Top 10 BlowCogs

[Mest Lover]

I am not suggesting what is in your best interests do do with the tools gifted to all of us by L. Ron Hubbard.

However, I consulted with my astrologist, faith healer, psychic advisor, aromatherapist and yogic flying instructor...and they all independently channeled the same message from a different dimension of space and time.

KEEP ON BLOWIN'​

What an absolutely Crumby thing to say!

 

[Smilla]

I was just public never staff, and I realized that I was never going to get what I originally came in for. Sick of the lies and broken promises, I just quietly walked away. No regrets, no drama.

 

[Consensus]

Thx AD!

That one word HUMANS is (for me) the core blind-spot-to-end-all-blind-spots that kept me in Scientology a very long while. And I believe this blind spot was more than just a spot--it was an entire field of view that objects and ideas just simply disappeared inside of.

I also am convinced that it is a blind area that is shared by virtually all humans, at least all of the ones I have encountered.

How could I miss the fact that every single person in Scientology, including L. Ron Hubbard, was a human being exactly like me.

What kind of childlike naivete existed in my mind that would permit me to not notice that no one was Clear, no one was OT, no one was Exterior, no one was Homo Novus and nobody was Totally Free?

When I played with my little boy (from 2-6 years of age) he used to love jumping off things and having me catch him. I used to test him to see what he would believe when I told him that I thought he could fly and that he didn't need me to catch him. For the first few years I could always convince him that it was true and he would actually get ready and begin to jump into midair without any slightest care in the world. I always took care to let him know he could get hurt and that I was playing with him.

Year by year, he got harder to fool but there was ALWAYS a part of his child's mind that could be triggered to make him believe a silly thing like that.

All humans of all ages (adults, sophisticates, cynics, geniuses and skeptics alike) have that very same blind zone. Picking up the newspaper any week one can read about a highly sophisticated financial wizard being taken in a Ponzi scheme. One can learn about the FBI or CIA security experts being utterly fooled by a double agent working in the bureau. Nobody is immune from the human frailty of blind spots.

The simplest and most glaringly obvious manifestation of Scientology's fraud is as simple as asking if anyone can show OT powers. Anything! Levitation. Exteriorization. Producing/Altering real MEST. Healing using flows and as-ising powers. Anything at all.

The blind spot even includes the inhibition of asking the question to OT's or Scientology seniors.

That single word HUMANS is an entire world unto itself. It is the human condition that Scientology guarantees to solve. And which it cannot. And in its desperate, thrashing attempts to fix it's abysmal failure, it instead often worsens the human condition.

My thoughts race with volumes more, but this is already maybe far too long a post! LOL

I've never been a scn, but I've studied philosophy and psychology in depth, and one of my greatest 'cogs' is exactly the same as yours:
We're all living our lives for the very first time. Nobody - not the president, nor your boss, nor the guy that cleans your office - has had a dress rehearsal, a read-through, or any practice at 'being human' (beyond what they've done in this life). We're all basically very intelligent animals, capable of speech, who develop patterns of behavior based on their environments, their successes, failures, hopes, desires, fears, and so on.

We're all just like us. And some of those people are in charge of banks, some in charge of governments, militaries, businesses, industries, churches...
And yet, it's all worked (more or less - there's been countless injustices, genocides, famines, etc) thus far. Thinking about the future in this context gives me vertigo (or do I go external?) - yeah, humanity has managed to get this far, which is damned fucking amazing, but we're on the precipice of time, moving forward always, and the people calling the shots are not significantly different from me. Makes me glad I'm not them, but it motivates me to follow what they're doing and participate in open dialogues about it, in the hopes that our collective wisdom can lead us into continued prosperity.

And then the stock market crashed.

 

[ExScnDude]

I've never been a scn, but I've studied philosophy and psychology in depth, and one of my greatest 'cogs' is exactly the same as yours:
We're all living our lives for the very first time. Nobody - not the president, nor your boss, nor the guy that cleans your office - has had a dress rehearsal, a read-through, or any practice at 'being human' (beyond what they've done in this life). We're all basically very intelligent animals, capable of speech, who develop patterns of behavior based on their environments, their successes, failures, hopes, desires, fears, and so on.

We're all just like us. And some of those people are in charge of banks, some in charge of governments, militaries, businesses, industries, churches...
And yet, it's all worked (more or less - there's been countless injustices, genocides, famines, etc) thus far. Thinking about the future in this context gives me vertigo (or do I go external?) - yeah, humanity has managed to get this far, which is damned fucking amazing, but we're on the precipice of time, moving forward always, and the people calling the shots are not significantly different from me. Makes me glad I'm not them, but it motivates me to follow what they're doing and participate in open dialogues about it, in the hopes that our collective wisdom can lead us into continued prosperity.

