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Documented Way to Happiness Campaign Fail

November 20, 2022 By Mike Rinder 17 Comments

I think scientologists are losing braincells with each WTH booklet they distribute. Lydia Hopwood is announcing "proof" of the effectiveness of handing out WTH booklets and attaches statistics from the LA PD as "evidence".... Unfortunately, what she attaches proves the exact opposite (but is a great illustration of how scientology creates the illusion they are "helping the world" as I describe below). If it were the WTH booklets that caused the reduction in violent crime in the Foothill area, then what is being done in Pacific/Southwest/West LA as that is apparently far more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Confront and Shatter, LA PD, Lydia Hopwood, Stefani Hutchison, way to happiness, WTH

LA WTH

May 24, 2022 By Mike Rinder 74 Comments

This "campaign" to stuff mailboxes in LA with copies of The Way to Happiness continues full speed ahead. The level of delusion on display here is mind-boggling. These people have been convinced to believe, in violation of everything observable to them, that putting a booklet in someone's mailbox is going to have miraculous effects: "just imagine the sanity spreading to beings who need theta and direction in their lives!" I get tons of "mail" like this -- pamphlets, leaflets, booklets, fliers, magazines etc etc in my mailbox every day. It all goes straight into the garbage without a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Ghislain Viau, Lydia Hopwood, way to happiness

Reduce Crime and Homelessness

January 5, 2022 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

The big hype about "getting WTH into the hands of everyone in Sunland" is apparently not exactly that. Rather, it is sending out a "promo mailing" to addresses in Sunland. The percentage of people that throw this sort of thing straight into the garbage is very high. I never open 99% of these sort of generic mailings and I am sure I am not in the minority. But for the few who do -- can you imagine the disappointment of finding out that the pitch for reducing homelessness and crime is to buy copies of the Hubbard WTH booklet? Set aside the fact that the booklet is a childish rendition … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Crime, Homelessness, Sunland, way to happiness, WTH Fdn

The “Godfathers of Good”

July 17, 2021 By Mike Rinder 48 Comments

Ah, the humility of these gentlemen is a sight to behold. It is an unfortunate side effect of being a scientologist that you believe you know all there is to know about anything and everything as long as you have read something Hubbard said about it. This gives you the right, obligation almost, to dish out advice on all sorts of subjects simply because you are a scientologist and therefore have received the wisdom of L. Ron Hubbard. With the full certainty of a brainwashed zealot, you can pass on such wisdom to others as an "expert" no matter the topic. These 4 are experts in the subject … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Way to Happiness Tagged With: Arte Maren, Bruce Wiseman, Rohn Walker, way to happiness, WTH

Begging for WTH

July 10, 2021 By Mike Rinder 29 Comments

  In typical scientology fashion, the WTH IC Los Angeles Org is offering "free" WTH booklets as part of trying to ingratiate themselves with this community. Of course, NOTHING is free in scientology, and this is a perfect opportunity to raise some more money! Though 200 booklets printed on their internal printing press would cost them a few dollars (just the cost of the paper itself) they are demanding that the full price of a $1 per booklet be "donated" so they can give these things away. They don't mention the fact that WTH will make a handsome profit on this - like 90 cents for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: fundraising, LA org, TWTH, way to happiness

“Children’s” Dumbed Down Way to Happiness

July 7, 2020 By Mike Rinder 43 Comments

You have to wonder "Why?" The Way to Happiness is about as simplistically written as anything could be. It's been dumbed down ever dumber to attract the under 6 year olds? And it has "colorful cartoons" drawn by the same person who draws the anti-psych cartoons for CCHR it seems... So, I tried to go to the website listed on the promo piece and the address does not exist. I check on Amazon and another children's book called Making Good Choices is all that shows up: I did eventually find this version. I checked a few pages. They HAVE dumbed it down, though the concepts are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Kids, way to happiness, WTH

The Non Religious Moral Code

November 4, 2019 By Mike Rinder 66 Comments

This is an odd one. But it’s another example of the falsehoods pushed out by scientology on a routine basis. Scientology tells people the Way to Happiness is “non-religious” - the book doesn’t even have Hubbard’s name on it except in tiny print on the back. It is something used to gain footholds in society and the theory (like with Hubbard's fiction) is that when people find something good or enjoyable about it, they then discover what else Hubbard has written and want to read that. No matter what the PR statements, the ultimate objective is always the same. Get more people using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Flag, OSA, TWTH, way to happiness

Be Kind

October 16, 2018 By Mike Rinder 69 Comments

The people desperately in need of following this advice are scientologists themselves. The lack of kindness demonstrated by scientology in destroying families and relationships is known by the world. It goes on every day. Their approach to anyone that does not agree with them and speaks their mind is equally renowned: Destroy them utterly. Cost them their jobs. Find what they are seeking to protect and threaten it in order to silence them. Kindness? Hardly. When you "discuss the precepts" perhaps you could also discuss how you plan to implement them in your own group. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Scientology, way to happiness

What Happened to the Way to Happiness?

May 16, 2018 By Mike Rinder 113 Comments

Before the "Colombian Miracle" where, according to scientology, distribution of The Way to Happiness reduced crime in Colombia by 90%, there was the Venezuelan Phenomenon -- the Way to Happiness literally "saved the nation." Two of the earliest IAS Freedom Medal winners were awarded their bauble for getting the WTH used by Government agencies that "saved the nation" blah blah. Then Ruddy Rodriguez and others followed, each having accomplished incredible feats of distributing TWTH to even more miraculous results. I would bet there have been more IAS medal winners from Venezuela than any other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Venezuela, way to happiness

The Safest City

February 19, 2018 By Mike Rinder 96 Comments

This is more of the scientology bubble crazy on display. They have been convinced that handing out copies of the Way to Happiness "reduces crime" and "brings calm" to neighborhoods. Why do they believe this? First is because L. Ron Hubbard proclaimed this to be the case. He determined that problems in society all stemmed from the lack of a moral code, and that by distributing HIS it spread calm and peace and bring about miraculous changes. And of course, if L. Ron Hubbard says not enough smoking is the true cause of cancer, that LSD is stored in the fatty tissues of the body or that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, Way to Happiness Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, public relations, Scientology, way to happiness

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