No barriers?
Why not resolve all the barriers to org expansion? To making Ideal Orgs?
Elvis?
Seriously?
And he loves Vegas so he is promoting Albuquerque?
1st Ideal Continent
It’s going to be a LONG time before they get Canberra or Adelaide anywhere near “ideal.”
Free hot dogs…
Anything to try to get anyone to show up so they get be swarmed by Regges.
The Renaissance Speakers?
Michael Chan Flim-Flam Man
Only $10…
Dissemination?
Drug booklets? You do know they don’t talk about Scientology right? This is your idea of an OT civilization?
Why PR is senior to everything?
Because the facts really suck when it comes to scientology. So you have to try to spin everything.
Oh Clifford, Clifford, Clifford…
You qualified. Congratulations. So does anyone who can draw a breath.
Bet he didn’t buy this with his staff pay…
Truth in advertising. See above. PR is king.
A new look at OT?
Wonder what’s new?
I can tell you and save the the trip — NOTHING.
The Slammers of Plymouth Rock
A famous “eval” title back in the day of the L1 R/S witchhunts. This reminded me. If you don’t get the “inside baseball” of this, just read on. It’s not really significant. Plymouth is one of the most infamous of the tiny failing orgs in scientology and has been for 40+ years.
Successfully raising children…
Keep them FAR away from anything written by LRH.
Do the Safepointing. Watch the CSN.
And other words of wisdom from the peanut gallery.
Seattle breaks all records?
How about getting anyone on the Bridge or making a single Clear?
Wow, he’s LIVE
Is that amazing or what?
Mandatory…
Got that?
What’s the deal with the runny paint?
Tears of sadness for the deluded?
Another foreigner…
I guess it really is ALL that’s in that building.
A free lecture
Isn’t that special….
The ED is going to give the wins
Probably nobody else to speak? But not to worry because her wins were monumental…
We need students…
Really? I thought you were ideal?
But note — you can rest assured they will be in good hands because she is on OT VII. So was Rex Fowler…
Honoring the flourishing and prospering artist?
Why — those are the only ones who can pay?
Question for all you tech experts out there: Is Dissemination the opposite of insemination? Does it involve a session with the massage lady?
Inquiring minds just want to know.
Perfect questions for OSD to answer, ST and I’m sure he will 🙂
What ‘tickles’ me no end is their diligence in stamping these ludicrous creations with their own ‘copywright’ and ‘trademark’.
First, Who Cares?;
Second, why would Anyone even Consider stealing their Crappy artwork?
Third, how is it O.K. for Them to use Others’ Copywright and Trademark material, but Not The Other Way ‘Round?
Isn’t there a saying, ‘Turnabout is Fair Play’?
Now, I ask you, Who knows More about Fair Play than $ ? ? ? ? ? ?
Thank you! Yes Greg is my younger brother. He and his wifes’ involvement in the cult has destroyed what is left of our family. Our Mother wept because of his walking away from Christianity to be immersed in this insidious group. She died a few years ago of a broken heart. Greg and I were always very close and he would phone me 4 to 5 times every week for years. I could sense that he was being coerced by his wife each time they would visit with me.It was plain to see,by everybody,that she “wore the pants” and he would be very subservient toward her in every way. Finally, after not getting any sense from either of them, I emailed him detailing what I thought of his relationship with her and with the cult, and he hasn’t contacted me since.(approx. 5 years ago). Now I really need to contact him. Scott. ( Wifes’ name is Georgina)
Dear Scottie, I don’t know how to contact them, other than write to the Dept of Special Affairs of your nearest Ideal Org, and give them the full weight and importance of your request. I recall Georgiana, I helped train her on administrative Hubbard staff duties nonsense I’m sorry to say, years ago, in the 1980s, and I interacted with Prudence, your niece, a few times on the RPF in Los Angeles. You can look up the OSA International headquarters address and write a formal letter stating your request. Addresses and phone numbers ought to be online.
I took notes at the last Scientology Prosperity Seminar:
How to Finance Your Bridg by Scientology IAS Lead Fleecer – Ted Braggin.
