programmer_guy
True Ex-Scientologist
Rmack,
Are you still getting phone calls?
Are you still getting phone calls?
I posted this under another thread in the LRH catagory, but I thought it might be of interest to some here. It's a real fond memory for me that I'm still proud of:
I remember one of my finest hours when I was in the S.laves O.rg when I pointed out a huge contradiction in logic;
I was told that I couldn't have libs (liberty; a day off) because my stats where down (statistic; number of exams given.) This entailed putting someone on the E-meter for a few seconds and observing the needle in your peripheral vision while looking at the person. The thing was, I had been posted as 'The Examiner' right out of the EPF (Estate Project Force; basically S.O. boot camp). Well, I think I expedited for a few days, or something, but the point is, I had very little tech training and virtually no auditing.
I was told that I'm responsible for my stat, however I couldn't solicit anyone for an exam even if I had a reason. As a matter of fact I wasn't to speak to anyone coming around for an exam, except to thank them, and tell them their needle was floating.
I was told by my senior I should just 'make it go right' and help get the org's stats up. I pointed out that If I was already so 'OT' that I could make something like that happen from sitting in a closet without talking, with very little training or auditing, why the fuck would I need Scientology in the first place?
She responded with some lame thought-stopping concept like 'stop nattering' or, 'no case on post'. Yeah, right.
The truth was; they just applied this narrow-minded stupid policy to everyone, whether it made since or not, because Laffy 'the Lips' Hubbard could never be wrong about anything!
I knew it was bullshit then, I just hung around because I thought they had some powerful secret info about how to operate outside your body. Turns out they don't. Less than the crudest of occult traditions out there.
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It would help my understanding of where this fits in with the overall scene, if you would please give the time period and location where this occurred. Of course, I don't expect you to break personal security, if that is important.
Michael "The Sneakster" Hobson
I am *not* anonymous.
This would have to have been sometime in 1980 at ASHO day at big blue in Hollywood.
Rmack,
Are you still getting phone calls?
Well now, at that time, I was working in Hubbard E-Meter Manufacturing in Publications Org US which was, at that time, a "section" in the ASHO Day Dissemination Division.
I've very probably had exams from you.
Michael "The Sneakster" Hobson
I am *not* anonymous. I *do* forgive.
The same hook kept me around ... that is, thinking that they were able to get someone to the point of being able to operate exterior, as in the old OT6, also known on the bridge chart of the early seventies as OTE or Operating Thetan Exterior. There were a number of OT6 and OT7 people on staff at the San Francisco org back then that I admired and respected and couldn't picture these people doing a false attestation nor could I imagine that they would be deluded to the point of believing they had the eepee of the old OT6 and OT7 without being able to prove it to even themselves nor was I familiar with the "you have a hidden standard" bullshit, as in, I believed that the bridge would deliver the stated eepees, after all, all those folks attesting ...
Anyways, I hung around for the carrot of oatee from 74 thru 81, from 76 onward at a mission in Groton CT. It's a powerful carrot. It is amazing what bullshit people will put up with to get at that carrot and how many contradictions and how much doublethink you will endure when you are intent on that carrot.
Pete