You would expect someone who holds himself up as an authority on a subject to have trained, apprenticed and even proved his abilities in that subject.
This is not the case with Marty Rathbun. Yes, he not only holds himself up as an authority on Scientology Tech, he blithely promotes himself as one who has superior “conceptual understanding of the philosophy.”
But Marty Rathbun has not been certified as an auditor in Scientology, nor as a Course Supervisor, nor as a Case Supervisor. He does have a proven track record as a self-admitted squirrel (alterer of the Tech) and has left a string of mangled cases behind him requiring years of repair hours by true, trained technical personnel. In recent years, his “auditing” products have reverted to drugs, become engaged in various forms of out-ethics behavior, and in some cases decided they never wanted any more “auditing” at all.
But looking at those facts rather than listening to Rathbun’s glowing portrayal of himself is difficult for those who have rejected the actual Standard Tech devised by LRH, and have already subscribed to Rathbun’s cult of personality. They are happy to have him as High Priest Interpreter of tech for them.
It is a testament to the truth and workability of Scientology that someone can take a small corner of it and even applying it poorly can bring about a win in his fellow man.
Perhaps this is what Rathbun is counting on when he picks and chooses which parts of Scientology Tech to keep, and which to ignore. He has even encouraged debate on which parts of Keeping Scientology Working are to be kept in his cult, and which aren’t.
Rathbun has never worked in a service org, eschews Overts and Withholds technology, and has no problem with the squirrel definition of a floating needle being a needle that “ just looks kind of floaty”.
Yet he promotes himself as a Case Supervisor, which begs the question, “how do you C/S someone’s auditing if you don’t believe in keeping complete worksheets ?” Those who know C/Sing tech know that the pc folder is all that a C/S has to work with. An old computing datum comes to mind when considering Rathbun’s approach to C/Sing and folder study: “garbage in = garbage out.”
But as you would expect from such cult members, they are pleased with the blessings of a C/S who doesn’t require Exams, and from all reports Rathbun won’t subject his own “auditing” products to them either.
None of this is surprising. Marty Rathbun also held himself up as an authority on legal matters and administration in general, but could claim no products other than those produced by others on a bypass of him. In fact, he freely admitted that instead of “handling” matters, his operating basis was one of creating and perpetuating conflict (when not actively sabotaging real, producing staff auditors he feared would find him out.)
While Scientology makes the able more able, Marty Rathbun makes the squirrels more squirrely.
Isn’t that rich? The perfect Rathbun bumper sticker:
Making the Squirrels More Squirrely.
I love that “conceptual understanding of the philosophy.” That was said by someone else about Marty, but you know they were following his cue, so it really was a great reflection of how his cult members buy into the image he imbues in them.
Rathbun’s button on self-importance never ceases to amaze me.
More than any of the other squirrels I’ve watched over the years, Rathbun really is all about his personality cult. You can almost see his readers bowing and fawning to him on his blog.
He either never got the memo about “authorities” or is willfully using it in reverse, which actually seems to fit his pattern.
It’s amazing that after all this time of him being exposed as a poser, there might still be people who want him to “c/s” for them. He reminds me of people I’ve seen who get scary when they get their hands on a meter for the first time.
You’ve asked a couple of key questions. Lord knows how Rathbun is getting the raw auditing data from people when he C/S’es. My guess is that they email him session summaries of some sort. Maybe even phone calls.
“Marty Rathbun makes the squirrels more squirrely”
it looks to me like the squirrels around him aren’t even free to squirrel they way they want but have to do it according to his interpretations. every time I’ve seen him talking about the tech, he interprets it for people, you can be he does that as a c/s too.
I’m sure Marty doesn’t need a folder to hand. That would be “slavish,” and his superior “conceptual understanding” can fill in all those blanks for him.
Seriously, who does the FESes, who does the interviews, exams, etc.? Does he even call for and see such things?
Let me be the first to point out (I think) that the one thing Rathbun cannot abide is QUAL, and he will run and hide from that as long as he breathes.
If there was ever anyone who shouldn’t go anywhere near CSing, it’s Rathbun. I think it just shows he really doesn’t have any respect for the tech, and thinks of it as a toy.
God help the poor fools he declares grade completions or level completions who have never had o/w processing. You know that’s the only way he can keep them in the fold, too.
if you watch marty in the video here, you can see this is a guy who doesn’t even have a conceptual understanding of bypassed charge, much less freedom from it. sorry, but I wouldn’t even let him cs my dog.
