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		By: Revolted		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-296/#comment-487731</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They have ups and downs??! I thought it would only be Ups! I may not join after all!]]></description>
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		By: Peridot		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 12:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wholeheartedly agree with Mike&#039;s statement regarding ideal orgs and their seeming infinity of fundraisers and recruiting events: &quot;How, after 20 years, people are still turning over cash for this proven failed program is hard to fathom.&quot;

Even as Scientologists are opposed to &quot;natter&quot; (utterance of criticism), there is cause for exchange of important observations that help people to do their job.

I observed it became well-known after the third or fourth opening of an &quot;ideal org&quot; that the recruitment inducements to get people to relocate to be part of a new ideal org staff was backfiring. Leaders on various OT committees exchange notes on what is working, what is not, as ultimately they are engaged in a lot of problem-solving connected to building their &quot;ideal org.&quot;

Yet we know that the same lies still get told to unsuspecting recruits, if they commit to leave their jobs, homes, and connections and MOVE to staff up a new ideal org, then their life will be a song, including most of their vital living requirements will be handled. Except their vital living requirements are absolutely not handled and these individuals find themselves desperate and often fleeing (&quot;blowing&quot;) from the bad situation and the lies. Mike, you have mentioned that these folks sometimes show up to the Aftermath Foundation and there, they receive true help to get their life back on-track.

The other vital &quot;intel&quot; to exchange and share among org leaders and OT committee leaders is the lack of inflow of new public to support the now financial overhead of operating one of these big buildings and paying all the bills. OT committee leaders commonly have access to this information. They are many times personally scrambling to help org staff address the now large new set of problems and financial obligations, such as water, electricity, building repairs, and property taxes. 

How then do the droves of donating scientologists CONTINUE to show up with all the mountains of evidence this is a not-good investment? Seems an &quot;I live in a bubble&quot; cult indicator for sure.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wholeheartedly agree with Mike&#8217;s statement regarding ideal orgs and their seeming infinity of fundraisers and recruiting events: &#8220;How, after 20 years, people are still turning over cash for this proven failed program is hard to fathom.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even as Scientologists are opposed to &#8220;natter&#8221; (utterance of criticism), there is cause for exchange of important observations that help people to do their job.</p>
<p>I observed it became well-known after the third or fourth opening of an &#8220;ideal org&#8221; that the recruitment inducements to get people to relocate to be part of a new ideal org staff was backfiring. Leaders on various OT committees exchange notes on what is working, what is not, as ultimately they are engaged in a lot of problem-solving connected to building their &#8220;ideal org.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet we know that the same lies still get told to unsuspecting recruits, if they commit to leave their jobs, homes, and connections and MOVE to staff up a new ideal org, then their life will be a song, including most of their vital living requirements will be handled. Except their vital living requirements are absolutely not handled and these individuals find themselves desperate and often fleeing (&#8220;blowing&#8221;) from the bad situation and the lies. Mike, you have mentioned that these folks sometimes show up to the Aftermath Foundation and there, they receive true help to get their life back on-track.</p>
<p>The other vital &#8220;intel&#8221; to exchange and share among org leaders and OT committee leaders is the lack of inflow of new public to support the now financial overhead of operating one of these big buildings and paying all the bills. OT committee leaders commonly have access to this information. They are many times personally scrambling to help org staff address the now large new set of problems and financial obligations, such as water, electricity, building repairs, and property taxes. </p>
<p>How then do the droves of donating scientologists CONTINUE to show up with all the mountains of evidence this is a not-good investment? Seems an &#8220;I live in a bubble&#8221; cult indicator for sure.</p>
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		By: xTeamXenu75to03chuckbeatty		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 11:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It gauls me that Scientologists are such poor believers and summarizers of their spiritual theory, that they cannot really defend their spiritual theory sufficiently to not become &quot;PTS&quot; to anyone.

In the Problems of Work and Scientology: Fundamentals of Though beginner newbie Scientology books tell how to do the old style &quot;good roads, fair weather&quot; &quot;PTS&quot; handling.

That&#039;s all Scientology ought to have ever done.

And if a Scientologist cannot intellectually defend Scientology, then they should not be Scientologists.

No need ever to &quot;disconnect&quot; in the harsh way Hubbard developed disconnection to be what it is today.

The 1950s &quot;PTS&quot; handling was adequate, and if a person couldn&#039;t do that, they ought not be Scientologists.

