You’re probably right about the VMs not actually being in the Ukraine. Volunteer Ministers in an actual war zone? Or in the middle of any dangerous situation? Hardy har har! Those sort of photo ops can get a person killed!

Dear Captain Sir,
I understand and agree.
I am so unworthy in every way of even the tiniest spec of your attention.
I deserve to be squashed like a bug.
It is only your immense kindness, love of humanity and infinite compassion for even the lowest forms of life such as myself which affords me any response from you at all.
I shall hide from your anger while endeavoring to raise myself up to at least Non Existence in your eyes.
Much love,
Aqua

I hear you, Alco. You and me both! And pluvo too 🙂

Thanks, pluvo, for clearing up my confusion between your posts and otherles’ posts, and my apologies to you as well for what obviously communicated to you as condescension.

In all honesty, Aqua, my love of satire and parody is why I can’t cut it as a church Scientologist. I mean, c’mon, I would love to hear at least one LRH joke but in the CofS this is a no-no. I would love to go out sometime with Angry Gay Pope and Nasty Nathaniel on one of their visits to Pac Base or the L Ron Hubbard Life Exhibit and joke around. I love making fun of stuff.

Unfortunately it wasn’t this time.

Okay. Sorry about that.

To: Aquamarine
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: making amends

Your feeble attempts at placating me will have no effect! You are still under my most severe warnings!
Now if you will excuse me, I have Alcoboy to deal with!

ML,
Dave.

To: David Miscavige COB RTC
From: Alcoboy
Re: you dealing with me.

Go ahead. Deal with me. But I still want to know if you plan on bringing a cake to LRH’s birthday party?
Well?

No love at all,
Alcoboy.

Thanks for your input and educating me about satire. But I know what satire is. I was already devouring Ephramin Kishon’s writings at the age of 13 (a Jewish writer, btw.) And when we have to go to Jewish/Nazi as examples, one of my favorites is Charlie Chaplin with the “The Great Dictator”, which is so brilliant, and amazingly made already in 1940 (and not after the fact). It’s nothing new that satire is an excellent weapon against bullies and dictators, and they hate it. And I love and appreciate all the other good satire, also. But not all mocking is satire.

It looks like there is some misunderstanding, as I consider what Alcoboy wrote also as satire/J&D, you are right there. I was quoting the “I could be declared for… ” from otherles, what I see as one of his selected platitudes, repeated in a trollish manner and used to link to his blog and agenda. And in this context, I can’t view it as ‘satire’, but rather as devaluation of the people with their suffering as the consequences of their SP-declares. If you see it differently, that’s fine then.

“Laughter is healing, pluvo.” No shit! I had no idea.

“Its devaluating those who have been really SP-declared and who were/are subjected to all the consequences of it.”

Respectfully, no.

Alcoboy is joking and degrading. In no way does his joking “devalue” anyone who has suffered or is suffering the shock and pain and loss of Scientology’s Disconnection policy.

Mel Brooks wrote “The Producers” satirizing and relentlessly poking fun at Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. It was made into 2 films and a Broadway play. Hilarious. Possibly one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen. Really, really funny!

When you have a minute you might want to read Mel Brooks’ own words on why he chose the unspeakable atrocities perpetrated upon millions of Jews and other people as a subject for one of his comedies.. It might interest you to read why he purposefully chose the Holocaust as a subject for satire and humor.

Laughter is healing, pluvo. It might just be the only emotion that is.