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"We are about to drive home the message ‘This is Scientology ‘ like you have never seen," said David Miscavige , chairman of the Church of Scientology (sic.) [David Miscavige is actually the Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center.]
So reports Robert Booth on Saturday in the Sunday Times - a story that got picked up internationally.
And Sunday’s grand opening was everything Mr. Miscavige promised.
The Scientology Press Office announces the news as follows:
With thousands of Scientologists, local residents and officials in attendance, the new Church of Scientology of London opened its doors.
Mr. David Miscavige , Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center and leader of the Scientology religion , stressed the historical importance of London. "This is the city L. Ron Hubbard himself [founder of the Scientology religion] selected as home to the first Scientology organization. This is also the city wherein he first defined the human spirit as an immortal being possessed of capabilities beyond anything predicted, and so arrived at the axiomatic truths on which the whole of Scientology is founded. Your early London organizations were also the original proving ground for the bulk of Mr. Hubbard’ s social betterment programs which are used to uplift neighborhoods just like this one."
"One of the most important and powerful effects that I created was on my very first night in Nagapattinam here in India.
We were thrown into the chaotic activity of a place called St. Joseph’s Hostel. It was a place for housing many of the surviving from the Tsunami. Many who had lost their houses, children, mothers or fathers. Continued>>
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"For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller, 1980
This confident assertion was made in 1980 by the late R. Buckminster Fuller–inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. As early as 1959, Newsweek reported that Fuller predicted the conquest of poverty by the year 2000. >>
The Earth Organization is an international, non-profit, conservation and environmental organization, founded by veteran South African conservationist and explorer Lawrence Anthony, who recognized that new solutions were necessary to reverse the dwindling spiral of life on Planet Earth.
Earth Organization members, apart from their commitment to creating a healthy habitable Planet, use and disseminate [spread the word about] the Dynamics of Existence as a simple workable tool, that for the first time explains exactly how all life, including man, actually survives. The "Dynamics" provide a simple new way of looking at man in his relationship to his own kind, the Earth and the Plant and Animal kingdoms.
The Earth Organization believes that while defense of the environment and protection of species is vital, fast declining statistics demonstrate that this alone is not sufficient to turn the Planet around. It has become abundantly clear that another approach is also needed.
One of our major purposes therefore is prompting the realization about the Dynamics of Existence among the people of Earth.
Once in possession of this knowledge, we believe that everyone can become involved in creating and protecting the earth.
Trees provide us with oxygen to breathe and absorb carbon dioxide, which also cools the Planet down. Mankind's future survival on Earth is entirely dependent on the well being of our existing trees and the regeneration of forests.
Recycling is a practical way of doing something positive about the refuse that is polluting the Earth. Everybody should recycle.
Earth Organization members do not support the conditions under which many zoos keep animals; we support the closure of improper facilities, with little or no educational benefit, where caged animals are abused or simply “gawked” at.
A dead zone is an area in the ocean which does not have any life at all. There are now nearly 150 dead zones all over the world. Some dead zones are small, and some are huge - as large as 40,000 sq. miles. Dead zones are caused by excess nitrogen from fertilizer and sewage washing down rivers into the sea, triggering an explosive growth of plankton which uses up all the oxygen in the water. Because there is no oxygen, everything that cannot swim away dies.
Muhammed Yunus, the architect of micro-credit, an innovative banking loan program that helps the poor afford everyday tools to better their welfare, and the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.The bank he founded gives credit to those in poverty.
Upon hearing that he was awarded the prize, the Bangladeshi professor said this was great news for the whole nation.
Here's a terrific story about him on the Third World Travelor web site.
As I was out taking a walk this morning I came across an accident.
Some poor woman saw an accident occurring right in front of her and swerved to avoid getting into a pile-up, but lost control and went careening across the street into the side of a bank on the opposite side.
By the time I got there she and one of the victims in the original crash had been taken to the hospital.
Which is all a propos to my saying I really respect the emergency response personnel in LA.
They are seriously efficient, and unflappable.
That's the kind of people you want to be there for you when you get into a tangle like the three cars today.
By the way, just a funny anecdote, a couple of years ago I was called for jury duty and the case was about a car accident. The judge asked the first set of prospective jurors to raise their hands if they had not been in an accident themselves. Only one did. And he had never had a license.
Tells you something about LA?
