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This video was posted to youtube by Radio Paul and mentioned by Ortega yesterday, but I felt it might be of some value posting it here on ESMB, assuming it hasn’t already been discussed.
I found the second speaker (beginning at 4:21 in the video) to be particularly disturbing. She believes she is imparting a great life lesson: when being regged, people will say that they have no money when they actually do. Then she states that with one mark she discovered only $3,700 left on his credit lines and while that “may be a lot to you” (speaking to the Sea Orgers), it was a pittance to her.
Is $3,700 a lot to a Sea Org worker? I should think so - he or she would have to toil 6,607 hours to earn that sum given the Scientology pay scale ($50 weekly salary for approx. 90 hours of work).
You would think after several years an observer of Scientology would be largely inoculated emotionally against videos like this which illuminate this organization’s spectacular level of greed and disregard for its [STRIKE]parishoners [/STRIKE] victims.
After all, this madness has been occurring daily in this group for decades, and we’ve heard dozens if not hundreds of testimonials which tug at the heart or cause the blood to boil with rage.
Well, I’m not there yet. Each new story of extortion, fraud, and abuse kindles the same anger I felt fifteen years ago when viewing Mark Bunker’s Fourth of July video ( starring Dan Murnan and his two fellow cult goons ).
I’ve said it before and will continue to do so – Scientology is a Deadweight Loss.
Any $8 self-improvement paperback at Barnes & Noble would offer its reader a better avenue to human potential and achievement than do all of Hubbard’s tomes combined.
As far as I can tell, in a penultimate sense, among the thousands of individuals who have come in to contact with it, Scientology has provided a net positive benefit to only two: the Ginger-haired Gastropod and the High School Dwarf-out.
The former was a foul-breathed rotten-toothed bloviating bigamist who lied about matters large and small and locked children in chain lockers.
The latter, his successor, is a diminutive South Philly high school dropout bully who keeps his subordinates pinned down under his boy-sized John Lobb boots with terror and intimidation, and who lives the life of a prince with parishioner-funded single-malt Scotch, chartered private jets, imported delicacies, Ducati motorcycles, and a stable of $500-an-hour attorneys.
[video=youtube;A4aId8DDXuU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4aId8DDXuU[/video]
I found the second speaker (beginning at 4:21 in the video) to be particularly disturbing. She believes she is imparting a great life lesson: when being regged, people will say that they have no money when they actually do. Then she states that with one mark she discovered only $3,700 left on his credit lines and while that “may be a lot to you” (speaking to the Sea Orgers), it was a pittance to her.
Is $3,700 a lot to a Sea Org worker? I should think so - he or she would have to toil 6,607 hours to earn that sum given the Scientology pay scale ($50 weekly salary for approx. 90 hours of work).
You would think after several years an observer of Scientology would be largely inoculated emotionally against videos like this which illuminate this organization’s spectacular level of greed and disregard for its [STRIKE]parishoners [/STRIKE] victims.
After all, this madness has been occurring daily in this group for decades, and we’ve heard dozens if not hundreds of testimonials which tug at the heart or cause the blood to boil with rage.
Well, I’m not there yet. Each new story of extortion, fraud, and abuse kindles the same anger I felt fifteen years ago when viewing Mark Bunker’s Fourth of July video ( starring Dan Murnan and his two fellow cult goons ).
I’ve said it before and will continue to do so – Scientology is a Deadweight Loss.
Any $8 self-improvement paperback at Barnes & Noble would offer its reader a better avenue to human potential and achievement than do all of Hubbard’s tomes combined.
As far as I can tell, in a penultimate sense, among the thousands of individuals who have come in to contact with it, Scientology has provided a net positive benefit to only two: the Ginger-haired Gastropod and the High School Dwarf-out.
The former was a foul-breathed rotten-toothed bloviating bigamist who lied about matters large and small and locked children in chain lockers.
The latter, his successor, is a diminutive South Philly high school dropout bully who keeps his subordinates pinned down under his boy-sized John Lobb boots with terror and intimidation, and who lives the life of a prince with parishioner-funded single-malt Scotch, chartered private jets, imported delicacies, Ducati motorcycles, and a stable of $500-an-hour attorneys.
[video=youtube;A4aId8DDXuU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4aId8DDXuU[/video]