Empire of the Odd

The Illustrious Lord Rick, a buffalo NY, to Florida to Las Vegas transplant has some serious butthurt these days. The Internet is serious business and no one knows that more than Lord Rick!

OK, so he made a couple of bus forays to into unknown places in Georgia (like Savanna) . Slept on park benches after his bus ride, wandered around old graveyards. Bummed smokes off of people….. We call this vagrancy here in the Odd Empire but Lord Rick calls it an expedition. I don’t know what he found! I don’t want to know to tell you the truth. (He probably got crabs.)

But then! Lord Rick moved away from sunny Florida to Sin City Nevada, he felt Daytona Beach was too provincial for him I guess. (Daytona is not well thought of anywhere in the Odd Empire either.)

So he tried California but found too many panhandlers over there, too much competition? He didn’t do much, just some podcasts where he can be heard selling drugs. Not much else. But never let it be said that we forget our hero the Mullet Messiah! He showed up at his in-laws in Vegas and he’s back and raring to start yet another blog war, or pod cast war….. some kind of war!

Yippee Lord Rick!

Last night he had an opportunity to cry about his “hate groups” (like this web page.) Particularly upsetting to Lord Rick a page that someone else set up

He go so upset that he decided to make some shit up .

Rick decided that

1) Somebody called his podcast last week and threatened his kids. (Although I have yet to find the podcast, Rick…help please?)

2) He offers some muddy audio as “proof.” Like all those photos of smoke that are proof of ghosts.

3) I, the Odd Emperor is principally responsible for anyone who has posted on that hate page, – about six or seven people and now his big plan is to bully the Odd Emperor in to making them shut the hell up! That’s exactly the same kind of logic L Ron Hubbard uses, do you suppose?

(Naaa, Lord Rick is no Scientologist,  most  nut balls add two + two and get 84. It comes with the territory! )

Eerrrr?

There was a podcast last week?

In Rick’s normal style he spins a paranoid sounding tale about how EVERYONE is after him, even though he’s such a great and wonderful paranormal investigator, and lover and father and superhero and ghost-buster and demon killer and god….. ..blaa…blaa…blaa…!

Now he’s going to embarrass people and all that.

Get the popcorn! Lord Rick is on the warpath (again.) (yawn!)

I suppose that I should get really vengeful and post some smack on his butthurt blog , I haven’t as of yet, not very much. I have been working on a compendium of Lord Rick content on the Internet. From the looks of it, that’s going to take me a while !

Work-work-work; that’s all I ever do sometimes!

One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents’ bedroom closet and shot himself in the head. The next morning, Mitchell’s school assembled in the gym to begin mourning. His classmates created a virtual memorial on MySpace and garlanded it with remembrances. One wrote that Mitchell was “an hero to take that shot, to leave us all behind. God do we wish we could take it back. . . . ” Someone e-mailed a clipping of Mitchell’s newspaper obituary to MyDeathSpace.com, a Web site that links to the MySpace pages of the dead. From MyDeathSpace, Mitchell’s page came to the attention of an Internet message board known as /b/ and the “trolls,” as they have come to be called, who dwell there.

/b/ is the designated “random” board of 4chan.org, a group of message boards that draws more than 200 million page views a month. A post consists of an image and a few lines of text. Almost everyone posts as “anonymous.” In effect, this makes /b/ a panopticon in reverse — nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center. The anonymous denizens of 4chan’s other boards — devoted to travel, fitness and several genres of pornography — refer to the /b/-dwellers as “/b/tards.”

Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand.

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This was Copied from Enturbulation.org by poster “exOT8Michael.” I have no way of knowing if this is accurate other than my own experiences with Scientology members and many-many hours of reading their material. Based on what I’ve seen, this is spot-on and should be carefully read read by anyone who has even a smidgen of sympathy for Scientology and their methods. (hear that Reagan?)

