“Hard TRs course was my first course, in 1971: Included the full 2-hour blinkless TR0. ‘Twas tough enough that a lot of students blew rather than confront that level of pain. ‘Course, that was at a hippy commune masquerading as a mission and before the Sea Org instituted “hard Ethics” universally, so it was fairly easy to escape the torture.

Meanwhile, I was AT Flag when that issue of “Source” went out. Nearly had an accident getting the mailing to the Post office. Yet, I have no memory if that movie.

DO remember a honkin’ good holiday party just prior to the mailing and some of the hoo-hah of ubimed trying to do its thing, so it’s not one on my senior moments to not remember a movie that probably was engrammatic to have to sit through.

Ok, I’ll join! 🙂 If, as I said in a previous post on this blog, you have uniforms with shiny gold buttons, a bronze bust by the door to salute when you come in and leave, and a better song than “We stand tall” (which actually is a pretty cool song), but if you can compose a better one, I’m in!

Oh, I’ll also need a name tag with an official sounding title, preferably including a lot of letters like AFGS/DIR/WS and maybe something like: Elite Level 6, Supervisor, Western Area. Yay.

This time it will be free. Other than chipping in for drinks.

Ok OSD. When I get my new home next year with the boat dock in the backyard that has access to the nearby islands I’ll start outlining the “scripture”. It will involve lots of white sand, sacred ice coolers and the like.;)

Chee, are you implying they’ve not been written on titanium plates and buried underground???? You must be one of those SPs!!!

Wow — do you admit to being counter-intentioned to LRH’s solution to PTS A conditions? Amazing. First time I think I can recall you taking such a position. Or did you think it was someone else’s invention and alter-is so it was safe to say this?

Dinky has ALL the money at his fingertips. He spends like a drunken sailor, but gets very little results from any of it. The foundation was rotted to begin with and the “structures” – no matter how much he spends – always collapse.

Chuck, more fun facts about “Why TRs”:

The opening scene with Isaac Hayes and the extraterrestrial telescope was one of the first shots they ever did in the big Cine Studio at Gold. It was a huge set on a raised platform, not computer generated (except for the stars in the background). With Mitch Brisker as director and pro actors including Isaac Hayes, shooting in 35mm, this is a significantly better film than the old UniMed or early Golden Era Productions efforts.

Also the film features actors speaking an imaginary language. You are supposed to listen to the voice-over and pay no attention to what the actors are saying, as they walk through various vignettes intended to illustrate the concepts being explained. So the actors were instructed to make up gibberish and act like they were talking to each other. If anyone has a “misunderstood word” on what the actors said in the film, it cannot be “cleared”. The sounds were never part of any language known to man. Oddly they do almost sound like they could make sense and are somewhat consistent.

The film explains that you may, as a disembodied thetan, somehow find yourself on another planet. But still able to remember your Scientology studies. They take it so far as to show some goofballs trying to reinvent the e-meter. Very few know enough about the e-meter to actually construct one. I could do it, but your average Scientologist does not know which end of a TA pot to connect to the cans. Or what a TA pot really is. No criticism of Scientologists, you just don’t have to know that kind of detail to use a meter. So I don’t predict great success for someone who went OT VIII here on earth with reconstructing Scientology on another planet. Even if they really could remember, which is seeming less and less likely as the decades pass with no return of Ron etc.

Just as well, we really don’t need disconnection and the Purification Rundown on other planets. It is bad enough that we have it here.

Sounds like “The Case He Couldn’t Crack”.