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		By: Aleigh P,		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320361&quot;&gt;Chuckles&lt;/a&gt;.

I was going to say the same thing lol! Postulate rain, not extinguish the fires? Fail.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320361">Chuckles</a>.</p>
<p>I was going to say the same thing lol! Postulate rain, not extinguish the fires? Fail.</p>
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		By: PeaceMaker		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That guy who&#039;s been in the SO forever may have just gotten too old for life aboard ship - looking at pictures of the white-haired crew, the whole boat is about to go off a demographic cliff, so to speak!  Perhaps he is getting bad arthritis, or needs dialysis, or has some other infirmity incompatible with even duty as a steward.

I hope that the Clearwater community, particularly leaders and staff of real religious and non-profit organizations, are now aware of the human trafficking occurring at Flag, and not falling for Scientology&#039;s hypocritical attempts at &quot;safepointing.&quot;  The events must even be staffed by human trafficked Sea Org members!  And child trafficking, too - that&#039;s what one of the lawsuits against Scientology is about. 

The &quot;postulates&quot; bit about the wildfires shows that it&#039;s really just what is better known as &quot;magical thinking.&quot;  And it sounds positively delusional in the later piece that refers to &quot;how to create your own universe and combat the MEST universe.&quot;  Plus obviously it&#039;s not working out for them after more than half a century, when all they have to show for it is a group of very unremarkable members with no real world-class achievements, and an organization consisting of little more than big empty MEST buildings scattered across a relatively small number of locations.

On that last point, here&#039;s an interesting stat that it occurred to me to look up:  there are more Roman Catholic churches in the greater New York City area (over 100 in Manhattan alone), than there are Scientology orgs in the whole world.  Including Long Island, there are probably also more synagogues.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That guy who&#8217;s been in the SO forever may have just gotten too old for life aboard ship &#8211; looking at pictures of the white-haired crew, the whole boat is about to go off a demographic cliff, so to speak!  Perhaps he is getting bad arthritis, or needs dialysis, or has some other infirmity incompatible with even duty as a steward.</p>
<p>I hope that the Clearwater community, particularly leaders and staff of real religious and non-profit organizations, are now aware of the human trafficking occurring at Flag, and not falling for Scientology&#8217;s hypocritical attempts at &#8220;safepointing.&#8221;  The events must even be staffed by human trafficked Sea Org members!  And child trafficking, too &#8211; that&#8217;s what one of the lawsuits against Scientology is about. </p>
<p>The &#8220;postulates&#8221; bit about the wildfires shows that it&#8217;s really just what is better known as &#8220;magical thinking.&#8221;  And it sounds positively delusional in the later piece that refers to &#8220;how to create your own universe and combat the MEST universe.&#8221;  Plus obviously it&#8217;s not working out for them after more than half a century, when all they have to show for it is a group of very unremarkable members with no real world-class achievements, and an organization consisting of little more than big empty MEST buildings scattered across a relatively small number of locations.</p>
<p>On that last point, here&#8217;s an interesting stat that it occurred to me to look up:  there are more Roman Catholic churches in the greater New York City area (over 100 in Manhattan alone), than there are Scientology orgs in the whole world.  Including Long Island, there are probably also more synagogues.</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320575&quot;&gt;PeaceMaker&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks for explaining this, Peacemaker.  In any event, Scientology auditing of past lives being what it is, I can&#039;t see the NOI as being anything but muzzled.  If we have lived before, millions or lifetimes I would think that there&#039;s hardly any race or occupation or nationality etc. that we haven&#039;t already been!  

 If we do live again, if we are immortal beings who occupy different bodies each lifetime, then, given their NOI beliefs, Allah help them if they get auditing recalls on having been the captains of slave ships or auctioneers or plantation overseers, or Jeff Davis or Robert E Lee...they&#039;ll have to suppress THOSE cognitions, lol!

On a lighter note, if we do live again and again, I&#039;m just hoping that I don&#039;t come back as a man.  