Step 1: RUIN THEM FINANCIALLY! Run the “MUST HAVE” on them. They must have the Bridge or else – then feed them DOOM AND GLOOM.
IMPINGE!
Put the being in total and utter fear, chaos and confusion.
You must feed them conspiracy theories to put them in total and utter FEAR until the fear is implanted into their subconscious mind.
Then…go for broke. We have Planetary banks (accounts) to clear.
Have one of our “trained” and manipulative REGISTRARS max out your credit cards and get you credit cards you would never on Xenu’s Green Planet obtain unless a “trained” Scientology Manipulator is involved.
You are clearing the planet so put the being at TOTAL EFFECT.
STEP 2
When the being is spinning after the financial ruin, tell them they are an Illegal PC and CAN’T HAVE the Bridge.
This makes them robotic and easy to control.
Rinse and Repeat until everyone in your MORGUE is under your thumb by “BEING BROKE and in DEBT”.
Then – encourage them to file bankruptcy by feeding them the “PIRATES AND BUMS” referance and more conspiracy theories the Ole Man came up with.
Rinse and Repeat.
SCIENTOLOGY WORKS WHEN STANDARDLY APPLIED.
Oh, yes, that’s Ted Bragin, alright! His Standard Operati;ng Procedure, point for point. Dear Teddy;.
Marcy Sargeant, this post from me is to YOU directly.
You want people to use LRH references for bringing up children?
You want to help people introduce children to scientology?
FUCK YOU!
No, seriously, FUCK YOU!
You are on the wrong side of history, you blithering idiot. Please re-evaluate your life choices. There is still time to atone for your very serious crimes.
Marcy Sargeant has kool aid coming out of her pores and her being ness.
I believe she is too far gone and I am afraid will go down with the sinking ship of Scientology.
Yep her and her sisters. Her mom died truly believing the crap. The only one from that family to escape is her brother, Michael Henderson. He spoke out a lot in the beginning, but I haven’t seen any posts of his for years. Why not? Michael, hey, we want to hear from you!
Does anyone else think the quality of these ads has been going down in the past few weeks? It looks like the CoS has handed their photo-schlerping duties to a whole new crew, and I do mean “new”. The Thursday Funnies ads from the past few weeks have fewer complex backgrounds, fewer fancy typefaces, more simplistic layouts, and in general an appearance of a Beginning Graphics 101 Class. It could be just cyclical creative burnout, but I suspect one or more important and experienced people may have got the boot, err, I mean offered opportunities for advancement.
Yes. It’s almost as if they’re not even trying.
It’s like the boy who cried wolf. Sooner or later no one must be showing up at many of these things because they know what these gatherings mean – financial devastation and hardship for themselves.
This annoys me to no end: “Unlock the Keys to OT.”
The KEYS are what DO the unlocking. So it should be, “The Keys to Unlock OT.”
…or
“Discover the Keys To Unlock OT”
…or how ‘bout
“The Keys to the Keys To Unlock OT”
…or best of all
“The Keys To Unlock the Prison of Belief”
It’s just as nonsensical as what follows: “Learn how to operate as an OT while going OT.” If I can operate as a frickin’ OT without actually GOING OT, why would I bother going OT??
Annnnd another thing: That Africa Ideal photo, with that headline? It looks like it’s bragging that Scientology is disseminating DRUGS in Africa.
Great comment, Miss Q. I think the still ins who write this promo are either 1) semi-literate American children born into the cult, ESL Sea Org, or utterly exhausted and utterly desperate to write something that will make the reader not throw the thing away. “Unlock the keys…” that IS a gem!
Ok, now, I gots one for ‘ya: Ever hear that old chestnut, “I don’t want to be a rich person, I just want to live like one”? Well, that could easily be reworked into a Scn Seminar too :).
Miss Q, I so agree… scientology propaganda is just so… clumsy.
