Set aside your bingo plans and superhero night at the “Ideal Org” and go and see a REAL Superhero in person.
And don’t forget your checkbook, credit cards, wallet and any spare cash you may have lying around….
Send in your reports of the great news sure to be imparted this evening. It’s going to be a lot of promises and few accomplishments other than things that have already been said numerous times before. But still, his promises can be revealing if you know how to interpret them.
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:55 PM
Subject: Guess who is speaking again at Friday Graduation at the Base! Coming? ML, Judy 😉
Hi again! This is sooooo exciting! I am helping Meagan again with confirms and reconfirms for this week’s Graduation. I just wanted to make sure that you knew that he was going to brief us with more data at Friday Graduation at the Base. It was amazing how packed it was! I went all the way to the Ballroom to get a seat with my husband. Please get back to me and let me know you are coming and anyone coming with you okay? These are EXCITING TIMES!!! Please reply back with good news okay? Thanks! See you there! ML, Judy 😉
SILVIA says
NOW HE IS GOING DOWN ON THE MYSTERY SCALE….HE IS NOW “A MYSTERY”. I GUESS HIS IDEAS OF HOW TO GET ATTENTION ARE DIMINISHING…
DeElizabethan says
How to get money in is diminishing too! Looks to me like he has to try and get ethics in for more money from the fish to the whales by his presence.
Chuck Beatty says
Love your blog Mike!
In this world of ex senior members who can dissect ongoing Scientology leadership’s public appearances and utterances, like no one better,you and Steve and others who comment on our and Marty’s and Steve’s blogs, I’m happy to read all of your really smart ex staff voices.
I used to read a regular world news summary publication, called “The Week In Review” (until the politics became too right wing for me to tolerate).
There’s enough blogging ex members, and Tony Ortega’s daily news blog, that almost is too much to absorb all that’s written daily. Someone with time and either self supported, or through Paypal, could start a weekly review, but that would be a real time absorbing endeavor, and could only be done by some editor minded person.
“Scientology Weekly Review” or something, could even be put together, by some editor minded person, drawing from the various blogs, even, if someone wanted to take the time, and somehow was remunerated for it.
Or some trusted person, you really trust, become sort of the online “magazine” person, and just put something together, that’s not going to be 1) not a big loss if it stops suddenly, or 2) done by some retired person who can do it all for free, and is an old writer/editor type (and liberal enough to allow the variety of viewpoints).
I’m sure this has already been thought about, and needs the type of mag/editor type of person that is not too opinionated to blot out important views.
Oh well, I guess I’m gonna subscribe to your Paypal account!
We’ll see how this whole ex leader blogging era goes, and whether a central “Week In Review, by Ex Scientology Leaders and Smart Followers” goes!
Even though I’m not a Scientologist, I still think that Scientology is mainly Hubbard.
If official Scientology goes too much into the Miscavige (the big little man) mentality, then as Marty and you and others have long ago concluded) it’s not Scientology anymore, but all the disparaging funny names it has been called.
But it has the copyrights, and that irony, without anyone but this unofficial mainly ex leadership blogger group holding official Scientology accountable for their veering off of LRH’s last years’ final setups administratively.
One massive date coincident with the movement’s true downturn, is when Janis Grady, Paul, Terri and husband left, in 1990.
that was kind of the last of the messengers who were agile thinking enough to jockey focus around at the top administrative ranks, and dealing with ongoing admin problems in the wide variety of ways LRH administratively lett them the tools to deal with things.
And Miscavige, was just really coming to his own, dominating, and simplifying things. I see his biggest mistake is not seeing that LRH always forced very quick successions, forcing new people into positions, and not letting areas collapse. Even if lesser quality people were seemingly always being put into executive positions to hold up areas, that was better than the overall Miscavige method of leaving the top management positions vacant, which is Miscavige’s biggest single management mistake.
Hubbard pressed hard to have the management positions filled, even if with people who didn’t last.
I’d say Miscavige’s major mistake is his lack of knowledge, his low tone level, and his biggest pluspoint is keeping enough of the sugar daddies onboard to keep the IAS funded, and the buildings renos funded.
He’s not an auditor nor Case Supervisor, Lisa McPherson’s death is testimony to Miscavige’s ability to supervise cases.
Maybe Dan Koon and Russ Williams should edit a book of essays, by ex members.
A more permanent written form, of essyas, anthology of papers, by ex senior members, their refelctions, ought be done.
.I’m learning by my years of contact and emailing with New Religion Scholars, that the new religion field just none of them are academically allowed the types of in depth coverage of Scientology, compared to the willing ex members who are literate enough to write and summarize the important points about the movement’s ongoing history.
For years I’ve mainly pushed for books.
I love all the blogs.
I think maybe self published anthology’s of chapter length papers, by ex members and the more literate ex leaders, would be an excellent way to record history, for future “new religion” academics.
