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		By: Jane Doe 2		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319049&quot;&gt;Mother Hubbard&lt;/a&gt;.

Mother Hubbard,  I&#039;m glad to hear your win with your SO daughter.  Do you think she may be UTR?  Is she still in the SO?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319049">Mother Hubbard</a>.</p>
<p>Mother Hubbard,  I&#8217;m glad to hear your win with your SO daughter.  Do you think she may be UTR?  Is she still in the SO?</p>
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		By: Balletlady		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319133</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-318982&quot;&gt;Old Surfer Dude&lt;/a&gt;.

My wonderful Grand Uncle once said to me: &quot;Nobody ever listens to me&quot;...….

    to which I replied:

                                         &quot;What&#039;d you say&quot;...……………..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-318982">Old Surfer Dude</a>.</p>
<p>My wonderful Grand Uncle once said to me: &#8220;Nobody ever listens to me&#8221;&#8230;….</p>
<p>    to which I replied:</p>
<p>                                         &#8220;What&#8217;d you say&#8221;&#8230;……………..</p>
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		By: Balletlady		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319112&quot;&gt;Aquamarine&lt;/a&gt;.

Amen to what you&#039;ve said.....I DO know a woman who was TERRIFIED to leave the J.W,&#039;s because her ENTIRE family is so immersed in it she would have been &quot;disconnected&quot; ….or &quot;de-fellowshipped&quot; &#038; once she could not take it any longer....she submitted her &quot;papers&quot; &#038; was immediately &quot;kicked out&quot;.

Her family won&#039;t have anything to do with her...like Mike&#039;s now adult children....they are in it for life.....

FEAR is the biggest motivator to stay in despite all the bullshit &#038; lies....my friend could not bring herself to &quot;do it&quot; for many years.  Now even her HUSBAND won&#039;t talk to her &#038; has filed divorce papers......but she IS FREE!

Although those still in are NOT of low I.Q. or intellectually challenged...in a WAY they ARE....they know not of the outside &#038; want that DAMNED MEAT BODY &#038; NEW LIFE.

It would be magical IF they would &quot;grow a pair&quot; &#038; just LEAVE......for some how do you get OUT of &quot;the hole&quot; when you&#039;re locked in...how do you get outside the LOCKED GATE....when you are &quot;restrained&quot; or CHASED DOWN.....like a lovely person who escaped on a scooter &#038; was literally PUSHED OFF THE HIGHWAY by the COS HOUNDS FROM HELL

I written letters to no avail...seems like &quot;the authorities&quot; fear another FLDS fiasco where the women in the compound DEMANDED to go back to the ONLY LIFE THEY&#039;VE EVER KNOWN.  Sometimes that&#039;s enough to keep someone in.....FEAR of the unknown. 

I hope some of them wake up...as noted...many are now in advanced years...WHAT do they have to look forward to with NO Social Security, NO Retirement Check...NO NOTHING.....too damned sad.

My best wishes &#038; love Aqua to you &#038; yours.....Mike...the same for you &#038; your darling wife and beautiful kids.  I know you forgive Taryn....she doesn&#039;t get it &#038; maybe never will....I hope she finds peace one day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319112">Aquamarine</a>.</p>
<p>Amen to what you&#8217;ve said&#8230;..I DO know a woman who was TERRIFIED to leave the J.W,&#8217;s because her ENTIRE family is so immersed in it she would have been &#8220;disconnected&#8221; ….or &#8220;de-fellowshipped&#8221; &amp; once she could not take it any longer&#8230;.she submitted her &#8220;papers&#8221; &amp; was immediately &#8220;kicked out&#8221;.</p>
<p>Her family won&#8217;t have anything to do with her&#8230;like Mike&#8217;s now adult children&#8230;.they are in it for life&#8230;..</p>
<p>FEAR is the biggest motivator to stay in despite all the bullshit &amp; lies&#8230;.my friend could not bring herself to &#8220;do it&#8221; for many years.  Now even her HUSBAND won&#8217;t talk to her &amp; has filed divorce papers&#8230;&#8230;but she IS FREE!</p>
<p>Although those still in are NOT of low I.Q. or intellectually challenged&#8230;in a WAY they ARE&#8230;.they know not of the outside &amp; want that DAMNED MEAT BODY &amp; NEW LIFE.</p>
<p>It would be magical IF they would &#8220;grow a pair&#8221; &amp; just LEAVE&#8230;&#8230;for some how do you get OUT of &#8220;the hole&#8221; when you&#8217;re locked in&#8230;how do you get outside the LOCKED GATE&#8230;.when you are &#8220;restrained&#8221; or CHASED DOWN&#8230;..like a lovely person who escaped on a scooter &amp; was literally PUSHED OFF THE HIGHWAY by the COS HOUNDS FROM HELL</p>
<p>I written letters to no avail&#8230;seems like &#8220;the authorities&#8221; fear another FLDS fiasco where the women in the compound DEMANDED to go back to the ONLY LIFE THEY&#8217;VE EVER KNOWN.  Sometimes that&#8217;s enough to keep someone in&#8230;..FEAR of the unknown. </p>
<p>I hope some of them wake up&#8230;as noted&#8230;many are now in advanced years&#8230;WHAT do they have to look forward to with NO Social Security, NO Retirement Check&#8230;NO NOTHING&#8230;..too damned sad.</p>
<p>My best wishes &amp; love Aqua to you &amp; yours&#8230;..Mike&#8230;the same for you &amp; your darling wife and beautiful kids.  I know you forgive Taryn&#8230;.she doesn&#8217;t get it &amp; maybe never will&#8230;.I hope she finds peace one day.</p>
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		By: Old Surfer Dude		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-318998&quot;&gt;KatherineINCali&lt;/a&gt;.