“But as you would expect from such cult members, they are pleased with the blessings of a C/S who doesn’t require Exams,”
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People who would submit to rathbun’s squirrelly world are in the mess they are in because they couldn’t get through exams in the first place, so you’re right-on here. Marty already put the word out that overts and withholds don’t matter, as long as you’re only nattering about the Church. He validates that.
He doesn’t believe in worksheets and all that, so he probably just does it by a skype call and gives a verbal c/s. I wouldn’t be surprised by anything squirrely he does. he thinks he’s senior to the tech.
“An old computing datum comes to mind when considering Rathbun’s approach to C/Sing and folder study: “garbage in = garbage out.”
I think Rathbun can’t be bothered with technical details. His superior conceptual understanding of the philosophy trumps the need for such things as meter phenomena, items, TA, etc.
He probably just wants to know:
- are they still nattering about the Church?
- are they impressed that Marty is their CS?
- did they have a “kind of floaty look” at session end?
Rathbun hasn’t shown any respect for LRH policies (the the Suppressive Acts PL) so you can be sure he doesn’t respect the tech. He feels free to apply it however he wants because he doesn’t even know it works. After all, it didn’t work on him.
I can’t believe people would subject themselves to Rathbuns tech even if they were totally out of the church and couldn’t go there for services. What does it take before someone can see an outpoint?
On one hand he’s over in Germany helping an SP trying to make Scientology illegal, but on the other he’s “delivering” Scientology?
Hello?
“It is a testament to the truth and workability of Scientology that someone can take a small corner of it and even applying it poorly can bring about a win in his fellow man.”
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That’s a great point and is surely what encourages squirrels in the first place. Rathbun has taken that to new levels and from his natter about reverse Dianetics and Scientology you can tell that’s really what he himself is trying to do with the tech. I doubt there’s any corner of the tech that Marty won’t subvert to his own malignant purposes.
“I love that “conceptual understanding of the philosophy.””
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As far as I can see, the Rathbun’s conceptual understanding of LRH starts and stops at understanding all the things that would violate what LRH would want any Scientologist to do.
“More than any of the other squirrels I’ve watched over the years, Rathbun really is all about his personality cult.”
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I’m pretty certain that you are wrong. I’m pretty certain that Rathbun is all about justifying his anti-social actions.
This is good – you haven’t been paying much attention lately to what a squirrel Rathbun is. Every time I hear about him he’s saying something squirrelly or twisted about Scientology. He even downplays LRH and says twisted things about the bridge. You just know he’s doing bizarre things with the tech in session.
“Marty Rathbun also held himself up as an authority on legal matters and administration in general, but could claim no products other than those produced by others”
He’s got a string of loses on that front, too. I wonder if any of his cult notice that he always gets someone else to be the front man for his brilliant legal moves, so he can avoid looking like he lost when they do lose.
It true that”someone can take a small corner of it and even applying it poorly can bring about a win in his fellow man.”
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It’s also true that someone like Rathbun can take corners of it and twist them around to create haters, which is what he does.
What would he do if one of his subjects came out of session one day and decided to get back on the real Bridge?
It really shows how desperate these people are that they have to stoop so low as Rathbun to get whatever faded image of Scientology that they can have.
Wasn’t it Rathbun who could see overts just by walking by someone in the hallways (just before he beat them?) Maybe he C/Ss the same way.
He has to interpret since he cannot dare to show anyone any real data. All courses, everything, revolves around KSW and he violates every point of that with every motion. OK; not every motion. Like when he was drooling and smoking and spitting in the public place he was being his true self – not competent mentally of violating anything.
“Let me be the first to point out (I think) that the one thing Rathbun cannot abide is QUAL, and he will run and hide from that as long as he breathes.”
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Rathbun must run from Qual…must hide from Qual…
“If there was ever anyone who shouldn’t go anywhere near CSing, it’s Rathbun.”
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And yet, there is no one who needs C/Sing more than Rathbun.
There is no way to explain people so desperate, either Rathbun in his constant daily fails with the technology or anyone who ignores them. I still am baffled by anyone believing that LRH wants anyone like Rathbun interpreting the tech like he does.
Rathbun is quite reactive, isn’t he. It is obvious that he traps himself then does everything he can to get out of the trap…first by committing some anti-social act, then by hiding it, then by justifying the hell out of it (as if we couldn’t tell his tells.)
Yeah, that is a weird thing, how people can justify anything then natter about anything when they have done a Rathbun.