Miss Q, Me also, the promise of “key to…..” something, is a half promise. It’s dishonest, since no Scientologists, and no humans to date on which Scientology just plays the same hope/false claims promise sales game, have done anything supernatural. No soul-flying (exteriorization), no telekinetic powers, no past-lives returned human beings. For the spiritual conning aspect of Scientology, promising “blue sky” (as in Jon Atack’s book title, “Let’s Sell These People A Piece of Blue Sky” , sadly Scientology’s just a spiritual hocus pockus con playing on people’s desire for supernatural soul powers. I was a sucker for it for almost 3 decades. But no one becomes “OT” (supernaturally soul powered, soul-astronaut, etc.). How could they? It’s a false hope sales club.
Hey Mike, Could you please send me the general email address of the celebrity centre,as I need to contact my brother,Greg,who is trapped in the insane cult. I have tried other ways,but to no avail. I read your blog each day with a deep sense of sadness and frustration. I hope you don,t wane. Regards Scott Tweedie (Aus)
Which Celebrity Centre, scottie? There are a number of them. Just google “Celebrity Centre” along with the city and you’ll get the address.
Any relation to Greg?
You maybe able to get CCI email address from the scientology dot org.
I suggest getting the phone # and calling or have a friend phone if your call will not be put through. I’m sorry you have to deal with this.
Fatso had a heart attack & and a stroke. A second stroke killed him. So much for, ‘he was in perfect health.’ He died just like everyone else does.
Hey, don’t be so hard on Elvis!
You mean he’s not still out flying around Arcturus the star, like he told Sarge and I thought he was out rehabbing himself doing the “OT Running Program”?
Looking at the last two items, I see that the day course supervisor complaining about being in “non existence” and needing students is at the Valley org – which just last year moved into an “ideal” facility in Scientology’s stronghold, and probably has more active members than any other in the world (though that would only be around 200 these days) or close to it. Such woes may be partly due to the fact that the Valley org is likely to have a large number of its members on OT levels, taking advanced courses at AOLA and FLAG, but it also means that they’re not getting many new people or children of members doing low-level courses, or even having much success getting more advanced members to re-do them.
And artists would have to be “prospering” as “flourishing” to do Scientology, all right. I look at that ballerina and think that’s the person least likely to do Scientology, because they’re in a demanding profession that would never leave them with time for Scientology’s endless course work and other demands – much less that would provide the money to get “up the bridge.” Musician Geoff Levin has been writing some interesting comments over at Tony Ortega’s about how Scientology is largely incompatible with artistry, and even stifles it. Looking at even the performers Scientology has left, most of them had become successful before getting into Scientology, and with a few exceptions most of their careers have gone stagnant.
I missed those articles by Geoff Levin; thanks, Peacemaker. The only genuinely creative musical artist I know of is Chick Corea. Okay, Stanley Clark, too. Corea was a bright star on the horizon since playing with Miles Davis. It infuriates me that the jazz press and other jazz musicians have always given him a free pass, mostly because they’re not well-informed about scientology. I suspect all the $cion celebs are given minimal “confront,” just enough to make them think it’s real, but nothing like the “sec checks” endured by publig and S.O.s. They’re too valuable to Miscavige to be confronted with anything that’s going to rock the boat and turn the money spigot off.
Bixntram,
My assessment of artists like Chick and Stanley are based on their lack of growth and the fact that their careers peaked decades ago. I have known both of them for 4 decades.
Scientology promotes conformity, destabilizes the artists personal motivation to make art their most prized endeavor. That is forcibably replaced with clearing the planet as the most important activity in the universe.
Those two concepts are incompatible. Artists to thrive and grow must be allowed to go anywhere, feel anything, make mistakes, fail, succeed and break traditions. How can you do that when you as an artist are concerned with what Scientology says about your creative activities.
PeaceMaker,
I appreciate your support of what I’ve been commenting about.
Music artists have has profound effect on supporting Scientology through out the decades.
Foolproof and wy,
I notice there is an event called “Unlock the keys to OT”. It looks like Scientology thinks it has the keys to OT! Well, we know differently.
Hope to hear your response. This is fun.
What is it with $cientologists and endless emojis??
It’s so embarrassing.
I’ve been known to use *one* — from time to time.
