Yup, funny, though sadly too close to how it seems to be with the die-hards: disconnectected from anything that SHOULD be important to them. It’s like the 2nd dynamic has been relegated to being a footnote of history; something that’s too WOG to deal with while they’re doing those meaningless make-work jobs the SO and the rest of Scn staff are obsessed with. Nose to the grindstone like that, they can’t see past those golden disks Tubby posited were there in front of their eyes
Sad indeed. Too close to the truth. Even though these two are only cartoons, I hope they get out too. lol
Hey RB, it might be fun to see kids going out to “save” their parents from being declared, only to find out that the parents are having a much better life than the kkk kids are.
Most of the people who I see go out to “handle the field” end up leaving the church. Interesting fact.
Definitely funny, but also hits close to home to another of the ways Scientology wrecks families – separating spouses in the name of their posts. Happened to me. First I was transferred to a different location than my then-wife, and worked hard to get her to the location where I was. Then a few months later I was transferred to yet another different location, but my wife was now stuck where she was. After a few years of this we both gave up on our relationship and divorced, not because we did not love each other, but because the situation was hopeless in terms of ever being reunited. So – Funny/Not Funny.
I swore, back in the ’70s, that some folks were chosen for extended missions away from their spouse BECAUSE they were married. Friends of mine were trying hard to get preggers because they both wanted kids. Problem was his being sent all over the place kept him away during the key time of the month for months at a time. Frustrating, though she otherwise enjoyed trying… Both were Flag crew in good standing, but were effectively forced to disconnect from each other. ‘Tis probably for the better as the kid(s) would have been 2nd generation SO and we know how THAT worked in the intervening decades. Wasn’t an isolated incident t was almost as if the spouse at Flag was a hostage to ensure the missionaire would want to behave and return home after the mission concluded. I believe I overheard that one guy was chosen to go on mission because being newly married to such a great gal, he wouldn’t be as likely to commit out 2D THAT time. (Seems he had a ‘rep’.)
O/T thought: SPs are Special People!
“Don’t tell me you don’t remember me. I’m your goddamned wife, you idiot.” LOL
“Right after the Ol’ Man took off for Target II.” LOL
Technical question – I wonder how RB got the poster of the Fleecewinds into the cartoon. That’s a lot of artwork if he did it all by hand. The facial expressions nicely show what the person is thinking and saying – good work.
I dated a gal in the sea org for about two months. I really liked her but she always seemed to have a lot of attention back on the job. If I ever come across her again it would take a lot of memory joggers to get her to remember me.
I vaguely recall thinking, “Hey “Cheryl”, pay more attention to ME.” – laughter
Nope. I suppose she had stats to keep up. That was in the 1970s. I doubt there is much fraternizing between sea org and non sea org these days.
I had worked for over a year as a mission staff auditor and had plenty of time to have a social life. At that time in the 1970s I had no idea that sea org personnel worked 80 plus hours a week. I assumed they were just more dedicated or on purpose than me. Scientology wasn’t the entirety of my life. In the 1970s when I was training at ASHO it was mostly non sea org as I recall. It was sort of an anomaly to see sea org personnel walking around in their uniforms.
The old man “took off for Target II” about the time I last saw my ex-wife. After 30 years, I doubt I’d recognize her…. Hardly recognized her only a couple years after she’d moved out, not that I’d had any good reasons to want to remember her. “Acrimonious” would be a good descriptor. Served me right for getting “serious” with her too soon after being released from the SO. I wasn’t at all free from its influence and desperately wanted to get LAID, after those years of being teased: So many women down there, few to none actually available according to the rules. It was basically impossible to establish a 2D without breaking SOME arbitrary and capricious rule. that sure screwed things up for most of us(so to speak.) It wasn’t like any of us had been virgins for a very long time, and we’d been through the summer of love AND the 2D wass SUPPOSED to be important to our “ethical” considerations. HOW did any of us get through it? Our 1st dynamics sucked, 2nd D just out of reach, 3rd subsuming everything else, and vacation or libs often unattainable. Just 7 16-hour days of drudgery each week, supposedly “clearing” the planet despite all evidence to the contrary. We DIDN’T survive it, not really. Everyone was what’s now called PTSD, were we PTS? Well, YEAH
Jere – Thanks for sharing your story. There you were with your hormones flowing and stuck in sea org drudgery! Maybe, hopefully, conditions have improved in the sea org and the days of rice and beans are over. Who knows. They are, after all, humans beings sucked into a mind game, as was I to a lesser extent. That’s not to say there aren’t some real criminals participating.
