The Ideal Playground and Ideal Lake
This is not a shoop or spoof. They are seriously promoting the “re-newed” lake and ideal playground. And just in time for Dear Leader breezing in… They must be so proud of their complete idealiness.
Applied Scholastics Online?
Finish High School? Only in the event you are so out ethics you have not joined the Sea Org.
Join us for dinner…
So we can take your money. We would not be wanting you there otherwise.
Pay us for Thanksgiving Dinner
Most churches provide a free Thanksgiving Dinner for the needy. For scientology it’s just another money-making opportunity for which they are thankful.
Porn Valley hyperventilating
They started needing 80. Got all the way to 63.
Quinn is pinching himself
He has definitely been taking Shermanspeak courses.
Now, we just have to collect
We sort of made it. We just don’t have the actual money.
How long do you think this will take?
Yeah, don’t criticize our incompetence or screw ups…
… it’s because we exist in the world like everyone else. And just to be even clearer. If you do dare complain we will make you pay us to sec check you to find your similar crimes and if you don’t like that we will declare you and force your family and friends to disconnect from you.
Wow, 2000 Purif Grads
With everyone required to re-do the Purif when the “new” version came out, and 700 new people flooding in per day, 1000 over 2 years is pretty pathetic for the double St Hill size, model ideal org manned by 200 imported Sea Org members. But of course they don’t notice.
With all this talk of focus and clarity…
You would think they could get an in-focus shot for their promo piece
Just weird…
Trying to persuade the dead horses from Porn Valley to head to Santa Barbara to be regged some more.
Find out how Pasadena is booming…
From the new ED of Porn Valley. Nobody in Orange County knows what to do?
PS: Pasadena is NOT booming.
100% Certainty
Not normally something scientologists are deficient in. They have the answers to all of life. And they know they know even if it just means finding what LRH says.
33 years going nowhere…
Even their promo looks like amateur hour from the 80’s.
It’s Monumental
Of course.
Wait, we are making an OT Civilization now? Did we already Clear the Planet?
1/2 Humanitarianships still for sale
Same old, same old. But didn’t Silicon Valley announce they were done with their fundraising a year ago? I guess there is still a demand for the faithful to become half-humanitarian.
AOLA is desperate
Wonder why this only applies to these states? The scientology city of Portland doesn’t qualify?
Our top news reporter?
I thought they were merchants of chaos?
The big missing question — how much more money do you have to give?
The “Elite” are Clearing Nashville
Even though they have not made a single clear this year. Ang frankly that suit looks anything but “elite”….
Back to the bottom…
…and loving it!
Bet you Sarah Condon is OT and has been in scientology for at least 3 decades….
The AOLA Atrium??
Not even Lebanon Hall? 3 Sea Org orgs and their combined graduates and audience can fit in the AOLA Atrium? PAC is NOT booming.
Bookselling tips from John Alex Wood
Up votes and down votes on Amazon. That is some high confront book selling.
The “Re:” line from hell
Trying to get in as much as possible as they know nobody will read the email itself.
It’s FREE!
Until you get in the door. Then it will cost you an arm and a leg to get out.
OMG It’s Emmett Osborn Live IN PERSON
Amazing. Wonder if he is signing autographs? Wonder what is so wonderful that he is an OMG? He is just trying to take your money.
World famous pie auction
Seriously?
Orange County creating an Ideal Santa Barbara
The question is, why? Shouldn’t they be working on their own org? It’s going nowhere even though they have an ideal building. They are way smaller now than they were in the 80’s.
Hahahaha…
It is true, they have never been so ideal. And they are SO far away….
Mike Wynski says
Wow! After more than a decade they dug up 600 scamologists (from around the entire US) to contribute to the Valley Org.
The tiny church in my REALLY tiny home town had more active parishioners than that.
