others, Yawn. Even if they’re not in an actual cult, there are people who prefer to be tightly controlled, who want or maybe need to be dictated to and helicoptered over in all aspects of their lives. They’re out there, these people. I know a few of them. As to why, I don’t know. Maybe they confuse obsessive control with caring and love. (Just a theory of mine.) Maybe they just don’t want to have to think. There could be many reasons why some people embrace being enslaved, or, at least, allow it, whilst others rebel and risk life and limb and everything else in order to exercise their free will to be, do and have as they see fit in life. Takes all kinds.
I Yawnalot says
Stupidity is it’s own reward I guess. We’ve all tasted it, some just can’t do without it.
WhatAreYourCrimes says
… and don’t forget, floss your teeth toward planetary clearing.
Aquamarine says
🙂 Religiously!
I Yawnalot says
Now, that’s important!
John Doe says
Reg: (to parishioner) “Ok, so I need you to step up, Bill. I need you to give me a check tonight for 10,000 so we can handle the hell out of this Danger Condition in Venezuela. I need you to be part of the salvaging of a whole country!!
Bill: “But wasn’t there a Way to Happiness campaign there a couple of years ago?”
Reg: “There was, but then the Psyches went wild and along with the International Pharmaceutical companies, have pushed back hard. We have to meet their efforts. How much room do you have on your VISA card?”
Bill: “So…um…what is it that we will do to beat the psychs?”
Reg: (excitedly) “Last month, we sent an emergency team down there and they surveyed the hell out of the publics and very careful determined exact buttons and positioning. We are going to re-launch the WTH campaign, but the booklets are going to have BRAND NEW COVERS!!!”
Alcoboy says
Bill: But wasn’t that what we did in the initial campaign?
Reg (fuming): Look, Bill! We need to save Venezuela now! This is no time to Q&A! Now, are you going to help us now?
Bill: But I went to Maiden Voyage two years ago and COB said that by saturating that country with TWTH we had reduced crime 95x! So why do you need me to……
Reg: BILL! $10,000.00! NOW!
Bill: YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK YOU! FUCK DAVID MISCAVIGE! AND FUCK THE WHOLE DAMN CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY!(angrily leaves reg office, exits building, goes to car, pulls out cell phone and dials) Hello? Is this Luis Garcia? Hi, my name is Bill Smith and let me tell you what I just went through! I was just in the………
david_pdx says
There are a couple Jehovah’s Witnesses always passing out literature on my way in to work. I noticed that this month’s “Awake” issue is title “The Way of Happiness”.
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/awake-no1-2018-mar-apr/
Not only are the JW’s outpacing Scientology with number of churches and web traffic, they are taking Scientology’s main thing.
Alcoboy says
Well, shame on the Jehovah’s Witnesses!
How dare they!
To: Alcoboy
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Jehovah’s Witnesses
Yes! How dare those SPs steal my idea and not acknowledge me as Supreme Ruler of Teegeeack and the MEST Universe! How dare they spread the lie that some individual called Jehovah actually rules over everything! I RULE OVER EVERYTHING! I call upon these suppressives to cease this natter at once or I will drop THEM in a volcano and then H-Bomb it!
Oh,wait. You’re not OTIII yet. You’re not supposed to know about that.
Oops!
ML
Dave
To: David Miscavige COB RTC
From: Alcoboy
Re: previous comment
First, I don’t buy into all that Xenu shit! Second, you’re a dumbass!
No love at all
Alcoboy
Miss Q says
Too bad the JWs practice their own brand of disconnection: “disfellowshipping.” This has affected some members of my extended family. Sad and pointless.
White Light says
WTH = What The Hell????
Rick Pyle says
Venezuela has recently requested millions of WTH brochures made of “more absorbent” paper. Charmin is partnering with The CoS to fill the order!
Alcoboy says
As part of the partnership, a new precept is being added to the booklets:
NUMBER TWENTY-ONE: WIPE YOUR ASS ON A DAILY BASIS.
Rick Pyle says
Finally a precept we can all get behind!