And then the stock market crashed.

I look at psychology - having studied it a bit in college - as another cosmology consisting mostly of the quantification of the observation of human behavior, such metrics being obtained via the scientific method. It is definitely a way to look at existence.

But then I look around at this vast, impressive, complex universe I'm alive in and know that there is something greater than myself at play.

But exactly what? Search me! I don't think anyone really knows.

Intellectually, I can only conclude that nobody really knows the answers to the purpose of existence.

 

[Consensus]

I look at psychology - having studied it a bit in college - as another cosmology consisting mostly of the quantification of the observation of human behavior, such metrics being obtained via the scientific method. It is definitely a way to look at existence.

But then I look around at this vast, impressive, complex universe I'm alive in and know that there is something greater than myself at play.

But exactly what? Search me! I don't think anyone really knows.

Intellectually, I can only conclude that nobody really knows the answers to the purpose of existence.

I'm reasonably confident there is no objective meaning or purpose to existence. It's impossible to derive an 'ought' statement from an 'is' statement. Therefore, no 'ought' statements are (ultimately) derived from reality.

More importantly, I'm quite convinced that anybody looking to sell you a pre-fab 'meaning' or 'purpose' is a fraud.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

I look at psychology - having studied it a bit in college - as another cosmology consisting mostly of the quantification of the observation of human behavior, such metrics being obtained via the scientific method. It is definitely a way to look at existence.But then I look around at this vast, impressive, complex universe I'm alive in and know that there is something greater than myself at play.But exactly what? Search me! I don't think anyone really knows.Intellectually, I can only conclude that nobody really knows the answers to the purpose of existence.

This is excellent and simple. It is excellent because I have concluded the same. LOL.

Really, if anyone in the history of mankind has actually discovered secrets of the universe and creation, they have not shared it with us.

Many have found THOUGHTS that console them or give them joy. But they are just thoughts from the universe's free all-you-can-think-buffet.

Preachers and other humans with hyper-certainty about their "advanced esoteric knowledge" are silly.

They are 100% human and cannot show any simplest proof that they have visited the promised land. And their map to get there is a ridiculous treasure hunt for scared or bored humans to pass the time with.

When I see "ex" scientologists posting on this forum, I am instantly reminded of the cheesy tv evangelists who scam millions of believers. Scientology boasts "scientific proof" to its students...but when asked to show it, Scientology can only attack the student for being evil and keep them in the dark. Funny that they call it enlightenment!

 

[KissMyStats]

I just remembered this. (Layers of crap still coming to light.)

Many years ago I thought something a mother should never think.
I secretly hoped my kids would take LSD just once so they were
forever be ineligible for the Sea Org. So that pressure would never
be there for them if they ended up in a recruit interview. I felt so
guilty for thinking this, but at the same time I still hoped it.

That thought alone should have been enough to make me leave.
But I was too trapped. God Damn I am so happy to be free of
this disgusting cult.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

I just remembered this. (Layers of crap still coming to light.)

Many years ago I thought something a mother should never think.
I secretly hoped my kids would take LSD just once so they were
forever be ineligible for the Sea Org. So that pressure would never
be there for them if they ended up in a recruit interview. I felt so
guilty for thinking this, but at the same time I still hoped it.

That thought alone should have been enough to make me leave.
But I was too trapped. God Damn I am so happy to be free of
this disgusting cult.

One of the funniest things I have ever seen.

And tragic.

And true.

I remember one time when my teen-aged kid's "2D" was being recruited for the SO by one of the top elite orgs. They were ordered to NOT SPEAK OR HAVE ANY CONTACT with their own "2D" during that time.

They were threatened with a Non-Enturbulation Order (e.g. SP Declare).

The crush recruitment cycle got very close...but eventually failed.

They were "allowed" to talk again after that.

What a lovely church.

 

[GoNuclear]

Going thru this thread, attempting to sort it all out, etc...

Mainly it was gradual, leading up to my "blow" cog, which I finally recall ...