Jenavieve Marie Pase uses no less than 16 damn emojis in her post. Is that really necessary? Or do they actually believe it makes their posts interesting or exciting?
You know, I think it is the on-line version of talking about Scientology. You notice how when ever they do interviews and ask people what Scientology is and what it has done for them in their lives the interviewees run out of adjectives and start making sound effects. “My mind was like pppft!” “I got to OT2 and it is just Chuuuh!” “I mean it is all right there, it is just totally Ffffummm!”
Sign me up Dude!
JJ, I just read your post, and it was like Whoa!
Ha Ha! JJ you are so right.
I think it all goes back to that Tom Cruise Freedom Valor Dildo Presentation, in the video where he blathers on about being a scientologist… several examples of this weird phenomena. Scientologists try so hard to imitate the big being dipshit, Tom “Useful Idiot” Cruise.
It is so, like, KPoew!
Patrick Valtin, the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award winner in the brochure above appears to have achieved nothing. Like Scn itself, he is all talk with nothing to show for it. His personal professional website where he claims to be delivering results to national global companies, is delivering virtually nothing. The Alexa ranking is out in the stratosphere of oblivion; 9,648,229. His website hirebox.com claims to be helping companies hire the best people. Well, they’re not hiring him. That Alexa ranking is 7,902,066. Really, it’s too easy calling their bluff, proving once again that PR might be able to do many things, but it can’t revive a dead organization.
But seriously, why did they leave that 666 license plate in the pic like that? Is that a subliminal message to Luciferians or Satanists? Whoever edits these surely is aware. Or are they? That’s so bizarre to me. The more I think about it I can’t get over it. That’s just so crazy!
Just turn it upside down. Then you’ll have 999.
And sideways, 3 tadpoles practicing synchronized swimming.
Can I get tickets to the show?
LRH himself said he is Lucifer in the original OT VIII, scrubbed clean by the imposter Miscavige.
(Research it yourself lurkers, or spend another hundred grand, or two, to eventually figure it out from within scientology, your choice.)
So 666 is very appropriate.
whoa whoa WHOA!!! So they’re admitting that the anti-drug crusade is just another form of dissemination of Scn? Sure looks like that to me!
“Why PR is senior to everything. In business and in life.” Well, there’s a viewpoint that explains a lot.
Big celebration – Seattle breaks records. For fundraising. No closer to clearing 2 blocks in Seattle, never mind the city, or the metro area. But hey, we got more money. Here’s a little language for you snoopers and trolls that you should understand – “unreasonable have to have before you can do”
Chan Man:
“Discover what causes tiredness and exhaustion.”
Slaving for scientology.
There. Saved ya $10.
Emoticon Overload:
Are scios so excited to get on social media that they go way overboard with emoticons?
Ballerinas:
I was wondering how ballerinas got caught up in all this. But then I figured it out: Ballerinas work long, arduous hours for low pay, and then they have to smile through the pain while performing for an audience…. Just like scientology staff!
Well said! I’ve never been compared to a ballerina before but I appreciate the effort and incredible dedication it takes to be a ballerina or any competent dancer for that matter. Yes, pain & Scientology… dancing partners in the extreme.
Ever googled “ballerina feet” images…? Don’t.
It is not as bad as LRH teeth and mouth photos, but still pretty gruesome.
Until I just googled him, I had no idea Tim Sabatino was a photographer and the Ballerina series is a collection of photographs. From the poster, I thought it was a dance performance. Someone needs to take a PR class.
Interesting choice of Elvis for this promo, considering this gem I found via PageSix, March 12, 2017:
Elvis himself wanted nothing to do with Scientology. According to the book “Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations From the Memphis Mafia,” co-written by Elvis’ friend Marty Lacker, after a visit to the Scientology center in Los Angeles, Elvis said, “F - - k those people! There’s no way I’ll ever get involved with that son-of-a-bitchin’ group. All they want is my money.”
Yep, so they just got their hooks into the wallets of his ex-wife and daughter and his grandkids.
