A SAD AND TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF WHAT SCIENTOLOGY SCHOOLING DOES TO YOU

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I knew Quinn Tauffer in the SO pretty well. Before he became associated with his current building post. There was a lot to like about him: very extroverted and outgoing, and he had a real love of mechanical things and construction. I am not entirely certain, but pretty sure that he came into the SO at about 12 years old. This was at the Los Angeles base: "PAC".

There were two ranches for SO kids that were close to Los Angeles. One was the Int Ranch, Castile Canyon, out close to Palm Springs and the other was for the kids from PAC. This was called Bouquet Canyon or Canyon Oaks Ranch, out near Palmdale.

People in PAC never heard anything about the conditions at the Int ranch, but looking at the website about it now, it appears to have been a dude ranch compared to the PAC ranch. The PAC ranch had about 250 kids at its peak and would typically have less than a dozen adult personnel assigned to it. My son went there from the time he was about 6 until he was brought to ASHO at about the age of 14.

We were all routed out of the SO when he turned 15 when he and a several other youngsters were considered walking time bombs for the church. The parents of the other kids remained in the SO as their minor children were released to non-SO families in the Los Angeles field. My wife and I were routed out of the SO with our son (as we were in the RPF and considered to be only a notch or two above pond scum) and the other kids' parents (actively on post and still considered valuable) were kept in and convinced that they should have their kids given to public Scientologists as their guardians. These kids were our son's old friends from the ranch. When they heard that we were out, they "blew" the homes of these non-SO families and came to live with us instead. For about two years we housed as many as 13 children of SO members, doing our best to keep them busy and out of serious trouble.

There was some common denominators of these children.

1. They cared A LOT about each other. They grew up with each other and with very little contact with anyone else: not their parents, not other children; just each other. (As the PAC ranch was a two to three hour drive from PAC, and the only time a parent could spend with them was during the Sunday morning you were supposed to be cleaning your berthing, most parents were very rarely able to see their kids, even in the best of circumstances it was much less often than once a week, and then only for an hour or so.)

2. At least for the first couple of years at least after they left, they all had a difficult time getting along with others outside of their group. (I have heard that most of them have pretty much gotten over that since.) Another was that they were all almost completely uneducated. None of them could decently read or write; none of them knew anything about history, math, etc.)

3. They also had incredibly poor at-the-dinner-table manners. They did not know how to hold on to utensils and many of them would eat with their hands, even things like casseroles. I think that this is because they grew up eating at tables with just each other to model their behavior. There was no adult at the table with them showing them how it's done. Might sound minor, but it would really result in some shocked looks when we would go out to eat together!

4. They knew very little of current popular culture, other than that they were current on pop music (they had radio available to them, but TV was banned) and some were pretty decent skateboarders.

5. They also completely completely completely (more than any group of people I have ever encountered) rebelled against adult authority (not all in all a bad thing!)

But the thing that I want to point out about this in regards to Quinn is that the PAC ranch totally sucked at teaching their kids anything, beyond hauling things around, minor construction skills and doing para-military drills (like standing at attention and marching around and all the phoney SO/Naval stuff designed to indoctrinate you into being controlled.)

Perhaps the Int Ranchers fared better. At their site, the "alumni" there say that everyone got personal attention. I think that it was a lot better staffed there.

But Quinn's poor grammar is a product of the understaffed and overwhelmed PAC ranch, I think. (I am not entirely sure that Quinn was ever at the ranch. I think that one of the people in the Alumni video on their site is Quinn's brother, so maybe Quinn had bee an Int Rancher.) There was also a school program at PAC for the minors who were recruited from the ranch to come to PAC to be on staff, ostensibly to get them caught up on their schooling, that was also a complete failure at teaching anyone anything. Perhaps Quinn might have attempted that.

