Well, no surprise to see the Diminutive One show up in S. Africa for the perfunctory ribbon yanking of a second “ideal” building to add to the empty Joburg org just down the way…
Why would the “ecclesiastical leader of the scientology religion” fly 12,000 miles to South Africa two days before Christmas and schedule the “New Year’s” event for 16 December, two weeks before New Years?
Best answer: because he planned a little vacation for himself in S. Africa. What a great opportunity to make a trip to the furthest reaches of earth, away from the pesky media, courts and whistle-blowers that keep him locked inside his compounds and afraid to step into public view without security guards, barbed wire fences and rows of bushes and trees to keep the “wogs” at bay.
When I originally saw the date scheduled for the New Year’s event I suspected it was so Dave could do something over XMas. Then when I saw the Joburg N opening scheduled for 23 Dec my suspicions were confirmed. Remember, Dave didn’t make the trip to open Pretoria ideal org (the only other ones he didn’t ribbon-yank are Moscow and Berlin — he is afraid he might be detained if he visits those countries). Apparently Pretoria didn’t coincide well enough with his social calendar.
Interesting (and somewhat satisfying) that he has to go to such lengths to “escape.”
But back to the supposed reason for his trip. They gathered together the few hundred scientologists that remain in S. Africa (of course, scientology claims it was 1500 –the photos on their own website like the one above — tell a different story). Even if they could round up 1500 people that would be pathetic given their oft-repeated quote about how this is where the next great civilization on earth is rising… And my, how the stature of the invited ribbon yankers has fallen. Back when he yanked the Jobur ribbon in 2004 (13 years and counting — still haven’t cleared their street, let alone neighborhood) there were actual officials in attendance. Now they scrape together whoever they can find that will agree to appear and publicly associate with scientology, even if nobody knows who they are… Must be demeaning for the leader of the fastest growing religion in the universe to have to associate with the riff-raff. In his mind, he should be being joined by the President and the head of the Supreme Court.
That picture tells a thousand words, but we could not overlook another Shermanspeak touch of genius concocted for this august occasion. Miscavige actually said this:
“Should anyone ask what it means to follow an LRH dream from ‘One Man, One Vote’ to One Nation, One Purpose and from African power to African pride and Africa forever to Africa alive, well, all you have to do is consider those words ‘eternally Africa’ and ‘endlessly Africa,’ because herein lies our Lion’s Gate to Infinity’s door.”
There is now a “Lion’s Gate” ushering the way to Infinity’s door which in turn apparently provides access to the Porch of Infinity. I think at the next opening we will hear about the Stairway to Infinity that leads to the Lion’s Gate, at the threshold to Infinity’s door guarding The Porch to Infinity.
I am sure Funny or Die, SNL, The Onion, John Oliver or someone is going to parody this sooner or later.
And finally, this bald-faced lie:
The opening of the new Church of Scientology Johannesburg North comes during a period of tremendous expansion for the religion with more than 60 new Churches of Scientology from Los Angeles to Tampa, London to Milan, Tel Aviv to Tokyo and Kaohsiung to Bogotá. Over the past decade, those openings have driven worldwide expansion for the religion to a rate surpassing the previous 50 years combined
They just keep claiming it and people inside the bubble (some at least) apparently buy it.
The first sentence is a complete lie. The number of scientology churches has DIMINISHED. Miscavige has closed and combined orgs into “ideal” buildings. There is LESS scientology now than when his ideal org program launched. And the “NEW” ones have been in Inglewood and Harlem in a very failed attempt to infiltrate African American society in the US, and in Taiwan. Period. Every other church of scientology has been hanging on since the 70’s (80’s at the latest)… The equation is: Old org moved to a new building = new church. Even the ORIGINAL scientology “church” in Los Angeles, the same one that has been there since 1954 is now one of the “new Churches” because they renovated the building they have been in since the late 70’s.