“I wouldn’t be surprised by anything squirrely he does.”
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I certainly feel that way. From drooling on the floor in a public place like a bag lady to drooling as a pretend C/S in public like a bag lady…there is no difference to me. Rathbun is clearly a waste of space on the planet.
Very funny…another Rathbun classic Philo…I am kinda floaty just reading it.
Of course it didn’t work with him…he thinks that it doesn’t apply to him. Rathbun’s got to protect his motivators.
Hello? Hello? Mason, are you trying to communicate to those poor souls who have to keep their justifications turned up to 11? They can’t hear you unless you are validating their anti-social actions like Rathbun does.
This is an interesting point, but it really cramps up since Rathbun can hide his lies in just a little bit of truth and get people very screwed up. Or at least, this seems to be his hope. I prefer to stick to my stable datum that everything Rathbun says is a lie regardless of how much truth he mixes into it.
His “conceptual understanding” of Scientology is enhanced by his actual understanding of psychiatry, from which he draws inspiration daily, and regularly disseminates on his blog.
He’s hampered by a HUGE button of self-importance which in turn is dominated by the ser facs that have replaced him as the thetan. That is why he cannot take any counter-viewpoint or criticism, and why he attacks and belittles anyone who doesn’t agree with him – including his wife.
Having been personally audited and C/Sed by him I feel that I am more than qualified to tell you how it goes.
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In a casual chat over dinner Marty will do a “D of P” interview and ask what you think you should be doing, or what you think you have achieved on the Bridge. No meter involved. Based on what you say he works out your C/S. If, for example, you were to say that you were doing great but bogged on your Level 2, he will then do a repair on you. Ask for a missed withhold, asses an LCRE? – no way. What he does is take you in session and feed you the EP (or what he thinks is the EP) as a question. So in this example what he did was simply start the session and say the needle was floating and then ask, “Did you ever feel free of the hostilities of life?”
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No matter what you say he then says, “Good. Your Grade 2 in complete. Your needle is floating. It takes 2 minutes max.
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Having handled all this ‘massive BPC’ and ‘cleaned up your case’, Marty then has to close you on doing the rest of the ‘grade chart’ with him. He needs you to spend money with him. He sells this by saying that, “In one intensive maximum I will get you through grades 3 and 4 and then one more and you’ll be clear.”
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The great thing about Marty’s C/Sing and auditing is that you can get up the bridge in no time flat, and be on the upper OT levels in a fraction of the time that it would take anyone in the Church. If you like that sort of thing.
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The problem is that you know it is squirrel as hell, and that despite his assertions that you have made the grade, you in fact know that you haven’t and that what you have done is an overt against both yourself and LRH. You are living proof that Tech Degrades and KSW were written for a reason and you know it.
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As far as I am concerned, Marty doesn’t believe in the tech or the grade chart. It is a means to and end for him. His squirreling is how he makes his money and keeps himself alive in his quest to reinstate psychiatric authority in society, and, above all, prove that he is right.
Aiyeee!!! How could I forget about that? We see it regularly, his desperate attempts to validate his squared circle and impress everyone with his errordite ways.
Can’t argue with that!!! I didn’t see anything about him publicly spreading his snotting vibes all over his wife. What did I miss while our family was away?
Dang! And I had to actually work up the Grades. If I had only waited and got the Rathbun By-Passed By-Pass Charge By Pass.
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I guess when it comes to the tech, Rathbun has forgotten more than he knew. So he has a horrid time getting anything actually done.
So is Rathbun Wickedly Stupid or Stupidly Wicked? He doesn’t ever really get anything done, even by his own measure.
Obviously that would be a failed case who he would have to yell into submission.
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Good grief…he makes “quickie grades” sound thorough.
“The problem is that you know it is squirrel as hell”
Let me count the ways…
No, better I don’t take up all the space that would need. The problem with that particular is that all your lowers are either totally out, or mangled beautifully. The state you would reach would not be “OT” and all that stuff you skipped would wrap itself around your neck in short order.
No wonder you see his “products” running around spouting either entheta or theetie-weetie “wins.” You also see them running around being out-ethics, gleefully “free” of Ethics, etc.
Dramatizing like crazy and not realizing it.
More and more and more. It may not be long before he sanctions psych therapy outright.
The preponderance of evidence is on your side.
He looks like he’s using a reverse checklist.
Except Marty just uses one as a PR prop.