Aquamarine says
Hmmm, those booklets WILL be squeezably soft,…
Still, Mr. Whipple will make sure no one squeezes them.
Nor will anyone read them but that’s beside the point.
Alcoboy says
If someone squeezes the Charmin, Mr. Whipple gets sent to the RPF.
Gravitysucks says
??
nomnom says
Maduro is just applying “What turns it on, turns it off”. The process isn’t quite flat yet.
Old Surfer Dude says
I was turned on once, but, they turned me off immediately.
Alcoboy says
Well, that wasn’t very nice.
I Yawnalot says
You didn’t tell someone where your off switch is did you? Silly boy!
Eh=Eh says
WTH….WTF!
Susan Colon says
When is the United States Government, and Law Enforcement going to wake the hell up and do something about this so called Religion/CULT. Down the road, this group could turn into a Waco/Jonestown incident. Don’t you think they have guns at some Scientology locations! Of course they do.! And Napoleon syndromed David Miscavige is crazy enough to have his minions use them.
whatareyourcrimes says
Hi Susan,
There is a way to attack scientology:
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2015/04/14/how-to-simply-and-effectively-report-the-church-of-scientology-to-the-irs/
Please encourage your friends, family, and neighbors to stop this cult from its destructive behavior. These crimes against humanity are happening now, today, in the U.S. of A. As members of civilized society, we must all fight back.
Newcomer says
They are complicit in the scam! Don’t expect government to do shit. We will all be lucky if the courts are not bought and paid for as well.
The trial will have to be in the court of public opinion. And on that the jury is IN!
WhatAreYourCrimes says
I have more faith in the system. It will grind to the truth in time. This is not 1952, and people are awake to the crimes and body count of scientology.
Wynski says
Susan, bring enough evidence to a DA and you’ll probably see some action. The CoS isn’t as frightening as they once were.
KatherineINCali says
They truly have no shame or embarrassment when it comes to touting outrageous, ridiculous, and false claims. Not that we didn’t already know that.
To claim that Colombia’s crime rate was reduced by 90% simply by handing out some lame ass, common sense booklets, is so utterly laughable that I have no words for how laughable it actually is.
Aquamarine says
Yes, K IN C, their sheeple continually demonstrate that they will believe anything that David Miscavige tells them. And if they don’t believe it they’ll “go with the flow” as one OT 7 explained it to me. “Oh, we just go with the flow”. Well, rephrased, that means, “We just do as we’re fucking told”.
KatherineINCali says
Yep, that pretty much sums up the sad state of affairs
Mat Pesch says
Scientology is so full of shit that it is laughable, in a pathetic way.
Alcoboy says
In more ways than you imagine.
WhatAreYourCrimes says
Especially the dreamworld that bubbleboy Miscavige loves in. Laughable.
Cavalier says
When the WTH booklets fewer first released I did not find this event very exciting but it was benign.
There was not much within that could be argued with. We were all encouraged to make a gift of a booklet to friends, colleagues and family (not hand them out willy-nilly to people in the street.)
There was not any pressure on this.
Probably most personal contacts would at least glance through the booklet and might learn something. In any event, it was harmless.
If anyone had suggested that handling these out in the street would have much effect on anything we would have laughed, most likely.
Our friend DM turned this into another fund raising scam and told some shameless lies. Now it is not longer harmless at all.
Alcoboy says
Right, Cavalier! That’s what LRH intended. You took a copy of the book, wrote your name on the first like of the front cover, wrote a friend’s name on the second line, then gave the book to that friend. It was one on one, not flood the streets with the shit! I don’t recall LRH saying anything about eliminating the world’s ills by throwing thousands of copies of the book at people! You’re right; this is another Miscavige Ponzi scheme.
disco george says
It was the psychs, obviously.
KatherineINCali says
Lol. But of course! It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya. They all just want to wrestle us to the ground and electroshock us into oblivion!
Damn, $cientology. You sure know how to make yourselves look like absolute fools when it comes to screaming about “psychs”.
disco george says
I work down the hall from a bunch of them. Maybe if I plaster my office walls with WTH booklets, it will ward off the evil.