Elvis was one smart cookie. He knew from the start that Scientology was bad news.
Yep, and sales tax too.
And in Elvis’ reply, couldn’t they have spelled Albuquerque correctly!!
Once again, Alice, they don’t need no wog grammar. They make up their own words. I think most members are close to being illiterate.
Good Lord Xenu, I must be the worst nitpicker of all time. But, I cannot help myself. Elvis’ middle name is spelled Aron.
Also, what’s up with that illustration of Elvis? It looks nothing like him. Elvis had a distinctly rounded jawline that should be a key component of caricature drawing. The illustrator of that flyer must have never seen a picture of Elvis, and read somewhere that he had a big square jawline.
If the Jive Arses are performing in Plymouth near the end of September (and Birmingham too; see Xenu’s Son’s comment yesterday) that must mean they’re a dead cert for the IAS gala at Stain Hell on October 5th. Oh joy…
“Stain Hell”. LOL!
Sadly, Michael Chan has been marked down to $10. That doesn’t include his commission. Then again, that is much better than Gavin Potter, he is free. I mean commission only, nothing is free in the Clampire. The musical chair fight between them will be epic.
The first promo piece in the article, the Alan Hollander one, has no location for his talk. I read it three or four times looking for where it would be held but nothing. How do they expect people to show up if no location is listed? Maybe they worry that big, bad SP’s will also show up if they give a location.
The pictures from the ANZO orgs, probably provide a pretty good idea of how many active members those orgs actually have – 50 to 70 at a couple of the larger ones, down to as little as half that or less at the small and struggling ones. The photos further down from Seattle, likely give a good idea of what the membership of an average org in a reasonably large US city looks like (notice quite a bit of gray hair, and only one obvious young adult) – Denver is probably pretty comparable, along with place like Portland and Atlanta.
“Financing Your Bridge” – just how does that relate to a supposed “church” and “religious” activity?
If Renaissance Speakers meets every Sunday from 9 until noon at the CC, doesn’t that make it a Scientology Sunday service? It certainly excludes anyone who attends an actual church.
The org promo piece positioning the distribution of Truth About Drugs pamphlets as “dissemination” (proselytizing/recruiting) seems to put a lie to their claims about front groups being separate “secular” activities. It also shows what I think may be the wave of the future in Scientology promo, a photo of a group people in some far away place who may or may not actually be members themselves, and who may only have just been roped into a photo opportunity (as they did when the Freewinds docked in Barbados, by offering food and entertainment to locals).
In Las Vegas, it seems that there is another person who looks to be retirement age, joining staff. They might seem like an attractive demographic that could afford to “volunteer” essentially without pay, though I’m guessing that the long hours and high stress take a toll on them, not to mention the inevitable health problems that come with aging, and so they may not last long – witness the other promo trying to attract young people of family age to “have it all,” which the orgs are presumably are not having much success at.
Toastmasters is the group using the hall. Not Scientology. They are an entirely different thing, As far as I can tell.
Cre8tivewmn, no in this case you’re wrong. Scn has its OWN Toastmaster’s group that is just for Scns. It has been meeting there for years. It is not a church Sunday Service. It is a Toastmaster’s meeting where people get up and do stump speeches and get critiqued by their colleagues.
Thanks for clarification. I was aware of Toastmasters before. There are at least two groups that meet in my town.
I know some people who think Toastmasters is a cult too.
Isn’t Toastmasters a bunch of people who like toast?
I like toast… but how do you become a master of it? Is it something like being in the top 3 of a pie eating contest, except using toast? Peanut butter, jelly… mmmm. what goes with it, is there a choice of condiment? At least with Scientology all it needs is money, lots of it & they’ll give you a cert using a dollar shop marker to write your name on it. Pretty good exchange hey?
Damn good exchange!
You would think this wouldn’t be as shocking after awhile. But no, my mind is blown! Elvis? Really? I couldn’t stop laughing. And the 666 on the license plate couldn’t be more appropriate! Yes scamology, evil to the core!
I seriously expect to see LRH back before I see Elvis. And I ain’t holding my breath. LRH was a free man, he can choose or not to come back and he told Sarge that he was not coming back.
