Patter is a term used in scientology to describe a script that is given to people to say out loud. According to Wikipedia: Patter is a prepared and practiced speech that is designed to produce a desired response from its audience. Whoever wrote this has a misunderstood word. He or she thinks the word is "pattern" because it seems to make more sense to them. It might be a "pattern" if it was an "outline" of things to say. In fact, this is a verbatim script. Learn how to parrot this, call enough people who tell you "Yes, put me down again as a confirmed for the damn event and tell … [Read more...]
The Way To Happiness — Really?
Next in the ongoing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier posts here: A Story, Auditing: a PC's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Knowledge Report, Integrity, The Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. The Way to Happiness – Really? Ron Hubbard compiled twenty-one precepts into a book called The Way to Happ … [Read more...]
Dealing With SP’s
Every scientologist has done the PTS/SP Course. Most good scientologists have done the course more than once and have been sent to retread it when they are deemed to have become "PTS" again -- in itself pretty good evidence the course does not work. But then again, this is one of the most often used explanations as to why the "tech didn't work" -- "you cannot make/lose your gains if you are PTS." And even though the graduate of this course has "mastered the tech" of how to handle suppression and SPs, they do not then get to choose who they may or may not be connected to -- they are told by … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Thursday Funnies
Someone commented last week that this would be the 100th edition of Thursday Funnies.... And I think that is correct based on the numbering of the link. \ Quite a centenary. And we have a lot of funnies for today. It must be noted that these weekly funnies would not be possible without the support of many who forward the information to me each week. Tampa Has No Speakers How bizarre - this org is nearly "double SH Size" and they don't have anyone to deliver a Tone Scale lecture other than importing a mercenary blood sucker. More strange quotes... Many scientologists … [Read more...]
Freewinds Desperation
Things are desperate aboard the Moneywinds it seems. All those spectacular seminars by the world's most voracious "FSM's" do not appear to be doing the trick. Nor the "how to make money" seminars from CO FSSO and her crew who cannot generate enough income to buy the fuel to sail out of port. So, they are trying to get people there with give-aways. It tells you everything you need to know about the state of the "Top of the Bridge" of scientology that they have to try and entice people to get others to arrive -- with a SPECIAL AWARD for OT VIIIs that can be conned into going to the ship to … [Read more...]
A Lone VM Answers The Call
Once again, Scientology's own "PR" exposes the embarrassing truth about the scientology world. Though they repeatedly boast having "the largest private relief force on earth" (or some variation of this) that attend every major disaster, somehow apart from the photo ops the church puts out, nobody else in the world seems to know anything about them or notice their presence. That is because they are far from being a "force." They are a ragtag collection of people who are rounded up, persuaded to pay their own way to a disaster site, given a t-shirt and expected to pose for … [Read more...]
A Story
Next in the ongoing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier posts here: Auditing: a PC's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Knowledge Report, Integrity, The Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. Once Upon a Time Once upon a time there was a Treasury Secretary in a Class 5 Org located somewhere in the United S … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
It's not a Freewinds event - so there is no $30 fee OMG... Battlefield Earth NOT a NY Times bestseller again... Remember when they announced it? But it has NOT appeared on any bestseller list this year. A Verbal Tech Party? Back in the day, nobody would have DARED write something like this. Labor for Valley Just a few more years of blood, sweat and tears to go before they have a larger, emptier building like all the others... Survey Data Someone filled this in... Honestly. The International OT Boom Between AOSHUK … [Read more...]
The Life of L. Ron Hubbard
This is a fascinating insight into the world inside the scientology bubble. This image was posted to a scientology message board on FaceBook. Shortly after this screenshot was taken, the group's admin asked that it be taken down as it didn't have "Issue Authority." Despite all the LRH biography briefings, websites, press releases and books in today's official scientology scripture there is no mention whatsoever anywhere that L. Ron Hubbard even had a wife (or 3) or any children. One of the reasons the Briefing Course is no longer available is that the lectures have not b … [Read more...]