I read an article by someone way funnier than me and they called it  a "tragitunity" 🙂

That said, in order for the distribution of WTH to do its job,  there are some vital targets as to its recipients. 

The first is that the recipients can actually read, the second is that they are in shape TO read, i.e., not banged up physically, mentally or emotionally, and the third would be what many of the posters here have so aptly pointed out: that the handing out of the booklet is SEQUITUR to what is occurring.  

LRH never intended for WTH to HANDLE the mayhem cause by all kinds of disasters, but rather to give a  people some common sense stable datums for operating in life so that disasters don't happen, or if they do, they will be in better shape from the get-go to survive them.  It is a preventative tool, essentially.  The time to distribute WTH is when the scene is relatively calm, when people who are ready, willing and able to read can give some attention to what they are reading.

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Thank you Statpush. Very well said. The actual intention behind this is to try to get some positive publicity for the church not to help anyone.

They are not in the back yard. They are in da house!

While "getting the stats up" is certainly a factor in this, there is the magic aspect.  Meaning, if you saturate an area with TWTH booklets, the area will magically destimulate and come uptone.  I believe LRH implied something of the sort.  I have no first-hand evidence that this is the case.  Any reports by RCS (e.g. Columbia, etc) can be counted upon to be embellished, or worse, lies.

I say this jokingly, but feel there is some truth to it – the true believing, kool-aid drinking Scnist is predisposed to believing in fantastic, magical things.  So, passing out pieced of paper with words on it will "help" human beings who have been physically harmed, emotionally scared, are dazed and confused and more or less in a state of shock – as if by magic.

These "solutions" are latched on to as stable datums, probably more for the benefit of the individual Scnist.  Once he has his stable datum, his piece of Scn Tech that puts order into the confusion, well then he can do something about it.  Like whip out his credit card and purchase 1000 WTH booklets, because he is convinced it is a solution to the situation.  And he now feels "at cause", that he "helped", he did something about it.  On the surface this is an admirable act, and I am sure his intentions are good, but rarely will he follow-up on the results of this "solution".  Did the booklets ever arrive to Boston?  Did they get handed out to the public?  How many ended up in the gutter? Trash bin?  Real feedback from the general public expressing that this is exactly what is needed and wanted?  Or exactly how WTH is effective in these types of situations?  Does it prevent future situations?  It is unlikely any of these question will get answered, much less asked.  If you look too closely at the illusion the spell will be broken…as if by magic.

When what people do looks stupid, it is often becasue their stated intentions are different from their real intentions. They are not really stupid, they just seem like they were because the words and the acts don't match.

Bridge Publications is part of the Church that says it "helps" people at every disaster. The truth is Bridge is using every disaster to sell books to Scientologists at retail price "to be donated" (with Bridge making a nice profit on the "charity") and get "volunteers" to hand them out, along with hatting materials on how to "document" everything they do, turning the disaster into a photo op for the Church that didn't donate a penny, but actually profited on the disaster.

The RIGHT thing Bridge SHOULD do if it wasn't all talk and no walk would be to use part of its profits to donate. Dave bragged about how he made manufacturing costs so low that it puts the entire industry to shame.  What he didn't say was that he intends to KEEP the difference for profit – there is NO humanitarian objective or any of the heavily advertised, but never done "charity".

"Profiting form disaster – join the Volunteer Minister movement today!"

Exactly. Imagine some Christian church showing up at such a tragedy and passing out their religious tracts. Any sane person would rightfully be repulsed by such a thoughtless attempt at promotion.

Things like this just further illuminate how grossly out of touch the church is with the rest of the world.