Ella R says
Applied Scholastics Online – because I always take advice about my education from people who write in Comic-Sans
Aquamarine says
Pedant Alert:
Whining Alert:
Simply committing to a course of action does NOT eliminate ALL of the “maybe’s” from one’s life. It DOES eliminate the maybe that one was in about whether or not to embark upon the given course of action in the first place. So that’s one maybe gone, and that’s ok so far as it goes, because having TOO MANY maybes in ones life can keep one from doing an awful lot. But frequently the course of action one was formerly in a maybe about has within it some major uncertainties that were the reasons for one dithering about whether or not to do it in the first place. Scientology always tries to convince one that merely deciding to do something is all there is to it. Well, no. There’s deciding to do it, and then, actually doing it, and doing it right and therefore succeeding in it. Granted its guaranteed that you won’t succeed at it if you don’t decide to do it, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that there are some important other steps included in there.
In the end I got so fed up with hearing, “Just DECIDE!” from various people who needed a lot of money, or a of time or effort, RIGHT AWAY. Their advice was “Just decide”.
Yes, sure, that’s ALL it takes. Why don’t YOU “just decide”, if its so easy? I would silently snarl with a quick eye dart toward the exits in the room. But of course, what I said was, “Well, I will give it some serious thought and get back to you”.
Ann B Watson says
I like the Whining Alert,Aquamarine.I am catching up on blogs.And what better way than Thursday @ Mike’s!Between the DMSMH reviews for Amazon,very lame if you ask me and that Thanksgiving Dinner for 25.00 each,when in I never saw a turkey scrap or even an old thigh or drumstick where the non-officers ate.If I had wanted some turkey I would have to have cooked it myself!And the promo piece with the dancing circa 1980!Sometimes I have to blink to make sure the shot is really what they put there!Thank you for your great comments.?
KiwiGal says
Well the latest promo has just arrived in from Auckland Ideal Org and it looks as though the building is really getting renovated and to a high standard (real photos I think-not just renderings, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve used internal photos of another completed Org). Pity they won’t be able to maintain it or pay the bills with the lack of support in New Zealand. The new owners will be getting a really good deal when it is eventually sold off.
What really interested me is Neil Liversedge is now a Silver Contributor! WOW! (N.B. No mention of “In the Memory of” of “In Memoriam”.)
What an achievement Neil! You’re on the Honour Roll and only been dead 15 years! Great work!!!
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/30811547?search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject%5D=Photography&search%5Bi%5D%5Byear%5D=2001&search%5Bpath%5D=items
Joe Pendleton says
Re: Miami … not just a “briefing” … but an EXCLUSIVE briefing!!!!!! … (to be invited to be “briefed”, you need to show either a credit card or a checkbook at the door) *briefed, verb, to be taken for everything you have except your briefs, this is a CHURCH fercryinoutloud!
Joe Pendleton says
And please no one ask me for the new definition of “de-briefed” … that’s confidential and only told to people who come to the ship.
Joe Pendleton says
And yes, if you pay RIGHT NOW for three conventions … you can be de-briefed by Sharron Weber herself (I’m getting excited already … how about y’all?)
Aquamarine says
The following is a list of words I can no longer hear in any context without a slight, inward cringe:
Action
Briefing
Brief, the verb
Debriefing
Debrief
Vital
Key, the adjective
Unprecedented
Ideal
Flow
Terminatedly
Actual
Actually
Utterly
Factually
Totally
Vanguard
Spearhead
Planet
Earth
Universe
That’s off the top of my head. I probably have more. Feel free to add your own.
Mike Rinder says
Epic list
Aquamarine says
OMG, yes. Cuh-ringe.
RK says
For $31,200 per year ($600 per week). Applied Scholastics will contact your student once a week to give a target? (aka assigning that next week’s work?) What a complete rip off. Many school districts have independent study programs, where a credentialed teacher meets with the student and monitors their work through the High School curriculum. There is no way that this meets admission requirements for Universities.
FOTF2012 says
I loved that picture of the Thanksgiving turkey! Looked yummy. Here’s another shot of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=houWTeGvDDw
Valerie says
I’ll be paying $100 for dinner Saturday night. None of it will go towards the cost of the meal. I will get to ROTFL while we have a local version of Dancing With The Stars with the local politicos dancing with dance teachers. All of the money raised to watch the spectacle will go to the homeless and the food bank. The prime rib dinner and all the drinks will be donated (I’ve paid money to help towards that donation too.)
