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Inane Letters from the Edge

July 1, 2020 By Mike Rinder 71 Comments

Long-time contributor Clearly Not Clear was the lucky recipient of a letter from St Hill. Odd, because Clearly lives in the US  and has never even been to St Hill, let alone taken any services there... But anyone familiar with scientology knows that Hubbard dictates that letters must be written every week. He says that the number of letters out is the controlling factor in the amount of income (and size not quality is what's important -- an idea that has been scrupulously applied in scientology orgs all over the world) and the second datum "an org is in complete control of their letters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: AOSHUK, Clearly Not Clear, Letter Reg, Letters Our, St Hill

Crazy Scientology Letters

April 15, 2020 By Mike Rinder 69 Comments

We have all seen some crazy "Letter Reg" letters emanating from the bowels of scientology over the years, but I think this one has to take the cake. The foolish letters are based on Hubbard's brilliant administrative "technology" which is laid out in stone. Every executive in scientology knows this quote -- published in ALL CAPS: GROSS INCOME SENIOR DATUM THE SIZE NOT THE QUALITY OF AN ORG'S MAILING LIST AND THE NUMBER OF MAILINGS AND LETTERS TO IT DETERMINES THE GROSS INCOME OF AN ORG. IF THIS IS NOT KNOWN AS A SENIOR DATUM TO EXEC SECS AND KEPT IN BY THEM THEIR CONDITION IS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: AOSHUK, Gross Income, Letter Reg, Mailing List, Regine Kreisel

Thursday Funnies

January 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 56 Comments

  That Cristian Vargas sure gets around... He seems to be the only person organizing events these days?   Big news From a "former" investigative reporter and a retired Army officer. I am sure they are experts. Just as sure there will be a lot of correlation without causation involved in this (almost by definition you have to be mentally ill to engage in a mass shooting -- how come scientology hasn't yet "taken over the field" on mental healing and handled this problem? Are they not just as responsible as "the psychs" who they claim know nothing but they have ALL the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSHUK, Bay Head, CC Int, CCHR, Chicago, Cristian Vargas, Flag, Foothills Msn, fundraising, Jim Bridgeforth, Kids, Michael DeLeon, Michael Wisner, New Haven, Perth, Plymouth, Purification, Rafferty Pendery, Sunland, Super Bowl, tampa org, Tom Cummins, WISE

St Hill is booming I tell you, booming

September 14, 2019 By Mike Rinder 67 Comments

Here is some new hype from the original St Hill (and now home to the infamous IAS "Eunuch Man" statue): Dear Xxxxxx, I wanted to inform you of the great expansion that is happening at Saint Hill right now. First of all, you will be pleased to know that we are experiencing an incredible OT boom, having people come from all around the world to do their OT Levels. In fact we now have 127 people auditing on the Solo OT Levels. The expansion does not end there, in fact, we are right now finishing the construction of our Central Qualification Organization that will be manned by a total of 40 Sea … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AOSHUK, Birmingham, Dublin, London, public relations, Scientology, St Hill

How Big is Scientology?

April 1, 2019 By Mike Rinder 101 Comments

The question as to how big scientology really is comes up often. The organization does not make its membership figures known though they have a good count with the total number of IAS members. Of course even that is inflated as it is notoriously difficult to get OFF a scientology mailing list and as long as they can still send you junk mail you "count" on their statistic. Over the years, spokespeople have variously claimed 4, 6, 8 or 10 million "members" but then refuse to define what a "member" is though a few times they have stated it is "anyone who had bought a book or taken a service … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Tagged With: AOSHUK, Clearing, Clears, St Hill, stats

Old St Hill On Life Support

June 29, 2016 By Mike Rinder 125 Comments

Things are not too rosy at old St Hill. Their new Auditor mag clearly demonstrates how pathetic St Hill is -- and this is what ALL ORGS are striving to be like! Of course, they no longer have a Briefing Course to deliver - the original PURPOSE of the organization. But without having to devote resources to delivering the BC, one would imagine they would be doing a bang-up job of making up for that with everything else... Not so much. No wonder a new "Command Team" of Flag trained nobodies was sent to replace John Danilovich. This place is disappearing faster than a snowball in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Idle Orgs Tagged With: AOSHUK, Ideal Orgs, Scientology Idle Orgs, St Hill

The Prodigal Son Proclaims St Hill “ideal”

October 20, 2015 By Mike Rinder 90 Comments

They put up the monumental, epic news about the opening of the "ideal" St Hill on the scientology.org website. And what a doozie it is.   The headline is typical shermanspeak overhype, and the text that follows is every bit as laughable. The church claims that "more than 2000" were in attendance. If you can find close to 1000 people in the photo above it would be a miracle. More like 500. And you know this was the BEST shot they could come up with. Here is a small sampling of prolix word salad from the mullet man: A pivotal moment in what has proved a season of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, Idle Orgs Tagged With: AOSHUK, David Miscavige, Ideal Orgs, public relations

UK “Expansion”

March 23, 2015 By Mike Rinder 78 Comments

A recent hypemail from "Ron's Home" caught my attention. Of course, Ron's Home is where they no longer deliver the St Hill Special Briefing Course and St Hill Fdn no longer exists. Hey, there are all sorts of indicators of "milestones" and "straight up and vertical" in scientology. Just as long as you proclaim the contraction is actually expansion, the sheeple buy it. War is peace. But what really made me this stand out to me was the LRH quote. This is the quote that "10,000 on or through Solo NOTs" is based on. Somehow the sheeple have come to accept that if there were that number … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Golden Age of Tech, Idle Orgs Tagged With: Alex Gibney, AOSHUK, David Miscavige, golden age of tech II, Ideal Orgs, St Hill

It’s Magic: St Hill Is Highest Evers

February 15, 2015 By Mike Rinder 78 Comments

How do you make instant "highest evers statistics"? It's easy, just combine TWO orgs into ONE. It's like a "golden age" expansion formula that Dear Leader has conjured up. Here is something from the latest UK Advance! mag. What is really amazing is the gleeful way they promote the closure of another org, one that L. Ron Hubbard himself put in place and wrote NUMEROUS policy letters about. How do they call themselves "on source scientologists" who are "dedicated to keeping scientology working" and "doing what Ron says" and yet get all excited about "the merge of Saint Hill … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Orgs Tagged With: AOSHUK, Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, golden age of tech II

Cognitive Dissonance

January 5, 2015 By Mike Rinder 86 Comments

Do these people even realize what they are saying? Do they have ANY concept of the orders of magnitude they are dealing with when they keep saying they are "making planetary clearing a reality?" I guess they think this will convince people they need a LOT of money because the number is so big, rather than make them realize they should just give up and come up with some other plan for clearing the planet as this one they are operating on is nothing but pure fail.   They recently started publishing "Clear Numbers" again as you can see in this recent page from the Auditor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundamentalism, Scientology Tagged With: AOSHUK, Church of Scientology, golden age of tech II

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