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  OT 7 Objectives completion How sad that he still has so much charge after spending hundreds of thousands to get to OT VII, and now he is finding the solution on an objective co-audit.   Do Your Ideal Org Status We need some "bigness" here, big checks that is. This vernacular of "do your status" is really weird.   Let me guess... All of the psychotic madmen who shoot dozens of people are insane. And thus they were seeing psychiatrists? And/or were on psych drugs... Of course, scientology refuses to deal with such people. But can you imagine if an OT 7 … [Read more...]

Scientology The Aftermath S2 E10: the Aftermath

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True to form, BEFORE the show even aired, scientology had their smears up about Chantal Dodson and Sherry Ollins. These people literally have no shame. Nor sense. But they seem to have a limitless supply of bullshit. They begin with a clever Halloween theme: "Just in time for Halloween, Leah Remini and A&E continue their religious witch hunt."  That is an award-winner. They opt for broad generalities, Chantal "ranks among the most ludicrous and transparently false yet. To say they never happened is a gross understatement. Chantal’s absurd claims fit the modus operandi for Rem … [Read more...]

Amsterdam Ribbon Yank

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This weekend, appropriate for the Halloween season, Captain Miscavige performed a ribbon yanking ceremony on his latest haunted house. In a nation with just a small handful of active scientologists, he presided over an intimate gathering to officially open this 79,000 sq ft monster. Every scientologist in the country can have their own room in this place. Even their official website photo only claims 1300 attendees and with wide angle lenses and every other trick they know they still cannot make it look even passingly impressive... And this is with 7 chartered planes worth of people … [Read more...]

Flag OTC News

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Some interesting information here. Plenty of evidence things are not all peachy at Flag. Just a few comments: They are trying to double the number of IAS members by reducing the annual membership fee and sending a mailing to everyone who has ever bought a book! Ha. Good luck with that. Although they disclose the REAL intent -- to get people to higher statuses and that is ONLY about money. THE most successful Clear event yet had 30 attendees. Yes, 30. And they then go on to say there are more Clears than any other case level... There are less than 50,000 people on earth who … [Read more...]

IAS Hype

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Time for some IAS hype about the annual Celebration. It's slightly dated, but a bit of fun nevertheless. They spin themselves into such a frenzy all I can think about is the old cartoon of the Tasmanian Devil. This is what the town criers who try to excite the sheeple remind me of... Everything is SO over the top. It is like an insane tornado of superlatives and absurd descriptions of their minimal accomplishments it is like a parody. Here is the poster: How many times have they said "The time is now"? 50? 100? The "torch is lit" -- "we are on the launching pad", "the … [Read more...]

Education, Memory, Grains of Sand, and Scientology

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It's SaTerraday. Education, Memory, Grains of Sand, and Scientology How we learn doesn’t jive with LRH’s paradigm of the human mind. Since Ron was so “stats-oriented,” let’s start with the numbers. He said we’ve all lived for quadrillions of years. By multiplying this number times all the pictures in all our memories over this period, we come up with an amount greater than the number of grains of sand on Earth. Whoa.   Terra Math One quadrillion (ten to the fifteenth power, 10^15, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) times (x) one trillion memories per lifetime (completely arbitrary figure) … [Read more...]

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Recovering Your Infinity of Future... So weird. And this is apparently an "OT" doing this at ASHO...     The Future of Mankind... In the hands of these guys? Oh shit, that's not good.     SUMP at work... But they seem a little late. 2016 has been our best year ever? I thought we were in 2017 now?     The one and only... This is one of the guys who ran away when he saw me at the airport. Confronting and shattering credit cards perhaps?     On skype... OMG, what a privilege. Perhaps he will explain the secret to his … [Read more...]

Scientology’s Massive International Expansion… cough, cough

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First things first, the blog... Nathan Rich provided a layman’s explanation of what happened to the blog over the weekend – I asked him to make it so even I could understand it: Here's how it works and what the evidence is. If you have a computer you can make it do stuff, like host a website -- but then you have people who need access to those websites. But you don't want them to have access to your system, because you're the owner, not them. There's different ways to handle this. The normal way smaller hosting services do it is by using “jails” -- they set up many sort of "sub-en … [Read more...]