Yes, she is and my ex-wife is on board! Last time I saw her I did recognize her, but It was a sad look. She was very gifted, for music, dancing, speaking languages, piloting a plane… and she got sucked away into “clearing the planet”, “being on purpose” and other insanities. What a tragic comedy… RB illustrates perfectly the delusional world of Scientology.
Dementia, Scientology style! Good one RB.
Your life in Scientology can be wrapped up in a 5 minute conversation in a hallway. It can take forever to live with the consequences. Forgetting you were ever in the scam, now that’s a technology in progress, best pilot I’ve ever undertaken!
Wow, I laughed so hard when she said “I’m your goddamned wife, you idiot!” ?
But then I thought about how true to life for some of the old timers this is, and it made me sad. A lifetime of dedication, giving up your marriage and family and even your plans for the future, only to be offloaded when you get too old, severed from the thing you gave all that up for in the first damn place. What a raw deal.
Yes, I was lucky to get kicked out in 1996. I was 43 and had time to start-up a home business, buy a home (I had to sell per Chaplin crappy order), finally 11 years later left Hollywood and my husband who was still in SO waiting for me to come back on board. That’s when I lost the husband and business of all Scientology clients. Now I’ve lost 2 of 4 children. But leaving it all behind so that I could now get a good look at it has all been worth it 🙂
Today’s RB installment was funny and pathetic at the same time! Those two have to be in their seventies and they have accomplished nothing worthwhile with their lives. I like how the old man went SO in 1986 and he’s still at the rank of midshipman thirty years later! And all their kids got declared! Looks like they were the smart ones!
At least the old man earned a few Sea Org awards.
The green campaign bar is just for longevity in the Sea Org, everybody gets that. The others are probably for public relations “victories”, like being in the Sea Org when the Golden Age of Tech was released. Nobody gets campaign bars for individual achievements. After you’ve been in the Sea Org a few years you generally have at least three campaign bars but they don’t mean much. He probably gets one just for going on tour, they call it a “mission” because you leave the ship but really it is just a business trip.
It is a lot easier to get an officer rank at the Ship. They hold to the naval traditions more than the land lubbers at the Big Blue.
Midshipman is the lowest Officer rank, that was my rank when I left after 25 years in. But only because I was in the right place at the right time to get promoted, left to myself I probably would never have made Chief Petty Officer. You have to apply to the Officer’s Selection Board and I never bothered.
They also have the tradition of “brevet rank”, meaning a rank that matches your duties regardless of your real status. So they may have just pulled a uniform off the rack to make him look like an officer while on tour, but at home he’s still a Swamper. That’s why the photo of Miscavige with his buddies Marty and Marc shows them all with Captain’s bars even though Dave is the only real Captain in the Sea Org.
Religious freedom is tearing families apart.
If the Consitution meant to uphold traditional values with the amendments on religious activity… The government is doing it wrong.
What is traditional and sacred about not remembering your wife or kids????
As long as scientology operates, is however long it takes our government to end legal child abuse.
The Hynobots KNOW that all a ‘family’ is composed of are a male and female body needed to produce one for you to occupy for awhile. Don’t sweat the details of the significances such as calling them ‘Mom’ or ‘Dad’ and all of that ‘other fish to fry’ time consuming crap like birthdays or Thanksgiving Dinners and such which only serve to take your eye off the ball of saving the planet.
Remember, that Fixed Dedicated Glare is all You need to achieve Your eternity boys and girls.
Yo Dave,
So what the fuck are You saving the planet from good buddy? Saving all thetans from having a good time is about Your largest stat Mr. Dingleberry. So far, it seems to be working on yerself Mr. Way to Happiness personified! How did your day go yesterday after Too Dave? More happiness no doubt. Or was there some doubt? On a scale of 1 to 10 Dave, how happy are you?