I mean, you never know when they’re going to try to kidnap you and give you a lobotomy and all.
Ammo Alamo says
Of course you would know when the evil Psyches are going to try to kidnap you and give you a lobotomy and all.
A. They require an appointment, months in advance. You, as a loyal CoS member, don’t know what you’ll be allowed to do tomorrow, much less weeks from now.
B.* You have to present your insurance card and pay the deductible. Yeah, right. Yeah, r-r-right.
C. They send you for Pre-Lobotomy lab tests, including blood tests, to see if you have a heart. DM need not apply.
D. They require an expensive MRI to make sure you have a big enough brain as to afford to lose a chunk of it. This disqualifies 99% of current IAS members.
Those psyches are not living in the 50s anymore, you know. They are very tightly organized, and want to get the money up front. It’s like, umm, like, err, well it’s like something.
* Members with money – cash, credit, or assets – are not allowed to get a Pre-Frontal Lobotomy (PFL). They will be kidnapped and forced to donate to the IAS, a brain-deadening experience very similar to a PFL.
Aquamarine says
disco, along with the WTH booklets on your wall, tack a wooden cross on your office door and wear a garlic clove necklace at your desk and you should be ok.
Aquamarine says
🙂 “…they just want to wrestle us to the ground and electroshock us into oblivion.”
Old Surfer Dude says
Oh, very obviously.
Alcoboy says
See, disco george? You know how the game is played! In Scientology, everything that is evil or wrong is because of the psychs!
Cue laughter.
Aquamarine says
Electric shock, psych drugs, the evils of psychiatry, over and over, year in, year out. They’ve been beating that drum forever. It gets boring. The question is, is this drumbeat still bringing the natives out of the forest? I don’t think it is. I think they’re bored with the same old same ole shrinks are the bogeymen line!
So, Cult – here’s a suggestion: Do something different. Create a NEW enemy. Because nowadays, people – at least the people I talk to – are longing for MORE psychiatrists, MORE drugs and more institutions to house or rehab people who are dangerous to themselves and society. Shrinks are the GOOD Guys, nowadays, cult! Not enough of them, need more of them – have a LISTEN as to what people, rightly or wrongly are actually SAYING out there about your answer to Satan, the psychiatrists!
Bypass Habits and normal routines. Change your operating basis. Whatever. Apply a condition. Get relevant again. Come up to present time because no one is talking about electroshock nowadays.
Maybe Narconon should get a PR refurbishment so it can be the Scientology’s answer to the opioid fentanyl epidemic.
Or maybe the cult should just make every living, breathing Scientologist buy thousands of WTH booklets and just carpet rural America with them.
That’ll handle the opioid crisis!
Aquamarine says
By the way, I personally have no abiding love for shrinks or any pill pushers, or any drugs, legal or otherwise. They each have their uses. Not for me but live and let live. If it were up to me all drugs would be legal and easily obtainable, like they are in Europe, for anyone who wants or needs them. Just saying.
SILVIA says
This reminded me of the Portland marches (1986 aprox.) where pamphlets were passed in various areas to many people re Religious Freedom and Scientology ideas/phrases.
Well, what was not promoted anywhere is that there was a group of staff/Sea Org members walking behind the ones passing the pamphlets picking up the many, many ones the public had just intentionally dropped after a quick glance at it.
The delusion Scn has lived in re its impact in society still continues.
Annie Oakley says
I was in Portland at that time (May/June ’85) with my now-husband. A bunch of us were taken out to the suburbs to distribute WTH propaganda door-to-door. As we finished one block and rounded the corner to start the next we heard footsteps behind us. A woman and an older child were running up to us and handed us a stack of the WTH booklets we had just been leaving on doorsteps saying they were unwanted. I’m afraid I lived too long in the delusion of Scn’s impact on society. Hmph. It was when I started to venture outside the bubble that I learned the truth.
Old Surfer Dude says
Good for you, Annie! You engaged your Super Powers by walking away.