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I need to repost this as a new thread as it originally got lost in some confusion. There is a message in here which this OG wants to share with Anonymous. This is about the dangers of the content of the NON religion of Scientology. It has nothing to do with beliefs, as Scientology has no “faith” or beliefs, just “Tech”, orders issued by Hubbard and management and “Public Relations” in its money-focused commercial activities.

Thanks.

[If this is tl/dr go get get delicious cake, put longcat on your lap, sit down and read it anyhow. Purrrrrrrrrrr]
Yes you DO need to read this.

I have been seeing a lot of posts on the sites around Anonymous’ valiant efforts about Scientology vs Church of Scientology.

I would like to post this as my take on it from over 33 years of experience with and in Scientology.
My own story is already posted at Michael Pattinson’s Experiences in Scientology, MPES – View from the end of Scientology’s the bridge to total freedom so that is not what this is about.

Scientology is the brainchild of L.Ron Hubbard, former science fiction writer. He formed Scientology back in 1954. He died (living in hiding as “Jack Mitchell” in Creston, California in 1986 under suspicious circumstances and in possession of suitcases full of money (in the millions of dollars). All that is adequately covered in the Google archives under “alt.religion.scientology” newsgroup and its search engine. The San Luis Obispo Coroners report on Hubbard is particularly interesting…

Hubbard’s intention was to “clear the planet”. This is a permanent motto of Scientology and is firmly embedded in the Church (so-called) of Scientology. Clearing the planet means making a 100% Scientology world so that mankind’s mental aberrations stemming from pain and unconsciousness and existing as dead space aliens infesting human bodies (as defined by Hubbard as the “reactive mind”, or the reactive “bank”) could be cleared away.

In the context of the Cold War Hubbard used the highly dangerous world nuclear risk as a prod to use fear about the future to get loyalty, money and staff to do the things he wanted done. He wrote a series of letters defining his strictest, highly enforceable policies and in particular one called “Keeping Scientology Working Series #1” or “KSW Number 1” (Tom Cruise was referring to this letter in his now infamous cult-fanatic video rave which sparked off the Anonymous actions against Scientology).

KSW #1 is something like the spinal column of the body of Scientology, except that it is not flexible. It runs through every course, every technical correction, every auditing (counseling) session and every action real Scientologists MUST MUST MUST take to remain within the group. It is the determining policy that is the foundation of every other Scientology policy and technical action.

So, as you can understand this policy would have determined the kind of world that Scientology had every intention of creating. What you probably don’t yet understand is what Earth would be like if Scientology ruled the world. Let me give you an idea of that kind of lifestyle that we were all headed for if Scientology had had its way and taken it all over like an unstoppable virus.

There are 10 main points written about in KSW #1. They are all about Hubbard technology and how flawless it is and how to not let it EVER get diluted, changed, altered in any way, etc under penalty of being ex-communicated (declared a Suppressive Person) and losing one’s entire future for eternity (yes, no kidding). The whole message is that if a Scientologist fails to apply the 10 points of KSW #1 then they will fail Mankind and everyone on the planet will surely die. This is no exaggeration. That is what Scientologists very firmly believe. it is Hubbard gospel and they KNOW he was right about everything.

Ok, so with that in mind all Scientologists are duty bound to apply the 10 points of KSW #1 with their lives and to the death if necessary. They are trained, brainwashed and indoctrinated to be total fanatics about this matter. Tom Cruise showed himself to have fallen into exactly the mindset I am talking about, and I am grateful to him for showing it so graphically and convincingly.

Now, my main difficulty here in writing this for people who have never studied Scientology is to convey the degree of blind fanaticism and unthinking forceful motivation that Hubbard and the Church of Scientology have implanted into Scientologists. It is very deep and firmly embedded to the point of being equivalent to the nazi type of world domination intentions.

