Comments on: The Real Status in Scientology https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/ Something Can Be Done About It Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:15:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: knatherthomas https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93731 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:15:39 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93731 How do I get back the money they extorted from me for that “oh so necessary” patron status?

]]> By: Ann B Watson https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93606 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:25:57 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93606 In reply to Brian.

Hi Espiritu, Just getting around to your post & I hear you & understand. I am glad you were not declared because you did the right thing,you followed your heart & conscience & did what you knew was right for you.I just want to insert a slightly different viewpoint.Your MAA stood up for whatever reason for the auditor.In the SO I had a favorite auditor too,I had much trouble with auditing because I had F/ns all over the place but no pictures to go along with them.I was paying for auditing in the SO so had many good ones but they were in a quandary about me because at times in session I would say this light bulb is going to blow & it would 1 second later & freak them out.Finally when I was on XDN before Power I had an amazing auditor & C/S from Flag.We were going great guns & then the GOI decided they needed to hunt me.Right after I finished XDN I was hauled in by GOI & told my C/S & auditor were RPFed for being PTS & they were taking over my case.So I had no chance to do,the right thing I was trapped.I will be honest here it did not help,that I & an Officer had a very intense relationship that I am sure now the GOI had bee tracking all along & when he was promoted to CO, that was more incentive for me to blow because I did not want him to be RPFed because of me.So I was trying to do the right thing but in the SO it was so hard when your body mind & spirit are under attack on all fronts.Plus I had to plan my escape for months.I was a real SO member yet still had to rip away the hold Ron had on me simultaneously while trying to see how I could get out into the wog world again. Very very difficult.Thank you Ann.

]]> By: Ann B Watson https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93604 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:04:42 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93604 In reply to Brian.

Hi Brian, If you decide to use significant postings as short essays,I would be very very happy.Ann.

]]> By: Espiritu https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93535 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:35:23 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93535 I have some friends who have stuck by me and some who have not. I am blessed that no-one in my family has disconnected from me.
Once in the ’90s I had a conversation with a Flag MAA who insisted that I disconnect from my favorite auditor with whom I had had many, many wins. My auditor was not saying bad things about the COS, but had simply requested a repayment of unused funds that he had on account for his own reasons. When I said that would not disconnect from him, the MAA asked incredulously, “Why not?” I replied, “Because he is not a suppressive person.” To which the MAA said, “And how do YOU know that?” My last reply was, “The same way YOU know it. In fact you have his ethics folder on your desk, so you have all of the documentation of his many commendations right in front of you!”
Funny thing was the truth may have impinged on that MAA because he shut his mouth, and I never heard another word about it. 10 years later I still had not been “shunned”. I don’t think that would probably work today, but then again I didn’t do it because I thought it would “work”. I did it because it was the right thing to do. I highly recommend standing up for what is right and not compromising one’s reality. That is what real Scientologists, real Amish people and all good people are supposed to do.
I hope that any current members of the COS who might be lurking here will heed these words.

]]> By: James Morris https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93534 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:12:51 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93534 In reply to anitawarren1.

Careful, Anita…
You’re reminding me of that Tom Cruise interview clip on Going Clear, where had the crazed look and laughed and laughed and laughed and …
(Didn’t breath)
Laughed and laughed and laughed…
!!!

]]> By: anitawarren1 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93531 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:01:10 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93531 In reply to Old Surfer Dude.

hahahahahahaha…. breathe…. hahahahahahahahahahahna

]]> By: cindy https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93521 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:46:24 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93521 Eloquent post Joe P. So true. And great posts Statpush and Espiritu and others. I just saw a random show on TV, true story about an Amish guy who was a undiagnosed schizophrenic at that time. He went bonkers and brutally murdered his wife. He went to prison and a psych hospital, and the Amish shunned him (like our disconnection). After he came out of the psych hospital, he had nowhere to go, nothing to live on, so he asked his Amish brothers if he could live with them. They at first said no because the Amish leader said that they would be shunned if they took him in. (Sound familiar?) So after a while of this the brothers decided to go against the rulings and took him in anyway even though it meant shunning.

When I saw that I was struck at how he had to commit a very brutal murder of a family member to be shunned. Compare that to our “church.” There, you can do good deeds, give lots of donations, and still be shunned for nothing more than reading on one of the internet blogs the truth about the church. Many have lost their family over reading the truth. I was also struck by how his brothers finally decided to help their flesh and blood and the rules be damned. How many of us here have kids, spouses, parents etc who are in the church who decided to stick by us because they know we are not SP’s and they love us? None that I know of. Yet a “mere wog” (church of scn talk), made the right decision to take in and help their troubled brother. Seems like the “mere wogs” are able to do the right thing more than our highly evolved and enlightened church bretheren.

]]> By: Ann B Watson https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93516 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:49:18 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93516 Hi Espiritu,Beautifully said post.Thank you. Ann.

]]> By: Old Surfer Dude https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93514 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:21:41 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93514 Moneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoney
Moneymoneymoneymoneymoney…breathe…moneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoney………

]]> By: cindy https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-status-in-scientology/#comment-93512 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:01:38 +0000 http://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=23946#comment-93512 In reply to SILVIA.

Maybe the reason you see no staff or OOT’s there in the picture, Silvia, is because the few people in the pic ARE staff, but they are wearing “civvies” to try to appear as if they are public there for the event.

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