Of course, the focus this time of year is on the magnificent Maiden Voyage events, things no scientologist would want to miss (though a large number of them do just that, the attendance keeps getting smaller and smaller and the hype and gimmicks they resort to become more and more bizarre). Our Friend Rupert Murdoch Always good to hear from Twit of the Year. Wonder if he realizes that Rupert Murdoch is a YUGE SP Merchant of Chaos? Clearly the brown nosing instinct and desire to appear to be an important person trumps even his "I am the most important scientologists in the UK" … [Read more...]
London Ideal Org is BOOMING. Not.
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G fail. This email was recently sent out from the executive in charge of getting new people onto the Bridge in London's "ideal" org. And of course this is the ONLY org for a city with 10 million resident - imagine if there was ONE laundromat in all of London and the owners were announcing "we are cleaning London's clothes" and actually stated their goal for the last 25 years was to do the laundry of every person in London, but they still only had one small laundromat that nobody even used because their prices were too high. He is so very proud of the fact that one person a … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
New Bright Idea It seems they are trying to match the success of the "Extension" courses the church offers. They apparently don't realize the Extension Courses have become the preferred method of avoiding regges and Call In people -- "I am doing my Basics Book Extension Course so leave me alone..." What Do You Get? Not this, that's for sure. One thing EVERY ideal org FART Div 6 has is common. They are completely empty. Plan to do it at a later date? It's getting more bizarre. They are not just asking "would you attend if we put it on at a later date?" Now they … [Read more...]
The Survival Rundown – The Latest Scam
Another in the continuing series of thought provoking posts from Terra Cognita. TC's previous posts: Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. The Survival Rundown – David Miscavige’s Latest Scam I’m embarrassed to say that I actually spent many hours on this rundown. I’m proud to say I finally woke up and queried what the fuck I was doing. That said, I’m not here to defend or condemn LRH or objective processing, but to explain this … [Read more...]
Communication in Scientology…Or Not
Another in the continuing series of observations by our friend Terra Cognita - still not declared. And in my view, this may be his best yet. This is perhaps the single biggest glaring irrationality in scientology. TC's previous posts: Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. Communication in Scientology…Or Not LRH wrote extensively on communication. He wrote volumes. He lectured extensively on the subject. The man was all about communication. One of the first steps in Sci … [Read more...]
OT IX & X Are BS
I happened to stumble upon this yesterday. It was put out after the "5th Anniversary of the Maiden Voyage" which means shortly after June 1993. Yes, that is right. TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO. And look at the requirements -- OT VIII and SHSBC Grad (or Gard V and ALL Tech Specialist Courses), all orgs St Hill Size and a "A safe environment." More than two decades later: OT VIII's are being pushed to do Student Hat, Purif and Objectives as their "set-ups" for OT IX and X. There is NO Briefing Course. You cannot do it even if you paid for it. There are less "SH Size orgs" (by ANY … [Read more...]
More SuMP Insanity
Tony Ortega has some excellent material on his blog today about the opening of the SuMP. A few other/additional/redundant thoughts on this subject. First, one of the more insane emails ever to come my way, Pasadena org sent this out at 8 pm on Friday night to let everyone know to come to the org at 7am the following morning because "course starts at 8am" -- the most important thing about the most important event in the history of scientology, in fact the entire universe, is to keep those student points up and NOT MISS A MINUTE of your "enhancement"! Of course, the email also contains … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Central Files This is REALLY important. And absolutely everyone is doing it! Even the Captain FSO (OMG) is involved! The movies must be a popular thing! Wonder how many things are misfiled as people are distracted by JT or Steve Martin? No such luxury in Miami. You just get a finger pointed at you. And there is a Sea Org ProGAM chief there... Pasadena SH Size They don't even have a Bookstore Officer? Then again, as my old friend Rob Williamson pointed out, they ARE the size of SH... As in small and empty. DEAR XXXXXX, CONSIDER THIS... "The … [Read more...]
SuMP Stories
The lies roll off their tongues so easily. The SuMP (scientology's useless media productions) is the next big thing that is going to absolutely, definitely bring about planetary clearing for reelz. But as with everything like this, the absurd joke of this is also very revealing of the desperation inside the bubble. This poor sap is "ordered" to relay this information. The SuMP is STILL not open, though the opening has been scheduled twice now and canceled. I assume whoever wrote this actually believes the opening of this white elephant is going to drive in masses of people to … [Read more...]
An Evaluation Of Scientology
This was sent to me by someone who wishes to remain anonymous at this time. She is not declared, and has recently been on org lines. I find it interesting to read the observations of someone who has been inside orgs VERY recently. I come to a different conclusion about what must be done, but I agree with many of these observations. I have stated a number of times my belief that all dianetics and scientology materials should be made available online for free and the subject will live or die based purely on its workability and value to mankind). It is somewhat reassuring to know there … [Read more...]