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Regraded Being

February 17, 2023 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

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  1. Imaberrated says

    February 18, 2023 at 5:38 pm

    I love all the name drops.

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  2. Aquamarine says

    February 18, 2023 at 1:26 am

    Off topic with my apologies to RB but I wanted to post this before the long weekend.

    Recently I did a sort of general itemization, just off the top of my head as to how I regularly dribble away money, on a daily and weekly basis. It came to about $100 a month that I really, really do not have to waste, that I’ve been wasting for years, practically,due to sheer laziness.

    Anyway its about a hundred a month and so I ordered 5 more Billion books in addition to the one already bought for my own reading. I plan to send them to some Senators or Congressmen or mayors – people whom Scientology would call “Opinion Leaders”, etc. I plan to do this each month with any money I know I would otherwise waste.

    I’m sharing this plan here not so that you praise me – seriously, please don’t, I won’t be able to handle it – but because some others here might like the concept of shunting what may be their daily dribbles of small money into the purchase of information that in the right hands might effect some changes. Or there might be some here who actually budget very well and who don’t, like I do, fritter it away in small amounts (which, at the end of the year, total up to a sizable amount, yikes1).

    What I’m still trying to figure out is who exactly to send the books to. As to the legislators in my state, coals to Newcastle, entirely. There’s no way Scientology is getting another foothold in this neck of the woods. Although, in that it is a heavily blue state (yes, OSA, I’ll keep you in the game but I’m not going to give it away) it might do some good to have some of the extremely tax hungry types in my state legislature start a “crusade” LOL in the Senate or the House of Reps to have our favorite cult stripped of its tax exempt status. So whatever your ideas or suggestions you might have would be welcome to me. Thanks for reading , have a great long weekend everyone, and now back to RB 🙂

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    • Aquamarine says

      February 18, 2023 at 1:38 am

      PS: Along with the books I think its important to send a recommended reading list, which, conveniently, is provided right here on Mike’s Blog as well as onTony’s. I thought I could also include that list that Tony keeps of ex-Scientologists, and how long its been in days since they’ve seen the family members who disconnected from them.

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    • Alcoboy says

      February 18, 2023 at 10:15 am

      A heavily blue state.
      That rules out North Carolina.

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    • OTD says

      February 18, 2023 at 10:17 pm

      Aqua, sometimes the legislators’ assistants are the best people to hit up. They are often the gatekeepers. You can get them on the phone.
      Just a thought.

      Happy budget-awareness! I was sloppy that way for years.

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      • Aquamarine says

        February 21, 2023 at 2:19 pm

        GREAT idea! Thank you very much, OTD! I want to make sure that what I send actually gets READ. Wow. Now I know what to do. Thanks again!

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  3. unelectedfloofgoofer says

    February 17, 2023 at 11:59 pm

    $cientology makes no more sense than the plan of the underpants gnomes to make profit, but as this couple demonstrates, it’s almost as hard to escape as a black hole.

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  4. Aleisha T says

    February 17, 2023 at 10:31 pm

    I want to officially announce Tampa Brad, now wants to be exclusive called Tampon Brad! Please respect his wishes! ML Aleisha T.

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  5. Ruth says

    February 17, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    The replies are as good as the cartoon. Lol
    Unfortunately, I have seen this very scenerio, it’s not far off!
    The only people I have ever seen have any money who work at a Scientogist owned company, was the Scientology owner period.

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    • Peridot says

      February 19, 2023 at 11:02 am

      Indeed @Ruth. I had the same thought reading this week’s RB saga. Bizarrely (“We are the Most Ethical, Pro-Survival Group on the Planet”), the worst bosses and business owners I encountered have been those who are Scientologist and WISE affiliated. (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises)

      I am a good networker for people in my area business community. I remember (as one for instance) meeting someone who was a career commercial construction project manager. He was between jobs, and he was looking to make some new connections, get into conversations about the industry and job prospects with new folks he had not met. Regular, simple stuff. “Networking 101,” we might call it.

      Enthusiastically, I reached out to the local “big kahuna” WISE member Scientologist at my org who owned a large construction company. Simply inquiring if he would be up for having a telephone conversation with my person. HE LAUGHED. He honestly laughed at the notion, stating that he and no one else operated as the project manager at his firm and there was no way (laugh, laugh) he was going to talk to or give any support to another skilled person in our market who was a construction project manager as well.

