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Thursday Funnies

December 8, 2022 By Mike Rinder 33 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Andrea D'Agostini, Angela Sophie Reagan, AOSH Africa, AOSH ANZO, ASI, Deborah Shaul, Elena Walls, Freewinds, Gun Industry Marketplace, Jessica Kudewicz, Julian Burnside, Katerina Alemis, Keith Horn, Long Island org, Lydia Hopwood, Michael Chan, Monique Cichocki, Sarah Page-wells

Thursday Funnies

August 18, 2022 By Mike Rinder 17 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: 10000 on Solo NOTs, Andrea D'Agostini, AOSHAf, AOSHANZO, Bellaire Mission, Brisbane, Carole Eddington, Chicago org, Clive Rabey, Clyde Batton, Colleen May, Dublin Org, Harlingen, Kiddie Corner, Malmo Org, Michael Chan, Peter Alemis, Philadelphia org, Postcard Mania, Richard Olson, Shawn May

Thursday Funnies

June 23, 2022 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

  "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...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Andrea D'Agostini, AOSHAf, AOSHEU, Battlefield Earth, Billy Lindstein, Brisbane, Canberra, Cape Town, CLO EU, Columbus Ideal Org, criminon, Dan O'Connor, Georgia, Hana Li, HAPI, Jessica Kudewicz, Jimmy Page, joburg, Joy Villa, Michael Chan, Quito mission, Saint Hill, Sharon Star, Stacy Francis, tampa org, Top Gun, Trevor Rosenberg, Yvette Kloss

The Arte Maren A Thon

June 21, 2022 By Mike Rinder 26 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: Andrea D'Agostini, Andres Lopez, Arte Maren, Deanna Durisic, Hana Li, Jive Aces, Jon Statham, Manuela Oliveira, Michael Bang, Rafferty Pendery, Tamas Kasza

Thursday Funnies

June 9, 2022 By Mike Rinder 13 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: 10, 10000 on Solo NOTs, Andrea D'Agostini, AOSH Africa, AOSHEU, Barcelona org, Chicago org, Clive Rabey, Columbus Org, Dan O'Connor, Dan York, Father's Day, Freewinds, Jacob Jolly, Lydia Hopwood, Marc De Turck, Michael Chan, Vancouver org, volunteer ministers, way to happiness

Thursday Funnies

June 2, 2022 By Mike Rinder 32 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Alexandra Arjonilla, Andrea D'Agostini, AOSHEU, Artists for a better world, CCHR, Chicago org, Christel Duffy, David Campbell, Dublin Org, Evan Duffy, Grant Cardone, Jive Aces, Koura Shipton, Larry Gluck, Lena Moatty, Lydia Hopwood, Malmo Org, Marc Perkowitz, Mason Wells, Michael Chan, Raven Kane, Richard Stewart, Robert Duffy, Shilpa Arenja, Vancouver org

Thursday Funnies

February 24, 2022 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

  Still trying for 10,000 Though I guess they've taken some heat as suddenly they have increased more in the last 12 months than any time before... But what happens if they GET 10,000? The planet will be fully salvaged?   Kids Success Stories Always inspiring   Wow -- big news An AO can deliver the Purif! What a topsy turvy world scientology is   Get enlightened About how you need to give us your money   Still no International Events... Everyone else is doing things -- sporting events, concerts etc. Dave still too scared … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: 10000 on Solo NOTs, Andrea D'Agostini, AOSHAf, AOSHANZO, Auckland Org, Celebrity Centre, Dave Petit, Dublin Org, Emilio Turquie, Fran Andrews, Jamie Fleming, Joy Sigur-Ramza, Joy Villa, Kea Verweij, Kevin Taylor, Kevin WIlson, Riverpark Mission, Ryan Blatz, Slovakia, Ukraine

Thursday Funnies

November 11, 2021 By Mike Rinder 23 Comments

      Lots of found parking spaces and caught the green light... There's been a pretty big devaluation of "OT phenomena"   AOLA could use some of this... Wonder why these guys who are so good aren't 10X the success of the orgs?   Instead of being on course? Oh my....   Unites? This is the big IAS event this year? Wow   The First Ideal Continent... Just Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane to go for an ideal "Continent" -- but not a single org in India, China, Indonesia etc. Seems just a little bit of a hollow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Andrea D'Agostini, AOLA, ASHO CC Int, Bijou Phillips, Caroline Collen, Chase Wilson, Columbus Org, DJ Donkey Punch, Flag, Franklin County Sheriff, Freewinds, graduation, Greg Capazorio, IAS, Jeff Pomerantz, Joburg org, LAPD Hollywood Div, Lisa McCaffrey, Matt Reeve, Michael DeLeon, Nayyirah Muhammad, New Era, Patrick Valtin, valley org, Vancouver org, WISE

Let’s Go Virtual OT!

July 6, 2020 By Mike Rinder 47 Comments

The question you have to ask after reading this breathless promo -- why would anyone pay to go to the Freewinds when you can apparently "Go OT" virtually? The second question -- is there any difference between an OT and a virtual OT? Aren't all OT's "virtual" anyway as the state is entirely subjective -- nobody has ever objectively proven that an OT exists. Hubbard's explanation for that was "we don't do parlor tricks." The only time anyone supposedly set out to verify any OT abilities was Ingo Swann and Hal Puthoff trying to turn it into an intelligence tool for the CIA. Nothing ever came … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freewinds Tagged With: Andrea D'Agostini, Barbara Russell, Bernard Bonner, Emmett Osborn, Freewinds, Hana-li Pendery, Manuela Suarez, Ollie Rodriguez, Rafferty Pendery, virtual OT

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