And as for “Over the past decade, those openings have driven worldwide expansion for the religion to a rate surpassing the previous 50 years combined” all I can say is: Hahahahaha. Provable Bullshit.
Another pertinent post highlighting the absurdities of this cult. But any reason I’m receiving this notification now in June 2018 when the posting was from Boxing Day 2017?
hahahahaha provable bullshit is right! Except for those in the bubble. I know some of those in the bubble actually pity those of us who are “out” in the cold wog world with the big bad gov’t and all those SP’s while we are going down into the muck for endless future of hell and wrath. hahahahahaha! That’s provable bullshit too.
Wonder if he knows that denial is a river in Egypt ……….
At least we are not robbed of our life savings and more like the parishioners of the cult of Scientology are. When we retire we will have smething to live on. Those in the bubble can pity us like I pity them for believing in this scam.
Since the wee person is so into scuba diving how about a dive off the coast , I hear the water is a bit nippy if you know what I mean …. hint , hint , nudge , nudge , wink , wink
so glad to see you back on my Feed! keep up the good work!
I guess the next ideal org that the midget will be opening will be in Narnia. They have a talking lion there that can open gates to infinity by blowing on a tree and I guess that Miscavige needed something to read on his trip and it was Narnia.
Whatever makes him hard.
Magic mushroom infused chocolate really helps the grief come off.
Here is a part of a psychological profile created on someone describing their modus operandi:
“His primary rules are: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”
Holy Cow, who is this “someone”, Wynski?
Herr Schicklgruber. El Tubbo copied much of his ideas apparently.
Ah! Makes sense.
Are Miscavige and Trump twins????
The fate of Scientology was covered in Milton’s “Paradise Lost”. Hubbard calls himself Lucifer in the role of the “light bearer”. In occult mythology, Lucifer loses his “light” at the moment of rebellion. Sad to say Hubbard never even understood the occult. Scientology was “American trash”.
“But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her Temperance over Appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain,
Oppresses else with Surfet, and soon turns
Wisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Winde.
Know then, that after Lucifer from Heav’n
(So call him, brighter once amidst the Host
Of Angels)
Fell with his flaming Legions through the Deep
Into his place,..”
The doors are closing in on Miscabbage oops I mean Miscavige, he can run but he can’t hide, soon they will get him. I do hope he does get detained in Africa. He will know what it feels like to be treated the way the Sea Org were treated in RPF on those who dared to question this monster
I hope Miscavige gets to feel what he dished out.
When I entered Scientology in January, 1972, Hubbard was sixty years old. Hubbard died over thirty years ago. Scientology had its last chance in the late 1970’s when Flag opened and tens of thousands of us celebrated in the streets of Clearwater. Scientology died when OT VIII was released in 1988. Miscavige then found his billion dollar base and made Scientology into his own personal religion. Rome fell after the buildings were decorated in gold and marble. Hubbard suffered the same fate that he openly mocked about other organizations.
yes indeed George,
Hubbard said something I heard second hand, it was in the Blue R&D volumes that where being released, a new marketing gimmick by DM. the last one I believe volume 13, but I forget where this comes from.
IIRC, it went something like a spider casts his web to get his prey, but in the end the spider is also trapped in his own web.
While meditating yesterday, a Jehovah Witness broke in to ask if I was praying. She then went on to tell me about the “Pagan Trinity”. She cast her net upon what she saw, but in the end was trapped in her own web.
The nerve! How rude. If she had asked me if I were praying I would have frozen her with my best WASP blank look and said, “And this would be your business because…?”
Thanks for the reply. It makes me feel better about this.
I tried reading the Lion’s Gate sentence several times, but I stiil end up thinking “What?” Then, I get dizzy. However, I do like the idea of DM walking through a Lion’s Gate, assuming there are actual lions waiting for him on the other side.
“Over the past decade, those openings have driven worldwide expansion for the religion to a rate surpassing the previous 50 years combined”
Well, if the ‘worldwide expansion’ is the expansion of net worth and ‘a rate surpassing the previous 50 years combined’ is the attrition rate of membership, that could be a true statement.
