Panda Termint
Cabal Of One
I'm loving your story, HAB.
Clever, witty, shocking, and true... it's epic!
Write on, Bro.
Clever, witty, shocking, and true... it's epic!
Write on, Bro.
I'm loving your story, HAB.
Clever, witty, shocking, and true... it's epic!
Write on, Bro.
I would rate things by how many calls I got as to their importance within the church. Out of thirty phone calls roughly 20 would be for the next event (or to come to the org and watch the VIDEO of the VIDEO EVENT...I can't wait), 5 or 6 calls would be for donations to IAS or similar and the remaining 4 or 5 calls would be about going up the bridge. Big shift in importance there. On went my mental notes. So events were definitely important now.
My sig line says well what you are about, HA!
A 'telephone barometer'! what a brilliant idea!
Great write up HAB, you got me laughing and remembering all the things I would shake my head at.
Looking forward to more.
You hit my problem with the basics spot on. "Real Scientology didn't appear till 2007...
Hi HA, I'm really enjoying your story.
You're really describing well a lot of the doubts I've been through too. The Clear thing, GAT, the basics, the charity regging, the events.
Dammit, the cofs is just looking more and more like one huge scam operation.
God bless you HAB. I would happily pay real money for any of the rundowns you mentioned. At last real case gain and truly increased awareness. Something I haven't seen in many years from the cult.
Please continue.... and welcome to ESMB. Your story is fantastic!!!
Hey darlin' boy, we're obviously VERY happy ta have ya! A breath of fresh air.<snip>
I AM VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE!
No worries Carmel,
the info on this I got from an ex-SO tech crew member, a class V staff member and the 4 people who I knew that it happened to. The staffers said that's what was happening but I don't know if it was actually issued as a management directive -- I definitely got the feeling that it had. All I remember is that many people were pissed. I was also told that it affected OTs as they would have to re-do lower bridge steps.
Basically anyone who had originated Clear and not done all their grades etc would have to do them. This was a few years back now.
HAB
Happy Aberree , thanks for this excellent history summary
Do you mind if it's reposted to the internet? I think many scientologists will be able to relate to what you'ce written here.
Mary McConnell
Hey darlin' boy, we're obviously VERY happy ta have ya! A breath of fresh air.
I can personally attest that this happened to me in 2003 or 4. AOLA called me and said I had to do an "Advance Program". I personally know others this happened to including someone who was on OT7 and an OT8!! We would all give each other that "knowing look" when someone said that they were on their "advance program". Great way to pick the parishoners pockets!:
Great story by the way!!!!! Am digging it mucho!1
No worries Carmel,
the info on this I got from an ex-SO tech crew member, a class V staff member and the 4 people who I knew that it happened to. The staffers said that's what was happening but I don't know if it was actually issued as a management directive -- I definitely got the feeling that it had. All I remember is that many people were pissed. I was also told that it affected OTs as they would have to re-do lower bridge steps.
Basically anyone who had originated Clear and not done all their grades etc would have to do them. This was a few years back now.
HAB
Lovin' it, HAB !!
So many memories !!!!
When the thing about Grades came out, I began to audit them on the OTs on staff.
Guess who stopped me?
Thr RTC Rep at the AO - she couldn't even give me a reference
Amazing that I didn't twig then to the magnitude of the scam.
Moar please - looking forward to your next steps on the Bridge to Total Fleedom,
I had 'heard' about this, but didn't "twig to the magnitude of the scam" either. I didn't realize that it was such a 'blanket' thing.
I did have a few friends tell me stuff like "They've FES'd my folders, it turns out I'm not clear, I need my grades and NED - that's why I didn't do so well on NOTS."
The penny didn't drop for me on all this though and I didn't put two and two together on it with it applying to those I knew, till reading what HAB wrote.
That whole ideal org pgm thing was just a global 'why' (which is an impossibility) that has been forced on orgs planet-wide. One of the main problems I saw with upper management is that they would continually come up with these massive 'whys' (if you are not policy-savvy, a 'why' is the greatest departure from the ideal scene, in other words its the thing that will sort out the situation e.g. staff aren't trained, or no salesman on post, not enough promo, manager is serial killer, etc).
They would come up with these and then order their compliance planet wide; so whether you were Milan or Canberra you had to comply. But what it says is that the solution for Milan org is the same as the solution for Canberra org, and that's just rubbish.
HAB
Been loving your story.
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You're good with acronyms. You wanna be a guru?