Love the “Rumpelstiltskin” moniker for the evil monster.

Only one parent’s signature is needed? Now that sucks totally. And if you are the parent who objects, you then become a target for SP declare.

Cece, did you go to Howdy Con? I wanted to meet you. If you’re in LA let’s meet for coffee.

Thank you so much!

The cult’s severe restrictions on their internet usage has to be cramping their style in no small way.

The Sea Org is a Godsend for Scientology parents. Mostly tapped out, frequently with one or more bankruptcies, allowing their kids to quit school at 16 and dumping their teenagers in the Sea Org is the perfect, “ethical” solution not only to their financial problems but to their status issues within the cult. Having a kid in the SO is something to brag about in the cult. Children in the SO is “the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics” not the least of which is the parents’ finance dynamic. Any money they’d have to spend on their kids’ higher education can no be spent on their own upper bridge and sec checks, or donated to Ideal Morgues, or donated to the IAS, or, or, or… They shirk their parental responsibilities and get applauded for it. But that’s this crazy cult for you. Where else does one get approval for not paying ones’ bills, going bankrupt, and getting ones’ house foreclosed? Where else does one get applauded for remaining ignorant and unemployable? Honestly you can’t make this shit up.

A few years ago on Marty’s blog George mentioned that he once asked his Buddhist teacher if he should publicly refute Hubbard’s claim to have been the Buddha. His teacher replied, “There have been thousands of these. Why bother?”

“Bodhiharma” (from the book glossary) – An Indian missionary monk, who came to China in the sixth century A.D. Regarded as the founder of the Ch’an (Zen) School of Buddhism. (Known in Japan as Daruma.)