Oh Yeah like the movie “the craft” “I can feel him in me,running through my veins” (quoting the Insane crazy padded room girl)
Now for a comparison..
Scientology video,”I can feel ron running through my veins” “I really smell his ink,it’s so Ron”
Eerie
I did a rough count of the words in this strip and find it interesting that there are two separate complaints that less than 750 words are too many words for some people to read. I’m glad there are enough words to make the strip thought provoking. I enjoy reading it and hope it continues as it is now.
Thank you for the care and thought you put into it.
The really ghastly thing is that this is what most of us greenies thought. I thought so called OTs could read my mind, my time track and heaven knows what all else. I thought I was inferior to them.
I remember now – I haven’t had this memory for a couple of decades – thinking that until I came into $cn I’d gotten rid of my inferiority complex. I remember thinking that now I’m in $cn the inferiority complex is back/still there. I thought that maybe what I’d achieved before $cn was a sham because now I’m into some real stuff, you know – $cn. $cn clears up all your old and previous perceptions about yourself that must have been false because outside $cn is not real life.
I remember being pretty self confident, too – until after my entry into $cn. I completely lost that, especially in the face of the fact that there were these OTs, you know, who are all so much better, cleverer, more able and with magic powers!
My goodness, I’ve only right now remembered having these thoughts. How destructive was that! I had the perception of being able before $cn but lost that AFTER $cn.
It’s not true now, of course. I’m myself completely. But coming into $cn actually undid me. What I needed at the time was not $cn but just someone to talk to for about an hour or so to get a few things off my chest – a psychologist, for instance!
I recall being in the presence of my first Oat Tea’s and thinking they had super natural powers…
they used the F*BOMB every other word – mainlined coffee and cigarettes and stunk like BO and massive doses of Vitamin B
They had no super natural powers, they got lost on the way to the book booth ( I volunteered to help) and seemed to be old and real bitter…cussing up a storm cuz no one was buying the Dianetic Books and they had to spend $2,000 for this Kiosk at the mall….(They were on the “level”). Later – that Oat Tea got Dee-clared and is now out completely!
and I STILL tried to get up to the Bridge…to Oat Tea!
“Did you know that there’s a place called Haiti that now won’t have any more earthquakes because of us giving out these books there?”
Yes, and thanks to WTH having been papered all over New Orleans there will never be another hurricane hitting that area, and because this little booklet is printed at Gold Base the entire county will be forever immune to any natural disasters, San Andreas fault or no San Andreas fault…
Why is Hollywood Boulevard eerily vacant for about a block on the same side as your Test Center? Do people walk on the other side of the street to avoid your minions? Sometimes your minions also cross the street to intercept them. Do tourist maps warn tourists to AVOID your Test Center?
Please fix the site… I cannot see any image (So cannot see RB).
If I click on a (broken) image i receive: 502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.7.11
Some others on the UB are in my same situation..
VM it’s a shame you don’t read them. They are excellent. Most blog posts are this long or longer. I am glad I have the 5-10 minutes it takes to digest these strips. Well worth the read.
This is how David Miscavige operates, Tom Cruise will be left
holding the bag, blamed for everything. D.M.with all the money on
his private estate in the south of France listed as Ditmar Rattlehamer Senior.
(that’s a secret so don’t spread it around)
tc has only one attribute – he can act. In his world pretence is not a rude word.
I wonder in the ‘quiet’ moments, when he’s done counting today’s money, what tc’s lawyer actually thinks of him?
That was my thought as well. If the article is true not only will Cruise destroy his career but be a co conspirator when it all comes crashing down. This is probably what MisCavge wants. He will disappear with Cruise left holding the bag. Huge headlines when Tom Cruise goes to jail for abuses by the COS
I definitely agree. I cannot even watch his movies anymore, even the ones I enjoy because it makes me angry. He has to know the truth about the CO$ and his little bff. So even though I used to enjoy the mission impossible movies I refused to see the new one because I don’t want to give a dime to CO$ or a man who choose an organization of epic abuse over his daughter and who turned two of his kids against their mother. He and his pal are indistinguishable to me
Now that is an interesting read. I’m torn between believing it’s pure crap to not being surprised at all at such a development. All along I’ve had my ideas about the weird relationship between dm & tc. tc gets lower case with me now, he a dipstick, and he’s earned it. But tc & dm are a couple (?) not quite sure what, but they are a couple that share more than we’ll ever know. If he takes on the pseudo SO post of 2IC of scientology officially – GOOD! That will show just what an idiot organisation it really is to anyone who even takes a casual or passing interest in it.
Bullet ridden foot meet mouth – scientology’s answer for everything.
It makes sense that David Miscavige knows Scientology is a DEAD DUCK
Getting Tom Cruise to shoe in as another COB give Davey the opportunity
to cut and run blaming Cruise for everything fucked up that Miscavige himself did !!! .
I’ll bet on this is it as far fetched as it seems.
I was one of those sci-fi idiots.I had read every sci fi book from Asimov to Zelazny. When I was doing my Academy levels at SF Org, we had a visit from Ron’s son Quentin. He told us tales of the history of this sector of the galaxy and that the Sea Org had secret bases where working space ships were kept. I ate up the stories about Marcab and their war with Brotherhood of the Snake. This was exactly what my addled mind was looking for. I would have joined the Sea Org. Thank God for LSD.
If Scientology handles drugs completely, why would someone who took LSD and has attested to a full drug rundown be unqualified for the Sea Org? Let me know when you have the answer.
Blinders – you just don’t get it, that’s all.
We of the ether waft about knowing shit. And lots of that happens too.
Work hard, keep your nose clean and one day we’ll let you in on a little secret… but, you gotta be good, you hear?
Re: SciFi and Fantasy fiction. Recently got copy of Vol 7 of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, published in 2013.
It includes a story, ‘Kalabasis’, by one Robert Reed. His author bio includes a 1987 win of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award. The story mentions a character call a ‘Wogfound’. . . the premise of the story includes modified humans taking a recreational hike across a planet with such heavy gravity that they can collapse with shattered bones at any time…etc. Very peculiar relationship to physical pain, I thought. It was uncomfortable enough that I have put off re-reading it for a day or two. . .