I have gladly spent that money and will be gladly be participating in the live and silent auction for items I will probably not use or give away to others.
I wouldn’t pay $2.5 to “dine out” for Thanksgiving. That’s when you’re supposed to be with family. Oh, wait, it’s scientology, family doesn’t matter.
The Dark Avenger says
We got tickets to a chuckwagon breakfast for the local 4-H club for Saturday morning, 5$ a head with pancakes, juice and other goodies. They’ll do pretty good, lots of people go to these things.
RK says
On Thanksgiving, I’m paying $40 to participate in a 5K run – you know, actually pay money to drag my sorry ass 3.1 miles – where all of the proceeds go to the local Food Bank so that food can be provided to food kitchens at our local churches and homeless shelters and emergency food suppliers for people in crisis. Then later I’m going to dinner with my family to celebrate this American tradition and recoup the burned calories 4X over.
exccla says
Its thrusday-1:30 and i think I need to do this right now. Are the clams really attending these events ? Many write on their promo about contributing $ at these events. How stupid can the attending audience be ? I know they’re all brainwashed. If i was still in i……..whatthe hell. Not in and never will be again.
Snake Thompson's Ghost says
Is this lake at Saint Hill also the sewage pond I read about somewhere, that some higher-up CoS person had to help to clear out and unblock after being exposed as a liability and bucked down to the RPF? I remember reading some such story.
Mike Rinder says
I have been thrown in that lake in November along with Hebert Jentzsch, Guillaume Lesevre and Marc Yager. Then we had to “clear it out” – just an excuse to have us work in waist deep freezing sludge for days on end.
Old Surfer Dude says
Can the dwarf be any more of an asshole?
lesbates says
He’ll find a way.
Old Surfer Dude says
Yep, he’s an expert at it…
Valerie says
Unfortunately, in the world of asseholism, I think there’s always some way to top someone else. However David Miscavige is working hard to be the king asshole IMHO.
T.J. says
That’s really awful. I really feel for you guys for having to endure that, I can only imagine the physical discomforts of the freezing water and hard work as well as the mental humiliation.
Punishments like that do nothing to improve anyone’s job performance, rather they are used as a means to degrade and control and keep people in line, and for sadistic people to enjoy their show of power and other’s discomfort. This type of treatment is more likely to eventually cause resentment that turns people against the person or group carrying out such activities, than to solidify their dedication to the group.
In management classes and seminars we learn techniques that actually do work for improving job performance, and along with it, employees commitment to the job, while actually elevating their self-esteem and sense of self-worth and job satisfaction, creating more allegiance to the company. It starts with acknowledging the persons value and innate worth as a human being.
If employee satisfaction and loyalty is important to an organization, harsh punishment techniques should not be used. Only when one is seeking to assert their authority over others, keep a hard line of command, afford no room for dissent, and maintain strict obedience to the leader/commander, that’s when such activities would be utilized, an example would be in the military (or North Korea). In the military there are checks and balances though, and their techniques also teach and build leadership in the long run (not so much in North Korea).
What happens when the power structure is not balanced? When the leadership configuration is a strict pyramid, with one person at the top directing all others, and no other person is able to challenge that one person, or assert authority or veto anything that person does? That is a dictatorship. That’s when abuses can occur unchecked. Add to that, people who have been trained to be obedient and follow orders, also have been persuaded that this is the thing they should do, and what do you have?
Aquamarine says
I’m so sorry, Mike. I don’t know what else to say. There are no words, its just beyond belief that things like this are happening in our times, in the United States of America.
gtsix says
You may be thinking of Marc Headley (and others, obvs) cleaning the aeration sewage ponds at INT that he talks about in his book.