Gavin Potter. In 1986 he was the Ship Quals Msn I/C and he needed a 2nd. I had never done Msn school and no-one who has not done Msn school can be on a mission.
So he took me to the courseroom and I got an invoice and checksheet.
I wrote my name on the checksheet and we left. I did not even sit down or read any reference.
Right?! Especially when Elvis publicly said “All they want is my money” which would make him an SP according to policy. Wonder what Lisa Marie thinks about this ad?
Doesn’t Lisa Marie blame scientology for being broke now? You would think they wouldn’t want to remind people of that. I am sure she would hate them using Elvis.
Evidently, Lisa Marie wrote a song about scientology:
https://www.lisamariepresley.com/storm-grace/lyrics-s-g-all/so-long
I now realize that it’s several years old. Seems her life is not going too well these days. Can’t find anything definitive on if she’s still-in or still-out.
I believe she is still out. I think I saw that somewhere recently, saying she was angry and bitter towards the cult. I know I would be. I was never in and I’m angry as hell! Lol
She’s out and broke and trying things to make money. I think one thing was singing with a halogram of her father singing so it looks like they’re singing a duet together. Nat King Cole’s daughter did that with him.
Worse than broke.
In February of 2018, as part of her divorce from Michael Lockwood, Lisa filed legal paperwork that showed she is $16 million in debt. $10 million of the debt is related to unpaid taxes dating from 2012 to 2015. The rest of the debt is credit card bills and unpaid attorney’s fees. Lisa filed the paperwork after her ex demanded $450,000 to cover his legal fees.
Holy Cow! 10 million in unpaid taxes. Lisa Marie! I’m gobsmacked.
Funnies are kinda drab this week, Flyers, etc are so plain. Could they be tired of getting laughed at?
“Raise your child using LRH principles”. – He was not exactly father of the year material.
“Introduce Scientology to your child so they are interested themselves..” Creepy. Starting the mind control early, I guess.
And the words “Mace-Kingsley” makes me shudder these days. I’m surprised they haven tried to rename their business to avoid PR showing up in searches.
Finally, the guy with the Mercedes needs to stop by the tailor and dry cleaner on the way home. That suit jacket is in terrible shape.
Marcy Sargeant is now giving talks for Mace Kingsley. I guess that means she left the SO. Does anyone know if she is still married to Craig Sargeant? She was a SO exec at ASHO for the longest time but when she had her 3rd or 4th kid, (refused to get an abortion, and this was in the early days when they could keep their babies), then the couple and their kids were kicked out of the SO and had to go work in a failing Class V Org in another state. So does anyone know if Craig also left SO with her and if they’re still married?
She’s on staff at Mace Kingsley, Clearwater FL. I believe she is the Qual Sec but I could have that part wrong.
Mary, sounds plausible. Is Marcy Sargeant still married to Craig Sargeant?
Cre8tivewmn, yes the scientology promo is drab because the people creating it are either exhausted, spent, disillusioned, or purposefully fucking it all up from within.
My faith in my fellow human tells me it is the saboteurs… keep it up heroic souls! That scientology upper management asshole/assholette will have their own asses torn out sooner or later because of your efforts.
It must feel SO good to fuck up scientology from within.
I read the news today oh boy
About some poor old soul on OT VIII
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the sinking stats
He lost his mind while on the ship
He didn’t notice he’d been rearranged
Some Sea Org members stood and stared
They’d blocked the exit doors
Nobody was really sure
If he was dead or just plain bored
I’d love to turn you on…
MJ! Best one yet!
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Bravo!
Wow! I’m very impressed! What a great idea, very creative!…. I copied the words so I can sing all along reading Scientology stuffs.
“So was Rex Fowler…”. And we all know how that ended.
And he didn’t even get the tek right on that. Scientology has a lot to answer for. I sure hold them responsible for that sadness and a whole host other calamities of destroyed lives.
At least… we cannot say they don’t try! But today, with all the free information available on the Internet…the future is now ” clear” for Scientology… it will die!