Marty didn’t need a meter because he just uses it as a prop anyway. There were joking comments about that here before, but I don’t think it’s a joke.
Thanks for the report, it sounds very close to the way I had him pegged anyway.
The truth is that his entire “tech” operation is a sham and a way to make money and try to show the support base of “apostates” he’s got that he’s something he’s not, so they’ll stick with him.
Shine a spotlight on that. A=A=A to Rathbun, knowledge wise. The fact that he refers to psychobabble written by the “publish or perish” crowd in the same arena as Scientology is a clear demonstration of that.
Of all the wannabe “authorities” I’ve ever run into, Rathbun is the most egregious – and I studied under quite a few of them. Real ones included. He is also the most ill-equipped to be one that I’ve ever seen.
You can see his desire to be an “authority” in almost everything he writes and does. Look at how he hires himself out to the entheta media, and has his contacts refer them to him.
He doesn’t notice that most of them move on after talking to him because he’s so shallow.
By all means, guard your dog
I wouldn’t let him near my goldfish, that’s more down his alley.
At this stage, what does he have to lose? He can’t get any momentum going, he has the same losers he started with. He may as well speak psyche to them since they’ll give him props because he will demean them otherwise. He may as well go all the way now instead of the weak corporate drama stuff he keeps flinging.
Ah yes. The old Rathbun PR wizard prop. Such none sense of course. It is OK as long as he can hide behind rules he can make up, but as soon as he is asked for real results without the drama he goes crying like a little child who stole the cookies.
“Dramatizing like crazy and not realizing it.”
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Nice one TRex. You cna’t summarize the Rathbun crowd any better than that.
Recent history of the Rathbun is the same as old history of the Rathbun: He makes a big splash, then: He fails. He’d ruin the dog and the goldfish and tell us how it wasn’t his fault and that it is best that way since Hegel said it was so.
I keep wondering if Rathbun is that stupid or that organized to actually try to be that evil. He may be and it is just his incompetence that gets in his way.
I suppose that Rathbun suffers from not being such a big being himself, then spending so many attention units on proving that he is, then so many attention units wondering who found out which anti-social act…I can attest that it is just easier to get rid of the distractions, to actually learn and practice and, importantly, to be.
The shallow part must be particularly frustrating to the Rathbun. He builds himself up so much that he probably believes his own wind for a minute or so, then as we saw in the video he just goes baglady under the pressure.
Excellent points Lion. I hate to see the word ‘apostate’ used as if they are now or ever were actual Scientologist who didn’t always have an evil streak aiming for destruction instead of rehabilitation.
Do you mean ‘thoroughly disgusting”?
You mentioned that “He has even encouraged debate on which parts of Keeping Scientology Working are to be kept in his cult, and which aren’t.”
But notice that the debate didn’t stop there. Now he’s including psych texts into his philosophy, as though if a psych comes up with anything vaguely similar to a Scn principle or discovery or viewpoint of LRH, that must validate it.
See Sig’s comment above. You can bet he gets even more bizarre after he declares the person “clear.”
Thanks for posting this, Sig. I knew Rathbun was doing stupid things with the tech, but didn’t think of him taking such ridiculous shortcuts and having such a casual disregard for it.
Oh, and wait until his newfound friends find out what they now have to “disconnect” from as part of Marty’s cult. Like their senses.
His definition of “free thinking” is “agreeing with Marty and not contradicting him or challenging him.”
Good luck with that, kids.
Rathbun’s technical outpoints (like some you mentioned) would take pages and pages to outline. It’s safe to say they outnumber any possible pluspoints.
Was Hegel able to talk to fish, too?
What about the poor SOB’s who think they’re going to still get “scientology” when they hook up with Rathbun and friends. Number one, it’s squirrely, and number two, all they get is an “ok to be as out ethics as they want” thus guaranteeing no further gain.
Certain squirrels in Rathbun’s camp have admitted as much.
That’s probably one of the more minor squirrel uses of Skype you would find with Marty and some of his buddies. They’re off into the stratosphere trying to “modernize” technical application to align with new cyber-possibilities (blah de blah.)
If you read some of the squirrel things that are being attempted by some of these “independent” practitioners you will probably have to pick your jaw up off the floor. A Rathbun style skype CSing session would seem mild by comparison.
For starters, auditing rooms per se are considered passe by some.
Before, during and after, from what I’ve seen. I think you’re seeing theetie weetie non-confront most of the time (when you’re not seeing hate.)
