Marty, that really belittles me! But, I believe Pierre Eithier is the best Class XII auditor in the world. Which is why he is not in the church, but out in the world doing the greatest good for the greatest number.
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Did I read that correctly? The tech was bad, Hubbard was bad, the class 12s were bad, the interactions between them caused more badness and of course DM was bad.
But Marty wasn't bad.
Is that it?
But, alas Miscavige’s and the Class XII heirarchy’s killing of Lisa McPherson ended that program.
So Marty was uninvolved with this? I see it now. As trainer of ClassXII's he was shouting for them to get her to a hospital and he was over ruled? Is that how it went down in the shifting memory?
Watching Marty figure it out bit by bit is positively fascinating. I just want to give him a big hug. It reminds me of my departure from Catholicism. Well sort of, minus the violence and espionage anyway. I was born a bit late for the crusading and whatnot.
Well, in fairness, Marty has always claimed he had nothing to do with Lisa M. case until she had already died and he was suddenly pulled into the handle "the flap" and get the cover up going.
I believe Marty was on the outs with DM and stuck in some lowly position at Flag (maybe it was doing comm training with Class XII). Only after the the McPherson situation turned into a Hill 10 was DM on the phone asking why Marty wasn't on top of it.
The details above I remember from his Truth Rundown interview at the SP times.
Dark Helmet Cognition: realizes he is surrounded by assholes
Have to share this from Espiando at the Bunker - if only for the Space Balls reference (link is only to the article - can't pick up the comment link from this PC currently)
No, he hasn’t gone back to the dark side. This is a brilliantly-expressed Fuck You to both CoS and the Indies, especially Milestone Two. It’s sticking the knife in further after the backstab of the last essay. In fact, it’s a body blow to the Indies. The logic goes like this:
1) There are major things wrong with the technical practice of Scientology as Hubbard conceived it.
2) Indies do not recognize #1.
3) DM does recognize it, but his hands are tied in how far he can change it so that it might work.
4) GAT, GAK, and GAT 2: Electric Boogaloo were attempts to change things, but they all ran up against the brick wall of Hubbard’s insane declarations.
5) Even so, those changes were still too radical for the sheeple, who left in droves after each.
6) The things that are wrong with Scientology Tech are still there, even after all those changes.
7) Indies are too hung up on declaring things squirrel, when everything is squirrel anyway, even Hubbard, so why not try experimenting?
He has finally reached the Dark Helmet Cognition: he now realizes he is surrounded by assholes
Based on Marty's 'progress', I propose a new Hubbard Law ala Hellovahoax:
Hubbard Law of Diminishing Returns: The further away from Scientology a person gets, the less scientology works.
(or does this one exist already? I forget...Calling HH....)
He knows it all. In and out of the cult, that is his thing. Yet on this one thing he knew nothing.
Perhaps.
Perhaps I am being unfair.
Despite all his change of faith, his personality has remained the same and it isn't one to not have info and intel and boast about it. He knows it all. In and out of the cult, that is his thing. Yet on this one thing he knew nothing.
[M]y quiet, reserved daughter was placed number 1 for the year in maths, English and Science. She just doesn't talk about it.
It isn't fair to demand that Rathbun always say everything at once, in everything he posts. This post should not have to be mainly about saying how all of Scientology is fundamentally bad, so I don't think it's fair to complain that this particular post is a little soft and ambiguous about whether or not Scientology could in principle be reformed into something good. In fact, though, I think this post is pretty clear that there is no real Golden Age revision to be made; this statement simply comes near the end, where Rathbun says that a revision which really tightened Scientology up properly would only be a leaner and meaner form of thought control.