Yo OSA,
Kick Eff Pee out the door today so he can play. RB has us all in a rit of fellous jage and we need something to keep us occupied while yer dear leader works on his next SuMP presentation.
Unless they’ve been specifically requested by their fathers or mothers to do so, or from time to time they’re teasing or joking, I hate kids who call their parents by their first names. I don’t know why this bothers me but it does. Makes me want to slap them and say, “Shut up, brat”.
Funny – My father was Arthur Richard and he went by the nickname Dick. Some of my little league coaches called me Dick. Occasionally a coach would call to mention a practice time and ask “Hi – Is Dick home?” Mom would ask “Do you mean big Dick or little Dick?”
I don’t think I have ever met a kid who consistently called his parents by their first names. Though I remember referring to my Dad or Mom by first name when talking to someone – “Have you seen Mike around here?” as opposed to “Have you seen my Dad around here”
Well, that’s different, Omega. Its the smart-alecky “kids”, no matter their ages (i know 3 of them in their 30s and 1 in his 40s) who act out this way, trying to prove by using their first names that they’re equal or superior to their parents which is NOT the case.. Theyr’e just adult brats. Via my business I deal with a lot of young people and their parents – the young ones with stuff going for them have no problem with “Mom” or “Dad”. The other ones are people I know personally and I just want to smack them and say, “Stop it!”
I’ve heard that the real Freewinds captain had 2 wives and several affairs – one of the affairs, with one of the women before she became his wife – and then had his wives sent to the RPF, just in the 1990s. Given that it’s Scientology, it wouldn’t surprise me if there really is a forgotten older wife.
The real captain seems to enjoy some sort of “Kha-Khan” status to get away with what he wants – perhaps because he’s the only person Scientology has who is capable of capable of running the ship. He may be an example of the sort of seasoned and relatively capable boomer-generation old-timers that Scientology still relies on to a significant extent, and is going to have a hard time replacing as they age out. Already, Scientology’s remaining missions network is going off a demographic cliff, as the long-time missionholders who’ve been propping them up reach the end of their lives, and the missions finally close.
I think that the next major scandal to hit Scientology, is likely to be their treatment of the elderly – including the lack of treatment, when they just “offload” aging staff.
Almost. It’s even possible that it is also presented that way. His second wife was RPFed and then not seen again. PeaceMaker got it quite right, and there is more to it. Then he got a third-one too. His first-wife remarried and stayed on the ship, but his two sons routed-out of the Sea Org (same time as me).
I had a chance encounter on the stairs of the Freewinds with Captain Napier. I wish I could tell you all that he said in that encounter but I can’t other than to stay that he stopped me and introduced himself. I knew nothing about him, and having never been a woman who thinks a man is coming on to her simply because he’s being polite…my impression was that if he was not exactly “on the make”, he was definitely “out there”, or wanting to be. I presumed that with all the women on the ship he had plenty of flirting opportunities and took full advantage of them.
Pluto: Your comment is closest to the truth as I know it. I was the Repair Chief Freewinds from the day the Church took possession (Sept 1986) to Mother’s Day 2002. In that time John (Mike) Napier had 3 wives. The first was named Jean or Jeanie. She was pregnant with I believe her 3rd child when the ship was purchased on Sept 15 1986. The second was the ship’s doctor Julie Powiesnik. She was the doctor on board when I had my almost fatal bleeding ulcer in March 1989. After I left the ship temporarily she was apparently commended my Captain Napier for saving my life. (To be continued).
(Continued) ( I sometimes split my long comments into parts because after a large effort to put them down, the just disappear because my phone is too slow or something. This makes it harder to remember when trying to recount the incident again. I am sure that some of my most brilliant comments have disappeared that way. (Joke)
Now if the Docktor Julie Powiesnik saved my life then she probably also almost killed me as the blood products given to me in the hospital gave me HIV AIDS and I was all but dead before I received treatment. But this has been covered and not the point of this post.
Supposedly while I was off post ( I had to fight be allowed to return to the ship).
