My server has been the target of 174,000 attempts to hack into to the control panel over the last 24 hours, most coming from one IP address in Germany. I’ve reported the abuse to the appropriate German authorities; we’ll see if they do anything about it. That’s two attempts *per second* to log into my server’s control panel, solid, for 24 hours.

I expect this is just more example of the religious discrimination against anything pro-Scientology, taking the form of malicious mischief by this group of “anonymous” cyber-terrorists. I’m gathering that this is a hate group of a dozen or …

My old friend Stan Dubin has a new blog about helping marriages succeed. I’ve added it to my blogroll but I thought it deserved its own post here as well. Stan is a long-time Scientologist and the author of “When the Thrill is Gone” Congrats, Stan, on the new blog, and good luck!

I thought it appropriate that on this Super Bowl Sunday, I found an article about Clayton Holmes, the three-time Super Bowl winner who squandered his money on strippers and drugs, fathered four kids with four different women, and by age 38 was living in a shack on his mother’s place in Florence, SC; financially broke and a broken man.

Lately, however, he has started taking Scientology courses and is turning his life around:

“I know a lot of people look at Scientology and think it’s hearsay or think of Tom Cruise, but I’d encourage people to read about it before making a judgment. …

The online terrorist organization known as “Anonymous” has declared war on the Church of Scientology. That’s my church, and my religion. So I guess they declared war on me.

A few days ago, 17 different locations of the Church of Scientology in California received envelopes in the mail containing white powder, causing evacuations and closures of some of the buildings. I hope the FBI and Homeland Security are involved in the investigation, as this is the act of a terrorist group. What’s next? Will these anonymous hackers start burning crosses on our lawns? Breaking our windows and beating us in the …

It was good to see People Magazine come to the defense of Tom Cruise’s religious beliefs this latest issue. A slew of celebrities have come out in defense of Tom, people like Adam Sandler, Demi Moore, her ex-husband Bruce Willis, Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Harvey Weinstein, and others. Here’s a video from MSNBC:

The Church of Scientology is reported to have issued a statement about Andrew Morton’s unofficial biography of Tom Cruise, aka “the pack of lies”.

The statement is being carried by MSNBC, here.

Most of the lies (except the ones that Morton simply made up) are pretty consistent - the are the same lies you find repeated many times on various apostate sites. That’s the thing about apostates - they have an axe to grind and aren’t afraid to repeat every rumor, innuendo, and lie that they’ve heard over their lives. These get picked up and repeated on enough websites that …

I’m doing an extension course on the book “Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health”.

The last time I read this book was about 30 years ago. I’d forgotten how much info was in it, and what a kick it was to read this book. The work you do on the extension course makes sure that you “get” the important points from each chapter, so you can retain and use them later on. There’s a terrific glossary so you don’t have to run to the dictionary constantly — they’ve got the words defined as they are used in the text, so …

My local Church of Scientology in Portland, Oregon, has just bought a new building, located at 812 SW Washington St., downtown. The building was bought for about $5 Million, using donations from the thousands of local Scientologists (including me!) There’s no mortgage - it’s now owned outright by the Church.

A little personal history - in 1971 there was no Church of Scientology of Portland. There were two small Dianetics centers in Portland then. When I was taking a course in communication during the summer of 1971 at the local Dianetic Academy way out on SE 82nd Street (I remember it took …

I’ve always admired Tom Cruise. Even the infamous couch-jumping episode made me think, “Wow - to be that excited about falling in love — I remember that feeling!”, and “More power to him!” In every photo of Katie Holmes that I have seen, she looks radiantly happy and in love.

So now there’s a new unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise by the same jerk who published an unauthorized bio of Princess Diana. He makes a whole slew of allegations that I won’t honor by repeating here. Instead, here are some facts:

The author of this unauthorized bio is British, but …

After nearly three decades of being refused due to what can only be described as religious prejudice, the Church of Scientology has last week obtained tax-exempt status from South Africa, a fitting recognition for a religion that has done much to promote peace, education and morality in South Africa.

Here’s an article about Scientology in South Africa.