In summary, the 10 points have to do with making sure Hubbard’s unique technology is available, never altered, applied exactly as written, made mandatory upon everyone, smashed into the culture by eliminating EVERY OTHER TECHNOLOGY THAT IS NOT HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY TECHNOLOGY (he uses the word hammered out of existence as applied to anyone else’s technology than his own brand). The whole paranoid Scientolgy fight against psychiatry and psychology is an example of what I mean and this is severe enough, but is only the tip of the iceberg at this point in time.

The fanatic mindset of Scientology AND the “Church” of Scientology (both, not just one) MUST take control of every part of society per Hubbard’s orders. Otherwise (they believe) Mankind will destroy itself due to not having Hubbard technology applied EVERYWHERE.
The following may appear to be a huge exaggeration but it is not. Ask other long time ex-members to give it some thought and to comment. I welcome their input.

So, if Scientology ruled the world this is a bit (not all) of what you would get: (please be seated to read this)

NO other books which deal with the mind, the spirit, self-improvement, business administration, ethics, morals or therapy of any kind would be permitted to exist at all. This would include The Bible, The Koran, The Tora, any other religious text of any kind. Sea Org members, all in their spiffy fake navy uniforms would storm-troop the Mosques, Synagogues, Cathedrals etc and burn or shred every other religious text they could get their hands on. It would also include all medical books, prescription drug-related books, manuals and directions.

There would be NO TV, NO internet, NO radio or newspapers and any magazines would only be Scientology magazines. Scientologists are ALREADY forbidden to have these in many places. For them this is already their daily lifestyle.

Freedom of speech would be zero. Only approved Hubbard-compliant talk, writing or communication would be tolerated. It is already like this within the Sea Organization. Any contrary beliefs or thoughts (and you get found out on the e-meter) are subject to severe and forceful “ethics” sanctions, punishments, enslavements and expulsion into the nothingness of excommunication.

Sex would be a crime. Hubbard wrote that sex and pain are the inventions of psychiatry to smash down the spirit of humans. He said sex is a psychiatric weapon against mankind. Being in pain would be a crime as it would mean that you are being influenced by the Hubbard-Scientology arch-enemy psychiatry! You would have to see which of your family members or friends are poisoning you with psychiatric influences and then you would disconnect them from your life and from the Scientology society.

I could go on as there are plenty of further insane idiocies that would be part of your daily lifestyle if EITHER Scientology or the “Church” of Scientology are allowed to spread their “Hubbard Virus” across the world further. The Scientology mindset is a mental VIRUS. It spreads through being trusting while close to a Scientologist and believing KSW #1.

Hopefully this post and other important posts by ex members who know what they are talking about will act as a kind of vaccination.

So, when I see or hear Anonymous and others saying “Well, we are against the Church of Scientology, but Scientology is maybe OK” I feel very strongly that I want to sit down with them, have some delicious cake and explain exactly what I mean till they totally get it about what I have explained above. I suppress my “What the F*** are you thinking??” That is because I know that these wonderful people of Anonymous have never had this explained before. So, here it is. Both Scientology and the Church of Scientology are the same viral carrier.

What we need to do is clear the planet of the Hubbard virus. Anybody agree?

I am the Odd Emperor and I approve of this message!

“To hell with this society. We are building a new one………”L Ron Hubbard “

The controversial church, whose founder called shrinks “terrorists” and which labels mental illness a fraud, is closer than you think to implanting its extreme beliefs in the nation’s laws and schools.

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Jul 1, 2005 | It may be easy to dismiss Tom Cruise’s recent outbursts against psychiatry as the ravings of an egomaniacal celebrity. Comedians have certainly had a field day with Cruise, a fervent disciple of the Church of Scientology, ever since he scolded Brooke Shields for taking prescribed medication to treat her postpartum depression and lectured Matt Lauer, host of the “Today” show, that psychiatry was a “pseudoscience” and antidepressant drugs were worthless because there is “no such thing as a chemical imbalance.” “No?” wisecracked Lewis Black on “The Daily Show,” watching a video clip of Cruise berating Lauer, “Then what do you call what’s happening to you right now?”