The internet knows all and sees all. And the OT levels, from 1 to 7, are all over the Internet. And keep in mind that cult members aren’t allowed to go on the internet. Lest they come across entheta.
I became a staff member a long time ago before the creation of the Net. During this period it was easy to believe in any bullshit because no information was available… but now,.. who will be creasy enough to start blindfolded giving his life for Scientology. That is why the ideal orgs are all empty , and that is why eventually the whole thing will die one day or another.
Truer words were never spoken. The internet is like this treasure chest of knowledge. And you are right Gui, we all had no way of knowing how bad Scientology is. I was pulled in just like you. All hail the internet!
You’ve got that right Gui.
Gui, just think what Miscavige would do if he really was a supreme being… taking away the internet would be child’s play. Happily, scientology is all bullshit, and there are no powers.
Miscavige sits alone all night sipping his scotch and eating his ‘memberberries’, re-living his past glories, all gone forever. Curse you, truth!
love this comment! ☺
There it is again, that effing word, “Mandatory.” I hate that word. Drives me crazy and I’m OT VII. No wait, I’m NEW OT VII. Still drives me crazy.
Well if you would only git yer butt back to the fleecewinds I’m sure it could be handled with an ATE Comp! ):
I agree, Mary! You MUST come back to the ship. The ship is your friend. Just hand over your passport.
OK! OK! MARY,
We got that ‘MANDATORY’ is one of your button words. Would you prefer Hombretory, or maybe Dorkatory perhaps. All it ever meant to me was where the men went to go do their business. But I might have a MU. Come to think of it, I have never seen the Ladies room designated as a Womantory.
Hey, it rhymes with lavatory. Does that help?
…and Purgatory. And if my Catholicism serves me correctly that’s the place like Hell but you can get out of it. So that would be the church of scientology, except the Int Base, which IS Hell.
Yep. “mandarory” is total new regime nonsense. my response is always something along the lines of, “mandatory?? There’s no such thing!” . I don’t go on principle . ( and experience proves it’ll be same shyte, different day)
mandatorily on your own self determinism of course.
Personatory? No wait, that has a patriarchal tone to it. Peratory? No wait, just thought of the best description – Purgatory. You are stuck there forever and they purge you of all your money and thimpking…thunking…er, brains.
MANDATORY FOR ALL CLEARS.
That means, what? That about five people will show up?
Less than five?
At the very least, this is showing an insiders club of self-praising elitests. This is the minimum malificence. I can feel the undercurrent of ruining financially of those soon to be ex-Scientooogists. Fundraisers, humanitarian statuses, and scouring the depths for students to get their money flowing out of their pockets. Major malificence.
Why would a church accept a donation from a credit card, which is a form of high interest debt? They know you cannot simply transfer the balance if you are not ‘winning’.
I think the time is coming to get the word out about the evil deeds of Scientology far and wide. Once you get a piece of truth out there, it’s like a lion that will protect itself. The first step is to show how the medical claims of travelling cons like Michael Chan are false and harmful.
“Self-praising elitists” .Very apt .
Mutual admiration society
Aptly deserved too.
Oh, but these ladies would frequently refer to themselves as “kick ass OTs”. Of course, i needed to believe this. But inside I had doubts. Unbidden would come the thought: “Really! Well, whose asses are you kicking, actually?” To me they looked more like the kickees.
G-EP, I do think the Dwarf is operating on his own policy to squeeze as much as possible as fast as possible out of the Still Ins, on the theory that they are ALL going to leave at some point ANYWAY, so get what you can while the getting is good, and if this offends them and drives them out, no big deal, because if not this, something else will!
And, if they stay, well, squeeze ’em for more!
Just keep squeezing and squeezing until there’s nothing left, or they leave, or both!
I really believe that’s the way he thinks.
Golden-Era Parachute, I think you have described the current state of the deluded whales perfectly.
“self-praising elitests”
Who doesn’t like to get dressed up nice and have a throng of misguided nitwits applause you for doing nothing other than throwing a few bucks away for an ugly trophy and worthless piece of paper?