After I returned or shortly thereafter, the Captain married Julie Powiesnik. A year or 2 later she came up to me and said ” Bill, they are after me.” I did not know what she was talking about but soon after that she was on the RPF which had at that time just been formed on the ship. I heard ( and this was (not anymore) highly unusual, because goldenrod usually lists the supposed crimes of those chosen to be shot. Nowadays, my guess is that they don’t want this in the rare case that someone can PROVE that they are not guilty of the charge. I am going to take a 5 minute break here and continue.
Suffice it is to say that I never saw any issue or explanation on why Julie Powiesnik was on the RPF. Later I heard that she was sent to the UK (She was from England) and probably Australia. I never saw her again but I heard a few years later a rumor that she had been going through COB David Miscaviage’s papers on the ship during a Maiden Voyage Anniversary. I do not know the truth or validity of this rumor.
Shortly before I left the ship in May 2002, the Captain married a Japanese lady on the ship. ( MIKE Napier was born in Japan an I imagine that his father was part of the occupation of Japan after WWII; as my father was. As far as his sons are concerned, I believe he had 3 at that time. I remember the name of only one; August. I remember that one as I was pulled off of my post to do reins POs around 1998 and August was assigned as my “helper”. He was worse than useless; I spent more time looking for him than he ever spent on post and the Chief Off Bill Bragg ( now married to August’s mother was told by the Captain not to work him so hard. The oldest son ( I do not remember his name, left the SO and according to my ex-wife was working as a backhand in Long Beach harbor about 5 years ago. Since I have been off of the ship 16 years now, I have no more current data. I would like to believe that he is still with his last Japanese wife, but I still recall him screaming at me and my wife about March 2002 “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT FAMILY”.
RB that’s almost the most tragic episode you’ve created.
It really shows how sick Scientology is.
That’s normal in the cult. Horrible.
Brilliant as usual. It needs to be said.
That’s right! Zero is defined as an actuality in Scientology. Scientology’s ultimate goal – make nothing out of everyone! (and then some).
Oh, happy Friday the 13th!
I read the news today, oh boy
About an OT 8 who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw him joining staff
He sold his house and fancy car
His hippocampus had been rearranged
His wife and children stood and stared
They’d seen that look before
Nobody was really sure if he was dead or just plain bored
Now nothing turns him on
It’s very sad that families don’t even know each other anymore. All the children and grandchildren grow up never knowing their families or cultivating those relationships that would bring so much more to their lives. Extremely sad ?
Put up the ones with Timmy in them! Remember Timmy? That little Sea Org snitch who kept getting his buddies in the berthing busted for a bunch of out ethics stuff!
Timmy: Bang! You guys are so busted!
Sea Org guys: Ah, no! Timmy! How did you find out?
Somewhere in the states…
“Daddy, do we have grandparents?”
“No.”
“But didn’t you have a mommy and daddy?”
“No pumpkin, I had Scientologists.”
Excellent! Laughter through artificial tears is my favorite emotion! (conspicuously missing from the Tone Scale)
Yup, funny, though sadly too close to how it seems to be with the die-hards: disconnectected from anything that SHOULD be important to them. It’s like the 2nd dynamic has been relegated to being a footnote of history; something that’s too WOG to deal with while they’re doing those meaningless make-work jobs the SO and the rest of Scn staff are obsessed with. Nose to the grindstone like that, they can’t see past those golden disks Tubby posited were there in front of their eyes
Sad indeed. Too close to the truth. Even though these two are only cartoons, I hope they get out too. lol
Hey RB, it might be fun to see kids going out to “save” their parents from being declared, only to find out that the parents are having a much better life than the kkk kids are.
Most of the people who I see go out to “handle the field” end up leaving the church. Interesting fact.
Definitely funny, but also hits close to home to another of the ways Scientology wrecks families – separating spouses in the name of their posts. Happened to me. First I was transferred to a different location than my then-wife, and worked hard to get her to the location where I was. Then a few months later I was transferred to yet another different location, but my wife was now stuck where she was. After a few years of this we both gave up on our relationship and divorced, not because we did not love each other, but because the situation was hopeless in terms of ever being reunited. So – Funny/Not Funny.
