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Bonnie’s Sad Tale

October 1, 2020 By Mike Rinder 85 Comments

This is a very sad story.  Yet another bright young woman indoctrinated into becoming a willing scientology slave. She is so proud of the fact that she was the youngest fundraiser for the "ideal org" (something that changed absolutely nothing in Sydney or anywhere else). And she was a fundraiser for the IAS, upset that she "only regged $5,000 today." This is perfectly normal in the scientology world. And she proclaims she has been on staff for 11 years and has completed NED (but is not Clear), the Student Hat and Metering Course. This is the big "benefit" of 11 years of "volunteering" as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: Children, fundraising, IAS, Ideal Orgs, Sydney

About the Worst Thing To Do

April 9, 2020 By Mike Rinder 99 Comments

Scientology continues to demonstrate it's irrational, dangerous attitude towards the current pandemic. They just don't get it. As the old saying goes, even if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.  Even if scientology pretends they are totally in compliance with societal norms and expectations (in fact, they exceed them and did so faster and more efficiently than anyone on earth), they just cannot help themselves when it comes to displaying their real "pig." The pressure is still on to "get stats up" -- that will never change. So, these recruiters are feeling the heat to bring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freewinds, Sea Org Tagged With: Children, COVID-19, Freewinds, Scientology, Sea Org

An Ideal Scientology Family

January 19, 2020 By Mike Rinder 39 Comments

  A recent Facebook posting, coupled with the blog post about my daughter yesterday, prompted me to write this today. Mirit Hendrickson is a full-on scientologist known for her "VM videos" -- donning a yellow t-shirt and heading out to look for photo-ops during hurricanes that she then posts all over social media to prove the "effectiveness of the tech." Her life is immersed in all things scientology. So it is hardly a surprise that her children are being raised as part of an "ideal" scientology family (which includes joining the Sea Org as soon as possible). As you can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flag Service Org, Sea Org Tagged With: Children, children in Sea Org, education, Mirit Hendrickson, scientology families, Sea Org

Thursday Funnies

January 2, 2020 By Mike Rinder 51 Comments

  The new look Crossed arms are so 2019. Holding an empty 3 ring binder is the new thing. Sure says "determined" to me?   Here today, gone tomorrow Just look at ANY of the ideal orgs that have opened and see how many of the people they touted beforehand are there today. Most of these people will never actually start, they just agree to sign up to be left alone for a while.   Big Ben! That's a lot of "secular" stuff for an organization that claims to bring more people onto the Bridge than anyone else on earth...   The Year of Bahamas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Big Blue, Children, Flag, fundraising, funnies, Ideal Orgs, inglewood org, L. Ron Hubbard Way, LA org, PAC Base, pasadena, public relations, Scientology, Scientology Idle Orgs, sydney org, valley org

Thursday Funnies

November 7, 2019 By Mike Rinder 82 Comments

  Anything to get them in... Magic. Music. Dance lesson. Painting. Desperation to try to get "bodies in the shop."     Featured Attraction? Now it's a "jam session" at a new time   Why I joined staff? It made sense. Gosh -- did they tell you about the hours and the pay? And the futility of it all?   Just guess the answer to this riddle... They would use the same tagline for "Talk Therapy or Torture" -- anything a psych does is torture. Ron tells us so.   Absolutely no fundraising We are done with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Auckland, CCHR, Children, Columbus, Freewinds, fundraising, funnies, ot committee, public relations, Scientology, Scientology Idle Orgs, Sydney, Vancouver

Grooming the “Next Generation” of “Org Execs”

October 19, 2019 By Mike Rinder 32 Comments

This is how scientologists are groomed from an early age. Indoctrination into the Hubbard "study tech" which teaches you that if something he said doesn't make sense, it is simply because there is a word or symbol you have not understood. According to Valentina Smith, these are the "next generation of org execs". Valentina is one of the Admins on the "Scientology - Perth" Facebook group (where this was posted). As I recall, she is one of the lonely staff of the Perth "ideal org", though I may be mistaken. Scientology increasingly relies on second and third generations to be their "new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs, Kids Tagged With: Children, Ideal Orgs, Kids, Perth, Valentina Smith

Get ‘Em Young

August 13, 2019 By Mike Rinder 112 Comments

I came across this Sea Org promotional piece from 1999. It was a time when there had not been the extensive exposure of abuses of children in scientology. And thus it reflects the true attitude of scientology -- not the carefully worded utterances that are put forth these days (scientology.org is the epitome of scientology propaganda and it is the lead for most public statements now). Here we witness the unvarnished (well, at least less varnished) side of how scientology views children. Education outside scientology is not valued. In fact Hubbard derided it often -- especially higher … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sea Org Tagged With: Aaron Mason, Astra Croft, Children, Dana Reid, golden era, Krystal Simmons, L. Ron Hubbard, Sarah Lahde, Sea Org

Scientology and Children: The PR Spin

May 14, 2019 By Mike Rinder 52 Comments

After the last post Child Sexual Abuse in Scientology it is ironic that the next day I came across this piece of PR spin. This is the other side of the scientology equation. On one hand, they groom people to be victims of sex abuse and seek to cover it up when it happens. On the other, they seek to create a good image of themselves so stories of abuse are rejected on the basis of "It couldn't be true -- look how they LOVE children and support and protect them." It is an aircover operation done on the basis of what is good for scientology. And here is another one -- they are really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Children, Clearwater Florida, public relations, Scientology

Scientology: Children in the Sea Organization

April 8, 2019 By Mike Rinder 49 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about scientology promoting for 3 month old infants to get "auditing" and children being put through the grueling Purification Rundown. This is the next step in "get em while they're young." Signing up 10 year olds for the Sea Org. This kid cannot be more than 10 years old... likely younger. And there appear to be 2 Sea Org members standing over him, as he signs his billion year contract. This is not an isolated random incident that happened to be caught on camera. Here you can see this boy and another kid on stage. The “AO … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AO Latam, Children, Mexico, Scientology, Sea Org

Children in Scientology

April 7, 2019 By Mike Rinder 92 Comments

Some have been incredulous when told that young children participate in scientology auditing and training. And that it is PAID FOR. Well, here is a new promo piece from the "ideal" org in Pasadena, right under the nose of Church of Scientology International. They are promoting to bring in your children 3 MONTHS AND UP for "group processing." Yes, 3 MONTHS. I have never seen this before. It is really desperate when an org is promoting to service 3 month old infants. This is not something sent out on April Fool's Day....   Here are a couple of other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Tagged With: Children, pasadena org, Scientology

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