This type of nonsense all starts at the top. I spoke with a messenger from the ship days who told me that a few times LRH would speak to her after his normal 4 or 5 hours of sleep and say words to the effect of “I blew up a few planets last night” and then provide details to her. Apparently, they were enemy planets with horrible thetans controlling them. This wasn’t a one-off comment that he made. These types of comments were made often. The amazing part of this is that she felt that he was so delusional that he truly believed that he had done it.
Reading this edition of Regraded Being makes me wonder as a “never in”: are there “senior” staff who voice doubts or are having moral dilemmas about “leading the youngsters astray?” Do they even care about what they’re doing to others? Or do they only worry about their own issues? Do those who have been in CO$ long enough to become disillusioned really have crises of conscience over what their effects have been on others they have interacted with in the Church?
Number 2: They don’t give a fuck about others. All they’re concerned about is not being RPF’d…again.
Number 3: Absolutely not! ‘Disillusionment’ is part and parcel of the cult. The cult has “thought-stopping” techniques so members police their own thoughts so as not to me sec checked.
And after that most enlightening of answers OS Dude, VWD, there’s the scientology bridge, miscavige style. That’ll put a rose in your cheek, zero your finances forever and put that 1000yd glint in your eye. No one will ever recognise you again.
Or in other words, to a orthodox scientologist, relationships, friends and self are dev-t.
I’m sorry, I Yawnalot, but that’s just nattering. You obviously have tons of M/U and overts that you need to confess to. My 1000 yard stare helps me spot SPs when they’re miles away. And really, who needs relationships & friends? After all you hit it right on the nose that is tall Dev-T!
Oh, and thanks for the VWD! Best news I’ve had all day!
Thanx Old Surfer Dude…. That provides some insight, of course if I had ever been “in” I’d probably understand those aspects better…just glad I never went in!
almost like the Nazis saying they were just following orders. I have read enough to believe DM has created such a culture of fear it’s probably everyone for themselves
Delusional cause is one of the byproducts of studying L Ron Hubbard. And to doubt or question that your cause or someone else’s cause is delusional is a HighTech Crime.
Delusional cause is solidified in the mind by the doctrine of “you are evil” for doubting or criticizing Ron or his doctrines.
In a sense, Scientology teaches you to dramatize being a schizophrenic.
If it can be thought, then it is true. When NOTS first came out my OT3 wife was imagining that all the NOTS completions were talking to her telepathically through the birds chirping.
If I questioned her experience I became the “non OT” that just did not know.
So from time to time I believed her, because I believed Ron. I believed in Scientology.
What a dangerous mind fuck. Ron was a loon with the diabolical genius of sounding scientific.
OT 3 really messed up people. From the benevolent grades to the psycho drama of BTs and implants and evil purps has screwed up a generation of truth seekers.
Field auditors that still consider Ron a sage and messiah are today spreading this dangerous psycho drivel.
What is interesting to me regarding the OT 3 story and levels, is that it somehow convinces people that they are composite beings. Not just a whole, well person, but that many, many, beings are influencing emotion, thought, and overall body response and health. The solution is to audit them and become ‘just you’ again. It can only be achieved through Scientology. Then again, it’s Scientology – or Hubbard – that’s telling you that you have the BTs, clusters, implants, and evil purposes to begin with. And Scientology never evaluates for you!
I agree with Brian in calling the Grades benevolent. They are the hook that catches the fish.
Well of course they’re turning to Barney! Who the Hell else would they turn to, Betty? Wilma? I don’t think so.
Briansays
I think Bea, that the doctrine of “what you are experiencing is not your experience but someone else’s”, BTs, causes a split in ones consciousness.
It is the essence of victimhood to blame one’s experience of thoughts and body pressures with an imaginative L Ron Hubbard mental problem: an external force.
Blame on steroids and elevated to sacred church scripture.
“When we blame others for our experience, we surrender our power to change”
The Scuentology doctrine of “you are a thetan and YOU KNOW” is the threshold to the land of Scientology delusional make believe.
Funny–Ayn Rand was a chain smoker up to the moment that her doctor showed her the X-ray image of the tumor in the lung.
I Yawnalotsays
From one terminal to another – bzzzzzzzzz…
The real clincher and justifier is that it’s all “potential” knowingness. That’s a great bait for any philosophical hook.
It’s sort of funny but I read a lot of 1950s stuff by Hubbard and all through it is the distinct separation of the ‘data’ from his opinion of the data and he tells you that over and over. He even makes reference he was a former psyche – hence he’s pissed at them. The PDCs give an enormous amount of time and explanation to self-determinism. By ’65 he was shouting from the roof tops to keep it all working just the way it is, don’t change a damn thing.
But the whole shebang never stopped evolving and changing, the emeter a point in question and its influence on how to “sell & motivate” the subject. Policy was and is a dismal failure by example and the game of scientology evolved into something Hubbard had no idea how to control. It had developed a life of it’s own. So, he just got swept along and with so much reinforcement he was the source he as well as just about everyone else involved became effect of their own cause.
It always astounds me to look and see that such a reputed philosophical subject doesn’t make philosophers – just robots. Perhaps real philosophers wouldn’t involve themselves in the endless “fixation of attention” internet.
I personally don’t have a problem with scientology anymore. I went through that phase of shame,blame & regret a long time ago. I see it kind of like fly fishing now, complex and difficult to get results but it’s made of little pieces which individually are relatively simple, true or workable or not as the case may be at a particular time. Like everything else to do with a business, temptations and counter forces abound and the rough tough world always gobbles up a trusting heart at the slightest chance.
There are lots of miscaviges out there, but only one Hubbard and he’s dead.
Our society in my view is inverting, where the grown ups act more like children every day. Just observe or imagine a political debate without strict controls. Nothing against kids but tantrums are a great escape route when all else fails.
I agree I Yawn. In my yogic lineage it is called Intuition. That part of us that is part of a source of knowing similar to how songs and poems are written. These things are real verities in our experience.
I think we have all experienced a “bigger knowing feeling” that betrayed the mechanical universe model.