Passage here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=bdX74k8dMGgC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=marc+headley+sewage+pond+at+int&source=bl&ots=-Te3Bgwjq3&sig=Syz9BiPdlcapZXnlR7nC9WQ4DoM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmxpD5_sbPAhWBmx4KHfvBACQQ6AEINTAD#v=onepage&q=marc%20headley%20sewage%20pond%20at%20int&f=false
Mike Rinder says
Done that too. Was the person who got the order to march all of CMO International to the sewage pits and start digging “until further notice.”
Frodis73 says
Sweet Xenu. I was in shock reading that part of the book…there are just no words for that.
Aquamarine says
No words.
gtsix says
Sweet mercy, it’s always worse than you think.
Well Mike, on the positive side, at least you can check “dealt with massive shit” off your bucket list?!?!
And you can check it twice actually. You did have to work for the massive little shit Captain David Miscavige, COB, RTC after all.
SadStateofAffairs says
Grand opening of Bullards? Come on. They’ve had that place forever, a small crew berthing. Looks like its still small crew berthing, just reno’d which it already needed badly 20 years ago as it was a total dump.
teleny says
Solo audit for up to 5 days at a time at a distant org? Let’s see…what I would need…E-meter. Check. Training for solo auditing. If this looks tempting, I’d probably have it. Course materials. Easy. Good friend to check with, now and then. Easy.
Do I really need an Org if all I want is the knowledge, please?
Oh, but that’s squirreling….rats.
lesbates says
You know, I might give some credibility to the roll of butcher paper story if they had an actual photo of LRH sitting at the apparatus.
scientology411 says
Will there be overboarding at the “renewed” Saint Hill lake? Perhaps witch dunking as well?
Space cootie on Sherman's shoulder says
Click campaign on amazon uk.problem is on amazon uk if you click most useful reviews you get this:318 people said they found this useful..A mindbogling 126 wrote comments.This is what they are trying to fix.
The extent of the decay of scientology in the UK is even bigger than in the US or Australia.
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Read real psychology instead
By Anonymous on 12 May 2008
Format: Hardcover
Dianetics argues that the sources of human suffering are stored in ‘engrams’ in the ‘reactice mind’ – complete recordings, down to the accurate detail, of every perceptual experience. It also describes the way to rid yourself of these ‘engrams’ as a process called ‘clearing’. It sounds reasonable until you dig deeper into Dianetics and Scientology (the Church of Scientology).
I bought ‘Dianetics’ in 1998 from a street recruiter from the Church of Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard was the founder of the ‘Church’). Luckily, I only wasted 6 pounds. ‘Dianetics’ is an entry point into the ‘Church’ of Scientology – a blend of pseudo-psychotherapy, religion and science fiction which has bankrupted hundreds of people and led to some suicides (see Time Magazine, 6th May 1991). You can find scientologist recruiters on city streets everywhere. A popular trick (used on me) is to ask – survey style – “if you could change three things in your life, what would they be”. Scientologists call this ‘finding your ruin’, i.e. a weakness or problem they can hook into. Alternatively, they use a ‘personality (or ‘stress’) questionnaire’ – with no scientific basis and no demonstrated psychometric validity (i.e. never validated in a scientific peer-reviewed journal). The Scientologist wrote my three answers down and mentioned a book which could help – ‘DIANETICS’. I was taken to a basement beneath a pub, which was full of the books, and others by the Author Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. I am a psychologist – not stupid – but was then persuaded due to my interest in psychology. I bought the book for 6 pounds, and was asked to give my name and address, in order to send out a “receipt”. What I received was over 10 unsolicited letters from Scientology members asking if I had resolved my three issues, and offering ‘help’ in their local centre.
Hubbard describes a process called ‘clearing’ (called ‘auditing’ when performed by another person, which it has to be). This is a form of ‘psychotherapy’ performed by people who are not trained in psychology or counselling, and are not members of any professional psychological or counselling organisation. It involves aspects of hypnotism, social pressure and conditioning, though the church states that it is not psychotherapy. Auditing costs a lot of money. After some years of auditing, at great expense, one might reach an ‘advanced level’ known as OT III. Here you are told that…the cause of your (and everyone’s) problems was that the world is full of the souls of space aliens murdered 75 million years ago. The alien galactic ruler Xenu was in charge of Earth and 75 other planets in this part of the galaxy some 75 million years ago and cured overpopulation by paralysing the people of the other planets, flying them to Earth in DC-8 space planes, arranged them round a volcano to murder them with H bombs. These souls of murdered people were gathered up and boxed, taken to cinemas and shown films for several days. The end result was that the souls clustered together and now inhabit people in their thousands. Scientology will help ‘clear’ you of this, at great expense. Sounds ludicrous? Well it’s true. Check it out for yourself.
