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		By: Spike		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2019 12:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279158&quot;&gt;Old Surfer Dude&lt;/a&gt;.

LOL!]]></description>
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<p>LOL!</p>
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		By: moviestar		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 06:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279317&quot;&gt;Kat LaRue&lt;/a&gt;.

Good definition of a paedophile criminal inventing an army of sexy teengirls and call it Commodores messenger org.

 Also an example for his blown up druggie mind like &quot;HASUK Atomic Energy Healing Division Emergency Station, Dublin, Eire. &quot;.
On Stalin or Kim you can say, abbreviated: dictator. On hubb or miscavige you need a lot of words. Like above.]]></description>
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<p>Good definition of a paedophile criminal inventing an army of sexy teengirls and call it Commodores messenger org.</p>
<p> Also an example for his blown up druggie mind like &#8220;HASUK Atomic Energy Healing Division Emergency Station, Dublin, Eire. &#8220;.<br />
On Stalin or Kim you can say, abbreviated: dictator. On hubb or miscavige you need a lot of words. Like above.</p>
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		By: KatherineINCali		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279330&quot;&gt;Roger Larsson&lt;/a&gt;.

Roger, what in the bloody hell are you talking about? Is this some kind of metaphor? Don’t mean to offend; I’m just curious.]]></description>
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<p>Roger, what in the bloody hell are you talking about? Is this some kind of metaphor? Don’t mean to offend; I’m just curious.</p>
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		By: jere lull (38years recovering)		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WHAT&#039;S &quot;advanced&quot; about the course?  Why, the PRICE, of course.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WHAT&#8217;S &#8220;advanced&#8221; about the course?  Why, the PRICE, of course.</p>
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		By: moviestar		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hubbard is best! The emegency care for people and especially the name for the dublin project is more than poetry. No government could trump this atomic name!

I suggest to establish a tv sequel like &quot;breaking bad&quot;. All the stuff we read is more than the phantasy of sopranos or game of thrones. 

There is crime, mystery, fun, drugs, hypnosis, psychs, beer, mafia, paedophile, cia, tax everything you need for a bigger tv story ever. 
With thrill, love, anger, runaways, sex, idiotism, pain, betrayal everything. Never endig.

Who can write the script?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hubbard is best! The emegency care for people and especially the name for the dublin project is more than poetry. No government could trump this atomic name!</p>
<p>I suggest to establish a tv sequel like &#8220;breaking bad&#8221;. All the stuff we read is more than the phantasy of sopranos or game of thrones. </p>
<p>There is crime, mystery, fun, drugs, hypnosis, psychs, beer, mafia, paedophile, cia, tax everything you need for a bigger tv story ever.<br />
With thrill, love, anger, runaways, sex, idiotism, pain, betrayal everything. Never endig.</p>
<p>Who can write the script?</p>
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		By: Valboski		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279174&quot;&gt;Mark&lt;/a&gt;.

Sorry Mark......I tried to word clear &quot;insuation&quot; unsuccessfully.......

Can you give me the derivation ?]]></description>
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<p>Sorry Mark&#8230;&#8230;I tried to word clear &#8220;insuation&#8221; unsuccessfully&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Can you give me the derivation ?</p>
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		By: Valboski		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279295&quot;&gt;Mark&lt;/a&gt;.

(...just got caught tugging on Superman&#039;s cape.....)]]></description>
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<p>(&#8230;just got caught tugging on Superman&#8217;s cape&#8230;..)</p>
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		By: PeaceMaker		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It would be very telling if Scientology is running out of customers even at Flag, though it would be a logical follow-on consequence of the emptying out of the local orgs.  However, it might portend more of a collapse than Jeffrey Augustine&#039;s &quot;monastic Scientology&quot; model envisioned, in which he thought Flag would carry on serving &quot;whales.&quot;  I think we&#039;re likely to see more of a &quot;fortress Scientology&quot; in which they&#039;ll really have to circle the wagons.

We may even have seen some sign of that in a comment a couple of days ago by an insider, I think someone claiming to still be on staff and thinking of blowing, who wrote that orgs were so empty that they were consolidating classrooms - I wasn&#039;t quite sure whether he meant within the org, or between multiple orgs in the LA area, the latter of which would be a real sign of Scientology having to resort to consolidation.