But it is slowly develops through practice. It’s not even a goal. It’s an outcome,
My wife can’t surprise me anymore, LOL. I don’t try, it just happens.
Ron mistook knowing, to believing in the big ape in the back seat of the taxi. Then we have the people productof little Rons running around fighting windmills.
I Yawnalotsays
Good points Brian. Another angle on the same type of thing is in a book called,”Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain.” It’s a technique of dropping out the analytical and reactive mind and allowing the aesthetic part of you to gain control. It actually works, but you still have to like drawing to do it or get over the idea that you can’t draw. An example is that almost anyone can draw a picture of a picture as long as it’s upside down. Most artists only look at negative spaces which don’t have a name and draw that rather than the named object in that space. I forget his name but a famous artist once said he views an apple completely differently if he’s going to draw it rather than eat it. You draw the space the apple is in rather than the apple.
It all aligns to an ability I suppose, be it natural, learnt or as you say “an outcome.”
Many views of the same thing result in many interpretations.
Cheers…
BlindersOffsays
I didn’t want to meet her because she couldn’t read.
Here is what I see as a major paradox in thinking. If as in accordance with OTIII we have all these thetans attached to us controlling our subconscious then how are we responsible for any of our actions. How would one know if it is us or some other thetan. Therefore Scientology should have no punishment for our actions and we couldn’t be labeled an SP because our actions might not be our own but of thetans we cannot control. The idea should take away personal responsibility, yet the CO$ punishes and declares SPs so the concept loses all meaning
Jeff, with that kind of analysis policeman would have nothing to do, as no-one is responsible because their subconscious made them do it.
Gee… nice thought though. I’d love to try to explain that to a few coppers who gave me a good but sound thrashing once. However, one death wish a month is my limit.
I Yawnalot, policemen are in the business of enforcing laws. It isn’t their job to consider the internal mechanisms compelling the lawbreaker. Therefore Jeff’s analysis can be relevant without the risk of mayhem in our streets.
That’s why guns are so handy. It bypasses any rationality and any sense of justice is limited thereby to the trigger puller. Bang – problem solved or just point a loaded weapon at someone with intent. Creates quite the effect, trust me.
Policeman make excellent law abiders don’t they? It’s all fine until you bump into a bad one or a corrupt system at play. We need them but until you’ve been severely invalidated by one, everything is just dandy as long as it continues to happen “over there.”
We don’t hear all that much about the negative aspect of law enforcement but in Africa and places like Serbia, Mexico et al it can be pretty terminal if you piss one off.
I would not like to live in any society where the police are robots and where the rule of law is interpreted by morons or zealots.
Imagine someone like miscavige running justice broadly.
Old Surfer Dudesays
Oh man! I’m going to be on a tear now! I’m going to unleash my BTs on Hollywood! I’ll do ANYTHING I want and blame it on them! Wow, this is like Christmas!
There are many problems with ascribing our irrational behaviors to other entities besides the fact that those behaviors can adequately be explained without resorting to exotic answers for which there is no evidence. Your point is a good one.
Another glimpse into the magically fucked up world of scientology. You truly have them nailed RB.
The scientologist must be awfully lonely with only themselves to play with… their mindset getting weirder and weirder is their only (little) friend. There was a great cartoon series once called “Fractured Fairy Tales,” the scientologist’s plight fits right along with that… so sad, yet so real for them.
These EXACT conversations were lifted out of my Sea Org experience and it’s been decades since I’ve recalled them! Many of the guys were totally into the space opera/OT powerz aspect of scientology and that’s all they talked about. At the time I thought they were immature and failing to get the bigger picture but it turned out it was I, not getting the picture. The “bigger picture” was all make-believe from the start.
“…was all make-believe from the start.” Isn’t it amazing how he sold all of that ‘make-believe’ and made a fortune? Nothing is real inside the cult. All of it is make-believe. And you damn well better believe it!
Should you ever find yourself at a cocktail party in which you’ve drunk way too much and accidentally sat in the cheese dip on the coffee table, just say this line while offering your soiled trousers to the hostess for cleaning: “SPACE IS A VIEWPOINT OF DIMENSION”. Your dignity will be restored at once, such is the power of a scientology axiom!
Wait…..you were at that cocktail party too??? In my defense, I was just toasted and that’s why I sat in the cheese dip on the coffee table that soiled my trousers. Gosh, Roger, I was so drunk I didn’t even see you there. I would have come over…..
Dear Kelly, It’s darkest before the dawn (not really, but it’s an apt metaphor). Your realizations and your conscience are showing you the way. Your continued awakening is the best path for you. Walk it to its destination — freedom from mind-control. Your self-interest must be tended to before you can truly help anyone else. When Scientology tells you not to believe your lying eyes, tell them to stuff it.
Why am I talking to Kelly like she’s a real person? Or, is she?
How many have already reached the point of utter clarity that they are enmeshed in a giant unreality, and have not yet made their exit? It’s both heartbreaking and fascinating. Listen to Kelly. She says, “I don’t care if they RPF me until I die.” Not only is she not seeing the exit option, she’s resigned to a condition of non-existence.
Hey gang. Thanks but no defense needed. Sneering, I’m cool with your opinion and I get it. Every painter, writer, singer or even cartoonist has their own style. Some people like it and some don’t. So no matter what I do it will always be the same. Some people will like it and some won’t. My best explanation is that the characters in my cartoons talk to me and they say what they say. I owe it to them to just pass it on exactly as they presented it to me. How’s that?
Perfect answer! JK Rowling talked about Harry Potter in just those terms. It must have been like passing your baby on for adoption when she handed over the character to the film-makers. A great act of trust. (She went on to say that luckily Daniel Radcliffe was more or less how she imagined him).
If you start having 2-way conversations with your drawings, please put down the wine jug, immediately get 10-12 hours of sleep, and have a pot of tea the next morning.
Then over a nice cup of tea, please continue the conversation. Your strips are grand.
Well, yeah! Thanks for asking! I have a cat named Busy Bumpsters who’s 14 lbs. She likes to sit on my chest and I can’t seem to get her off. So, yes to your question.
