We want to thank Alex Barnes-Ross for bringing us this gem today.
“Apostate Alex” keeps his eye on Scientology social media, and found the following exchange at one of the groups were Scientologists interact with each other.
The conversation is really helpful for those of us outside looking in at the insular world of Scientology, and for a few different reasons.
For one thing, you can imagine that it might be increasingly difficult for young Scientologists to find each other for romantic reasons when the organization has been battered and bruised in recent years.
But parents being parents, this kind of matchmaking will go on nonetheless, right?
Also, the exchange confirms that yes, Scientologists really do talk like this with each other, and you get a sense of how much the Scientology mindset and its unique vocabulary becomes so all-encompassing for members.
And so we asked Alex to translate the conversation, and we’re glad we did. We think you’ll see what we mean.
Alex's translation: "Asking for a friend (promise). My son is 21 and needs a girlfriend. He's Clear, any takers?"
Alex's translation: "Get him to write down his goals and what's important to him in a relationship and get it checked over by an Ethics Officer to make sure he's done it right. My daughter did it and ended up marrying someone she's known her whole life (and they're both Scientologists)."
Alex's translation: "Not sure if there are any Scientology-specific dating groups, but my niece is single if you want me to put in a good word. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge."
Alex's translation: "Tell him to go and see the Ethics Officer, he's a great wingman. If he thinks two people would be a good couple, he'll give them a program to complete that results in them getting married (and if either of them disagree, they'll get punished). I know two couples who did this. Would recommend! 10/10."
Alex's translation: "Send him to Flag or LA Org. The training programs there are full of desperate (and horny) kids. Just look at convicted felon Mary Sue Hubbard — she married our Dear Leader, and even served prison time for infiltrating the government! (What a role model!)"
We can’t wait to see your own reactions to this exchange, and we’d love to hear from the ex-Scientologists in our community about their own dating experiences in the Hubbard cabal.
Hip, hip, hooray!
Danny Masterson moved again
Jeffrey Augustine is reporting this morning that inmate Danny Masterson has been moved again, this time from the maximum security state prison in Corcoran, California to the medium security California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo County.
He’s serving 30 years to life for two forcible rape convictions, and he’s not eligible for parole until 2042.
The Cardones come to Trump’s rescue
We want to thank all of the readers who forwarded us items about Grant and Elena Cardone coming to Donald Trump’s rescue, as Elena started a GoFundMe to help raise money against the $355 million judgment in the civil fraud case against the former president.
We have pointed out in the past that Scientologists tend to be Alex Jones-style conspiratorial conservatives, and most of the Scientologists and many of the ex-Scientologists we see on social media tend to be fans of the former president.
L. Ron Hubbard himself was a classic 20th century reactionary, a red-baiter of the old style, and he was a big supporter of the apartheid government in South Africa, telling the premier there that Scientology was a “rightist organization.”
That said, we do recognize that some Scientologists and ex-Scientologists lean the other way, even if the majority seem to be on the right side of the aisle.
As of this morning, the GoFundMe had raised $207,000.
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A VERY long story short: the men I dated (and some I lived with) while in scientology were either men I worked with or were studying with, and few were a good match for me (although I tried to make them work). When I met the man who would become my husband (Mike), he was "under-the-radar" although I didn't know that until a couple months before we got married. In short, I married a guy who'd given up on scientology beccause I felt it was wrong for any church to dictate who one could marry. Mike was a better "2D" than any of the men I'd dated or lived with who were "in". We had a loving and (mostly) happy marriage that lasted over 38 years until he passed away at age 77. An admin scale to find the right person to marry completely misses the fact that a good match usually starts with a spark, and there's no way to plan that kind of thing.
It is saddening to see all the press attention (international, too) on the Cardone GoFluffMeeee grift, with no mention of the connection to the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology. I have dropped Underground Bunker hints at Wonkette ;-) Oh, my! "about 2260" hits for searching HearSay regarding Cardone on the Undeground Bunker.
Oh, and I guess there has not been put enough though into whether they are simply collecting to pay the fine, i.e. admitting guilt?