50+ Years Of This Harmful Addiction To Failure

The stupidity - it just never ends:

Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country.

Can "Mother Earth" be sued like a human being then? Because if so, I think Japan's got a case,...and, if Japan wins, how will the Earth pay up?

I say we take it out of Bolivia.

When Cults Collide - Scientology Vs. Landmark:

Training to be a Scientologist involves a large amount of time spent seated at a desk, studying the works of L. Ron Hubbard. This method is, according to the official Scientology website, “unique in the field of learning” and ensures that students are “not only assimilating data, but actually learning how to apply it”. Full acceptance of what one has been taught is necessary to rise through the ranks and in this manner, Scientology is more of a hierarchical religion than an organisation solely focused on improving the lives of those involved.

In the 1960s, an American man named Werner Erhard entered Scientology and rose a short way through the ranks before leaving. He was especially interested in E-meters, devices that measure the skin’s conductivity and electrical resistance and supposedly reveal meaningful facts about an individual’s mental state and personality. Erhard studied many belief and self-help systems during this time until he set up his own in 1971, which taught participants to focus their minds on controlling their desires and urges to become more productive in their daily life.

Erhard’s techniques can be seen as having two levels of intensity: The Forum, or Landmark, is a global group now separate from Erhard that utilises his techniques for training mostly corporates; and Est Training, run by Erhard Seminars Training, which is almost nonexistent nowadays but was popular until the early ’90s. Est Training used more extreme teaching methods in which participants spent around 60 hours over four days in intense workshops (for example, you were not allowed to go to the bathroom, at the expense of wetting your pants). Erhard’s training concepts and jargon reflected Scientology in many ways, with training sessions initially involving use of the e-meter.

Some might say that Erhard did more than use Scientology for inspiration, but rather blatantly exploited Scientology’s concepts.

Gee, two cults have been influencing the American outlook for 50+ years, and continue to do so, though what we, as a country, have gotten in return is debatable. Think these cults have had any real effect on the way many people - especially our leaders - think? And do you think there might be any connection between that and the way nothing seems to be working out since these cults - cults! - came on the scene? Let's think about this some more,...


Personal trainers are so last season... Now, if you haven't got a mystic you're nobody:

A few years ago, no professional woman worth her salt was without a personal trainer and an online career coach. Now, post-recession, we’ve realised that abs you can bounce peas off and a crib-sheet of office jargon aren’t going to make us happy.

Perhaps that’s why increasing numbers of us are turning to personal gurus to work on our inner growth.

With organised religion apparently fading in favour of a pick-and-mix approach to spirituality, many women are choosing to put their faith in paid advisers.

Hmmmm, a "personal trainer and an online career coach" didn't work out either - because women (notice it's not just women but "professional" women) wanted to be stereotypically "happy" - but do these women change strategies when they don't find success? Nooooooo! They "move on" alright - but to another version of the same thing! Brilliant these girls are. Just fucking brilliant. Like they're constantly switching from heroin to crack.

Welcome to the reason we're broke, folks.

The Law of Quantum Failure: Scientology Is Phat

Isn't it amazing that, even though Scientology's celebrities are told, and tell others, how special they are and what "powers" they have (remember that embarrassing Tom Cruise video?) The Law of Quantum Failure keeps striking them, regularly, in public? John Travolta couldn't help but kill his kid (there were people who predicted it) or make the worst movie of all time, Battlefield: Earth. None of them can speak without saying something incredibly stupid, etc.

Hell, even with all that e-meter auditing, Kirstie Alley's fat ass can't even learn to keep her tongue in her mouth.

"I Was Interested In Finding Out About Myself"

It's embarrassing the BBC is doing this story, in this depth, while most American outlets - broadcast and cable - allow Scientology's open intimidation to continue without a mention - as they also promote it's celebrities. The media now has the words of ex-members - people who ran the cult - and, still, the American media say nothing of substance.

There's barely a clamor in the blogosphere, either, even though a suggestion to investigate Scientology's tax-exempt status was one of the most suggested ideas Barack Obama received, when he asked for them online. He didn't take the idea seriously, acting as though the subject was beneath him. As a matter of fact, to say cultism's a subject worthy of dissection at all, seems to be an indicator of kookiness to some, if not most, when received online.

It's definitely not as popular as homeopathic "medicines".