But it is very unlikely that Quinn as any school education at all beyond about the 6th grade. Looking at it in that wise, his letter is something he could be proud of. At least, with some effort on the part of the reader, it's intelligible.

the above is a reply to Tony Oertega's Sunday Funnies regarding Quinn Topher's mailer to other scions looking for more fundraising money original link

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SCIENTOLOGY'S "CELEBRITY" MAGAZINE WILL MAKE ME FAMOUS

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All this time I’d been relying on my incredible talent, my very white teeth, banging ugly wealthy people, and just a little bit of luck, and now I know the real reason why I’m not yet mega-famous. L. Ron Hubbard explains it in the opening story of the recent issue of Celebrity, another official publication by the Church of Scientology that was sent to me accidentally in the mail.

“If you’re going to ‘increase somebody’s ability,’ give up,” begins the story, written some time ago by LRH himself. “It’s a lie. You see, I mean it’s a lie that you’re going to increase anybody’s ability. You increase instead their ability to demonstrate their ability. The ability is always there, but something happens to the ability to demonstrate it. See? That’s a little bit slippy, but it’s for sure the route.” Oh yes. FOR SURE.

He’s basically speaking like an insane person, but as he continues, what he means makes some sense—discernable not in his sexist and condescending innuendo, but through some creative and compensatory reading between the lines. It all boils down to owning it, every last atom of your sparkling awesomeness, and allowing yourself the freedom to limitlessly exude it. That’s actually a pretty good message… except it comes at a price.

“Strip away the things holding you back in life” with such courses as Life Repair™Processing, Purification Program®, Scientology® Drug Rundown, Objectives Processing, and Happiness Rundown®. Those seem to be the basics. Then you get ARC Straightwire® Processing to address memory issues, Grade 0: Communications Release™, and a whole slew of others. There are all sorts of things in here designed to inspire us to greatness. Who is on the side of weakness, of low self-esteem and decreased ability? Not I, LRH. See more below:

None of this is really shocking, or new. By now we all know that this religion is all about enhancing superiority of the self, and there's a ton of crazy lingo--and what's the difference between that, any mode of psychotherapy, metaphysics, another religion, or the language you and your twin made up when you were eight to get out of eating mushroom casserole?

It's the money, and the predatory way of collecting it. (Again, not breaking news.) Scientology likes to constantly remind you that you're a worm. A mere human with so many problems you'll never be successful, or even just OK, unless you are Clear, achievable only through their expensive programs. That unless you do all this, you will never be truly great as a creative person--a type that is specifically targeted by Scientology. LRH describes artists and makers and public figures as “a cut above Man. That they were born this way and were not audited to it does not make them less higher beings. He who can truly communicate to others is a higher being who builds new worlds.”

Hence this magazine. Which is super boring. There's one long interview in here, with Nick Ferguson, former NFL safety who played for three teams, who's currently doing... I don't know what, but he explains how Scientology made him OK with that.

Specifically, the ARC Triangle and the Doctrine of the Stable Datum blew his mind. “I started seeing through pieces of tech what had been happening in my marriage and what had been happening in my career,” he says. “I did the Purification Program. The things that happened in the sauna were crazy. Talk about sunburn! I had a really bad sunburn in my face that came out in the sauna. Every time I was in my shower shoes, there was this white chemical residue that would wash out. Certain types of scents started to come out of my skin.”

Detox is an awesome and disgusting thing, and saunas are really excellent for assisting in removing horrible shit out of your body. But I can promise you that sunburns do not come out of your face.

Scientology “allowed me to get control of my fear and most importantly, my confront," he says. "It allowed me to confront, not just myself, but confront the judges, the stage, the executives from major networks and a room full of people." I know when I'm chilling on the grass, feeling really peaceful/confrontational, my appearance mirrors his: relaxing body pose plus grimace and furrowed brow.

Besides the money/self-worth thing, Scientology appeals to one's desire to be recognized for artistic talent, to succeed and rise to fame. (It's no surprise it's so big in Hollywood, with all us "hopefuls" running around, trying to catch our big breaks.) Once you're on the path to becoming Clear(/dump enough money into their hole), you get to hang out with other famous people, “rub elbows,” as Ferguson puts it, in the Celebrity Centre. It’s networking. That’s how you get jobs. And once you start doing that, the big payoff is landing an item in their celebrity update section in the back of the magazine:

Totally worth a few hundred thousand dollars and a good brain scrub.