That&#039;s because I read your thoughts.  Didn&#039;t know that, did you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-318998">KatherineINCali</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because I read your thoughts.  Didn&#8217;t know that, did you!</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319111&quot;&gt;Aquamarine&lt;/a&gt;.

Edit:  &quot;There&#039;s nothing WE who are NOW out of the cult did that THEY cannot do.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319111">Aquamarine</a>.</p>
<p>Edit:  &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing WE who are NOW out of the cult did that THEY cannot do.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-318958&quot;&gt;Balletlady&lt;/a&gt;.

Balletlady,

Its obvious to me what a kind person you are and how much you care and want to help, to fight the injustice that is so apparent to you yet not so to the Still Ins.

its obvious to me how much you want to help :)

HOW the Still Ins are going to &quot;escape&quot;  - including Stil- In &quot;kids&quot; pushing 30 or 40 years old -  HOW they are going to extricate themselves from the cult, is THEIR problem.

Every one of them is perfectly capable of 1) observing the obvious, 2) Processing the truth 3) Deciding to leave and 4) Figuring out HOW he or she is going to leave and 5) LEAVING.

There&#039;s nothing WE who are not OUT of the cult did that THEY cannot do.

Don&#039;t forget; they are ADULTS.  Legal adults.  No one is RESTRAINING them physically (that would be kidnapping and grounds for the FBI to swarm in.)  From a legal standpoint, they are being who they want to be and doing what they want to do.

YES, they are brainwashed, but so what?

We were brainwashed too, and we left!  WE figured out how.  

 I mean, respectfully, we&#039;re not GENIUSES.  (Except for you of course, Wynski :) )
Leaving the cult is not easy but once the DECISION is made, it isn&#039;t complicated, and a way to get out is ALWAYS possible.

So don&#039;t worry about how the brainwashed still ins are going to get out.

They&#039;re not retards; they can and will figure it out for themselves, each of them.

Or, they&#039;ll be too weak, character-wise, and they&#039;ll stay in.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-318958">Balletlady</a>.</p>
<p>Balletlady,</p>
<p>Its obvious to me what a kind person you are and how much you care and want to help, to fight the injustice that is so apparent to you yet not so to the Still Ins.</p>
<p>its obvious to me how much you want to help 🙂</p>
<p>HOW the Still Ins are going to &#8220;escape&#8221;  &#8211; including Stil- In &#8220;kids&#8221; pushing 30 or 40 years old &#8211;  HOW they are going to extricate themselves from the cult, is THEIR problem.</p>
<p>Every one of them is perfectly capable of 1) observing the obvious, 2) Processing the truth 3) Deciding to leave and 4) Figuring out HOW he or she is going to leave and 5) LEAVING.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing WE who are not OUT of the cult did that THEY cannot do.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget; they are ADULTS.  Legal adults.  No one is RESTRAINING them physically (that would be kidnapping and grounds for the FBI to swarm in.)  From a legal standpoint, they are being who they want to be and doing what they want to do.</p>
<p>YES, they are brainwashed, but so what?</p>
<p>We were brainwashed too, and we left!  WE figured out how.  </p>
<p> I mean, respectfully, we&#8217;re not GENIUSES.  (Except for you of course, Wynski 🙂 )<br />
Leaving the cult is not easy but once the DECISION is made, it isn&#8217;t complicated, and a way to get out is ALWAYS possible.</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t worry about how the brainwashed still ins are going to get out.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re not retards; they can and will figure it out for themselves, each of them.</p>
<p>Or, they&#8217;ll be too weak, character-wise, and they&#8217;ll stay in.</p>
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		By: Mike Rinder		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319060&quot;&gt;Skyler&lt;/a&gt;.

