• Home
  • About Me
  • Mission Statement
  • Welcome Message
  • Open Letter to My Family
  • Donate
  • Contact Me

Mike Rinder's Blog

Something Can Be Done About It

  • All Posts
  • Disconnection
  • Idle Orgs
  • IAS
  • Media
  • Books
  • Fundraising
  • Regraded Being

Thursday Funnies

February 17, 2022 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

Way to Happiness? They try to latch on to anything. One of the WTH precepts is Support a Government Designed For All the People.... Don't read anything in there about protests or blocking traffic?   A Mini Folder This is to record the mini-BTs?   Looney  Lewis Is his first question projecting himself onto his audience?   Drugged BTs How getting rid of druggie BTs accomplishes this is anyone's guess. Of course, for those who don't know what's on OT IV it sounds amazing. For those who do, they are in on the joke. They go along as it would hurt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSH Africa, AOSH ANZO, AOSHUK, Artists for a better world, Barbara Cordova, Central Files, Chicago org, Clive Rabey, Columbus Org, fundraising, inglewood org, Joy Villa, Michael Lewis, Super Bowl ad, Vancouver org, way to happiness

Thursday Funnies

February 10, 2022 By Mike Rinder 33 Comments

  Kiddie Corner   Unleash your OT Abilities If all it takes is a webinar, why bother paying for anything?   Those Canadians are the experts... The Continental Org, Toronto, has been languishing for 20 years undone and they already had a building!   Listen to "Paul" But why?   Someone started! It used to be they celebrated someone finishing something....   OT 1 is some OT shit... As long as you have no idea what it entails. Otherwise you know it's kind of like ARC Straightwire.   Really? What Ideal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSH Africa, inglewood org, Jade Lopes, Joburg org, Manchester org, Melbourne org, Peter Benyada, Richard Fallon, Shane Brockdorff, sydney org

Super Bowl BS

February 9, 2022 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

  Unfortunately, it's that time of year again. Each Super Bowl, Scientology does their best to litter the parking lot with fliers people have been handed out and just as quickly thrown away. Usually it is these "Drug Free World Booklets" and also Way To Happiness. And you know neither of them make mention of scientology. There is absolutely NO evidence at all that handing out their booklets "results in less crime and less drug use." These fools really believe that a pamphlet is going to stop a criminal from committing a crime or anyone from using drugs? The only PROVEN result of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Groups Tagged With: Betsy Davis, Drug Free World, inglewood org, LA org, Super Bowl, way to happiness

Scientology Targeting Black America

April 24, 2021 By Mike Rinder 33 Comments

  They badly need a spellchecker. Which is pretty ironic given the first thing on the list of items they are going to be providing to "raise your ability" is "Study Tech." And this is supposedly an “inspriational weeked of education...” Secondly, they scraped together just 8 black people in Harlem for their photo -- this might be the entire roster of staff and public in this empty org. I doubt they could round up this many people of color in the Inglewood org at all. Scientology is as insincere as politicians seeking votes from "the Black community" -- what they want isn't votes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: Black Community, harlem org, inglewood org

Just How Desperate is LA Org?

January 26, 2020 By Mike Rinder 43 Comments

You likely saw the videos on Tony Ortega's site of the 2 guys ("Reckless Ben") who went into LA Org with hidden cameras. In that last video towards the end you witness the desperation of the regges to get $15 from them. It is really pretty pathetic. This is the "largest Class V org and 'model' ideal org" and they are spending time to try to convince this kid to get $15 right now with every sleazy tactic there is. I didn't think it could get more pathetically desperate than that until this recent Facebook posting was sent to me: First, I assume "Betsy" is an org staff member who is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: David Miscavige, inglewood org, LA org, public relations

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

Correlation Without Causation

August 5, 2019 By Mike Rinder 75 Comments

Scientology loves to claim they are responsible for "Clearing the planet" and “bettering society” -- proclaiming they are "slaying the four modern horsemen of the apocalypse, drugs, illiteracy, criminality and immorality."  They routinely take credit for all sorts of things: reducing crime in Colombia by 50%, increasing literacy rates in third world countries, eradicating gang violence etc. They find a statistic and then claim “we handed out 74,000 copies of WTH and the number of divorces in Denmark is lowest in a decade. ”  It is clear (in their minds) that this is incontrovertible evidence … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs, Scientology Tagged With: Fialkoff, Ideal Orgs, inglewood org, marijuana, Meghan Fialkoff, New York, public relations, Scientology

Memorial Day Disgrace

May 27, 2019 By Mike Rinder 66 Comments

See the excellent piece at Tony Ortega’s blog this morning concerning L. Ron Hubbard’s stolen valor. I was sent a couple of promotional items from this year that have a different focus. Many will find this just as crass as the fake medals and war hero status of Ron the War Hero. This day is supposed to be about remembering those who have fallen, but any excuse to get some suckers in so they can be victims of some good old fashioned “hard sell” is an opportunity scientology does not want to miss. So, on L. Ron Hubbard Way today, in solemn commemoration of his war hero status, kids can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: Dallas Org, fundraising, inglewood org, L. Ron Hubbard, Memorial Day, Scientology

Thursday Tragedy

March 28, 2019 By Mike Rinder 199 Comments

It seems inappropriate to run the Thursday Funnies this morning in light of the events at the Inglewood Ideal org last evening. Tony Ortega, as he always does, is keeping up with the story and you can follow the news at his blog. He does a great job of sorting the bs from the real facts. Someone being killed, wherever it occurs, is horrendous and tragic. The circumstances of this death remain unclear, and somewhat mysterious. Either the person who was shot by police is someone who had contact with scientology and was upset about something they had done or were doing, or the person had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Tagged With: inglewood org, Police shooting, public relations, Scientology, STAAD League, STAND League, The Aftermath

