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Scientology Front Groups

July 12, 2020 By Mike Rinder 27 Comments

Scientology has many front groups that are designed to create the impression that the organization is a benevolent group that does good work in their community. I have noted many times that the "good work" does not happen if it cannot be documented by a video team who then use the video to fundraise and for propaganda pieces about the great things they are doing around the world. Here are some very recent pitches from some of their main front groups. They tell the sheeple literally anything to persuade them they need to participate — but if they don’t they are shamed into giving money. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Groups Tagged With: CCHR, Drug Free World, TWTH, VMs, volunteer ministers, WTH, youth for human rights

“Other Practices” — The New Normal

July 5, 2020 By Mike Rinder 57 Comments

What is this? Promoting yoga! Megan Brazil is a prominent Clearwater scientologist who conducts her yoga classes with prominent, scientologist-owned businesses and now with the Way to Happiness. You have to wonder whether the current world of scientology has anything to do with "the tech" at all these days? She (and the other scientologists involved with her) appear not to know that yoga was considered an "other practice" by Hubbard. "Practicing yoga" is right there on Hubbard's Green Form of case remedies alongside "taking drugs" and "seeing a psychiatrist" as things that prevent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, L Ron Hubbard, Scientology Tagged With: Megan Brazil, TWTH, yoga

It’s “Virtual OT”

May 25, 2020 By Mike Rinder 48 Comments

Truth in advertising? From scientology? Must be inadvertent. There is plenty of evidence that there is no such thing as an "OT" despite what Hubbard claimed. But now, it seems we are getting closer to the truth in the scientology claims about this. Now we are seeing "virtual OT's".. I wonder if there is really any difference between a "virtual" OT and a fake OT? Or one that is a "mental image picture" or even just pure imagination? These virtual OT "NCB's" (New Civilization Builders - they actually use this term with a straight face) don't seem to be able to get their act … [Read more...]

Filed Under: OT Tagged With: OT, ot committee, San Francissco, toronto org, TWTH

The Metrics: Global BS

March 4, 2020 By Mike Rinder 37 Comments

This is a recent tweet from Freedom magazine. The level of bald-faced lies is breathtaking. 1.5 million volunteers? Where? I can only assume they now count everyone in the Red Cross wordlwide because a Volunteer Minister in Manila had a photo taken with the local Red Cross coordinator. Scientology could hardly scrape together 1.5 million BT's if they rounded up their 6500 OT's and had them pool their resources. This is simply absurd. And apparently they say it with a straight face. Seeing this, I just had to click on their link to "get the story." So, here is their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: Freedom Magazine, Ideal Orgs, real estate, social betterment, study tech, study technology, truth about drugs, TWTH, volunteer ministers, way to happiness

The Non Religious Moral Code

November 4, 2019 By Mike Rinder 66 Comments

This is an odd one. But it’s another example of the falsehoods pushed out by scientology on a routine basis. Scientology tells people the Way to Happiness is “non-religious” - the book doesn’t even have Hubbard’s name on it except in tiny print on the back. It is something used to gain footholds in society and the theory (like with Hubbard's fiction) is that when people find something good or enjoyable about it, they then discover what else Hubbard has written and want to read that. No matter what the PR statements, the ultimate objective is always the same. Get more people using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Flag, OSA, TWTH, way to happiness

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