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Promises, Promises….

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So much for the first month — a big fat nothing. None of the four epic accomplishments was done….

Wonder how many people are sitting around at Flag waiting for anything to happen — desperately trying to avoid the regges? (Good luck with that)

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Now they are piling on. Promoting the wonders of the IAS event “directly following” the opening of the SP Building and release of GAG II. 

Make your plans to attend. We are just not telling you WHEN it will be. But when we finally make up our minds a week before the event you will be expected to be there.

From: Nitzan Burstein, IAS Administrations [mailto:[email protected]] 

Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:02 PM
To: 
Subject: Come to the IAS Anniversary—Live at Flag!

 

Dear ,

This year the IAS Anniversary will be held LIVE at Flag for the first time ever!

There is no more exciting place to be right now than Flag. The Golden Age of Tech Phase II is soon to be released and the new Flag building will open its doors for the delivery of Super Power. And directly following this will be the IAS 29th Anniversary celebration.

So make your plans now to attend. Join the thousands of Scientologists who will be arriving at Flag from all over the world for the biggest IAS Anniversary event ever. Find out who the new Freedom Medal Winners are, celebrate the spectacular accomplishments of the year and see the plans for future expansion unfold. 

This is a once-in-a-lifetime event which you’ll not want to miss!

We will let you know the Anniversary date just as soon as it is finalized. But keep your fall calendar clear and be ready to come to Flag for the IAS Anniversary weekend.

Email [email protected] now to confirm you are coming.

SPECIAL TRAVEL PACKAGES ARE AVAILABLE. Contact the Central Reservation unit at Flag for more information

U.S. or Canada: 1-800-233-FLAG
International:        +1 727-467-5008 or
Email:                  

[email protected] 

Sincerely,

Nitzan Burstein
IAS Administrations

 

And finally, Flag is in on the act — attend EVERY Friday Graduation (except when Voldemort decides to cancel it on Friday afternoon like the last 2 weeks). And, be sure to keep “every weekend open from now through the IAS event” — EXCEPT we are not telling you when the IAS event will be.  Except that it’s not September or October. But, rest assured, you can make plans for this event just as you did for the Freewinds Maiden Voyage and Auditor’s Day. It is happening until we tell you it isn’t, then you just need to forget we said anything at all. 

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The mass confusion is spreading. This is publicized mayhem being played out in public for all to see.

Ignore all the hype about golden ages and new civilizations and monumental tidal waves of outrageously standard on Sourciness and just read what they are saying.

We are so incompetent we cannot plan or execute these massively important events and announcements. We don’t even know when they will be. And this from the masters of organization and stat manipulation that can count the number of pages of “new tech” shipped to Flag and the individual grommets in the tent and the precise number of drills passed by the 947.3 students studying the “streamlined” meter course.  And the events cannot be planned more than a week in advance??

In the words of my old friend, Earl Cooley, Miscavige and Co. don’t know whether to shit or wind their watches.  

Comments

  1. DollarMorgue,

    I am sorry to hear about your childhood in the Cadet Org. I can understand why you feel “nothing” at times and others, an outpour of grief.

    Living under constant threat and fear is unimaginable. Your mom tried to bring some happiness into your lives by taking you to the park, the coffee shop or any other way she could manage in the given circumstances. Wherever she is today, I hope she is doing well.

    I’m so happy that you’re out and free now; able to live a life of your own choosing. Each day of life is precious. I wish you a lifetime of happiness and success.

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  3. David Miscavige hired a new editor for his “Freedom” magazine. John Sugg.

    http://tonyortega.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FreedomMasthead.jpg

    Against the backdrop of his Las Vegas Public Relations Executive’s revolt against the local police department / government. And it turns out the editor he hired for Freedom Mag has also been of interest to the F.B.I..

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/03/11/they-want-to-question-me-about-lies-sami-al-arian-allegedly-told-but-what-about-the-lies-al-arian-s-enemies-fed-the-government-and-the-tampa-tribune/

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  4. “Celebrity Ball” event? I wonder just WHO are these celebrities? Does anyone know? Is it the auditors on the planet? The staff? Who has been defined as the celebrities of Scientology? Is it the entertainers? The donators?