Any real dissection of cultism must necessarily go into areas most wouldn't consider, or find comfortable. What influence is having so many cultists in entertainment, and business, having on our culture? What are the messages within the roles cult actors choose or the songs cult artists sing - and why? Are there messages at all? How much of the brainwashing they've received has America received by extension? How much, of what certain segments of 21st century America value, can be found in cult doctrines? And not just from Scientology but also from est, The Landmark Forum, and every other "human potential" group and/or wannabe religion or cult leader, all acting on our citizens simultaneously?

How "free" have we actually been?



Why does the richest and most famous woman in the world, Oprah Winfrey, support Scientologists, when she has to know what type of organization they represent? Why can she do it for them - and many other cult-related entities - without serious criticism from the society at large? How and where are cults and cult organizations helping each other and why?

If their ideas are wrong, and following their advice is futile - like Oprah promoting The Secret - how much are they costing the country? What high-priced assumptions have we, as a country, internalized? The divorces, separating of families, lawsuits, everything - how much?



But, still, journalists appear to think, except in bit pieces thrown to and fro, there's no story here. Our guess is that's because, like Christine O'Donnell, they've all got a bit of the crazy belief business in their pasts, but - unlike O'Donnell - they've been conned to think it would be a mark against themselves (as hypocrites or "being judgmental") to investigate it now.

Well, that's cult thinking right there, because what a journalist is supposed to do is what needs to be done, to tell the story that needs to be told, to get the truth out because - whether you're the victim or it's someone else - there's nothing worse than living a lie (Screw Star Wars - that's The Matrix - Who's Watching The Watchmen?):

Was John Sweeny being followed? Of course he was.

Did this "church" - that's mysteriously exempt from paying taxes to America - set out to drive BBC reporter, John Sweeny, crazy? Yes it did.

Was the church willing to lie about it? Yes they were.

Then, damn it, what exactly do we have here?

We think we've got a cult - and there's many of them - and many major news stories to go with them, regarding who's in and who's out, and what they're up to. We think it almost goes without saying, that liberalism wouldn't be liberalism without them.

"Good Job" to John Sweeny, and the BBC, from TMR.

Scientology's "Spiritual" Device (Hilarious)

Hat Tip: Digital Journal, which is following the Scientology trial in France.

You can see what the world famous E-Meter is made of - and how it "works" (just like alternative medicine "works") - here, where we covered it, oh, so long ago,....

His Memory Seems To Be Working Fine, Thanks

"As a teenager, I started to find the idea of an all-encompassing God and protector alluring, and in 1984, moved to a small village in Germany. Here, I discovered Scientology. I was in a bad way one afternoon, walking the streets of Stuttgart, when a young lady approached me: 'Do you have a good memory?' she asked. I agreed to join her at the local Scientology centre, to find out.

The centre was filled with friendly, efficient people. It all seemed very official and scientific. I took tests which revealed I needed counselling, or 'auditing'. I found the 'science' aspect very seductive, and quickly became involved in the group.

After two weeks, I was taken with the teachings of [Scientology’s founder] L Ron Hubbard. He was my guru, and I started to see less of my girlfriend and friends.

...Scientology works on a strictly hierarchical basis. All through my membership, I was told there was a revelation I was being built up to, Hubbard’s theory of creation. When I became privy to the details of the story, I was shocked that this was the carrot on a stick that had kept me with the organisation for so long. His ideas seemed ludicrous, and when I stumbled upon other details of Hubbard’s biography, I was appalled.

It took five more years to gather the courage to leave."

-- John Duignan, from his book "The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology," excerpted in The Independent.

TMR Would Like To Stress: This Is A Cult!!!

"Everyone has seen them at subway stations, street festivals, shopping malls, and even ordinary city sidewalks: a few friendly-looking people sitting at small, folding tables, with colorful electronic contraptions prominently upon them, and lots of hardbound copies of L. Ron Hubbard books. A sign screams out, 'FREE STRESS TEST.' Naturally, everyone feels a little stressed out in our modern day, so with a chuckle and a smile, the ordinary citizens passing by may sit down 'just to see how this thing works.' It is fun to try out this kind of carnival game. Maybe this gizmo willsay something amazingly accurate. Also, it’s free. What could go wrong?

