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Canada – The First Ideal Country?

December 29, 2020 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

Hold on a second. The scientology definition of an "Ideal Country" is all EXISTING ORGS with "ideal buildings"... This is what they push all the time. We need an "ideal USA" -- that does not mean an ideal org in every city. It doesn't even mean an ideal org in each State. It simply means, all the orgs that ALREADY EXIST need to have new buildings purchased for them (or in the case of Toronto and Los Angeles, simply renovate the one they have -- which STILL isn't done in Toronto). Scientology hasn't opened a new org anywhere in recent memory. By this definition, the following COUNTRIES … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Canada, Ideal Orgs, toronto org

Oh Canada

May 17, 2020 By Mike Rinder 69 Comments

Here's some news from Canada. It's a pretty good snapshot of scientology across the planet. The hype about Extension Courses is going to come back to bite them in the butt once the lockdown is over. "Intensive gains" from reading books. Who needs auditing? If this is so good, why would anyone ever need to go into an org again? It's going to be interesting to watch how many people use this as an excuse to avoid coming into orgs in the future. It is pretty funny that after two months they are still "accelerating towards 10X."  With the staff and Sea Org pretty much idle, they are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Orgs, Sea Org Tagged With: Canada, CLO Canada, COVID-19, Sea Org

The Largest Private Relief Force on Earth — Canada Edition

October 2, 2018 By Mike Rinder 84 Comments

You know how much scientology loves to tout their amazing relief efforts and the power of their "tech" and the vast numbers of people they can launch at a moment's notice to do what nobody else can do in the face of disasters. Well, here are the 3 proud Canadian Continental VMs. Yes, 3 of them. Not really the largest private relief force in Canada one would suspect. And what are these 3 actually doing? Trying to convince other religions they should join forces with them... Now that's some serious disaster relief. Other than that they brought about "a reign of calm in the face of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Volunteer Ministers Tagged With: Canada, Church of Scientology, volunteer ministers

Newsflash: Cambridge Org is Now "Humanitarian"

April 23, 2013 By Mike Rinder 43 Comments

The first org in the world is now "humanitarian". What an honor!  Seems like the right amount of money can buy a status not only for anyONE but for anyTHING. I am not sure even the Popes of the Middle Ages sold indulgences to entire churches? And how appropriate it is to spread the largesse so well piloted for individuals to whole churches. No need to keep your ethics in/train/audit or DO any humanitarian work/good deeds -- just GIVE the appropriate bribe, payment, pay off er... donation and all will be taken care of. Then you can proudly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, Idle Orgs, Regging Tagged With: Canada, Corporate Scientology, David Miscagive, Ideal Orgs, Scientology Idle Orgs

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