    A Celebrity is the person we celebrate. We know for sure it isn’t L. Ron Hubbard anymore in the Church. Now that all of his books have been burned and David announced what an over product maker he was with his books, tech and what ever else.

    So, who exactly are the people that get celebrated in the Church these days? I doubt it is any auditor. All of their certs were cancelled and they were ordered to do retrains under David’s new bridges. So, who is it that gets celebrated at the celebrity ball?

    Is it David Miscavige?

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  5. Maybe Dave will be inspired by the US government shutdown. Close down the whole church except for essential services (OSA, lawyers, regges and MAAs remain on post) and as if by magic, Super Power goes into effect at midnight.

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  7. DM has a new strategy. He is going to overwork Tony O and Mike into early graves trying to keep up with the flood of inanity and insanity spewing out of the church of sciendollargy. After years of keystone kops fail fail fail, he has realized that that like tigers to the goat, Mike and Tony just cannot resist reporting on yet another cluster quack from the wacky world of davey duck. OSA has a target of 10 a day without letting on that its a trap to suck Mike and Tony into never sleeping! So watch out Mike! Davey ducks strategum is devious and dweadly.gotta give the guy his due, if Scientology has not caved in yet it’s not from lack of trying. Davey duck gets A for effort, but FFF for Fail, Fail, Fail.

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  8. “The release of the new, never before seen SuperPower Rundowns.” That’s what made me laugh.

    Thanks to good old Dan, I’ve been delivering for over six months now. Great results.

    And, by the way, these rundowns are over 30 years old, some even older.

    The only thing “new” is the spinning implant machine and the snake-oiliness table.

    George Orwell’s 1984 ain’t got nothin on David Miscavige spin.

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  9. O/T. This looks very interesting, and I thought you and some of your readers might like to know about it: https://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2013/

    “We live at a remarkable moment in the understanding of the most fundamental questions of science. What is the universe made of? Where did it come from? Where is it going? At Nobel Conference 49, “The Universe at Its Limits,” to be held on October 1 and 2, 2013, we will explore these questions in the light of recent discoveries and spend time contemplating both their scientific and their philosophical implications.”

    It will be live streamed starting tomorrow morning, and is being held in Minnesota.

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  12. If someone could film Miscavige’s life as a reality show, that would be entertaining but real painful to watch those around him react to the impossible predicaments he dishes out non stop.

    “This is a once-in-a-lifetime event which you’ll not want to miss!”

    Hackneyed hype already! Violates LRH’s orders to ASI about how to use hype! They years ago beat their hyping to death so it’s so old!

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  13. Hey Dave, Storms are starting to form over the Atlantic. How about timing your next event to coincide with when the first one hits Clearwater? This gives you your excuse to bail from the scene and blame it all on others.

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  14. I for one hope they keep looking more and more incompetent and confused and stupid. Maybe it will push those still in over the edge into doubt and away from the Cult of Miscavage.

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  16. You bitter defrocked apostates who keep blogging unemployedly from the fringe of the internet; you do not understand the greatness of the little dm; it is all your fault;

    There; I had to get it out of my system; I feel better now;

    And this is for you dm;
    ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
    😉
    🙂

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  17. And a no-win for public, as not everyone can just take off for Florida at the drop of a hat. Only wealthy or independently wealthy people can just pick up and go like that, and even some of those can’t. The Whales will show up, certainly but unless HE gives enough notice I can’t see there being a huge turnout of Scientologists from all corners of the globe..The upside for him is that most everyone who does show up on short notice will have money. Maybe that’s what he really wants anyway. Maybe he really doesn’t want anyone showing up who doesn’t have money, and giving short notice is a good way to vet the public for disposable income and their true degree of Koolaid addiction.