Well, a lot could go wrong, and often does. The people with the gizmos are Scientology cult recruiters; the machines themselves are Scientology 'E-Meters,' a primitive sort of lie-detector machine; and the Hubbard books are part of a sales strategy that is elaborately plotted out to the point of being bizarre, especially for an organization that claims to be a religion. No matter who you are, how you feel, or what kind of jiggles and squiggles the E-Meter apparatus makes in response to you, the Scientologists will tell you that your life is in a rather precarious situation, and that the best thing would be for you to come down to the 'church' for further interpretation and advice."

-- Lilly von Marcab, telling you what everybody should already know - because the media should have exposed it decades ago - instead of RushPRNews.

Everything They Do Must Be Seen In The Dark

"While there are many religious people there, they don’t want to admit it unless it’s a religion that’s not part of any Christian orthodoxy. Can’t have that. Christians are seen to be equal to Islamist bombers, or worse, rednecks! Yes, this is a belief held by those who think Kaballah Water and E-Meters are the height of rational thought."

-- James Hudnall, letting us know “behind all that phony tinsel is the real tinsel,” in Big Hollywood.

O.K., I'm Admitting It: Sometimes, I Miss My Wife

I've got this weekend off, so I'm trying not to blog, but this damn obsessive-compulsive disorder has still got me looking at shit, so - call me weak but, since my NewAge wife ain't around to "take the tension off" on a Sunday, as it were - here's a quick round-up of the weirdness that I think is worth mentioning. (Remember: the red words are links, too.) Let's start off with:

"The medical astrologer is usually not a licensed medical practitioner, such as an M.D., N.D., D.C. or D.O., since most medical astrologers evolve out of the field."

Will somebody please contact that asshole, "Dr." Robert Wohlfahrt, and let him know this? He might be deciding it's time to "move on" right about now,...seeing how he's medically "evolving" and all.

"'What do you mean by that?' [Tom Cruise] asks in a sudden flash of anger,...for the remaining 45 minutes he talks almost without pause, in rambling sentences which don't always make sense."

This is normal cultish behavior for a Scientologist, before they go into full-on, whacked-out "I did the E-Meter today - How YOU doing?" mode.

"Rosie Live failed first on simple execution. The patter with guests was forced and the improv moments even worse (at least, I hope that the zillion Rosie's cleavage jokes were not planned). The staging was off, with lurid, deathly lighting that gave the show a creepier vibe than Alec Baldwin's using Rosie's boobs as a microphone had already."

Left-wing, luridly-lit, over-the-top lesbian humor, featuring a bunch of Obama boobs with a "creepy" vibe? How did it miss? And would you accept a blowjob from this woman? Is Rosie O'Donnell even a woman? Look at the picture again.

"...Patients receive nutritional supplementation with vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and animal glandular products 4 times per day on days 1-16, followed by 5 days of rest. Courses repeat every 21 days until death,..."

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's now time for me to present (the less weird part of) the very-weird, coffee enema, Gonzalez Therapy: the very first NewAge cancer "detoxification" program I've ever seen with a truth in advertising clause!

"Chronicled at every turn by the tabloids, [Steve McQueen] had been treated at a Mexican clinic with unorthodox methods: prayer, vitamins, coffee enemas and laetrile, a controversial preparation made from apricot pits."

No word if "Dr." Gonzalez got his start in Mexico with this crap,...

"What struck me was the fact that it was obvious from the expressions on the headstones that the children were loved."

Yea? Well, what struck me was you're looking at headstones to tell,...

"Jim Jones was a hero to American leftists,...the temple was as much a left-wing political crusade as a church,...so what if he abused children, sodomized a follower, tortured and held temple members at gun point, and defrauded the government and people of welfare and social security checks? He believes in socialism and so do we. That was the ends-justifies-the-means attitude that enabled Jim Jones to commit criminal acts in San Francisco with impunity. The people who should have stopped him instead encouraged him,...Jim Jones engendered enormous amounts of good will from Democratic politicians and activists. They allowed their political ambitions to derail their governing responsibilities. Frisco pols like Harvey Milk never seemed to care how Jones could, at the snap of his fingers, direct hundreds of people to stack a public meeting or volunteer for a campaign,...City Councilman Milk just knew that he benefited from that control, and therefore never bothered to do anything to inhibit the dangerous cult operating in his city. Instead, he actively aided and abetted a homicidal maniac. It wasn't just local hacks Jones commanded respect from. He held court with future First Lady Rosalyn Carter, vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and California Governor Jerry Brown,...A man who killed more African Americans than the Ku Klux Klan was awarded a local Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award and won the plaudits of California lieutenant governor Mervyn Dymally, state assemblyman Willie Brown, radical academic Angela Davis, preacher/politician Jesse jackson, Black Panther leader Huey Newton, and other African American activists."

