Aquamarine, I completely agree with you.

The mind of Miscavige must be a terrifying world of fear and paranoia. I would not change places with him for all the gold on Teegeack.

His existence is not to be envied.

He is loathed and despised, even by his own fellow scientologists and he will be forever remembered as a terrible human.

JD and TW, as re those “stark differences”, yes, a world of difference 🙂

Well, Kirstie “standing up” for the cult doesn’t say as much for her loyalty and integrity as it does for the fact that she’s got nothing going on in her career anyway. So why not shoot off her mouth – it gets her some sort of attention, after all, if only with her “We Love You So Much You’re Awesome Go Girl” etc.etc. mentally-13 year old blog fans.

That said if she ever decides to utilize her much vaunted OT abilities by losing some weight and shopping herself around again for some actual acting jobs, and/or if she manages to get herself another role or some future in her field, THEN I’d like to see how vocal she’d be in defense of the cult.

In the meantime, she’s just another empty-headed vulgarian, another potty-mouthed Has Been with a weight problem doing her darndest to stay relevant in the crass, tabloid swamp that passes for American culture nowadays.

Jere, this is going to sound like airy-fairy mew wave nonsense, but I seriously doubt that Miscavige is happy. Appearances to the contrary, in that he possesses many material reasons to be a happy person, reasons which would give comfort and satisfaction to a normal person, I’d say he’s very, very, very far from happy. Happy people do not behave as he does. Rather, IMO Miscavige is the poster-boy for what religions have long conceptualized as a “lost soul”. I’d say he exists in the condition of what the ancients truly meant when they conceived of Hell – not a physical fire everlasting but an operating state of continual torment, unremitting pain. Ever see those Renaissance paintings of lost souls in Hell? Take a look at those faces, and that’s Miscavige, inside,. For real. all the time. My 2, for whatever its worth.

🙂 and 🙂

Well OSD, THEY think it’s logical; even “sane”, if you can believe it. WTF do you get a guy who needs for nothing? He’s got his wife salted away somewhere out of sight, a “personal assistant” for when he’s not obsessing about SCOHB, slaves serving his every wish, voiced or not, and plenty of punching bags to relieve any residual tension. If he wants something, the corp will buy or build it (several times as he changes his mind) for his sole use. What a DEAL. Kings don’t get it better. They can’t, as the peasants would REVOLT in the real world. When some guy finally snaps and defends himself, I wanna buy that guy a few rounds.

We can only dream of what it’ll be like when Dwarfenführer’s karmic imbalance catches up with him….
The sooner, the better.

eta: Waiting with bated breath for news of the “Birthday” debacle. How can it be anything but when they can’t get it done ON Tubby’s birthday. Oh, that must have been erased in their records, just like all copies of KSW in their posession, to allow Davey Boy free rein to alter anything he could get his tiny, tiny hands on

JD, greatly appreciated your follow-up posts on Tinker’s story — and all those who contributed.

LOVED, “..stark difference between enforced giving and giving that comes willingly to truly help someone or something that needs it. The first fills you with resentment. The latter fills your heart.”

How true….

You sound like you’ve been emptying the contents of 30 years in a cult out onto the table and are making good progress sorting it out. Good for you.

I’m very happy that my voice has helped, thanks.