The first org in the world is now "humanitarian". What an honor! Seems like the right amount of money can buy a status not only for anyONE but for anyTHING. I am not sure even the Popes of the Middle Ages sold indulgences to entire churches?
And how appropriate it is to spread the largesse so well piloted for individuals to whole churches. No need to keep your ethics in/train/audit or DO any humanitarian work/good deeds — just GIVE the appropriate bribe, payment, pay off er… donation and all will be taken care of. Then you can proudly promote your accomplishments status for all the world to see.
Thank the heavens for the genius of COB doing EXACTLY what LRH wanted!! Three cheers for Command…
From: Landlord Office Canada <bldgexpcanada@scientology.net>
To: Landlord Office Canada <bldgexpcanada@scientology.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:30 PM
Subject: Team Canada Alliance Newsflash! Cambridge Org has become a Toronto Humanitarian!
Beautifully explained, Ronnie.
I’m a non-Sci who has been following the tumultuous goings-on in the Church of Scientology for years now. I also protested outside Nashville Org and then the Budapest Org (before it moved to its new shiny premises in the VI District). To my outsider’s eye it seems like most Scientologists are very generous when it comes to giving money for what they believe is a good cause.
It begs the question, WHY don’t these folk give to organizations that actually DO something? Like a charity that builds schools locally, or a group that helps Africans/South Americans/Asians by providing water, medical supplies, you name it?
The word Humanitarian is chosen because, presumably after word clearing every other catchphrase, the Church of Scientology knows that Humanitarian is a title that Scientologists want beside their name. So, why don’t they give their money to a group that will actually do something with the cash, something palpable? Even micro-financing small businesses around the world (think Nigeria, Indonesia, etc) makes one feel better about themselves.
I don’t get it, really I don’t. Brainwashing cannot be enough. They seem, as callous as it sounds, dumb. And naive. And far too willing to be blinded to the truth, any truth. Specifically the truth that the group they are in does nothing more than suck away their income and provide basically 0 in return. After all, isn’t it the case that the Scientologists who give the most cash live in the REAL world, and not in the tethered confines of the Org/Mission. Yet they still refuse to open their eyes? I just don’t get it.
Can someone enlighten me?
To my outsider’s eye it seems like most Scientologists are very generous when it comes to giving money for what they believe is a good cause. It begs the question, WHY don’t these folk give to organizations that actually DO something?
Mark, you’d have to experience the life changing gains that honest, undiluted, unaltered Scientology can deliver, to understand why the corporate public gives to the organization like they do. They want everyone on earth to experience the same spiritual gains that they have. In their minds, if more people could (or would) avail themselves of this remarkable technology, the world would be a far, far better place.
Unfortunately, most of them don’t realize that the church stopped delivering real Scientology decades ago, and has now turned into a Nazi-like, money motivated cult that bears NO resemblance to the organization that once held so much promise. Still – there’s a steady stream of people who are coming to grips with how off the rails their church has become, and are now resigning. Most of these people recognize that their church has been gradually overtaken by a cult of personality that is ruthless, parasitic, and destructive of everything their church once was.
I hope that helps to explain “why”?
Yes it does. Thank you!
Hey Mark,
of course I cannot speak to the reasons for other people’s decisions, but I have two general thoughts on your comment.
First, you seem to be operating under the assumption that practical help is most needed and worthwhile. Someone believing spiritual salvation to be of greater importance than survival or physical well-being might come to a different conclusion.
If one furthermore sees the current state of the human mind and conditioning as the root of most ill in the world, it makes sense to prioritize the spiritual over the material. Most human suffering is caused by humans, inflicting it on others as well as on themselves, so what’s the use of merely alleviating the effects? And why not start here and now, with yourself, your neighbour…? Well, you get the idea. Combine it with a deep belief that Scientology is the only answer. Though I don’t personally believe in all of the above, I can certainly understand the mindset.
Your bewilderment might have to do with your concept of a “real world”. For example, I was baffled when I found out the most important reason for always saving the preemie at the potential cost of the mother’s life in medieval times – no matter how low or nonexistent the probability of survival. It had to be christened or it forfeited any chance to get to paradise. If hell is real to you, this makes sense.
Second, I’d be cautious about assuming “they” to be a homogenous group; “their” reasons might be diverse.
This doesn’t address all of your questions, but will hopefully keep you from pulling your hair out in frustration. 🙂
Thank you. I know from personal experience that spiritual and material assistance are two different things. I think most people in the S.O. know that something is up, and that things aren’t 100% kosher. I feel it’s a combination of “I’ve already invested so much time/money/both in this that I want to see it get better before I decide to pack it in,” and “if I leave no one will talk to me any more,” and “if I decide to quit, I will have to face up to the fact that for the last X years, I’ve been taken for a fool.” All 3 of unpleasant individually, but as a whole it must be overwhelming.
I know that there are Scientology schools (although I would wonder how much schooling is actually given), so parishioner can feel good about that. But what about Narconon, another organization that Scienos were proud of until at least last year. Is the collapse of Narconon in Missouri and Florida causing any ripple in the CoS?