I agree. It’s hard to believe someone would connect up with such a hater as Rathbun who has done so much to suppress Scientologists and think they’re getting something “standard”.
Subvert, yes. But also disperse and dilute now with psych philosophy and text.
He’s just glibly skimming along the surface trying to keep making a living out of BSing. It beats work.
He might take your goldfish out to the forest and set him “free.” He’s a spiritual guy.
I don’t want to read these guys too closely, so I don’t really know, but I do wonder how the former “tech” guys like Logan and De La C view this stuff. How do they justify it? Does he have them so overwhelmed with bulls&%t they don’t notice?
You are spot on, Jimmy. He does view it as a toy and doesn’t respect it. It’s right in KSW; he doesn’t know the tech works. He only knows he can get sensational with it and electrify his subjects.
But no, he hasn’t gotten the gain available from it; witness how he keeps looking under the spiritual carpet for other answers.
This guy is out there declaring “OT” completions, and five will get you twenty he still lives between his ears, like Rinder.
Not to mention the fact that they have their overts declared not overts, withholds not important (and don’t interfere with their “f/n’s”) motivators validated and natter acknowledged with his world famous “acknowledgements.”
Whew.
The truth is that his entire “tech” operation is a sham and a way to make money and try to show the support base of “apostates” he’s got that he’s something he’s not, so they’ll stick with him.”
You took the words out of my mouth. He’s doing what he would do anyway, which is BS all the time without having to get up and work, and managing to make money from it. All the rest is just window dressing for the fools who support him.
Marty “came a-cropper” case wise long ago, so doesn’t mind passing it out to others.
“Rathbun By-Passed By-Pass Charge By Pass”
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Talk about creating a Danger condition…
You said, “The state you would reach would not be “OT””
and based upon what we know, this is a reverse use of the tech. You would be a low scale mockery of OT, and a way to make you stick where you got to. (off the Bridge)
It sounds like Rathbun thinks he can just “shine” it right with his pc’s.
Rathbuns level of out-exchange must keep him rock solid and stuck. He didn’t even put in the exchange of properly learning the standard tech.
AS you say, “you know they were following his cue” and they are good little Marty cult members. So of course, he criticizes “cults”.
Yes, Christine, but then you are not solidly stuck in an incident wherein your very survival is threatened and must stop everything.
What he preaches is shallow and full of holes. His mind is anything but shallow, and in fact very, very complex, especially to him. He hasn’t as-issed masses, so keeps pulling in significances to offset. Look at what he reads and how literal he is.
Scary is right, Larry, and I’ve seen my share of them as a sup and CS. It goes back to training, at least as far as discovering these types goes.
With Rathbun, he never trained legitimately, and wouldn’t take supervision when he did try to “train.” He’s also thick with MU’s per his own admitted difficulties.
It’s absolutely no wonder he is on Mars as far as technical application is concerned.
Christine said “Wasn’t it Rathbun who could see overts just by walking by someone in the hallways (just before he beat them?) Maybe he C/Ss the same way.’
Rathbun sees overts (against him) most everywhere he looks, and they are unforgivable.
He also has a delusional ability to “see” people’s cases so doesn’t need standard tech procedures to “blow them away.”
In Rathbun’s mind, no one has the altitude to qual him, including LRH.
Even with his MU’s, Rathbun knows that this is absolutely by design, and intended to make sure his patients never make it. He gives them some key-outs by validating their aversion to confronting their actual cases, and makes them think they’ve bypassed wins elsewhere. It’s a shallow and devious use of the rehab tech. See what Sig wrote in his/her comment.
Of course. But was Hegel able to get the fish to answer him, like Marty does? That’s the question.
starting with pab 6.
marty was promoting and protecting fellow sp’s when he was on staff, and did it knowingly. just apply that to what he does with the tech.
Interesting observation – that’s his pattern and worthy of an eval. Marty knows it, though, deep down. It’s why he has to be such a snake oil salesman, because he knows the substance is different that the style.
It’s baffling until you realize that they are people who didn’t get the tech themselves in the first place. I’ve read a lot of the declarations he posts, and the level of understanding of the basics of Scn is abysmally low, even with those who pretend to tech and admin training.
Objectively, you can’t see someone supporting such outright suppressives (like Rathbun does) who at the same time duplicates the tech. The two things are mutually exclusive, by real technical law.
Marty actually has a history of bizarre use of toys.
“…he not only holds himself up as an authority on Scientology Tech…”
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There is no worse person than Rathbun, at least not since Nixon left, to hold themselves as an authority on Scientology Tech.
