My mother was sucked into JFM’s cult–when she was a student at UT Austin, any information you could provide me would be helpful– She never recovered and seems to be having a negative impact on my sisters life

AMW

I also had a terrible experience with JFM about 14 years ago. She is something else.

They’ll TELL you it’s green, and you WILL agree, right? RIGHT???

Hah! That’s the first time I’ve ever seen any reference to He Who Shall Not Be Named, COB RTC Mr. David Miscavige’s training. There are no pictures of His certificates, never any mention of His training or processing level – maybe I just missed them, but I don’t think so. I guess it’s just assumed by the bleating sheep that He is a Class XII and OT 47X. So now, a vague reference to Him being an auditor. Fascinating.

Arte Maren – The PR line way back when (and to this day, actually) is that the government office break-in perpetrated by Scientology was not sanctioned and was really done by some rogue individuals in a rogue office (the GO). The GO was shut down and all of those “rogue” bad guys were expelled from the church. But… There’s Henning Heldt and Dave Lantz working at Morse and Associates (a Scientologist-owned company), and Arte Maren being unleashed to reg the sheep in Dallas. Fascinating.

“If Scientology were to be used by the black people of America…” I shudder to imagine what the rest of that quote was.

As for the Santa pic – is those kids’ last name really Flegm? Bummer.

Steven Hassan’s book “Combatting Cult Mind Control” talks a lot about this. As does “Opening Minds” by Jon Atack and “Cults Inside Out” by Rick Ross.

Basically, different people have different vulnerabilities. Some are hoodwinked into joining an organisation which they later realise is a high control abusive group (regardless of how the organisation is presented).

Loving all of your ‘comebacks’! The culture surrounding CoS is sad and devastating. Having the release of a little humor, certainly gives strength to continue the fight.

As a “never in” there are two issues that won’t allow me to turn my back: child abuse and abuse of the First Amendment. I will use my voice to encourage an unbiased and unafraid government investigation by our legislators.

YES. Remember about the screaming that would go on if the income had been so low that we couldn’t even afford to print and mail out the monthly mag. Hearing that there were no stamps for letters out was a “phew, maybe I can skip the 20 letters quota” relief….

And yeah, brainwashed and oh-so-young-and-fresh.. I too had some fun with the after hours all hands parties getting the bulk mail done.

It’s so odd that it’s done at a higher level now. Recently at Flag I realized I couldn’t go to mimeo and get a copy of an HCO PL I wanted. There was NO mimeo anymore and no one even knew what I was talking about.

They were clueless when I was trying to “remind them” about all the policies on mimeo, and mimeo selling the public the BPI issues, etc. Nope. Someone cancelled that part of a CL V org board I guess.

Seeing LRH placing the “sailor cap” on that little boy’s head gave me the creeps….seems like “get ’em while they’re young and we can lead them down the garden path & influence them with OUR belief system before they know any better”…scheeez.
No opportunity to even BE a child, seemingly adults in little bodies, doing adult work, etc….sad.

Scientology: Come for the macaroni, but stay for the tacos!

wait, though – is it green kool aid?