To Gary Johnson – I loved that “buy this, buy that” post you wrote. It says SO MUCH with such few words. I completely agree with Newcomer’s reply to you. Someone liked it so much they re-posted it in the Underground Bunker that same day. It got 26 likes!

Man, you said it. More batshit crazy from a faithful lemming.

Hey Cat Daddy — interesting quote!

To be honest, I’m not 100% certain that is a Willie Benitez quote – it may very well be. Something about it doesn’t quite fit, but it may be me …

I met Willie back in 1973 at Narconon US. He was a very intense but thoughtful person, who had the appearance of having made it out alive from a place where many people did not. Not just physically but spiritually as well. Narconon started around 1966 in AZ State Prison I believe, where Willie was serving time. He took some LRH books, put some things together and people came. It was that simple. It was about responsibility. It was about being able to communicate one’s thoughts, hear them spoken out loud, understand what they meant and how they may have contributed to your own downfall. Narconon started simple, grew more complicated as the church brought it under its wings and eventually devolved into something base and money motivated.

Truth be told though, back in the early 70s Narconon worked. It was simple enough and honest enough, that the lifeline it offered to those in need, held tight and saved quite a few. I saw it. i was part of it.

Just saying …

Odd

+1 🙂

Valid questions Dan and points to the bowl-of-spaghetti like decision making process that all ideal Org purchases go through.

Reminds me of a time — (here comes a story)

Back in 1979, San Francisco, “management” (a collection of inexperienced personnel, gathered together, to discuss high-level business practices while possessing absolutely zero expertise on the subject ) decided that the Mason Street building where SF Org had been located for years – just wasn’t good enough. Bright idea – move it to the “tenderloin” area of SF, where it would be quietly nestled among the street missions, abandoned buildings and urine-stained public fountains, where only transients, Haight Ashbury burn-outs and other poor souls congregated, while trying desperately to catch the next train back to Reality.

Management ended up zeroing in on a 75 year old building, built right after the dust settled, post 1906 earthquake. The plumbing didn’t work. The electrical was ‘shocking,’ and the elevator, though quaint, was new when Fatty Arbuckle was still in diapers.

Keep in mind that the Mason Street building was right off of Geary Street (theater district) where thousands of people walked within 100 feet of the door every hour. It was a hub. It was centrally located. It worked. Which is why management chose to change it.

I communicated up-lines that this was not the place to move to. That it was off the key traffic areas and in a still dangerous neighborhood. I guess when management compared the McAllister property with a) a burned -out building, b) a third building south of Market next to 24 hour liquor stores and c) a fourth property that I believe was so ill-suited for our purposes (like converting a 100 sq. foot kiosk into a Macys) that even the ‘brass’ at Flag Management were hesitant to pull the trigger, I guess McAllister seemed ideal in comparison. Amazing what gets counted as IDEAL when compared to other items that are so incorrectly included as to render the whole exercise pointless.

Forty years later, forty years of potential learning, seems to have done little to prepare anyone to do a better job. Shame on you guys. Penance – two lifetimes as a sea urchin stuck to the bowels of the HMS Titanic. Start.

Odd