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The Brainwashing Is Strong

July 14, 2019 By Mike Rinder 63 Comments

Not much need be said about this, it really does speak for itself.

She no doubt believes they are “Clearing Los Angeles” and it is a sad reflection of the mindless belief that is the hallmark of scientologists.

And, on top of that, she has the inculcated “tech” of Tone 40 that she has been told is her right as a member of the Sea Organization. Thus, she can order lesser beings about, and use exclamation points as if they were cracks of the whip compelling compliance.

Her “OT Universe” is the fantasy land of Alice in Wonderland — or perhaps more accurately the dystopian world of 1984 where fiction is fact, inconvenient truths are forbidden and the word of Big Brother is absolute…

Set aside for a minute the abuses that are often talked about — the bankruptcies, fraud, child abuse, human trafficking etc — and consider the destruction of free will and minds of Sea Org members. They are “willing volunteers” in the same way the people of North Korea are the happy members of a utopian society. It’s all they know. It’s what they have been taught. And it’s an environment is created where there is no apparent alternative than to “go with the flow.”

Reading this “command intention” letter is sad.

And motivation to do more to end this senselessness.

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Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Sea Org Tagged With: L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Sea Org

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  1. Aquamarine says

    July 15, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    I shuddered reading this. She’s probably young in chronological years but God what a mean, spiteful, utterly fed up with life old lady she sounds like, emotionally and mentally. Orders spewed out contemptuously…the inevitable “Much love”… yeah, right. Shuddered, I tell’ya. So glad I’m out. Speaking of mental, what in the name of Xenu is “EPIC” child care?

    Reply
  2. Paul J Salerno says

    July 15, 2019 at 11:09 am

    Do they not know their public machinations are merely comedic fodder for critical thinkers at this point. It’s sad that this illusion of being elite complete with affirmatory bowling trophies still looks good to the mentally ill with disposable income.

    Reply
    • BKmole says

      July 16, 2019 at 1:58 am

      Paul, u got that right.

      Reply
  3. Robert King says

    July 15, 2019 at 1:01 am

    When I first began attending courses, I did feel I was getting something out of them… not all of them but some more then others… but the thing that really bugged me was their military style delivery as well as constant bugging me to attest to a “win” . They ask if I want to write one but when I said “no thank you”, they kept pushing me to write it. Constantly pushing to attend some event … which always bugged me or bug me for some money… I felt like I was being harassed by some homeless person . … but thing is I never considered it to be a “church” . I just wanted to do some self help courses.

    Reply
    • Richard says

      July 15, 2019 at 12:47 pm

      Robert King – I left scientology in 1982. My opinion is that the majority of people who got into scientology back then were interested in their own self improvement. The possibility of developing paranormal or extrasensory abilities was certainly a draw.

      Reply
    • Duped No More says

      July 15, 2019 at 7:37 pm

      Robert King – the covert enforcing of writing up your wins is part of the self hypnosis and mind control tactics. Not to mention – it is a way for them to keep your money and claim “it works”. The wins are fleeting and don’t last. You can get them for free outside of Scientology from all sorts of books and philosophies.

      Reply
  4. PeaceMaker says

    July 15, 2019 at 12:37 am

    I’m still always stuck by the unreality of the things they are “going” or postulating, which fly in the face of decades of failure and the reality of their shrinkage.

    But then again, fundamentalist religious groups often have bizarrely unrealistic aspirations to save the world or convert mankind – however Scientology was supposed to be a newer, saner model.

    Reply
    • Richard says

      July 16, 2019 at 8:48 am

      It was presented as Western science applied to Eastern philosophy and religion. “Your needle is Omming.”

      Reply
  5. Arnold Grulbelsnichter says

    July 14, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    🦇 Batshit Crazy

    Reply
  6. jere lull ( 38 years recovering) says

    July 14, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    Scribe gave us:”Cara, your TRs are senseless and robotic.”

    That may be true, but DM’s cult requires that level of TRs or else Dwarfenführer won’t pass them.

    Reply
  7. Scientology_411 says

    July 14, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    The “epic childcare” is probably a Sea Org recruitment event.

