Comments on: What Your IAS Donations Buy — Invisible VMs

By: Robert Eckert

Robert Eckert — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:47:53 +0000

The original meaning of “enormity” was “something very outside the norms”, here meaning moral norms. The adjective “enormous” also meant outside the normal, unusual, but eventually became restricted to meaning huge in size. When a crime is described as an “enormity” however the reference was supposed to be, not to how huge a crime it was, but to how far it was from how normal people would behave. This is one of those battles that is completely lost however (“stay the course” for example was a nautical order meaning to STOP going the way you were going, “stay” as in “stay of execution” or a stay of any other court order; but since George W. Bush repeatedly told us to stay the course in Iraq, the old meaning is impossible to reinstate).

By: Ilbye

Ilbye — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:55:09 +0000

In reply to Mike Rinder.

The Oxford unabridged has: 3.3 Excess in magnitude; hugeness, vastness. Obs.

I didn’t know it was now obsolete. I’ve heard it used in this way for decades…

By: Idle VM Van

Idle VM Van — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:24:03 +0000

It was my experience in Scientology that the Volunteer Minister’s were only part of the “smoke and mirrors”. As far as I could tell…the IAS spent no money on any disaster relief. One guy from our Org (only because a Whale paid for his trip) flew to a disaster and took lots of pics to show at an event. There were only a handful of people from around the GLOBE. The IAS does not show their financials and are not transparent. We know the spokesperson lies so nothing can be believed. The Org had a VM yellow van that sat in the parking lot with no tags or license for years. It was also in need of repairs. A staff member told me a public would need to donate to get it up and running. It made a nice promo piece – “something can be done about it” plastered on the yellow van…but we all know NOTHING is done about it…and the staff get blamed by upper management if no VM’s step up to the plate during disasters. It truly is a church of front groups … there to deceive people into thinking they are a church that does good things. Scientology Organization does nothing to help humanity – it only hurts!

By: Jose Chung

Jose Chung — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:44:48 +0000

In reply to Rick Mycroft. More likely, someone in the Red Cross is scratching there head wondering where the Bags of Food went.

By: Espiritu

Espiritu — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:25:47 +0000

That’s right, Oracle. Every person who posts here is donating their time in the hope of enlightening others about the fraud that the Church of Scientology has become under DM. We dissect the newsspeak that pours out in a continuous hypnotic stream from people like Karen Paow. Mike provides the forum and inspires the comments we make daily. Sometimes more than daily. Nobody is sending him a paycheck. Nobody is sending us a paycheck. We ARE volunteer ministers in the truest sense of the word. People will waken from the trance. Mike’s persistence and our own is giving the subject of Scientology the only chance it has to survive and make a positive impact on the world. And that positive influence is what we are about. We don’t need any phoney photo-ops. Our ministry is communicating “inconvenient truths” for the benefit of all who seek freedom from lies.

By: Markthehungarian

Markthehungarian — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:45:26 +0000

What total shit.

6 people? Walking on a path? Now that’s OT!

By: Sejanus

Sejanus — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:49:23 +0000

WOW, WOW, WOW…..

I don’t see any homeless or displaced in the photo.
Does this mean they took care of ALL of them?…lol.

Also if one is going to do a media release….proofreading is always a terrific idea.

So much fail in this one……

By: OTVIIIisGrrr8!

OTVIIIisGrrr8! — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:33:23 +0000

In reply to Anon.

And so follows that as six VM’s helped the Philippines, a nation of 94 million, that we in RTC can now authoritatively report that our VM’s helped 564,000,000 people last month.

And as each VM handed out copies of TWTH to people helped, the stat is 564,000,000 people reached last month with TWTH. And this recent and massive distribution of TWTH is precisely date coincident with Iran agreeing to sign a treaty to not build nuclear weapons.

TWTH works — and now more than ever your support is needed to fund these Scientology Humanitarian programs that have factually stopped nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.

By: J. Swift

J. Swift — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 04:29:35 +0000

The Philippines is a nation of 94 million people and the Church of Scientology can get only six VM’s to show up.

Six VM’s show up for a photo op at a disaster, the Ideal Orgs are Emptiness writ large in MEST, and the Church has to hire extras to fill seats for CC and Flag events.

What we have is at work here is straight down and vertical contraction into the Crater of Planetary Implosion.

By: Rick Mycroft

Rick Mycroft — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:59:30 +0000

The other picture in their press release shows a couple VMs handing out food supplies from a bag that prominently displays the Red Cross logo to imply cooperation. The only cooperation was probably the Red Cross handing them the bag and saying “Here, make yourselves useful.”

No one needs to send people into a disaster area to hand out other people’s supplies. There are plenty of locals for that.