Distinguished Speakers... Who cannot be named. You can bet this turnout is going to be YUGE. It's Monumental And it's from 10 years ago! And you know what the "next strategy" is that is going to be revealed? We need more of your money. Should be even YUGER... Flag public are going to be being harassed to attend this mercilessly. Some will show up to help keep Ethics and Regges at bay. Still, if they have 200 people it would be a miracle. Your Ideal Scene Well, I can imagine a few them would be thinking "how about … [Read more...]
WISE Guys
There is a lot that could be covered on the topic of WISE -- including how it was created by Hubbard to "get scientology businesses off the backs of orgs" on the basis of his conclusion that orgs were not expanding because staff were moonlighting in scientology businesses and were thus "off purpose" (in fact it was only to be able to earn enough money to live, but Hubbard's answer to that was "make the org make more money and you will get more pay.") WISE today pretends to be something separate from the "Church of Scientology", in fact they state the on the "What Is Scientology?" website: By … [Read more...]
WISE Inc – Not So Wise
WISE is one of the lost step-children of the scientology hierarchy. Out there in left field, the only real value they have had is to pull a couple of dental/chiropractic consultants under their wing and then pump them to get new people using LRH tech and then onto the Bridge to collect FSM Commissions. The CO WISE WUS sends out a constant stream of useless articles about random subjects, and I have not commented on them before. But it suddenly struck me what is wrong with his pitch. Oh so very wrong. First, glance through this latest piece to get a flavor of it for … [Read more...]
WISE Shilling Again
Here is that "secular" WISE "non-church" organization doing what they do best. Trying to sucker money out of people for scientology stuff. Funny, they announced this "SMP" was going to completed and opened in the summer time. Still not done. Not because of lack of money -- it was one of those projects that was a Miscavige folly that was always going to be paid for by scientology funds. Almost certainly there is a typical Miscavige story behind the facade -- he has been threatening to "close down" Gold for decades. Whenever he is pissed off about something he tells Gold "I am … [Read more...]
Wise Getting In On The Boogie Man Pitch
It is a time honored tradition that creating enemies and instilling fear is an effective method of fundraising. It's much easier to get money by preaching hellfire and brimstone than to appeal to people's benevolence to support the good works you do. It's the difference between the TV evangelist and the Salvation Army. Per capita the TV evangelist extracts orders of magnitude more from their marks. Scientology has refined this technique and employs it from someone's first contact to their last dollar. Imagine if you had no "Ruin" and were not convinced you had a reactive mind ravaging … [Read more...]
The Models Of Admin Know How
Here is an email and promotional piece WISE just sent out. The masters of administration are STILL operating in the dark ages -- selling BOOKS that are "fully indexed" and contain "glossaries" and not even a MENTION of a soft-copy version that would be searchable. What better index could there be than "control F"? And, newsflash, you can click on a word on the computer (or your phone) and it will be defined for you! But of course, you couldn't charge $1350 for a flash drive or a downloadable file. WISE thinks they are the bleeding edge of administrative technology. All the poor "wogs" … [Read more...]
Best Wise Convention Ever
Try to ignore the typos, spellos and grammatical hash in this email if you can. The milestone news is that they are going to hold the biggest and "most impacting" [sic] WISE convention ever (of course). They are going to have 1000 people there (not an ice cream's chance in hell of that happening). But here is the REALLY big news. Because demand is so high, they are "reducing the prices". Now that makes sense. So much demand we are reducing prices. Really, they are using "scientology math" or "scientology speak" where reducing the prices actually means, as explained in the next … [Read more...]
Some WISE PR Advice
Perhaps David Miscavige should listen to the advice his underlings are trying to sell. "If there are negative opinions, determine whether they are valid. "If they are valid, get working on correcting those problems. "Make sure your public knows that the problems are being or have been addressed." The arrogance of Miscavige and the church he has built in his image is such that he cannot admit to ANYTHING WRONG EVER. It is almost the hallmark of the Corporate Scientologist -- if anyone points out something wrong THEY are targeted. The mantras are many: "They have overts," "It's just natter," … [Read more...]
WISE Pimping For Dollars
A study in twisted logic. All of Europe's businesses are dependent upon the creation of an "Ideal Org" in Denmark. With that sort of genius (clearly a master of the Data Series) in play -- the US should be BOOMING by now, so too South Africa and Australia and Italy and Spain and Denmark and Russia and Sweden and England and Germany.... My God, there should be a planetary economic upsurge the likes of which have never been seen before emanating from the "Ideal Orgs"! So, give us your money! NOW! It's urgent. And if it causes you pain, well, that's just how we roll. Von: WISE … [Read more...]