Lion’s Gate is a media company in Santa Monica that produces and distributes films. The reference in his speech is Miscavige trying to steal prestige by association, since his own state-of-the-art film studio has yet to produce anything of value.
Dave,
Boxing Day Update:
What is taking so damn long to pack up your watered down version of Winter Wonderland in the parking lot of your Information Center on Hollywood Boulevard? Knowing that you are out of town, did all of your minions assign themselves a condition of Couch Potato? As the few uninitiated walk by, they lift their smartphones to get the scoop on your buddy Hubbard. Within seconds, they scurry off to the real tourist attractions near the corner of Hollywood and Highland.
Your ASI building has all of the curtains pulled except for a small opening in the EDs office. Is it possible they are hoping that Leah might show up, wanting to rent some offices for the filming of some of her world famous episodes, before Thursday at 2pm?
Off Topic:
Cult political puppet Joy Villa is suing Corey Lewandowski for sexual assault, alleging that at some Republican fundraiser Lewandowski smacked her on the butt.
Note to Joy: Very well done on taking a page from Trump’s PR playbook to extort media attention. So true that it doesn’t matter what they say about you so long as you get the most attention. Also true that there will be a number of imbeciles who will vote for you because of this. Excellent, Joy, excellent!
That said, if what Lewandowski did actually bothered you, if getting a couple of smacks on the ass from a Trump flack has truly offended you, I suggest you think of it as a drill and an excellent gradient for what you can expect to receive when or if you meet Lewandowski’s boss. The Orange One will have no back off letting you know exactly what he thinks of you and your “support”. And don’t forget to have your MAGA dress he makes his move.
Last but not least, don’t feel bad or cheap, Joy. Greatest good, and all that.
I sure wish that some Demo here would post something regarding Hillary’s ACTUAL crimes during her long term stint as a government “servant”. Joy is a twit (love that Brit word), no doubt, but hardly in any significant class. My word to her would be a simple “why didn’t you report it when it happened?”. She’s no different than most politicians – on BOTH sides of the aisle. Grab attention when you can.
Peter, FYI,
Joy Villa, before boarding the Trump Train, was a Bernie Sanders acolyte. Don’t believe me, check it out yourself.
My statement above was not political.
Joy Villa is not political. She got on board with Trump because her cult told her to! She’s a Democrat!
Once Bernie was toast she got her name in the headlines by wearing a MAGA dress. Trump, being Trump, thought this was great and tweeted about it. That’s the only reason anyone knows her name.
Now that Trump is President what she’s doing is a Scientology approved and supported gambit to become a Congresswoman on his coattails, a position for which she has no qualifications whatsoever.
I would say what I said about her if she were doing the same stuff for the other side, i.e. pandering to Hillary or any Democrat.
Try to get over defining and defending someone asinine who is a Trump supporter, including Trump himself, with…”but, but, but Hillary….Oh, but, but, Obama…” Obama is no longer the President and Hillary lost. Hillary is history. Obama is history.
Joy Villa is an attractive, badly dressed, empty-headed Scientology Cult Bimbo-Bot seeking attention and notoriety and capitalizing on our empty-headed President’s addiction to being publicly flattered.
Trump is what he is, Peter. You voted for him? Congratulations! You got him. Now live with him. He is what he is. I hope he does good things for you.
That said, my comment pertained directly to the none-too subtle machinations and ridiculous political aspirations of a Scientology Cult Robot. That’s all.
Well spoken.
They are in denial.
