The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But

[afaceinthecrowd]

DM, DDM and El Ron Hisself

Great posts enthetan, lakey, RogerB and Carmelo.

I knew Da Monster…his “dissension” (hardly could be called an ascension now could it?) was one of the reasons I walked away. His eyes were soulless; the powerful frenetic energy emanating from them was that of a computing psychotic machine.

I knew Daddy Da Monster, too. He was a 10th Degree Black Hat egocentric, misogynistic flam flam man. Da Monster, Daddy Da Monster and El Ron Hisself shared some agenda items. One of them was utter contempt for children not old enough to be “compliant” and of “use”.

One of DM’s top priority ops back then, pre Mission Holder's “Kristallnacht”, was to neuter and, failing that, to off any veteran that had had “face time” with El Ron over the years and that DM suspected may be someone El Ron actually “trusted”. “Trust” is a loose and transient term in regards to El Ron.

You see DM knew what the VFT’s knew (Veteran "Face Times")—El Ron had been stair-step “deteriorating” for 15 years or so. That “deterioration” was accelerating over the last 5 years or so. By “deteriorating” I mean he was checking-out—it was in phases ergo my term “stair-step”. And, within the stair steps the pendulum of "clarity" would swing, increasingly wider. Just read the Kima and Michael Douglas Mad Hatter Ride they had with El Ron if you require further graphic details.

One of DM’s major targets was Mayo. Otto Roos and the 12’s had tried to “intervene” and use Scientology to help El Ron in the late 60’s. Roos “took one for the team” and got creamed. Mayo did not make the same mistake of using Scientology when he “fixed-up” El Ron. Oh, he used some good tech and considerable skill to get “El Ron the Lazarus” to rise up from his bed but then he let his “Pre OT” take over and decide that he didn’t need all that stuff that all of you out there were paying for, studying and applying. He rabbitted on Otto and he rabitted on Mayo. From that point forward all Pre OT’s would be able to “follow El Ron’s route" and have NOTS on their cases, too. It is my opinion that El Ron needed Mayo to fix him up and write up and release the “Tech” that would absolve El Ron, in the eyes of faithful, of just what Otto and the 12’s had exhaustively researched and written up in El Ron’s folders. DM had to get rid of Mayo at the earliest opportunity lest El Ron let Mayo have another go at him and DM became the target.

What ever your opinion is of Astar, err Capt. Bill, he saw DM’s game and he tried to get to El Ron. DM took him out.

With most of his major targets neutered (some to be subsequently “offed”) or offed already the circumstances presented to take out a standing Bull Elephant VFT (Bill Franks) and take out the Mission Holders at the same time.

One of the great lessons life has taught me is that one’s greatest strengths can "mirror affect” as one’s greatest weaknesses.

One DM’s greatest "strengths" is his ability to identify and take out or neuter a target of opportunity which "mirror affects" as; DM identifies everyone as a target of opportunity.

One of El Ron’s greatest "strengths" was the ability to Entrance Beings and "feed" off their life energy which "mirror affected" as; (once neutered and isolated by Hisself's own fears and actions, and DM and his ops) the only Being left to Entrance and life energy left to "feed" off was El Ron's and, thusly, El Ron wrote and self "audited" Hisself off into oblivion.

Living is a Metaphor of Life.

 

[Enthetan]

PERFECT ANALYSIS OF THE ENTIRE EVENT AND WHY MY DECISION TO NOT DISBURSE THE ENTIRE $350 IMMEDIATELY WAS INCORRECT! I got a blow down from your analysis and this 38 year charged area for me no longer exists, the whole incident blew. This is the 4th point of charge or confusion which I have blown as a result of reading a comment from someone on ESMB. Leon blew 2 items for me earlier, the 4th one is so blown I don't remember what it was anymore.

Everything Enthetan said was 100% correct. The Cook, I think her name was Joanne was a veteran, having been on staff longer than me, she was a blonde girl, thin with very curly locks of hair and she had a New York accent. When she went to Yvonne she knew how to play her perfectly.

Yvonne loved to present good appearances. She loved it when Hector mocked up his registrars office with an oil painting and silver coffee and tea service and linens and then got his hair styled and wore designer clothes.Tony, in estates, somehow procurred a tuxedo and began wearing it at every dinner as he served the Executive dining table. In both these activities, Yvonne was just absolutely beaming with pride and bantering with Hector and Tony about how "smart" they looked.

