Oh my, that looks to be a very fine storefront that bookstore. It is large and clean and new looking. In fact, it looks kind of familiar. Like maybe it was the place photographed in The Big Story. ???
So the closing of that shop perhaps signifies the end of an era. How may years was it at that location one wonders.
>My friend with a scanner got a new and nicer piece of equipment (Nikon >36-bit slide/negative scanner), so the quality is quite a bit better than >before (check out the last picture of Roland - the clouds are invisible on >the print I got back from the shop).
That picture is beautiful. A lovely way to end a picture and story picket report. You seem to get better with age Jens. <smile>
The pictures are stunning and the page loads fast. Nice work! Now I'm going back in through the map.
One more thing. Nice that Dave Birds ascii map is preserved, it seems to give a very good picture of Ambush Alley.
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My friend with a scanner got a new and nicer piece of equipment (Nikon 36-bit slide/negative scanner), so the quality is quite a bit better than before (check out the last picture of Roland - the clouds are invisible on the print I got back from the shop).
Featured are the empty bookstore (yay!!), Roland feeding BT^H^Hchips to the sea-gulls and Dave's, John's and Roland's reports.
Talk about your quality pictures! Don't miss these!
Ex-CMO
"People who would aspire to transform the world should start by transforming their own life and let it serve as an inspiration for others. Hubbard wrote best about what he most needed to learn." - Joe Harrington <joeh...@worldnet.att.net>
>Anyway, mention of the PTS/SP course brought up the 2.5% >figure: supposedly
the proportion of Suppressive People in the >population. I asked how big the sample size was that established >this figure. His reply (Ican't call it an answer) was "Well, it's based >on research, isn't it?"
This reminds me of a converstaion I had with a clam friend of mine. In the study tapes, LRH says that there were 12 different methods of flight around the time of the Orville bothers: and now we only have one.
I asked my friend: oh? What were the other 11 and what happend to them?
He looked at me dumbfounded.
I experienced the same thing: you learn or get indoctrinated to take elrons word as good as gold.
It was not until much later when I was out that I was able to view things objectively - which is key to understanding Scientology.
Ex-CMO
"People who would aspire to transform the world should start by transforming their own life and let it serve as an inspiration for others. Hubbard wrote best about what he most needed to learn." - Joe Harrington <joeh...@worldnet.att.net>
I'm told that another set of photos from the previous picket (at Brighton) are still to be developed.
The conversation that you see in the fourth scene on Jens' page began when John R had successfully persuaded one mark not to go into the org to take a personality test, resulting in his being called a rapist and murderer by the body router. I was watching this with amusement from the other side of the road (I'm the one with the "Body Thetans on Board" t-shirt) while another of us was having a sit down. The other body-router (the guy with the umbrella) came and asked us "Why are you so scared?" We said that we we're anything but scared, but he told us that we *are* (and he should know, shouldn't he?); "That's why you attack: you attack like rats."
We said that our point was that people should be fully informed about Scn before they get involved in it. He said he agreed; people should know about the Tone Scale, the Reactive Mind.... Not quite what we had in mind. I pointed out that people are not making an informed decision if they accept that Dianetics is scientifically proven, when it is anything but. The body-router said that what matters is applying the things you are taught and seeing if they made sense. He gave as an example the PTS/SP course, which he is doing at the moment (surprise surprise!) BTW, the last time we were in Poole, we saw that there were two charts about this course on the walls inside the org. They didn't seem to be there this time.
Anyway, mention of the PTS/SP course brought up the 2.5% figure: supposedly the proportion of Suppressive People in the population. I asked how big the sample size was that established this figure. His reply (I can't call it an answer) was "Well, it's based on research, isn't it?" I asked if the number was changing over time, if it differs from country to country, if it differs among age groups and so on. Guess what: he'd never thought about it that way. In Scientology, you're given a very, very simplistic "solution" to just about any problem, and you accept it without thinking about it. The presence of a suppressive person (Andrea Catt) was the explanation he gave for why the mission was doing so badly recently. He wasn't bothered by the fact that the Mission is doing much worse now than it ever has, and yet Andrea Catt has been out of Scn for well over a year.
We also talked a bit about the GO 11, and how many of them are still in good standing with Scn, even though they have been involved in serious crime. For the body-router, this was an indication of how forgiving Scn can be. For us, this shows how inconsistent Scn is in its policy of blaming its own failures on "Suppressives".
The conversation ended with one of the veteran body-routers coming out of the Org and taking the bloke with the umbrella aside. Perhaps he had committed a breach of "ethics" by failing to keep up his hostile tone during the conversation.
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>Oh my, that looks to be a very fine storefront that bookstore. It is >large and clean and new looking. In fact, it looks kind of familiar. >Like maybe it was the place photographed in The Big Story. ???
Just to correct a misapprenhension, they had a number of places. First a large corner shop next to the Hoggshead, then Jolyffe House on the seafront (UK#76000 p.a. settled at the doors of the bankruptcy court), then Dolphin House on Market Close (about #100,000 p.a. for two years a four story prestige office building), then the upper two stories of the old bank building opposite the Hoggshead with Alcatraz retaurant on the ground flor (UK#30,000 p.a.).
The samll shop unit has always been ancillary to the latest building.
I have not seen the Big Story video. I think you will find it shows Dolphin House -- dark brown brickbuilt cube.
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In article <19971015211300.RAA10...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
future...@aol.com (Future808) writes: > LRH says that there were 12 different methods of flight around > the time of the Orville bothers: and now we only have one.
Please, oh please, please tell me LRH didn't really say "Orville brothers" to compound the idiocy of that assertion!!!
Erm -- weren't they the Wilbur brothers?.. No that's not it, ahh, Smith brothers - that's right!!! Right?.. Hmmm, no they invented the cough drop, right... NO, WRONG. Parker brothers invented the cough drop -- damn -- no, that was the board game. Uhhmmn ... Oh, I've got it: The Wrong brothers invented the aeroplane -- uhhh, am I *wright*?
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