COUNTDOWN TO ETERNITY

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In honor of the release of Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, The Master, VICE will be cherry-picking articles from our vault of the peculiar and grotesque that have to do with strange sects and cults. Keep checking VICE.com throughout the week as we roll out more of these oldies but creepies.

Everyone I know in Los Angeles lowers his or her voice when they talk about Scientology. This religion does more or less run Hollywood, and Hollywood pretty much runs Los Angeles, so people don’t fuck around with Scientologists. Like the mafia, they always find out and they never forget. Scientology is like heroin at this point: You know damn well what you’re getting into when you start to tangle with it, and if you choose to go down that route or date someone who does, well, that’s your problem. Mention Scientology or heroin to almost anyone, and they’ve got a story to tell. This one’s mine.

I still receive mail addressed to the prior tenants of my home. And guess what? Not only do they work within an educational institution, apparently they’re also Scientologists. This weekend my mailbox received the latest issue of International Scientology News, a magazine rounding up all the accomplishments of the previous year and looking forward to what’s to come in 2012. In fact, this one is called, in gold foil lettering, “Countdown to Eternity: Celebrate the Year of Source.” Score! I am totally not supposed to have this.

Scientologists are known as propagandist, pushy folk, which I’m sure to them seems like they’re simply emphatic about their religion. To most of the rest of us though, it’s a big turnoff. I ran into a gaggle of them manning a booth full of copies of Dianetics at a conference on spirituality and it was like a mantra: “Buythebook. Buythebook. HeydidImentionbuythebook.” Out of curiosity, I got an E-meter audit, that process where you hold on to two tin can-like thingies wired to a box that looks like a seismograph, and they ask you a bunch of questions to determine how fucked up you are. The guy delivering the test basically tried to get me to talk about my problems by way of manufacturing them for me. Still, I answered my questions sincerely. Once discovering I’m gay, he insisted my parents must have a problem with that/me (they don’t), and couldn’t get a reaction out of the machine until he fiddled with the dials a lot. Once the needle jumped across the numbers, he was like, and I am paraphrasing liberally, “Aha! See? You’re trapped. We can help.” No thanks, it’s cool.

I feel sorry for anyone who’s actually homophobic because it implies mental retardation; therefore, I have no huge personal beef with Scientology. I actually think the faith part, from what I’ve read, is pretty right-on: optimizing the body’s health through nutrition and purification and exercise; doing good inside your community; taking responsibility for yourself; clearing your emotional issues so you no longer react and instead are free to respond and disarm charged situations. Even the shit that sounds crazy to most people--i.e., that this planet is a dumping ground for all kinds of energetic and emotional refuse and extra-terrestrial lurkers, all of which are disembodied entities looking for human victims to latch on to--seems pretty accurate to me.

On the other hand, they take the “clearing” bit too far, encouraging one to be not just clear, but empty, and not in that Buddhist sense of liberation and reconciliation called śūnyatā. I’m talking straight-up gray alien cold removal, a vessel of nothing, totally nothing. This is the opposite of spiritual freedom, which is full of light, although "spiritual freedom" is their platform.

Plus, all that stuff where they abuse members, idolize their guru L. Ron Hubbard (aka LRH), prey on vulnerabilities to suck people dry financially, and generally kind of terrorize Los Angeles in their big black cars (one chased down my friends, who were on foot and lost, through an industrial zone one time) and helicopters, and hating gays, is a little problematic. Though once again, there’s been enough information about all this disseminated that if you still sign up, you kind of have it coming. If Scientology didn’t brainwash you, something else would.

Anyway, let’s really crack this thing open and take a look inside…

A headline written by the 1 percent.

Slamming down their acronyms across the globe.