Shaving my FACE - ugh.  NOT shaving my legs.  Gross.   No more pink.  No more - well never mind.    Always having to carry things...I really don&#039;t want to be a man.   Don&#039;t get me wrong; I like them.   I do. Men are OK.  More than OK, they&#039;re...very necessary.  Nice to have around.  I just don&#039;t want to BE one.  So I&#039;m trying not to resist this concept too much, because then it will happen :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320575">PeaceMaker</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks for explaining this, Peacemaker.  In any event, Scientology auditing of past lives being what it is, I can&#8217;t see the NOI as being anything but muzzled.  If we have lived before, millions or lifetimes I would think that there&#8217;s hardly any race or occupation or nationality etc. that we haven&#8217;t already been!  </p>
<p> If we do live again, if we are immortal beings who occupy different bodies each lifetime, then, given their NOI beliefs, Allah help them if they get auditing recalls on having been the captains of slave ships or auctioneers or plantation overseers, or Jeff Davis or Robert E Lee&#8230;they&#8217;ll have to suppress THOSE cognitions, lol!</p>
<p>On a lighter note, if we do live again and again, I&#8217;m just hoping that I don&#8217;t come back as a man.  </p>
<p>Shaving my FACE &#8211; ugh.  NOT shaving my legs.  Gross.   No more pink.  No more &#8211; well never mind.    Always having to carry things&#8230;I really don&#8217;t want to be a man.   Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I like them.   I do. Men are OK.  More than OK, they&#8217;re&#8230;very necessary.  Nice to have around.  I just don&#8217;t want to BE one.  So I&#8217;m trying not to resist this concept too much, because then it will happen 🙂</p>
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		By: Alcoboy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320426&quot;&gt;Aquamarine&lt;/a&gt;.

To: Aquamarine 
From: David Miscavige COB RTC 
Re: slandering the tech

OKAY, AQUAMARINE! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! HOW DARE YOU MOCK AND DEGRADE BODY THETANS(WHICH YOU&#039;RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT ANYWAY) AND QUESTION THEIR ABILITY TO PUT OUT FIRES IN AUSTRALIA! MY SUPER TECH CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING I PUT MY MIND TO! SO KNOCK OFF THE SLANDER OR I WILL DENY YOU THE PRIVILEGE OF DINNER AT ROMANO&#039;S WITH ME! 

ML
Dave.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320426">Aquamarine</a>.</p>
<p>To: Aquamarine<br />
From: David Miscavige COB RTC<br />
Re: slandering the tech</p>
<p>OKAY, AQUAMARINE! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! HOW DARE YOU MOCK AND DEGRADE BODY THETANS(WHICH YOU&#8217;RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT ANYWAY) AND QUESTION THEIR ABILITY TO PUT OUT FIRES IN AUSTRALIA! MY SUPER TECH CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING I PUT MY MIND TO! SO KNOCK OFF THE SLANDER OR I WILL DENY YOU THE PRIVILEGE OF DINNER AT ROMANO&#8217;S WITH ME! </p>
<p>ML<br />
Dave.</p>
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		By: Alcoboy		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320633</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320416&quot;&gt;Gus Cox&lt;/a&gt;.

The real comedy is that LRH intended the ACCs to only be listened to by trained auditors. Don&#039;t the dipshits in the orgs realize this? If you&#039;re not an auditor, these lectures ain&#039;t for you.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320416">Gus Cox</a>.</p>
<p>The real comedy is that LRH intended the ACCs to only be listened to by trained auditors. Don&#8217;t the dipshits in the orgs realize this? If you&#8217;re not an auditor, these lectures ain&#8217;t for you.</p>
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		By: Jenyfurrr		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 02:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320335&quot;&gt;ISNOINews&lt;/a&gt;.

Interesting how, in that thread, you also excerpt “How you Eat to Live” by Elijah Muhammad and the passage just before the section you highlighted states repetitively that one has only a SINGLE life to live. Kind of flies in the face of their “tech” and running of slavery engrams. 

So not only do they have a superficial understanding of scientology, they contradict their OWN founder. No wonder the combo is a match made in cult-“heaven.”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320335">ISNOINews</a>.</p>
<p>Interesting how, in that thread, you also excerpt “How you Eat to Live” by Elijah Muhammad and the passage just before the section you highlighted states repetitively that one has only a SINGLE life to live. Kind of flies in the face of their “tech” and running of slavery engrams. </p>
<p>So not only do they have a superficial understanding of scientology, they contradict their OWN founder. No wonder the combo is a match made in cult-“heaven.”</p>
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		By: Lance Caldwell		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks Mike, I really missed seeing the &quot;funnies&quot; glad to see them again.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Mike, I really missed seeing the &#8220;funnies&#8221; glad to see them again.</p>
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		By: PeaceMaker		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PeaceMaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320469&quot;&gt;Aquamarine&lt;/a&gt;.

Aqua, past life fantasies come down to what is lurking in peoples&#039; subconscious - research has proven that, and at least one study demonstrated that if subjects who had experienced such phenomenon were hypnotized, they could then recall the forgotten source, often something like a book read or a movie seen when they were a child.

Nazis would certainly be an archetype kicking around in the psyches of Jewish scientologists.  In the case of the NOI what would mostly be at work, is such imaginings have been shown by research to mostly conform to the familiarity of individuals&#039; real-life race and gender, and in particular subjects rarely imagine being a different race regardless of the circumstances, while in the the NOI an extra factor of repression and taboo might be at work in keeping their fantasizings to their own race.  

