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Regraded Being

June 10, 2022 By Mike Rinder 14 Comments

RB is taking a summer vacation spell with family. So for the next few weeks we will have some oldies but goodies.

 

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  1. Peggy L says

    June 11, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    I really look forward to these. It would be great if just some were selected that deal with all things cult could be put in a hand out to the sea org kids when the are out on the street handing out their happiness booklets. For sure, if they read even a few they might identify with the insanity of where they are and what they are tossing their life away to support. Hey kids, there’s a big world out there for you to explore!

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  2. James Rosso says

    June 10, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    Pigs in a blanket are awesome, and they have a solid plan.
    I can already hear the Mission Impossible theme

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    • Imaberrated says

      June 10, 2022 at 9:46 pm

      I used to love the food at events. I didn’t have to be as covert as these guys, but eating a lot was frowned on.

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    • Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass says

      June 12, 2022 at 9:27 am

      You mean that you never made it to the RPF.Neither did I. Although I was inside the OTVIII coursebook on Opening Day June 6 1989 I never made it to the OTLevels. My main beef with Son is not that I did not make it to the OO levels but never made it to the RPF.

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  3. Jere Lull says

    June 10, 2022 at 8:35 pm

    Oh, right! ‘ethics’, which really means “following orders” is superior to “wog” law…. And to think *I* used to think the same. Since I was tossed out unceremoniously, I’ve discovered that US law has one MAJOR advantage: The accused has SOME chance of being found not guilty. that’s NOT so in scientology. If charges are brought, they’re guilty. OR the committee is found guilty of the same accusations and are so punished.

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    • James Rosso says

      June 10, 2022 at 9:37 pm

      All cults have some version of this. JWs have ‘judicial committees’ which purport to act like a trial, but the prosecution, judge and jury are 3 elders, and you have no defense counsel (or even warning (until you’re invited); and even then you’re not told what it’s about so you can’t prepare. You ARE guilty, and the only thing on trial is the amount of remorse you can convince them you feel.

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    • Alcoboy says

      June 11, 2022 at 12:08 am

      Know what you mean. When I was on staff at CCNashville I was assigned to the book booth at a nearby mall. Didn’t sell a damn book! I loudly voiced my opinion that it was a bad location. Big mistake as that mall space had been chosen by the Sea Org and, of course, they are the most ethical beings on the planet. Hence I would up on lower conditions. Never mind that I wasn’t aware of the PL that forbade public nattering. Sorry but ignorance of PLs is no excuse.
      Maybe I should have blown at that point.

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      • Alcoboy says

        June 11, 2022 at 12:38 pm

        Meant to say I WOUND up in lower conditions.

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  4. Alcoboy says

    June 10, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    Just make sure they don’t get busted by Timmy the snitch whose parents are whales. Oh, wait. Even when Timmy snitches he still gets sent to the RPF along with the people he snitched on.

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  5. ISNOINews says

    June 10, 2022 at 2:12 pm

    O/T. Academic paper: The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement: Scientology Individual as an Ethical Subject, by Ofer Parchev.

    Review of European Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2019).

    https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/view/0/40888

    * * * * * BEGIN ABSTRACT * * * * *

    Abstract

    New religion movements are one of the most interesting social phenomena in recent decades. As an alternative communal and individualist way of life, these movements offer a transcendental, non-secular way of life that challenges the values of liberal society while remaining within its legal and normative boundaries. In the course of this paper, and by using an analytical description of Foucault’s assumptions, I will examine the discursive and practical operation of the Scientology Church as a new religion movement that transcends the individual subject. I will describe the themes of Scientology as pastoral techniques, and its neo-liberal subjective constitution as a part of the conservative, normative mechanism of modern Western society, while arguing that they pose, at the same time, a potential ethical alternative that subverts the epistemological boundaries of Western liberal society.

    * * * * * END ABSTRACT * * * * *

    Direct link to full paper:

    https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/download/0/0/40888/43021

    The paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License:

    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    /

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  6. otherles says

    June 10, 2022 at 9:32 am

    Some people don’t understand why they’re opposed.

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    • Alcoboy says

      June 10, 2022 at 3:15 pm

      They don’t want to understand.

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      • Dead Man Talking Bill Straass says

        June 13, 2022 at 6:49 am

        They will understand eventually, the real question is will they be alive still when they do.
        You, my friend clearly still are.

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        • Alcoboy says

          June 13, 2022 at 7:48 am

          Thanks, Bill!

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