Narconon is a drug detox and rehabilitation program based on L. Ron Hubbard’s theories on health, which the program's website openly talks about. This issue of International Scientology News doesn't explicitly discuss this. They talk about Narconon’s achievements as a separate unit while subtly intermingling the program’s logos with their own.

ISN tells the success story of an outreach center that opened in South Texas incorporating Narconon drug rehabilitation, where graduates then move on to a second phase of life coaching and become affiliated with Texas Border Patrol. So we’ve got burgeoning young Scientologists shooting first and asking questions later. The story boasts “That is the substance of what prompted a Certificate of Appreciation to Narcanon South Texas for outstanding contributions to the Rio Grande Valley, signed by Customs and Border Protection of the US Border Patrol.”

This was all noted on the front page of a local Texas newspaper called The Valley Morning Star, the image of which is included as art for the ISN story. If you squint enough, you can see The Valley Morning Star published these accomplishments on May 21, 2011. Searching the archives of the Valley Morning Star, however, a more recent story about this rehab center, initially called The Bridge, pops up. On July 2, 2011, it was reported that upon insistence of the Church of Scientology (citing trademark issues), the center changed its name. The Bridge in Scientology specifically refers to the state of mind one achieves once a person is "clear"; it is also the name of the church’s publishing entity. The feature in International Scientology Newsclaims the center “was specifically dubbed the Outreach Center,” which it most certainly was not. Why are they simultaneously trying to show off to members about their ever-broadening influence while publically distancing themselves from their own achievements?

On to the next story, headlined “Replacing Corruption with TRUST & DIGNITY.” In short, it describes how implementation of their rhetoric has transformed specific divisions of the Peruvian National Police force. These divisions include neighborhood security, traffic control, a Watchman’s Unit of barrio patrolmen, municipal police working in impoverished neighborhoods, and transit police. They’re officially distributing Scientologists’ The Way to Happiness throughout jurisdictional channels. One colonel conducted “seminars at the police-supported soccer clubs, primarily formed on behalf of barrio kids who might otherwise run with backstreet dogs.” And this all culminated in a plaque and award of honor from the Peruvian National Police.

From here it just keeps on going, citing the people of Nepal as “first cousins to Scientologists” who live within a broken educational system that Scientology-sponsored programs are fixing all over the country, from academies in Kathmandu to rice farming villages in remote areas.

Next up: Mormon HQ, Salt Lake City, where Scientology has infiltrated the city’s lucrative copper mining business. One of the city’s most potent copper mining companies, Kaltech, is apparently a division of Scientologists’ work program, called LRH Admin Tech. Before hiring anyone, this company first tests a prospective employee’s Personal Potential Analysis, a Scientologist “aptitude” test, which seems like it must break some non-descrimination laws. Whomever passes is then fully inducted in Scientologists’ religious work program procedure, which apparently optimizes workflow and output. “In a world of raw power and elemental energy,” the story concludes, “it’s a saga of unqualified prosperity, for not only has Kaltech expanded tenfold since founding, but thanks to LRH Admin Tech it’s the number one mill relining firm on Earth.”

One racist font after another, we continue throughout the world in this surprisingly decently written magazine to southern Africa, where Grand Safari Events is superimposing animal spotting and wilderness training with Scientologist Admin Tech framework. On to a bakery in southern Austria once in the recessions of economic collapse, now flourishing under the tenets of Scientology’s business program. We go even further, into Costa Rica, where they showed “how a mission can plant a flag, start a wildfire and begin the clearing of a nation.” Scientologists also did some stuff in Taiwan, John Travolta went to a Scientologist Center opening in his hometown in Florida, blah blah blah.

There are all these weird game show images with amazing logos that look like digital polished brass or ice with numbers boasting shit I do not understand:

It turns into a super boring shelter mag for a second, talking about lots of ribbons falling and doors flinging open as new centers crop up all over the place…

And then it gets juicy again.

Chairman of the Board, Religious Training Center, Mr. David Miscavige delivers a speech to the attendees of what appears to be a glorious New Year’s Eve gala. In the electric words written, outlining his speech, you can sense through the pages that his delivery was so powerful that the crowd hushed and listened with such intensity they surely almost forgot to breathe.