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  18. What a mess. HE can’t set a target for the event for whatever reason(s), but he still expects an enormous turn-out of public for when the event actually does occur. So staff are in the position of having to keep the public’s interest piqued with over the top comm that carefully excludes any specifics. Interested or not, the public can’t make plans to attend.. A real no-win sit for the staff, for sure.

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  19. It seems to me that the entire organization is a paralytic hand puppet, acting out the nervous breakdown of the madman at its center. One is VERY happy not to be within his personal field of gravity right now.

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  20. Ostensibly the koolaid drinkers are being told that they must plan, but this is only an apparancy.

    if you really read the comm, they are being told to NOT plan, to simply wait. They are being told not to do anything now, and to cancel any of their pre-existing plans.

    Obfuscated by the drivel, the actual message is,: “Don’t do anything, don’t plan anything. Wait for us to tell you what to do. You’ll be told, once we have our plan. In the meantime, just wait. We’ll let you know”.

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  22. Hi Mike,

    With great courage and at great personal consequences you left this den of thieves because you could not stand the act of bearing false witness before the world.

    When you the name Earle Cooley, I remembered the name. He was LRH’s personal attorney and later Mi$cavige’s COS attorney. Most remember him as a warm, charming man who made good use of humorous and pithy comments to calm difficult situations. But he was also someone who helped to create and participated in Mi$cavige’s Big Lie Machine. He was up to his eyebrows. In fact l clearly remember he, along with DM, standing before Scientologists and stated that Ron had been in good physical health before he passed away but intentionally left his body to do further research ! Thankfully, Ron’s honest country doctor, Dr. Denk, told the truth.
    Anyway, I hope that Earle Cooley somehow finds a way to make amends and find peace with himself as you have done.

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    • You are right. Earl was warm and funny and also flawed. But he was incredibly loyal. He represented murderers and thieves as well as Presidents of major universities. He was larger than life in many respects and left a lasting impression with me. He passed away a year or more ago. Neither he nor his son treated me any differently after I left the church than when I was in it. Can’t say the same for a lot of other people, and certainly no other attorney I had worked with. He didnt care about following anyone else’s rules about who he could and couldn’t talk to.

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      • That’s really good to know.
        He gave me the impression of being really likeable, and to my observation people who are likeable are usually that way because they truly like others.
        That he didn’t permit his affinity to be alloyed or desert you as a friend when you left the COS speaks great volumes beyond any words. Same goes for his son.

        The impression I have is that he is will eventually resolve all of these conflicts for himself if he has not done so already.

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  23. These “leaders” of the Sea Org would just as soon lie as tell the truth. They don’t see anything wrong with telling a lies about anything. They call them “shore stories” which are simply lies which are told to “others”, i.e., parishioners, a.k.a., “sheeple”.
    Unsurprisingly, their word is worth nothing and, as they create their time tracks from moment to moment, they probably don’t understand why their word is not trusted.
    The remedy to their condition can be found in one simple line in The Way To Happiness, one of L Ron Hubbard’s basic books.
    The title of one chapter is: “Seek to live with the truth”

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  25. I think they should just go ahead and wind their watches. It’s more hygienic and less disgusting than the alternative.

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  26. Maddening, yes!!! Make your plans, but we don’t know when..

    The second promo is almost correct, but the missed a word in their phrase: “it will take us into eternity”…it should say:
    It will take us into the eternity of stupidity. This makes a complete sentence of the reality they live in.

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  27. I’d wager that a majority of those originally planning to attend the big Oct event were pissed off, lost money, air fares, accomos, vacation time, etc. and moved past any further commitment. Or maybe they took a trip to Disney World instead and aren’t planning another trip to Florida anytime soon.

    In any case this is such a cluster fuck no doubt attendance will be embarrassing at best, and Davie Crotchrocket knows it.

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  28. Now is the time …

    … momentous enough …

    … take us into eternity …

    … for the first time ever!

    … no more exciting place to be right now …

    Join the thousands of Scientologists …

    … celebrate the spectacular …

    … once-in-a-lifetime …

    Cool … just the daily “highs” will do.