Some things never change around here. Have you seen Sean Penn as Harvey Milk yet? Neither have I. Why not? I've got a feeling it's a whitewash of the Democrat's history.

"Alan Scherr was an art professor with a comfortable life in the Maryland suburbs, but he spent 25 years studying Transcendental Meditation in a quest for something more. The search took him and his family to Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where they shed their old life in Silver Spring and meditated in the complex of a New Age mystic."

Um, all I'll say is this tale ended recently - in Mumbai, India - and it didn't turn out very NewAge-y or peaceful,..

"The most obvious and embarrassing explanation is taboo and blasphemous: That [Barack Obama] is a masterful politician who never has had any real ideology or persona other than his own diversity story and history, youth, and charisma that together allow him to be whatever is politically expedient at the time."

Now y'all hush with all dat hand-wringin': dat dere White Man said it, I didn't! I'm still trippin' 'cause he da president-elect and don't look nothin' like them dead mens on da dollar bills!!

"Here in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where I’m spending my holiday and where there is always lots to be thankful for, this commercial for a Barack Obama commemorative plate has been airing constantly on television. My in-laws (life-long Democrats) and I were already laughing out loud by the time the announcer says 'his confident smile and kind eyes are an inspiration to us all.' Seriously, that’s what it actually says. Operators are standing by."

Yea Buddy, we're all "standing by",...waiting for our fucking blowjobs from these latest "operators"!

"Alot of my patients are fed up with drugs. They’re tired of having no choice but to take a pill for every problem. They ask me, 'Can’t we try something more natural first?'

I got my M. D. 25 years ago. And since then, I’ve prescribed a lot of drugs. I’ve also studied homeopathy and nutrition, so I can give my patients something more natural."

And then this M.D. hands them a duck that will gently quack them to sleep,...forever. Nice cartoon boobs, huh? All natural.

"Homeopathy. I suspect that people who take such remedies believe they are being scientific."

And your dumb ass (and I'm being nice here, in case I can get a blowjob out of it:) referring to homeopathic preparations - as "remedies" - has absolutely nothing to do with this fucked-up situation, right? Do you people see what I'm up against? Damn it, instead of that bitch looking at a lousy slide of water, I could be getting a blowjob right now!

"So maybe you can’t afford health insurance. Even if you can, maybe you just don’t like going to the doctor all the time. In 21st-century America, there are plenty of alternatives to the 15-minute appointment, followed by the whopper bill.

In coming weeks, they will appear in this column. 

To take them in historical order, we’ll start with homeopathy,..."

I got this bit from a San Francisco newspaper I "recycled" from a trash can - then I violently threw it back in, so someone else could "recycle" it. Have you seen the sales stats for newspapers lately? They're practically homeopathic!

"I have a cold (and they're worse than you remember when you're well). Throughout the nation, homeopaths and self-declared nutrition therapists are celebrating,...Now I'm going to dangle some goat entrails around my neck and get chanting."

Why, Mrs. Robinson, I think you're trying to seduce me!

"Does this legacy qualify George Bush for Mount Rushmore? Probably not. But it does promise the 43rd president a gentler treatment from history than he has received from his contemporaries."

Damn it: I want George W. Bush on Mount Rushmore,...it's either him or me! (But I'll settle for a blowjob!)

"We believe that -- 'we' means the political elite -- that all cultures are equal. I believe this is the biggest disease today facing Europe. . . . We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.' A culture based on Christianity, Judaism, humanism is better. Look at how we treat women, look at how we treat apostates, look at how we go with the separation of church and state. I can give you 500 examples why our culture is better."

And never once would he have to mention homeopathy,...

"70 percent of all blacks said that they voted for [Prop. 8]. But 75 percent of black women did. There weren’t enough black men in the survey to provide a reliable percentage for them."