Same thing with Joanne, she must have come in to see Yvonne and I am sure she cried and said that she was planning a huge dinner that night to celebrate whatever it was that was being celebrated. She then painted me as a villain who was trying to lower the Org's spirit and havingness level by insisting that the crew and guests be served only rice and beans. In Yvonne's mind, Joanne was promoting the actions which would enhance the Org and make it more of a true Celebrity Centre and I was pouring water on Joanne's grand festive ideas and trying to present the Org as poor and struggling.

Once you got on her bad side, even just one time, and she perceived that you crossed her, you were pretty much finished as far as any promotions were concerned. If you had no skills she could use, you were offloaded, usually just back to being public, never declared, or if you were providing a service which was helping the Org, such as I was doing, you were kept on but restricted to only that one area of expertise with no posibility of promotion. I had 3 run ins where she perceived I had crossed her so I had zero chance of ever fully getting out of her dog house. When I ponied up 8 grand of my own money, while Sea Org, to receive XDN auditing and also talked to her about how all those outside networks were usurping her power, she did appreciate those two acts and also my speech about XDN at graduation partially restored my standing but I don't know if it was restored 100%. That I will never know for sure.
Lakey

I remember a blond, curly-haired, Joanne who was an exec at FOLO EUS around the late 70's. If this was the same person, then you were dealing with a very crafty political operator.

 

[Ted]

"Who was that Masked Man?"

Great posts enthetan, lakey, RogerB and Carmelo.

I knew Da Monster…his “dissension” (hardly could be called an ascension now could it?) was one of the reasons I walked away. His eyes were soulless; the powerful frenetic energy emanating from them was that of a computing psychotic machine.

I knew Daddy Da Monster, too. He was a 10th Degree Black Hat egocentric, misogynistic flam flam man. Da Monster, Daddy Da Monster and El Ron Hisself shared some agenda items. One of them was utter contempt for children not old enough to be “compliant” and of “use”.

One of DM’s top priority ops back then, pre Mission Holders “Kristallnacht”, was to neuter and, failing that, to off any veteran that had had “face time” with El Ron over the years and that DM suspected may be someone El Ron actually “trusted”. “Trust” is a loose and transient term in regards to El Ron.

You see DM knew what the VFT’s knew (Veteran "Face Times")—El Ron had been stair-step “deteriorating” for 15 years or so. That “deterioration” was accelerating over the last 5 years or so. By “deteriorating” I mean he was checking-out—it was in phases ergo my term “stair-step”. And, within the stair steps the pendulum of "clarity" would swing, increasingly wider. Just read the Kima and Michael Douglas Mad Hatter Ride they had with El Ron if you require further graphic details.

One of DM’s major targets was Mayo. Otto Roos and the 12’s had tried to “intervene” and use Scientology to help El Ron in the late 60’s. Roos “took one for the team” and got creamed. Mayo did not make the same mistake of using Scientology when he “fixed-up” El Ron. Oh, he used some good tech and considerable skill to get “El Ron the Lazarus” to rise up from his bed but then he let his “Pre OT” take over and decide that he didn’t need all that stuff that all of you out there were paying for, studying and applying. He rabbitted on Otto and he rabitted on Mayo. From that point forward all Pre OT’s would be able to “follow El Ron’s” route and have NOTS on their cases, too. It is my opinion that El Ron needed Mayo to fix him up and write up and release the “Tech” that would absolve El Ron, in the eyes of faithful, of just what Otto and the 12’s had exhaustively researched and written up in El Ron’s folders. DM had to get rid of Mayo at the earliest opportunity lest El Ron let Mayo have another go at him and DM became the target.

What ever your opinion is of Astar, err Capt. Bill, he saw DM’s game and he tried to get to El Ron. DM took him out.

With most of his major targets neutered (some to be subsequently “offed”) or offed already the circumstances presented to take out a standing Bull Elephant VFT’s (Bill Franks) and take out the Mission Holders at the same time.

One of the great lessons life has taught me is that one’s greatest strengths "mirror affect” as one’s greatest weaknesses.

DM’s greatest strength is his ability to take out or neuter a target of opportunity which "mirror affects" as; DM sees everyone as a target of opportunity.