‘Dianetics’ is full of unscientific nonsense with no supporting empirical evidence that has been published in peer-reviewed psychology journals. The American Psychological Association denounced it as such. The language is deliberately complex to baffle and impress the average reader. Most would consider it unreadable.
The author was actually a science fiction writer, who saw that he could make more money by inventing a new religion – Hubbard stated: “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion”. Scientology has been exposed by many independent Judges and Governments, and by the press (famously by Time magazine, 1991). Scientology or its practices has been banned on and off in many countries and states. However, in order to silence its critics the it issues legal procedings citing copyright infringement against journalists, newpapers and websites that reveal negative information about Scientology.
As for the author, Hubbard the (Australian) Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology (Victoria) stated that “expert psychiatric witnesses” were of the opinion that Hubbard’s writings indicated “symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia of long standing with delusions of grandeur” and came to the conclusion that Hubbard’s “sanity was to be gravely doubted.” Hubbard claims to have visited Venus, the Van Allen Radiation belt, and heaven (twice). Hubbard wrote the fair game policy – that anyone critical of scientology is fair game for abuse including violence. You can find his sci-fi books on Amazon – and science fiction is exactly what Scientology is. Hubbard claimed to have a Ph.D. from “Sequoia University” – a residential dwelling in Los Angeles which operated through a post office box and delivered mail order doctorates without exams, or attendance… Hubbard had no qualifications in psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, theology, or philosophy.
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Old Surfer Dude says
“Was this review helpful to you?” Damn right it was!
Jim says
FWIW In the 80’s my kin graduated from Apple School. Failed GED 2 or 3 times. Got 6 months of tutoring from a course supervisor to get the GED. THEN failed 3 successive semesters at a community college trying to pass the remedial courses in basic math, writing, and reading comprehension. Went to work at the bottom jobs.
Became successful in the real world as an adult in spite…..
Space cootie on Sherman's shoulder says
It would be really interesting to read some contributions to give us a better grip on the efficiency and results of Applied Scholastics and Delphi.Especially Delphi.From memory the bill was something like 50,000 usd.Half of the kids joined the sea org.Be interesting to benchmark them against other private schools.The bits and pieces I heard and saw were not so bad actually.Main point.Let us not become like scientologists who know everything about something is bad because someone told them so.Maybe Delphi is ok?Maybe not.
Infinitely More Trouble says
As of 2012, the room, board and tuition was approximately $42,000, which would not include airfare, allowance and incidentals. I graduated from Delphi Oregon in 1986. The education was pretty un-preparatory for a life outside of Scientology. I ended up working for the school for four miserable years. The only reason I didn’t join the Sea Org was because my sister had already joined — and then promptly left — and I knew SO recruiters would promise anything, and deliver nothing.
Study Tech only works in Scientology. My friend who graduated with me that year actually asked his staff advisor how he would be expected to clear words and get mass during a history speech in college, such as his older sister had warned him about. (My friend was a wog, which was a more common occurrence at the school back then. Not so many wogs now.)
The faculty were stumped by this obvious question. The recommendation turned out to be: just take notes and apply study tech afterward. Which meant, of course, after the professor’s speech look up words in the dictionary and try to find pictures or examples of the subject — perhaps even in a textbook.
You know, kind of like any college student would already do.
