Among the many falsehoods perpetrated on the STAND League website are a series of FAQs where they try to present the image of scientology as victims of predatory, greedy litigants ... It's a typical fable that gets off to a rollicking start: During the history of the Church, some individuals sought to make money from unfounded allegations, but the Church successfully defended against those claims. It's a false premise for a number of reasons. There have been successful litigants -- notably Lawrence Wollersheim and Julie Christoffersen who were awarded multi-million dollar … [Read more...]
“Dr.” L. Ron Hubbard on Germs and Vaccines
Crackpot scientologist Carole Eddington sent around an email with some collected "wisdom" from "Dr." Hubbard about germs and vaccines. The guy who said not smoking enough cigarettes is the real cause of cancer, has some other interesting medical advice about how germs don't exist and that the "first 100 soldiers admitted with smallpox in WW II had all been vaccinated." It gives a pretty good glimpse into the mindset of a true-believer. To any outsider, this is just Hubbard being Hubbard: making up stories, theories and lies. Unfortunately scientologists buy it as gospel. If … [Read more...]
Episode 59: Listener Questions Part 8
This is a special edition of Listener Questions. Leah and I recorded this when I was in LA recently. As usual, we cover a lot of ground from why any OT would wear glasses and a question about Tom Cruise's bravery to High Crimes and the traits of an SP and even an answer that shocked Leah about something Hubbard claimed about himself. This is a clip of the start of the episode: You can listen to the full episode here: We promised to include certain documents. They are below. High Crimes: This is the list of scientology "High Crimes" … [Read more...]
Become The Best
A new promo piece presents some interesting questions. Scientology is now trying to sell their ads as events that people need to see. This new 3 minute ad for training is a mixture of cartoon characters and real life actors with a twangy soundtrack. As with most of the centrally produced scientology video offerings, it has high production values. It's corny, but well produced corny. What is most interesting about it is the approach they are taking to try to persuade people to train as auditors. It is not to actually AUDIT people up the Bridge. It is to use the training to become a … [Read more...]
Scientology, Christianity and the IRS
Reiterating something I have covered before on this Sunday morning. The idea that you can be a scientologist and a Christian is a lie, yet scientologists claim this all the time to try to appear "normal" or "non-threatening." You can see from the official IRS publication above listing the criteria the IRS uses to determine whether an organization qualifies for tax exempt status as a religious organization, that one of them is: Membership not associated with any other church or denomination During the quest to obtain exemption, scientology explained things to the IRS like … [Read more...]
“Full Responsibility” a Fundamental of the Scientology Trap
Responsibility is an important topic in the world of scientology. The concept has enormous impact on the thinking of scientologists, and it is the foundation upon which much subsequent scientology belief and practice is based. Especially the very important elements of scientology that dictate YOU are responsible for anything bad that happens to you. You "pulled it in." When something goes astray in scientology, it is NEVER the fault of the organization. That is a blameless entity that can never be questioned as an extension of Hubbard himself. He was beyond fault. If the end result of your … [Read more...]
It’s a Long Road to Eternity
OMG, does this put the study of scientology in perspective. Hubbard rambled on and on in books and lectures to such an extent that if you just complete one chapter of the books and lectures each week it will take 29 YEARS. And this does not factor in the 17 Tech Volumes and 11 OEC Volumes which contain about 5 times more words than all the basic books combined. It also doesn't include the LRH EDs, which are a couple more volumes about the size of an OEC or Tech volume. Now, according to Hubbard, everyone should study all of this in order to attain full spiritual freedom and secure … [Read more...]
Prominent Clearwater Scientologist “Pulls In” the “Chinese Virus”
Tony Ortega asked the question yesterday why scientology is not promoting the vaccine like they do masks and hand-washing? There is no definitive statement from scientology, but there are some clues in the statements of scientologists and from knowing Hubbard's worldview and thus how scientologists think. This FB post is from a very prominent scientologist and big IAS donor in Clearwater. He and his wife, Terri, were Sea Org members at ASHO before departing and becoming public whales. He is one of the owners of Nationwide Title Company (NTC) which is just a couple of minutes from where I … [Read more...]
Scientology is Intimidated by Tony Ortega
It would seem the Office of Special Affairs has been weathering a shitstorm from the COB recently: "What are you useless cocksuckers doing about Tony Ortega, he gets a bigger audience than I do and I am paying millions for ads, click-farms and even a 24 hour a day TV network." He also kicked their butts in the Masterson case subpoena and has been disseminating the activities in that courtroom far and wide and they are not going well for for Masterson or scientology. And there is no sign he is slowing down or going away any time soon... In response, OSA rolled out a new "campaign" -- a … [Read more...]
Hawking Hubbard Fiction
Our old friend, Clearly Not Clear, sent this to me with some comments…. I'm looking at the writers of the future 7 books set. It seems to suggest that 89 of these stories won awards. I doubt it. I wonder what awards they did win? Since nobody wants to buy 7 year old anthologies, they include "advice for new writers." This is somebody's bright idea. Well, it's really not a very bright idea in my opinion. Now, can we talk about Battlefield Earth on audio? Seriously 150,000 sound effects? Was that like the stat of the week? How many sound effects and farts can I record to be in screaming … [Read more...]