El Ron’s greatest strength was the ability to Entrance Beings and "feed" off their life energy which "mirror affected" as; (once neutered and isolated by Hisself's own fears and actions, and DM and his ops) the only Being left to Entrance and life energy left to "feed" off was El Ron's and, thusly, El Ron wrote and self "audited" Hisself off into oblivion.

Living is a Metaphor of Life.

Silver bullets galore from the masked man!

Another damn good post.

 

[Leon]

I believe it was "Facey" who said, only about two days ago, that Hubbard founded Scientology but was not a Scientologist. He did not practice what he preached to others. Similarly DM runs the "Church of Scientology" but is not a Scientologist.

The proof, like most things in Scientology, is obvious if only one looks. DM does not study Hubbard's audtiting technology nor his Management technology nor does he avail himself of his "priceless eternity" by receiving auditing. I believe his only connection to Hubbard, is the time he spent working with Hubbard plus the "Advices" which Hubbard wrote to answer specific questions which DM posed to him. These Advices are not in the body of Scientology "Tech" and are not available for Scientologists to read. DM seems to use these as his Holy Grail (definition: Any ultimate but elusive goal pursued in a quest). Since what he is using is not in the main body of Scientology, he is not a Scientologist.

It is funny but most other leaders in history were members of the group they lead. Stalin was a Communist, Hitler was a Nazi, Mussolini was a Fascist, Roosevelt was a Liberal, Churchill was British. I don't know about P.T. Barnum or what he did. Maybe his only game was to just milk the suckers in society and take their money away based on false promises to improve their lot with a magic elixir. When it comes to religious leaders, of the TV evangelist type, here again, sometimes they are not true believers but are only in it to bilk their followers and gain control of their money. When you look for parallels to Hubbard and DM in history, some of the big flashy TV enangelists come the closest.
Lakey

Good post.

There is a long and soggy trail of group leaders who were anything but fine examples of their teachings. In the highlighted examples you give above I would argue that each of them had fundamental attitudes/character traits that were diametrically opposite to what they presented themselves as.

Stalin was not a communist but a mudering barstard - he demanded of others much that he would never deliver himself.

Hitler may have been a bit of a Nazi but he was no Aryan ubermensch - had he been a normal citizen he could well have been sent off to a camp because of his suspected Jewish blood.

Roosevelt was a man who never let his left hand know what his right hand was doing. He kept subordinates in the dark, letting each know only a small bit of what he was doing, so that he could rule on his own.

Churchill was British but also suffered from depression and the only thing that would lift him out of it was the prespect of having a place in history. He was massively vain - as bad as Hubbard. The entire role he played in British history was all abouthimself, and only indirectly about Britain.

The Pope is not a Christian. Hubbard at least said he was not a Scientologist and he never pretended to be one.

 

[Blue Spirit]

Excellent

Great posts enthetan, lakey, RogerB and Carmelo.

I knew Da Monster…his “dissension” (hardly could be called an ascension now could it?) was one of the reasons I walked away. His eyes were soulless; the powerful frenetic energy emanating from them was that of a computing psychotic machine.

I knew Daddy Da Monster, too. He was a 10th Degree Black Hat egocentric, misogynistic flam flam man. Da Monster, Daddy Da Monster and El Ron Hisself shared some agenda items. One of them was utter contempt for children not old enough to be “compliant” and of “use”.

One of DM’s top priority ops back then, pre Mission Holder's “Kristallnacht”, was to neuter and, failing that, to off any veteran that had had “face time” with El Ron over the years and that DM suspected may be someone El Ron actually “trusted”. “Trust” is a loose and transient term in regards to El Ron.

You see DM knew what the VFT’s knew (Veteran "Face Times")—El Ron had been stair-step “deteriorating” for 15 years or so. That “deterioration” was accelerating over the last 5 years or so. By “deteriorating” I mean he was checking-out—it was in phases ergo my term “stair-step”. And, within the stair steps the pendulum of "clarity" would swing, increasingly wider. Just read the Kima and Michael Douglas Mad Hatter Ride they had with El Ron if you require further graphic details.