When I break down the essentials of Study Tech, I find that they are obvious. Every student should know how to use a dictionary. Every student should be able to give or get real world examples of their materials. Every student generally studies things one step at a time. That’s how education works. The only innovation Hubbard introduced was to turn all of these obvious activites into sacraments, whereby students are convinced that the only reason they are able to learn is because they followed prescribed actions. The act of learning becomes dependent on obeying what one man said. I think Hubbard created Study Tech to back up his claim that the Tech works 100% of the time when applied correctly. When the Tech doesn’t work, he had a backup system to keep people busy endlessly clearing words and making clay demos to keep them busy. Trying to apply such a rigid and uncompromising ruleset to learning in the real world only sets up a student for failure.
Is it any wonder that Delphi graduates, with notable exceptions, turn out to be so unremarkable? A rigid mindset about the proper way to study has been so pounded into them that they cannot function outside of the system that uses that study method. The successful ones simply stop using study tech and just start studying as any normal student would. The unsuccessful ones join the Sea Org.
Aquamarine says
“The unsuccessful ones join the Sea Org”.
I was actually told that a few years ago by an OT in good standing.
Space cootie on Sherman's shoulder says
Thanks Trouble.The study tech is pretty moronic.
Be fun if you could post an article with some stats observations.
In 35 or so years the combined Delphis et al must have turned out say 150 students a year.Say 5000 students.Since these kid had intelligent parents otherwiseyou cannot pony up the fees you would expect some notable people in this group.I only of the earthlinkguy.
Infinitely More Trouble says
150 graduates? Ha! They wish. I was in a graduating class of 13. The combined high school graduates from all of the schools (mostly Oregon and Los Angeles) is 25 in a good year. There have been a bit more than 500 Delphi graduates since 1983.
That’s all.
As you said, Sky Dayton co-founded Earthlink. As well, his wife, Arwen Dayton (née Larson) wrote some successful sci-fi books. She was also the daughter of the headmaster.
A few other graduates achieved some financial success. Mostly, they came from already financially successful families. What’s remarkable is all the stories I heard about so-and-so who had dropped out of college or worked some odd jobs — and then ended up either working at the school or, more likely, for the Sea Org. And then there were the graduates who went straight into the Sea Org. At least 40%. So, something like 60% of all Delphi graduates end up in the Sea Org or at the School itself (so many graduates working at the Schools!).
Four years at the school is an easy $150,000 (and inevitably much more than that with their endless fundraising). Successful graduates must unlearn their rigid study habits to succeed in the real world. A Delphi education is literally an impedance to success.
Gus Cox says
One of the recent graduates was listed in their mag as “matriculated to the Hubbard College of Administration.” Bwaaaa ha ha. College, my ass. The Hubbard “College” sends emails about how to choose a college etc. trying to position their bullshit with real colleges and the Fatman’s idiocy with a real business degree.
Anyway, when I saw that I had to laugh – there goes $150,000 worth of private school tuition room and board down the crapper. The Hubbard “College” doesn’t even require a high school diploma! The only test required for admission to this farce is whether you have the $52K ! to pay for their worthless unaccredited bullshit “diploma.”
I think the main Delphian school in Oregon has fewer clam kids in it these days though, but that’s just a seat of the pants guess. I think they had to expand beyond the scientology jerk circle to survive – there aren’t enough rich clams left to spend that kind of money on their kids especially after having been pillaged by the IAS and Idle Morgue regges.
freebeeing says
Dear Quinn,
Stop pinching yourself all night. HCO knows what you’re really doing – stroking. Your O/W write-up is expected on the Ethics Officer’s desk by 2:00 pm today. Be sessionable.
And no, I’m not auditing you, we’ve got a special sec-checker from Int just passed personally by COB himself to ensure you’re getting maximum benefit from your ethics program.
ML,
John Nowhacking
Dir I & R
I Yawnalot says
What a relief to see Michael Chan back on the plate hitting homers.
His never ending slugging it out with all those evil reactive beckonings. Like having a life, nice home, car, a career, wonderful spouse, kids doing well etc are all overcome if you attend his limited seating spectaculars. Learn what your money can really do, see it as-is before your very eyes. Let Michael whisk away those chains and barriers and become mind melded with his thickening dynamics as you feel the freedom surging through you as you give, give and then give some more. Become a true OT, forged from the cauldron of prison life here on Earth and rise up with Michael breaking the shackles. It’s all possible this very moment, simply by giving money. Give Miscavige a buddy he can be truly proud of (quick, before the next bus comes along).