Oh, shit. I gotta think about this one. Ok…..ummmmmm….Where was I when I was last doing well…. Crap, this is a tough one. There’s so many I don’t know which one to choose. Well, they all happened in Hawai’i in the 70s and had to do with tourist girls and beds, back seat of cars, the lifeguard stands, front seat of car, showers and on the roorof the Kahala Hilton Hotel. There are more, but, my mind can only remember so much….
Whoa dar pardner! Rein that bad boy in.
We don’t want no stinking incident here.
Now… pick one of those back seat episodes and let’s have the details, hold nothing back, ya hear? Time, place, form & event but concentrate on the form…
And her form in the passenger side of my car was exceptional. The time was approx. 7pm. The place was right by the Hilton Hawaiian Hotel. And again her form was spectacular…
Amazingly ironic! I actually was âhandledâ by a young sea org chick who talked JUST LIKE THAT! She was all excited about soon being promoted to âsector 15â and how she was going to be a âcommanderâ. I was a highly classed auditor but she kept insisting that if I saw the orientation film enough, I would have a big cognition. I did. I turned and ran like hell.
Very sad but very funny! The guy giving him the middle finger on the centre picture is a nice touch.
I remember sitting there with others discussing otness, often they would look very knowing as if there was some great mystery to be discovered. Having met several ‘ot’s’ since that time the delusion quickly shattered until I had my own moment of clarity in seeing that because the state of ‘clear’ is so meaningless Hubbard had to create ever further goals to convince people that they might not have got there yet, but keep going (spending) and they will eventually reach the wondrous abilities he convinced us exist. Even now the idiots are eagerly awaiting 9 and 10 for just this reason.
I remember an Ot talking about deep mysteries another Ot had hinted at. He was looking forward to discovering those mysteries for himself. Of course that also got me interested. Group think at its finest
People say that to me all the time. I keep telling them that I’m already lost so they don’t need to tell me to get lost! I don’t understand why THEY don’t understand. Understand?
Wow Mike! I got to tell you I’m really “trackin'” with you on this.
Maybe off topic, but the comic reminded me of this:
My husband comes home one day and all of a sudden he’s “tracking” with me on this and “tracking” me on that. I go, “What do you mean tracking”?. Actually I knew this was new sci lingo he had picked up at the org meaning he “duplicated” me.
Sounds like something George Orwell would invent. To me the entire jargon of Scientology sounds Orwellian and seems clearly intended to limit one’s ability to conceptualize. I still find it hard to believe people actually talk like that.
I used to filter torpedo juice though several loaves of french bread
till the pink color was absorbed by the bread. Then it was OK to drink.
After thrown out of every Bar on Waikiki, they would say go back to the Sub Base
“you can’t throw up here”
Oh Yeah like the movie “the craft” “I can feel him in me,running through my veins” (quoting the Insane crazy padded room girl)
Now for a comparison..
Scientology video,”I can feel ron running through my veins” “I really smell his ink,it’s so Ron”
Eerie
Regarded Being:
I did a rough count of the words in this strip and find it interesting that there are two separate complaints that less than 750 words are too many words for some people to read. I’m glad there are enough words to make the strip thought provoking. I enjoy reading it and hope it continues as it is now.
Thank you for the care and thought you put into it.
RigHt??!! I guess the essays are wayyy to long to even look at. Wtf? It makes no sense they are half the size of one blog entry.
The really ghastly thing is that this is what most of us greenies thought. I thought so called OTs could read my mind, my time track and heaven knows what all else. I thought I was inferior to them.
I remember now – I haven’t had this memory for a couple of decades – thinking that until I came into $cn I’d gotten rid of my inferiority complex. I remember thinking that now I’m in $cn the inferiority complex is back/still there. I thought that maybe what I’d achieved before $cn was a sham because now I’m into some real stuff, you know – $cn. $cn clears up all your old and previous perceptions about yourself that must have been false because outside $cn is not real life.
I remember being pretty self confident, too – until after my entry into $cn. I completely lost that, especially in the face of the fact that there were these OTs, you know, who are all so much better, cleverer, more able and with magic powers!
My goodness, I’ve only right now remembered having these thoughts. How destructive was that! I had the perception of being able before $cn but lost that AFTER $cn.
It’s not true now, of course. I’m myself completely. But coming into $cn actually undid me. What I needed at the time was not $cn but just someone to talk to for about an hour or so to get a few things off my chest – a psychologist, for instance!
Holy maloney!
Bravo!
RB – Nailed it again!!
Spit my cocktail on the screen.
I recall being in the presence of my first Oat Tea’s and thinking they had super natural powers…
they used the F*BOMB every other word – mainlined coffee and cigarettes and stunk like BO and massive doses of Vitamin B
They had no super natural powers, they got lost on the way to the book booth ( I volunteered to help) and seemed to be old and real bitter…cussing up a storm cuz no one was buying the Dianetic Books and they had to spend $2,000 for this Kiosk at the mall….(They were on the “level”). Later – that Oat Tea got Dee-clared and is now out completely!
and I STILL tried to get up to the Bridge…to Oat Tea!
~~~~Cringe~~~~
Yes, me too. It’s “cringe” time, for sure.
“Did you know that there’s a place called Haiti that now won’t have any more earthquakes because of us giving out these books there?”
Yes, and thanks to WTH having been papered all over New Orleans there will never be another hurricane hitting that area, and because this little booklet is printed at Gold Base the entire county will be forever immune to any natural disasters, San Andreas fault or no San Andreas fault…
Lots of chuckles, RB, thanks so much.
Love it as usual your grasp of the scene makes me smile RB
And from those kids you get monsters like Julian Schwartz.
Just finished reading ‘Troublemaker’. OMG! Very , very highly recommended.
For some old timers, he’s Louis Schwartz’ son and a relative of Fred and Gretchen Schwartz.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?32441-who-is-julian-schwartz
Julian is not Gretchen’s son. His mom’s name is Michelle.
The TV Tropes site now has a page on Going Clear:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GoingClear
And a subpage on the Nightmare Fuel aspect:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoingClear
You forgot the standard warning when it comes to linking to TV Tropes: Once you’re inside, you are never leaving. It’s the black hole of the Internet.
I should have remembered that. I get pulled in practically forever every time.
