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Dunny. iPad doesn't like the word and keeps correcting me. sorry Apple fans, this is a hard adjustment for a DOS user. apologies for typos.
Dunny. iPad doesn't like the word and keeps correcting me. sorry Apple fans, this is a hard adjustment for a DOS user. apologies for typos.
(I had said that I would post any references of Wayne Marple if I found them and I have found some so I'll post them in a series. These are partial cut and pastes so please follow the links to see the full text, TOBB)
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/letter-cadet.htm
Some time around late 1976, Wayne Marple was sent to PAC (Pacific Area Command) with orders from Hubbard. The mission was dubbed "A Commodore's Mission" and was run from Flag as FMO 1674. (FMO means Flag Mission Order). Wayne had another "missionnaire" by the name of Jack Dirmann as his "Mission 2nd". Jack's wife at the time was Irene Dirmann, who was the Commanding Officer at ASHO Day, which was the "org" I was working in.
Wayne, as the FMO 1674 1st, ordered a mandatory briefing for all Sea Org staff. The order was given that all staff were to report for a briefing by the "missionnaires"; the briefing was to be held in the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course courseroom of ASHO after dinner. At that time, ASHO located at 2723 West Temple Street in Los Angeles. This was prior to the LA area "orgs" moving into the old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Complex (aka Big Blue, or Pacific Area Command) in Hollywood, where ASHO is presently located.
During the briefing, Wayne announced that he and Jack had purchased a property and a building which was to be the new location for the Cadet Organization (this is the name of the "org" for children of Sea Org parents). Soon the Cadet Org was to be moved from its current location on Melrose Avenue. Wayne explained that the new facility was in a location quite a distance from ASHO and the other PAC "orgs". He informed us that due to the distance from the "org", parents would not be allowed to live with, nor would they be allowed to see their children every day.
It would "cut across production" too much, he explained. The Sea Org was busy "clearing the planet", and if parents were to spend time driving to and from the new Cadet Org in order to spend an hour per day with their children, it would simply not be "the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics".
After all, the "highest purpose in the universe" is being a dedicated Sea Org member and helping "the Commodore" achieve the Sea Org's "purpose" -- "getting ethics in on this planet and the universe". It would hurt "production stats" if parents were "off post" each day to spend time with their children.
We were told in no uncertain terms, that "counter intention" to the "Commodore's orders" would result in severe punishment, such as assignment to the "Rehabilition Project Force", or "RPF".
"This *IS* the Commodore's intention", Wayne commanded, in a "Tone 40" voice, "and *no* counter-intention will be allowed to cut across the Commodore's orders." Wayne further informed us, in no uncertain terms, that "no HE&R would be allowed" (HE&R means human emotion and reaction) since that is a "response from the reactive mind".
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I just don't understand the attraction whatsoever. After living it for 32 years, I was happy to walk away.
I noticed a perverse sense of pleasure that many folks had when doing all-nighters and enduring lower ethics conditions; much like the 'esprit de corps' some knuckleheads feel when experiencing boot camp. It takes a certain kind of mental makeup to be a long-timer in the SO, meseems.
True, but I think in the case of born and raised in Scn (or the Sea Org), one would join because they know nothing else, and have no idea about anything about the real world (surprisingly there are quite a few of those in the Sea Org still). I endured 17 years in the Sea Org (joined when I was still a child at age 15) before I finally decided I had enough and left and had to learn about everything. It was worth it.
Here's a pretty good one; http://www.xenu-directory.net/glossary/glossary_a.htm
Hi Cat's Squirrel.
PAC Base = Pacific Area Command Base .......I think.
Also know as.....Big Blue....and "The Complex"
It is the old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital buildings complex in Los Angeles....
There a lot of " Church Organizations " there..... ASHO, LA Org, AOLA, FOLO, and others....
Edited: Don't know much about it....but the Sea Org....has divided up the world into different " Command Areas..." LA is home to the "Pacific" one....
Just a side note. The US Military has a similar set up....( at least the Navy does....not sure about the Army or others....)
I suppose Hubbard must have copied this.
The US Navy Commanders of these "zones" have huge budgets...and rule them as "fiefdoms...." so to speak...
Hate to talk of the Sea Org and the US Navy in the same post.....doesn't sit right...but as Hubbard was in the US Navy for awhile....I can't just ignore the similarities.
Paulette Cohen.
Though she was just the scapegoat.
LRH ran this whole evolution personally. Bitty Miscavige was in charge of it. (I read the advices.)
Holy smoke. And this post below certainly gives the lie to all those people (including FZers, and I've met some of them) who say that LRH was a decent and principled guy and everything in the Scn garden was rosy until DM turned up and ruined everything.
We seem to be figuring out that this scapegoating was standard operating procedure. If you proceed from the premise that "Source" was infallible, then by definition someone else must always be responsible for the big mistakes and bad PR.
It also explains why Comm-Evs (Committee of Evidence) come across more as tribunals.
So for the benefit of our readers, if I got this right: Paulette Cohen was just an auditor who was given the task of verifying on the e-meter R/Ses (Rock Slams) which were being systematically culled from staff PC folders under the order of Wayne Marple who was the IC (In-Charge) of an LRH Mission. After up to 200 staff were assigned to the RPF for R/Ses it was later determined that Paulette had mistaken innocuous Dirty Needle reads for the very serious R/Ses.
Is that a correct assessment?
Can we assume that Paulette was also assigned to the RPF?
I noticed a perverse sense of pleasure that many folks had when doing all-nighters and enduring lower ethics conditions; much like the 'esprit de corps' some knuckleheads feel when experiencing boot camp. It takes a certain kind of mental makeup to be a long-timer in the SO, meseems.
Apparently at some point somebody at the top pulled this old survey out, dusted it off and proudly baptized the Complex as "Pacifica Base".
Can we assume that Paulette was also assigned to the RPF?
Dunny. iPad doesn't like the word and keeps correcting me. sorry Apple fans, this is a hard adjustment for a DOS user. apologies for typos.
Yeah. I was there for ten years and never thought of the P in PAC as anything other than Pacific, as in ocean, as that made sense. I remember once seeing a fancy blue sign saying "Pacifica" and thinking huh?
Paul
When the order and emergency story came down lines you were either on-board with it or in trouble. What generally appeared as 'esprit de corps' was just a lot of self reassuring ra! ra!
Lets hear 3 Cheers for LRH! Hip, Hip! Hooray!
F. Bullbait, "Booooooo!".
Not going to happen.
Exactly! It was a real "Huh" moment back then and it is now. I guess its Pacifica Base for the staff and Pacifica Bridge for the public. I get a kick out of that, like what do the public make of it? "Oh, Bridge - that must be that catwalk thing between ASHO and the Main Building."
I'm expecting it to get renamed "Pacifica Mecca", but then they will need to replace the cross with a crescent moon and star.
Yeah. I was there for ten years and never thought of the P in PAC as anything other than Pacific, as in ocean, as that made sense. I remember once seeing a fancy blue sign saying "Pacifica" and thinking huh?
Paul