Of course Scientology works — it has graphs and charts and stuff!
Leaks like the one we have today are really fascinating to us, because they allow us to put ourselves in the position of Scientologists being hit up by this relentless organization that asks so much from its members, and of course asks for so much of their money.
This is yet again another appeal by the folks in Dublin aimed specifically at a target in Canada. (What is it with the Dubliners going after Canucks?) And we especially like the scientific touch.
Of course Scientology works: It’s all spelled out in charts and graphs!
We’d love it if our old-timers could help us understand what it is about this graph that is supposed to be such a sexy temptation for our poor Canadian mark. What is it about this chart that it should suggest to us that flying to Dublin is such a great prospect we will want to get on the next plane and hope our own charts and graphs put out the same squiggles!
Speaking of Ireland, when we recently wrote about a sneaky Scientology front group, United for Human Rights, trying to get its hooks into some Ukrainian refugees, we talked to a reporter at the Sunday World there who was also curious about it. But he got an even better story because he noticed that a local Dublin councillor, Brian Lawlor, was maintaining a kind of bizarre relationship with Scientology.
Reporter Alan Sherry found that while Lawlor publicly called Scientology a “cult” and said things like, “I would tell anyone not to get involved. It’s a cult to me. It’s always going to be a cult and I’d never get involved in it,” at the same time he had appeared in a number of videos with Scientology volunteers and front groups, and had even called on Scientology to help out with some local public projects.
Um, WTF? Which is it, councillor, is Scientology a nefarious cult, or are you going to ring them up to help out with your next gladhanding local works project?
We can’t ever remember a politician trying to have it both ways like this in such a blatant way, and we salute Alan Sherry for catching Lawlor so red-handed.
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That chart sold me! Where do I sign up? ;-)
So now some mOrgs will change the way you are audited and make it easier to 'move on up'. Just another sign of the clampocolypse. Not only do the mOrgs poach new meat from other mOrgs sales territories, but now they undercut each other on price. That is what the Dublin experience is all about. 'Come to Ireland and get a much easier auditing experience. ' That big certificate is definitely worth a month in Ireland. I'd go, but only to tour the Guinness brewery and to sample other Irish beers. I would never be 'sessionable'. Is there nothing that a draft of Guinness can't do?
Alan Sherry did a wonderful job of outing the safe pointed Brian Lawlor. I really like how the Irish media have looked at, and continue to keep tabs on the Clampire.
"Critics of Scientology say the group uses such events to gain good PR and tries to get politicians and other well-known people involved to lend credibility." Sherry understands the modus operandi of the Clampire.