Finally, I wasn’t assuming them to be a homogenous group, but thanks for the correction.
Hey Mark,
It’s not a correction and also wasn’t meant as such – I would be sorry to have my comment read that way. I merely took the liberty of giving my opinion inspired by the matter you brought up, responding to questions that I now recognize to be rhetorical!
I do not understand the intention of your second paragraph or how the first one fits into the previous conversation about people outside the Orgs/Missions. Obviously we are talking at cross-purposes? So I trust you will forgive my having lost the thread here… Nevertheless, thank you for taking the time and sharing your ideas!
wow….how much I need to become a double, scramble egg diamond humanitarian in Scientology? any information please….
Dire straits perfect
“…bring about a Clear Canada…”
All that rah-rah, and not a single word about delivering the only two things Ron ever cared about — auditing and training.
I count 53 in the picture plus one Mickey Moose wearing a hockey shirt.
The humanitarian ceremony is a traditional thing. (Ok, 15 minutes; but then again, time is only a consideration.)
Buffalo is Canadian! (Don’t mess with command intention. Since they have a hockey team, they are Canadian. The midget has so decreed. )
…”Cambridge is done and now moving on to their Humanitarian with Honors status…
See? It never #$%ing ends! If they took out mortgages for this, the vultures are going to come back and demand second mortgages for that “with Honors” pin. Just wait ’til next Thursday, Cambridge people, they’ll be coming back for more…
Gus.
To anyone still marching in lockstep behind David Miscavige, here is your stable datum for your Eternity.
It is a song you can sing to yourselves when things look bleak, a parody of a classic by the Beatles
“ALL YOU NEED IS DOUGH” (Sung to the tune of “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE”, written by John Lennon
and Paul McCartney.)
All you Need is Dough (bap ba da da da)
All you Need is Dough (bap ba da da da)
All you Need is Dough, Dough,
Dough is all you Need
Dough is all you Need.
What is it going to take to achieve Humanitarian with Honors in Toronto? Let’s get her done Canada!
Wow, humanitarian org, I’m impressed and I don’t even know what it means:)
I like that the staff are smiling and the ‘Guards’ are so very serious!
I’d bet it’s mostly pledges too.
Mike,
Thanks for this. What communicates clearly and loudly to me with these RCS gambits is effectually a circus barker’s spiel, something like this:
“All right, all you well-heeled ladies and gents, step right up and get your Eternity, get it nailed down while you still can, folks, cuz this may be your only chance, you could get hit by a truck tonite, ya know? So don’t think and don’t you go, cuz you got the dough and Church of Scientology wants to make you one fine deal!! Yessir, that’s right, one VERY fine deal for that Eternity you been worryin’ about, and itsa cinch, you got the dough, you’re good to go… etc. etc.”
“In True Sea Org Style, the Honor Guard marched out and performed their Humanitarian ceremony followed by…”
Humanitarian ceremony?? How does one even DEFINE what a humanitarian ceremony is?
Lets see, Get dressed in your Class A Uniform, grab a sword, March just like you do when the org is in their Group Liability Condition and “Look Sharp you dumb Bastard’s” . (Quote taken from James Byrne’s during his and Wilhere’s mission into Gold back in 1990) I really wish I could remember the Mission Name James and Greg were on.
Humanitarian ceremony….. Jesus!
— Jackson
Jackson,
Carol Nolan told me herself that the Humanitarian Ceremony consists of:
1. The “honor guard” marching in to Miscavige’s Official Anthem (Dire Straits Money For Nothing)
2. They come to a halt and present arms before a lifesize cardboard cutout of Dear Leader and bow before it 3 times
3. The Humanitarian inductee is then allowed to lick a pair of ceremonial John Lobb handmade shoes provided to all orgs for the occassion.
4, Each new humanitarian is showered with a confetti of shredded dollar bills to bask in the glory of filthy lucre…
5. Everyone else who has not attained the exalted status is forced to prostrate themselves and repeat 100 times “I am no better than a wog.”
6. At which point the doors are locked, the swords are turned on the scum who have not yet performed their duty and small pieces of their body are cut off until they comply with an appropriate payment
7. They then make a video’d “success story” to be used to show others what a privilege it is to support Dear Leader’s magnificence and master plan for planetary clearing
8. The honor guard then exits to the strains of “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen (nobody knows why — but its Command Intention so they just do it).
9. Turn in the stats of number of bodies in the shop and WDAH for each person in attendance (as Carol said — they get a lot of case gain out of this process thanks to the brilliance of COB)
Canada doesn’t have dollar bills any more. Perhaps they showered them with metal filings? (From leftover pennies, we don’t use those either.)
:):) You’re too much, Mike. Listen, there are times when, if you don’t laugh, you might start crying.
Ouch. I laughed too hard. I’m wounded.
I need Humanitarian assistance.
Oh Mike…..too funny! My ribs hurt! (It would be an excellent TR exercise if staff can keep a straight face throughout)
ROFLMAO!