Maybe I can encourage you to be the name at the top of the masthead, and encourage some of you retirement aged ex leaders to make either an online ongoing monthly or every two month, or every 6 month online anthology of “papers” and allow “letters” section, to dissect the papers.
Because, I’ve now seen that realistically, the NRM field is not going to do it, they veer into their typographies of groups, and into sociology, and miss all the details that average Scientologists live and breath as members of Scientology groups.
I hope you and Steve Hall lives a long life, and down the road , Steve in particular, edits a “review” online magazine, of articles submitted by ex Scientologists with important articles and chapter length discussions of ongoing issues relating to Scientology. And then allow unlimited commenting to peer reviiew the articles.
Sort of like a trade magazine to the subject of Scientology. But with editorials.
I think with your blog, Steve’s and Marty’s, and Tony Ortega’s, there is almost a need for a yearly or half yearly, or every two months, a “Review” of the biggest most important ongoing subjects relating to Scientology’s ongoing history.
Overall, though, it is sad that official Scientology could develop, “legally” within LRH’s rules, such an internal ongoing self appraising “media” writing about itself.
It seems only ex members outside the pain of the Hubbard penalty rules, could develop free debate about things like management trends, and namely this whole outcropping of mainly complaints about Miscavige’s leadership, could only occur, outside official Scientology.
Internally the membership were to tightly controlled by the existing rules system, to ever get their complaints voiced!
Mat Pesch says
Is this guy in fear or what?
“Tell everyone that I’m coming but don’t actually say its me coming. You know what I mean.
YKW (You Know Who)
Mike Rinder says
Yeah Mat, it sucks to be a pussy….
Aquamarine says
Mat,
In fear and/or just plain bat-shit crazy. Maybe he really has gone over the edge at this point. But I have another theory, i.e., that he’s in fear, all right, but what he’s afraid of is not his own personal security, because doesn’t he have armored cars and plenty of bodyguards and so forth? So what I think he’s afraid of is having his presentation loudly trumpeted and THEN getting a poor turn out. See, this way, if a lot of people don’t show up he can justify it by saying they didn’t know that HE would be speaking. Also, this way, if there’s a poor turn-out, he wont’ have to send people to the RPF, something which might be concerning to him at this point if he’s short of staff at Flag. My two cents.
Aquamarine says
Just checked in for a quick peak before I meet someone for dinner. Will read all the posts later. So the Dwarf is going to speak again, but they can’t name him? Does he have Yahweh status now? These people are board-certifiably nuts. Back later.
Jan says
I am with you Thoughtful. A bunch of drivel about nothing. The great all mighty is going to a graduation, thats funny I couldn’t get him in a course room to study to save my life. He is desperate.
Gus Cox says
HWMNBN. Hah!
Thoughtful says
Wow, I’m so excited that Psycho Hamster is going to speak from on top of a box behind the podium. I hope nothing goes wrong with the teleprompter else it will sound something like this:
“Given our record in dominating opinions when it comes to rolling out RTC programs for social betterment, world… (snap, fizzle—woops! the teleprompter just died) …huh, world domino… for world do-min-a-ting, hum, and world hunger programs, that’s what we call to putting it there with the numbers and with authority. For do I having all of your here tonight, let me say welcome. What do I think of that? Yes I do. And tonight is certainly a Flag graduation and a night to remember so for speaking will do it proudly in to style do. Why did I come here tonight? Yes I did. Is that something? Yes it is. huh… But what is tonight really about? With our Volunteer Ministers, thousands strong or maybe only 3 of them, working with the Red Cross on continents in Moore tornado disaster of zones than Pearl Harbor combined to do while hundreds of millions have seen our biggest dissemination campaign ever since May 9th thanks to the IAS squirrel busters moving to straight up and vertical from Buffalo, Nickel to Viagra Falls, to rehab drug addicts in do centers all across ringing the message. Which is to say, we are the leaders to doing that. Can we do better? Yes! Will we stop now as long as we have the IAS? No, no, no, no and no. Why? Easy—who could call it? From Ideal Orgs with are new if everything we do is new. They say it could be for there to do. We say, there it is, smack, rolling it out with spotlights on gaining recognition. They say, why are you are here? But looking around our army in yellow t-shirts, so THAT’s the way we do it handing out full sets of the Basics to tornado victims with bonus cassettes for everyone here tonight.
John P. says
Thoughtful, that’s a pretty realistic simulation of David Miscavige without a teleprompter. If brought to life, it would be like this clip from the movie “Bruce Almighty,” in what would become Steve Carrell’s breakout role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1o9ZWqCnKk
Aquamarine says
Steve, I’m dying! Does he really talk like that without a script? OMG !