But the Church of Scientology’s war on psychiatry is no joke. For decades, Scientologists have maintained that the very notion of mental illness is a fraud. They base this belief on the views of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, who proclaimed that psychiatry was an evil enterprise, a form of terrorism, and the cause of crime. Now, they’re attempting to enshrine their contempt for psychiatry in laws across the country.

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Two videos have come my way. Like the last few they were dropped on the fine Imperial slate-stone doorstep by persons unknown. Stuffed in a plain manila envelope labeled “For Great Justice!” they apparently come from someone who hangs out in Downtown Clearwater far more than is healthy.

The first one is a puzzling conversation with someone, did he really say “I got paid 100 dollars to protest FOR Scientology?

This one is utterly fake, I know Marcab high command would never send a brief in this form. They are usually very serious…. perhaps I’ve been away too long?

Some quotes from L. Ron Hubbard’s booklet, “The Way to Happiness”:

“6. Set a Good Example”
“9. Don’t Do Anything Illegal”
“13. Do Not Steal”
“19. Try Not to Do Things to Others That You Would Not Like Them to Do to You”
“20. Try to Treat Others as You Would Want Them to Treat You”

And here to demonstrate “The Way to Happiness” are Scientology members “Mutt and Jeff” from Battle Creek MI.

By Bruce Walker
web posted July 14, 2008

The weak vital signs of free speech has been a hot topic lately.  What is happening outside America is more frightening than what is happening within America.  Mark Steyn in Canada faces legal harassment from “human rights” commissions for impugning, allegedly, Muslims.  Reverend Stephen Boisson, also in our neighbor to the north,  has been ordered to stop expressing his Biblically-based views of homosexuality “in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the Internet.”  Canada has language similar to our Bill of Rights, but Canadian ideologues and bureaucrats ignore any Canadian heritage of free speech.

Bridget Bardot has been fined again this June by French courts for objecting to the way Muslims treat animals.  This was her fifth prosecution for the crime of saying what she believes.  Bardot has been sentenced to prison, with the sentence suspended, for simply stating that Islam is cruel to animals. The state prosecutor has complained that the court needs to impose a harsher sentence on the starlet next time for saying what she believes.

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I ran across this from the deeply spammed alt.religion.scientology SIG. Normally I don’t comment on Scientology weblogs, boring things they are.

This fellow has got some interesting stuff. Mostly he blathers about how Scientology is the best-best-best-BEST THING EVAH! Sure! Once and awhile he talks about other things, he gives us a glimpse of the world he lives in. He tells us what he thinks of the world outside of Scientology.

Now that is interesting stuff!

From My Scientology Blog

“There seems to be a lot of hullabaloo about the school that Will Smith and his wife Jada are opening. Because the school uses the study technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard some news reports are calling it a “Scientology” school.

My guess is they are calling it that for two reasons:
• Ignorance
• So they can make it sound “Controversial” to “sell more papers”

Neither reason is forgivable. Both reasons are a betrayal of the public trust given to the media and a threat to freedom of speech. Every inaccurate report in the media gives fuel to those who wish to curb that right.”

Ignorance or acknowledging that the newspaper business is a “business?” That’s unforgivable?

I’d say guess again!

There might be another reason. Perhaps-perhaps it is just possible that Study Technology is not as effective as other methods, and (let us not forget) Scientology has got a bad reputation, one that gets worse by the day. Anything associated with Scientology is going to have a bad taste and there is no conspiracy about it. Scientology has brought all of their current problems on themselves. That’s not just my opinion BTW.

The media is not making it sound controversial, it is controversial. It would be controversial no matter who said it. The media is simply passing along a newsworthy story. They are as a matter of fact, doing what they are supposed to do. A newspaper’s “public trust” is whether or not it brings interesting content to the public and keep their advertisers happy by getting people to read their paper. They put in interesting stories, I.E. stories that have some sort of conflict. People often find conflict interesting.

