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Thursday Funnies

May 12, 2022 By Mike Rinder 51 Comments

  May 9th Reduced to a "special graduation" Back in the day it was a major event held at the Shrine Auditorium   Ideal Scenes and Ideal Orgs It's pretty ideal in the world of scientology. At least in their minds.   Well, isn't that theta He learned how to be "light and gentle" on the PTS/SP Course. Must be a different course than I ever saw.   Still Going Still a "Class VIII" Still a rimless zero     Trying a new angle for some PR points Pretty soon we will be reading that the VM's have "formed a partnership" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Artemis, Charles Simington, Chicago Ideal Org, Columbus Org, Deana Durisic, Dianetics, Jessica Meyers, John Futris, Kyiv, Michael Chan, Michael Lewis, OSA, tampa org, Tiffany Simington, Vancouver, way to happiness, WTH

Thursday Funnies

April 28, 2022 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

  This is an Advanced Org? And 6 of them were kids...   The magic combination of sweat and niacin It makes EVERYTHING better. Your confidence. Communication. Serenity...   This is an AO? Dubious advice on how to make your art understood?   A Clear! Woohoo... Just 750 million more needed.   Artists for a Better World Making their presence felt. Or maybe not....   An Evening with LRH He's BACK!! What is he doing with Steve Latch? He should be heading to his $10 million mansion on the hill at Gold. Or one of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSHAf, AOSHEU, Barry Paul, Chicago org, Clive Rabey, Kenya, Kristen Henry King, Leah Abady, Melbourne org, Michael Lewis, Prelude, Rafferty Pendery, Steve Latch, valley org, way to happiness

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February 17, 2022 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

Way to Happiness? They try to latch on to anything. One of the WTH precepts is Support a Government Designed For All the People.... Don't read anything in there about protests or blocking traffic?   A Mini Folder This is to record the mini-BTs?   Looney  Lewis Is his first question projecting himself onto his audience?   Drugged BTs How getting rid of druggie BTs accomplishes this is anyone's guess. Of course, for those who don't know what's on OT IV it sounds amazing. For those who do, they are in on the joke. They go along as it would hurt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSH Africa, AOSH ANZO, AOSHUK, Artists for a better world, Barbara Cordova, Central Files, Chicago org, Clive Rabey, Columbus Org, fundraising, inglewood org, Joy Villa, Michael Lewis, Super Bowl ad, Vancouver org, way to happiness

Super Bowl BS

February 9, 2022 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

  Unfortunately, it's that time of year again. Each Super Bowl, Scientology does their best to litter the parking lot with fliers people have been handed out and just as quickly thrown away. Usually it is these "Drug Free World Booklets" and also Way To Happiness. And you know neither of them make mention of scientology. There is absolutely NO evidence at all that handing out their booklets "results in less crime and less drug use." These fools really believe that a pamphlet is going to stop a criminal from committing a crime or anyone from using drugs? The only PROVEN result of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Groups Tagged With: Betsy Davis, Drug Free World, inglewood org, LA org, Super Bowl, way to happiness

Thursday Funnies

January 6, 2022 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments

  Phoenix Rising in Albuquerque They should probably pay more attention to the dead phoenix in Phoenix where the ideal org is a morgue. The Chan Man is going to make their postulates stick -- just watch, Phoenix and Albuquerque will be booming soon.   Your Defining Moment? Another one of these seminars that every org needs. Funny how they offer up advice to everyone on how to expand, but can't seem to do so themselves.... Again with the advice... If he was so good making his postulates stick don't you think CC would have at least one new major celebrity in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Albuquerque, Alex Alemis, AOSHUK, Applied Scholastics, CC Int, Chicago, Columbus, Dave Pettit, Dublin Org, Ed Parkin, FCDC, Foothills Msn, Hamburg, Learning Centre, Meghan Fialkoff, Michael Chan, Phoenix Org, port elizabeth, STAND League, Sydney, Vancouver org, way to happiness