But Hubbard made becoming a logical Scientologist such a long drawn out event, it strains members to plug along until they get to OT 3 and learn of the exorcism &quot;case&quot; target of OT 3, 4, 5, 6  and 7.

Scientology is horribly not properly summarized by Hubbard, and the members have these long drawn out &quot;courses&quot; to deal with the backlash that Hubbard&#039;s lack of summarizing Scientology created.

All of Scientology&#039;s problems are Hubbard&#039;s ultimate fault.

If you summarize Scientology as a karma pseudo-therapy and exorcism spiritual syllabus practice, and you are only a &quot;Hubbard Qualified Scientologist&quot; and essentially at that moment you learn of the core parts of Scientology (the pseudo-therapy steps, the exorcism steps) you are &quot;baptised&quot; as a Scientologist.

Hubbard&#039;s syllabus (the Bridge to Total Freedom is the syllabus) is so long drawn out, and not summarized, that one does NOT become a full Scientologist until one&#039;s gotten essentially through OT 8, which is ridiculous.

At the start, to even be in truth a Scientologist, you have to know of the pseudo-therapy target which aims for your own &quot;case&quot; alleviation.   And you have to know of the surplus souls target of the exorcism steps of the Scientology syllabus.

Scientologists are crippled and stunted from even knowing square zero what their subject is aiming at.

They cannot intellectually defend themselves.

And its Hubbard&#039;s fault for their predicament of being shuffled along into all the sideline courses of the Hubbard syllabus to repair their &quot;falling off the Bridge&quot; (leaving the syllabus lineup).

Scientology is dreadful theoretically, so much so, the public non Scientologists grow weary of Scientology&#039;s constant meandering never explaining Scientology.

All Hubbard&#039;s fault.

It&#039;s all just pseudo-therapy and exorcism, fundamentally.   Soul pseudo-therapy and soul exorcism.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It gauls me that Scientologists are such poor believers and summarizers of their spiritual theory, that they cannot really defend their spiritual theory sufficiently to not become &#8220;PTS&#8221; to anyone.</p>
<p>In the Problems of Work and Scientology: Fundamentals of Though beginner newbie Scientology books tell how to do the old style &#8220;good roads, fair weather&#8221; &#8220;PTS&#8221; handling.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all Scientology ought to have ever done.</p>
<p>And if a Scientologist cannot intellectually defend Scientology, then they should not be Scientologists.</p>
<p>No need ever to &#8220;disconnect&#8221; in the harsh way Hubbard developed disconnection to be what it is today.</p>
<p>The 1950s &#8220;PTS&#8221; handling was adequate, and if a person couldn&#8217;t do that, they ought not be Scientologists.</p>
<p>But Hubbard made becoming a logical Scientologist such a long drawn out event, it strains members to plug along until they get to OT 3 and learn of the exorcism &#8220;case&#8221; target of OT 3, 4, 5, 6  and 7.</p>
<p>Scientology is horribly not properly summarized by Hubbard, and the members have these long drawn out &#8220;courses&#8221; to deal with the backlash that Hubbard&#8217;s lack of summarizing Scientology created.</p>
<p>All of Scientology&#8217;s problems are Hubbard&#8217;s ultimate fault.</p>
<p>If you summarize Scientology as a karma pseudo-therapy and exorcism spiritual syllabus practice, and you are only a &#8220;Hubbard Qualified Scientologist&#8221; and essentially at that moment you learn of the core parts of Scientology (the pseudo-therapy steps, the exorcism steps) you are &#8220;baptised&#8221; as a Scientologist.</p>
<p>Hubbard&#8217;s syllabus (the Bridge to Total Freedom is the syllabus) is so long drawn out, and not summarized, that one does NOT become a full Scientologist until one&#8217;s gotten essentially through OT 8, which is ridiculous.</p>
<p>At the start, to even be in truth a Scientologist, you have to know of the pseudo-therapy target which aims for your own &#8220;case&#8221; alleviation.   And you have to know of the surplus souls target of the exorcism steps of the Scientology syllabus.</p>
<p>Scientologists are crippled and stunted from even knowing square zero what their subject is aiming at.</p>
<p>They cannot intellectually defend themselves.</p>
<p>And its Hubbard&#8217;s fault for their predicament of being shuffled along into all the sideline courses of the Hubbard syllabus to repair their &#8220;falling off the Bridge&#8221; (leaving the syllabus lineup).</p>
<p>Scientology is dreadful theoretically, so much so, the public non Scientologists grow weary of Scientology&#8217;s constant meandering never explaining Scientology.</p>
<p>All Hubbard&#8217;s fault.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all just pseudo-therapy and exorcism, fundamentally.   Soul pseudo-therapy and soul exorcism.</p>
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		By: Geoff Levin		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoff Levin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, in this case not a lot of notices. As you say very impressive quality of massive bovine excrement. And I would like to do demos on how to talk to people about Scientology. That would be fun.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, in this case not a lot of notices. As you say very impressive quality of massive bovine excrement. And I would like to do demos on how to talk to people about Scientology. That would be fun.</p>
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		By: I Like Ham		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-296/#comment-487426</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[I Like Ham]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 03:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-296/#comment-487383&quot;&gt;I Yawnalot&lt;/a&gt;.

