Some great news from our long term friend, Dan Koon about his wife (Mariette Lindstein)'s prize-winning, best-selling book. For those unfamiliar with Mariette, I asked Dan to provide us with a short biographical sketch. I have known Mariette for many, many years, in fact it was me that brought her to "Int" to become Watchdog Committee Scientology in 1983. Mariette grew up on Sweden's southwest coast in Halmstad. She became involved in Scientology after graduating the Swedish equivalent of high school around 1978. Soon, she was working at the Malmö Org where she and a couple other Div 6 p … [Read more...]
The Knowledge Report
Next in the ongoing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier posts here: Integrity, The Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, 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 Knowledge Report One of the most abused policies in Scientology is the knowledge report—KR for short. Anyone who’s been in the church and “stepped out of line” has rece … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
It's a Blockbuster OTC Meeting Revel in the good news: Only $6.4 million to go. More Blockbuster News This Ideal Org had a single person complete a course. The Student Hat no less. That is cause for a massive celebration and a promotional piece. Why CF? "Because its files of people who have bought something." Makes total sense. Truth is, nobody has a good answer. Los Feliz Mission? How low can you go -- a Mission is holding a fundraising event for an org.... Mighty My Mammy LRH is still dead guys. Most of those … [Read more...]
Valley OTC Minutes
For the record. These have been accumulating for a while. The Special Correspondent who so diligently forwards these to me noted that it is interesting to look at these over time as you can see the false promises and pitches roll out and the things that are said in March that will happen in April go by without comment and then you start seeing new targets on the same thing in June. It is truly the donkey with the carrot on a stick -- the only difference being the donkey is being ridden by vampires that inexorably suck the blood out of it, til it falls to the wayside and they jump on a new … [Read more...]
Scientology Success?
Here is how they manufacture "success" stories in scientology... They actually send people a template on what to say! And believe me, it is a well-learned lesson in scientology that inflating your accomplishments NEVER gets you in trouble. In fact, it often results in much adulation. Understating your "accomplishments" however can be a fatal mistake. UPDATE: A Special Correspondent just sent me this which is appropriate to this post. How is it that everything is going SOOOO great and yet he is sending out emails soliciting "successes" -- why isn't this guy so busy … [Read more...]
Santa Barbara Non-Org
A Special Correspondent familiar with Santa Barbara sent this to me along with some notes about the people involved. That's some real bare bones contributing. The list has shrunk since the last one. Yay! All Steve Manseau does is email stuff like invitations to poorly attended OT Committee meetings. Sokoloff's are down south FSM's getting their 10%. Tom Burton is the ED's husband. Loren is the ED now. Martinez's are hopeless koolaid drinkers. As is Jan King. OT 8. For the record she's all about telling her many Scilon friends about the latest multi-level craze. She'd get the Manseau's … [Read more...]
No True Scotsman
Commenter Mike Wynski linked to this article in a recent comment. I was unfamiliar with this term and found the article fascinating in light of my scientology experience. Especially in how scientology "defines" anyone who has escaped the bubble. This is an abbreviated version of the article with all links and citations removed and focused on what is relevant to the scientology experience: The No True Scotsman (NTS) fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs when: during argument, after their favored group has been criticized, someone re-defines the group in order to deflect un … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
What exactly IS a "timeless moment in whole track history"? Shermanspeak is even on their posters now... 10X more BS Flag OT Committee Harlem tourist brochure Nice comments... BTW - "gaff" is slang for house. Love the penises on the wall. Seasonal fruit display... A reference to Austin Nickels and Dimes? First scientology city... When? Never. 1 of those select 30 isn't going to be there for sure... You've heard it from me before... ...this is pretty pathetic. Even the … [Read more...]
The Reg
Another in the ever-growing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier posts here: The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, 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 Reg Love em or hate em, the registrar—reg for short—is an icon in every Scientology organization. In most missions and orgs, they’re the most important person on staff. As everyone well knows, the reg is res … [Read more...]
Some Truth About The Size of Scientology
You have all heard scientology spout repeatedly that Valley is the biggest and most important Class 5 org in the world. Of course, this is idiocy, they cannot gather together 50 people for an event and have less than a handful on services at any given time (though this DOES put them ahead of most orgs in the world). What is probably true is that this org has the largest number of scientologists in its field - and the largest empty white elephant building in terms of square feet (and of course in scientology, square feet of empty space is the ultimate measure of accomplishment). There are … [Read more...]