“Fact,” he says. “What you will witness through the next few months fulfills every nuance of meaning in that word historic. As in, you will soon see a greater number of new Ideal Orgs than ever in our history. While even more than that, those orgs will form an unbroken chain of delivery across the Western World… And yes, even out to the doorstep of China.”

He continues:

“Then again, you’ll also see a Golden Age of Tech Phase II designed to ripple out across the sea of humanity and turn this planet into no less than a platform for Global Clearing. And if by chance I still haven’t piqued your interest, you will further see the unveiling of our Mecca as a twenty-first century Scientology Cathedral. After which, you’ll be afforded vistas not seen since the first tick of time.”

Wait, there’s more! In addition to glowing verbiage about the Sea Org program, where “theta reigns and the considerations of MEST barriers such as time and space lose their grip on a being,” we see LRH lectures in action…

Among adults…

And children, such as a troop of Boy Scouts. (I wonder what the badge looked like for this?):

We are left with some knowledge.

And a directive.

Final notes on ISN #52: Setting precedents in empowerment, literacy, and peace is a fantastic thing. To rescue those in need and surreptitiously feed them your rhetoric, they will naturally associate wellness with your agenda, when in reality, those may be two separate things. The nature of altruism is to serve as its own reward, and this is not a comment reserved for Scientologists. Uplifting, supporting, and providing compassion is pure only when it is unconditional. Otherwise, you do no real service for anyone but yourself.

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"...... SOMETHING SOMETHING, DIRTY THETANS".... MEDIA GETTING MORE AND MORE CLUED UP ON CULT SPEAK.... PLUS CHER RIPS TOMMY GIRL A NEW ONE BY PROXY... SORT OF

Tom Cruise Did Cher Good, So Says Cher

June 28, 2013 / Posted by: Michael K

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Two years before Tommy Girl married Mimi Rogers and took his first steps in becoming one of Scientology’s highest-ranking bridge empresses, he screwed around with Cher for a minute. Tommy was a fetus-faced 23 year old and Cher was 39 years old with the skin of a couple of fetuses stapled to her face. Even though that was ten million faces ago for Cher, she still remembers it and squirts out a little barley syrup when she thinks of all the times the tips of Tommy’s toes rubbed against her inner thighs as he gave it to her missionary style.

On last night’s Watch What Happens Live (via People), Andy Cohen played a little game of Truth or Cher (I CAN’T!) with Cher and asked her who out of all her lovers (including Schonny Bono, David Geffen, Gregg Allman, Val Kilmer, etc….) was the best lover. Cher let that question marinate on her brain for a second before Andy Cohen asked her about Tommy. The boys in the Scientology bathhouse all screamed and snapped for Tommy when Cher said that he was in her top 5.

I really wish Andy Cohen had Cher on his show on Wednesday night and I really wish I would’ve seen it live. Because watching Cher tell Andy Cohen that Tommy Girl was one of her top 5 lovahs while wearing a Beetlejuice suit and sitting in front of Donny & Marie dolls would’ve been the greatest and gayest way to celebrate the fall of DOMA.

And here’s Cher (looking like the Queen of the Damned’s memaw), Andy Cohen and Susanne Bartsch at the opening night of Q Thursday at Marquee in NYC last night.

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It was a special night on Bravo last night, as Cher stopped by the Clubhouse and endured Andy Cohen.

Andy asks Cher about her famous Twitter account, and specifically, to … explain it.

From Meryl to Elvis to a pre-Scientology Tom Cruise, Cher talks about her famous co-stars and relationships.

The best stuff usually happens during the After Show, and in the extended Part One, Cher talks about her future in films, Chaz, Chad Michaels, and hair.

Here’s Part Two, with special guest Anderson Cooper and his giggle.

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful….