What is the story on the Will Smith school?

Scientology is controversial, so is anything associated with it. Will Smith’s school is using Scientology “Study Tech.”

Why is that controversial, I mean really; why does anyone give a flying fig what Scientology wants or does?

It’s complicated, but I will try to sum it up as simply as I can. Scientology teaches people that they are superior to normal humans. It teaches that they are superior. It teaches that, only by being a Scientologist can one become a super-being, a homos-Novus.

However, the evidence would suggest otherwise, Scientology low level courses appear to remove critical thinking skill and indoctrinate people into a Scientology group-think. One that is very suspicious of anything outside of Scientology and one that reflexively validates people for acts of recursive self-deception.

In other words, people are encouraged to lie to themselves.

The result is lots and lots of boorish, overconfident people who don’t seem to have the slightest idea of what they are doing.

Remember that Holiday Inn Express ad campaign?
(Person 1) ‘That’s a man-eating grizzly bear! Don’t worry! Just scratch him behind the ears and he will calm down!”
(Person 2) “How do you know so much about bears?
(Person 1) I Don’t, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!”
(cue) Sound of people screaming and bear growls.

“Why ask permission? We are the authorities!” says Tom Cruise spouting official church doctrine.

This is just one thing that rubs people the wrong way.

This is why Will Smith’s opening a school that uses Study Tech is instantly controversial. Study Technology (based on works) presented by Science Fiction Writer L. Ron Hubbard (who had no formal training in education) flies in the face of standard education methodology.

Controversial? You bet!

Not to mention that Hubbard (apparently) didn’t even write study tech. Study Technology was written in the early 1990s, he died in the mid 1980s.

Hu? What? Where did it come from?

They explain it this way.

“His personal research projects comprise “major contributions to the prevention and cure of social ills such as drug addiction, crime, and illiteracy. His contributions in these areas have found widespread acceptance and use throughout the world in many sectors of society, including families, schools, businesses, governments and religious organizations[sic]… Although mainly known for his career as a writer, L Ron Hubbard was fully professional in many fields. His career as an educator spanned the globe and the decades from the 1920s to the 1980s. It spanned the lecture halls of Harvard University and the ships and crews he commanded and trained during WWII(sic), as well as the expedition crews he led as a member of the Explorer’s Club.” His research “formed the basis of entirely new subjects in the fields of mental science and religious philosophy.” He also recognised (sic) a collection of barriers to learning “apparently not previously recognised (sic) by educators, yet they proved to be the senior factors in all learning.”

(quoted in Magill magazine, June 2002)

So in other words, L. Ron Hubbard lectured a lot so that makes him an “educator” and if he’s an educator it stands to reason that he might have come up with a “wevolutunawy” new way to teach children, wait a moment… why HERE IT IS! We found it buried in one of his old suitcases!

Ya- sure-sure! I go back to my first statement on Scientology, If you can believe Hubbard could come up with a new form of Psychotherapy, you can believe almost anything.

Well; back to blogging guy.

(conventional education, ed) These methods are good methods and have helped us produce our current civilization but what about the poor guy who “just can’t get it”? The answers of the existing methods are: “you are stupid” or “you are not smart enough” or “get it or you will fail the class” or “if you fail you won’t get that well paid job.” or “you will end up flipping burgers for a living” or “you have a learning disability, take this drug so you won’t worry about it.” These are “blame the student” or “threaten the student” type solutions and are not very helpful.

Whoa-Nelly! First you admit that conventional education works, than you point out that it does not work for everyone, (Duh! Everyone in public-ed knows that! ) Then you imply that it’s the systems fault that the fellow on the street corner with a “will work for food” sign and a sixth grade education. Is it not also public education’s fault that most of his classmates probably went to become contributers to society? They are in fact the people he’s begging money from?

