Somewhat on topic... I remember the "Special Briefing" given to me in 2011 by IAS goofball-supreme Ted Bragin; with much ceremony and 'we want you to feel special so we can more easily steal your money from you while you're feeling all special insider and world saver-like." The briefing was the Hubbard PL from 1963 about the "12 SP's trying to stop $cientolgy".
I didn't tell ole Ted that I had already read it and indeed all the wackier Hubbard stuff in my spare time. I used to go to the basement where the file cabinets were with all the original PL's etc. and just read through various stuff. (ca.1984)
I let him do his thing and after when he wanted a "OMG, I feel so special and in the know" reaction from me I told him "Ted, that Policy Letter was written in 1963 those guys are all dead by now." I could see him mentally shifting gears to come up with an answer.
Don't remember exactly what he said, possible because I knew as soon as he started blabbing it was BS. Yet another Red Flag, but as I've mentioned in older posts, I stayed long enough for Ted the IAS clown and other scumbags from ASHO to drain my bank account. Amazing how you see the flaming danger signals but you're sort of hypnotized and cant run away until it's too late.
In late 2011 that Ted Bragin came to my local org to do a special briefing, I was on course doing the new Objectives co-audit. We was doing it on the weekends, my partner and I. Anyways, here we are listening to this guy in the org with about 30 people there.
Can you believe he said at the on start that if anybody wishes to blow from this briefing why you shouldn't, and he joked about it and gave reasons why, I smelled a reg IAS cycle, and people clapped. I couldn't believe it, this was another reg event which we was not told. Bait and switch.
About a 30 minute into to his speech, I told my partner, I got to leave cuz it takes me a hour to get home, and I have to come back tomorrow for session, so I got to have my 8 hours sleep.
When I got up and left, I looked at Ted, his eyes were something to see, it was terror in his eyes, a prospect is leaving.
A few months later I get the Debbie Cook email and realize something ain't right as I always suspected but couldn't put my finger on it. Debbie Cook got me to realize what I realized but needed confirmation bias, it works both ways. LOL
I write this because of Tony Ortega post today:
https://tonyortega.org/2018/07/14/s...o-church-members-to-get-donations/#more-48530
