Orders of Magnitude! OMG 50 in 6 weeks. With every level counting as 1 (so someone completing OT 1 and II counts as 2), this represents about 25 people (being charitable)... Or about 250 people moved up the Bridge to OT in a year. And most of them are not even South Africans, they come from all over to take advantage of the cheap prices. Africa will be OT... Never. Marketing Genius. Entrepreneur [sic] Giant... If these people are SO good, how come scientology is failing SO badly? Graduation? Has nothing to do with … [Read more...]
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It's ALWAYS "around the corner" Or "coming up." Never happening NOW or "already happened." Why is it just the same 4 "beautiful people"? Isn't there anyone else in Vancouver? Good luck with that... They're about as valuable as last week's newspaper. Going back to the 50's Scientology has been stuck in the 50's, well, since the 50's. You need a Class IX to explain this? That's what the Comm Course supposedly teaches you? Power Up Your Life? They bring in someone from Twin Cities -- one of the deadest of the dead … [Read more...]
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The significance of the sword? Who knows. Though clearly this event is not important, it's only a "special management speaker" to be named later and something "you won't want to miss." No "mandatory attendance" Now they're "Clearing" Chicago Wonder what happened to opening the "ideal" org? 10 people is all they've got? How lame It's the current version of "Do it for Ron" -- shaming people into completing services as a "birthday gift" -- "you don't want to give a gift to Another "monumental" COB Briefing They don't even … [Read more...]
The Great New Era Webinar and How Scientology Fakes “Good News”
New Era, which seems to have taken on a new role as sort of the "continental org" for Europe trying to sell scientology to new public, held a "Dissemination Webinar" and we were sent some screen shots from an attendee that provide some interesting insights. The lineup was a "who's who" of scientology FSM hucksters. Arte Maren, Rafferty Pendery, Michael Chan, Andrea D'Agostini, Pier Paderni. Here is the "good news" (featuring not recently seen nor heard from Joy Villa) -- with the typically vague "hundreds of thousands of people introduced to … [Read more...]
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This is the "Advanced Org" Their "Safe Pointing" campaign... ASI's "Tasty Treats" Get yourself a shot of hot jolt -- while they try to sell you some "priceless" "special editions" of Ron's old, not very good, fiction. He's Running in Circles He's "on Cause Resurgence" -- wonder if he's dizzy? No Org Graduates? Just someone from Flag? An example to others? Oddly for Chicago, she is young. This poster is a bit misleading given the other old people we have seen... Avoid bad decisions Like paying $6 … [Read more...]
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A lot of promo this week has been devoted to the massively, spectacular, epic wider bridge OMG! But there are some other bits and pieces worthy of comment... Postcard Mania? This is the venue, not one of the numerous completely empty Potemkin village buildings on N. Ft Harrison? What is she holding up? Why are they blanking out a routing form? Deep questions and an epiphany Scientologists love good conspiracy theories. Global Elites in secret perverted activity! Things TOO disturbing to share. But scientology has the answer. The ONLY … [Read more...]
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"Ideal" Continent Will be accomplished by getting buildings renovated for Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. Never mind the fact there is not a single org in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, South East Asia, Oceania or the Indian subcontinent. Planetary Clearing is happening! More ideal-y-ness Community and Economic Development? If they're so good at this, how come their own communities are disappearing before their very eyes? They're down to a handful of scientologists in the major cities of S. Africa and you can count them on one hand in … [Read more...]
The Arte Maren A Thon
You can check out his video here. It's heavy scienospeak -- his birthday is to "celebrate my identity in this body, the name on this body"... And he goes on from there claiming he is going to relate some of his personal experiences with L. Ron Hubbard (not including mentioning I am sure that L. Ron Hubbard considered him and the other people in the GO to be treasonous bastards who had tried to take him down). Credit where it's due though, Arte looks pretty damn good for 80... His event is pretty strange. Just trying to rekindle his glory days with himself as the center of attention it … [Read more...]
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Be kind, be decent... Yeah, the guiding principles of scientology. Not AOSH Africa taking over the world One country that is actually their zone, everywhere else they are poaching other AO's territory! And who the hell is this guy -- he is from Albania? Why is he promoting AOSH Africa and not AOSHEU? Oh boy... Columbus is almost the BEST org in all of EUS? And the real scoop on this Sea Org manned org is that it is a complete morgue -- listen to the podcast Chris Shelton did recently with the SO member who The Aftermath Foundation helped … [Read more...]
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Did they actually have 2 completions in one week? They never show shots of the actual graduation... More "Advanced Org" services What are these people doing? They're so desperate they are trying to attract raw public? Monumental Achievements They got some people to play at Graduation! The bar is pretty low these days... It's International(r) you know... Here's one of their events Same few people -- doesn't really look too international What I Fear Most Taking financial advice from an old guy trying to look cool and … [Read more...]