I see this all as part of a slow-motion collapse that&#039;s been going on since about the 1970s, when the young baby boomer demographic that had fueled Scientology&#039;s growth started to peter out, even though some of the missions were finding ways keep up - though often by starting to resort to the sort of hard sell and heavy handed tactics that we now know as characteristic of the orgs&#039; strategy to keep stats up.  First the orgs started poaching the missions&#039; business, more recently we&#039;ve seen AOs serving the students and delivering some of the courses that the orgs used to, and now it seems to have reached the point where even Flag is delivering what would originally have been mission-level services in an effort to keep its stats up.

Oh, and it&#039;s interesting to see that early on, Hubbard was more willing to acknowledge the busts of Dianetics and Scientology&#039;s typical up and down cycles:

&quot;We have never since I have gotten us out of this last auditing slump got better results.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would be very telling if Scientology is running out of customers even at Flag, though it would be a logical follow-on consequence of the emptying out of the local orgs.  However, it might portend more of a collapse than Jeffrey Augustine&#8217;s &#8220;monastic Scientology&#8221; model envisioned, in which he thought Flag would carry on serving &#8220;whales.&#8221;  I think we&#8217;re likely to see more of a &#8220;fortress Scientology&#8221; in which they&#8217;ll really have to circle the wagons.</p>
<p>We may even have seen some sign of that in a comment a couple of days ago by an insider, I think someone claiming to still be on staff and thinking of blowing, who wrote that orgs were so empty that they were consolidating classrooms &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t quite sure whether he meant within the org, or between multiple orgs in the LA area, the latter of which would be a real sign of Scientology having to resort to consolidation.</p>
<p>I see this all as part of a slow-motion collapse that&#8217;s been going on since about the 1970s, when the young baby boomer demographic that had fueled Scientology&#8217;s growth started to peter out, even though some of the missions were finding ways keep up &#8211; though often by starting to resort to the sort of hard sell and heavy handed tactics that we now know as characteristic of the orgs&#8217; strategy to keep stats up.  First the orgs started poaching the missions&#8217; business, more recently we&#8217;ve seen AOs serving the students and delivering some of the courses that the orgs used to, and now it seems to have reached the point where even Flag is delivering what would originally have been mission-level services in an effort to keep its stats up.</p>
<p>Oh, and it&#8217;s interesting to see that early on, Hubbard was more willing to acknowledge the busts of Dianetics and Scientology&#8217;s typical up and down cycles:</p>
<p>&#8220;We have never since I have gotten us out of this last auditing slump got better results.&#8221;</p>
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		By: WhatWall		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279143&quot;&gt;David Miscavige is a Sociopathic Psychopath&lt;/a&gt;.

DMiaSP, thank you. The fact that David Miscavige is a sociopath cannot be overly emphasized. That fact explains his behavior. 

We don&#039;t yet understand why sociopaths exist or the many varieties of them. We do know that all organizations, families and governments are susceptible to them because they don&#039;t recognize them. 

Recognizing one is the first step towards handling one. David Miscavige, you&#039;ve been recognized.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279143">David Miscavige is a Sociopathic Psychopath</a>.</p>
<p>DMiaSP, thank you. The fact that David Miscavige is a sociopath cannot be overly emphasized. That fact explains his behavior. </p>
<p>We don&#8217;t yet understand why sociopaths exist or the many varieties of them. We do know that all organizations, families and governments are susceptible to them because they don&#8217;t recognize them. </p>
<p>Recognizing one is the first step towards handling one. David Miscavige, you&#8217;ve been recognized.</p>
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		By: Peter		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-top-of-the-bridge-is-collapsing/#comment-279210&quot;&gt;Old Surfer Dude&lt;/a&gt;.

OSD, we have rice and beans (covered with butter) quite often.  Both extremely healthy and wonderful tasting.  My wife (exSO) tells me she could never get enough it when she was on the ship.  Yum stuff!  :)]]></description>
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<p>OSD, we have rice and beans (covered with butter) quite often.  Both extremely healthy and wonderful tasting.  My wife (exSO) tells me she could never get enough it when she was on the ship.  Yum stuff!  🙂</p>
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