One of DM’s major targets was Mayo. Otto Roos and the 12’s had tried to “intervene” and use Scientology to help El Ron in the late 60’s. Roos “took one for the team” and got creamed. Mayo did not make the same mistake of using Scientology when he “fixed-up” El Ron. Oh, he used some good tech and considerable skill to get “El Ron the Lazarus” to rise up from his bed but then he let his “Pre OT” take over and decide that he didn’t need all that stuff that all of you out there were paying for, studying and applying. He rabbitted on Otto and he rabitted on Mayo. From that point forward all Pre OT’s would be able to “follow El Ron’s route" and have NOTS on their cases, too. It is my opinion that El Ron needed Mayo to fix him up and write up and release the “Tech” that would absolve El Ron, in the eyes of faithful, of just what Otto and the 12’s had exhaustively researched and written up in El Ron’s folders. DM had to get rid of Mayo at the earliest opportunity lest El Ron let Mayo have another go at him and DM became the target.

What ever your opinion is of Astar, err Capt. Bill, he saw DM’s game and he tried to get to El Ron. DM took him out.

With most of his major targets neutered (some to be subsequently “offed”) or offed already the circumstances presented to take out a standing Bull Elephant VFT (Bill Franks) and take out the Mission Holders at the same time.

One of the great lessons life has taught me is that one’s greatest strengths can "mirror affect” as one’s greatest weaknesses.

One DM’s greatest "strengths" is his ability to identify and take out or neuter a target of opportunity which "mirror affects" as; DM identifies everyone as a target of opportunity.

One of El Ron’s greatest "strengths" was the ability to Entrance Beings and "feed" off their life energy which "mirror affected" as; (once neutered and isolated by Hisself's own fears and actions, and DM and his ops) the only Being left to Entrance and life energy left to "feed" off was El Ron's and, thusly, El Ron wrote and self "audited" Hisself off into oblivion.

Living is a Metaphor of Life.

An excellent very illustrious illustrative post.

Looking forward to more.

 

[lkwdblds]

Like exposing the Wizard of Oz in the Movie!

Silver bullets galore from the masked man!

Another damn good post.

Facey's post and your seconding of it remind me of when Dorothy, the Lion, the Scarecrow and the. Tin Man were being intimidated by the Wizard of Oz but somehow, the curtain hiding what he was doing got pulled open and the "Wizard" was exposed for what he was, an egotistical person, kind and jolly to be sure, but possessing no special Super Powers or Abilities but instead doing it all with smoke and mirrors. The simple truth was that Dorothy and her companions were more OT than the Wizard was!

Once that fact was established and tacit agreement was given that it was true, the Wizard proceeded to help Dorothy get home to Kansas. The fact that he first had her click her magic slippers together before she could return was a nice symbolic touch. The clicking of the heels of the slippers coincides with getting auditing in Scientology. The answers are within you but the agreement is that you have to do something symbolic before you are entitled to access these answers. That symbolic act could be clicking magic slippers together or doing NOTs auditing for 7 to 10 years.

That great movie was made in the year which I was born. The guys who put that movie together were genius's of sorts in their own ways. No computer graphics or digitized tech but the special effects were quite sophisticated for that time and come across as more real an more human than most of today's computer graphics.
Lakey

 

[lkwdblds]

Good deep probe of my comments

Good post.

There is a long and soggy trail of group leaders who were anything but fine examples of their teachings. In the highlighted examples you give above I would argue that each of them had fundamental attitudes/character traits that were diametrically opposite to what they presented themselves as.

Stalin was not a communist but a mudering barstard - he demanded of others much that he would never deliver himself.

Hitler may have been a bit of a Nazi but he was no Aryan ubermensch - had he been a normal citizen he could well have been sent off to a camp because of his suspected Jewish blood.

Roosevelt was a man who never let his left hand know what his right hand was doing. He kept subordinates in the dark, letting each know only a small bit of what he was doing, so that he could rule on his own.

Churchill was British but also suffered from depression and the only thing that would lift him out of it was the prespect of having a place in history. He was massively vain - as bad as Hubbard. The entire role he played in British history was all abouthimself, and only indirectly about Britain.

The Pope is not a Christian. Hubbard at least said he was not a Scientologist and he never pretended to be one.