1500 people? A total lie. In another pic of the event (different angle) one can see quite a few black folk in attendance. Besides non-SCN black staff if there are 30 black public Scientologists in the entire country I would be surprised. South African SCN is notorious for locating black charity groups & obscure churches and busing droves of them into events to push the numbers up. They do this with the promise of free stuff (handouts) and free food – it works every time. I’d be surprised if there were more than 500 actual Scios at this event. The list of “dignitary” speakers are people I’ve never heard of – not one recognisable name. Joburg North org has always been a struggling, tiny obscure blip on the radar. Most times if they had 10 staff they were doing well. I personally never attended an event at that org that had more than 50 people – generally, they always combine their events with the main Joburg org because they simply cannot pull the numbers enough to warrant the expense of holding their own events. If it weren’t for Duggan and his despicable child-trafficking “cash for kids” deal, this org would not have opened in a million years. I give it 2 years and it will be a ghost building limping along towards oblivion once again.
I agree with everything you said. On one of the other photos I saw native women in their traditional religious blue headdresses and white clothing. (Think they are from the Church or Zion). It is known that people have been bought in the past to attend events, don’t think this was any different.
Also ironic and a good laugh is that when you google the location, one of their “neighbours” are JvR Academy. JvR is a Psychology & other related services company. I used to work with them.
Like you I also didn’t recognise any of the “dignitary” speakers. I am wondering who CoS are thinking of “targeting”, taking into account the poverty and unemployment rate of SA (25-27%). Sure there are wealthy people, but the majority of the people are struggling and will not be able to afford the services/courses.
That’s my 2 cents.
I found Davey Miscavige’s words to be quite cromulent…
Remember, a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
I must admit, I never thought much about Scientology until I started watching your show. Then I started looking around. I have been coming to Miami for the past 36 years to visit my in-laws. On this trip I noticed a very nice new looking Scientology building right off US-1. It didn’t look like anyone was there but it’s a pretty building. I also remembered that back when I was in high school one of my classmates was trying to talk me into going to “church” with him. When I asked him what church he said Scientology and started to sing it’s praises. When he told me about the classes I didn’t think much of it till he said he had to pay for them. Even back then I’m looking at him like he has lost his mind. When I asked where he was getting the money for all this, remember he was a senior in high school at the time, he just said, “Oh I manage.” I found out later he was stealing from his parents!!!! But I guess that is the cost of clearing the planet. It’s all just sad and infuriating that this is allowed to go on. But I have no doubt, thanks to you and Ms. Remini and others, that the truth will out and a reckoning will happen.
The Gauteng Province Scientologists really did battle to scrape together all but the absolute die-hards and their aging, uneducated kids for this event.
In the official photos the second and saddest yanker (behind the little orange American yanker) mortgaged his home to the hilt to get the Pretoria Ideal Morgue finished.
South African Scientologists must have the dubious honour of being the dumbest! They all now live within a 50 kilometer radius of THREE empty ideal orgs (and a long-deserted Test Centre in downtown Joburg AND of course that enormous, empty Castle)
In an effort to right the wrongs of the past, South Africa has one of the world’s most advanced and balanced constitutions designed to protect all its citizens. However, you just can’t help stupid.
Gavin Potter used to tell a story about how Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is actually about Scientology and the Bridge to Total Freedom. His story involves Yvonne Gillham (Jentzsch) coming that close to getting those guys into the Celebrity Center in the early 70s.
As much as Scientologists love their LRH Standard Tech, they also love their rumors, verbal data and hidden data lines!
Well, there was SOME connection.
Susie Watson-Taylor (who ended up at ASI before dying of cancer) was one of Robert Plant’s girlfriends at some point…
Jimmy Page was fascinated with Alistair Crowley and collected everything he could related to Crowley. He even bought an estate owned by Crowley on Loch Ness in Scotland… you can’t make this stuff up. And of course, we all know LRH’s practicing of black magick and summonings, impregnations of the anti-christ, and all that crap.
BUT even Jimmy Page could sniff out the bullshit of scientology from a mile away. Smart man.
“And she’s buying a stairway to heaven”
And she’s buying a Bridge to Total Freedom.
buying can mean pay for or believe in, or both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwFQpRTwaP0
Didn’t we do both, we bought into it, the scam, the falseness, LOL
In the beginning of the song, he says words have two meanings
OK,I just googled it. Robert Plant said STH was written about a woman ” who got everything she wanted in life ,without giving anything back” . Doesn’t sound like Scientology to me ,LOL !