June 28, 2013 / Posted by: Michael K

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Once the bald Shih Tzu whose hair was used to make a wig for John Travolta stops shivering, it should be grateful that it has the ability to grow hair and can help Scientology’s sexiest pin-up (sorry, Kirstie Alley) take his glamour and beauty to the next level. With ten jars of Bonne Bell foundation smeared across his face and half of the Westminster Dog Show on top of his head, John Travolta graced the opening of Breitling’s flagship store in London with his presence. David Beckham was also there, but as Nancy Pelosi would say, “Who cares?”  John Travolta’s wig > Becks

I’ve always made fun of John Travolta’s busted down, tragic wigs and hairpieces, but I can’t make fun of this one. Not since the Red Sea has there been such a glorious part and those fake dandruff balls (or maybe those are dried cum flakes) add an authentic touch. We also have to give him a standing ovation for that under-chin goatee. If you turn your head upside down and look at his chin, it kind of looks like a fat Shar Pei wearing an oversized yarmulke made of hair. That under-chin fur patch isn’t only a beauty statement, it’s also highly functional. Do you know how many taints and nutsacks were exfoliated with that thing? There’s a lot of smooth taints out there and they owe it all to John Travolta’s loofah patch.

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Please don't weave me: John Travolta's longer new style looks a little hair-raising

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John Travolta’s hair has always seemed to have a mind of its own, and at a party in London’s Mayfair, Travolta’s barnet seemed to want to make a break for freedom.

Travolta has famously gone from his lush dark locks, to balding - and regularly wears a weave and several differing hairpieces.

On a night out in London’s Mayfair close-up shots of Travolta seemed to show he has gone for the belt and braces method, with a wig sitting on top of a weave.

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Weaving to the crowd: John Travolta smiles as he leaves a Mayfair restaurant on a promotional tour for Breitling watches

I'm right hair: John looked smart in a dark blue suit, and pretty fresh-faced

Wigging out: Travolta's hairline looked a little strange up close

The film star, 59, looked smartly dressed as he joined David Beckham for the launch of the new flagship store for watch brand Breitling on Thursday.

He had a navy blue suit with a matching blue tie – but maybe spent more time on his attire than on his hair.

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Perhaps Travolta felt a little in the shadow of his co-star at the Breitling opening David Beckham, who was equally smartly dressed and of course has a fine, full head of hair. 

John Travolta emerges from the mist as he's joined by Beckham

My hair was once this long: Travolta chats to David Beckham at the launch of the watch store in London

Travolta also sported some facial furniture in the form of a tiny black goatee beard at the function. Perhaps it is in preparation for his next film, as notorious mobster John Gotti Snr in Gottee: In The Shadow Of My Father, which also stars his real-life spouse Kelly Preston.

Travolta’s hair line has moved up and down regularly over recent years. In 2011 he was pictured on the beach with no wig or weave in sight, apparently happy to let the world see he had gone bald. Since then he has opted for everything from close-cropped weaves to full lush wigs at various showbiz events.

It’s all a long way from Travolta’s early days, when he had a full, lush head of hair in his early films such as Saturday Night Fever. He famously had a tremendous quiff for his starring role in Grease.

Captain Travolta: John, a qualified pilot, poses with sexy hostesses at the launch

He has often solved his balding problem in the traditional way – with either a baseball cap or, in the film Wild Hogs, with a bandana.

Travolta had a busy day in London’s posh New Bond Street district opening the Breitling store. He met Beckham, mingled with Breitling's owner, Theodore Schneider at a party before going on to dinner in Mayfair.

John, who is a pilot as well as an actor, posed outside the shop flanked by a dozen women dressed in sexy flight attendant outfits.

Hair bear: Travolta had plenty of growth in his Saturday Night Fever days

They all posed for photos in the street before Travolta then cut the ribbon to officially name the shop open.

The 59-year-old actor recently attended a screening of his newest feature Killing Season at the British Film Institute in London's South Bank.

And it wasn't just a simple screening, as Travolta was also available for a Question & Answer session.

Killing Season also stars Robert DeNiro as Benjamin Ford.

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