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.

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 ?”.

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!

It’s hard to make a circle with two wagons.

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!

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.

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.

Steve, I’m dying! Does he really talk like that without a script? OMG !

More like 8 years unfortunately…