Such an ugly “religion”.
The 7’s and 8’s I knew, with 2 exceptions, were not what anyone would call “elites”. The two who could, I suppose, be classified this way were each wealthy. One was a trust fund baby with a magnificent home she bought with family or inherited money. The other was a childless married woman who did very well in the production of Indie films and TV films. As tor the rest of them, there were about 5 or so women, 7’s and 8’s on my org’s OT Committee, 50/60 something ex- hippie types stuck in the 70s with their peasant skirts, frizzy hair and Jesus sandals. They didn’t look like they had a pot to piss in.
“Successfully Raising Children Using LRH Principles.” Those poor kids. They have no idea what they’re in for. RUN!!!
Another great assortment.
Sorry but once again they have a zomie look alike? Patrick, you need to go for a glamour shot or anything but that! Get some sun man. Ditch the wolfman do.
And here’s a tip. Do Not Use beautiful innocent children photos as a reason to join a child abusing cult! Have you no shame? Dumb question I know.
Gavin..oh heck never mind.
“What’s the deal with the runny paint?
Tears of sadness for the deluded?”
Too weak from hunger to hold their arms up long enough to paint? A subliminal message to others to get out?
“A free lecture”
Well of course who wouldn’t want a chance to die from this wonderful purification ritual. Do they have to sign over all rights to their property and bank accounts first?
Ann Bryne – looks like she survived the purification process, barely. That’s just sad.
Hey folks, I’m headed to the fundraiser in Albuquerque to see Elvis!!!! But only if Lisa Marie is there too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5W86dKHT0E
I’ll even make a big donation if she lets me join her on stage for a sing-a-long.
Didn’t LMP exit the cult 5 years ago? Hope they didn’t get her back in!
She’s still out as far as I know. Not sure about her mother though. Hopefully they are both out and doing well.
I thought I read on here that Elvis was not in the CoS because he knew they wanted his money? I could be wrong….
Exactly. Poor Elvis gets mocked and lampooned a lot, but saw through $cion right away. I believe “they just want your money” was his exact words. Other Hollywood fops were not so perceptive.
Thanks again for making me smile in these troubled times.. waiting on Season 3 and let’s go!
No worries, be happy!
The 666 on that Mercedes is right selling your soul to the devil.
Just turn your license plate upside down. Now you’re 999!
It really is amazing how illiterate they are in these ads. I know that a lot of the ‘lifers’ didn’t attend school, but you would think that they would have at least one person in the advertising department who knew basic grammar. Perhaps all of them are equally incompetant. In a room full of fools, every foolish idea looks great to everyone.
Yes, Todd, they’re illiterate in these ads, yet they have the Key to Life and Life Orientation Courses.
The Key to Life course wasn’t so bad really. I sup’d it and it caused a lot of people to start questioning Scientology, especially why the majority of exec’s wouldn’t do it. The LOC (load of crap course) also caused a number of staff to throw the towel in for their posts as they dreamed up what they really wanted to do in life. Both courses were unceremoniously thrown in the trash as counter intentioned. Even saw the course books for sale at one point – a big, BIG NO NO according to Hubbard policy on it, but he was dead. There, see how orientated you can get with Scientology, the stars await… (for the next sucker).
I did KTL and LOC and loved them both. Helped me a lot, once I found the right twin.
If it’s not really “Load Of Crap,” what does/did LOC stand for?
“Life Orientation Course”. Among other things you learn a system of organizing all the activities of your life. I liked it and found it helpful.
Makes me feel sad that they’re not delivering KTL and LOC anymore. Trashcanned as “Counter-intentioned”, huh? Wow. So LRH was a CICS? Amazing. Can’t make this stuff up. You really can’t.
I thought it was ironic that the Chan Man is teaching LRH drills you can do to help speed healing of your body. Uhhhhh, did anyone tell Chan Man that LRH died?
Guess he never got the memo on that. Too busy blowing smoke out his ass I suppose.
I can blow smoke out of my ass. But, I’ve never figured out how the smoke got there.
From the inside silly.