Dave,
Why is Hollywood Boulevard eerily vacant for about a block on the same side as your Test Center? Do people walk on the other side of the street to avoid your minions? Sometimes your minions also cross the street to intercept them. Do tourist maps warn tourists to AVOID your Test Center?
People cross the street so the ‘stupid’ doesn’t rub off on them.
afraid of Space Cooties.
LOL. I actually had an OT once look at me and say “I can’t believe who you were in a past life.”
And BTW, the life of Jimmy is summed up in this Seinfeld episode. First Jimmy thinks he is great. But then, as Hubbard would say, he came a cropper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apa0nG1OfUc
(Raises eyebrow) You know, Les does occasionally speak of himself in the third person when he is being sarcastic.
Please fix the site… I cannot see any image (So cannot see RB).
If I click on a (broken) image i receive: 502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.7.11
Some others on the UB are in my same situation..
So sorry. Admin is working on this with Hosting company to try and resolve. Seems to be an issue outside US.
Works just fine for me here in the Netherlands. đ
Fixed ! Thanks from italy đ
These are getting too long to bother reading any more. đ I have not read the last three.
Keep practicing. Reading gets easier with practice.
Inb4 Study Tech đ
I sur does knows dat!
Eileen – LOL X2 – Maybe just an OTEE that hides his reading glasses and looking for an excuse
I hid my reading glasses years ago. Never found them….
VM.. You must have come across a M/U…get a Webster’s dictionary…
VM it’s a shame you don’t read them. They are excellent. Most blog posts are this long or longer. I am glad I have the 5-10 minutes it takes to digest these strips. Well worth the read.
Too funny! I was on the floor with those first frames!
Tom Cruise is moving up in the world. Co-Chairman of the Board??
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2015/11/19/tom-cruise-to-become-coleader-of-churc
This is how David Miscavige operates, Tom Cruise will be left
holding the bag, blamed for everything. D.M.with all the money on
his private estate in the south of France listed as Ditmar Rattlehamer Senior.
(that’s a secret so don’t spread it around)
tc has only one attribute – he can act. In his world pretence is not a rude word.
I wonder in the ‘quiet’ moments, when he’s done counting today’s money, what tc’s lawyer actually thinks of him?
That was my thought as well. If the article is true not only will Cruise destroy his career but be a co conspirator when it all comes crashing down. This is probably what MisCavge wants. He will disappear with Cruise left holding the bag. Huge headlines when Tom Cruise goes to jail for abuses by the COS
Cruise is ALL IN.
I definitely agree. I cannot even watch his movies anymore, even the ones I enjoy because it makes me angry. He has to know the truth about the CO$ and his little bff. So even though I used to enjoy the mission impossible movies I refused to see the new one because I don’t want to give a dime to CO$ or a man who choose an organization of epic abuse over his daughter and who turned two of his kids against their mother. He and his pal are indistinguishable to me
Now that is an interesting read. I’m torn between believing it’s pure crap to not being surprised at all at such a development. All along I’ve had my ideas about the weird relationship between dm & tc. tc gets lower case with me now, he a dipstick, and he’s earned it. But tc & dm are a couple (?) not quite sure what, but they are a couple that share more than we’ll ever know. If he takes on the pseudo SO post of 2IC of scientology officially – GOOD! That will show just what an idiot organisation it really is to anyone who even takes a casual or passing interest in it.
Bullet ridden foot meet mouth – scientology’s answer for everything.
It makes sense that David Miscavige knows Scientology is a DEAD DUCK
Getting Tom Cruise to shoe in as another COB give Davey the opportunity
to cut and run blaming Cruise for everything fucked up that Miscavige himself did !!! .
I’ll bet on this is it as far fetched as it seems.
Are you sure that link about Tom being Co-chairman isn’t a spoof?
I was one of those sci-fi idiots.I had read every sci fi book from Asimov to Zelazny. When I was doing my Academy levels at SF Org, we had a visit from Ron’s son Quentin. He told us tales of the history of this sector of the galaxy and that the Sea Org had secret bases where working space ships were kept. I ate up the stories about Marcab and their war with Brotherhood of the Snake. This was exactly what my addled mind was looking for. I would have joined the Sea Org. Thank God for LSD.
With their current attrition rate, it would not be unforeseeable to waive the LSD rule.
+1! Yep, Corn of the COB will suddenly come up with “missing data” that show it’s ok to have taken LSD and be in the SO.
Yet another piece of cognitive dissonance:
If Scientology handles drugs completely, why would someone who took LSD and has attested to a full drug rundown be unqualified for the Sea Org? Let me know when you have the answer.
Blinders – you just don’t get it, that’s all.
We of the ether waft about knowing shit. And lots of that happens too.
Work hard, keep your nose clean and one day we’ll let you in on a little secret… but, you gotta be good, you hear?
Holy shit! I’ll be good! I’ll be good! I promise!
What do they need more Sea Org members for? To service whom?
Expansion at any cost.
Ummmm…each other?
They did that before – why not again?
Bodies in the shop – who cares about their mental state, they all end up the same if they stay in.
Re: SciFi and Fantasy fiction. Recently got copy of Vol 7 of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, published in 2013.
It includes a story, ‘Kalabasis’, by one Robert Reed. His author bio includes a 1987 win of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award. The story mentions a character call a ‘Wogfound’. . . the premise of the story includes modified humans taking a recreational hike across a planet with such heavy gravity that they can collapse with shattered bones at any time…etc. Very peculiar relationship to physical pain, I thought. It was uncomfortable enough that I have put off re-reading it for a day or two. . .
correction: title is ‘Katabasis’.
If Jimmy plays his cards right he could get promoted to caretaker for COB’s John Lobb collection.
Apple polisher to shoe polisher? Sounds about right.
This type of nonsense all starts at the top. I spoke with a messenger from the ship days who told me that a few times LRH would speak to her after his normal 4 or 5 hours of sleep and say words to the effect of “I blew up a few planets last night” and then provide details to her. Apparently, they were enemy planets with horrible thetans controlling them. This wasn’t a one-off comment that he made. These types of comments were made often. The amazing part of this is that she felt that he was so delusional that he truly believed that he had done it.
