First off I am sorry to hear you had to go through that. Divorce is wrenching enough on its own.

I’m glad to see you pointing out that many of the documents they make folks sign haven’t got a legal leg to stand on. “Freeloader” debt?! What utter BS.

Fascinating to see the difference in how $ci was treated in that article, compared to how they are portrayed today. Thanks in great part to Tony and other journalists whose work has uncovered many of their misrepresentations and lies, and of course the brave exes who have spoken up. It has been quite the year!

Theresa sounds like she may have been bipolar and/or delusional, but just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t actually out to get you. If you’d met Paulette Cooper at the height of her harassment campaign you might well have decided that she was nuts, and there was no proof. I fully believe they were trying to drive her to suicide. So, why not Theresa Duncan?

I just hope we eventually find out the truth.

One has to be “admitted” to Rodeo? srsly? What is it, some kind of superseecret club for scn “critics”? Wow. Love your idea for a scn mag called Flunk. Nice one.

Hi Deck. Remember me, Flunk?

Thanks for admitting me to Rodeo. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out for me.

First of all, I think Scientology is evil and needs to be shut down.

I am no longer a Scientologist, not for decades. And I definitely don’t believe in Hubbard’s pseudo science of engrams and body thetans, let alone fair game or disconnection.

My name “Flunk” goes back to when I was a Scientologist – with all the Scientology mags they had like “Theta”, “Source”, “Celebrity” and “Advance”, I thought there should be one called “Flunk”, for the fuck-ups of Scientology. When I was in, I could make Scientologists laugh. I was encouraged to become a “Scientology Comic”, but I figured I’d get expelled. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t have a sense of humor.

I have a pretty good memory of who I was as a Scientologist. That creates a conflict in some people’s minds, who have a different idea of who aScientologist is – a humorless robot. I never fit that bill, and it seems to upset quite a number of people on your blog.

Only one person “totally got” where I was coming from, that I was both intelligent and sincere, and everyone turned on him as well.

He was in the music business, and I’m a musician, so I dropped him an email around the time I dropped out of Rodeo.

He responded:

“I haven’t been to the Rodeo Group for a long time, so I didn’t know you’d left. Good for you! Those youngsters were never raised properly and aren’t fit company for civilized people.”

I wholeheartedly agree.

I think it’s great that Tony Ortega does such an excellent job exposing the evils of Scientology. The management need to be held accountable. And I think celebrities that endorse Scientology are morally culpable as well. But you can’t transfer that kind of guilt to the average Scientologist, let alone an ex-Scientologist who, no matter how difficult, always managed to maintain a sense of humanity.

Rodeo, at it’s best, is hatertainment. At it’s worst … I don’t even want to say!

Remember that the next time you think you’re making the world a better place.

Well Bob, I really don’t understand all that much about anything.
Oh granted, I read anything I can get my hands on about any damn subject…especially Scientology.
But I am an instinctual creature and I have a great trust in my instincts.
They have rarely been wrong.
Sometimes “generating more thought regarding a subject” is a nice thing to provide.
But it takes broad shoulders and a thick skin.
Good luck to you Bob.

Yes you are correct. My humor is sometimes taken seriously. But hopefully it generates more thought regarding the subject. Having read many of your comments you have a deep understanding of the various topics that are discussed in the blog. So you get what various people are trying to convey.

Go Grundoon!
Narconon Sucks and so did L. Ron Hubbard!

Lol…
I personally found the sarcasm quite obvious…
But everyone’s brain processes or “reads” things differently on the page.
Tone and sincerity are sometimes very hard to detect in black and white….after all…those are all shades of gray…………..

What is it and I will use it in the future. Sometimes my sarcasm is not that detectable.

You’re obviously not an Anon. This is positively mild. Moralfags or not, we still have 4chan in the blood. Remember, none of us is as cruel as all of us. If you want to find out exactly how cruel, try using the “think of the children” argument on a group of Anons, then run like hell.