    Reply
  8. Christine Dyment says

    July 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    My question is what is in place when this organization falls apart and all these men, women and children have no money and nowhere to go? Housing, food, jobs, education, mental health support….. ?

    Reply
    • jere lull ( 38 years recovering) says

      July 14, 2019 at 9:35 pm

      Christine Dyment opined:”My question is what is in place when this organization falls apart and all these men, women and children have no money and nowhere to go? Housing, food, jobs, education, mental health support….. ?”

      IMO, much of that, if only pointing them in the right direction, is the remit of The Aftermath Foundation, as altruistic a group as I can imagine: Think “what scientologists THOUGHT they were doing”, but actually intending to deliver on the promises.

      Reply
      • Christine Dyment says

        July 15, 2019 at 8:27 pm

        Thank you for your reply. I am glad to know an organization exists.

        Reply
  9. jere lull ( 38 years recovering) says

    July 14, 2019 at 8:46 pm

    Cara might as well have started that commandment with: “To whom it may concern”, for all its welcoming, high ARC content.
    [/ Snark ]

    Reply
  10. BeenthereDonethat says

    July 14, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    A good movie to fully understand the mid fuck of S.O. members is The Island. Released in 2005 with Scarlet Johansson and Ewan McGregor. The only difference is these characters no nothing different where SO members with the exception of 2nd and 3rd generation, had a life before the SO. 2nd and 3rd generation fit perfectly into the characters of this movie and show their awakening to their true surroundings.

    Reply
  11. Mary Kahn says

    July 14, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    This is the kind of drivel that would drive me crazy. I don’t know when this insistence started to creep in but I do know that “as an OT” it would piss me off to no end to have some SO member say, “As an OT, you need to….” or “…it is your duty to.” I had an OT friend of mine tell me that she always felt so invalidated as an OT to get these kind of insistent messages.

    Reply
  12. Nicole O. says

    July 14, 2019 at 4:38 pm

    Is this Scout Master also a “Kid Specialist” like in the ad posted on The Underground Bunker yesterday? Creepy……

    Reply
  13. Jodi says

    July 14, 2019 at 3:51 pm

    Isn’t that ‘Much Love’ in her signature so sweet? Is that approved for Tone 40?

    After you annoy all of your friends, family, and associates about coming to this ‘event’ that takes up 3 Saturday nights in a row, anybody that tries this will be even more inside the bubble, because there will be nobody left speaking to them other than other Scientologists. I can think of little that would be more annoying than a co-worker calling, texting, and emailing me asking me to attend some goofy thing celebrating their ‘religion’ for the next 3 Saturday nights. Who would even want to do that, other than the Scientologists themselves?!? These things really don’t seem to be things for outsiders, they seem aimed at already-ins. Who else would even care?

    Reply
    • Old Surfer Dude says

      July 14, 2019 at 5:40 pm

      Every time I see, ‘ML,’ I want to throttle them. Trying to be cute doesn’t work around these parts. So…Please stop fucking around!

      Reply
      • Scribe says

        July 14, 2019 at 7:04 pm

        You’re so right OSD.

        ML,
        Scribe 😂

        Reply
        • Old Surfer Dude says

          July 14, 2019 at 9:07 pm

          You gotta remember, I’ve got the keys to the dungeon.

          Reply
        • Old Surfer Dude says

          July 14, 2019 at 9:40 pm

          The screaming you hear will be mine.

          Reply
    • Xenu's Son says

      July 15, 2019 at 8:53 am

      maybe there will not more occasions to celebrate the way the shrink is going.

      Reply
  14. J.T. Marsh says

    July 14, 2019 at 3:36 pm

    So, what is “epic childcare” anyways? Is that a daycare run by Peter Jackson?

    Reply
  15. Cindy says

    July 14, 2019 at 3:35 pm

    She writes, “you absolutely (underlined) must…” and ends with an exclamation point! Here’s to being out and free of all the absolutely musts and all the exclamation points! (oops, I did one last one.)

    Reply
  16. Todd Cray says

    July 14, 2019 at 3:24 pm

    Predictably, the cult is its own worst enemy yet again. No one ever plans to join a cult. But once they have been lured into one does said cult REALLY have to make it that obvious what they are?

