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		By: cindy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cindy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-71238&quot;&gt;Foolproof&lt;/a&gt;.

Yep, those qualities, perverts, suppressives, critical, snide, ruthless, arrogant or contemptuous personalities pretty much sums up DM, and, yes, it does point to out of valence.  Thanks for that quote, Foolproof]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-71238">Foolproof</a>.</p>
<p>Yep, those qualities, perverts, suppressives, critical, snide, ruthless, arrogant or contemptuous personalities pretty much sums up DM, and, yes, it does point to out of valence.  Thanks for that quote, Foolproof</p>
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		By: Foolproof		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Foolproof]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70977&quot;&gt;Michael Mallen&lt;/a&gt;.

Michael - did you write a Success Story on that? If not report to Qual and the Qual Sec will receive you with open arms, especially on Thursdays, around 1.55PM]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70977">Michael Mallen</a>.</p>
<p>Michael &#8211; did you write a Success Story on that? If not report to Qual and the Qual Sec will receive you with open arms, especially on Thursdays, around 1.55PM</p>
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		By: Foolproof		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Foolproof]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70947&quot;&gt;Aquamarine&lt;/a&gt;.

It&#039;s probably just down to the number of Reg &quot;hits&quot; they make from these events, that&#039;s all, I&#039;d say.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70947">Aquamarine</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s probably just down to the number of Reg &#8220;hits&#8221; they make from these events, that&#8217;s all, I&#8217;d say.</p>
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		By: Foolproof		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Foolproof]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70929&quot;&gt;cindy&lt;/a&gt;.

A &quot;nasty bastard&quot; doesn&#039;t become nice without auditing. And as COB doesn&#039;t get any auditing then your summation is spot on Cindy. All those Class XIIs and VIIIs sitting there at Flag and he doesn&#039;t avail himself of them (although saying that all the good ones have long since gone). &quot;Couldn&#039;t happen to a nicer bloke&quot;, as the Brits say. Terrible thing - withholds. HCOB 2 August 1969 “‘LX’ Lists” states that “Perverts, suppressives and critical, snide, ruthless, arrogant or contemptuous personalities are always out of valence”.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70929">cindy</a>.</p>
<p>A &#8220;nasty bastard&#8221; doesn&#8217;t become nice without auditing. And as COB doesn&#8217;t get any auditing then your summation is spot on Cindy. All those Class XIIs and VIIIs sitting there at Flag and he doesn&#8217;t avail himself of them (although saying that all the good ones have long since gone). &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer bloke&#8221;, as the Brits say. Terrible thing &#8211; withholds. HCOB 2 August 1969 “‘LX’ Lists” states that “Perverts, suppressives and critical, snide, ruthless, arrogant or contemptuous personalities are always out of valence”.</p>
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		By: Foolproof		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Foolproof]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70929&quot;&gt;cindy&lt;/a&gt;.

Yep.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70929">cindy</a>.</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
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		By: Odd Thomas		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Odd Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70986&quot;&gt;JennyAtLAX (@JennyAtLAX)&lt;/a&gt;.

Jenny, you little tart. I love it when you talk dirty. 

Odd]]></description>
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<p>Jenny, you little tart. I love it when you talk dirty. </p>
<p>Odd</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aquamarine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70977&quot;&gt;Michael Mallen&lt;/a&gt;.

No sarcasm: very well done, Michael M.]]></description>
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<p>No sarcasm: very well done, Michael M.</p>
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		By: RolandRB		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[RolandRB]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70987&quot;&gt;Michael Mallen&lt;/a&gt;.

