My oh my -- trying to smear lipstick on the IAS pig. Clearly, the number of new members is plummeting. So, as with all things scientology, the answer is money. In this case, cut the cost of the membership to try to get more. But if the cost of admission of $500 is too high -- these people are NOT going to be able to be scientologists. You cannot buy anything of significance in scientology for $500. So, they just want NUMBERS and they clearly believe that if they charge less they are going to get more membership sign ups and annual renewals. But they are ignoring the most obvious … [Read more...]
Everything Takes Longer….
Saturday, time for Terra Cognita! Everything Takes Longer in Scientology Scientologists may be cause over Matter, Energy, and Space. But “Time?” I think that ability must be addressed on OT 11. I would be generous in stating that all targets set by the church take twice as long as they say they will. If management sets a target of ten hours...double, triple, or quadruple this number. If the Director of Processing or Director of Training says an auditing or training action will take eight weeks...change the word “weeks” to “months.” If church leader, David Miscavige—master of prevarication … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Rumor has it Regarded Being will return from hiatus next week. In the meantime, one of the earliest RB's which was I believe the introduction of "Podium Dave"... … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Africa's Winning Bet nobody realized that... including whoever wrote this. And what "historic victory" are they trying to be part of? That LRHED was written about Portland in the 80's. Seems they have a bit of a "comm lag" Epic It's always EPIC. And they got the Energizer Bunny or Energy Driver or something who is going to bring the lightning or something. The only important thing - do not forget your wallet. That's a lot of stuff Successful. Empowering. A party. Launch to Freedom and Ability. Open House. Phew... Freewinds … [Read more...]
STAAD Scientology Conspiracy Theories
This is another piece that appears on the STAAD site. They got me to go check it out this site with their silly boycott business.... Otherwise I probably would never have seen it. While nosing around I came across this amazing piece of work. According to this genius The Aftermath is a plot by.... BIG PHARMA! I wish I knew about this... I have put her full article below along with some of my editorial comments in red.... Scientology and Conspiracy: The Real Story Perhaps you’ve come across “the real story” about Scientology on your Facebook feed, television screen or on some tab … [Read more...]
The STAAD League Boycott
The Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAAD) League has been playing the victim card for a while now and have come up with a new tactic of orchestrating a letter writing campaign to advertisers on The Aftermath. You may recall their earlier "victory" of claiming to get copies of People magazine removed from the shelves of a Target store because Leah Remini was on the cover. It was a "huge blow for religious freedom" -- even though it almost certainly didn't happen -- but didnt do much for the concept of freedom of speech that scientology spouts as one of their … [Read more...]
WTH
The crazy disaster capitalism in the scientology world is a constant presence that never seems to take a break. As long as there are natural or man-made disasters in the world there is an opportunity for scientology to make some money. As I have pointed out many times before, they are not asking for money to send these out at COST, they are selling these with a large profit margin built into the price. And as I have also commented on: why isn't the IAS springing the $50,000 it would COST to do this mailing? They certainly have the money. Finally, how do they think this is going to … [Read more...]
L. Ron Hubbard and Adolf Hitler?
One of our regular contributors, Brian, provided this comment in response to the post about scientology comparing a Hollywood Reporter writer to Goebbels. I thought it deserved a wider audience. As they say, sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.... Well now, since we are discussing people influenced by Nazis and follow his Hitler’s philosophies — I present to you.... “But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repea … [Read more...]
Being Declared in Scientology… Kind Of
It's Saturday, time for some Terra Cognita... Being Declared in Scientology…Kind of “Being declared” in Scientology—short for “being declared a suppressive person,”—lets one know he or she is an evil, despicable, and degraded being, and that everyone associated with this person should disconnect from him or her immediately. LRH said an SP is someone who, many lifetimes ago, got squashed so severely that he or she took on the valence of his suppressor. He listed the characteristics of these people in HCOPL 7 August 1965, Suppressive Persons, Main Characteristics. “Nobody puts bab … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
RB is still on hiatus. Here is another early classic... … [Read more...]