BTW, I saw Led Zeppelin debut this song live at Madison Square Garden.They introduced it as a song from their forthcoming album.
Then Plant and Page Sat on the edge of the stage with Page ,lightly picking his acoustic guitar.
The place went nuts yelling and booing.
My brother and I as well yelling,.
” We don’t want to hear a fucking Joni Mitchell song !!”.
Little did we all know.
I live in South Africa and didn’t even know that this Org is Ideal.
Considering that there are only 6 Scientology Orgs here, three of them are now Ideal and that’s half the country done!
Local Scientologists will need to brace themselves for some serious regging to get the last 3 done, for Tiny Fists to parade the first Ideal Country, to show that Scientology is not only effective but expanding!
Good luck to them with Cape Town. Once while on holiday down there I (koolade drinker as I was) went to Cape Town org’s New Year’s Event. I and my family of three made up half the audience, and we were out of there by about 8pm. Desperate times are ahead.
More like the “Back door stoop to Infinity.”
It’s just the, Back door stoop. Ain’t no infinity happening here.
“Over the past decade, those openings have driven worldwide expansion for the religion to a rate surpassing the previous 50 years combined” That line has been repeated in various forms for over 25 years. I guess DM thinks that if you repeat the party line long enough, people will eventually buy into it. And indeed, that is what the still ins have done. They quote that line to you any time they are challenged with facts of empty orgs and contraction. They have come to believe it.
Dan Sherman’s previous ultimate purple prose, aka word salad, aka word vomit:
>front porch of infinity
and his latest prose:
>Lion’s Gate to Infinity’s door.”
Of course if Sherman was honest, he would describe scientology as the:
toilet bowl of infinity.
Toilet Bowl of Infinity. Brilliant! I wonder how many members have been flushed?
OSD, some turds just won’t flush, or so the old saying goes…
Or the back porch to the outhouse, lol
Couldn’t help but sigh at my own instant response to your post, “or the back porch to the courthouse.” That’s where Scientology’s true freedom comes from, all bought and paid for.
A flushing toilet is a dwindling spiral into a shit-hole.
It appears that the wanker-yanker is back at it again.
Perhaps David Miscavige thinks a movie will be made about his life? The life of a coward, turned leader, holding other people responsible for his own overt acts.
I think David Miscavige cries inside for the miserable person he has become. He should refer to LRH tech then, it says:
“A being causes his own feelings”. 🙂
Yep, only three things Miscavige yanks… ribbons, necks of scientologists, and one other small item.
🙂
oh, you mean pencil dick.
DM ain’t no Dirk Diggler, although he tries, LOL
Hey lets have a Boogie Night!
Is Sherman invited or did he do wrong at Tom Cruises wedding! With Brooke.
Lawrence, if a film were to be made of Miscavige’s life my only regret would be that Al Pacino would by then be too old to play him. At 5’5″ a bit tall, otherwise perfect IMO.
Find some kid over at Disney. Perfect height and perfect look.
“… all you have to do is consider those words ‘eternally Africa’ and ‘endlessly Africa,’ because herein lies our Lion’s Gate to Infinity’s door.”
Well because you predicted it, Mike, I will give it to you: This reminded me of the SNL’s skit that spoofs, Scientology (Neurotolgy): “… the code, the code to the key, the key to the secret, the secret of space, it’s Neurotology.” Hilarious skit that’s not too far off from the truth of the bubble world that is scientology.
If anyone here hasn’t seen it, I highly recommend giving it a looksey. It’ll make you smile for sure.
Pretty soon, Miss Cabbage will be claiming scientologists can talk to octopi, like people in Neurotology can
“Truth” is whatever Davey Boy says; earlier, whatever Tubby said, no matter how it flew in the face of observable facts about the universe and his own prior “truths”. Don’t try to confuse their tiny little minds with facts or logic. Their beliefs, or their hallucinations, trump all that.