What would be extremely useful is an accurate estimate of the income from auditing and training world total based on Scn public completions (i.e. not staff or Sea Org completions) as if they had paid for those services on completion. Flag completions as published could be the basis of that scaled up to include an estimate for all other auditing and training Scn public earnings. Then what is needed is a fairly accurate estimate of what it costs to keep the Church of Scientology running per year (not expanding - just day to day running). I think their auditing and training income worldwide is not nearly enough to keep them running but we don&#039;t know how big the gap is (if there is one). And if there is a gap then they must be using dono money meant for expansion to fill that gap. I have a feeling that most of their day-to-day running is paid for out of redirected dono money but I haven&#039;t got the figures. And if this is the case and the whales got to know about it then most of them would stop donating. And then this &quot;Church&quot; would die very quickly.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70987">Michael Mallen</a>.</p>
<p>What would be extremely useful is an accurate estimate of the income from auditing and training world total based on Scn public completions (i.e. not staff or Sea Org completions) as if they had paid for those services on completion. Flag completions as published could be the basis of that scaled up to include an estimate for all other auditing and training Scn public earnings. Then what is needed is a fairly accurate estimate of what it costs to keep the Church of Scientology running per year (not expanding &#8211; just day to day running). I think their auditing and training income worldwide is not nearly enough to keep them running but we don&#8217;t know how big the gap is (if there is one). And if there is a gap then they must be using dono money meant for expansion to fill that gap. I have a feeling that most of their day-to-day running is paid for out of redirected dono money but I haven&#8217;t got the figures. And if this is the case and the whales got to know about it then most of them would stop donating. And then this &#8220;Church&#8221; would die very quickly.</p>
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		By: BeeTee		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BeeTee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I once crashed one of these events, &quot;Auditor&#039;s day&quot; at the Shrine, in the mid-1990s.  As a curious onlooker never involved with Scientology, I just walked up to the door, asked them what it was all about and was welcomed in with a sales pitch along the lines of &quot;the world has problems, we have answers.&quot;  I managed to avoid filling out the personal info card and I discreetly removed the sticker (presumably labelling me as &quot;raw meat&quot;) they had told me to display on my shirt at the first opportunity and settled in for the show.  Times have changed... do you think they&#039;d allow drop-ins by folks who are not known to them at this point?  (The reason I knew to go down there was the giant banner strung across L Ron Hubbard way advertising the event.  They used to advertise their events heavily on and around their buildings, that stopped a few years ago.)

By the way, the event was harrowing and I wish I had a video of it: laser projections in front of a giant set of faux-Greek columns, many formally uniformed Sea Org execs (Mike, would you have been among the presenters?  My best guess is that this was September, 1995), a number of teary testimonials and a disturbing number of standing ovations for LRH.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I once crashed one of these events, &#8220;Auditor&#8217;s day&#8221; at the Shrine, in the mid-1990s.  As a curious onlooker never involved with Scientology, I just walked up to the door, asked them what it was all about and was welcomed in with a sales pitch along the lines of &#8220;the world has problems, we have answers.&#8221;  I managed to avoid filling out the personal info card and I discreetly removed the sticker (presumably labelling me as &#8220;raw meat&#8221;) they had told me to display on my shirt at the first opportunity and settled in for the show.  Times have changed&#8230; do you think they&#8217;d allow drop-ins by folks who are not known to them at this point?  (The reason I knew to go down there was the giant banner strung across L Ron Hubbard way advertising the event.  They used to advertise their events heavily on and around their buildings, that stopped a few years ago.)</p>
<p>By the way, the event was harrowing and I wish I had a video of it: laser projections in front of a giant set of faux-Greek columns, many formally uniformed Sea Org execs (Mike, would you have been among the presenters?  My best guess is that this was September, 1995), a number of teary testimonials and a disturbing number of standing ovations for LRH.</p>
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		By: Michael Mallen		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Mallen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-greatest-event-ever-til-the-next-one/#comment-70984&quot;&gt;RolandRB&lt;/a&gt;.

Brings to mind the phrase &#039;between the devil and the deep blue sea.&#039;]]></description>
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<p>Brings to mind the phrase &#8216;between the devil and the deep blue sea.&#8217;</p>
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