The Failed Inglewood “ideal org” Experiment

September 23, 2015 By Mike Rinder 108 Comments

Well, I guess the great social experiment of bringing scientology to the "African American cultural epicenter" has failed. Problem is that virtually everyone they could persuade to take services in this place are imports from other orgs and they repeatedly show their graduations and completions featuring a host of clearly non-locals from CC Int and elsewhere (see latest example below). The strategy of opening Harlem and Inglewood took a HUGE hit with the death of Isaac Hayes. He was the impetus for these orgs even exiting in the first place as he repeatedly harangued Miscavige about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Idle Orgs Tagged With: Ideal Orgs, inglewood org

Next Page »
Order now hardback or audiobook

Order an Autographed Hardback

Subscribe

Loading

Important Reading

Troublemaker - Leah Remini
Ruthless - Ron Miscavige
Going Clear - Lawrence Wright
Bare Faced Messiah - Russell Miller
Counterfeit Dreams - Jeff Hawkins
Blown For Good - Marc Headley
Abuse at the Top - Amy Scobee
Unbreakable Miss Lovely - Tony Ortega
The Church of Fear - John Sweeney
Fair Game - Steve Cannane
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
A Piece of Blue Sky - Jon Atack
Beyond Belief - Jenna Miscavige
My Billion Year Contract
Escaping Scientology - Karen Schless
Commodore's Messenger - Janis Grady
Commodore's Messenger - Book II
Scythe Tleppo - Nathan Rich
Expert Witness - Jesse Prince
Perfectly Clear - Michelle LeCaire
Ron the War Hero - Chris Owen
donate-button

Check out MRinder.com

Recent Tweets

Mike Rinder Follow

Blogging at Mike Rinder's blog -- https://t.co/WEvBhSZnSN Website -- https://t.co/gDAGnK4a4V

MikeRinder
mikerinder Mike Rinder @mikerinder ·
3h

Live Q&A with Amy Scobee https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWwMzrdMxQ

Reply on Twitter 1641885544874655745 Retweet on Twitter 1641885544874655745 5 Like on Twitter 1641885544874655745 34 Twitter 1641885544874655745
Retweet on Twitter Mike Rinder Retweeted
derekpodcast Derek Lambert MythVision Podcast @derekpodcast ·
6h

Mike Rinder Destroys Scientology on MythVision https://youtu.be/qlMpuCl1F9w via @YouTube @MikeRinder

Reply on Twitter 1641838939492487169 Retweet on Twitter 1641838939492487169 6 Like on Twitter 1641838939492487169 44 Twitter 1641838939492487169
mikerinder Mike Rinder @mikerinder ·
7h

Join me this afternoon on #SPTV at 3:30 EDT for a live show with Amy Scobee, former senior scientology executive. We will discuss celebrities in scientology and answer viewer questions.
https://youtube.com/live/q7a23QmE-kc?feature=share

Reply on Twitter 1641821388309667840 Retweet on Twitter 1641821388309667840 5 Like on Twitter 1641821388309667840 43 Twitter 1641821388309667840
mikerinder Mike Rinder @mikerinder ·
30 Mar

Justice systems are "a cancer," and police and courts are composed of the "vicious and corrupt" according to #scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Bear this in mind as the retrial of #DJDonkeyPunch Danny Masterson unfolds...
https://youtu.be/6pzimgLsPdE

Reply on Twitter 1641541797909348354 Retweet on Twitter 1641541797909348354 11 Like on Twitter 1641541797909348354 102 Twitter 1641541797909348354
mikerinder Mike Rinder @mikerinder ·
30 Mar

This is destined to be an #SPTV classic comedy moment. @blownforgood and @claireheadley share details of their "first date" in the Sea Org. It's near the end. If you're not subscribed to my channel yet, please do so... There is also important content.
https://www.youtube.com/live/PgQVyoUh1_E?feature=share

Reply on Twitter 1641401039952674819 Retweet on Twitter 1641401039952674819 9 Like on Twitter 1641401039952674819 110 Twitter 1641401039952674819
Load More

Recent Comments

  • safetyguy on Regraded Being: “Only in his dreams.” Mar 31, 13:38
  • Francis Khoury on Regraded Being: “The navy is keeping it on the down-low.” Mar 31, 13:31
  • Alcoboy on Regraded Being: “Wonder if LRH ever found those Japanese submarines.” Mar 31, 12:30
  • safetyguy on Regraded Being: “Or, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”” Mar 31, 12:08
  • TrevAnon on Ex-Scientologists Who Have Spoken Out: “Thanks for these two! Should you in the future have any other additions, posting them below one of my posts…” Mar 31, 11:54
  • Joe Pendleton on Thursday Funnies: “Think it’s because Christopher has been “cancelled” …” Mar 31, 10:41
  • Ruth on Regraded Being: “I always thought it was funny that dispite the fact I had only been sick once in my childhood, no…” Mar 31, 09:46
  • SL1978 on Regraded Being: “No wonder it takes years of therapy to get over SCN.” Mar 31, 09:19
  • safetyguy on Regraded Being: “I saw in real time that I really looked like a fool sitting there with those goggles on and realized…” Mar 31, 09:11
  • Francis Khoury on Regraded Being: “This is awesome! NOW is the time to sign up!” Mar 31, 07:34

Past Posts By Month

March 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Feb    

Copyright © 2023 Mike Rinder · WordPress · Log in