      I was dumbfounded. Yet I can come up other similar tales — WISE member company owners who were simply narcissistic bullies. Not really in it to help OTHER people “flourish and prosper.” Good Lord, not even close.

      Same guy (I am remembering) had a head of Div 3 – Treasury, who was continuously at the org doing courses. Such an intelligent, nice gentleman. In taking him on for a while as a preclear, I was (inwardly) stunned to learn he was not even an employee. No, though he was on-site Mon-Fri, doing all the books and vital accounting, payroll, bill paying activities for a multi-million dollar firm, he was forced to set up his own sole proprietor company and bill the larger firm as an outside vendor. Say whaaaa?

      You compare this set-up with other full-time financial professionals who work at companies where they receive good pay, benefits such as vacation time, retirement plan, dental and health care, training and enhancement to improve their craft. I think these WISE member companies probably only “succeed” (and it is temporary, I imagine) because of positioning themselves in an insular way: “You don’t want to go to work for those Wogs (shudder).” Talk about a con —- ironically, an example of “social veneer.”

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      • Ruth says

        February 19, 2023 at 5:45 pm

        Very good and accurate reply.

        Reply
  6. Aquamarine says

    February 17, 2023 at 8:07 pm

    “Ralph’s Rehydrated Water LLC”…laughter, laughter!

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  7. Sue T. says

    February 17, 2023 at 7:54 pm

    LOL, the only reason Tampa Brad is reaching “millions” of people is because of the frequent J&D by Aaron Smith-Levin on his very popular YouTube channel (which I’m sure has 100x the reach of Tampa Brad’s own channel).

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  8. Gibbous Waxing says

    February 17, 2023 at 5:50 pm

    Foreshadowing in the first panel.

    She’s taken a sudden interest in romantic comedies.

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  9. Ed Cadena says

    February 17, 2023 at 1:13 pm

    Now it is the time for releasing the latest discovery: Dehydrated powered water!
    After forty years of very careful research, they have found what LRH had in the hat for clearing the Galaxy.
    It weighs ten percent of the liquid water, but some $cientological testing have shown it will be in ultra high demand because of its outstanding hydrating properties.
    The OT Commitee of Never Found Land has started a mail order portal in association with Amazon, and right now it is available for a very brief period, only in this Planet.

    Be clever and waste no time. Drinkable water will never be the issue!

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  10. Zee Moo says

    February 17, 2023 at 10:18 am

    Re-hydrated water??? Giggle…oh so $cientilogical. Why isn’t hubby working his ass off to ‘donate’?

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    • Jere Lull says

      February 17, 2023 at 12:00 pm

      “Alice” got extra tone-arm action from “Ralph”🤫.

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    • otherles says

      February 17, 2023 at 12:14 pm

      DiHydrogen Monoxide is now available in cans.

      https://www.flickr.com/photos/72813079@N00/51752750293/

      Reply
  11. otherles says

    February 17, 2023 at 8:33 am

    She’s in clear need of a divorce.

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    • Peggy L says

      February 17, 2023 at 9:37 am

      I agree otherless, but I get the impression that she hasn’t gotten fed up enough with being the only wage earner putting her hard earned cash into a worthless husband for a worthless cause just yet.

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      • Aquamarine says

        February 18, 2023 at 1:50 am

        Oh, but Peggy, in due time HE will have an ethics cycle and be ordered to do his own personal 2D admin scale in present time which will show that as a married couple their admin scales no longer align! His goals and purposes will prove quite different from the goals and purposes of his wife! His admin scale will show him to be a good Scientologist, i.e, a cult creature whose every action and thought must benefit the Church of Scientology and she…well, let us be charitable here — she MAY not be an SP but she OBVIOUSLY has other fish to fry! Dear, dear! This cannot be!

        But fear not, the day will come, the Admin scale will show the truth and for him this it will be a cognition of magnitude, and she won’t have to bother to divorce him, because he will be very easily persuaded to divorce her.

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    • Jere Lull says

      February 17, 2023 at 12:02 pm

      HE’s clearly in the midst of a divorce-to-be. And I don’t think much of their “marriage” or 2D, or whatever.

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    • Alcoboy says

      February 17, 2023 at 12:58 pm

      Makes you wonder if RB is going to work that into the storyline.

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    • Aquamarine says

      February 17, 2023 at 8:20 pm

      “Oh, honey…” Eye roll. He is so utterly clueless. Putting myself in her position, looking from the wife’s viewpoint, could it be possible to dissolve in honest laughter while at the same time strangling him?

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