Reading this edition of Regraded Being makes me wonder as a “never in”: are there “senior” staff who voice doubts or are having moral dilemmas about “leading the youngsters astray?” Do they even care about what they’re doing to others? Or do they only worry about their own issues? Do those who have been in CO$ long enough to become disillusioned really have crises of conscience over what their effects have been on others they have interacted with in the Church?
Bruce, let me take it one question at a time:
Number 1: Never! They’d be RPF’d immediately.
Number 2: They don’t give a fuck about others. All they’re concerned about is not being RPF’d…again.
Number 3: Absolutely not! ‘Disillusionment’ is part and parcel of the cult. The cult has “thought-stopping” techniques so members police their own thoughts so as not to me sec checked.
Hope this helps…
OSD, That is a pass.
Whew! Thanks threefeetback! I was sweatin’ it for awhile…
And after that most enlightening of answers OS Dude, VWD, there’s the scientology bridge, miscavige style. That’ll put a rose in your cheek, zero your finances forever and put that 1000yd glint in your eye. No one will ever recognise you again.
Or in other words, to a orthodox scientologist, relationships, friends and self are dev-t.
I’m sorry, I Yawnalot, but that’s just nattering. You obviously have tons of M/U and overts that you need to confess to. My 1000 yard stare helps me spot SPs when they’re miles away. And really, who needs relationships & friends? After all you hit it right on the nose that is tall Dev-T!
Oh, and thanks for the VWD! Best news I’ve had all day!
My overts and assorted crimes are all mine & you can’t have them.
I’ll go you halves on the mu’s though.
All three of us can share out-lists – I know there’s some Christmas presents I forgot to buy.
let me dwell on that…
I couldn’t work up at Gold because my Int was out.
I think we’ve become the, Three Musty Steers!
The Three Must Have Beers
I’ll take you up on the M/Us. But, my overts and assorted crimes are bigger than yours…so there!
Thanx Old Surfer Dude…. That provides some insight, of course if I had ever been “in” I’d probably understand those aspects better…just glad I never went in!
Bruce, I’m not exaggerating one bit when I say to you, you dodged a fate worse than death never being in. Congrats! I wish I had NEVER been in.
almost like the Nazis saying they were just following orders. I have read enough to believe DM has created such a culture of fear it’s probably everyone for themselves
This is a very good question and one I have wondered myself.
I’ve wondered myself many times. But…it always gave me a headache. So I stopped….
Delusional cause is one of the byproducts of studying L Ron Hubbard. And to doubt or question that your cause or someone else’s cause is delusional is a HighTech Crime.
Delusional cause is solidified in the mind by the doctrine of “you are evil” for doubting or criticizing Ron or his doctrines.
In a word: brainwashed or hypnotized
In a sense, Scientology teaches you to dramatize being a schizophrenic.
If it can be thought, then it is true. When NOTS first came out my OT3 wife was imagining that all the NOTS completions were talking to her telepathically through the birds chirping.
If I questioned her experience I became the “non OT” that just did not know.
So from time to time I believed her, because I believed Ron. I believed in Scientology.
What a dangerous mind fuck. Ron was a loon with the diabolical genius of sounding scientific.
OT 3 really messed up people. From the benevolent grades to the psycho drama of BTs and implants and evil purps has screwed up a generation of truth seekers.
Field auditors that still consider Ron a sage and messiah are today spreading this dangerous psycho drivel.
What is interesting to me regarding the OT 3 story and levels, is that it somehow convinces people that they are composite beings. Not just a whole, well person, but that many, many, beings are influencing emotion, thought, and overall body response and health. The solution is to audit them and become ‘just you’ again. It can only be achieved through Scientology. Then again, it’s Scientology – or Hubbard – that’s telling you that you have the BTs, clusters, implants, and evil purposes to begin with. And Scientology never evaluates for you!
I agree with Brian in calling the Grades benevolent. They are the hook that catches the fish.
Thanks RB for shining the light.
We object to your comment.
ALL of us? Even the little pebbles?
OMG! Not the little pebbles! What will the Flintstones do without her? The good people of Bedrock have heavy hearts today…..
It’s all turning to Rubble… yab a dab a doo!!
Well of course they’re turning to Barney! Who the Hell else would they turn to, Betty? Wilma? I don’t think so.
I think Bea, that the doctrine of “what you are experiencing is not your experience but someone else’s”, BTs, causes a split in ones consciousness.
It is the essence of victimhood to blame one’s experience of thoughts and body pressures with an imaginative L Ron Hubbard mental problem: an external force.
Blame on steroids and elevated to sacred church scripture.
“When we blame others for our experience, we surrender our power to change”
The Scuentology doctrine of “you are a thetan and YOU KNOW” is the threshold to the land of Scientology delusional make believe.
If it reads on a meter, if I can think it…………..
Then it must be true. Because Ron said so.
Yep! It must be true! And, Brian, I hope you’re smoking up a storm as LRH said,”Smoking doesn’t cause cancer. Not smoking enough causes cancer.
You see, plain as the nose on your face…..
Funny–Ayn Rand was a chain smoker up to the moment that her doctor showed her the X-ray image of the tumor in the lung.
From one terminal to another – bzzzzzzzzz…
The real clincher and justifier is that it’s all “potential” knowingness. That’s a great bait for any philosophical hook.
It’s sort of funny but I read a lot of 1950s stuff by Hubbard and all through it is the distinct separation of the ‘data’ from his opinion of the data and he tells you that over and over. He even makes reference he was a former psyche – hence he’s pissed at them. The PDCs give an enormous amount of time and explanation to self-determinism. By ’65 he was shouting from the roof tops to keep it all working just the way it is, don’t change a damn thing.
But the whole shebang never stopped evolving and changing, the emeter a point in question and its influence on how to “sell & motivate” the subject. Policy was and is a dismal failure by example and the game of scientology evolved into something Hubbard had no idea how to control. It had developed a life of it’s own. So, he just got swept along and with so much reinforcement he was the source he as well as just about everyone else involved became effect of their own cause.