I can&#039;t lie, the title of her book did quite amuse me.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-296/#comment-487383">I Yawnalot</a>.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t lie, the title of her book did quite amuse me.</p>
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		By: Kevin		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-296/#comment-487377&quot;&gt;Mark Kamran&lt;/a&gt;.

Yeah I was just noticing how white everyone in that picture was.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-296/#comment-487377">Mark Kamran</a>.</p>
<p>Yeah I was just noticing how white everyone in that picture was.</p>
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		By: I Yawnalot		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[I Yawnalot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Theta Singles&quot; date club... No money asked and I&#039;m qualified, among other things to run this because I did lots of 2D handlings!

It&#039;s not easy to flabbergast me with the bizarre that oozes out of Scientology these days, but with this one I can see it disturbing my sleep when I least expect it. 
 
You sure this wasn&#039;t slipped in by Regraded Being?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Theta Singles&#8221; date club&#8230; No money asked and I&#8217;m qualified, among other things to run this because I did lots of 2D handlings!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not easy to flabbergast me with the bizarre that oozes out of Scientology these days, but with this one I can see it disturbing my sleep when I least expect it. </p>
<p>You sure this wasn&#8217;t slipped in by Regraded Being?</p>
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		By: Mark Kamran		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Kamran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Africa with out African <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f633.png" alt="😳" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />

What a Tech <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Africa with out African 😳</p>
<p>What a Tech 😉</p>
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		By: PlanetshipT		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PlanetshipT]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I see an OT8 that doesn&#039;t seem to know the difference between Power and Danger I question the usefulness of the &#039;Technology&#039; but seeing kids on course just makes me ill.  I was so blessed with parents who allowed me a childhood of fishing, exploring and playing with friends to develop into my own human being.

Also today I learned there&#039;s a book titled &quot;LOVE LIKE ROMEO &#038; JULIET WITHOUT THE TROUBLE OF HAVING TO DIE&quot;.  I&#039;m probably not going to add that the bookshelves - not even the &#039;books too big to flush&#039; section.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I see an OT8 that doesn&#8217;t seem to know the difference between Power and Danger I question the usefulness of the &#8216;Technology&#8217; but seeing kids on course just makes me ill.  I was so blessed with parents who allowed me a childhood of fishing, exploring and playing with friends to develop into my own human being.</p>
<p>Also today I learned there&#8217;s a book titled &#8220;LOVE LIKE ROMEO &amp; JULIET WITHOUT THE TROUBLE OF HAVING TO DIE&#8221;.  I&#8217;m probably not going to add that the bookshelves &#8211; not even the &#8216;books too big to flush&#8217; section.</p>
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		By: Alcoboy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alcoboy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a parody of the Canadian national anthem as written by a group called ThDubya:

Oh, Canada! The greatest land of all!
Land surface great but population small.
We have Indians! We have Inuits! Even folk who hail from France!
Watch a hockey game then chop down a tree! That&#039;s called Canadian finance!
Come if you&#039;re fat!
Come if you&#039;re gay!
In Canada you are accepted, eh?
In Canada you are accepted, eh?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a parody of the Canadian national anthem as written by a group called ThDubya:</p>
<p>Oh, Canada! The greatest land of all!<br />
Land surface great but population small.<br />
We have Indians! We have Inuits! Even folk who hail from France!<br />
Watch a hockey game then chop down a tree! That&#8217;s called Canadian finance!<br />
Come if you&#8217;re fat!<br />
Come if you&#8217;re gay!<br />
In Canada you are accepted, eh?<br />
In Canada you are accepted, eh?</p>
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