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Scientology Deaths and Suicides

July 27, 2020 By Mike Rinder 92 Comments

People are asking for our thoughts regarding recent tragic events. We can only offer facts about scientology teachings and our opinions on them -- we don’t have firsthand information concerning the details of Kelly Preston or Benjamin Keough’s deaths, though, when it comes to scientology and scientologists, there are other factors that come into play - factors that are contained in the “scripture” of scientology that give a particularly dark tint to these terribly sad events. The heartbreakingly unfortunate truth is people commit suicide every single day, and people die of breast cancer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, Dianetics, Scientology, Special Feature Tagged With: Benjamin Keough, Big Pharma, cancer, depression. children, Dianetics, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Lisa Marie Presley, Mike Rinder, NOTs, parenting, psychiatry, Scientology, suicide, technology

Jenna Elfman — A Good Scientologist

March 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 65 Comments

  A recent article in US Weekly quotes Jenna Elfman about "the controversy" around scientology. She is a shining example of how a good scientologist acts and speaks. Foolishly. While scientologists proclaim they have "the tech" to protect them from suppressive influences and they learn to "confront and shatter" this sort of thing, in fact, they avoid "suppression" at any cost. And by "suppression" they mean anything that is negative or even questioning about scientology. When they are confronted by such things, they run from it. Close their eyes. Hold their hands of their ears … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: bankruptcy, Disconnection, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, media, shelly miscavige, Suppressives, Tom Cruise, US Weekly

Scientology TV — What’s Missing?

December 9, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Scientology is making a really big deal about their new episode featuring Chick Corea. Chick is an interesting story that has been mentioned before. He got into financial troubles when his wife was hammering his credit cards. David Miscavige had known Chick for a long time because his father, Ron, was good friends with Ron Moss, Chick's manager. (Ron Moss is father of Elisabeth Moss of Handmaid's Tale fame). Miscavige was alerted to the problem and not wanting a "flap" with one of scientology's longest term celebrities, brought in Lyman Spurlock as a CPA to look through his finances. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, scientology TV Tagged With: Chick Corea, David Miscavige, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, public relations, Sci, Scientology, scientology TV, Tom Cruise

Stand Double Standards

September 25, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Not that this is big news... scientology is operating on a blatant double standard. I saw this on the STAAD twitter feed. Now of course, we could do an even better headline -- SCIENTOLOGY SUPPORTS ALLEGED RAPIST DANNY MASTERSON. The difference in the two cases is rather striking. The accuser of Haggis NEVER FILED a police complaint. In fact, the main accuser tried to get money from Paul Haggis to remain silent. HE went to law enforcement to report this. Masteron's victims all went to law enforcement -- and there are 4 of them of have filed police complaints and now after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, Fair Game Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Fast Eddie, Harvey Weinstein, John Travolta, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, paul haggis, STAAD League, STAND League, Tom Cruise

Ideal Missions – Ocala Fail

February 12, 2018 By Mike Rinder 125 Comments

Scientology are exposing themselves again. Years ago, the Ocala Mission was opened with great fanfare as the first "Ideal" mission. It has been promoted this way since. I visited this Mission some time after it was declared ideal and the Hungarian receptionist was unable to help me when I asked some questions about Dianetics and told me to come back on Tuesday evening (it was a Saturday afternoon as I recall) when the Mission ED would be there and that he could help. There wasn't anyone else in the place. Now this: They don't have the staff to be "ideal" -- apparently they don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: Ideal Orgs, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Ocala Msn, Scientology, tampa org

Celebrity Round Up

December 19, 2016 By Mike Rinder 181 Comments

The wreckage from Hurricane Leah is evident everywhere you turn. Scientology's PR geniuses are frantically trying to figure out how to respond to the avalanche of exposure. Their "responses" consist of  A. "dead agenting" the source of the problem (see earlier post that defines and describes this: Scientology Dead Agents Itself), B. seeking to destroy the "enemies" who are exposing their abuses (see this article:  Dealing with Critics of Scientology: the L. Ron Hubbard Playbook) and C. "Filling the vacuum". This is described by L. Ron Hubbard in his "scripture" about how to deal with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations Tagged With: John Travolta, Leah Remini, public relations

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