It always astounds me to look and see that such a reputed philosophical subject doesn’t make philosophers – just robots. Perhaps real philosophers wouldn’t involve themselves in the endless “fixation of attention” internet.
I personally don’t have a problem with scientology anymore. I went through that phase of shame,blame & regret a long time ago. I see it kind of like fly fishing now, complex and difficult to get results but it’s made of little pieces which individually are relatively simple, true or workable or not as the case may be at a particular time. Like everything else to do with a business, temptations and counter forces abound and the rough tough world always gobbles up a trusting heart at the slightest chance.
There are lots of miscaviges out there, but only one Hubbard and he’s dead.
Our society in my view is inverting, where the grown ups act more like children every day. Just observe or imagine a political debate without strict controls. Nothing against kids but tantrums are a great escape route when all else fails.
I agree I Yawn. In my yogic lineage it is called Intuition. That part of us that is part of a source of knowing similar to how songs and poems are written. These things are real verities in our experience.
I think we have all experienced a “bigger knowing feeling” that betrayed the mechanical universe model.
But it is slowly develops through practice. It’s not even a goal. It’s an outcome,
My wife can’t surprise me anymore, LOL. I don’t try, it just happens.
Ron mistook knowing, to believing in the big ape in the back seat of the taxi. Then we have the people productof little Rons running around fighting windmills.
Good points Brian. Another angle on the same type of thing is in a book called,”Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain.” It’s a technique of dropping out the analytical and reactive mind and allowing the aesthetic part of you to gain control. It actually works, but you still have to like drawing to do it or get over the idea that you can’t draw. An example is that almost anyone can draw a picture of a picture as long as it’s upside down. Most artists only look at negative spaces which don’t have a name and draw that rather than the named object in that space. I forget his name but a famous artist once said he views an apple completely differently if he’s going to draw it rather than eat it. You draw the space the apple is in rather than the apple.
It all aligns to an ability I suppose, be it natural, learnt or as you say “an outcome.”
Many views of the same thing result in many interpretations.
Cheers…
I didn’t want to meet her because she couldn’t read.
Oh…then I guess you’re really going to hate me.
I love everyone except those I don’t.
Here is what I see as a major paradox in thinking. If as in accordance with OTIII we have all these thetans attached to us controlling our subconscious then how are we responsible for any of our actions. How would one know if it is us or some other thetan. Therefore Scientology should have no punishment for our actions and we couldn’t be labeled an SP because our actions might not be our own but of thetans we cannot control. The idea should take away personal responsibility, yet the CO$ punishes and declares SPs so the concept loses all meaning
There you go again with your logic.
We’ve warned you about this before, Jeff!
Jeff, with that kind of analysis policeman would have nothing to do, as no-one is responsible because their subconscious made them do it.
Gee… nice thought though. I’d love to try to explain that to a few coppers who gave me a good but sound thrashing once. However, one death wish a month is my limit.
I Yawnalot, policemen are in the business of enforcing laws. It isn’t their job to consider the internal mechanisms compelling the lawbreaker. Therefore Jeff’s analysis can be relevant without the risk of mayhem in our streets.
That’s why guns are so handy. It bypasses any rationality and any sense of justice is limited thereby to the trigger puller. Bang – problem solved or just point a loaded weapon at someone with intent. Creates quite the effect, trust me.
Policeman make excellent law abiders don’t they? It’s all fine until you bump into a bad one or a corrupt system at play. We need them but until you’ve been severely invalidated by one, everything is just dandy as long as it continues to happen “over there.”
We don’t hear all that much about the negative aspect of law enforcement but in Africa and places like Serbia, Mexico et al it can be pretty terminal if you piss one off.
I would not like to live in any society where the police are robots and where the rule of law is interpreted by morons or zealots.
Imagine someone like miscavige running justice broadly.
Oh man! I’m going to be on a tear now! I’m going to unleash my BTs on Hollywood! I’ll do ANYTHING I want and blame it on them! Wow, this is like Christmas!
There are many problems with ascribing our irrational behaviors to other entities besides the fact that those behaviors can adequately be explained without resorting to exotic answers for which there is no evidence. Your point is a good one.
Talking to her through birds chirping! Just think about it — Son of Sam was so named because he was getting instructions from his neighbor’s dog, Sam.
Wait….what? You don’t get messages from the birds, hgc? Super Power can fix that!
Another glimpse into the magically fucked up world of scientology. You truly have them nailed RB.
The scientologist must be awfully lonely with only themselves to play with… their mindset getting weirder and weirder is their only (little) friend. There was a great cartoon series once called “Fractured Fairy Tales,” the scientologist’s plight fits right along with that… so sad, yet so real for them.
These EXACT conversations were lifted out of my Sea Org experience and it’s been decades since I’ve recalled them! Many of the guys were totally into the space opera/OT powerz aspect of scientology and that’s all they talked about. At the time I thought they were immature and failing to get the bigger picture but it turned out it was I, not getting the picture. The “bigger picture” was all make-believe from the start.
“…was all make-believe from the start.” Isn’t it amazing how he sold all of that ‘make-believe’ and made a fortune? Nothing is real inside the cult. All of it is make-believe. And you damn well better believe it!
Should you ever find yourself at a cocktail party in which you’ve drunk way too much and accidentally sat in the cheese dip on the coffee table, just say this line while offering your soiled trousers to the hostess for cleaning: “SPACE IS A VIEWPOINT OF DIMENSION”. Your dignity will be restored at once, such is the power of a scientology axiom!
Wait…..you were at that cocktail party too??? In my defense, I was just toasted and that’s why I sat in the cheese dip on the coffee table that soiled my trousers. Gosh, Roger, I was so drunk I didn’t even see you there. I would have come over…..
Dear Kelly, It’s darkest before the dawn (not really, but it’s an apt metaphor). Your realizations and your conscience are showing you the way. Your continued awakening is the best path for you. Walk it to its destination — freedom from mind-control. Your self-interest must be tended to before you can truly help anyone else. When Scientology tells you not to believe your lying eyes, tell them to stuff it.
Why am I talking to Kelly like she’s a real person? Or, is she?
There’s a shrink that would like to talk with you, hgc.
Not if I see him first! Ha ha!