So; if someone fails to get themselves properly educated it’s the system’s fault.

No it’s not! It is a combination of things. Ultimately it is up to the individual to play the cards he or she is dealt. He is as much to blame for his predicament as the system; I would say he’s mostly to blame.

But I don’t go around blaming my problems on other people as a rule. Scientologists’ blame other people for their problems AS a rule!

“Study Technology has solutions to those things which stop you from understanding and being able to apply what you are studying. The problems of leaning (you mean learning (ed)) and education have been solved in Study Technology. That is a bold statement to make, but from personal experience I can tell you that it is a true statement.”

No; that’s a hyperbolic, over the top, sweeping statement, one which is almost completely without merit. So you think Study Tech is perfect just-coz it worked for you? Great! I wish your kids luck! They are going to need it if they plan to compete in this confusing, rapidly changing world. Study Tech might help people to read better in a somatic-rote sort of way but It (IMO) does not promote real comprehension and discourages original thought.

The bottom line is, Applied Scholastics and Study Tech are not magic pills to solve education problems. I’m sure they work for some people but it had nothing to do with the great strides in almost every field that humanity has enjoyed for the past six hundred years. Humanity’s advancement is about the adoption of the scientific processes, implantation of mass production techniques and engineering. Things are no longer done by the proclamations of one man. Truth has to be established by way of reproducible evidence, not in “what is true for you.”Get Study Tech some open debate, some study and peer review and then see if people accept it more. You can’t make people adopt it by attacking established education methods. All you can do is make it a topic of controversy. YOU make it a controversy, not the newspapers.

You do that by rejecting conventional wisdom and trying to reinvent the wheel. You do that by making wild claims without a shred of verifiable evidence. You do it by proclmaing everything one guy says is somehow true.

You do it by attacking people when they point these things out.

Scientology is a controversy machine.

So, controversial? Ohh yes and it will just be getting worse as time goes on.

My Scientology Blog

Rush & Malloy , from the Daily News.

Tuesday, July 1st 2008, 4:00 AM

Critics of Scientology say they plan another theatrical protest against the church – this time targeting its intelligence division.

The anti-Scientology group known as Anonymous says its July 12 “Spy vs. Sci” demonstration will be held in “cities all around the world,” according to a press release.

Anonymous members – who include former Scientologists – are focusing on alleged “abuses” of the church’s intelligence agency, known as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), says the release. It asks, “Why does something that describes itself as a religion need an intelligence agency that aggressively persecutes critics?”

According to the group, the OSA is charged with administering “justice and punishment” for the controversial faith, whose members include Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. The group charges that critics are “targeted, harassed, threatened and intimidated in an attempt to silence or punish them.”

“Most Scientologists are unaware of the functions of the OSA and accept what their leaders tell them about it,” says the release. “However, there is a growing body of evidence that OSA agents operate to attack perceived enemies by using infiltration, bribery, burglary and blackmail, in addition to threats, intimidation, assaults and worse.”

Due to fear of reprisals, Anonymous members are reluctant to give their names. One organizer, who goes by the nom de guerre of “93,” tells us the church has sent warning letters to “our more public members” calling them “‘terrorists.’ They’re attempting to stamp out our constitutional right to free speech.”

Scientology critic Mark Ebner charges that “armed private detectives hired by Scientology have invaded peaceful rallies.” A spokeswoman for the church didn’t return an e-mail seeking comment.

Last month in London, Sydney, Toronto and New York, Anonymous sponsored a pirate-theme protest that parodied Scientology’s private navy, the Sea Org. Or, as the demonstrators, called it, “Sea Aaargh.”

According to 93, protesters at the “Spy vs. Sci” rally will don costumes of characters like Austin Powers, James Bond and Modesty Blaise. What about that actor who starred in the “Mission: Impossible” movies?

“Nobody wants to be Tom Cruise,” she says.