It would be very interesting to know if any NOI being audited do sometimes have past life imaginings as white people including slave masters, as might be expected in relatively rare instances, or if they repress any such thing because of their beliefs and prejudices.  There&#039;s also the question of whether they would even report it to an auditor, or attempt to re-contextualize on the spot any such imaginings that came up, placing themselves as either a witness or a black overseer.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320469">Aquamarine</a>.</p>
<p>Aqua, past life fantasies come down to what is lurking in peoples&#8217; subconscious &#8211; research has proven that, and at least one study demonstrated that if subjects who had experienced such phenomenon were hypnotized, they could then recall the forgotten source, often something like a book read or a movie seen when they were a child.</p>
<p>Nazis would certainly be an archetype kicking around in the psyches of Jewish scientologists.  In the case of the NOI what would mostly be at work, is such imaginings have been shown by research to mostly conform to the familiarity of individuals&#8217; real-life race and gender, and in particular subjects rarely imagine being a different race regardless of the circumstances, while in the the NOI an extra factor of repression and taboo might be at work in keeping their fantasizings to their own race.  </p>
<p>It would be very interesting to know if any NOI being audited do sometimes have past life imaginings as white people including slave masters, as might be expected in relatively rare instances, or if they repress any such thing because of their beliefs and prejudices.  There&#8217;s also the question of whether they would even report it to an auditor, or attempt to re-contextualize on the spot any such imaginings that came up, placing themselves as either a witness or a black overseer.</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320546&quot;&gt;Bruce Ploetz&lt;/a&gt;.

Got it, Bruce, thanks!

Now, OK, leaving aside whether its ACTUALLY true or not - leaving that aside, let&#039;s just suppose for our purposes now that it IS true:

This means that, next lifetime, top NOI brass like Farrakhan and Tony Mo are going to be Jews or Caucasians.

Next lifetime, CCHR people are going to be PSYCHIATRISTS.

And, last but not least, given what was his constant fear, make-wrong and avoidance of the media,  L Ron 
Hubbard, having dropped his body in 1986, is now...a reporter for the New York Times :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320546">Bruce Ploetz</a>.</p>
<p>Got it, Bruce, thanks!</p>
<p>Now, OK, leaving aside whether its ACTUALLY true or not &#8211; leaving that aside, let&#8217;s just suppose for our purposes now that it IS true:</p>
<p>This means that, next lifetime, top NOI brass like Farrakhan and Tony Mo are going to be Jews or Caucasians.</p>
<p>Next lifetime, CCHR people are going to be PSYCHIATRISTS.</p>
<p>And, last but not least, given what was his constant fear, make-wrong and avoidance of the media,  L Ron<br />
Hubbard, having dropped his body in 1986, is now&#8230;a reporter for the New York Times 🙂</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320544&quot;&gt;Peter Blood&lt;/a&gt;.

Exactly!  They might even intend to pay you back and have the money to do so but some registrar or ethics officer could talk them out of it, as you say, &quot;for the greater good&quot;.    And of course the &quot;greater good&quot; is ALWAYS giving it to the cult!  Back in the day a registrar attempted to talk me out of paying my income taxes (about 5K) so that I could buy auditing instead!  Amazing!  I was shocked, yet intrigued.  Fairly new to Scientology then, she ALMOST convinced me that if I&#039;d just get this auditing I&#039;d be SO much better off, would EASILY earn the money back right away to pay my taxes and everything else, etc...the money would just flood back in...they&#039;ll say anything, and very convincingly, too.  By some miracle I didn&#039;t succumb and my taxes got paid, but I was a hairs breath away from being convinced.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-244/#comment-320544">Peter Blood</a>.</p>
<p>Exactly!  They might even intend to pay you back and have the money to do so but some registrar or ethics officer could talk them out of it, as you say, &#8220;for the greater good&#8221;.    And of course the &#8220;greater good&#8221; is ALWAYS giving it to the cult!  Back in the day a registrar attempted to talk me out of paying my income taxes (about 5K) so that I could buy auditing instead!  Amazing!  I was shocked, yet intrigued.  Fairly new to Scientology then, she ALMOST convinced me that if I&#8217;d just get this auditing I&#8217;d be SO much better off, would EASILY earn the money back right away to pay my taxes and everything else, etc&#8230;the money would just flood back in&#8230;they&#8217;ll say anything, and very convincingly, too.  By some miracle I didn&#8217;t succumb and my taxes got paid, but I was a hairs breath away from being convinced.</p>
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