I swore, back in the ’70s, that some folks were chosen for extended missions away from their spouse BECAUSE they were married. Friends of mine were trying hard to get preggers because they both wanted kids. Problem was his being sent all over the place kept him away during the key time of the month for months at a time. Frustrating, though she otherwise enjoyed trying… Both were Flag crew in good standing, but were effectively forced to disconnect from each other. ‘Tis probably for the better as the kid(s) would have been 2nd generation SO and we know how THAT worked in the intervening decades. Wasn’t an isolated incident t was almost as if the spouse at Flag was a hostage to ensure the missionaire would want to behave and return home after the mission concluded. I believe I overheard that one guy was chosen to go on mission because being newly married to such a great gal, he wouldn’t be as likely to commit out 2D THAT time. (Seems he had a ‘rep’.)
O/T thought: SPs are Special People!
Some good laughs in this one.
“Don’t tell me you don’t remember me. I’m your goddamned wife, you idiot.” LOL
“Right after the Ol’ Man took off for Target II.” LOL
Technical question – I wonder how RB got the poster of the Fleecewinds into the cartoon. That’s a lot of artwork if he did it all by hand. The facial expressions nicely show what the person is thinking and saying – good work.
I dated a gal in the sea org for about two months. I really liked her but she always seemed to have a lot of attention back on the job. If I ever come across her again it would take a lot of memory joggers to get her to remember me.
With her the sea org came first and I came second. What a blow to my ego. She was more “on purpose” than me. Remember that expression?
Yep, heard it all the time at Big Blue.
I vaguely recall thinking, “Hey “Cheryl”, pay more attention to ME.” – laughter
Nope. I suppose she had stats to keep up. That was in the 1970s. I doubt there is much fraternizing between sea org and non sea org these days.
I had worked for over a year as a mission staff auditor and had plenty of time to have a social life. At that time in the 1970s I had no idea that sea org personnel worked 80 plus hours a week. I assumed they were just more dedicated or on purpose than me. Scientology wasn’t the entirety of my life. In the 1970s when I was training at ASHO it was mostly non sea org as I recall. It was sort of an anomaly to see sea org personnel walking around in their uniforms.
Poster is just a beautiful touch.Come to think about it this cartoon may be RB’s most powerful one yet.
The old man “took off for Target II” about the time I last saw my ex-wife. After 30 years, I doubt I’d recognize her…. Hardly recognized her only a couple years after she’d moved out, not that I’d had any good reasons to want to remember her. “Acrimonious” would be a good descriptor. Served me right for getting “serious” with her too soon after being released from the SO. I wasn’t at all free from its influence and desperately wanted to get LAID, after those years of being teased: So many women down there, few to none actually available according to the rules. It was basically impossible to establish a 2D without breaking SOME arbitrary and capricious rule. that sure screwed things up for most of us(so to speak.) It wasn’t like any of us had been virgins for a very long time, and we’d been through the summer of love AND the 2D wass SUPPOSED to be important to our “ethical” considerations. HOW did any of us get through it? Our 1st dynamics sucked, 2nd D just out of reach, 3rd subsuming everything else, and vacation or libs often unattainable. Just 7 16-hour days of drudgery each week, supposedly “clearing” the planet despite all evidence to the contrary. We DIDN’T survive it, not really. Everyone was what’s now called PTSD, were we PTS? Well, YEAH
Jere – Thanks for sharing your story. There you were with your hormones flowing and stuck in sea org drudgery! Maybe, hopefully, conditions have improved in the sea org and the days of rice and beans are over. Who knows. They are, after all, humans beings sucked into a mind game, as was I to a lesser extent. That’s not to say there aren’t some real criminals participating.
Is the Fleecewinds still afloat?
Yes, she is and my ex-wife is on board! Last time I saw her I did recognize her, but It was a sad look. She was very gifted, for music, dancing, speaking languages, piloting a plane… and she got sucked away into “clearing the planet”, “being on purpose” and other insanities. What a tragic comedy… RB illustrates perfectly the delusional world of Scientology.
Dementia, Scientology style! Good one RB.
Your life in Scientology can be wrapped up in a 5 minute conversation in a hallway. It can take forever to live with the consequences. Forgetting you were ever in the scam, now that’s a technology in progress, best pilot I’ve ever undertaken!
