Miscavige apparently blackmailed Hubbard’s intended secessor, a man named Pat Broeker. Broeker and Miscavige, by the time Hubbard was losing his marbles, had control of the cash and, according to what I heard Tory Cristman say, Miscavige threatened to expose Broeker to the IRS for hiding unclaimed cash and assets and stealing. Apparently, both men were guilty of that but Broeker wasn’t strong enough to handle the little tyrant. He relinguished any power he could have had and skipped town with his wife and some cash. One link talks a little about Miscavige rise to power, and former member Jesse Prince gives testimony of what transpired.

http://mirror-of-dr-lilly.blogspot.com/2009/08/scientology-cult-tiny-tyrant-david.html

http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/jesse_prince/ding_dong/

eucaryote - 11 February 2011 05:06 PM

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Again, Tom Cruise is a benchmark for exactly what kind of mental illness??? He’s got some strange brew of neurochemicals going.

This is just too weird.

I gather that the CoS does a snow job on celebrities, giving them all kinds of freebies and perks, and playing on their vanity. Cruise may be suffering from nothing much more than an excess of narcissism and a deficiency of skepticism.

Poldano - 16 February 2011 05:31 PM

eucaryote - 11 February 2011 05:06 PM

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Again, Tom Cruise is a benchmark for exactly what kind of mental illness??? He’s got some strange brew of neurochemicals going.

This is just too weird.

I gather that the CoS does a snow job on celebrities, giving them all kinds of freebies and perks, and playing on their vanity. Cruise may be suffering from nothing much more than an excess of narcissism and a deficiency of skepticism.

Well, that’s more than enough to make his nuts in my book. I’ve spent a lifetime now identifying crazy people by precisely those traits. I don’t think I’m being unfair just willing to call a spade a spade.

In his sane moments, assuming he had some, Hubbard must have been thinking, “Is there anything these people won’t believe?  The science fiction fantasies he cooked up, and that millions of ‘educated’ ‘intelligent’ Scientologists accept as fact, make the fantasies of other religions seem relatively plausible.  No wonder the nonsense and insanity that Paul of Tarsus jotted in his letters caught on!!

Also, notice that no matter what kind of evidence is produced to disprove Hubbard’s war wounds and medals etc. - facts and military records make no difference.  Oh, right, true believers aren’t allowed to contemplate such evidence. 

Like Bruce and Jesus, faithful Scientologists have had ‘personal verification’ of their leader’s fantasies, so obviously evidence to the contrary is chaff.

chaff 2 :    something relatively worthless (Webster)  (like sanity and reality?)

Scientology was explained a long time ago. Contemporary insanity works quite nicely.

Science fiction writer Harlan Ellison discusses Hubbard with Robin Williams. About 5 1/2 minutes into the video, Harlan explains how Hubbard came up with Scientology—and why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9AGVARpqdk

Scientology is explained on Boston Legal with hilarious results. A defense attorney, played by James Spader, defends another lawyer who fired a partner for proselytizing about his beliefs. He grills the plaintiff about the tenets of Scientology, then states that freedom of religion is overblown in his closing arguments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBiGtVmir4&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TegIxJUsE0

rab - 06 March 2011 06:04 PM

Scientology is explained on Boston Legal with hilarious results. A defense attorney, played by James Spader, defends another lawyer who fired a partner for proselytizing about his beliefs. He grills the plaintiff about the tenets of Scientology, then states that freedom of religion is overblown in his closing arguments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBiGtVmir4&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TegIxJUsE0

So James Spader is about to get sued by COS. Episode 200 of South Park is unavailable from the Comedy Central website, but was able to download it through Netflix. Also hilarious.

eucaryote - 06 March 2011 06:45 PM

So James Spader is about to get sued by COS. Episode 200 of South Park is unavailable from the Comedy Central website, but was able to download it through Netflix. Also hilarious.

Is that true about Spader? And is that the SP episode where Cruise and Travolta are “in the closet?”

rab - 07 March 2011 02:07 PM

eucaryote - 06 March 2011 06:45 PM

So James Spader is about to get sued by COS. Episode 200 of South Park is unavailable from the Comedy Central website, but was able to download it through Netflix. Also hilarious.

Is that true about Spader? And is that the SP episode where Cruise and Travolta are “in the closet?”

NO! (far be it from me to spread vicious rumors about COS)but Probably.

That’s how the COS works right. At the end of SP 200 when Stan refuses to go along, all of the Scientologits turn on him, (Cruise and Travolta come out of the closet), and say, YOU ARE SO SUED!
Stan Scored high on the e meter so they decided that he must be Hubbard re incarnated. I think Cruise was the one who got it taken off the web.