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Archives for December 2020

An Open Letter to Church of Scientology by Mark Fladd

December 31, 2020 By Mike Rinder 32 Comments

  Mark Fladd appeared with his wife, Stephanie, on an episode of The Aftermath. They told part of their experiences with Orange County org. Good people, chewed up and spit out by the relentless money-grubbing. Of course, instead of making things right with them, scientology sought to smear them. Mark wanted to clarify some things and I am happy to have this forum available for him to do so.   Open Letter to Church of Scientology Clarifications and an update for the Public Record By Mark Fladd, ex-Scientologist | Riverside County, California | 2020   Introduction The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, The Aftermath Tagged With: Adam Whitworth, AOLA, Aryana Dangberg, Cathy Moore, David Miscavige, fundraising, irs, Karin Pouw, Leah Remini, Mark Fladd, Mike Rinder, Orange county org, Scientology The Aftermath, SRD, Stephanie Fladd, The Aftermath

Narconon Ojai Failing

December 30, 2020 By Mike Rinder 18 Comments

  A few things to unpack here. First, their "accomplishments" are that they "remained open." Typically, an organization like this would be touting inflated numbers of "lives saved from drugs" -- clearly, they had virtually none. Instead, they announce the "success" of their podcast? 194 episodes for 250,000 downloads over 3 years? This is impressive? I think not. Now that I know something about the podcast world, this is virtually nothing. Fair Game podcast exceeded those download numbers the first week on the air. But, let's not stop there. They put out 16 "stellar, informative" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Narconon Tagged With: Gerald Posner, Marshall Faulk, Narconon Ojai, Pam Bondi, PPP Loan

Canada – The First Ideal Country?

December 29, 2020 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

Hold on a second. The scientology definition of an "Ideal Country" is all EXISTING ORGS with "ideal buildings"... This is what they push all the time. We need an "ideal USA" -- that does not mean an ideal org in every city. It doesn't even mean an ideal org in each State. It simply means, all the orgs that ALREADY EXIST need to have new buildings purchased for them (or in the case of Toronto and Los Angeles, simply renovate the one they have -- which STILL isn't done in Toronto). Scientology hasn't opened a new org anywhere in recent memory. By this definition, the following COUNTRIES … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Canada, Ideal Orgs, toronto org

Regraded Being

December 28, 2020 By Mike Rinder 44 Comments

Special Podcast Note Due to the holidays, there is no new podcast tonight. Gives you a chance to catch up on any you may have missed or go back and listen to an earlier one again... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Regraded Being Tagged With: regraded being

Merry Christmas

December 25, 2020 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

For those who celebrate Christmas, have a wonderfully enjoyable time with friends and family today and over the weekend. For those who don't celebrate this occasion, have a wonderful day too. Really, no excuse is needed to have a wonderful day! And of course, there is always one thing to be joyful about. You are not locked inside the scientology bubble and can think for yourself. The greatest freedom anyone can ever attain. I will likely leave this post up for a couple of days, and take a break myself this weekend. Regraded Being will be here with a new classic on Monday.   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mike Rinder Tagged With: Merry Christmas

Holiday Funnies

December 24, 2020 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

A special edition of the Funnies just for the holidays. There is an apparently endless stream of "Holiday" promotion -- though scientology of course does not recognize Jesus as anything but part of the "R6 bank."   Virtual Freewinds Wouldn't you like to be at the Freewinds for the holidays? So, to entice you to go there, they are holding a virtual concert in Los Angeles? WTF?   Virtual Hawaii And the point of this? Strictly a fundraiser obviously. What does Bodhi Elfman have to do with Christmas? Or Hawaii? Or anything at all?   Well, they are going to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Alexandria Gaffney, Aruba, Bodhi Elfman, CC Int, Christmas, Dave Petit, Freewinds, Hawaii, Ideal Orgs, Jim Bridgeforth, Kate Ceberano, L. Ron Hubbard, tampa org, Tom Cummins

Scientology Responds for Tom Cruise

December 23, 2020 By Mike Rinder 29 Comments

How odd is this. Scientology is speaking as the PR representative of Tom Cruise. While he and his PR people remain silent. The man who laughs in the face of suppression and can confront and shatter any SP is apparently unable to confront some bad media. It would seem David Miscavige was upset that "nobody was coming to the defense of Tom" and so ordered his minions to put out a statement. To me, this is further indication that the whole thing was a publicity stunt that blew up in their faces. Or at the very least, Miscavige had praised Cruise for his "tough guy" image and told him he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Cinema Blend, COVID-19, Jessica Rawden, Leah Remini, Scientology, Tom Cruise

Episode 21: Listener Questions Part 3

December 22, 2020 By Mike Rinder 32 Comments

Today's episode is Leah and I responding to questions from listeners.   We cover a lot of things in more detail than we had time to do on The Aftermath, and in many cases even more details than I can find the time to write about on the blog. A few documents we mentioned would be made available here and at fairgamepodcast.com.   Scientology's COVID response: Tony Ortega has extensively covered scientology's response to the pandemic. Here is the Miscavige's briefing document where he calls COVID 19 a "planetary bullbait."     Here are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: 7 year old girl, COVID-19, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Donald Trump, healing, illnesses, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Lynne Patton, Mike Rinder, Pam Bondi

The “Glory” of Scientology’s Dead “Enemies”

December 21, 2020 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

A couple of days ago, Tony Ortega posted a lengthy "success story" from a woman who had recently completed "Super Power." Of course, it was over-the-top bizarre, but one paragraph stood out: While on the rundown two major SPs (2.5 percent) connected to my dynamics received their bitter end. One died in an unexpected way, and the other got put in a psychiatric hospital by his best friend. This filled me with the glory of justice. I doubt there is a more clear-cut example of the callous disregard for human life into which scientologists are inculcated than this. Many former scientologists, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, L Ron Hubbard, Special Feature Tagged With: Auditor magazine, enemies, fair game, L. Ron Hubbard, Manuela Saenz, R2-45, Racket Exposed, Responsibilities of Leaders, Science of Survival, Scientology, Simon Bolivar, Super Power, Tony Ortega

Recent Podcasts with Jon Atack

December 20, 2020 By Mike Rinder 3 Comments

I have done a couple of podcasts with the wonderfully informed Jon Atack. The second of them went live yesterday and Tony Ortega included it on his site. I am including it here also, as well as the earlier one, as I think the discussions are illuminating. Jon is such a wealth of information. And has such good takes on all things scientology. Leah and I are planning on talking with Jon on our fair Game Podcast soon. That should be a treat. This is the most recent episode of Jon's podcast. I recommend you subscribe to his YouTube channel too:   This is the one we did about 6 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Jon Atack, Mike Rinder, podcast, Tony Ortega

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