I don't know a lot about Stalin, its interesting to get your take on him. On Hitler and the Nazi's, they designed the definition of Aryan in an ad hoc manner so that Hitler would pass inspection and also Jesus Christ would be classified as Aryan. To get around Christ's obviously being a Jew, they defined a Jew such that if a person had more than one Jewish grandparent, then you were considered a Jew. Since Mary delivered a virgin birth, Joeseph's entire family tree was eliminated from the calculations and then they designed it so that with only Mary's family tree present, as the mother, that was insufficient to classify Christ as a Jew but rather he qualified as an Aryan. Isn't that they way they got around condeming Jesus.

I thought Churchill did stand fast and hold the line against Nazism. Probably had Chamberlin remained on as Prime Minister, the British might have made peace with tne Nazi's after the fall of France. Hitler considered England an Aryan nation and was anxious to make peace with them after France fell, both because they were Aryans and also to avoid a two front war. He made an attractive peace offer to England which Churchill spurned. Had he taken that offer, it is very unlikely the Nazi's would have been defeated. They would have waged only a one front war against the USSR which either would have succeeded or resulted in a stalemate. Don't you agree, Leon, that Churchill earned his place in world history by standing fast against the Nazi's when he was the only opponent whom the Nazi's were fighting. That took a lot of courage and resolve. He was gambling that the USA could be drawn in on the side of the British and if they were not, Brittain was doomed to fall. Churchill really took a gamble there.
Lakey

 

[Leon]

Yes, I agree with you as regards Churchill. Halifax wanted to pursue peace negotiations round about 1941. Churchill's response was his famous speech about how every Englishman should lie choking in his own blood before giving up the thousand years of Britishness. I don't recall the exact words but it marked the absolute turning point for the British in the war - after that no one dared utter a word about peace negotiations.

But was it done for Britain? I don't know. At this time Churchill told Halifax that nations who compromise and bargain for peace always disappear for ever, while nations which go down fighting rise again. Churchill wanted his name to be in the history books of Britain for ever. It was the prospect of this that kept him going. Was this his prime motivation? I can't say, but it was certainly in the mix.

This is all my own view of things. While I love reading history I am no big expert on everything.

 

[AnonKat]

Yes, I agree with you as regards Churchill. Halifax wanted to pursue peace negotiations round about 1941. Churchill's response was his famous speech about how every Englishman should lie choking in his own blood before giving up the thousand years of Britishness. I don't recall the exact words but it marked the absolute turning point for the British in the war - after that no one dared utter a word about peace negotiations.

But was it done for Britain? I don't know. At this time Churchill told Halifax that nations who compromise and bargain for peace always disappear for ever, while nations which go down fighting rise again. Churchill wanted his name to be in the history books of Britain for ever. It was the prospect of this that kept him going. Was this his prime motivation? I can't say, but it was certainly in the mix.

This is all my own view of things. While I love reading history I am no big expert on everything.

Churchill was simply the right man at the right Time. War made him live, Peace made him ill

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

http://rutube.ru/tracks/2563891.html?v=544f26767510fe1c69cf8699d646a342

cute find. amazing what some people keep in the way of self incriminating recordings.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

A pressurized TR-3 creates synthetic valences of some people. They become someone else to be able to receive a session.

The last person I cleared I think I used TR-3 maybe once, and TR-4 just once. That says a lot for the willingness and trust of the pc, and pc+auditor being greater than bank.

Also, I might do a worksheet for my own guidance. When the processing is complete the sheets are destroyed -- excepting L&N's.

We don't need no stinking worksheets if we are auditing the pc in front of us, the pc who can change in a flash thus immediately stale-dating any C/S that might have been correct at start of session.

I don't remember the difference between TR 3 and TR4. It has been a number of years, and I just don't get many requests to do that stuff anymore.

But I agree with you on all the other stuff. I only write down items , so I remember them.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

JOKE --- don't take this literally

Thanks Carmelo...good stuff. As a PC I was very fond of Prepchecks. I've also had all the L4BRA's I'll ever want and all the Sec Checks I'll ever need...sheesh!

One of my favorite squirrel processes is:

"If you had something worthwhile to say, what would it be?"

while I'm joking and degrading, my favorite line by Peter Crundall was to and about Carl Barney, "Everybody always says horrible things about you, but I always defend you."

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Ay Dios Mio! That clarion gong you hear reverberating in the air is a call going forth out into the Universe...