Meanwhile, this wouldn’t be the first time a”business” trip wound up being a grand vacation, all paid by tax-free “donations”
Is it really a donation when obtained under those sorts of duress which have been well documented. I’d call it something else, but the exact word escapes me
I know the words: “Grand Larceny first degree, and a partridge in a pear tree.”
Too bad there was nobody to sling buckets of “liquid pig excrement” at the pope and his posse of bodyguards like they did in Budapest.
Budapest doesn’t take shit from anybody.
But apparently they throw it
“…a period of tremendous expansion…”
Every time I read one of these Big Lies from the cult I feel amazement. Every time. Because I don’t have the nerve to lie outrageously like this. How does anyone? Seriously, this ability, or compulsion, or whatever it is, amazes me, no matter where, no matter who. How do they have the nerve?
Yes Aqua, it is amazing.
It’s why I call this “The Bubble”. They talk to THEMSELVES and they buy their own bs. And because they buy it, there are others on the periphery or newly entering the bubble that think “Well, if these people are certain it’s true, I guess it must be, nobody would tell such provable lies.”
Frankly, that is the modus operandi of every great scam that has ever been perpetrated. Scams (and sociopaths) rely on the instincts of good people who cannot contemplate that someone would simply LIE or do horribly evil things.
I hear you, Mike. You’re right, of course. Make the lie SO big that…Whew! Hard to confront, when you really look at it.
Mike, do you think DM clearly sees the writing on the wall or does he buy into his own bs in any way? Do you think he has an end game plan for the time that membership completely dries up?
Mike Rinder says – “Frankly, that is the modus operandi of every great scam that has ever been perpetrated. Scams (and sociopaths) rely on the instincts of good people who cannot contemplate that someone would simply LIE or do horribly evil things.”
I agree!
IMO, no sane person can lie as smoothly and convincingly as the micro führer. Only a sociopath or worse can do that well.
Menwhile, I’m in the middle of watching “All governments lie” on another screen. One of the early points made is that anyone in power of any sort must lie to maintain that position. (perhaps to obtain it, I suspect. ’tis interesting to watch the show ith the demented one in mind.
In Scientology there is lying drill. We all learn to lie really well. It’s all for the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics.
Aqua, go find yourself a policeman/woman and see if you can get them to tell you how well people lie and believe their own bs. They encounter it everyday.
I have a good mate (fishing buddy) who’s a senior constable/general duty/highway patrolman. Having a few beers with him is an experience in human wonderment when he opens up about his experiences of day to day life. What is a really scary though are the teenagers and even below in age he encounters and their response to being caught out lying. They could never pay me enough to be a copper.
I think the general honesty of most of the posters here being ex Scios is taken a bit for granted when compared to Scios believing they are doing the right thing by & for mankind etc. The perspective of how the human mind can vary in what is believed is pretty mind bogglingly broad, compared to the evidence presented. It takes a lot of effort to maintain composure sometimes but it’s often easier to simply turn your back and walk away.
The world at large is accelerating quickly into something I don’t think I fit into anymore.
Outrageous lies?? Not only does Scientology engage in that for fun, profit and new existences. But Scientology has taken it to a whole new level with “The Bridge”. Ha… Hubbard was right when he said, “the solution becomes the problem.” The Cof$ sure excels at giving us the mass on that!
Jere, BK, Yawn, thanks for helping me with this. I joke all the time about it but when you really look at it, its like, my mind keeps wanting to jump away. And if I’m doing this, wanting to not look at it – me, knowing what I know and with nothing to lose by looking at it, , I can only imagine how the Still Ins just make themselves believe it. The Still Ins, with all the leverage the cult has on them…it has to be much harder for them to deal with this then it is for me! And yet, really looking at it right now, its hard.
