No problem, Chuck, but my beef was that they’d go on and on about how important it was out of respect to LRH to dress up, etc., and THEN at the event, let people in who were dressed like plumbers – worn jeans, crummy sneakers – they looked like they should have hammers and wrenches in their hands! And per se I could care less but for crying out loud, be consistent, you know! If how they were dressed was THAT important they’d have turned the people away! Restaurants and clubs do that! But in the end they never had the nerve!

The LRH photos in him in a tux, and sometimes Mary Sue in formal dress, was the precedent.

It was “on Source” to dress up formally at certain times, essentially.

Conman is the first word that springs to mind. To me it has the stink of a con artist trying to find some way of getting into the US by suckering someone into “helping” him. If I’m wrong then so be it, but it still stinks.

You’re most welcome, Mike. I’m excited about this! Warm wishes both literally and figuratively to you and your lovely wife and children. Back with y’all on Tuesday.

Yes, correct, it was started in the late 80’s, in my area at least.

And all the very young Sea Org girls would buy cocktail dresses from thrift shops (you can find some nice things in thrift shops in my city – rich, very thin women donate their
gently used designer duds to these places – and the SO guys would rent tuxes.

Absurd. I mean, it was just totally absurd. All of us tarted up as the Brits say, for- what? A big Nothingburger.

Here we were in blacK tie semi-formal to watch a VIDEO for 3 hours and then afterwards eat some cheap, overcooked ziti.

Wow, the New Years Eves I WASTED. Ridiculous! Forget the money – this makes me madder than almost anything! I’m not kidding!

I am just so heartfelt glad that I don’t have to attend these awful New Years Eve things anymore! In fact, this deserves some Exclam Tech: THANK YOU, GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much Aqua…

They’re probably trying to prevent attendees from showing up in jeans and sneakers. If so I wish them luck because from what I observed at the many New Years events I attended, some people ALWAYS showed up in jeans and sneakers anyway and were let in. That used to infuriate me, by the way. NOT because I’m a snob or against the wearing of jeans and sneakers – in fact, quite the contrary. I myself wanted to throw on a pair of jeans and some sneakers in order to be comfortable whilst sitting thru a boring 3 hour video. But no, like an idiot I would always comply with their stupid dress code and show up in a cocktail dress, heels, etc. And then inevitably there would be a group arriving late in jeans, sneakers and hoodies – and of course they’d be let right in. So much for their black tie dress code. Well, I was JEALOUS! Why didn’t I ever have the nerve to show up very warmly and comfortably dressed and “f**k the dress code…I was jealous of them 🙂

I’m looking forward to 2023. I do believe its going to be a momentous year. I don’t know why; I just sort of feel it. You know, like Tony, in West Side Story, singing that song? I feel like that! “Something’s Coming”. I’m “feeling” that, and all the lyrics to that song!

Mike, just an fyi that for starters I bought 5 “Billion” books – hard copies – to send “around”.
Again just for starters. Your book, in the right hands…the possibilities could be VERY interesting.

Yo OSA terminal reading this!
I’m even extending warm Holiday wishes to YOU.
That’s how warm and fuzzy I’m feeling right now.
And i even have a present for you!
Your Holiday present is pondering where and to whom Mike’s books are going to be sent.
This is the best present I could give you.
For I have no doubt that doing so will – to quote Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot – “stimulate the leetle gray cells MOST adequately.”
Much love,
Aqua

You’re thinking of Jesus. Judaism in Scientology is used to make it look like Scientology embraces all religions. But say that you’re going to synagogue for Seder HaShabbat on Friday night and it’s off to Ethics you go!