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Money, money, money

November 4, 2020 By Mike Rinder 75 Comments

I received this email recently, and the person was happy to have me publish it. This adds to the existing mountain of evidence of scientology worship of money and that they will do literally anything to get it. Dear Mike: Congratulations—the Fair Game podcast is great, as is your blog. On Sunday, Oct. 25, I received a stunned call from a pal who has a mammoth amount of Church of Scientology card debt, something like 17 different credit cards, plus refinancing of his vehicle, along with a second mortgage on his home. His mother co-signed for one or both these loans. This gentleman is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: fundraising, money, Scientology

What Is Needed?

October 18, 2020 By Mike Rinder 94 Comments

What is needed? You don't need to tune in to get an answer to this question. It is IAS Anniversary event month and there is no IAS event. They are scrambling... Money, money, money is what is needed. It’s the only thing that is ever needed. “We need to keep our 4th dynamic campaigns going that are helping billions of people every week... blah blah blah” Hubbard laid it out: MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MONEY. Scientology is exclusively about money. If an activity does not generate income it dies a very fast death in the scientology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: fundraising, IAS, L. Ron Hubbard, Tom Cummins

BIG BIG BIG **** BIG BIG BIG **** NEWS!!!!!!!!

September 17, 2020 By Mike Rinder 47 Comments

Surely, the ALL CAPS, asterisks, exclamation points and misspelled word signifies the announcement that the planet has been cleared? At least ideal Southern California? Or even just The Valley? After all, the magnitude of this news is no exageration [sic]... Alas, the 6X big news is that you can win and be awarded by handing us your money. Woohoo. What a thrill. You hand over the cash and we will not only "award" you, we will tell you that your money is worth twice as much, so you can be twice as proud! You get a $20,000 certificate and you only have to give us $10,000. Who could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Ideal Orgs Tagged With: fundraising, Ideal Orgs, ideal USA, Kathy Welch, valley org

The Largest Virtual Event in History

September 13, 2020 By Mike Rinder 39 Comments

Well, you may not "love" it.... But it is happening today and according to them it is not only huge -- bigger than the Oscars, the Emmy's or any other virtual event -- boy is it exciting. You get to hand over more cash for the 8 orgs that have STILL not gotten their new empty building open, nearly 20 years after this ridiculous "ideal org" program began. There's not a drop of hype to be found anywhere. If you want to see what you are missing out on, here it is: You really have to wonder if these people ever stop to think about what they are doing? They have had an "ideal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: fundraising, Ideal Orgs

All-American Hero

September 10, 2020 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

This guy is an "icon" and "all-American hero" because he has given some of his ill-earned cash to ideal org campaigns, but more so because he has persuaded others to part with their money. Who can forget his wacked out video on Tony Ortega's site: "You're going to pay this money fucking eventually"? It is an interesting microcosm of the crazy world of scientology that this is what is lauded.  He is a hero figure for scientology. The ONLY criteria for being a hero, humanitarian, icon, champion or any other title you can think of is giving money. While Hubbard said it was the "lowest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: fundraising, Ideal Orgs, Tom Cummins

Why Albuquerque?

August 12, 2020 By Mike Rinder 30 Comments

That is a question for which there are a few answers, but none of them are "this city wants scientology." The first answer is "COB wants it" -- so therefore it must be done. Scientology is no longer the kingdom of L. Ron Hubbard. Everyone knows you can't say that these building boondoggles are "what LRH wants". But that does not matter any more. After all, it's been Miscavige in charge of scientology for longer than Hubbard ran the show at this point. The second is "we always need new reasons to hand over cash, after all, that's what scientology is all about." Number 3 -- "It's Sea … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Ideal Orgs Tagged With: Albuquerque, Bill McCaffrey, COB, David Miscavige, fundraising, Ideal Orgs, Lesley McCaffrey

Money, Money, Money — the Scientology Mantra

July 23, 2020 By Mike Rinder 63 Comments

You have to hand it to Michael Lewis. At least he doesn't try to cover up by calling it "expansion" or "prosperity" or "getting at cause." He just comes right out and announces it is all about money. The Scrooge McDuck image I guess is how he sees the successful person in scientology. Someone with enough money to be able to afford it (which is accurate) -- or else it's an artist's rendition of David Miscavige doing what he loves most. He idiotically claims that he "thought people had somehow outgrown this subject." If you are a scientologist, it is impossible to "outgrow" this subject as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: David Miscavige, fundraising, Michael Lewis

Michael Chan Is Not Aging (Or Sleeping)

July 11, 2020 By Mike Rinder 69 Comments

This is a recent email from Dave Kushin who we have been hearing a lot from recently. For some reason (actually, it's for financial reasons - somehow he is making something out of this) he is promoting a seminar from the Chan Man. According to this promotion, this is about "aging" and how Mr. Chan only sleeps 2 hours a night and never has a bad day even though he is 60. The implication is that he has found, within the "tech" the answers to aging and not sleeping. Nobody else seems to have figured this out, yet they all have the same "tech" as Chan Man does. I guess he is just smarter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: Dave Kushin, fundraising, Michael Chan

Trolling Online Meet Up Groups

July 4, 2020 By Mike Rinder 44 Comments

Apparently this is the latest "successful pattern" for finding people who can be lured into scientology. The South Coast Mission -- one of the best missions on earth according to scientology, is apparently trolling on line "Meetup Groups" to find suckers who can have their "ruin" found and then be offered some scientology service to "help with that." This is the modern day version of "Flirty Fishing". Interesting that the person organizing this Zoom meeting is Tom Woodruff, disgraced former International Finance Director of CSI. This guy once controlled the money of scientology (at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: flirty fishing, FSM, fundraising, Online Meetup Groups, South Coast Mission, Tom Woodruff

Inane Letters from the Edge

July 1, 2020 By Mike Rinder 71 Comments

Long-time contributor Clearly Not Clear was the lucky recipient of a letter from St Hill. Odd, because Clearly lives in the US  and has never even been to St Hill, let alone taken any services there... But anyone familiar with scientology knows that Hubbard dictates that letters must be written every week. He says that the number of letters out is the controlling factor in the amount of income (and size not quality is what's important -- an idea that has been scrupulously applied in scientology orgs all over the world) and the second datum "an org is in complete control of their letters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: AOSHUK, Clearly Not Clear, Letter Reg, Letters Our, St Hill

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