Jackson, James was on that ethics mission to stab all of the “BLACK HEARTS” in the org.
Hey I remember James Byrne and the “Black Hearts” mission. But James was (is) a good bloke. One of the very original SO members and had a heart of gold. I”ve got a great story for another time. Wilhere, on the other hand, though a likeable chap, was the Heavy doing DMs bidding at that time. Hope James is doing well, but other great people like him (Richard Reese and a few other great tech people whose names escape me) all sadly took the death-by-cancer route; such is the burden of remaining true and still attempting to deliver Scientology and results during the reign of Darth Midget.
Ah yes, Jackson, let’s just call it “The Black Hearts Need to Get it Together or Die Mission.” Of course James Byrne used that term “jokingly,” but…c’mon…..we were Gold, the Jerks of the Universe Who Couldn’t Do Anything Right, even though we put on some of the most lavish and extravagant events that puffed up DM to no end. That’s the thanks we got.
And he was brainwashed into believing we were jerks and his mission was to get us into ship shape. This was the mission when super-incredible techie Bruce P. was assigned to the RPF right then and there for being late to a muster. There went the LRH references on ethics protection. Wish I’d seen all that crap coming a lot sooner than I finally did. I never felt that was fair, proper or per any policy yet missions run by DM had some sort of magical powers I guess….the powers we let him have until we figured it out. If James Byrne is still there, well, he’s a pretty stupid, unobservant bloke at best–and an ass-kissing selfprotecting mini-dm robot at worst. Same with Wilhere.
Never had a problem with James or Greg, until seeing later reports about Greg. Last saw James a couple of years ago doing surveys at the Kodak Theatre (now Dolby) in Hollywood, probably for ASI. The underlying reason for the mission was that there had been leaks to PAC via spouses and/or friends about TCs visits to the base. The overriding thought was ‘what a great place this could be without the midget’, which bacame more obvious as time went by.
I’ll never forget that day…….. the chill that ran through my bones when I and my guards were off looking for Bruce knowing damm well what he was facing once we found him!
— Jackson
When Miscavige ever should read this:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/one_fund_boston_raises_20m
I wonder if they’re counting pledges (probably), half of which fall through or take forever…?
They don’t buildings with a blood money percentage for Toronto or Montreal. The Winnipeg building that they bought years ago needs around $8 million just to get it up to code, with some more to Idealize it. They must have done a lot of winter bake sales, I guess… (They currently have a rented office for an org. Does that sound like a group that could have raised $5M?)
Oh could you just throw up …
my feelings exactly!!!!
Thank you.
I always love reading the text of these things, especially the fine print. It says “The Time is Now event includ[ed] a DVD release directed by Chairman of the Board RTC that details out the essence of the Ideal Org strategy.” So you go to an event to raise big bucks and all you get is a video directed by Miscavige, not necessarily even featuring a presentation by the great man himself? Also, I only studied Spanish and French in school, so I don’t really know how to speak Canadian, but from what little I do know of their language, “details out the essence” sounds very awkward and ungrammatical. But later on in the sentence, the grammar goes completely to hell when they talk “the largest most embrace strategy.” WTF is “most embrace”?
I also find it interesting that Buffalo is part of the action for this event, since every “Canadian” I have ever met insists that they are a separate country and that they’re not part of the United States. I always let them believe this harmless little delusion for the same reason I let my somewhat confused elderly Uncle Ray believe that his wife is just out getting something at the store though she’s been dead for 12 years — it makes him feel better. So if Canada is a separate country, why are they including Buffalo, which is part of New York (no matter how much we sophisticated Manhattanites laugh at them) in “Canada?”
10 years ago, couple months before the “ideal org” opening, they came to Montreal and Quebec city.
Recruiting the field and staff members (about 15-20) to fill the empty space.
They are confused now, considering Buffalo org being mixed with French and English people!
This is hard to see, those kool aid drinker have no bottom!
Can’t believe wy those poor soul at some point, do not take the time to think for them self “Hey…WTF is going on here!!! …” .
Puke!!!
Yes, I once got an email from the Joburg Org talking about the most “abrasive” strategy in the headline of the email! (Sometimes the truth just pops its head out in the most unexpected places).
This is ASTOUNDING! I can just hear DM putting the fear of God in these people that the SPs are attacking harder and harder so give more and more in the fight against them! I recall being at these events, hyping everyone up to attack back, we are stronger and all the other BS! He creates the enemy where none exists! Thank God we are out! Great blog, Mike!
It wouldn’t surprise me if all they got were pledges from people who just wanted to get out of the room. When it comes time to cough up the dough, they will renege.
They have a new fund-raising tactic: If you stop a million people on the street and ask them to pledge a million dollars, you only need a few people to agree to make your total.
As soon as those cheques from Haywood Jablowmie, Di Innaphyre and Dr. Opdead come in, they’ll be laughing.
I hear that Cambridge wants their sidewalk to be the first Humanitarian sidewalk!! Only 100k and the sidewalk will have Kha-Khan status. Nobody but dm will be able to walk on it.
🙂