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  32. What i find truly telling is that both you, Mike, and Tony Ortega are finding brand new post subjects/events being offered to you on an almost daily basis. And, more recently, both of you have had more than one item daily. What does that say about DitzyMitzy’s “control” of things? Or how the speed of (negative) particle flow is definitely on the upswing? A circus of insanity and inanity.

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  33. That’s right Dave, we want you to fail, cos you ain’t no good nohow. LOL! We’ll see who gets the last laugh. Now rustle up some new lawyers cos the last lot weren’t any good, they didn’t do like you told em.

    See? You should’ve left the tent at the Hill, and now you discover it’s been cursed! LOL!

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  34. The arrogance of these people is (or, more correctly, David Miscavige) not to believed. I can imagine how stressed the public is. I’m so glad I no longer need to take these things seriously anymore, and I feel for those who do.

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    • It’s also possible the staff member is just bone tired, starved and totally stressed out (detrimental effects of chronic stress showing), and their senior is yelling at them to get the job done because THEIR senior yelled at them to get the quota, because THEIR higher up yelled at them – on and on, all the way back up to DM.

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      • I hear you. I feel desperate for a number of good and decent people still in. Having said that, if it is their choice to continue on that path, I am not going to stop them. I don’t yearn for the downfall of the church, but I do wish that no-one else gets hurt in the process and that disconnection especially is ended. A starting place is to have the organisation run by someone who is even keel and does not intend to harm or destroy. That will take a revolution. As for me, I have moved on – irrespective of what happens.

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        • I hear you, too. You know, I just find it’s so easy to forget what I went through myself. And it is so easy to see the way out when it’s not happening to you 24/7/365. And it’s easier if you have friends than if you are otherwise alone in a strange country and utterly dependent, like my Mum was when they threatened to throw me out of the cadet org (as a 7 year old) if we didn’t both behave and do as they said, which would have meant nobody would have looked after me. So one needs to find some compassion for the individual, otherwise this whole thing was never worthwhile.

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        • Wow – it is utterly inhumane to make a seven year old feel threatened – and a mother protecting a child is a very vulnerable person, and just awful to make her feel threatened too. I was once in a hospital (working there some years ago) I heard a mother screaming in a manner that was indescribable. I discovered that she had just been told her teenage daughter had been killed in a car accident. The pain of losing a child (even an older child) cannot be compared to anything else. I am so sorry you and your mother were threatened with being thrown out or separated. There are no excuses for that. This is why the disconnection issue for me is the worst. I would love to hear your whole story – if you want to tell it. You hit the nail on the head when you say that one needs to find compassion for the individual or it was never worthwhile. That is crux of it all. Even LRH said we are here to serve each other. I don’t know how that is possible if there is no compassion.

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        • My life was relatively uneventful – I think. When I think back to my time in the cadet org, I mostly feel – nothing. Not numbness, just – blank. Nothing. At other times the grief comes pouring out of me and I don’t know why. I believe I had it better than most, though. My mum did her best to make it nice. We went out to parks, the local library, and coffee shops (unheard of in the SO), and I received care packages from relatives and presents from my dad when I saw him every other year. Most of all, I remember work. Washing dishes for 200 people, cleaning up the dining hall and the kitchen, litter picking, taking rubbish to the incinerator, playing in the ashes (literally) – and being by myself a lot. I was in England, which from all accounts was the opposite of the ranch. Completely unsupervised instead of over-micromanaged.

          I was once in hospital, too, as a patient, and I experienced a similar incident. The mother’s grief went on for hours – and there is nothing you can do to make the finality any better for her.

          You said it better – service without compassion is not service.

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        • I am so sorry you missed a proper childhood. I am glad you are out Dollar Morgue. You dodged a bullet for sure. I knew a young girl whose parents were in the SO. She told me she was NEVER going to join the SO and that she was going to be a model. She had everything it took to do that except opportunity. I hear she is now an RTC rep and has the cold, chrome steel thing going. Someone said to me ” she never stood a chance.” Stolen lives…..