Yes it is something Hubbard (“Source”) said.

It means if stats are up don’t complain about it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/happy-new-year-5/#comment-319060">Skyler</a>.</p>
<p>Yes it is something Hubbard (“Source”) said.</p>
<p>It means if stats are up don’t complain about it.</p>
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		By: Skyler		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Skyler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 07:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OMG. When will I learn? I had a question. I should have learned by now to try to use Google to see if there was an answer.

I entered into Google, &quot;what is the meaning of &quot;nag a rise&quot;.

There was only one result. Surprisingly, it was from Mike&#039;s blog. From April 15, 2014. The titled of the blog that day was, &quot;More Of What Is Happening Inside The Bubble&quot;.

That entry featured a page that looked like a man bending over and sticking his head up his *censored*. Unfortunately, I could not find the meaning of &quot;nag a rise&quot; there. Could it possibly be some kind of Aussie expression?  Somehow, I expect it will be some kind of expression created by the cult.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG. When will I learn? I had a question. I should have learned by now to try to use Google to see if there was an answer.</p>
<p>I entered into Google, &#8220;what is the meaning of &#8220;nag a rise&#8221;.</p>
<p>There was only one result. Surprisingly, it was from Mike&#8217;s blog. From April 15, 2014. The titled of the blog that day was, &#8220;More Of What Is Happening Inside The Bubble&#8221;.</p>
<p>That entry featured a page that looked like a man bending over and sticking his head up his *censored*. Unfortunately, I could not find the meaning of &#8220;nag a rise&#8221; there. Could it possibly be some kind of Aussie expression?  Somehow, I expect it will be some kind of expression created by the cult.</p>
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		By: Skyler		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 07:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To quote Source “don’t nag a rise”.

I must admit that I have never heard this before. I don&#039;t even know what it means to say, &quot;To quote Source&quot;.  Does that mean to quote something that the big Blubtard has said or written?

I want to ask what is the meaning of the phrase, &quot;nag a rise&quot;.

Can anyone explain this to me?   Thank you .]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To quote Source “don’t nag a rise”.</p>
<p>I must admit that I have never heard this before. I don&#8217;t even know what it means to say, &#8220;To quote Source&#8221;.  Does that mean to quote something that the big Blubtard has said or written?</p>
<p>I want to ask what is the meaning of the phrase, &#8220;nag a rise&#8221;.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain this to me?   Thank you .</p>
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		By: Mother Hubbard		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s what you have helped to achieve Mike.  Our daughter (former sea org) when she comes to visit us now (a lot more often) has lost that creepy critical demeanor - she seems to have regained respect for us she seems to have more money. It’s a quiet change and we don’t draw attention to it but the fact is we know her org has shrunk to about 15 active families - Her circle of scientology friends is now tiny - she’s having to branch out and grow and she seems happier than she has for years .... scientology has been exposed to all and is in the death spiral - thank you Mike and Leah and all the good people who speak out on blogs.  You may not have crushed the financial empire of scientology and may never but you have changed lives in small, important ways]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s what you have helped to achieve Mike.  Our daughter (former sea org) when she comes to visit us now (a lot more often) has lost that creepy critical demeanor &#8211; she seems to have regained respect for us she seems to have more money. It’s a quiet change and we don’t draw attention to it but the fact is we know her org has shrunk to about 15 active families &#8211; Her circle of scientology friends is now tiny &#8211; she’s having to branch out and grow and she seems happier than she has for years &#8230;. scientology has been exposed to all and is in the death spiral &#8211; thank you Mike and Leah and all the good people who speak out on blogs.  You may not have crushed the financial empire of scientology and may never but you have changed lives in small, important ways</p>
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