Saphie says
Hey Annie,
I was in Portland as well. I was part of the Portland 42. The last ones to leave. I marched around that courthouse alone a few times, waving that friggin flag. Awful. The public that supported me to get there were instructed to not send anymore money to us and needed to “out create the SP’s and stay on course and not to put any more attention on Portland. Of course, it was because the stats dropped. We were hungry with no support but for the locals. You brought back memories.
Not too long ago, after all these years I finally brought all those books and basics out of the garage and dissected them, recycled all of the paper, cd’s, cassettes. I was in tears when I went to the dump and threw all of those worthless plastic binders over the edge.
Cudos to those people that returned those friggin pamphlets.
So glad we are out!
Hey Mike, hang in there, dude. You have many, many friends!
Idle Morgue says
What happened to Scientology’s Fake and Fraudulent Front Group:
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS?
The Scientologists found out Scientology is a way to rotten teeth, financial ruin, divorce and shattered dreams.
Scientology SUCKS!
Scientology KILLS!
The end product of Scientology is CONFUSION, FEAR AND CHAOS.
WhatAreYourCrimes says
If one follows the path of scientology, one ALWAYS finds misery. That is the final state, always, for everyone. The 60-plus year experiment proves it.
If one applies actual science to studying scientology, then the conclusion is that scientology has hurt humankind more than helped it.
Gordon Weir says
What a coincidence that $cientology’s great accomplishments are done in foreign countries where their claims can’t be verified.
Chee Chalker says
ikr? Where are the VMs and THWT pamphleteers in Chicago? or Watts? or or any other Western cities suffering from violence and domestic unrest?
smorbie says
Oh, if only Venezuela had access to scientology tv
Old Surfer Dude says
If they did have access to Scientology TV, that country would be Clear in a week!
Alcoboy says
Ba dum bum. PSHHHHHHHHHH!
Good joke, OSD!
Old Surfer Dude says
What? It could happen!
Alcoboy says
What?! You’re admitting that Scientology TV could actually accomplish some good?!
Shame on you!
Old Surfer Dude says
It’s called, “Pulling your leg.”
Alcoboy says
Whew! Thank goodness! You had me scared for a minute!
unelectedfloofgoofer says
Sounds like the whole country joined the Sea Org.
Old Surfer Dude says
A fate worse than death…
Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass says
I can attest to that, OSD.
Old Surfer Dude says
A lot of us can, DMTNTBS.
But, being out is the best revenge.
Alcoboy says
Where do you think Hugo Chavez got his training?
Cat W. says
Off topic. Mike, I haven’t been able to face reading the Bunker yet. This is tragic for you no matter how it ends, since you still love your daughter. I have some experience with losing a family member due to slander — nowhere near the level you’ve experienced, but it still hurts every day. My thoughts and prayers are with you. I won’t wish her ill, because I know you wouldn’t want that. I hope she wakes up to the real love she’s been unethically trashing for the false ethics of Scientology. Hang in there.
WhatAreYourCrimes says
LRH’s harmful bullshit “tech” results in a daughter turning on a loving father at the behest of a fucking little shit sociopath… scientology deserves the epic fall it has been experiencing.
Fuck you celebrity useful idiots.
Fuck you David Miscavige.
And Fuck you Hubbard. Everything
you touched turned to shit.
Wynski says
Can you believe there are still people outside the church who are SO stupid that they think Hubtard’s tech improves people? They make Flat Earther’s look like Einstein.
xenu's son says
Epic fail.The world is being cleared of Scientology as more and more people wake up to the scam. Wikipedia contributors are doing a great jobs listing,the scams and the lies.Probably substantially less than 20,000 members(incl sea org) left by now.
Brighter days will come where sons and daughters will be reunited with their parents..
Peggy L says
It is difficult to read, and no way would I ever wish her ill either, but also worry what will happen to her when her assignment inevitably crashes and burns. I hope she knows that her father may be her only relative who will stand beside her when that happens.
Aquamarine says
In her unique situation she is so very lucky that Mike is her father.. She has no idea.
whatareyourcrimes says
Peggy, your comment is perfect.
When this all plays out, Taryn Teutsch will have one person standing with her, and trust me, it won’t be mother-fucking Miscavige.