'Cause, as long as we gettin' blowjobs, nigga, we just ain't givin' a fuck!!! (Yes: that is the best Hip-Hop voice I can muster at the moment because - as I'm writing this - I'm consumed with getting a blowjob,...)

Whoa - this is bad - so here's two final quotes I lifted this week from Little Green Footballs:

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free."

— P.J. O’Rourke

And - hello! - there's also this:

If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice."

— A Chinese Proverb

Blowjob.

Let's Get Real

A lot of people ask me why I'm so angry. Why I can't just "go with the flow."

They miss the point that that's how people fall into this cult mess to begin with: by being pliant, willing to believe anything, wanting to appear "nice," and/or wanting to be liked at all costs.

Another point is that cultism isn't static: people involved in cults and cultish-thinking are aggressively pushing others - either to join up or, one way or another, being forced to do what they say: they're trying to make something happen - and their occult (or "hidden") actions are bound to get a reaction, which (once discovered) they know will be negative. No one likes being manipulated and taken advantage of:

So it's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who says people are not "saving the planet," though that's the real inconvenient truth.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you recycling is useless, wastes our time, raises our taxes, and makes people feel superior.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who can prove there's no overflowing landfills, and people are reacting to a lie.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you one scientist after another who, either, didn't go along with global warming "science" - or decided they've changed their minds - while others insist "the debate is over" and efforts are underway to levy another hefty tax on us for that, too.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will alert you that environmentalist's alarming "global warming" - which believers would've had to prove quickly - has morphed into the more user-friendly "climate change," and, both, it's critics and supporters speak of it as a "religion," something "spiritual," and a "cult."

It's the people who can see through cults and cultish-thinking - and don't want to be pushed around, and ripped-off, in this way - who it is always necessary to label as the bad guys.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will prove Homeopathy's pure water, and the quacks who sell it are delusional at best, and liars at worst.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who says Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Healing Touch, are other shape-shifting titles for essentially just waving your hands.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who says chiropractic makes no sense, and documents how it's causing problems - like strokes. Or that vitamins and supplements are nothing but a scam, ran by a cartel in Utah.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will alert you that the "occult" section of bookstores morphed into "NewAge," and then to "Mind/Body/Spirit," and these worthless and expensive "practices" are thriving in a hospital, hospice, and health food store, near you - with, absolutely, no evidence any of it works.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will tell you there's no such thing as a "chakra," nor is there "energy," or "meridians," or any "auras" one can find anywhere - despite years of x-rays, surgery, and other procedures, where we can easily look inside and around the human body.

These are all examples of cults and cultish thinking in our society, ripping off the public (and, many times, directing money to criminals), and it's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who can see how and why such things are being done.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who rudely mentions that, both, John "Men Are From Mars" Grey and Deepak Chopra were followers of the giggly Maharishi, and all were busted trying to run a scam past the Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA).

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you their scam occured after the Maharishi was originally denounced by The Beatles, something newspapers rarely mention when they connect his beliefs with the band.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who finds the Maharishi suppressed negative meditation studies that showed meditators grow cold-hearted, and go crazy, and says there's nothing "compassionate" about telling folks lies.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will remind you the Maharishi was (clearly) a cult leader who got away with it, and anyone who says the media assisted him must immediately be labeled a very bad guy.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you the Mormon's leader, Joseph Smith, was first brought to the attention of the public after being arrested for fraud.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you the Catholics worked with the Nazis. It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you the Dali Lama did too.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you another Buddhist leader, here in the West, knowingly gave AIDS to his followers.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will show you L. Ron Hubbard was a racist and his e-meters do nothing at all.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who will say all religions started out as cults because stating that truth, in the face of their "faith," is what makes anyone faith's bad guy.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who points out the "cult" talk around Oprah.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who noticed it around Obama, too.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who saw cults are all around the Clintons.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who discovered Arrianna Huffington is best friends with a cult leader.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who saw Congress made the Moonie leader "king."

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who knows MoveOn.org was and is an astrology outfit.

It's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who is addressing cults and political power - another subject newspapers won't seriously touch - and it's necessary to label anyone the bad guy who doesn't think such crass and bald-faced liars are deserving to lead.

So why am I so angry?

No reason:

I guess I was just born a really bad guy.