    So in the name of “religion” and assuring your own self-determination as a person we command you what you ABSOLUTELY ARE TO do to yourself and those around you. We order you around from the TOP of our “church”. And that is our idea of “much love.”

    Sick!

    Reply
  17. Old Surfer Dude says

    July 14, 2019 at 2:37 pm

    So they’re going to clear Los Angeles, huh? Hey Scribe! I think we have some new material.

    Reply
    • Scribe says

      July 14, 2019 at 7:06 pm

      They’ve given enough material for the length of a Sea Org contract.

      Reply
      • Old Surfer Dude says

        July 14, 2019 at 9:12 pm

        That’s going to take a lot of Cal-Mag.

        Reply
  18. Cavalier says

    July 14, 2019 at 11:39 am

    I believe it was in 1979 that the “What is Scientology” book first came out.
    I had only recently joined staff.

    The part that excited me most was where it said that there were 5 Million Scientologists in the world.
    Wow! Scientology is really making progress.

    This excitement only lasted a few days, because they claimed that there were about 250,000 Scientologists in the UK. Unfortunately, I knew pretty much how much income the UK Orgs were generating and if 250,000 members were paying in just One Pound per week (which gets you almost nothing in Scientology), this income would have been in a hugely higher range.

    Back in the day I considered that Scientology was so important that I was willing to tolerate a great deal of B.S.

    I heard much later that these membership numbers were just made up by someone in the G.O.

    Reply
  19. Scribe says

    July 14, 2019 at 11:20 am

    Maiden Voyage, Made in Hell.

    Reply
    • Old Surfer Dude says

      July 14, 2019 at 6:05 pm

      Maiden Voyage: Made in Bell. (A town flat on it’s face in the San Gabriel Valley)

      Reply
      • Scribe says

        July 14, 2019 at 7:07 pm

        Where the preferred music is Iron Maiden. Rock on!

        Reply
        • Old Surfer Dude says

          July 14, 2019 at 9:14 pm

          Fuck ya!!!

          Reply
  20. jim says

    July 14, 2019 at 10:30 am

    “Being a solo nots auditor, you are an opinion leader in the los angles field..”

    Well, Cara has one aspect of LRH down pat: pulling s **t out of her arse with ease. I would guess NO ONE in the Los Angles area knows or wants to know these tens of people, much less their opinions.

    Ever since Anonymous breached the insulated world of scientology they have been circling the drain. hip.. hip… hip

    Reply
  21. SILVIA says

    July 14, 2019 at 10:02 am

    Agreed, she has been lied to and that is what makes it not OK.

    And the usual covert way to abuse people, now they are with the ‘Genius Club’ for kids…

    Reply
    • AMY R FRENTHEWAY says

      July 14, 2019 at 2:01 pm

      A scoutmaster? There is absolutely NO way that any of those kids are doing scouts and if they are, there’s a district executive that better turn around and start looking that direction. I would seriously look into that. If there is even a HINT of abuse, Scouts BSA will shut that thing down in a heart beat and will investigate and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

      Reply
      • Wynski says

        July 14, 2019 at 5:26 pm

        AMY, PUT DOWN THE KOOLAIDE.

        The BSA is a MUCH bigger sexual abuser of children than the CoS could ever be. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-boy-scouts-child-sex-abuse-20190515-story.html

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        • jere lull ( 38 years recovering) says

          July 14, 2019 at 9:28 pm

          Wynski:

          “AMY, PUT DOWN THE KOOLAIDE.

          “The BSA is a MUCH bigger sexual abuser of children than the CoS could ever be.”

          EXCEPT that the BSA actually can and does deliver a valuable product, something that Hubbard never intended.

          AND, the BSA isn’t busy covering up all the crimes committed, isn’t denigrating the alleged victims, IS keeping track of and allowing access to the appropriate records of allegations. They ARE responding in a manner which could stem the abuse.

          Reply
          • Wynski says

            July 15, 2019 at 9:33 am

            Jere, Irrelevant babble to the subject being addressed. Also, am insane viewpoint. Send you child to learn compass reading and get sexually molested. You think some minor skills are worth getting your child molested mean you are insane. AND criminal

            Reply
  22. Scribe says

    July 14, 2019 at 9:54 am

    Cara, your TRs are senseless and robotic.