Overdrive!!! You have hit it…the Big Misunderstood…what Rathbun is confused upon. Someone told him to get certified as a C/S and when he couldn’t do that he realized that being a certified B/S artist was as good as he could do so went after that with a vengence!
I saw that. It is pretty disgusting. Every basic is out. Not even ARC survives the Rathbun Plague.
Rathbun seems to take enjoyment from diluting LRH. There appears to be no better time for so many people to be studying the Basics straight from Source, untainted from ‘experts’ like Rathbun.
“Think” being the operative word here. These people react according to the twitches of their need to hide what they have done. No thought allowed.
Well described Overdrive. My feeling is that all those other variants are just attempted disguises for the Hate. You can practically see it running down his nose.
And that, my friend, is why what Rathbun is doing is illegal and unlawful, in addition to being socially despicable.
My goldfish is far more spiritual than Rathbun…or is that what you were meaning?
It is so obvious now! That is what Marty was doing while walking in circles and spitting on the floor. He was learning how to get fish to talk! And to think that we demeaned him for this.
There is a basic there for all of Rathbun’s anti-social acts, isn’t there. He knows. He knows that all he is doing is mimicking at best and for a specific science like auditing that mimic is not good enough. But he has so much wrapping the thought processes that he cannot think…so he must do his best – which is the worst for the person in front of him.
Dear Haydn,
Marty Rathbun cut his teeth on bashing L Ron Hubbard and Scientology during the 2000′s.
That is the perfect example of The Rathbun Rag. No matter what, he disguises what he is really doing, he steals from some place, he accuses others and disses them for what he is doing. He really is the full representation of all that is wrong with humanity.
One incident, eh? Marty, what is that incident? What haven’t you told about it?
That really explains it. Rathbun is like a dustball that keep collecting masses and goop. Put a face on it and tell it that you don’t really need a working meter or worksheets and see what it will do!
“Thick with MUs” is such a wonderful phrase, and quite wonderful when describing Rathbun.
Isn’t that a perfect description of Rathbun? A low-scale mockery of a person, and quite stuck in what he is?
It sounds like he uses that ol’ psychiatric trick of a sensational out-list that immediately indicates if done with enough gravitas but which later collapses the person into a massy ball. Makes sense since it seems like what Rathbun puts himself through all the time. One minute a pontificating spiral that makes no sense and the next moment he does his bag lady impersonation, drooling on the floor in public spaces.
I’ve been paying attention and I haven’t really heard of any Rathbun plus points. Oh, I take that back. He is a magnet for the other snivling out-pointers.
High level Apathy perhaps? I know that that is where I would be if I got trapped into the Rathbun experiments.
That was just beautiful! Thanks NB
Who could resist such a joy ride from the psychiatric student Rathbun?
It is a wonder that Gandhi even bothered to live knowing that Rathbun was just around the corner to give light unto the world.
“…taking such ridiculous shortcuts…”
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I think that you are being too kind F. Lamb. Rathbun doesn’t shortcut Scientology anymore. He isn’t even so close to LRH tech or action that he is varying from it anymore. He has deviated so much that he is identical to a shrink; he lists for them, he designates which point on the list is real, he invalidates, he declares the …whatever he mis-declares.
Yes – the lengths he has to go to to get something ‘newsworthy’ to populate his blog is hilarious. He has perfected the art of taking any piece of information and making it the substance of a sermon about how bad it all is over there.
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The guy could draw inspiration from a candy wrapper and somehow use the list of ingredients as ‘evidence’ that the church was part of some global conspiracy.
For someone who claims to be a master of the Data Series, it always amazes me that he uses the tech of sanity to come up with insanities and A=A=A. I guess that, like everything else in hs life, he applies Black Data Series.
LOL!!! Brilliant! That is the best description of the inner workings of The Rat that I have read.
Your comment here Sharpe made me think of something in relation to the issue “On Human Behavior.” Marty fits that perfectly – everything anyone did to him was terrible, unforgivable and so on; and anything he did to others was deserved and insignificant. But he also C/Ses like that. Any overt one of his pcs committed against the church was deserved and therefore not an overt but a laudible act, and anything done to them, no matter how minor, is the cause of all their problems. He audits and C/Ses at effect and instills lies. Anyone who has read AP@A – one of the earliest books – knows that.
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With his flock all blaming others for their condition is it any wonder that they are all struggling to survive?