“Hey…didn’t we have some kids?” Priceless.
That’s Scientology!
Wow, I laughed so hard when she said “I’m your goddamned wife, you idiot!” ?
But then I thought about how true to life for some of the old timers this is, and it made me sad. A lifetime of dedication, giving up your marriage and family and even your plans for the future, only to be offloaded when you get too old, severed from the thing you gave all that up for in the first damn place. What a raw deal.
Yes, I was lucky to get kicked out in 1996. I was 43 and had time to start-up a home business, buy a home (I had to sell per Chaplin crappy order), finally 11 years later left Hollywood and my husband who was still in SO waiting for me to come back on board. That’s when I lost the husband and business of all Scientology clients. Now I’ve lost 2 of 4 children. But leaving it all behind so that I could now get a good look at it has all been worth it 🙂
So happy to be done with Scimythology.
Definition of Scientology – A million dollar bottle of soda pop that ain’t got no fizz to it!
Priceless definition!
Today’s RB installment was funny and pathetic at the same time! Those two have to be in their seventies and they have accomplished nothing worthwhile with their lives. I like how the old man went SO in 1986 and he’s still at the rank of midshipman thirty years later! And all their kids got declared! Looks like they were the smart ones!
At least the old man earned a few Sea Org awards.
The green campaign bar is just for longevity in the Sea Org, everybody gets that. The others are probably for public relations “victories”, like being in the Sea Org when the Golden Age of Tech was released. Nobody gets campaign bars for individual achievements. After you’ve been in the Sea Org a few years you generally have at least three campaign bars but they don’t mean much. He probably gets one just for going on tour, they call it a “mission” because you leave the ship but really it is just a business trip.
It is a lot easier to get an officer rank at the Ship. They hold to the naval traditions more than the land lubbers at the Big Blue.
Midshipman is the lowest Officer rank, that was my rank when I left after 25 years in. But only because I was in the right place at the right time to get promoted, left to myself I probably would never have made Chief Petty Officer. You have to apply to the Officer’s Selection Board and I never bothered.
They also have the tradition of “brevet rank”, meaning a rank that matches your duties regardless of your real status. So they may have just pulled a uniform off the rack to make him look like an officer while on tour, but at home he’s still a Swamper. That’s why the photo of Miscavige with his buddies Marty and Marc shows them all with Captain’s bars even though Dave is the only real Captain in the Sea Org.
Religious freedom is tearing families apart.
If the Consitution meant to uphold traditional values with the amendments on religious activity… The government is doing it wrong.
What is traditional and sacred about not remembering your wife or kids????
As long as scientology operates, is however long it takes our government to end legal child abuse.
That was one scary accurate portrayal of being a Hubbard Hypnobot inside the bubble. Excellent RB!
This story reveals the total devaluation and degradation of human relations that Scientology is so expert at inflicting on the minds of it’s victims.
The Hynobots KNOW that all a ‘family’ is composed of are a male and female body needed to produce one for you to occupy for awhile. Don’t sweat the details of the significances such as calling them ‘Mom’ or ‘Dad’ and all of that ‘other fish to fry’ time consuming crap like birthdays or Thanksgiving Dinners and such which only serve to take your eye off the ball of saving the planet.
Remember, that Fixed Dedicated Glare is all You need to achieve Your eternity boys and girls.
Yo Dave,
So what the fuck are You saving the planet from good buddy? Saving all thetans from having a good time is about Your largest stat Mr. Dingleberry. So far, it seems to be working on yerself Mr. Way to Happiness personified! How did your day go yesterday after Too Dave? More happiness no doubt. Or was there some doubt? On a scale of 1 to 10 Dave, how happy are you?
Yo OSA,
Kick Eff Pee out the door today so he can play. RB has us all in a rit of fellous jage and we need something to keep us occupied while yer dear leader works on his next SuMP presentation.
Unless they’ve been specifically requested by their fathers or mothers to do so, or from time to time they’re teasing or joking, I hate kids who call their parents by their first names. I don’t know why this bothers me but it does. Makes me want to slap them and say, “Shut up, brat”.