"Apollo thread to Carole... Apollo thread to Carole... Come in Carole..."

If anyone knows her, get in touch and get her on here, pronto!

Re: Carole Ferguson: there are hundreds of Carole Fergusons findable on the net. If anyone has the patience to look for her: she's about 65, and had red hair 40 years ago. I think she went to San Jose State College. She had a brother I think.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Not to offend anyone here, but I always thought that Samantha was quite a witch.

She was a babelicious.

 

[Ted]

One of my favorite squirrel processes is:

"If you had something worthwhile to say, what would it be?"

while I'm joking and degrading, my favorite line by Peter Crundall was to and about Carl Barney, "Everybody always says horrible things about you, but I always defend you."

That's a variation of the old, "So-and-so said you eat shit samiches, but I told him you don't like bread."

 

[lkwdblds]

Classics - something perfect from the past

This post may go over like a lead balloon but no harm in bringing it up. Yesterday I heard two CLASSICAL music pieces by my favorite composer, Mozart, while driving around on business and errands on the local University of Southern California FM radio station, KUSC. First was the opera the Magic Flute, put on by the New York Metropolitan opera. This opera, I first heard in 1962 and it has become like a friend ever since. The arias are each like friends, the moment I hear the opening bars, a lot of endomorphines start flowing, I never get tired of it and notice more nuances at every hearing. This opera was first performed only 3 months before the Mozart's untimely death shortly before he was to turn 36. He conducted the first performance himself, just 3 months before he died. It is some of the happiest music ever written.

The second piece is Piano Concerto number 12. The announcer explained that Mozart had just moved from Salzburg, Austria to the capital, Vienna, to seek his fortune and make a name for himself. He wrote 3 piano concertos so as to have something new to play when he settled in Vienna. These concertos were therefore partly written so that he could earn money. He wrote a total of 27 piano concertos in his life, each one from about #9 onward is a complete masterpiece and each is unique. They are almost like Chopins Etudes or studies, 50 years later. The piano was pretty new in Mozart's time, had a wood frame, not steel as they do today, and was a big advance technically over the harpsichord which preceeded it. Each concerto explores the ranges of expression of the new piano. Mozart was able to coax undreamed of nuances of expression out of his instrument, made with its wooden frame and leather covered hammers. By the way, loud bombastic passages simply were not possible on the Viennese piano of the 1780's but only became possible in the first decade of the 1800's when much more powerful steel framed pianos started to be produced.

Mozart's concerto number 12 is an excellent example of its genre. Though written for commercial purposes, there is zero trace of that in the music. The music is honest, soulfull, lucid, mathematical and is carried on a very fine carrier wave. There is no component of the composer's personality revealed in the music. It is just put out there for what it is, there are ebbs and flows of emotion, sometimes a little tension builds up in a passage and then is released in a delightful interplay of notes. Each note seems to be the best possible choice to follow the note which preceeded it. There is really no ego present whatsoever in the music itself, just a subtle hint that the composer is showing off his effortless knowledge of the skills of his trade. There are three movements, the first and third are lively and the second is slow and soulfull. To non classical music people, the second movement would probably be the one they would enjoy most because it sounds more like elevator music than the others. The last movement is very high on the emotional tone scale for me, up near games and spirit of play.

I know this is not everyone's cup of tea and am just hoping that one or two or three people might find it interesting and check out the wonderful Piano Concerto 12 on Youtube.
Lakey

 

[afaceinthecrowd]

Gracias

Silver bullets galore from the masked man!

Another damn good post.

As Vin (McQeen) told Calvera (Wallach) in "The Magnificent Seven",

"We deal in lead, friend."

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Live Long and Prosper

Back, many decades ago when I was working in a Scientology center, we would all eat dinner at one house, and watch Star Trek reruns every week night. This is from the San Jose Mercury News today. If you live in the Bay area, this exhibit might be something to do today.





