It is always amusing to read scientology's hagiographic musings about their fearless leader, Captain Miscavige. He has a website dedicated to him and the same content is repeated in the special section devoted to the COB on the Scientology website. Nobody fact checks the claims made about him, Scientology operates on the principle of putting out so much garbage and lies that nobody can keep up with all the falsehoods so they eventually become true. Here are a few glaring examples, taking the statements right from their website: Barely a year after entering the Sea Organization—the religious … [Read more...]
Mr. Self Importance
Captain Dave the Hermit, isolated in his Truman Show world, is steadily becoming more unhinged. The image of the letter below was posted on Facebook. To begin, apparently he thinks a letter from himself is something of a work of art, all fancied up like one of those dime-a-dozen proclamations Mayors hand out. I can't really tell if that image inside the "D" is supposed to represent an outline of his profile and bouffant? Whatever, it's pretentious any way you cut it. Like this is some great work of art. Then there is the "substance" of the letter itself. Mr. Know-It-All as put … [Read more...]
Episode 42: Listener Questions Part 5
We answered more "Listener Questions" this week. These are some of our favorite episodes and we really appreciate the questions people send in. This one was especially fun and I think you all will enjoy it. We talk about the last chapter of Hubbard's life which is documented in the Epilogue of Lawrence Wright's brilliant Going Clear. This is an excerpt detailing what Steve Pfauth, one of the handful of people with Hubbard at the end of his life had to say. We talk about Hubbard's succession and mention the issue appointing Pat and Annie Broeker which Miscavige had … [Read more...]