I agree, they should just call their parents by their initials!
Funny – My father was Arthur Richard and he went by the nickname Dick. Some of my little league coaches called me Dick. Occasionally a coach would call to mention a practice time and ask “Hi – Is Dick home?” Mom would ask “Do you mean big Dick or little Dick?”
I don’t think I have ever met a kid who consistently called his parents by their first names. Though I remember referring to my Dad or Mom by first name when talking to someone – “Have you seen Mike around here?” as opposed to “Have you seen my Dad around here”
Well, that’s different, Omega. Its the smart-alecky “kids”, no matter their ages (i know 3 of them in their 30s and 1 in his 40s) who act out this way, trying to prove by using their first names that they’re equal or superior to their parents which is NOT the case.. Theyr’e just adult brats. Via my business I deal with a lot of young people and their parents – the young ones with stuff going for them have no problem with “Mom” or “Dad”. The other ones are people I know personally and I just want to smack them and say, “Stop it!”
I’ve heard that the real Freewinds captain had 2 wives and several affairs – one of the affairs, with one of the women before she became his wife – and then had his wives sent to the RPF, just in the 1990s. Given that it’s Scientology, it wouldn’t surprise me if there really is a forgotten older wife.
The real captain seems to enjoy some sort of “Kha-Khan” status to get away with what he wants – perhaps because he’s the only person Scientology has who is capable of capable of running the ship. He may be an example of the sort of seasoned and relatively capable boomer-generation old-timers that Scientology still relies on to a significant extent, and is going to have a hard time replacing as they age out. Already, Scientology’s remaining missions network is going off a demographic cliff, as the long-time missionholders who’ve been propping them up reach the end of their lives, and the missions finally close.
I think that the next major scandal to hit Scientology, is likely to be their treatment of the elderly – including the lack of treatment, when they just “offload” aging staff.
The captain never had a second wife. 😛
But he did have a third one, right?
Almost. It’s even possible that it is also presented that way. His second wife was RPFed and then not seen again. PeaceMaker got it quite right, and there is more to it. Then he got a third-one too. His first-wife remarried and stayed on the ship, but his two sons routed-out of the Sea Org (same time as me).
Sounds like another warm and fuzzy See Orge family!
Yep, where Christmas is forbidden too.
Christmas? They’re dissing Christmas??? What a bunch of assholes!
I had a chance encounter on the stairs of the Freewinds with Captain Napier. I wish I could tell you all that he said in that encounter but I can’t other than to stay that he stopped me and introduced himself. I knew nothing about him, and having never been a woman who thinks a man is coming on to her simply because he’s being polite…my impression was that if he was not exactly “on the make”, he was definitely “out there”, or wanting to be. I presumed that with all the women on the ship he had plenty of flirting opportunities and took full advantage of them.
Did you have the chance to slap the shit out of him?
It can be a long voyage tethered to the dock.
Pluto: Your comment is closest to the truth as I know it. I was the Repair Chief Freewinds from the day the Church took possession (Sept 1986) to Mother’s Day 2002. In that time John (Mike) Napier had 3 wives. The first was named Jean or Jeanie. She was pregnant with I believe her 3rd child when the ship was purchased on Sept 15 1986. The second was the ship’s doctor Julie Powiesnik. She was the doctor on board when I had my almost fatal bleeding ulcer in March 1989. After I left the ship temporarily she was apparently commended my Captain Napier for saving my life. (To be continued).
(Continued) ( I sometimes split my long comments into parts because after a large effort to put them down, the just disappear because my phone is too slow or something. This makes it harder to remember when trying to recount the incident again. I am sure that some of my most brilliant comments have disappeared that way. (Joke)
Now if the Docktor Julie Powiesnik saved my life then she probably also almost killed me as the blood products given to me in the hospital gave me HIV AIDS and I was all but dead before I received treatment. But this has been covered and not the point of this post.
Supposedly while I was off post ( I had to fight be allowed to return to the ship).