Going boldly back to the altar of 'Star Trek'

By Bruce Newman
[email protected]
Posted: 04/10/2010 07:51:11 PM PDT
Updated: 04/11/2010 03:56:31 AM PDT

The bride wore a burnt umber Uhura number, and the groom turned out in tasteful Vulcan blue. Standing at the threshold between the perpetual darkness of deep space and the perpetual light of deep love, Nancy Kerr and Kyle Sessions said "I do" Saturday in a "Star Trek" wedding at San Jose's Tech Museum.
The happy couple stood on the bridge of the USS Enterprise — re-created for "Star Trek: The Exhibition," which closes today — beaming up at their hand-picked officiant, the Reverend Rabbit. Instead of a Bible, Rabbit Matthews recited the vows they'd prepared from a Kindle.
"Do you promise to honor her and her commitment to the integrity of her mission?" she asked Sessions, 27. "Do you promise to uphold the sacraments of marriage as described in Starfleet regulations, including cohabitation of quarters, equal division of domestic labor and loyalty to one's commander and crew?"
Kerr and Sessions had won the Tech's Ultimate "Star Trek" Wedding Contest on Facebook, defeating 13 other couples with nearly a quarter of the 2,189 votes cast. It had brought them to an altar of their own fevered imagining for a renewal of vows the Berkeley couple first made at an Episcopal church in Utah six years ago.
They originally planned to wait until their 10th anniversary to renew their vows at the "Star Trek Experience" in Las Vegas, but that exhibition closed. "Star Trek," which went on the air in 1966, continued in one form or another
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through last summer's hit movie. The Tech's exhibition drew more than 75,000 visitors, although shutting it down for a 45-minute wedding on the next-to-last day didn't exactly help the attendance.
"Ending with a wedding makes sense because 'Star Trek' is about the future," said Elizabeth Williams, the museum's vice president for marketing. "It's an optimistic show."
Friendly support
Among the visitors to the museum who were booted out so the wedding ceremony could proceed were Linda Roberts and Robert Green, who had driven up from Los Angeles to see the exhibit. He was wearing a "Star Trek" uniform shirt that Roberts had bought at a thrift shop. Green didn't mind leaving for the wedding, although he did acknowledge potential problems with such a union in his own case.
"We're in a mixed relationship," he deadpanned. "She's a 'Star Trek' fan, and I'm a fan of 'Star Wars.' Lots of arguments about how to raise the kids."
Once the bridge had been cleared, Sessions and Kerr entered while reciting lines from Spock's tragic near-marriage to T'Pring, who jilted him at the altar. "Parted from me and never parted, never and always touching and touched," Kerr said as she mounted a small staircase, "we meet at the appointed place."
Instead of exchanging rings, the couple exchanged "Star Trek" communicators they bought in the museum's gift shop that morning. The bleeps and blorts of a battle-ready starship provided calliope-like accompaniment as the ceremony unfolded, and when Matthews declared, "It is done," a vapor lock exhaled. The couple kissed for about 20 seconds, briefly achieving suborbital flight.
About 35 of the couple's friends attended, among them Mark Wilde, who had just returned from shopping for his blue "Trek" shirt at Pierre Silber in Santa Clara. "It's an adult costume and lingerie shop," he said, "but they also have 'Star Trek' costumes."
Uhura's Kindle
After the ceremony, Matthews immediately instructed the guests to "form an orderly line" to have pictures taken with the bride and groom. Owner of the Sacred Well in Oakland, where "magic happens every day," Rabbit couldn't take her eyes off the electronic tablet she was holding. "This is Uhura's Kindle," she said, then caught herself. "I mean Nancy's."
She spread her fingers in the Vulcan salute and exhorted Kerr and Sessions to "live long and prosper," then she led the first of several toasts in the museum's VIP lounge. "May your engines always be at full throttle "... and may you always have all the dilithium you need," she said, letting her purple hair down with a glass of champagne.
Benedek Nyikos leapt to his feet and delivered a lengthy toast in perfect Klingon. "Actually, it's a Klingon drinking song," he conceded later, "but nobody knows that, so I figured I could get away with it."
There seemed little doubt that the bridal couple's union would now be binding no matter where they went. "I'm a legal minister in the state of California," Rabbit Matthews said. "I assume I'm legal in other galaxies. Whenever I've teleported myself there, I've never had a problem."
Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004.
if you"re going
"Star Trek: The Exhibition" brings together more than 200 objects from the franchise"s five television series and 11 feature films. The exhibit, which ends today, is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market St. Information is available at www.thetech.org/StarTrek.

 

[afaceinthecrowd]

Let's pretend to play pretend

Thank you, Leon.

I'm not all that qualified to comment as to intents and designs re: Stalin, Hitler, et al.