Can’t you just taste it?
Michael Chan… sets a standard yet to be realized by mere mortals. Free fridge magnet of a Michael Chan facsimile with every donation!
freebeeing says
The Saint Hill PLAYGROUND is the final component of an ideal SO base? WTF?
A re-newed lake? What did they do – drain it and refill it? Oh and lose the hyphen, report to Qual for a retread of KTL.
Harvey says
I’m the happiest man in the world! My wife just gave birth to THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BABY GIRL!!!
First order of business of course is to get her on the Bridge to Total Freedom. I’m happy to announce our 3 day old girl has just started the Purification Rundown!
I’ve forwarded pictures to Mike of our darling girl sweating her little tush off in the sauna and hopefully he will post some of them. Watching her turn on past life sunburns and knowing as parents we’re doing the most important thing we can to ensure her eternity…..well there are no words. Thanks COB for your tireless efforts that are making all our dreams come true. And last but not least of course thanks to….what’s his name….it’s on the tip of my tongue…
Old Surfer Dude says
Think ‘fatso’ & you’ll get it….
Gimpy says
Some genuinely funny things here today, the l ron quote telling us not to criticize, is really wonderful when you see it from an outside perspective as Mike has pointed out.
The desperate plea to vote up dianetics, how well I recall my dismay at seeing online surveys on scientology related matters where 98% of the vote was negative and about 2% was diehards trying to convince eveyone scientology really isn’t an all consuming cult.
And finally the freewinds ‘briefings’ which are just an excuse to get you there, and put the more qualified individuals in front of an unrelenting regge determined to take your money and get you to the ship, where they can take you for even more money, and if you are really lucky press gang you into staying there.
freebeeing says
Ya know there is just something inherently wrong with the way scn does promotion. It’s so crass. No class. Yech. If you’re doing so fucking great you wouldn’t need to be shouting about it. It would be self-evident.
Old Surfer Dude says
The only thing self evident is their downward spiral into oblivion…
I Yawnalot says
Remember the 60s is a new look for Scientology. You guys just don’t appreciate just how far they have come. Where they are going has already been attained for most, we post here regularly or are busy with something completely different.
The next person who uses ‘self-evident’ in relation to anything regarding Scientology is hereby ordered to look in the mirror, and keep looking until that thought goes away. That’s about as close as self evident as Scientology gets.
Old Surfer Dude says
+1! ?
freebeeing says
World famous pie auction? Never even heard of the mission of the foothills. How exactly do you get a pie auction to become world famous?
Space cootie on Sherman's shoulder says
An epic earthshattering,universe stopping inflation of superlatives going on.Did I hear someone say desperate?
Old Surfer Dude says
By accidentally throwing a pie in the dwarf’s face…
Aquamarine says
Their Pie In The Sky is world famous.
thegman77 says
Business as usual, Mike….FAILING! The level of self denial of reality just seems to grow and grow and grow.
Old Surfer Dude says
But, I still get to be a Jedi Knight, right?
Aquamarine says
Right. The degree of delusional hyperbole is proportionate to the degree of failure. Each serves as and index for the other.
Space cootie on Sherman's shoulder says
I noticed that too.The dwindling numbers get compensatd by upping the hype which dwindles next times numbers.Funny how the people in charge of eternity cannot see past thursday 2 pm.
Old Surfer Dude says
OMG!!!!!!! I forgot that it’s Thursday!!! We only have a few hours left to make our stats!!! Quick, posters! Post something! 2:00pm is about to slap us in the face!!!
I Yawnalot says
Slapped in face stats – never thought of that. Straight up and vertical screaming graph to that dwarf inspired stat. Well done Dude, you are full of surprises!
Maybe it’s a process – a slap assist!
Old Surfer Dude says
Oh! If I had a dollar for every ‘slap assist’ sent my way, I’d be worth millions…