Thoughtful says
Actually a lot of what he says doesn’t make any sense, even the stuff that is scripted for him by Danny Sherman. Half the time he’s covering for the fact that nothing was really done. Or what was “done”—some kind of stupendous achievement—was really only an accident and not actually intentional. Like when Churlia Wurfel went to visit her sister in Indonesia and stumbled into giving some assists at a disaster site. That was turned into “she set out to bring an entire continent LRH tech!” And the out points are covered up by “Given that…” and “For that’s been said in terms of…” and “But that’s not to say that…” What does this crap mean? Really, nothing. Plus, I left out all the obscenities that are usually salted in there when he’s not giving a public speech.
Chuck Beatty says
Steve ought to write a short comedy sketch:
“Being David’s Brain”
or maybe, add a “Being David’s Brain” sidebar comedy running article to Steve’s blog!
Eye watering hilarious Steve!
KFrancis says
sar•don•ic /sɑɚˈdɑ:nɪk/ adjective
formal : showing that you disapprove of or do not like someone or something : showing disrespect or scorn for someone or something
Love your sense of humor Steve!
I imagine you sitting around having a beer with the gang and they are laughing their heads off as you go off on DM and you just keep going on not letting them even come up for air before you launch another strike. Then you notice several are on the barroom floor holding their sides,crying and you look around at everybody and say, “Whaaat ?”.
IBG says
Now Mike, you shouldn’t push Miscavige’s bad boy image too hard. It’s only going to give the ladies funny ideas about motorcycles and sunsets 😉
Ulf says
Was it not Gary Wiese who held that title for a while? But then again, He Who Must Not Be Named gave him that label and finally started calling him Voldemort, which means He Who Must Not Be Named is still up for grabs in the Hogwart pool of mental midgets – magical, real or otherwise! And it looks like ultra cesspool midget just took the title back in full Flag Graduation glitz!
sets guy says
Hello Ulf, don’t worry he took care of Voldemort. He’s been in the hole for a goodly 5 or so years now. So yes HE has the title all to HIMSELF. Bow.
🙂
Ulf says
More like 8 years unfortunately…
SadStateOfAffairs says
He who shall not be named, blamed or shamed.
Steve Poore says
“he” just has sooo much shermanspeak to deliver and sooo little time. — TO HANG HIMSELF!
breppen says
That pretty much portray’s the monster within!
Steve Poore says
It seems that “HE” is circling the wagons. desperate times indeed!
Rick Mycroft says
It’s hard to make a circle with two wagons.
Margaret says
I’m getting my gold fillings removed as we speak!
Mike Rinder says
So, how come you have been holding out so long? You will be routed to ethics at once to buy some cassettes for distribution to VIPs….
RussW says
I happen to know that 9 out of 10 VIPs prefer 8-tracks to cassettes.* When are the marketing guys going to get with it??!
* Most of the remaining 1-out-of-10 VIPs are blatantly out-ethics. Specifically, all those who are too young to know what an “8-track” is. As for the older ones, Instead of donating ALL available cash (and then some) over the years, they have wantonly squandered precious donatable funds on tawdry, impermanent, PTS-to-the-middle-class MEST luxuries such as cassette decks – and even **GASP!** CD or MP3 players!! I know, I know. Disgusting. But then, evil is not pretty. Takes confront. Don’t worry, though. Eventually some sharp ethics officer or MAA will catch up with them, and they’ll be made to fund an entire I-deal Org-y, solo, as amends (or forfeit their eternity).
Oh, but wait!! I’m sorry. You meant non-Scientology-Inc VIPs!! Never mind.
Margaret says
I’ll work on my aging mother’s teeth as well. And if you throw in a color-coordinated periwinkle Sony Walkman for only $2,500, I’ll complete the WHOLE country of Uzbekistan Library Congresses campaign too! I have it on good authority (DM) that they are begging for more, after their entire prison, education and police force adopted LRH tech and re-named the country’s capital after him.
ThetaPotata says
Great choice of picture. “He who shall not be named” – really sums up how I feel about this guy, he comes across as a Dark Lord. BTW – New video interview on Karen De La Carriere’s YouTube channel about Carol Nyburg’s escape, really worth watching. Reveals that the Dark Lord is directly behind orders that Elite Sea Org Members be deprived of Sleep and food. Fitting behavior for he who shall not be named.
Just Me says
LOL … they really aren’t naming him, are they? The cameraman previously known as Mister.
Mike Rinder says
No, this is the height of ridiculousness.
They want to have a good turnout for “him” and so they send out streams of “invitations”, but they are afraid to utter his name for fear of “violating security” or something???
Jgg says
A process server from the IRS might show up if his name is mentioned.
Simple Thetan says
Oh! I am so happy! We can see the dwarf, from a great distance I am sure. I am going to rob a bank so I have some pocket money to give. Maybe that can cover the private jet flight to cw.