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        • Wendy, your tale of the girl who wanted to be a model and ended up as a cold chrome steel reg is sad and often repeated. I guess this is what happens when a person is forced to give up their passion and their dreams in lieau of something they hated and would never have voluntarily chose. So what is left to do? Lock away the misery somewhere deep inside, and turn that hatred outward.

          Yes, and it wouldn’t be Scientology if they then didn’t turn around and say it was your own decision, responsibility and out ethics. Like they do when people complain after bankrupting themselves to help DM build his real estate portfolio. It’s they’re fault, “nobody made them do it”. Hah! Indeed, disconnection is a “personal choice”. I’ll keep giving Mike what I can to erode DM’s tortured customer base.

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      • Beautiful compassion DollarMorgue. I love this quote so decided to share it. You inspired me.

        “How far you go in life depends on
        your being tender with the young,
        compassionate with the aged,
        sympathetic with the striving, and
        tolerant of the weak and strong.
        Because some day in life
        you will have been all of these.

        George Washington Carver

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  35. Its kind of a small niche. You have people who are too smart for the under 125 IQ crowd.
    Their refined sense of humor just wouldn’t be appreciated by the average schmuck. On the other hand; they are not smart enough to see that the joke is on them.

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  36. The world is getting a 100% precise reflection of the mind of David Miscavige. His grandiose schemes can never come to pass because as a result of his continual vacillation (“Should the columns be 3 feet wide or 3 feet 2 inches wide? How will that affect the cost? Why do I have to work everything out?”) he comes back around to scuttle everything he laid out while making it everyone else’s fault but his. The man is utterly incapable of even a scintilla of self-reflection. He will watch the train wreck at Flag and go to his grave never suspecting that he caused it.

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    • How right you are Dan re DM: “The man is utterly incapable of even a scintilla of self-reflection. He will watch the train wreck at Flag and go to his grave never suspecting that he caused it.”

      More people need to understand this…just because Scientology has been crashing for decades does not mean it will suddenly stop and take a look at itself and try to figure out what went wrong, noooo… With a true SP dictating every move, there is NO self reflection, no correction and, ultimately, End of Game blaming others for the big fail.

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    • Dan, this thing of “how will that affect the cost?” seems to me he would
      never consider. Does he actually inform himself of expenses? He just
      seems to live on another planet where money and energy directly dealing
      with him have no limits and nobody would ever dare to even mention.

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  37. This is very exciting!! I’ll just tell my boss that at a moments notice I need to take a month or two off – shouldn’t be too much more than that. No problem.

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  38. “In the words of my old friend, Earl Cooley, Miscavige and Co. don’t know whether to shit or wind their watches.”

    In the words of George Carlin, the only possible way out of this conundrum is, “Well, I guess I’ll just shit on my watch.” Which describes the results of this epic meltdown all too well.

    It continues to boggle my mind that Miscavige would allow his own ineptitude to sabotage what is probably one of the two biggest (and what is probably the most profitable) moneymakers in the RCS. I suspect they’re bringing in almost as much money from event-centered fundraisers as they are from services at Flag. And they’re pouring gasoline on the event business as fast as they can, and hoping nobody will walk by with a few extra matches. In a real business with competent management, Rule #1 is to protect your most profitable revenue stream no matter what… In the bizarre Fun House world of the RCS, clearly that’s not even being considered.

    One has to believe with the cancellation of Maiden Voyage and Auditor’s Day, and with the move of IAS from the UK to the US, that they are in full retreat from the events business. And, as you point out, by giving nobody more than a week’s notice for any of these big events, they’re practically guaranteeing that the only people in attendance will be from Clearwater. Nobody from California is going to come all that way on last-minute airfares, and then be told to do it again a week later for the next one (or expected to stay over a couple weeks in crappy, overpriced accommodations at the Fort Homicide, taking time away from jobs) just so they can be there just in case there’s an event.

