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Calamity Kessel's Personal Posterous
I won’t fully recount here what the PAC RPF is like. At best it is a gulag where time stands still. The only thing that makes it bearable are the some of the dedicated staff there. Some had been on the program for seven years or more. That is seven years without a day off, no contact with wife or family, no music, twenty-minute meal breaks. A phone call to your parent’s on Christmas day. A day otherwise spent cleaning floors and toilets. For the most part the RPF is kept hidden from the public and staff. For the most part, we helped build sets for the Int events and furniture for the “Ideal Orgs”.
At one point, following an IAS event, the RPF was allowed to watch the video of the event where Tom Cruise receives the IAS medal and is proclaimed by DM as “the most dedicated Scientologist I know”. I looked over at the guy sitting next to me, a man who had worked on the ship with LRH, had been an SO member for over 25 years, who had been on the RPF for 6 years separated from his wife and family. Really? An actor who has been actively disseminating for a couple of years is the most dedicated Scientologist on the planet?
Eventually, some cult members encounter enough bullshit that it seems to act like smelling salts, and they wake up and start wondering how the hell they can get out of the mess they are in.
This is my first post on Amplify! #myfirstpost on another bloggy thing.. I have no idea why. Mainly "because its there" but this is nothing like climbing a mountain, obviously.
Found this thanks to @adders on Twitter. The very thought of someone dropping an old photo album into a bin.. how *could* they?
The condom blockage follows an outbreak of gastrocolic problems such as diarrhoea among swimmers this week.
Is it me or is it weird how the wording makes it sound like the condom useage is related to the Delhi Belly?
"pull the photos down from Facebook and put them on your phone. That would breach Facebook's terms of service." http://bit.ly/cDyIb6 but thats what my blackberry does! I'm deleting Farcebook for Blackberry.
"'I feel like no-one': Girl, 12, dies in father's arms from mystery condition after being tormented by school bullies"
from @stonewalluk
The key information for Stonewall's interest here was that the bullying included calling the girl a lesbian.
When I picked my kid up from junior school yesterday, two boys jogged past me. They were taunting each other with "You're gay!" "No, you're gay" in dull voices, as if it was a routine they were both bored of but neither were willing to stop because the other would claim victory and be proved right.
It annoyed me, a lot. I wanted to stop them both in their tracks and say something, anything to make them think. ("You say 'gay' like its a bad thing" .. I tend to overestimate most kid's ability to understand my one-liners.) But they were glassy-eyed, barely aware of what they were saying. Maybe if their parents were there they woudn't have been shouting it. Maybe their parents were the ones that led them to believe that 'gay' is bad and using it as an insult is just harmless fun, either by using such taunts themselves or by allowing it to go un-commented previously. I still aren't sure whether it was a good thing or not that their parents weren't there. I don't know if I could have stopped myself from saying something to them.
I created a Second Life avatar a few years ago and she became my online identity.
I created a Second Life avatar a few years ago and she became my online identity.
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