You don’t understand the history of Nonsense, OSD. I do. Now excuse me while I go jump on this couch. Ha ha!
Hey!!! Wait just a dog gone minute, hgc! I want to jump on that couch too, ya know! Don’t try to leave me out of this!
“Why am I talking to Kelly like sheâs a real person? Or, is she?”
I had a similar reaction. It was “Kelly is going to blow as soon as she sobers up, right? RIGHT?”
How many have already reached the point of utter clarity that they are enmeshed in a giant unreality, and have not yet made their exit? It’s both heartbreaking and fascinating. Listen to Kelly. She says, “I don’t care if they RPF me until I die.” Not only is she not seeing the exit option, she’s resigned to a condition of non-existence.
I enjoy RB and its observations – however there’s a little bit too much dialogue for a comic strip.
Brevity would make much sharper.
Your opinion is incorrect.
+1.
I like it just as it is.
+1.
I respectfully disagree. I read every word and each word is necessary to pack the perfect punch. RB Nails it every time.
+1.
Hey gang. Thanks but no defense needed. Sneering, I’m cool with your opinion and I get it. Every painter, writer, singer or even cartoonist has their own style. Some people like it and some don’t. So no matter what I do it will always be the same. Some people will like it and some won’t. My best explanation is that the characters in my cartoons talk to me and they say what they say. I owe it to them to just pass it on exactly as they presented it to me. How’s that?
And for all you OSA agents reading this, this is how you respond to criticism. With tact and grace. Not attacking or creating crimes for the critic.
“Studius Judius fuck you.” OSA
Perfect answer! JK Rowling talked about Harry Potter in just those terms. It must have been like passing your baby on for adoption when she handed over the character to the film-makers. A great act of trust. (She went on to say that luckily Daniel Radcliffe was more or less how she imagined him).
Makes sense.
I think the comics (sketches?) are great and love to imagine little shuffle-shitty-ass himself MissSavage’s face while reading them.
Keep em coming ?
Just make sure they are not birds or dogs.
If you start having 2-way conversations with your drawings, please put down the wine jug, immediately get 10-12 hours of sleep, and have a pot of tea the next morning.
Then over a nice cup of tea, please continue the conversation. Your strips are grand.
Anything else you’d like to get off your chest?
Well, yeah! Thanks for asking! I have a cat named Busy Bumpsters who’s 14 lbs. She likes to sit on my chest and I can’t seem to get her off. So, yes to your question.
A few gray hairs.
What word did you go past you didn’t fully understand?
Where were you last doing well?
mmmmm?
Oh, shit. I gotta think about this one. Ok…..ummmmmm….Where was I when I was last doing well…. Crap, this is a tough one. There’s so many I don’t know which one to choose. Well, they all happened in Hawai’i in the 70s and had to do with tourist girls and beds, back seat of cars, the lifeguard stands, front seat of car, showers and on the roorof the Kahala Hilton Hotel. There are more, but, my mind can only remember so much….
Whoa dar pardner! Rein that bad boy in.
We don’t want no stinking incident here.
Now… pick one of those back seat episodes and let’s have the details, hold nothing back, ya hear? Time, place, form & event but concentrate on the form…
And her form in the passenger side of my car was exceptional. The time was approx. 7pm. The place was right by the Hilton Hawaiian Hotel. And again her form was spectacular…
Amazingly ironic! I actually was âhandledâ by a young sea org chick who talked JUST LIKE THAT! She was all excited about soon being promoted to âsector 15â and how she was going to be a âcommanderâ. I was a highly classed auditor but she kept insisting that if I saw the orientation film enough, I would have a big cognition. I did. I turned and ran like hell.
Grasshopper, time for you to leave Temple…
Oh yeah, and still gone after all these years.
That’s: Regraded Being! Sorry, still working on my 1st cup of coffee.
Usually you need, at least, two cups of coffee in you to post here. Better, though, if you have 4 or 5…
Very sad but very funny! The guy giving him the middle finger on the centre picture is a nice touch.
I remember sitting there with others discussing otness, often they would look very knowing as if there was some great mystery to be discovered. Having met several ‘ot’s’ since that time the delusion quickly shattered until I had my own moment of clarity in seeing that because the state of ‘clear’ is so meaningless Hubbard had to create ever further goals to convince people that they might not have got there yet, but keep going (spending) and they will eventually reach the wondrous abilities he convinced us exist. Even now the idiots are eagerly awaiting 9 and 10 for just this reason.
I remember an Ot talking about deep mysteries another Ot had hinted at. He was looking forward to discovering those mysteries for himself. Of course that also got me interested. Group think at its finest
“Get lost, you idiot!” – gotta love your way with words, Regarded Being!
People say that to me all the time. I keep telling them that I’m already lost so they don’t need to tell me to get lost! I don’t understand why THEY don’t understand. Understand?
Wow Mike! I got to tell you I’m really “trackin'” with you on this.
Maybe off topic, but the comic reminded me of this:
My husband comes home one day and all of a sudden he’s “tracking” with me on this and “tracking” me on that. I go, “What do you mean tracking”?. Actually I knew this was new sci lingo he had picked up at the org meaning he “duplicated” me.
Bothered me to no end.
Sounds like something George Orwell would invent. To me the entire jargon of Scientology sounds Orwellian and seems clearly intended to limit one’s ability to conceptualize. I still find it hard to believe people actually talk like that.
I know. It’s like we’re special and we need our own “special” language. Regular English doesn’t quite cut it. Arghhhhhhh!
You should have said, “oh, you mean you grok me. How cromulent of you.”
Truth Revealed , I’ll have a Singapore Slinger,make it a double.
Just a double, Jose? Really? Not sure you should go drinking with me.
I’ll have a Colorado Bulldog. How’s that for jargon?
RB, just keep doing what you’re doing – short or long – I laugh – I cry. You get it.
Hey, you want to go bar hopping with Jose and me? I’d love to see you wasted!
I used to filter torpedo juice though several loaves of french bread
till the pink color was absorbed by the bread. Then it was OK to drink.
After thrown out of every Bar on Waikiki, they would say go back to the Sub Base
“you can’t throw up here”
đ So funny.
What year and which bar?