Yeah it’s tough. Hubbard burned the candle from both ends but ran a pretty good cult irreverent of the so called tech. The term, “still ins” can refer to many different mind sets that don’t bother to look. Geezers, a close look at business taxes and banking fees here within Aus reveals a cult like Govt/banker enforcement. But there really isn’t any alternative in the short term except “working the system” or going criminal,(heaven forbid! but the money’s better).
Scientology is an interesting study, but it doesn’t end there if not being duped is the goal.
Uh oh. Dan Sherman said “Lion’s Gate”. That was the company that released RELIGULOUS, a film that was rather unkind to Scientology.
Treason! 100 hours of amends! Cut off his mullet and make him write, “I will not embarrass COB with my incompetence” 100 times on the bathroom floor with a pen stuck up his…
His what? His what? Hey! Don’t leave us hangin!’
Kibble exit.
SNOOURT!
Well to be fair….most 5’1 men in peacock blue suits would stand out in a crowd….so I’m not sure Dave’s recognition would be the result of his ‘celebrity’
Chee:
most CHILDREN in peacock-blue clothes would stand out, even the 4’12 1/2 spoiled brat we’re discussing (and disgusted about.) The disgusting midget who seems to drink his weight in fine whiskeys monthly.
Yes, he might get a side glance. I’m talking about “isn’t that the pope of Scientology”, “isn’t that the Scientology guy who beats people up?” “Isn’t that the guy who made his wife disappear?”
Has he been recognized yet for his brutality yet?
Or, does he have a reflection in a mirror?
Attention to detail solves most things.
Mirrors break when he walks by.
Yawn and OSD, LoL!
On the subject of male height, I had an uncle who was 5’2″. He died at 68 from a sudden heart attack. But what a big man he was. A very big man, a prince of a man, was my Uncle. Kind and gentle, yet strong and tough when he needed to be. Generous. He took care of everyone – family, friends, neighbors, and had always done so from the time he was very young, and not only financially. His shoulders carried many burdens but he carried them manfully. People came to him to be advised and helped, just like a Godfather. But he was no mafioso. He was quite street smart and had plenty of common sense but was not “macho” in the show off sense. A true Godfather. It was just his personality to take care of people. As a little girl I could cry on his shoulder about some silly thing and he would listen like it was important and be very tender and soothing. I adored him; we all did, my mother, her sisters, other brothers, etc. Five feet two inches, and Italian, born in Italy, the eldest son of immigrants, a big guy, and a Godfather in the true sense of the word. No one thought of him in terms of his height.
David Miscavige could have been such a person as my Uncle Sal,in his position as the head of Scientology. Using the workable parts of Scientology to connect with people, to help them, be friends, look out for them. And with all the vast resources of the organization to create far reaching beneficial effects, what a tremendous amount of good he could have done. Its a shame, really. Seriously. What a waste.
A total waste, Aqua, he killed it. ?
Mike, good point that Davey needed a little break from all that wonderful publicity he gets in the US. I do think that on the streets of almost any city in America he would be recognized by the general public. It’s tough being a celebrity!
the disgusting midget probably wouldn’t be recognized outside of his cathedrals to incompetence and their immediate environs, and then only by SOME of his minions. IF he dressed in casual clothes, he might pass incognito, no one giving him a second look (other than the strange color of his skin.)
He could put on short trousers and a backpack and pass as a schoolboy!
Makes me wonder how likely or unlikely it would be for Miscavige to be recognized if, say, he were inclined to just dress down and walk around some urban area not LA. Not that he would, but if he did, if he just dressed down in ordinary jeans and a tee shirt, maybe a non-designer jacket, sneakers, etc., and just walked around SF or NY or Chicago, with no entourage, no fanfare, maybe with one or 2 others similarly dressed down, would anyone spot him?
LoL: just had a thought: maybe what really bothers him is the fear that he wouldn’t be recognized!
Whoops, caught this is time to add that I’m echoing Jere’s opinion on the matter!