This is an excerpt of the vacuous legal threat letter sent to the UK publisher of Ron Miscavige's book, Ruthless. Tony Ortega published the letter on his blog today. It also mentions letters sent to the US publishers (which have not yet been made public). No doubt the assault from high-paid lawyers aimed at the US publishers has been even more concerted than this limp Johnsons effort. Hopefully those letters, and the ones inevitably sent to ABC, will all be made available at some point to document once again the emptiness of their threats. But two particular sentences caught my eye among … [Read more...]
Miscavige Stalker Sites – “Ruthless” Response
Everyone who reads this is probably familiar with the scientology tactic of buying domain names anonymously and using them as "Dead Agent" sites on those who are critical of scientology or David Miscavige. There are plenty of these sites that already exist -- many in the category of "WhoIs[Fill in name].org.com.info.net.biz" etc The idea is to create sites with shit on people they don't like at addresses where they might trick unsuspecting web surfers into thinking they had stumbled across real information about the person (until they take one look at the over-the-top hate speech that … [Read more...]
David Miscavige “Dead Agent” pack
Several reports have come in from the LA area of people being called into orgs to be interviewed for a "Dead Agent" pack about COB. They are being asked to answer up to such questions as: How long have you been in scientology What were the orgs like when you got in What are the orgs like now How has the leadership of the church been Have you met David Miscavige? How was the experience? As one of the people who was called in explained: "Who would be stupid enough to answer these questions honestly and tell the story about how when he came through the org he ripped … [Read more...]
It Didn’t Take Long: Seismic Fundraising
Of course, it didn't take long for the pitches for money for the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador to appear. I have received a few of them, each pretty much repeating what is said below. Scientology (particularly the IAS) is the poster child for disaster capitalism ( defined as: the practice of generating profits based on the occurrence of a disaster). Note: it is PROFITS, not just revenue or income. If the money was SPENT on what it was collected for, it would not be profit. The IAS has accumulated billions over the years. They NEVER spend more than they collect -- that is basic … [Read more...]
The Real Way To Happiness
My good friend Ray Jeffrey sent this to me, explaining that on his his daily walk with his dogs he listens to podcasts by Dennis Prager, author of a book entitled “Happiness Is A Serious Problem.” Ray synthesized the thoughts about happiness into a 13 point summary. I have not listened to Prager's podcast or read the book. And this is not a commentary on Dennis Prager's political views. But I do wish to share Ray's compilation as this really speaks a lot of truth to me. 1. Believe me -- you want to be happy in your life. 2. Only you control whether or not you are happy – not your fa … [Read more...]
Google Scientology
What a fun game this is. Marc Headley sent me screen shots of 3 recent Google searches he did. As he pointed out, the "massive international advertising and PR campaign" is having absolutely no impact on anything in the real world. Miscavige loves to talk about how they have 1.38 people reaching for scientology every .045 nanoseconds, and the IAS regges pound on this too -- "your donation to the IAS is funding the largest scientology dissemination campaign ever." Well, they might want to save their money, as this massive campaign is accomplishing nothing (it's not really a massive … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
HUGE News! But then again, has there EVER been a scientology event that is not huge, epic, monumental blah blah blah Of course, the huge news is: a) we need your money now and b) you need to get busy on our backlogged CF. Speaking of CF Tampa is still working on theirs. And they are taking things to "light speed" -- everything except their filing backlog I guess. That is going at "snail's pace." Emptiness But they tried to make it look like there are people by having a CGI image of an image of people running through the org... What … [Read more...]
March 13th and International Scientology No News
Had a chance to look through the latest International Scientology News -- the propaganda piece sent out after each international event to re-hype the event hype. Based on this magazine alone, things are going to hell in a hand-basket in the shrinking bubble of scientology. What is fascinating about it is what is does NOT contain. It is virtually "expansion news free." Nothing that reflects the "massive international expansion" Miscavige is constantly mentioning. And all I did was flick through the pages and look at the pictures, I could not bring myself to read any of the drivel. Here … [Read more...]
Narconon = Scientology
This is an interesting piece from the Auditor magazine, the official chronicle of all things scientology: "if it isn't in the Auditor, it didn't happen" is the their motto. This is from back in the day before there was a conscious effort to distance Narconon from Scientology. Today, Narconon claims it is NOT Scientology. Scientology likewise claims all they do is "support" Narconon. This Auditor magazine story reflects the true nature of the relationship. They are not just in the same family, they are siblings. Maybe identical twins. Click on the image to enlarge: … [Read more...]
Scientology’s “Field Groups”
Regraded Being is taking a day off. Might surprise us with something on an odd day, depending on schedule, but otherwise will be back next week bigger and better than ever. In the meantime, we have some interesting insight into scientology's "groups" - the entities that "introduce" people to dianetics and scientology. Scientology claims there are "More than 11,000 scientology orgs, missions and groups" in the world. Unfortunately for them, we know the number of orgs is about 160 all told (they are listed on the scientology.org website). From the same website there are less than 400 … [Read more...]