    Reply
    • Old Surfer Dude says

      July 14, 2019 at 2:32 pm

      Oh, man! I thought it was ‘robotic and senseless’. My bad.

      Reply
  23. George M White says

    July 14, 2019 at 9:39 am

    I cannot believe how she tries to sell the Maiden Voyage Event. The Maiden Voyage on the Freewinds in 1988 was a total disaster.

    Reply
    • TooDangerous says

      July 14, 2019 at 11:47 am

      George,
      My parents were on the Freewinds MV in 1988. I’d love to know more about what that was like. One of my parents was (stuck?) there for 2-3 months.

      Reply
      • George M White says

        July 14, 2019 at 4:58 pm

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQKCwz-RMA&t=2498s

        My two FSM’s died as a result of the trauma on Maiden Voyage.
        1990 and 1996

        Reply
      • George M White says

        July 14, 2019 at 4:59 pm

        I posted a link which somehow got lost in cyber space.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQKCwz-RMA&t=2498s

        Reply
    • civmar says

      July 14, 2019 at 2:31 pm

      Do tell. George!

      Reply
      • George M White says

        July 14, 2019 at 6:05 pm

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQKCwz-RMA&t=2498s

        Reply
      • Old Surfer Dude says

        July 14, 2019 at 6:17 pm

        I am what I am, and that’s all that I am.

        You guys can finish it up.

        Reply
        • George M White says

          July 14, 2019 at 7:38 pm

          You might just be the new John Locke.

          Reply
    • Guest says

      July 14, 2019 at 5:53 pm

      How many “Maiden” voyages does that old whore get?

      Reply
      • Scribe says

        July 14, 2019 at 7:10 pm

        Until she’s thoroughly fucked which looks to be right around the corner.

        Reply
      • Ms. B. Haven says

        July 14, 2019 at 7:24 pm

        No old whore Guest, just a very prolific post-virginal young lady.

        Reply
        • Old Surfer Dude says

          July 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

          I couldn’t get my mine wrapped around it.

          Reply
  24. Xenu's Son says

    July 14, 2019 at 9:39 am

    The last remaining Scientology die-hards are denser than the North Koreans.
    At least the North Koreans cannot choose.
    Scientologist keep on guzzling the kool-aid calmag without a gun pointed to their head except Dear Leader threatening to take away their eternity which makes no sense if you think you lived before.

    Reply
    • Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass says

      July 14, 2019 at 11:12 am

      That’s right Xenu’ son. lRH says in “From Clear to Eternity. ” There’s Eternity! And you will be in it. In a good state or bad.”.
      Anyone you tells you that your Eternity can be cancelled at the whim of some cockaroach just wants you in a bad state. This also shows that the Church is not above altering LRH when it suits them.

      Reply
    • Valerie says

      July 14, 2019 at 12:55 pm

      The unfortunate gun pointed at the head of at least a portion of the diehards is disconnection. They may appear to be diehards but in reality, they just can’t conceive of losing their family. I wonder how many of those living that charade are all one step out the door but don’t realize the other people they are afraid to lose feel the same.

      Then, too, there are the deluded. Brainwashed, afraid and plodding along, determined to find the fabled light at the end of the tunnel.

      Reply
      • Old Surfer Dude says

        July 14, 2019 at 5:44 pm

        Valerie, go back a couple of posts. I sent you something just for YOU. Old Surfer Dude

        Reply
        • Old Surfer Dude says

          July 14, 2019 at 6:19 pm

          You’ll have to go back a ways.

          Reply
          • Valerie says

            July 14, 2019 at 7:33 pm

            OSD I responded. Now you have to find it. It was yesterday…I think

            Reply
            • Old Surfer Dude says

              July 14, 2019 at 9:22 pm

              Ok.

              Reply
    • Cindy says

      July 14, 2019 at 3:34 pm

      Xenu, not to mention dear leader threatening to take away their spouses, kids, siblings, parents, friends through disconnection

      Reply

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