Peggy L says
Well, no one has better knowledge than Mike Rinder how Miscavige manipulates and what happens when someone falls out of favor. Is Miscavige using Taryn as bait, or a shield. Either way Taryn is being used and Mike Rinder scares the heck out of him.
Peggy L says
“Surely the millions of copies of the WTH that have been distributed have not been thrown in the trash?
”
Maybe someone messed up with the publication and put semi colons where there should have just been a colon, or a comma, and it was just too confusing?
Glenn says
Nope, not all are tossed in the garbage. I personally found boxes and boxes of the cult’s propaganda which had been given to the head of a government agency in the San Francisco CA Area hidden away in the person’s closet. All were never opened and thankfully never distributed to their public. I suspect this also occurs elsewhere and so the cult’s claims of major distribution is a lie just like all other bullshit it proselytizes. .
Peggy L says
Nothing better than an eye witness, first hand account to kick a claim to the curb Glenn.
Kyle says
Maybe because WTH was a lie to create another channel to pump cash from the pool of $cn.
As we see outside resources being brought in to complete MOrgs, perhaps the decline in the push for WTH can be seen as another sign the pool is dry.
Wynski says
So, TWTH caused those countries to turn into leftist hell holes? Interesting.
Mary Kahn says
WTH in Venezuela? I think they were used to light the poop cocktails that the citizens threw at police and gov’t officials.
Gravitysucks says
Poop cocktail. ? Mary Kahn!!
gorillavee says
There probably won’t be any explanations. What will be, to use one of their terms, is not-is. It will be ignored until some focus groups and surveys indicate that everyone forgot about how Venezuela was “saved”, and then there will be a massive push to collect money to “save” Venezuela.
Peabody says
Just in, Venezuela has become the first Clear country!
Chee Chalker says
You’re looking at things the wrong way Mike….
What Venezuela needs now is MORE
TWTH booklets and VMs descending upon its shores!
Send your donation today!
gtsix says
I’m in. I have just transfered .00001 Thetabux to your account. Please send 2 billion TWTH booklets to a truly downtrodden place:
Golden Era Productions
19625 Gilman Springs Rd
San Jacinto, CA 92583
Aquamarine says
LOL, gtsix!
Yes, that’s one disaster area that needs a lot of relief!
Actually, it would be funny as hell to have a plane or a drone or something fly over Int Base and drop thousands of WTH booklets. And on Flag too. Really funny!
Gravitysucks says
Like. No love!!
chuckbeattyx75to03 says
Deep into wishful dedicated dupe staffer thinking, when Way to Happiness came out, I thought Hubbard was turning over a new leaf, and I held out hope that Way to Happiness would become “policy”, meaning sleep for staff, pay for staff, and less horrid conditions for staff. I thought Way to Happiness would stem crim regging, and stem the de-PTSing that was wrongly declaring untold family and persons as “SPs” and causing complete disconnection and all those problems.
I thought Way to Happiness was gonna be the reform core, somehow, and I was waiting, back then, for some kind of “Staff” strategic implementation of Way to Happiness, and I hoped Hubbard would push behind the scenes to put Way to Happiness into reforming the movement.
The fact that Hubbard had plenty of years to do a reform of what had so far occurred up to that time he wrote Way to Happiness, that he omitted to see how the movement needed still reform, is Hubbard’s fault, ultimately.
He did not specify reforming his movement with his own Way to Happiness.
That IS a major overt of omission, on Hubbard’s own part, and the movement Scientology will always suffer for that.
The behind the scenes FULL layout of Hubbard’s private writings (the advices) are still needed to see ALL of Hubbard’s omissions, in the movement’s own reforming and keeping the movement in saner health (an impossibility from outsiders’ views, which are likely the most correct views of Scientology).
gtsix says
🙂 Aqua,
we could also help them get ahead of the game, and hand them to all 6 attendees of Ideal org openings.
For when the org crashes, they will have their little booklet to guide them.
Another .0001 Thetabux deposited!
Aquamarine says
🙂 Sounds like a plan. Wow! We’re just so gosh-darned upstat, y’know?