After I returned or shortly thereafter, the Captain married Julie Powiesnik. A year or 2 later she came up to me and said ” Bill, they are after me.” I did not know what she was talking about but soon after that she was on the RPF which had at that time just been formed on the ship. I heard ( and this was (not anymore) highly unusual, because goldenrod usually lists the supposed crimes of those chosen to be shot. Nowadays, my guess is that they don’t want this in the rare case that someone can PROVE that they are not guilty of the charge. I am going to take a 5 minute break here and continue.
Suffice it is to say that I never saw any issue or explanation on why Julie Powiesnik was on the RPF. Later I heard that she was sent to the UK (She was from England) and probably Australia. I never saw her again but I heard a few years later a rumor that she had been going through COB David Miscaviage’s papers on the ship during a Maiden Voyage Anniversary. I do not know the truth or validity of this rumor.
Shortly before I left the ship in May 2002, the Captain married a Japanese lady on the ship. ( MIKE Napier was born in Japan an I imagine that his father was part of the occupation of Japan after WWII; as my father was. As far as his sons are concerned, I believe he had 3 at that time. I remember the name of only one; August. I remember that one as I was pulled off of my post to do reins POs around 1998 and August was assigned as my “helper”. He was worse than useless; I spent more time looking for him than he ever spent on post and the Chief Off Bill Bragg ( now married to August’s mother was told by the Captain not to work him so hard. The oldest son ( I do not remember his name, left the SO and according to my ex-wife was working as a backhand in Long Beach harbor about 5 years ago. Since I have been off of the ship 16 years now, I have no more current data. I would like to believe that he is still with his last Japanese wife, but I still recall him screaming at me and my wife about March 2002 “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT FAMILY”.
The oldest son was working as a deckhand in Long Beach harbor.
Bill, what are “reins PO’s?”
Mark: “Reins POs are what you get when you type in Renos POs and fail to see that the autocorrect changed it.
God Almighty, there is just no end to the horridness of these people.
RB, I think it’s time for you to publish a book.
One of your best, RB. Very humorous but too true to be parody.
Well, I hope their kids are living well and happily getting together for family gatherings.
RB that’s almost the most tragic episode you’ve created.
It really shows how sick Scientology is.
That’s normal in the cult. Horrible.
Brilliant as usual. It needs to be said.
RB,
You just made my day.
Ah, shucks…I couldn’t have done it without you, Jim.
Accurate portrayal of how much value El Con Hubtard & the “church” places on family.
Would the answer be zero?
It’s way less that that!
That’s right! Zero is defined as an actuality in Scientology. Scientology’s ultimate goal – make nothing out of everyone! (and then some).
Oh, happy Friday the 13th!
Holy shit! It IS Friday the 13th! I’m going to bed and pull the covers over my head.
negative numbers OSD
From my experience if they thought they could get away with killing all family of SO members, they would do so.
Which is a good thing.
I read the news today, oh boy
About an OT 8 who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw him joining staff
He sold his house and fancy car
His hippocampus had been rearranged
His wife and children stood and stared
They’d seen that look before
Nobody was really sure if he was dead or just plain bored
Now nothing turns him on
Hat tip……..
(Massive applause). Outstanding post, MJM! Bravo!
More great songwriting from you, MJM!
Thanks all for the complement. Much appreciated.
It’s very sad that families don’t even know each other anymore. All the children and grandchildren grow up never knowing their families or cultivating those relationships that would bring so much more to their lives. Extremely sad ?
Congrats RB.Wish we could put some of your cartoons on billboards around Clearwater.
What a fabulous idea!
Now that’s a great idea!
“Wish we could put some of your cartoons on billboards around Clearwater.”
That is a brilliant idea! Someone should set up a fund to buy at least one — the one about SO members trying to find money for soap, for example.
Put up the ones with Timmy in them! Remember Timmy? That little Sea Org snitch who kept getting his buddies in the berthing busted for a bunch of out ethics stuff!
Timmy: Bang! You guys are so busted!
Sea Org guys: Ah, no! Timmy! How did you find out?
Now that’s thinking!
A bottle of soda pop that aint got no fizz. A million dollar bottle of soda pop that aint got no fizz.
No fizz is sad.
The label’s pretty though…
But…a pretty label with no fizz is truly sad.
That’s a real Horror story.