After being the convenient target of a witch hunt due to lowered stats, in 77, after over a year of price increases ... being sent to ethics ... there were a few "cogs"

1) this bitch is bound and determined to get the last word regardless
2) anything I say or do will make it worse, so STFU, leading to ...
3) this shit isn't fun anymore

Then I was given a remedial action on a course. It was a phuggen overwhelm, I could see it would take forever because my time was limited, hence

4) this shit is REALLY getting to be a drag

Then there was the return to the mission after 8 months out of the area, and there was the following cog

5) I really, really, really don't want to be here on course. IT SUCKS

Then there was another witch hunt, this time in 1980, when I was royally reamed out, and the cog was
6) They can kiss my ass

Unfortunately, that is just what happened, so I came back, ethics action lifted

Finally, after I left for a job offer in late 81, the shit with the missions happened, and the mission holder broke off after being declared, leading to
7) There is something really wrong going on with Scientology, and I want to see it resolved before I go back

Now, everything 1 thru 7 was just so much leading up to the REAL cog, which happened in spring of '83. It was an all of a sudden thing ... I was at a party, a little get together. Joints were being passed. One was passed my way. Now there were plenty of times that happened and I just refused. But this time, I was hit with the final cog ...
8) I'm never going to go up the bridge ... it costs too much, its too much of an asspain, the Cof$ is upgaphugged anyways, and I would really rather just smoke some weed with my friends, have fun, not be told what to do, keep my money, chase women, and do whatever I felt like doing.

Pete

 

[Hypnotarian]

My blowcog occurred on the puriff...

After 10 days of five hours of sauna per day coupled with the supplement regimen I thought:

"Okay, this maybe a cult that could fuck up my head but I could unlearn the non-sensical propositions and ideas and un-apply them and heal my mind, however if they fuck up my body I possibly couldn't do anything to reverse that effect and therefore I should play it safe and leave."

I was only in less than six months and then got a refund.

 

[Panda Termint]

Scientology; it's never going to be what you wish it was.

(Before I ever said that to another person, I realised it for myself.)

 

[Kookaburra]

Additional to my personal wellbeing (or lack thereof) cogs, I took a look around and saw no improvement whatsoever in the world as a result of Scientology. That was after 16 years of blood, sweat, and tears on my part and heaps more from other staff and SO. Not one bit of progress anywhere.

Another thing that I had slowly come to realize was that many OT's had no OT abilities whatsoever.

 

[I told you I was trouble]

I just remembered this. (Layers of crap still coming to light.)

Many years ago I thought something a mother should never think.
I secretly hoped my kids would take LSD just once so they were
forever be ineligible for the Sea Org. So that pressure would never
be there for them if they ended up in a recruit interview. I felt so
guilty for thinking this, but at the same time I still hoped it.

That thought alone should have been enough to make me leave.
But I was too trapped. God Damn I am so happy to be free of
this disgusting cult.

You were not the only one that had that thought KissMyStats (sadly).



I had the very same one.


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[HelluvaHoax!]

Like virtually everything else in Scientology, the tech is the opposite of the truth.

The word "blow" for example refers to an out ethics parishioner leaving without finishing and taking responsibility for a cycle of action. However....


Basic Blow Cog: Ron took my money and time and blew without giving me what I paid for.

See how that trick works? Scientology gets people all introverted and crazy about blowing, so they don't realize what is really happening.

Often Scn customers wait around for decades before they realize that the Scientology they paid for is nowhere to be found. Gone! Then the customer eventually tires of waiting and wearily trudges off to start a new life.

 

[TG1]

In any particular order, or just all at the same time:

1. This is not fun.
2. This doesn't feel right.
3. I despise group-think, so what am I doing here?
4. I like the rest of my life so much better than this part.
5. I'm putting way too much into this for what I'm getting out of it.
6. This is embarrassing.
7. I choose me.

 

[GoNuclear]

Ultimate blow cog

I didn't get the ultimate Scientology blow cog until just a few years ago, posting on here. It goes like this:

Q) Why did the Scientologist blow?
A) He needed the money!

See? That works regardless of how you define blow!

Pete

 

[ethicsbait]

Great thread.

Mine was little by little starting with the fact that all these new releases or golden ages were going to fill the org, over and over I heard that and finally realized they were full of it.

COB, straight up and vertical, punk has an MU.

Other obvious and not so obvious lies at events.

Another was the fact that our course rooms were (and are) ALWAYS as good as empty, day = five students, four of them staff, foundation, maybe 15 students with half of them staff.

Unjust ethics.

SO missions who were totally unethical in their pursuit of there own statistics. I could not look up to them at all. Honestly, they were tyrants behind the scenes.

Flag stealing org public.

OT’s not demonstrating it, or even clear or honestly even the EP’s of the grades. Name me one OT who no longer has problems, Hahaha, what a joke.

To name a few.

Ethicsbait