I didn’t spend over 15 years listening to over 500 tapes of their lectures and studying exhaustively thousands of pages their personal, political, spiritual and administrative philosophy and internal documents as I did with El Ron. I didn’t know them personally nor did I personally work with them as I did with El Ron.

El Ron gave a few “throw away’ lines on a couple of lectures to the effect of “What makes all of you think I’m a Scientologist?” in the early ‘50’s—he also made hundreds of other tapes wherein he “enthusiastically” talked about “We Scientologist” and many, many other words to that effect. All of that, coupled with Hisself’s PAB’s, HCOB’s, PL’s, LRHED’s, Article’s, Monograph’s, et. and piles of internal issues within the SO (and “Flag Crew Only" Taped Briefings) and, in particularly his “Call to Arms” RJ ’67, all which, in my view, clearly convey pretense at best.

When was El Ron pretending? When Hisself intimated that he was not a Scientologist or when he did—or both?

That question can only be subjected to a dialogue of inquiry with each of us personally and individually, and between and amongst us as El Ron “has left the building” and he taint never cummin back.



Living is a Metaphor of Life.

Good post.

There is a long and soggy trail of group leaders who were anything but fine examples of their teachings. In the highlighted examples you give above I would argue that each of them had fundamental attitudes/character traits that were diametrically opposite to what they presented themselves as.

Stalin was not a communist but a mudering barstard - he demanded of others much that he would never deliver himself.

Hitler may have been a bit of a Nazi but he was no Aryan ubermensch - had he been a normal citizen he could well have been sent off to a camp because of his suspected Jewish blood.

Roosevelt was a man who never let his left hand know what his right hand was doing. He kept subordinates in the dark, letting each know only a small bit of what he was doing, so that he could rule on his own.

Churchill was British but also suffered from depression and the only thing that would lift him out of it was the prespect of having a place in history. He was massively vain - as bad as Hubbard. The entire role he played in British history was all abouthimself, and only indirectly about Britain.

The Pope is not a Christian. Hubbard at least said he was not a Scientologist and he never pretended to be one.

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Tell more stories!

The tremendous waste and mis-utilization of talent got my attention too, while at CCLA as staff. On the Apollo, I found it very odd that a person was not consulted as to which areas they would most like to work in. Even in the military, don't the recruits get to determine to some degree where they are posted.

The recruiting department is working full steam to bring in recruits, false promises are made, people sell their businesses, get phoney green cards and work permits from customs, separate from their familiies and go through all these hurdles and barriers and then are mis posted into some area they have no aptitude or ability for and within weeks are out the door, usually with freeloader debts and lower conditions. This whole system of mumbo jumbo is all a direct result of Green and White Policy by Hubbard. Green and White is mostly just crap, worthless crap, worse than worthless but of negative worth. No large successful company or corportation has ever risen to the Fortune 500 list or anything approaching that using the "Management Tech." It is not 3rd dynamic tech, it is more how to wreck the second dynamic, take losses on the third and hinder the 4th. To think that I spent years and lots of money taking these various classes on Management. It was pretty much all worthless. Here or there something might come in handy, a couple of the scales, or occasionally tracking something on a graph was helpful but non Scientology business also use graphing of statistics.

The tip off that it is worthless is that the Orgs are being heavily subsidized byt the Government in the USA. The religious exemption gives the Orgs the right to work people 100 hours a week for almost no pay and to have a slave labor pool in the RPF where people are literally worked until they drop. They pay no FICA, State, or Withholding taxes, no retirement plan, no workers' comp insurance, in fact virtually no insurance of any type, no medical plan and yet with all these enormous subsidies, the Orgs are just barely hanging on by a thread, financially and can barely pay their bills.

IF YOU APPLY "LOOK, DON'T LISTEN" YOU CAN SEE THAT HUBBARD MANAGEMENT TECH DOES NOT WORK! It is a total no brainer!

Thank God somebody else is saying it, too....although I've been saying "look, don't think"...same difference. I was starting to sound like a broken record! Thanks, Lakey!

I would love to hear some other stories about So Cal Scientology Org history, Come on peeps, we gotta oral history project goin' here!

Come out of Lurker territory and tell us some tales of your personal experiences while in... We're a real nice group of interested listeners!