Reduce Crime and Homelessness

January 5, 2022 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

The big hype about "getting WTH into the hands of everyone in Sunland" is apparently not exactly that. Rather, it is sending out a "promo mailing" to addresses in Sunland. The percentage of people that throw this sort of thing straight into the garbage is very high. I never open 99% of these sort of generic mailings and I am sure I am not in the minority. But for the few who do -- can you imagine the disappointment of finding out that the pitch for reducing homelessness and crime is to buy copies of the Hubbard WTH booklet? Set aside the fact that the booklet is a childish rendition … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Way to Happiness Tagged With: Crime, Homelessness, Sunland, way to happiness, WTH Fdn

Thursday Funnies

December 9, 2021 By Mike Rinder 46 Comments

  The Spirit of Giving... To us.   They found one A single person to say how great Battlefield Earth is. That's worth promoting.   For good? Seriously? Do you know how many NN grads relapse? About the same as every other program....   Kiddie Corner She is 9 and learning how to identify SPs in her life     Come to dinner Get a pitch from the "Captain" -- sort of like one of those time share or cemetery plot offers. But I bet the food isn't as good.   All about helping people ...relieve themselves of their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSHANZO, Celebrity Centre, Christmas, Columbus Org, Dublin Org, Freewinds, Galaxy Press, Hannukah, IHELP, Leslie Browning, Malmo Org, Michael Lewis, Nacronon, PAC Graduation, Patrick Valtin, South Coast Mission, Sunland, Vancouver, Vancouver org, way to happiness

Thanksgiving Funnies

November 25, 2021 By Mike Rinder 27 Comments

  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. Thank you. No Thank you. No, thank you... But in the end it's only Ron that matters.   Eradicate the Reactive Mind I've got a faster, better, cheaper idea. Don't buy into the idea in the first place. In the end, they coax you into believing you created it in the first place.   Holiday Escape Rooms? They lock you in a room with a reg and see if you can get out without going bankrupt?   Big News You can bet it has something to do with you giving them your money for their holidays. That is always … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Adrien Flueler, AOSHAf, Bruce Lewis, CCHR, Celebrity Centre, Clearing, Columbus Org, Dave Petit, denver org, Drug Free World, Gavin Jones, graduation, Joanie Sigal, Malmo Org, Meghan Fialkoff, Rafferty Pendery, reactive mind, Shawn May, Source Mag, Stacy Simon, Vancouver org, way to happiness, youth for human rights

Thursday Funnies

September 16, 2021 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Thanks to everyone who submits these each week...   Financial Security Workshop The irony is that the place will be swarming with more Regges than participants. The last place anyone should go for financial security is into any scientology building. Let alone Big Blue where LA Org, ASHO and AOLA Regges will be hovering. Not to mention IAS, WISE, ABLE, CCHR, WTH etc etc   Not much hype The most important beings in the universe don't get the hype that the dudes in the hazmat suits spraying Defcon 9 get. Not even a video!   Two water bottles That's the best … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSH Africa, asho, Auditor's Day, Cathy Morfopolous, CC Int, Jackson Aces, Jaimee Trio, Jennifer Charm, Koko Tabibzadeh, Lisa Benest, Lydia Hopwood, Miami, Michael Lewis, Rafferty Pendery, Remi Aregbesola, Sydney, Thepo Tulku, Tom McDonell, Ventura org, way to happiness

The “Godfathers of Good”

July 17, 2021 By Mike Rinder 48 Comments

Ah, the humility of these gentlemen is a sight to behold. It is an unfortunate side effect of being a scientologist that you believe you know all there is to know about anything and everything as long as you have read something Hubbard said about it. This gives you the right, obligation almost, to dish out advice on all sorts of subjects simply because you are a scientologist and therefore have received the wisdom of L. Ron Hubbard. With the full certainty of a brainwashed zealot, you can pass on such wisdom to others as an "expert" no matter the topic. These 4 are experts in the subject … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Way to Happiness Tagged With: Arte Maren, Bruce Wiseman, Rohn Walker, way to happiness, WTH

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