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A world without war, insanity and crime? No thanks.

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“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.”

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Sounds great. But I don’t want it.

A perfect world without any irrationality, without any danger, without any real challenges. Nope. I want the world to be spicy, somewhat random and dangerous. Safety makes for boring. This is why people dream of adventures, besting the criminals, slaying the evil dragon, busting the drug cartel. It’s danger, the unknown, the risk, even the occasional terror that makes this world such a challenging place for the would-be hero. To do away with all the shit would make the world a spotless, perfect and thoroughly dull place.

When Anonymous hit Scientology with Project Chanology, they wrecked havoc in a lulzy and Chaotic Neutral way. They broke new ground and actually made life exciting for Scientologists around the world. Now that they have moved on elsewhere, what is left is a ghost town.

Scientology tries desperately to make the world unexciting. Scientologists are hiding from the Internet, from picketing “SPs” and old ladies, walking the very tight and narrow, creating a super-controlled, surveillance society and false security inner world á la the Truman Show. Much like the US have been busy building after 9/11.

The future of Scientology

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While L. Ron Hubbard was alive, there was always the chance that he would develop the next breakthrough that would finally realize the Scientology goal of a Cleared Planet (a world free of negative problems).

When Hubbard died, David Miscavige took the helm. Now we had the go-to guy who could bring that goal into focus.

With the release of OT 8 in 1988 on board the newly acquired ship Freewinds, Scientologists were sure that World Clearing was imminent.

When Miscavige re-released Hubbard’s books in 1989, the goal of a Cleared Planet became real. And with the release of the Key to Life and Life Orientation courses in 1990, the goal was sure to be reached in no time.

And when the long-standing arch-enemy of Scientology, the IRS was defeated in 1993, the Church of Scientology was granted tax exempt status in the US. Now there was no barriers to Clearing planet Earth.

But all was still not well in the world of Scientology. Expansion still didn’t occur. The population was increasing so many times faster than the church could produce Clears. Something had to be done.

The Golden Age of Tech (1996), followed by the Golden Age of Tech for OTs. Now the scene was set for a straight-up vertical expansion. Hopes were refueled, but no expansion in sight.

The Ideal org strategy! Sure to expand Scientology into the realm of Planetary Clearing.

Then the Golden Age of Knowledge with a thorough overhaul of all Hubbard’s material and with all Scientologists ordered to restudy everything from scratch.

Still no impact on the society.

Photo by Anette Iren Johansen

Photo by Anette Iren Johansen

Finally we have the release of the long awaited Super Power rundowns accompanied by the Golden Age of Tech, phase II. NOW everything is different. NOW we can FINALLY achieve a Cleared Planet.

But, but, the churches are empty and the party seems over.

Give it a few years and the die-hard gung-ho Scientologists still in the Truman Show will start to question even this lates monumental break-through. It will leave the Pope of Scientology with no other choice than to play his final card – the release of OT 9 & 10. It wouldn’t matter that no one knows what OT 9 & 10 is or should be. He will surely release Something. To calm the diminishing masses and instill yet another round of refueled hope. Finally, finally, finally we will be able to Clear the Planet.

A few years after the final card has been played, even the most ardent supporters will get the drift… there will never be any Cleared Planet. And they too will leave. Or revolt. And we will see the end of Scientology as we know it.

Perhaps 10 years from now. Unless David Miscavige gets indicted for some of his crimes before then.

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Looking forward to speaking tonight at the Flag Down 2014 conference 🙂

(This blog post could and should contain lots of links to explain all the details. But being somewhat bored with the theme, I leave it up to the reader to Google what they need).

Coming to Florida this weekend

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This weekend Anette and myself will visit the Sunshine State and stay for the first part of Flag Down 2014.

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We will be joined by a Norwegian film crew, documenting our every move. I will be speaking on the first day of the six-day event along with prominent speakers on the subject of Scientology. It should prove to be an interesting experience.

If you’d like to meet for a coffee, please contact me. I love to meet with new people and make new friends.

More on Antifragile and some on Scientology

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I shared a video on Facebook yesterday that stired more than 50 comments in a very short time.

I posted this: “And we cling to our orderly rules and safe precautions. Who said we need traffic lights and stop signs.”

The video is pertinent to the book I’m reading, “Antifragile”. Let me know what you think.

On another note – Scientology: I have written many times that I believe anything can help a person – anything the person believes can help him. It is a matter of coercing the person into trusting a method or scheme or person or thing and he will admit that it helps him. And thus it does. The person is actually coerced into believing in his own powers to change his life on a via. It seems easier to coerce the person into trusting some via – some other, outer thing – than directly trusting his own abilities. Trusting his own requires more of that very scarce commodity called responsibility.

Now to my point: Scientology is a product of its times. Just as Hubbard was a man of his. The 50’s, 60’s and the 70’s. It is a new age religion that focus on the dangers of the cold war era, the imminent dangers of atomic war, the energy crisis, the us versus them of the US versus the Communists. The focus on Taylorism, whipping people into production, the worshiping of systems, of machine organizations, efficiency at any cost. All in the name of saving the world because the world is in such a dire need.

But not anymore. Scientology posed solutions to a different era. It is much harder to sell 40-year old solutions in today’s society. Especially when they are sold as fixed, permanent and timeless solutions to any problem imaginable. Thus it becomes harder by the year to coerce a person into unleashing his inner powers via Scientology. Other, more modern coercions is emerging and more will come.

Slacking

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Today I have been practicing being a true dilettante, totally disregarding any duty. Playing cards with the kids, and playing Tekken 4 on the Playstation 2 here in the cabin. No epiphanies, nothing much to report at all. Just slacking. Nice.

Impress the customer – screw mediocrity

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Do we settle for “just good enough” and “meeting expectations”? Or do we outperform ourselves and amaze the customer?

There are indeed rational arguments why we should merely meet the customer’s expectations and not go the extra mile. It is more costly to give awesome service. It puts an unnecessary pressure on the service delivery organization.

And while advocates of such rationale keep praising mediocrity, the amazing suppliers keep impressing customers and gaining market share.

Delivery contacts or Service Level Agreements should represent a worst case scenario, while the supplier should always strive for better, faster, more amazing. Or someone else will.

And if it seems too hard to keep up with the spoiled customer’s ever increasing expectations, then it is better to talk to the customer about this than forcing them to become less spoiled by delivering mediocre service.

Aim for “just enough” and you’ll miss half the time. Aim for amazing and you may just reach it.

In the mountains

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Arrived at Hafjell a couple of hours ago.

Serene nature. Great company. The boys,  Anette and her oldest brother’s family. Looking forward to relaxing,  reading Antifragile, sledding, enjoying the company. Stuff that Scientologists never really get to do with a clean conscience. I don’t think the world needs any saving. It needs enjoyment.