    This disaster is far more preventable than the lack of new public coming in the door to learn the first thing about Scientology. While the bad behavior from the cult has a lot to do with that, times have changed since Dianetics surfaced 60 years ago, and even since the heyday of Scientology 30 years ago. By comparison, selling events to the most rabidly loyal existing customers is a hard business to screw up. And yet that’s exactly what they’re doing.

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    • John P., you are used to analysing situations from a business angle – but I would assume, in your work, you also need to have a pretty good idea of people’s psychological makeup.

      What do you make of DM and his operation at this point in time? Any projections?

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        • I hear that!

          On the plus side, the iPad learns pretty fast. I never have to get past “e n t u” and it’s got “enturbulate” right there for me. And who really wants to touch all the letters in “Miscavige” (which it also knows should be capitalized, to compensate for the low stature of the subject).

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  41. Nobody want’s to come and nobody needs to, by now there are more Scientologists outside the church than inside, many youngsters are still in tough, have a bunkbed ready or a spare room to give then refuge when they blow.

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    • What a ruse. Oldtimers can either see it or at least get an
      idea that something is wrong. They have seen this hype too
      many times. But sadly the inexperienced young ones can be
      so vulnerable.

      Would be interesting to find the ratio of in-scio to ex-church.
      Once I heard that there are many more exSO than current
      SO members.

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      • A worldwide protest of declared OTs would be nice, or a central website. But who really wants to stand up for this judgmental group when, even in the indy field you are apparently gunned down if you are selfish enough to do the OT levels JUST FOR YOURSELF and then get on with your life?? No, I won’t shed a tear when it’s gone. I’ll just be happy for those who make it out completely.

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  42. Ok, my biggest problem with ALL of the most recent emails sent out to the public is the basic lack of proofreading before they send them out. I sit here and try to read the emails replete with typos, improper grammar, incomplete sentences and just plain totally garbled speech and think wow, how can they expect any sane person to actually respond to any of these emails. Oh wait, now I get it.

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    • What dollar morgue said;

      It’s also possible the staff member is just bone tired, starved and totally stressed out (detrimental effects of chronic stress showing), and their senior is yelling at them to get the job done because THEIR senior yelled at them to get the quota, because THEIR higher up yelled at them – on and on, all the way back up to DM.

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  43. Leave it to Davey Dear to Epic-fail this to the max.

    You may recall that the “church” started 2013 with a failure that it managed to mostly clean up in time. The end of 2013 is just more “nailing Jell-O to a wall”. http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=11583

    You’ll no doubt recall that LRH wrote the following FOR A REASON:

    It should be the primary concern of HCO (WW), Ltd. To increase the dissemination, activities and income of all organizations on a crash program basis. This should be done by:
    …
    6. Demanding long range, advance notice by HCOs to the field of coming functions and no more of this thirty-day notice of a tape play. Get a year’s schedule of special events ahead and published and then boomed ninety days in advance of each one. (ref:HCO PL 26 January 1964 HCO (WW) LTD. CENTRAL ORG ACTIVITIES)

    And a small final reminder for Davey:

    The dwindling number of Sea Org members are working as fast as they can, NO MATTER HOW LOUDLY YOU BEAT THEM UP.

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  44. This world they speak of makes me instantly think in gibberish.
    This on sourciness is soooo sexy. Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. What planet am I on?
    Are we there yet?

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  45. It’s like a kind of paralysis – DM is like a rabbit in the headlights not knowing which catastrophe to try and address next, and achieving nothing but confusion. Praise be I am out of the Matrix.

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  48. What a bloody shambles. Cock up doesn’t even come close. I pity the poor souls getting all the earache for His Holiness’ ineptitude. The RPF and DPF must be filling up. Time to start a Golden Age of Project Forces.

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    • Or could this be the wake up call they need?

      It took far less of Miscavige’s craziness for me to snap out of my trance many moons ago. And that was behind closed doors. Like Mike said, this is being played out for everyone to see.

      The number of scientologists questioning Dave’s authority and/or sanity has got to be at an all time high.

      And that is a very good thing indeed.

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